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Introduction The ASRock Intel Arc B570 Challenger 10GB OC video card is new from ASRock and based on the Intel Arc B570 (Battlemage) GPU. ASRock is a well-known manufacturer of computer hardware components, and in the past has been a big provider of AMD-based solutions. When Intel Arc A-Series...

ON the topic of DLSS, I was resistant to DLSS upscaling for a long time, what I have enjoyed the most is DLAA (I'm an image quality fiend), and apparently DLSS 4 AI Transformer model should have better DLAA as well, so I'm looking forward to that. I would only use DLSS Upscaling if I'm not...

In the plaque, it does state those IOPS are for Random r/w I'm looking forward to the E28, the E26 has been very fast, and drives with it sport the best performance and latency, but it did run hot and heavy, looking forward to that improving. Now we just need the NAND flash to keep up.

Introduction AMD is starting the new year off with a bang at CES, announcing a lot of new products coming in 2025 aimed at multiple product segments. For us, and our readers, some of the things we are most excited about will be the announcement of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPUs...

Introduction The new GIGABYTE B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 is a brand-new motherboard from GIGABYTE based on the AMD AM5 platform and the new AMD B850 chipset. It is targeting an MSRP of $229.99, allowing more enthusiasts to jump on the AM5 bandwagon in a more affordable package. Yet, it still...

It was a good game, used it a lot for benchmarking when it came out, will use the new one as well when its released.

This happened with the 4090 also, rumored TDP was off the charts, then it actually launched at a lower TDP. The thing to understand about rumors, prior to an official launch, things are still in flux, rumors can give false expectations, that's just one out of many reasons I don't like rumors...

Introduction Let’s take a look back at 2024, and take note of some of the best, or exciting, releases and launches of PC hardware components. We’ll focus on the main system components here, and not all of these we have reviewed, but we can still acknowledge exciting launches that happened this...

Neural rendered compression of material textures - but IIRC it still requires dev support.

12GB on the rumored 5070 is an absolute joke in 2025.

It's one specific setting that is on by default, causing the issue, you can easily disable it, which regains the performance loss.

I'm very excited for it to give some competition in this price range. Maybe it'll light a fire under AMD and NVIDIA belly, maybe not though, we'll see :P

Introduction The TEAMGROUP T-FORCE G50 PCIe 4.0 Gen4 x4 M.2 NVMe SSD is an ultra-affordable, value-oriented SSD from TEAMGROUP, aimed at providing an easy upgrade and storage option for end users. The TEAMGROUP T-FORCE G50 is touted as having “preset controller solutions”, which just means there...

Wonder why just GeForce GPUs, did they do something specific to RTX GPUs? If it's DX Ray Tracing it should also benefit AMD right? Odd

I'm impressed, considering they were planning to do no more updates. Found this in the log: " Optimized threading system to improve performance by up to 33% on Intel Arrow Lake based CPUs."

It's more accurate to say, Ray Tracing as compared to Path Tracing, there are quality levels of RT in this game, the highest "full" mode, is Path Tracing.

I'll be re-testing all of Arrow Lake soon, for an upcoming review, I'm trying to get ahold of this microcode, as a Beta BIOS, or at least find out when it's available for the motherboards I have. My goal would be to benchmark with it, hopefully that will work out.

I'm still waiting to play it lol, I'll get to it eventually, I'm enjoying Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition right now.

This is just so dang informative, so I'm sharing it, I watched the entire thing, learned a lot.

I don't get the reasoning for people thinking that just because a game launches, they are obligated to purchase it immediately or play it immediately. You can always practice a self-imposed delay, and just not buy the game for several weeks, or months. Or, you can buy it, and wait to play it...