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Watched the video 👎 NVIDIA, this generational launch has been a disaster.

Introduction The ADATA LEGEND 970 PRO 2TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD is the latest LEGEND 970 series model from ADATA, released in the latter half of 2024 in its PCIe Gen5 x4 NVMe SSD lineup. But wait, you say, haven’t we reviewed the ADATA LEGEND 970 before? We reviewed the ADATA LEGEND 970 […]...

Unfortuntely, all the cards are out of stock right now, so we don't know what the available price actually is for the 9070/XT either. If you look at PC Part Picker, any 9070s showing in stock are above $700, up to $850, and that's just for the 9070 model, ouch. It is not really an assumption...

The problem is, it too is expensive, and not at MSRP, with rumors that pricing on the 9070/XT will actually not be MSRP, but higher, in the next couple of months it's all a wash. The prices fluctuating on both ends, is a problem for everyone. It's very uncertain times. So in a perfect world...

MSRP is a construct at this point. I don't think we'll really know how pricing levels out till much later this Summer.

I find these kinda things very cool, I like that RT Shader Re-Ordering is finally part of the spec, NVIDIA introduced that a while ago in hardware, but it is only being added now to the direct-x pipeline. It sounds like some good improvements to Path Tracing, I'm looking forward to seeing what...

Introduction On March 5th, 2025, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070 GPUs launched, and video cards based on these new GPUs became available on March 6th, 2025. Today, we have a review of the new XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC White Triple Fan Gaming Edition video card in […] See...

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Our results make sense compared to the other CPUs used in our comparison, specifically the 9800X3D and 7950X3D, and the advantages over the 9950X that we saw. The results make sense when you compare our own data to itself. The 9800X3D has the overall advantage, and that makes sense, if...

Game Selection, Manual In-Game Run-Through vs Benchmark, Area used within game for manual run-through, length of run-through, Resolution, Game Settings, System Configuration, BIOS version used, BIPO settings used, Memory used and type and speed, Windows Updates applied, Game Bar Updated, Chipset...

Introduction AMD is launching its new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPUs, based on the Zen 5 architecture on the AM5 platform, featuring 2nd Gen AMD 3D V-Cache for Gaming and Content Creation. In this Ryzen 9 9950X3D review, we are going to focus purely on the gaming performance of the...

Back in my day people frowned at lowering image quality, and anything that lowered image quality to improve performance was considered a 'cheat'. My, times have changed, where it is accepted now.

Introduction Today, March 5th, 2025, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070 GPUs are launching, and video cards based on these new GPUs will be available March 6th, 2025. In this review, we will take a look at the XFX Quicksilver AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Magnetic Air Edition video card...

Introduction Today, March 4th, 2025, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition is launching, with the availability of video cards, as well as factory overclocked non-MSRP video cards, on March 5th, 2025. The GeForce RTX 5070 is NVIDIA’s $549 GeForce RTX 50 series GPU based on the Blackwell...

Introduction Today, AMD announces the AMD Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture for 2025. Though there was a pre(?)-announcement at CES 2025, now is the time that AMD is ready to divulge all the information on the Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs and all about the RDNA 4...