At a glanceExpert’s Rating Pros$199 price pointGood 1080p gaming performance at Medium/High settingsVery power efficient and coolModern features like ray tracing and AMD Smart Access Memory4GB memory buffer can’t be used for Ethereum mining, hopefully reducing cryptocurrency demandConsWill $199 price point stick on the streets?Limited PCIe lanes reduce performance on older PCIe 3.0 systemsUnorthodox memory configuration and limited PCIe lanes limit performance potentialOnly one HDM
If you’re about to go PCIe 4.0 on your next computer build, we’ve spotted a nice deal on an SSD for you. Amazon is selling the 1TB Sabrent Rocket Q4 NVMe SSD for just $93.50, which is down from $110. That’s $16.50 off of the most recent price. This deal comes from third-party retailer Store4Memory, but it ships from Amazon, meaning the drive is covered by the company’s return policy.
Sabrent claims you can expect sequential read speeds up to 4,700 Megabytes per secon
Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard. It’s gonna try, anyway, with a deal worth more than the GDP of most of the countries on the planet, and a host of problems from employee abuse to just straight-up publishing duds, Microsoft may have just bought the world’s biggest and most expensive can of worms. But let’s assume that they get through the various regulatory hurdles, and Redmond adds one of the biggest publishers on the planet to its growing collection of subsidiaries.
Ever had an idea for a game — And then ignored it because you didn’t know how to code? Well, now you can make it a reality. And you won’t need any technical aptitude either because The Complete GameGuru Unlimited Bundle, on sale this week for $49.99, does it all for you.
GameGuru is a no-code game development platform that’s designed for use by non-techies. And it’s a lot of fun to use, too. With the software, you simply start creating your world
Intel has signaled that the next generation of Bitcoin mining rigs may ship with “Intel Inside” stickers, as the company has announced plans to at least discuss a “Bonanza Mine” chip for mining Bitcoin at an upcoming conference.
The upcoming program (PDF link) for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference includes a listing for “Bonanza Mine,” an “ultra-low-voltage energy-efficient Bitcoin mining ASIC,” a paper authored by three Intel
Did you know that Samsung makes its own processors? You’d be forgiven for glossing over that — the flagship Galaxy S series of phones technically uses Samsung’s home-grown Exynos system-on-a-chip, but almost never in the United States, where Samsung uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. But you might want to track down an all-Samsung machine for your next Android phone, as the newest Exynos processor will pack some serious graphical punch via a partnership with AMD.
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Microsoft has been on a gaming acquisition tear for the last few years, hoping to give the edge to its Xbox and Game Pass platforms as Sony’s PlayStation continues to dominate with exclusive titles. The company previously purchased such notable companies as ZeniMax (AKA Bethesda), Minecraft developer Mojang, Id, Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Rare, Double Fine, and 343 Industries. But the computer giant’s next purchase is so big it might shake the foundations of the gaming industry: Activ
If you need a Chrome OS device that’s not a laptop, Walmart has a solid deal today. The retailer is selling a 32GB Acer Chromebox CX13 for just $149. That’s down from the list price of $229.
The Chromebox is the desktop alternative to the Chromebook. They’re small mini PCs that you can hook up to an external monitor and rock out to Chrome OS on a larger screen. These are handy devices for anyone who wants a simplified living room PC for casual use like email, web surfing,
Amazon has a solid deal on its Kindle Fire tablets, but the online retailer is having trouble shipping them in a timely manner right now. The 32GB Fire HD 8 is just $45, but shipping time for most colors is 6 to 8 weeks. That’s where Best Buy comes in. They have the same pricing as Amazon, but with standard shipping times.
The Fire HD 8 features an 8-inch 1280-by-800 IPS display with the aforementioned 32GB of storage. It also has 2GB of device memory (RAM) and there’s a microS
GPUs are a blazing hot commodity right now. If you’re unable to get your hands on a new one due to the shortages, don’t fret. There are quite a few things you can do to make your old GPU feel new again. Let’s make it cleaner, quieter, cooler, and extract more frames per second from those games!
Clean up your hardware
Before we get to the software tweaks, let’s talk about the physical GPU itself. The first thing you’ll want to do is remove it from your case a