You can count HTC and BlackBerry in that group – neither of which has a tablet in shelves right now but have openly admitted an interest in the market. HP, on the other hand, is jumping back with an inexpensive Android device for the first time since the TouchPad / webOS fiasco. Others like Toshiba, Motorola and Lenovo have stuck around with shy efforts to remain in the game and similarly minor results....
With a suggested price of $249, the Radeon HD 6950 from AMD delivers great performance and value in the sub-$300 range, not to mention that with a little tweaking and a BIOS flash you can unlock all shaders and get Radeon HD 6970 performance. Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 560 Ti can be had for around the same cash and is a very tempting option as well. Either way you go your beloved one will certainly appreciate it, as both cards can handle pretty much any modern game you throw at them....
While DDR3 may not be worth the additional cost right now, and no GPU in your budget will saturate a PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot’s bandwidth - at least you’ll future-proof your setup a little. There’s no telling precisely what tomorrow will bring, but the 770-C45 should be ready for it. Other specs include two PCI-E x31 slots, three PCI slots, one PATA host adapter, six SATA II host adapters, six USB 2....
The Core i7-6700K and Core i3-6100 delivered similar performance using the GTX 980 Ti and the crazy quality settings with around 53fps. Despite DX12 removing the CPU overhead, the FX-8350 was still unable to match the Core i3-6100 though it did gain around 9% performance under DX12. Reducing the quality settings to medium we find some intriguing results indeed. Here the Core i7-6700K races ahead of the Core i3-6100 delivering 20% more performance when using DX12 and almost 40% more performance when using DX11....
The same scenario could be applied to other components like motherboards, storage or memory. That’s why when we found this annual list compiled by boutique PC manufacturer Puget Systems we asked them to reproduce it for you. It’s by no means comprehensive, as they try to stick with the most reliable parts they come across, but it could serve as a guide for future purchases… While this data is nice, one of the most important things we track is the failure rates of individual components....
This carries over to the other benchmarks. You certainly won’t get ultraportable-class battery from this system but it’s serviceable enough from an entry-level system.
Scam apps are nothing new, but Apple and Google have yet to develop a proper solution to prevent them from making it into their mobile app stores. The most recent estimate is that developers of fleeceware apps raked in $400 million from unsuspecting users in recent years. Fleeceware apps do not fit the definition of malware as they don’t take control of your device or steal any of your data....
See our updated Gaming Laptops Guide for Q4 2022 This updated buying guide sees several favorites returning with updated hardware from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD. There are also a few new entries, including Razer’s first-ever Ryzen laptop. Best Gaming Laptop Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 - 2021 Price: $2,269 Ryzen + Gaming on 14" Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 - 2021 Price: $1,999 Gaming on a Budget Dell G15 5510 Price: $1,458...
A lot of people over 30 will probably name a Commodore machine as the first computer they ever used, be it a Commodore PET in the late seventies, a VIC-20 or Commodore 64 from the 1980s, or even one of the Amiga line in the early nineties. Some will have played their first game on one or wrote their first program in BASIC, perhaps leading them to a life-long career in the tech industry—I’m one of many who owe a debt of gratitude to the company....
Micron never revealed why it was killing off the Crucial Ballistix name. The company said in a press release that it “will intensify its focus on the development of Micron’s DDR5 client and server product roadmap, along with the expansion of the Crucial memory and storage product portfolio.” The news does explain why we haven’t seen any Ballistix DDR5 memory. Crucial does offer standard DDR5-4800, as opposed to any high-end Ballistix options with all the associated bells and whistles, such as heat spreaders....
AS SSD Benchmark shows similar sequential read performance to what was seen when testing with CrystalDiskMark. Both the 256GB and 512GB versions of the Crucial MX100 were able to max out the SATA 6Gb/s bus with roughly 500MB/s. Again we see when measuring sequential write performance that the MX100 512GB comes close to maxing out the SATA 6Gb/s bus, while the 256GB model is quite a long way off....
But what about 4K gaming? Ultra HD displays have been around for a few years now and today it’s possible to pick up a 28" 4K monitor for under $400. The reason so few gamers are going this route is because of the GPU power required to drive such a display. Only recently with the arrival of the GTX 1080 has a single GPU been powerful enough to game at 4K and even then at times some tweaking is necessary for optimal gameplay....
I’ve always been fascinated with the Metaverse, long before I even knew there was a name tied to the idea. Going all the way back to when I was a young boy. Like most other little boys, I was dreaming of being a superhero, a knight, a swashbuckler, and on the most whimsical days, some conglomeration of those and many more action-y archetypes rolled into one as I adventured through various worlds built in the collective fantasy of my friends and I....
Ultra quality graphics reduce the GTX 980 to just 56fps at 1080p, down from 65fps when using the high-quality settings. For an average of 30fps at 1080p gamers will require a GTX 770, GTX 960 of R9 280X. Playing at 1440p dropped the GTX 980 to just 40ps with a minimum of 20fps, while the R9 290X was good for just 28fps with a minimum of 12fps. Things looked bleak during the last round of punishment for our GPUs....
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After that it wasn’t until the hugely complex 980 Ti came along that we saw some sizable gains, at least when looking at 1600p performance. The line graph below plots Nvidia’s progress over the past 6 years. With the arrival of the GeForce GTX 1080 we saw another big step forward, partly thanks to a much needed die shrink that has allowed Nvidia to take their already efficient Maxwell architecture and supercharge it....
Creating something so unique in such a flooded market is no easy task and yet there were many examples last year. Lian Li’s wall-mountable PC-O5S was practically a piece of art, being constructed from aluminum and a large tempered glass panel to show off the hardware inside. This case was of excellent build quality and design inside and out. The PC-O5S’s only downside was its asking price of almost $300, which is toward the upper end of what most are willing to spend on a chassis, even if it’s not a bad value....
Before that we reviewed the Level 10 GT Battle Edition, a special edition case with bold looks that didn’t appeal to us but has nonetheless done well for Thermaltake, reinforcing that chassis selection is much opinion-based. With that in mind, the fact that we found the Level 10 GT Battle Edition to be even more obnoxious than the original is probably a good thing. Despite not enjoying the last few Thermaltake products we’ve had, we know the company is capable of building great hardware....
Design features that I really like include the fan connector on the door, the cable management system combined with the pre-installed cables, the cooling setup and the five hot-swappable 3.5" hard drive bays. Internally the Level 10 GT really is a thing of beauty, it’s a shame we can’t turn it inside out. The Level 10 GT is very easy to work with and has ample room to install components such as high-end graphics cards....
