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Metro 2033 is often blamed of being a poorly coded game but despite that SLI scaled exceptionally well as we saw an 89% performance boost when going from a single GTX 460 card to a pair running in SLI mode. The duo was 14% faster than the GeForce GTX 480 and 52% faster than the Radeon HD 5870. Splinter Cell: Conviction Benchmarks Splinter Cell: Conviction requires Fraps to measure in-game performance....

We often found the 2080 Ti to be CPU bound at 1440p, so unsurprisingly it’s just 22% faster than the 1080 Ti on average here. That said we see examples of it providing gains in excess of 30%, with Rainbow Six Siege and Wolfenstein II being the standouts. The same batch of tests run at 4K extends the lead out to 31%, so on average the 2080 Ti is 31% faster than the 1080 Ti, according to our results....

Again we find that all modern SSDs are able to saturate the SATA 6Gb/s bus when measuring sequential read performance. The same is mostly true when measuring sequential write performance, though the Trion 150 does appear to be a good bit slower than the Trion 100 here. The Trion 150 is shockingly slow when measuring 4K-64 thread read performance with a throughput of 133MB/s, almost 3x slower than the Trion 100 and 850 Evo....

Often left unsaid is that semis growth in autos is still fairly distant. Aside from companies who have been selling to auto makers for years, cars are still less than 10% revenue for most chip companies. And so it is difficult to draw up reliable forecasts for the segment. In fact, one of the most important questions about auto semis remains a big mystery – who is going to be the ultimate decision maker for auto semis decisions?...

It’s not yet a must-have. Early impressions were correct, thank goodness. I reviewed the PS4 in a hurry last year. Sony’s online servers had only been live for 12 hours by the time my review went live. I’d friended friends, scanned activity feeds, downloaded games, uploaded captured clips. I had held the machine, used the controller and played launch games. I was worried about what I’d missed. I was afraid the PS4, like any new console, could contain some horrible flaw....

The exploit relies on a four-step attack chain that begins with a specific user’s identity being compromised. The malicious actor uses the individual’s credentials to access a user’s SharePoint or OneDrive accounts, change versioning settings, and then encrypts the files multiple times, leaving no unencrypted version of the compromised files. Once encrypted, the files can only be accessed using the right decryption keys. User accounts can be compromised by brute force or phishing attacks, improper authorization via third party OAuth apps, or hijacked user sessions....

With the availability of 2 terabyte hard drives, a majority of users will be satisfied with a 2 or 4-bay NAS solution. However, as data accumulates over time there are those who might require even more than that – people in the graphic design, photography or video editing business, for example. Performance and feature set are two things you’ll definitely want to keep in mind. From our experience in testing a range of devices we can assure you there can be huge differences from one offering to another....

A recent analysis from Japan’s Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories shows that PC gaming has grown significantly in Japan over the last few years. Mobile is easily the most dominant sector of the market, but PC has seen noticeable changes recently. From 2018 to 2021, Japan’s PC gaming market doubled in size. Between 2015 and 2021, the number of PC gamers in Japan grew by 45 percent from 11 million to 16 million out of a total gaming user base of 22 million....

After attempting typical repair options, we used a Windows 10 ISO to perform an in-place upgrade, reinstalling Windows 10 while keeping our applications and all. If this sounds familiar, we have covered a similar process using Windows 10’s built-in “Reset this PC” option, but that removes your programs and only retains your files and settings on the newly installed operating system, whereas again, the in-place upgrade even preserves the software you have installed....

The fibers contain naturally occurring antimicrobial agents including thyme oil, nisin and citric acid that protect against spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms like listeria and E. coli. In testing, the coating was able to extend the shelf life of avocados by 50 percent. The coating can easily be rinsed off with water and breaks down in soil within three days, virtually eliminating environmental concerns associated with the use of petroleum-based plastic containers and wrap....

It seems like we can’t go a single hardware release without at least one retailer jumping the gun and listing the series before it’s officially launched. This time around it’s PC Canada, which has actually listed some motherboards too early once before. The retailer will currently let you add Ryzen 7000 series processors to your cart, enter your payment information and make a reservation for them. They say that they’ll ship once the chips are in stock, but won’t say exactly when that will be....

