Hot off the news of AMD’s future from their Financial Analyst Day, we’ve got some newly leaked images courtesy of the folks over at WCCF Tech. The outlet claims to have acquired some exclusive images of the not yet announced AMD Radeon R9 390x – nomenclature unconfirmed – which is based on AMD’s upcoming flagship, ultra-enthusiast Fiji XT graphics core. The …
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AMD Sheds Details On HBM Powered GPU & OEM GPUs
Yesterday at their financial analyst day, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su presented an update on AMD’s graphic business. Since AMD has already previously discussed their technology roadmaps over the next two years earlier in this presentation, we will get straight into the new stuff. Although AMD failed to mention it in their GPU roadmap, it was finally confirmed by Dr. Lisa Su …
Read More »AMD Zen Architecture Officially Detailed – Promises 40% IPC Gain Over Excavator
AMD laid out the company’s future to their investors at their financial analyst day, yesterday, and what a future it is. While the company denied the legitimacy of the recently leaked investor presentation, which supposedly offered detailed specifics for their upcoming ‘Zen’ CPU architecture, they did offer some worthwhile details of said architecture. AMD’s ‘Zen’ is a completely new design, …
Read More »Noctua NH-L9x65 CPU Cooler Review – Compact and Quiet
In our review of Noctua’s latest flagship, the NH-D15, we proclaimed it the king of air coolers, for its massive cooling performance and silent operation. However, while the NH-D15 is the definitive solution where space is not a concern, it is definitely not the end all be all, especially for those looking for a cooler for their small form-factor systems. …
Read More »AMD’s Zen-based CPUs to be released in 2016 on Socket FM3
In recent reports it appears that we can expect the first of AMD’s “Zen” microarchitecture based CPUs and APUs to be released in 2016. These new processors will mark the first major desktop-market release for AMD since 2012 with the launch of the Piledriver based FX CPUs. The news comes courtesy of a series of screenshots taken from an investor presentation, …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V for PC – How Does It Run?
After nearly 1.5 years since its original console debut, and several delays, Grand Theft Auto V has finally made it to the most glorious platform of all: the PC. This highly anticipated release has many PC gamers excited to get it running on their systems, some even upgrading or building entirely new machines for the task. While we’re sure many users …
Read More »Build a 1440p Gaming PC Under $900 – Our Build of the Week
Last week we brought you a gaming build for under $900, featuring Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 960, which is a card best suited for playing games at resolutions up to 1080p. This week, we decided to one up ourselves, and bring you a gaming build capable of playing games at 1440p for under $900 USD. Please note as prices are listed …
Read More »Rockstar Releases GTA V System Requirements and Delays Until March 24th
It may come as a surprise to you that Rockstar Games has recently delayed Grand Theft Auto 5‘s release on the PC for another 2 months. As a PC Gamers ourselves, we hope this will only help increase the quality of the PC version. Not all news is bad though, Rockstar still showed off the GTA V System Requirements. GTA V …
Read More »AMD Shows off FreeSync and New Gesture Software – CES 2015 Update
We stopped by AMD’s booth at CES 2015 today and saw a series of AMD hardware demos, including a series of demos running on the some of the recently announced FreeSync monitors by AMD’s partners, Samsung, LG and BenQ. For the most part, much of what AMD showed off today is not new. In fact many of their product presentations at …
Read More »Intel Core i7 5960X CPU Review – What Has Become The Industry’s Best
Ever since the first dual-core desktop CPUs started rolling out in 2005, the race to bring more computing cores to desktop processors has been on. Now, nearly a decade later, Intel has pushed ahead further than ever before with the release of the Core i7 5960X, their first ever consumer socketed eight-core CPU. While, this isn’t the first time we’ve …
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