Author: Will Judd
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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 7 7700X review: maximal design
[ad_1] Following on from our Ryzen 9 7900X and Ryzen 5 7600X review, it’s finally time to look at the two remaining CPUs in AMD’s Ryzen 7000 family: the $449/£439 Ryzen 7 7700X, a potential gaming value champ, and the $799/£769 Ryzen 9 7950X, a sixteen-core titan expected to outperform almost every consumer CPU in…
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PNY RTX 4080 XLR8 review: is this a worthwhile upgrade from RTX 3080?
[ad_1] The RTX 4080 is a weird graphics card. It’s hugely powerful, outpacing the RTX 3090 Ti with a smaller price tag and better power consumption, yet the RTX 4090 is the better value card thanks to the big leap in performance it delivers. So is there really an argument to be made to upgrade…
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AMD announces long-awaited Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs to take the fight to Intel’s 13900K
[ad_1] AMD has announced a raft of new Ryzen processors at its CES 2023 showcase, including the long-awaited Ryzen 7000X3D processors that should provide a stern rejoinder to Intel’s 13th-gen desktop CPUs and could let Team Red reclaim the gaming performance crown. The idea here is pretty simple: take the ‘3D V-Cache’ technology that made…
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The Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti launches today, here’s where to buy it at RRP
[ad_1] Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti graphics card goes on sale today, offering largely RTX 3090 to 3090 Ti level performance at $799 in the US and £799 in the UK. That’s the narrative, anyway – but how many cards will actually be available at the MSRP/RRP? It’s an important question, because as the old saying…
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Nvidia announces RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards, RTX 40-series laptop GPUs
[ad_1] Nvidia just wrapped up its CES press conference, unveiling a new desktop graphics card – the RTX 4070 Ti – plus a lineup of RTX 40-series GPUs for laptops and a new RTX 4080 tier for its GeForce Now streaming service. Here’s what you need to know. First, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. This…
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Five more lovely mechanical keyboards released this year
[ad_1] Earlier this year, I shared my thoughts on five incredible mechanical keyboards that had passed over my desk as of early 2022. There was a surprisingly warm response to that piece, and I planned soon to revisit the topic when I’d tested enough great keyboards to really justify it – next year, perhaps. Scarcely…
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DF Direct Weekly: do we really need a Horizon Zero Dawn remake?
[ad_1] Do we really need a Horizon Zero Dawn remake? That was the first topic on this week’s Digital Foundry Direct, as John, Rich and Alex grapple with the prospect of a PS5 remaster of a recently-released PlayStation 4 title. It’s a hard question to answer, as undoubtedly the team at Guerrilla Games wants their…
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Intel Arc A770 and A750 review: welcome player three
[ad_1] Intel’s first enthusiast-grade graphics cards are here – and on the eve of AMD and Nvidia’s transition to a new generation, Team Blue has actually done well. The $289 Arc A750 and $329/$349 Arc A770 offer surprisingly strong 1080p performance, a unique mix of features and aggressive pricing that makes them well worth considering…
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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and Ryzen 5 7600X review: welcome to the future
[ad_1] AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors are here, with a new 5nm process node and AM5 socket unlocking higher clock frequencies, greater power usage and in turn better performance. The four new CPUs releasing on September 27th also include a new 6nm I/O die, integrated graphics and support for DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 – it’s a…
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Nvidia announces RTX 4090 and 4080 graphics cards, DLSS 3
[ad_1] Nvidia has announced its latest generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards at its GTC AI conference. The Nvidia RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are the first GPUs from the ‘Ada Lovelace’ series, and they should be up to twice as fast as their last-gen counterparts in rasterised games – and up to four times…