It’s nice to see the older HD 5870 and GTX 480 still exceeding our performance ideal, clocking in just below the HD 6950 and GTX 570. Just below the 60fps mark, the GTX 560 Ti and 470 averaged 52fps, while the HD 6780 rendered 56fps. Few cards are burly enough to run Brink at the extreme resolution of 2560x1600. Most budget and mainstream cards tanked hard with less than 30fps....
Using the R3 2200G’s stock cooler we were able to push its integrated Vega 8 GPU from 1.1GHz up to 1.6GHz, and while this lead to some nice gains, it also pushed operating temperatures well into the 80s and for this reason I wasn’t able to overclock the CPU cores as well. Our overclock saw a 45% increase in GPU frequency, providing around 35% more frames and truly transforming the affordable R3 2200G’s potential when it came to gaming....
Controller = SandForce SF-1222 (a.k.a. SF-1200) Cache = NA Memory = Intel 29F32G08AAMDB (32GB 34nm MLC) Read/Write = 280MB/s - 270MB/s (40GB model) The new Agility 2 series has ditched the Indilinx Barefoot controller used by the original and has picked up the award winning SandForce SF-1200 which is also found in their Vertex 2 series. However, the Agility 2 uses cheaper Intel 29F32G08AAMDB NAND flash memory chips, which are the same used by the ADATA S596 Turbo 32GB SSD....
Cinebench R15 is probably the most popular benchmark for measuring CPU performance, and it is a great way to get a quick reading on single and multi-threaded performance. As expected when using a single thread, the Xeon E5-2670 isn’t exactly the quickest thing around, though it still outpaced the AMD FX-8350 and wasn’t a great deal slower than the 5960X. The multi-threaded results for the single Xeon E5-2670 were quite good at 1038pts, which placed it between the Core i7-6700K and 5960X....
Meta writes that it took down the “small” network, which originated in China, for violating its policy on inauthentic behavior. Covering Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, it’s the first known propaganda campaign originating in China to target US audiences ahead of November’s midterms. It appears that voters aren’t going to be influenced by the propaganda. Two of the memes featuring Joe Biden and Senator Marco Rubio received one engagement each, the Facebook Pages had only a handful of followers, and almost nobody shared the hashtags....
The read sequential performance in the AS SSD Benchmark is a lot stronger, here the MP500 was good for 2.3GB/s. This meant it was only slower than the Samsung SSD 960 series in this test. The sequential write performance is again limited to 1.3GB/s which is well off that claimed 2.4GB/s write throughput. This also meant that the MP500 was slower than last season’s 950 Pro. The 4K-64 thread performance isn’t particularly impressive for an NVMe SSD, here the MP500 was limited to 912MB/s, making it the slowest NVMe drive we have seen in this test to date....
The Corsair K70 RGB Pro boasts the same polling rate as last year’s Razer Huntsman V2 but lacks the optical tech of its rival, also found in Corsair’s own higher-end K100 RGB. The premium $160 launch price, however, is identical to the currently discounted Huntsman V2. Corsair offers this model with standard Cherry MX-branded mechanical switches, giving players the choice of MX Brown, Red, Speed, Blue and Silent keys. It carries over the detachable USB-C cable and the aluminum, textured volume roller from the K70 RGB TKL, but with relocated keys for dedicated media and system controls....
The Vertex 3 showed us what it’s made of during the program copy test, which is comprised of many small non-compressed files (6104 files totaling 2.75GB). The m4 was 29% slower than OCZ’s flagship offering, producing a throughput of 139.8MB/s. On the bright side, it was 27% faster than Crucial’s old RealSSD C300. The game copy evaluation is a mixture of small and large, compressed and non-compressed files (1336 files in this test weighing 2....
The Agility 4 has a claimed sequential read speed of 420MB/s, but it fell short of that figure in CrystalDiskMark, reaching 353.4MB/s, while the Crucial v4 beat its quoted speed of 230MB/s, hitting 246.1MB/s. Despite exceeding its listed specs, the v4 was still 44% slower than OCZ’s drive. With a write speed of 408.5MB/s in CrystalDiskMark, the Agility 4 fell just shy of its quoted rate of 410MB/s, but it was still fast enough to beat everything except the Vertex 4....
