Tag: Computing Components
AMD in 2024: year in review
What sort of 2024 did AMD experience? This year was quiet in some respects for Team Red – with not much activity in the GPU space, save for one notable exception – but there was more happening on the CPU front, although the introduction of new Zen 5 processors proved…
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GeForce Experience is dead – replaced by the Nvidia App – and good riddance
2025 marks a decade of me working in the tech industry. In that time, I’ve concocted and documented hundreds of custom PC builds and benchmarked hundreds more products, each time installing a fresh OS on every system I use – and that doesn’t include reinstalls on my own rigs. I…
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AMD RDNA 4 GPU rumors flood forth, including possible name change to RX 9070 – because bigger is better, compared to Nvidia’s RTX 5070?
AMD is supposedly launching RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 next-gen GPUs Previous rumors suggested these would be the RX 8000 series Performance is rumored to be a bit slower than previous chatter from the grapevine Rumors around AMD’s next-gen GPUs have gone into overdrive this past weekend, and we’ve…
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Got an Intel Core Ultra 200S CPU? These are the patches you need to help gaming performance – with one more update coming in January 2025
Intel has issued a full and detailed report on Arrow Lake’s subpar performance Five separate problems were highlighted, four of which are now fixed You’ll need to update your BIOS and Windows 11 to get those fixes Intel has finished its deep-dive investigation into problems with its Core Ultra 200S…
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The Intel Arc B580 GPU could rejuvenate the budget PC market – here’s why
The Intel Arc B580 graphics card has finally released It’s gotten positive attention due to its price and performance This could bring back the budget PC market The Intel Arc B580 graphics card has finally been released after months of rumors, leaks, and reports about its prospective specs, and so…
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AMD RX 8800 XT could match RTX 4080’s performance – and easily outgun Nvidia’s GPU for ray tracing
RX 8800 XT is rumored to equal RTX 4080 for non-ray tracing performance The RDNA 4 graphics card could match the RTX 4080 Super for ray tracing The GPU is about to enter mass production, hinting at an early 2025 launch AMD’s rumored Radeon RX 8800 XT could pack a…
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