Nvidia’s revenue was up 46% year-on-year during the last quarter to $8.29 billion. It included a record amount of revenue from its data center business, which saw 83% YoY and 15% QoQ rises. But the company’s future outlook wasn’t so positive: it predicts a second-quarter revenue of $8.10 billion (+/- 2%), lower than analysts’ average expectation of $8.45 billion. “Overall, the gaming market is slowing,” said CEO Jensen Huang....
Which products are the best for certain workloads, what technologies are out there, and what should you choose for your next build. We’re taking a look at top players Samsung’s 970 Pro and 970 Evo, Intel’s Optane M.2 modules and Intel’s Optane PCIe card and WD’s Black SSD. A previous generation NVMe SSD from Intel has also been thrown in for comparison. As the SATA link became a bottleneck for the advancing speeds of SSDs, manufacturers started connecting them directly through the PCI Express bus....
Typically, cases designed with the goal of being silent have been bland looking. The Antec P100 is a fine example of a model that dampens noise, yet is boring to look at and uninspiring to work with. The H440 tackles this in several ways while still keeping a clean look. Along with a window to jazz things up, the H440 comes in your choice of white, red, orange, blue or green accents....
AS SSD Benchmark shows strong sequential read performance for the Vector 150 and while it looks to be low in the graph, keep in mind that all SSDs around the 480 to 510MB/s mark are maxing out the SATA 6Gb/s bus. Its sequential write benchmark also places the Vector 150 behind the original Vector, but again, both max out the SATA 6Gb/s bus. The Vector 150 is much slower than OCZ’s original offering in the 4K-64 thread read benchmark, delivering a throughput of 331....
The 120GB model packs read and write speeds of 550MB/s - 500MB/s while the larger 240GB version is slightly faster with 550MB/s reads 520MB/s writes. The largest model offers 480GB of storage and is actually the slowest, rated at 530MB/s reads and 450MB/s writes. Naturally, using the SATA 6Gb/s interface is essential to achieving those speeds. The only issue with this is that Intel’s new Sandy Bridge platform is the only one to provide native SATA 6Gb/s support – and it does so with only two ports....
I was impressed with the quality of the OnePlus 3’s rear camera. The 16-megapixel sensor provides a good amount of detail, and paired with optical image stabilization and a good image processor, this smartphone produces great photos in a range of conditions. The level of detail from this 16-megapixel camera is better than most competing devices. The increase in resolution over other 12-megapixel smartphones results in a small increase in sharpness, and allows for slightly more zooming without detail loss....
Not that most people realize it, but OnlyFans counts fitness instructors, chefs, musicians, podcasters, and more among its two million+ creators. Most accounts post material of an adult nature, of course, which makes the creators and the site a lot of money, yet the company wants to make this aspect less of a focus. Would you pay for this sort of content? This renewed push toward a mainstream image and increased transparency comes as the UK’s Online Safety Bill is set to resume its progress through parliament....
Overwatch is another CPU intensive title that takes advantage of core heavy CPUs, at least as well as any DirectX 11 title does. When paired with the GTX 1060, all five CPU configurations provided similar results. However, moving to the GTX 1070 mixes things up once again, though it’s mostly the G4560 that’s lagging behind. The G4560 finds its limits with the GTX 1070 and this can be seen when moving to the 1080, virtually no increase in frame rate is seen....
To get a fuller picture, it’s increasingly apparent that you need to factor in a card’s frame latency, which looks at how quickly each frame is delivered. Regardless of how many frames a graphics card produces on average in 60 seconds, if it can’t deliver them all at roughly the same speed, you might see more brief jittery points with one GPU over another – something we’ve witnessed but didn’t fully understand....
All in all, we are impressed with what Patriot has put together here. It wasn’t long ago that devices capable of delivering the level of performance and flexibility demonstrated by the Box Office simply didn’t exist. This and similar products have raised the bar for what a media player should be capable of and they really owe it all to the very capable Realtek RTD1073DD SoC. This is Patriot’s first attempt to enter the consumer electronics market, and while it’s a very good attempt, we cannot help but feel they have jumped in the deep end first....
