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AMD has finally taken the curtains off their upcoming RDNA2 series GPUs, which for the first time in ages, are poised to be a serious threat against Nvidia. Their new flagship card, dubbed the RX 6900 XT, features a total of 80 compute units running at a base clock speed of 2015 MHz, and will…
Whenever you go to buy a PC game, there’s almost always a list of system requirements on the store page. These are typically broken down into the minimum and recommended specs your computer should have in order to run it. What do these really mean though? The short answer to that is nobody really knows,…
AMD is issuing guidelines to retailers in order to prevent scalping of their new Ryzen 5000 CPUs and RX 6000 GPUs, according to a report obtained by RedGamingTech. According to the document, the company is telling shops that “some purchasers may initially try to buy large quantities of our new graphics and processors cards and…
AMD’s new Zen 3 processors are on their way in just a few short weeks. While we don’t have any official benchmarks, early leaks indicate that these are going to be some mighty powerful CPUs, regardless of whether you’re gaming or doing productivity. They also come with a bit of a price hike over previous…
Nvidia has delayed the launch of the RTX 3070 until October 29th, in order to ensure there’s enough supply to meet demand. “We know this may be disappointing to those eager to purchase a GeForce RTX 3070 as soon as possible, however this shift will help our global partners get more graphics cards into the…
Microsoft wants to win back the PC market, again. We’ve heard the empty promises before, but this time it seems like they’re making a serious go at it. We now have Game Pass, xCloud, and a promise to bring every single Xbox exclusive to the platform. Which has a lot of Xbox fans asking, why?…
A lot of Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 and 3090 cards are suffering from strange issues while gaming. According to anecdotal reports around the internet, people are experiencing problems ranging from stuttering during games, to crashes. JayzTwoCents recently took a peek into inside, and seems to have narrowed it down to bad power delivery. On the…
American video game companies are being put under the microscope of the US Treasury department over their ties to Chinese megacorp Tencent. Bloomberg cited an unnamed source stating the Committee on Foreign Investments has sent a letter to Epic Games, Riot, and others requesting they divulge information regarding security protocols. Namely how they handle Americans’…
On the Weekend throwback, we revisit some vintage, well aged (like fine milk) articles from the site’s history, to see how tech has evolved in the last 13 years. Today, we’re looking back on an epic rant I had about the poor state of PC gaming in 2008. There’s a reason why I still, to…
Nvidia finally took the wraps off one of the worst kept secrets in tech this year. We now know what their upcoming Ampere line of graphics processors are going to look like, and more importantly, how they perform. To say the company has substantially raised the bar is a bit of an understatement. The word…