Bloomberg reports that during the height of the crypto boom, when Bitcoin was near $69,000 and profit margins were as high as 90%, miners raised as much as $4 billion from mining-equipment financing. Companies were handing out massive loans for rigs and to build mining farms, but as Ethan Vera, chief operations officer at crypto-mining services firm Luxor Technologies, notes, “Miners ended up dictating a lot of the loan terms, so the financiers moved ahead with a lot of the deals where only the machines were collateral....
Cyberpunk has received mostly positive reviews in massive numbers and with over one million concurrent players on Steam in the first 24 hours, it’s already smashed Fallout 4’s record for the most players for a single player title. When preloads went live, Steam saw its biggest bandwidth peak since PUBG, reaching 23.5 terabytes per second. So Cyberpunk 2077 is massively popular and appears to be a huge success, both in terms of sales and the quality of the game....
Microsoft’s own applications generally fared well under Windows 8’s DPI scaling: all areas of Windows 8 (e.g. command prompt, Wordpad, Calculator, Mail, Windows Explorer) as well as Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Office 2010 exhibited sharply rendered and proportionately-sized UI elements. Additionally, they produced appropriate font sizes and operated expectedly. Windows 7 fared nearly as well. Windows 8 was a bit more consistent overall, but many of Windows 7’s built-in features and UI scaled fine....
Diablo Immortal players have only had a few days with the game, but many have already started selling high-level characters and offering to level up other characters for a fee. Simply searching “Diablo Immortal boosting” uncovers several websites offering gray market services. Vice encountered one player who spammed the in-game chat to advertise one such site, “P2PAH”. The site sells level 60 characters for $200, services to boost characters from level 1 to 60 for $117, and in-game platinum coins for cents....
For putting together this performance review we tested seventeen DirectX 11 graphics card configurations from AMD and Nvidia across all price ranges. The latest drivers were used for all graphics cards. While on the subject of drivers, the AMD Catalyst 11.2 drivers worked perfectly and provided excellent Crossfire scaling in this game. However there currently appears to be a performance issue with Nvidia based graphics cards when using the DirectX 11 rendering mode....
This is not a technical limitation but rather a licensing one. Case in point, Remote Desktop in server editions of Windows by default supports two concurrent connections to remotely troubleshoot or administer a computer. More users can connect simultaneously, too, as long as the machine can handle it with the resources it has available and you have the required client access licenses for that particular server. However, there are a few reasons why concurrent sessions would come in handy for power users not necessarily running a server....
Updated feature for Windows 11: How to Activate God Mode in Windows 10 and Windows 11 “God Mode” simply provides users with a centralized Control Panel for all of Windows’ settings, from changing your desktop background to setting up a VPN or partitioning your hard drive. In all, there are nearly 50 categories and most have several entries. It’s almost comical how simple it is to access it. Simply, create a new folder – anywhere is fine, I created one on my desktop – and rename that folder to: God Mode....
The E1 Frame Set is a new open-air chassis from EVGA that’s available now. Open-air cases aren’t new, but this one stands out by holding PC components in-place with steel suspension cables. The nonexistent covering and 100-percent weave carbon fiber frame likely make this one of the lightest chassis ever at just 2.76lbs. The frame and cables hold the motherboard in place while brackets on the front band back hold the graphics card and power supply, respectively....
TSMC’s financials in the fourth quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023 are expected to show a decline with the company is reportedly renegotiating contracts as AMD, Nvidia, and MediaTek cut orders due to falling demand for their products. Sources have told DigiTimes that the utilization rates for TMSC 7nm and 6nm fabs are expected to fall to 50 percent as clients order fewer wafers. The 28nm fabs that remain at capacity as of Q3 2022 will also start to slow down heading into 2023....
In general, totally free high quality VPN services are few and far between. The current business model being used by some is to offer a free basic application with the option to upgrade to a paid, more feature rich version. However, for users simply looking for some extra privacy or sporadically accessing a geo-restricted website these free versions get the job done. CyberGhost CyberGhost installs clean and the interface is very polished....
