But how does the HAF X hold its own in the more competitive $200 bracket? Cooler Master’s latest chassis might not stand out as much as the HAF 932 because it shares space with alternatives like the Thermaltake Spedo and Lian-Li PC-B70, but we believe it’s the superior option. In our opinion, if you dig the HAF series looks, the real question becomes whether you should you skip the HAF 932 and spend $70 more on the HAF X....
However, one company – Corsair – has been off the radar this year when it comes to exciting new chassis. Last year we saw many new cases from Corsair, including the Obsidian Series 450D and Carbide Series Air 540, while this year we’ve only seen the budget-oriented $50 Carbide Series 100R, and it’s been 10 months since that model was announced. That drought is now over with the arrival of Corsair’s Carbide Series 600C, a sleek, minimalist-looking mid-tower with a radical inverted ATX layout – this is no run-of-the-mill budget offering....
The specifications for the Glaive tick pretty much every box: a 16,000 DPI sensor, Omron high-performance switches rated for 50 million clicks, six customizable buttons, a 1000 Hz polling rate, and a total weight (without the braided cable) of 122 grams. You’ll even get three RGB lighting zones customizable through Corsair’s CUE software. It’s no surprise to see the Glaive match Razer’s DeathAdder Elite in terms of price, at $69....
At least a couple premium mid-towers can be directly compared to the Obsidian 650D in terms of design and features – namely the Antec LanBoy Air and Silverstone Fortress FT01-BW. You can read our review of the LanBoy Air for our full analysis, but to keep things short and sweet we’ll just say that we don’t care for it much, and the Fortress FT01-BW costs even more (~$210) than the 650D....
Google faces a potential privacy case as a class of millions of users filed to sue it for billions of dollars over Chrome’s Incognito mode lack of genuine privacy protections. While user ignorance is never a great argument in front of a judge, court documents first filed in March of 2021 paint a picture that Google has been complicit in cultivating user misconceptions on privacy. According to the filings, Google Marketing Chief Lorraine Twohill emailed CEO Sundar Pichai last year, warning that they need to consider making Incognito “truly private....
The new Intel LGA1156 processors are in a league of their own when it comes to idle consumption. The most powerful processor we tested also used the least amount of power at idle, with a system consumption of just 68 watts. The Core i5 650 and Core i3 540 processors used slightly more power, likely due to the onboard GPU. That said, both still consumed less than 80 watts of power, making them more efficient than the Core 2 Duo E7500 which was the slowest processor tested....
The PC-V2120 offers more of, well, pretty much everything. It supports more hard drives, expansion slots and fans while touting superior front panel connectivity. Those specs alone put the HPTX-ICE at a disadvantage, so its poor craftsmanship, flawed door design and quirky dust filter don’t help anything. Overall, we liked the HPTX-ICE’s aesthetics and its imperfections don’t become obvious until you look closer. In many ways, I appreciate its basic design, but at the same time, it’s almost difficult to fathom how utterly feature-less this $360 case is....
The custom-written, C++ based remote access trojan (RAT) that went completely undetected for several months may have been released around mid to late 2021. Named SysJoker by Intezer’s security team, the program conceals itself as a system update within the target’s OS environment. Each variation of the malware is tailored to the operating system it targets, many of which have proven to be difficult or impossible to detect. According to VirusTotal, an antivirus and scan engine aggregator, the macOS and Linux versions of the program are still undetectable....
OpenAI has introduced a new tool for DALL-E, enabling it to imagine a world beyond the confines of a frame. The new tool is called Outpainting and it helps creators extend an image beyond its original border. By using natural language description, users can add new image elements in the style of the original work. We can see the power of the new Outpainting feature in an enlargement of Johannes Vermeers’ Girl with a Pearl Earring....
As with Dark Souls II, the third iteration has made its way to PC as a port from console, albeit with bonuses for the master race including enhanced graphics, better performance and higher resolutions. Using the engine from developer FromSoftware’s ‘Bloodborne’, Dark Souls III looks quite impressive but you can certainly tell this is a console port after a few seconds in the menu system. The tweakable options are decent though the game gives no real explanation of what you are enabling....
After the update you may notice some icons and shortcuts you had probably deleted, like the Windows Store or the Edge browser icon on the taskbar, have been added back. That’s just old Microsoft keeping to old ways, but that’s easily fixed. Now, something that may not be as obvious is that the big update is treated almost like a Windows upgrade. To keep on the safe side, Microsoft’s install setup saves a full copy of your current Windows installation (that’s the Windows....
The importance of data has become particularly apparent in light of the rapidly expanding range of analytics tools that can be used to glean useful insights from it as well as the staggering number of efforts to steal or destroy it via cybersecurity threats. While the needs and requirements necessary to best address these two sides of the data coin are radically different, they do highlight how important the proper use and care of data has become....
Intel has even managed to increase peak clock speeds with 8th gen parts. Looking at the Core i7-8550U compared to the Core i7-7500U, single and dual-core Turbo speeds jump to 4.0 GHz from 3.5 GHz, while the 8550U can hit 3.7 GHz on all four cores. However, base clocks do drop from 2.7 to 1.8 GHz, and during sustained workloads on all cores, you’ll see lower clock speeds on the newer chips....
Although I have noticed quite a few complaints about the graphics in Deus Ex: Human Revolution I believe they are pretty impressive. Granted this is not the most amazing looking game of 2011, but the visuals are still very good. Despite the fact the game doesn’t support the traditional multi-sampling or super-sampling anti-aliasing methods, we found that MLAA and FXAA both looked very good. In terms of performance there was very little between the two for the most part, and when using an AMD graphics card we failed to find any difference at all....
With Crysis 2 disappointingly restricted to DX9 and few other knee-buckling games on the immediate horizon, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the next iteration of Codemaster’s racing series. The company answered our prayers last week, launching Dirt 3 for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Developed with the latest (v2.0) EGO game engine, Dirt 3 is a spectacular looking racing game with some surprisingly high, but also incredibly vague recommended system requirements....
This week, Nvidia acknowledged that a recent update to Discord caused it to throttle the memory on Nvidia GPUs. This glitch could affect game performance as it prevents the VRAM from reaching its full clock speed while launching games. The GPU manufacturer plans to patch the issue with a future update, but has also provided a roundabout solution for those who can’t wait. The manual fix involves using the GeForce 3D Profile Manager to edit an SLI profile – a fairly complex operation....
At the opposite end of the graph we find the Radeon HD 5670 which was just able to provide playable frame rates at 1680x1050, but it’s still not bad for a $80 graphics card. The Radeon HD 5750 was considerably faster averaging 61fps, while the GeForce GTX 460 was much faster with 83fps. Increasing the resolution to 1920x1200 didn’t change much, almost all graphics cards with the exception of the Radeon HD 5670 were easily able to deliver highly playable performance....
Tesla previously said its redesigned infotainment system in the Model S and Model X delivers 10 TFLOPs of power and is “on-par with today’s newest consoles.” VideoCardz notes that it uses a Navi 23 GPU that’s rumored to sport 28 compute units clocked up to 2.8 GHz, and a teardown confirmed it also has a quad-core Ryzen Embedded CPU, likely a Zen+ model. The games on the new infotainment system should look good on its 17-inch, 2200×1300 display....
Storage performance is good, often matching a number of top-end ultraportables or even outperforming them in tasks such as sequential reads. The 600p isn’t as strong when it comes to write performance, though it still provides enough speed to allow fast app loading and basic I/o tasks. The Eve V’s battery life is pretty good, which basically validates their choice to use a Y-series CPU in conjunction with the 48 Wh internal battery....
