DOTA 2: The International 6 Begins Monday
Every year, Valve hosts a giant gaming event called “The International”. While the prize pool is still being increased through purchases of the The International...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 2, 2016 | General Tech | 0
Every year, Valve hosts a giant gaming event called “The International”. While the prize pool is still being increased through purchases of the The International...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 2, 2016 | Storage | 1
Allyn first mentioned this device last year, but they're apparently now shipping for a whopping $10,000 USD. To refresh, the PM1633a is an SSD from Samsung...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 2, 2016 | Cases and Cooling | 7
Well this is interesting. GamersNexus has about a twenty minute video (and a couple-page editorial) where they disassemble an Asetek / EVGA liquid...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 1, 2016 | Graphics Cards | 29
Update @ 9:45pm: I heard that some AMD users were notified about their R9 purchase as well, calling it simply "R9". Since I didn't see concrete proof, I omit it from the…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 1, 2016 | General Tech | 27
Remember, folks, that “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. Microsoft has been trying to shed their stigma as a giant source of malware, but all solutions have side-effects, and…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Jul 30, 2016 | General Tech | 17
For the majority of users, the Windows 10 free upgrade period has just ended. That said, Microsoft is extending the offer for a specific group of people: those who use assistive…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Jul 28, 2016 | General Tech | 17
The head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, doesn't like UWP too much, at least as it exists today (and for noble reasons). He will not support the new software (app) platform unless…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Jul 27, 2016 | Graphics Cards, Mobile, Systems | 37
Okay so there's a few rumors going around, mostly from Eurogamer / DigitalFoundry, that claim the Nintendo NX is going to be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra system on a...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Jul 25, 2016 | Graphics Cards | 0
SIGGRAPH is the big, professional graphics event of the year, bringing together tens of thousands of attendees. They include engineers from Adobe, AMD, Blender, Disney (including ILM, Pixar, etc.), NVIDIA, The Khronos…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Jul 25, 2016 | General Tech | 3
NVIDIA purchased Mental Images, the German software developer that makes the mental ray renderer, all the way back in 2007. It has been bundled with every copy of Maya for a very…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Jul 23, 2016 | General Tech | 57
I'm fairly sure that any of our readers who want Windows 10 have already gone through the process to get it, and the rest have made…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Jul 22, 2016 | Graphics Cards | 46
Turns out the Pascal-based GPUs suffered from DPC latency issues, and there's been an ongoing discussion about it for a little over a month. This is not an area that I know…
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