Author: Jacob Ridley
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AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT review
How much memory your graphics card has access to is crucially important to gaming performance, but is a bigger buffer always worth spending more money on? The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT puts this theory to the test, delivering 16 gigabytes of VRAM alongside a very familiar GPU and starting at ~$329. The underlying core…
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Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: ‘reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast’
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Ray tracing has been around a surprisingly long time in computer graphics. It was used to generate images in the 1960s, and by the ’80s new algorithms had been created including path tracing. Yet the “holy grail of rendering” remained a distant dream for early home machines like the ZX Spectrum. You need only look…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink has stuck a device in someone’s brain and he’s already talking up its theoretical uses: ‘Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist’
The first patient to receive a brain-computer implant from Neuralink is doing well after the procedure, company founder and billionaire Elon Musk has said on X. The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.January 29, 2024 See more Neuralink aims to produce a brain-computer…
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Disney looks to have figured out a limitless VR floor prototype that’s a careful step towards a real-world holodeck
The dream of any sci-fi fan is a functioning holodeck. Just step into a humble room and be transported into another world, time period (probably in 1930’s Chicago, if you’re one particularly popular sci-fi TV show), get up to hijinks, and come crashing back into reality when it all goes dreadfully wrong. Well, sci-fi fans,…
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After a deluge of AI-powered products CES 2024 is making it tougher than ever to define what AI actually is
Jacob Ridley, senior hardware editor (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been at CES 2024: Stomping around Vegas for a week has left my feet sore, but it was worth it to get a first look at so many new products. This year, there were an overwhelming number of products brandishing AI abilities, and I’m…
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I just played Lies of P on Samsung’s glasses-free 3D gaming monitor—and it definitely beats a 3D TV
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Thought we were done with this whole 3D TV trend? Think again. Samsung has some new 3D tech on show over at CES 2024: a gaming monitor that delivers glasses-free 3D gaming using eye-tracking technology. From a distance you might think this is any old monitor but get up-close and you’ll notice it starts to…
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Melted GPU power connectors shouldn’t be something to worry about with these new PSUs and connectors at CES 2024
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Power supplies meeting new standards have made an appearance over at CES 2024, which hope to finally put an end to concerns over melted power connectors. They might not be the most glamourous new products over at CES 2024, but I’m sure happy to see these new PSUs. Thermaltake and MSI both have power supplies…
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Motherboards with hidden connectors are shaping up to be one of few fun concepts that make it mainstream
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Someone’s always trying to change how we build gaming PCs—bold new concepts are commonplace at CES—but very few ideas actually succeed in changing anything at all. Yet it really looks like one trend could stick around this year, and that’s motherboards with all the connectors and cables hidden around the back. Now, feel free to…
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MSI built its own version of a Founders Edition for the RTX 4080 Super and it’s just as hilariously large
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, which means MSI must really like Nvidia’s Founders Edition design. It’s taken the core concept of Nvidia’s RTX 30- and 40-series FE cards, the push/pull fan concept, and reimagined it with its own RTX 4080 Super 16G Expert. MSI tells me it liked how Nvidia’s Founders…
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I don’t know whether to be afraid or impressed by this PCIe 5.0 SSD with a tiny liquid cooler attached
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Has SSD cooling gone too far? Are PCIe 5.0 speeds worth it? These are the questions to wrestle with as you stare down an SSD with its own dedicated liquid cooler. The drive in question is MSI’s Spatium M580 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2TB Frozr Liquid, which comes with its very own pint-sized water cooler,…