After some initial rumours late last year, we have heard very little since about the future for the Oculus Rift. That changed today with the announcement of the Oculus Rift S, a sequel headset that makes a few design changes to the Rift and bumps up its spec for a …
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It costs £200, but it VIBRATES - is this the new feature you need when gaming?
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Back when Nvidia began showing off RTX and DLSS running in games for the first time, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was one of the few big titles supporting the technology. Unfortunately, the last six months have gone by without any word on when the RTX patch would arrive. That …
Read More »HP’s latest consumer VR headset has the highest resolution display to date
When the first wave of Windows Mixed Reality headsets were revealed, HP was among the few early supporters for the platform. Now a few years later, HP has had time to develop a new and improved headset, featuring the highest resolution VR display we've seen in a consumer headset to …
Read More »Cooler Master MasterBox NR400 Review – £60 mATX
It's a new £60 mATX chassis from Cooler Master - how does it stack up against the competition?
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Soon you'll be able to turn ray-tracing on with your non-RTX graphics card.
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It's a tricked out 360mm AIO with impressive ARGB lighting, but is it worth the £158.99 asking price?
Read More »Crytek demos real-time raytracing in CRYENGINE
There has been a lot of talk surrounding real-time raytracing over the last year. Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD all announced plans to begin supporting the technology at GDC 2018. Now this year, Crytek is carving out its own piece of the pie, releasing a real-time raytracing demo for CRYENGINE. CRYENGINE …
Read More »ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero (Wi-Fi) Z390 Motherboard Review
Positioned towards the upper end of the Z390 market, ASUS is targeting deep-pocketed enthusiast gamers with its most affordable ATX ROG Maximus offering. Sporting features you'd expect from a premium Z390 offering, including dual heatsink-cooled M.2 slots and an eye-catching design, ASUS takes the standard ROG Maximus XI Hero and …
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GTX 1660 has launched and we look at MSI's flagship Gaming X model
Read More »Microsoft unlocks DirectX 12 support on Windows 7
Since the launch of the DirectX 12 API, Microsoft has kept it exclusive to Windows 10. At this point, while there are 800 million Windows 10 devices out in the wild, there are still a good chunk of users running Windows 7. Now, those people will get access to DirectX …
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It's a sleek-looking case from Corsair - but is the beauty only skin deep?
Read More »Intel to retake ‘world’s largest chipmaker’ crown as DRAM market declines
Intel is set to take back the title of 'world's largest chipmaker' from Samsung, as the memory market is expected to see a decline throughout 2019.
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It's a beautiful new case from Corsair, but at £220 does Briony think it is worth buying?
Read More »Nvidia is ending support for 3D Vision and Kepler Mobile GPUs in April
A major acquisition isn't the only talking point floating around Nvidia today. We are also seeing the company end support for two of its products soon, the first being 3D Vision and the second being the last remaining Kepler-based mobile GPUs. 3D Vision debuted back in 2008 on the cusp …
Read More »Nvidia set to acquire Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion
Nvidia is set to make the biggest acquisition in its history. Today, team green announced that it has reached “a definitive agreement” to acquire Mellanox, a company that specialises in cloud computing, data centres and networking. Nvidia will acquire all issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per …
Read More »Valve layoffs weren’t solely focused on VR, Artifact was also affected
Last week, we learned that Valve had gone through a round of layoffs, with around 13 employees losing their employment. At the time, it was believed that this mainly impacted Valve's virtual reality hardware team, but there were other areas affected, including the Artifact team. Valve uses a lot of …
Read More »Gigabyte GTX 1660 Ti Gaming OC 6G Review – worth £300?
It's a triple-fan GTX 1660 Ti from Gigabyte - but with a £300 price tag
Read More »Nvidia explores whether newer technologies have real-world impact on battle royale K/D ratios
With the boom in popularity of the battle royale genre drawing millions of users per day, there has been an increased focus on squeezing every last bit of performance out of hardware. Better components certainly offer more frames per second, but Nvidia wanted discern whether more frames truly translated to …
Read More »Nintendo Switch is getting a Labo virtual reality kit
There have been rumours about Nintendo experimenting with VR again floating around for a while. Last year, a hidden VR mode was found on the Switch, now six months later, Nintendo Labo VR has been announced. Toycon #4, Labo VR, is a pack of Nintendo Labo DIY kits that let …
Read More »Analysts claim largest DRAM price decline since 2011
The DRAM and NAND Flash markets enjoyed a massive boom in recent years, to the point where there have been allegations of price fixing. Late last year, market analysts began talking about ‘steep declines' due in 2019. Now according to updated analysis, DRAM contract prices are in the sharpest decline …
Read More »Intel discontinues remaining 6th Gen Skylake processors
It has been several years since Skylake was at the forefront of the CPU market. In the lead up to Coffee Lake's desktop launch, Intel announced that the Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K would be discontinued in 2018. Now, the rest of the Skylake 6th Gen lineup is being put …
Read More »Nvidia: new driver, three more G-Sync compatible displays and new RTX game bundle
Nvidia has kicked off this week with three announcements. For starters, a new Game Ready driver is debuting today with optimisations for Apex Legends, we've received news that the list of ‘G-Sync compatible' displays is expanding to include more options and a new RTX GPU bundle is also on the …
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The SilverStone Tundra Series TD02-RGB comes equipped with a 240mm radiator and RGB lighting for £60
Read More »Oculus is setting a ‘high quality bar’ for games on Oculus Quest
Oculus Quest was officially unveiled last year with plans to launch at some point in 2019. Unlike the Oculus Rift or the Oculus Go, Quest is designed to be the ‘console' of VR, providing an all-in-one solution that can run games that would typically require a PC. As you might …
Read More »Cooler Master MK850 (AIMPAD) – Keyboard? Gamepad? Both?
Cooler Master's Aimpad technology has finally made its way into an actual keyboard, but it's £210
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It's a dual-fan 1660 Ti from Gigabyte, priced at £269 - but is it any good?
Read More »Nvidia’s latest GPU Display Driver patches 8 security issues in Windows and Linux
Nvidia’s first security patch of 2019 fixes eight security issues that were present in the GPU Display Driver software.
Read More »The latest version of OBS should allow Nvidia users to ditch that second ‘streaming PC’
While livestreaming is more accessible than it’s ever been before, many professionals continue to utilise a second PC in order to maximise performance. Nvidia is aiming to make this a thing of the past, as the latest version of OBS has improved support for the company’s proprietary NVENC hardware encoder, …
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It's mini-ITX done well. Simples.
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