Author: [email protected] (Alan Dexter)

[ad_1] Acer makes plenty of gaming hardware, including laptops, desktops, monitors, and peripherals. Now it looks like it will enter the graphics card market with a little help from Intel’s Arc A770 GPU. So far, all we’ve got is a tweet showing off the Predator BiFrost (opens in new tab), but that’s enough to pique…

[ad_1] Nvidia’s DLSS 3 looks like weaving some serious magic for frame rates when Nvidia releases the GeForce RTX 4090 on October 12. I’ve already covered the performance boosts we can expect (opens in new tab) to see when it hits the updated Overdrive rendering path for Cyberpunk 2077 (opens in new tab) when that…

[ad_1] Cyberpunk 2077 (opens in new tab) will soon get an update that will push its ray tracing to the next level with the introduction of a new Ray Tracing: Overdrive setting. This was announced as part of Nvidia’s RTX 40-series launch (opens in new tab), as Nvidia used the new mode to show off…

[ad_1] RTX 4090 release date: October 12, 2022 RTX 4090 price: $1,599 Built on Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture and using TSMC’s N4 process Nvidia claims the RTX 4090 offers 2–4x performance of the RTX 3090 Ti Featuring 16,384 CUDA Cores and 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM The wait is over. The rumour mill can stop spinning,…

[ad_1] You’d be forgiven for thinking now would be a great time to treat yourself to a new graphics card. Ethereum mining has finally gone the way of the dodo, meaning that the second-hand market should be buoyant, and prices for new cards are approaching reasonable levels too. So all good news for once? Hold…

[ad_1] As well as being faintly terrifying to flex, Corsair’s new bendy OLED gaming monitor turns out not to be the pointless MacGuffin I feared it might be. It’s still going to be seriously pricey, though. Yes, Corsair today brought down a prototype of its Xeneon Flex (opens in new tab) OLED monitor for me…

[ad_1]  The best PCIe 4.0 SSD also happens to be the best SSD in general. They’re wildly fast, relatively cheap, and ready for future technologies like DirectStorage. For gaming, expect loading screens for some of your favorite games to zip by in mere moments. A speedy PCIe 4.0 SSD won’t let you down until PCIe…

[ad_1] Windows 8.1 will hit ‘End of Support’ on January 10, 2023. There’s still a bit to go until that fateful day, but Microsoft’s least-loved OS has already started getting all melodramatic, announcing its demise to users. Logging into a PC running Windows 8.1 today will produce a pop-up screen stating it is nearing the…

[ad_1] Amazon Prime Day gaming PC deals have already been hitting the digital shelves, even before the rush on Tuesday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 13 comes around. And since we’re about to wave in a new generation of PC hardware, there’s likely to be heaps more discounts coming. Retailers are gearing up to shift…