Tag: Computing Components
Now might be the time for that RAM upgrade – to beat rumored price hikes
DDR4 (and DDR5) RAM for your PC could soon be getting pricier, according to a new forecast, and somewhat sooner than was anticipated. If you’ve been following RAM pricing – and we’ll excuse you, if you haven’t (just this once) – then you’ll have seen that throughout the course of…
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Intel finally releases its Arc A580 graphics card — and its price might make it the best cheap GPU going
Intel surprised everyone this week when it released its Arc A580 graphics card, a GPU that was first announced last year but which had otherwise been missing in action ever since. The Intel Arc A580 (which had been rumored in recent weeks thanks to leaked benchmarks) sits in the middle…
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Nvidia RTX 4080 Ti rumor suggests it’s the high-end GPU you’ve been waiting for
Nvidia could be planning a faster version of its RTX 4080 graphics card, and this GPU might just be temptingly priced. That’s the latest theory from MEGAsizeGPU, one of the regular hardware leakers on X (formerly Twitter), so regard it with the usual caution you’d employ around chatter from the…
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Intel leak suggests MacBook-beating laptops could trouble Apple sooner than expected
Intel’s Lunar Lake processors have been somewhat under the radar thus far, so it’s interesting to see a leak pop up around the future CPUs. As a quick refresher – the various lakes Intel employs are confusingly numerous – the next-gen chips from Intel are Meteor Lake (laptop chips, due…
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Nvidia RTX 3060 grabs the top spot for Steam GPUs – but is something else happening here?
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 graphics card has made a big leap to take the top spot in the ranking of the most popular GPUs used on Steam, according to the latest hardware survey conducted by Valve. The survey data for September shows that the RTX 3060 rose from 4.87% the previous…
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AMD has a new trick to make games run smoother – but only for RX 7000 GPUs
All the focus has been on FSR 3 launching yesterday (finally), but AMD has also implemented a separate Fluid Motion Frame feature at a driver level, which aims to boost frame rates considerably using frame generation tech. What’s the difference between these technologies? We’ll come back to that in a…
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