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i3 8350K vs R5 1600: price to performance showdown

January 12, 2018

Early last year, AMD introduced its brand new "Zen" micro-architecture for desktops, with the Ryzen brand. Offering much higher performance than the previous 'Construction' cores ending with Excavator, Ryzen wa... Read More...

Is Multi-GPU Dead?

Prometheus

January 7, 2018

Editorials, Featured, Gaming, GPUs, Graphics Cards

SLI. Crossfire. These terms evoke images of Multi-GPU overclockers setting world record benchmarks, gamers going far beyond the boundaries of conventionality and pushing their gaming performance to new heights.... Read More...

RX 560 2GB vs GTX 1050 2GB: Showdown of the budget cards

Darren

January 6, 2018

Articles, Editorials

While it's definitely nice to have the pixel pushing power of a GTX 1080 Ti, or RX Vega 64, one can't overlook just how much power you can get for a considerably smaller investment. Graphics cards have come a l... Read More...

Looking back: GeForce GTX 480 vs GTX 1070 Ti (feat. RX 560)

Darren

December 18, 2017

Articles, Editorials

A little over seven years ago in March 2010, after delays, NVIDIA launched their first 40nm architecture built for DX11 from the ground up, named after Italian-American Physicist, Enrico Fermi. The 'Fermi' Arch... Read More...

The Far Dark Side Issue 2 Review

Jeff Williams

March 27, 2017

Editorials

Star Wars has touched the lives of many million of people in just as many different ways. Some hate it, some absolutely love it and others have been truly inspired by it. And some have been inspired to create a... Read More...

Ryzen performance issues explained

Jeff Williams

March 3, 2017

Editorials

AMD, despite negative comments to the contrary, have released a technological masterpiece that mostly exceeds expectations when it comes to performance and it's design even though it competes well, though not q... Read More...

Raven Ridge: A Potential Game Changer For Graphics

CreativeMaster

February 24, 2017

Editorials

A Tale of Fusion Integrated Graphics Processing Units, found inside “Accelerated Processing Units” (APU’s) as AMD’s marketing team calls them, are quite the interesting little pieces of engineering. A CPU an... Read More...

Ryzen: AMD’s return to high-performance computing

CreativeMaster

February 22, 2017

Editorials

Where has AMD been? Back in 2011, AMD introduced the Bulldozer architecture featuring an implementation of Clustered Multi-Threading. This design featured 'modules' with dual integer cores and a single floatin... Read More...

An idiot’s guide to Cosplay – Part 1, planning and research

Mogtrix

February 12, 2017

Guides

Starting a Cosplay Project. So, Dear Reader, you want to Cosplay but you don’t know where to start? I’m here to help. As well as a little insight into the wonderful world of Anime, I’m here to offer my insight... Read More...

Star Citizen news roundup

Darren

February 6, 2017

Editorials

It’s been a little while since we last wrote about Cloud Imperium Games much anticipated titles, Star Citizen, and Squadron 42, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy, releasing more information on their ... Read More...