At 144.5MB/s, the Pyro RAID0 configuration matched the performance of the Intel SSD 510 and Crucial m4 drives while it is still slower than the Vertex 3 and HyperX. Despite the significant improvement over a single drive, the throughput in this test is still a little disappointing. The program copy test is comprised of many small non-compressed files (6104 files totaling 2.75GB). One Pyro averaged 91.5MB/s, which is similar to what we saw when running our single 6GB file test....
Some of the blocked terms included “union,” “slave labor,” “grievance,” “living wage,” “prison,” and “plantation.” Even using the word “restrooms” was disallowed, likely due to claims that many employees, especially delivery drivers, are forced to urinate in bottles because of the unrealistic targets and deadlines imposed on them. A list of words was devised that would be blocked if they appeared in any employee messages—the app was to be more like dating app Bumble, where workers engaged with each other one on one, rather than something more traditional like Facebook....
Galax North America tweeted a teaser for a new Serious Gaming, or SG, product—the cheapest brand in its line of cards. There isn’t much in the tweet besides the logo, but VideoCardz claims to have some renders. The actual model of the card isn’t named, but it’s hard to imagine it being anything other than the RTX 4090, given the size and four-slot design. The SG card has three fans on the front, and, as with previous cards carrying the SG name, there’s the option to add a fourth fan on the back using the company’s 1-Clip technology....
Qualcomm is reportedly interested in a bid to acquire a major stake in Arm. It has entered into a consortium with several other unnamed companies to make the offer to Arm’s current parent company SoftBank. The consortium’s stated goal is to ensure the semiconductor company remains independent. Nvidia was set to close an acquisition in September 2020, but under intense regulator scrutiny, Nvidia backed out of the $40 billion deal....
From now on, the new Razer Blade laptops will come with Windows 11 out-of-the-box, packing an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX APU in Blade 14’s case and up to Intel’s Core i9-12900H CPU on the Blade 15 and 17. New GPU options were also added, including the RTX 3070Ti and 3080Ti laptop GPUs. All new Blade laptops have 1TB of M.2 SSD storage, with room for expansion: 2TB on Blade 14, 4TB on the Blade 15, and 8TB on the Blade 17....
Alexa also comes standard on new Fire 7 tablets, allowing users to perform various tasks using simple voice commands. Other notable features include a 3.5mm audio jack and a microSD card slot that supports cards up to 1TB in capacity.
It’s been this way for the past few generations. Back in 2005, early-generation Xbox 360 games like F.E.A.R. and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, punished even top-tier gaming PCs. In 2014, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, pegged as Ubisoft’s first “true” next-gen game, ran at an appalling 24 FPS at 1440p on the flagship GeForce GTX 980. While Unity certainly isn’t representative of the performance profile of all early eighth-gen games, it was markedly harder for PCs to run games that came out after the PS4 and Xbox One than before....
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series upgrades for GTA V and GTA Online will be available digitally on March 15, and at physical retail in April. Pre-orders and pre-loads start on March 8. On PS5 and Xbox Series, GTA Online will be available by itself, and it will be free to keep on PS5 until June. Players can start transferring GTA V story mode progress now by selecting “Upload Save Game” in the Game tab of the pause menu, which will upload the save file to the Rockstar Games Social Club....
Rogozin, who heads Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, said that the goal of the sanctions was to “kill Russian economy and plunge our people into despair and hunger, to get our country on its knees.” He added that they “won’t succeed in it, but the intentions are clear.” “That’s why I believe that the restoration of normal relations between the partners at the International Space Station (ISS) and other projects is possible only with full and unconditional removal of illegal sanctions,” Rogozin wrote in his Telegram account....
The Core i5-8400 rig features the MSI B360 Gaming Plus, a high quality B360 board that has no trouble getting the most out of the hexa-core CPU. Of course, we are limited to DDR4-2666 on this board, but we’ve gone with G.Skill’s high quality and very low latency FlareX CL14 memory. Cooling the i5-8400 is Intel’s stock unit. Then for the Ryzen 5 2600 we used the Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero and we have two configurations: a stock out of the box configuration using the Wraith Stealth box cooler and G....
