Gaming
Today NVIDIA has brought variable refresh rate support to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The company initially promised variable refresh support on GeForce Now back in early January during CES, and has seemingly waited so that it could launch alongside GeForce Now Day Passes, which are also now available. Variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies, including NVIDIA's own G-Sync, have been around for around a decade now, and allow a monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to the instantaneous framerate of a game. This synchronization prevents screen tearing, when two or more frames are present on a display at the same time. Without a VRR technology, gamers either have to tolerate the visual incongruity of screen tearing or enable V-Sync, which solves screen tearing by...
The ASUS ROG Strix GL502VS Review: Mainstream GTX 1070 with G-SYNC
ASUS offers a wide assortment of gaming laptops under “Republic of Gamers”, or 'ROG', with models such as the G752 lineup, the liquid cooled models in the GX800 series...
54 by Brett Howse on 12/9/2016
GIGABYTE BRIX Gaming UHD GB-BNi7HG4-950 mini-PC Review
The PC market has been subject to challenges over the last several years. However, gaming systems and small form-factor (SFF) PCs have weathered the storm particularly well. Many vendors...
53 by Ganesh T S on 10/28/2016
Razer Updates The DeathAdder Elite Gaming Mouse
Although Razer has become one of the well known gaming computer companies, they got their start with gaming mice, and today Razer is launching their next iteration of the...
25 by Brett Howse on 9/27/2016
Microsoft Releases The First Xbox Play Anywhere Title: Recore
At E3, Microsoft announced a new feature to bring together their Xbox ecosystem with the much larger, and more diverse, Windows 10 user base. The initiative was called Xbox...
48 by Brett Howse on 9/12/2016
Analyzing Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro Hardware Reveal: What Lies Beneath
A few months ago near the start of E3, Sony made an interesting revelation: that they would be releasing a higher performing PlayStation 4 console. A console intended to...
207 by Ryan Smith on 9/8/2016
Razer Updates The Razer Blade And Razer Blade Stealth At PAX
Today Razer is announcing some refreshes to it’s system lineup as well, with both the Razer Blade and Razer Blade Stealth getting significant updates. The Razer Blade makes the...
41 by Brett Howse on 9/2/2016
Alienware Refreshes The Alienware 15 And 17 Gaming Notebooks At PAX
Today Dell’s gaming brand is announcing updates to their larger form factor gaming notebooks. The Alienware 15 and 17 are launching with a new design featuring a thinner chassis...
28 by Brett Howse on 9/2/2016
Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 SFF PC Review - An Innovative VR-Ready Gaming Powerhouse
The PC market has been subject to challenges over the last several years. However, gaming systems and small form-factor (SFF) PCs have weathered the storm particularly well. Many vendors...
30 by Ganesh T S on 8/25/2016
HP and MAINGEAR Team Up for Omen X High-End Gaming PC
HP this week re-entered the market of high-end gaming PCs with its Omen X desktop. The machine uses rather unusual cube-shaped tri-chamber design featuring high-end hardware, liquid cooling and...
19 by Anton Shilov on 8/18/2016
AMD Carrizo Part 2: A Generational Deep Dive into the Athlon X4 845 at $70
Prior to the announcement for AMD's 7th Generation of APUs, Bristol Ridge, the latest micro-architecture from AMD based on the x86 instruction set was given the codename Excavator, using...
131 by Ian Cutress on 7/14/2016
ASUS at Computex 2016: The 10 Years of the Republic Of Gamers (ROG) Booth Tour
For anyone following our Live Blog coverage at Computex this year, ASUS had two large press events in quick succession in different parts of town. The first focused on...
43 by Ian Cutress on 6/22/2016
Microsoft Teases Project Scorpio for 2017: 8 cores, 6 TeraFLOPs, Backwards Compatible with Xbox. Zen or Jaguar?!
This news piece contains speculation, and suggests silicon implementation based on released products and roadmaps.The only elements confirmed for Project Scorpio are the eight cores, >6 TFLOPs, 320 GB/s...
101 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2016
Cortana Coming to Xbox Live
A short word coming out of E3: despite rolling out a couple of days ago, Microsoft has formally announced Cortana, the Windows-based speech recognition helper (similar to Siri and...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2016
Microsoft Announces Xbox One S Console: A Slimmer Design
Today at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft has lifted the lid on their new Xbox One console design. The Xbox One is part of the eighth generation...
58 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2016
NZXT H440 "EnVyUs" Edition Chassis Announced: H440 Gets an e-Sports Edition
Originally released in 2014, NZXT's H440 chassis has quickly become a popular product for the company. Due to this popularity NZXT has released a few different designs over the...
26 by Anton Shilov on 6/10/2016
ASUS Readies ROG Laptops with Optional 120 Hz AHVA Display Panels
In the recent years, ASUS became one of the world’s largest supplier of gaming notebooks and gaming displays. Having obtained a lot of expertise in building monitors and laptops...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2016
Computex 2016: ASUS Republic of Gamers 10 Year Press Conference
The final press event of the day - the annual Computex Republic of Gamers press conference. This year is ASUS' 10 year anniversary for ROG, and as part of...
6 by Ian Cutress & Billy Tallis on 5/29/2016
The Intel Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK mini-PC Review
The desktop computing market has been subject to severe challenges over the last few years. The ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) PC market that emerged with the introduction of the Intel...
133 by Ganesh T S on 5/23/2016
The EpicGear Defiant Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Mechanical keyboards are growing in popularity in the gaming market. As a result, we now have a number of products to choose from coming from dozens of manufacturers, making...
23 by E. Fylladitakis on 5/11/2016
The ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme Review: The Other $500 Option
On the back of our last $500 motherboard review, it was clear that a number of readers were surprised that a mainstream motherboard could cost so much. We took...
70 by Ian Cutress on 4/7/2016
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