Author: [email protected] (Dave James)
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Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming
[ad_1] Dave James, doomsayer (Image credit: Future) This week I have been mostly playing The Witcher 3 Some luddite ripped the fibre optic cabling out of my house recently which has left me bereft of interwebs, with only next-gen Geralt for company. Yes, I have been the victim of an IRL DoS attack. This month…
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Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 (GU604) review
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[ad_1] The new generation of gaming laptops has launched with a flash, a bang, and the sound of a thousand jet turbines all whirring into life at the same time. The new mobile gaming machines sporting the pseudo RTX 4090 GPU are loud; that’s been my main takeaway from my testing so far. But that’s…
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Razer Blade 16 (RTX 4090) review
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[ad_1] When CES delivered our first taste of this new generation of gaming laptops the Razer Blade 16 was instantly the one I wanted. Now I’ve got it in hand, this slightly chonkier Blade notebook is delivering previously unseen levels of productivity and gaming performance in a mobile platform, displays some impressive technical chops, and…
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Next-gen RTX 4090 laptops tested: Proof you really can’t have it all
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[ad_1] The Witcher 3 looks absolutely stunning running on this gorgeous 4K Mini LED screen. And the latent power of both the new RTX 4090 and Core i9 13950HX hardware means I can slap everything up to max and still top 60 fps. I’m beating the scat out of this werewolf and in turn telling…
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Seriously, where did you lot get the money for all those RTX 4090s?
[ad_1] Where did you people get all this money from?! Somehow Nvidia’s RTX 4090 (opens in new tab) has appeared in the Steam Hardware Survey (opens in new tab) for the first time this January, and has popped in above any of AMD’s high-end graphics cards. The AMD RX 6800 XT (opens in new tab)…
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An error in Samsung’s 980 Pro firmware is causing SSDs to die. I’d check your drive right now tbh
[ad_1] If you’re rocking a Samsung 980 Pro in your gaming PC, it’s time to update or it might die in front of your eyes. Even worse, if that’s your Windows boot drive, your entire system may just one day soon refuse to start. The issue was discovered by system builder, Puget Systems (opens in…
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Forspoken DirectStorage on test: Contrary to reports, there’s no GPU performance hit on an RTX 4090
[ad_1] Y’know, something I didn’t expect to see from my first experience with Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology in Forspoken was that I’d see higher frame rates from running the game from a spinning platter hard drive than from an SSD. Or then that I might have to wait an extra minute or so between loading screens,…
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I think AMD needs to stop letting interns update its upcoming CPU info pages
[ad_1] AMD’s best gaming CPUs ever are coming out on February 14! Oh… wait… no, that was a mistake. But good news, the new 3D V-cache chips are inexplicably going to support overclocking! Oh… wait… no, that was also a mistake. I mean, this is getting silly now. We’ve been waiting on AMD to launch…
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World of Warcraft Classic gets a modern facelift thanks to files ripped out of the latest Portal game
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[ad_1] The unflinchingly nostalgic World of Warcraft Classic and the neo-futuristic ideal of real-time ray tracing in absolutely, positively everything don’t immediately strike me as a natural match. And yet here we are, with a surprisingly pretty version of the MMO using Nvidia’s RTX Remix files ripped right out of Portal RTX. The video recently…
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I lost my head and lubed a mechanical keyboard switch. Help
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[ad_1] I’m an unashamed keyboard nerd. For as long as I can remember I’ve loved writing, and whether it’s at the old typewriter sat in my grandparent’s spare room or the keyboard of that first Toshiba computer my dad brought home from work, tapping at a good keeb is my happy place. But I’ve never…