Bafta’s 2022 game awards ceremony in London will be host to some stiff competition. The top six titles up for the most awards includes It Takes Two, Returnal, Deahtloop, Forza Horizon 5, Psychonauts 2, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Returnal and It Takes Two dominate with eight nominations each. It Takes Two was well-received by critics and gamers for its well-designed puzzles and co-op gameplay. In December, it won Game of the Year at The Game Awards....

I also wanted to show memory bandwidth here, as the Ryzen 5 2500U supports DDR4-2400 and pushes higher bandwidth than the Kaby Lake-R Core i7-8550U. Clearly we are not memory bandwidth limited in the benchmarks I’ve just been showing. While AMD lists the maximum boost clock of the Ryzen 5 2500U as 3.6 GHz, the CPU does not hit this clock speed under sustained workloads to keep within the TDP, which is common behaviour....

Many fans of the XP941 were undoubtedly disappointed to learn that the SM951 lacked NVMe support, but at the end of the day the SM951 still manages to be faster than the XP941 and the Intel SSD 750 1.2TB. Notwithstanding, if you insist on an NVMe version, Samsung announced just last week that it would deliver one. The NVMe-equipped SM951 is said to have sequential data read and write performance of up to 2260MB/s and 1600MB/s with NVMe’s main advantage being in random read operations....

The current generation of SSDs has hit a brick wall in our virus scan test, as we can’t seem to crack the 43 second barrier. The Extreme II 240GB matched our fastest time to date, along with other SSDs such as the OCZ Vertex 450, Vector, Samsung SSD 840 Pro, Intel SSD 520 Series, Crucial m4 and Kingston HyperX. As is the case with our virus scan test, the Extreme II performed on par with other high-performance drives, taking 95 seconds for Red Orchestra 2 to be installed....

Such is the case with Sapphire’s new Edge VS8 mini-PC powered by AMD’s A8 APU. The system is hardly any larger than an external optical drive, measuring 19.7 x 18.2 x 3.1 cms. Net weight for the mini PC is just 660g. The Edge VS8 ships with AMD’s quad-core A8-4555M clocked at 1.6GHz, 4GB of DDR3 memory, AMD Radeon HD 7600G graphics and a 500GB 2.5-inch SATA hard drive. The Edge VS8 comes with built-in support for Bluetooth 3....

Over the past several years, Windows has faded into the background at Microsoft, with cash cows like Office 365, Azure, and Xbox rising to the top of the priority list. With the PC becoming a mature market with little room for growth, the Redmond giant gradually turned its focus to making its software and services available on as many platforms as possible to overcome this limitation. When the pandemic forced many to work and study from home, Microsoft scrapped its plans for a cloud-first, lightweight Windows 10X operating system....

For a game that is very playable on a Radeon HD 5670 or GeForce 9600 GT at 1680x1050 we have to say Singularity looks quite good. However at this resolution the absence of anti-aliasing support translates into unnecessary jagged edges which detract from the game’s visual appearance. Even at 2560x1600 we felt that the lack of anti-aliasing support was evident. If you need an answer on why AA is not a default option, look at our tests where we forced Nvidia hardware to run with 4xAA....

A test group of Cruise robotaxis in San Francisco simultaneously came to a halt and stopped traffic on city streets for several hours on Tuesday. The autonomous collective ceased all functions for unknown reasons, and human engineers had to come out to retrieve the vehicles manually. Cruise is a joint venture between General Motors and Honda. The city of San Francisco approved testing of the unmanned vehicles, and trials commenced in February....

The G.Skill Titan was also included in that comparison, with its dual JMicron 602B controllers in RAID, though it quickly became apparent that this SSD was no longer a viable option. These days you will be hard pressed to find a Titan drive, which is a good thing, as the JMicron SSDs should be avoided at all costs. JMicron does plan to release a new controller soon called the “JMF612” which removes stuttering and brings loads of cache, while it can also support 32nm NAND flash chips....