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You may recall that when the GeForce RTX 4090 first came out (last October), there was some initial concern amid reports of 12VHPWR power adapters overheating and melting. It turned out to be the result of improperly seated cables and it only affected a small fraction of users. CableMod responded by offering a custom...
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There are no two ways about it—NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 is a beastly graphics card and, price be damned, the fastest option for gamers. Flip on ray tracing and the performance gap widens even further. It's also a power-hungry graphics card that can get a little toasty under the collar. To help keep those...
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Overclocking guru and TechTuber der8auer (AKA Roman Hartung) has tested a couple of active graphics card backplate coolers purchased via AliExpress. Graphics card backplates can get pretty hot, so it is logical to think that adding some active cooling could help with the overall cooling of your card. However...
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AMD and NVIDIA both have yet to really hit the ground running with more affordable mainstream GPUs with their current-generation product stacks. Make no mistake, though, neither outfit is finished adding SKUs to their respective lineups. As a possible hint of what lies around the bend, Gigabyte has registered several...
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Authorities in Hong Kong sniffed out something fishy as two men driving a white van attempted to pass through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, a 34-mile bridge and tunnel system spanning the Lingding and Jiuzhous channels. What they discovered is an alleged smuggling operation with the van packed to the gills with...
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While we may not have concrete details on NVIDIA's exact plans when it comes to unreleased hardware, we can make at least one safe assumption—it's not yet finished fleshing out its lineup of GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards based on Ada Lovelace. Logic dictates that the next addition will be the GeForce RTX 4060...
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Shots fired! In a Twitter post, AMD's Senior Director of Marketing for Gaming, Sasa Marinkovic, continued a salvo against NVIDIA over the bang-for-your-buck proposition of each company's current and previous-generation graphics cards, and specifically in regards to how much video memory (otherwise known as VRAM)...
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Retailers have revealed the memory specifications of NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti, in correlation with several new MSI S3 Gaming Prebuilts that are housing the new GPUs. Sadly, the listed VRAM specifications sit at just 8GB, as rumors have been pointing to for months.
The leaked system specs come by...
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A new rumor claims three new AMD Radeon RX 7000 series mid-range GPUs are in the works that will compete with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 series and as yet unannounced RTX 4060 series GPUs. These models include the Radeon RX 7800 XTX, RX 7800 XT, and RX 7700 XT, which will reportedly be powered by AMD’s scaled-down Navi...
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The unaware PC gamer will buy a graphics card based on how much video RAM it has and might be disappointed at its performance. The uninitiated will then tell you that video RAM doesn't matter, because games rarely use that much. Those truly in the know are well aware that current games are pushing past the 8GB...
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A new report claims that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and Radeon RX 7600 will be announced next month during the Computex 2023 conference. These two GPUs will represent NVIDIA and AMD’s new generation of mid-range GPUs, with the RX 7600 probably stacking up more closely with the RTX 4060, and the RTX 4060 Ti slotting in a...
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Anyone in the market for a higher end graphics card should talk a long, hard look at the Radeon RX 6950 XT. It released to retail just under a year ago at $1,099 after AMD briefly flirted with a $1,299 MSRP, and now 11 months later you can snag one for right around $599, which is the same price as NVIDIA's GeForce RTX...
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An Alibaba trader in China is selling AMD Radeon RX 580 GPUs as key fobs with tech-appeal. This is a sad story in some ways, but as graphics cards like the RX 580 (particularly those packing 8GB) are still serviceable, we reckon these key fob GPUs are surely made from salvaged and faulty or completely broken graphics...
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One of the telltale signs that a new piece of tech is nearing release is an increase in the frequency of leaks and rumors. To that end, we can reasonably anticipate that NVIDIA will formally introduce the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in the near future. The leaks are beginning to pile up and now it's come to light that NVIDIA...
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The recently-released GeForce RTX 4070 ranks as the least expensive entry in Ada Lovelace territory (and with it, access to frame generation magic by way of DLSS 3), but maybe not for long. One of NVIDIA's hardware partners has seemingly leaked some key specs of the upcoming GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, including the...
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After months of speculation, NVIDIA finally got around to releasing the GeForce RTX 4070 (non-TI model), which ranks as the least expensive Ada Lovelace card to date with a $599 starting MSRP. That also means it's lowest on the totem pole in terms of hardware and performance, though it's not slow—check out our GeForce...
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ASRock's Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX has been discounted well below its $1120 MSRP to just $959.99 for the first time ever. The card's new price is not only significant for the Phantom Gaming SKU, but it is also a noticeable discount from AMD's $1000 MSRP for the reference models. On top of this, the card is...
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The cat labelled GeForce RTX 4070 is well and truly out if the bag after numerous photos, listings and specs leaks in recent hours. We thought we were lucky getting to see a few add-in board (AIB) photos, but those have perhaps been eclipsed by some beautifully clear shots of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders...
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NVIDIA has confirmed that its eSports gamer boosting Reflex technology is on the way to Counter-Strike 2. However, the graphics firm’s boasts about Reflex enhancements have gotten a little ahead of its product launch schedule, providing the first official acknowledgement that a GeForce RTX 4070 desktop graphics card...
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Readers of this site are no doubt familiar with Intel's Arc A380, A750, and A770 graphics cards. The A380 was the first one to hit the market, and we've reviewed the other two. What you could have missed are the Arc Pro graphics cards: the A30, A40, and A50. They aren't available at retail, being OEM-only, but they...
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NVIDIA’s highly anticipated GeForce RTX 4070 turned up in an online benchmarks database earlier today. The pre-release desktop graphics card appears to have been partnered by some other modern and potent components for this run. If the Geekbench OpenCL graphics acceleration result is representative of the RTX 4070’s...
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As much as we all lust over a top-tier graphics card like the GeForce RTX 4090 or Radeon RX 7900 XTX, the majority of gamers don't end up buying a flagship GPU. Pesky things like rent and food disrupt the allotted budget for toys and thrills. That's why the aging GeForce GTX 1650 was, for a time, the most popular GPU...
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