GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Gets The ASUS ROG STRIX Treatment Since the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti was released in October 2016 it has become one of the most desirable cards to have for 1080P gaming due to be priced around $150. Over the past the past seven months there have been many driver updates, so we …more

PowerColor Puts The Devil Inside The Radeon RX 570 Last month AMD released their new Polaris based graphics card series that consists of the Radeon RX 580, RX 570, RX 560 and RX 550. AMD’s board partners are slowly making it to market with cards based on these designs and today we’ll be taking a look at …more

AMD Radeon RX 580 Arrives – RX 480 Enhanced The AMD Radeon RX 500 series was released this week and the new Polaris based graphics card series consists of the Radeon RX 580, RX 570, RX 560 and RX 550. These cards are mostly all based on the Polaris architecture found on the RX 400 series as …more

AMD Ryzen Windows Power Plan Disables Core Parking Earlier this morning we were surprised with an e-mail from AMD offering a preview of a new Ryzen Balanced power plan for Windows that is said to improve performance on Ryzen processors. We pushed some of the things we were working on today off the agenda and started …more

When the AMD Ryzen 7 platform was released many of the reviews were critical of the 1080P gaming performance on the Ryzen 7 processor series. AMD promised that we would see a series of game and engine updates for the new Ryzen architecture fairly quickly and the first game title to become optimized for Ryzen …more

CPU Bottleneck Exposed By GeForce GTX 1080 Ti? Last week, NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card. This is the fastest desktop consumer graphics card in the world and we were torn on how we wanted to test it. We are in the middle of updating out GPU test bench and …more

NVIDIA Turf Effects Finally Arrive in Ghost Recon: Wildlands On March 7, 2017 Ubisoft released the latest Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon game title, Ghost Recon Wildlands ($59.99 for PC). The game was developed by Ubisoft Paris and while it is the tenth installment in the Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon series, it is the first to be set …more

Just moments ago at GDC 2017, NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti after months of anticipation. The GeForce GTX 1080 features the GP102 ‘Pascal’ GPU with 3,584 CUDA Cores and it topped of with 11 GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11Gbps on a 352-bit wide memory interface. For comparison sake, the NVIDIA Titan …more

EVGA found themselves highly motivated by last years thermal issues that they encountered on many GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 models. The enthusiast community was alleging that many EVGA branded GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 cards were exploding due to improper VRM cooling. Catastrophic failures on luxury high-end graphics cards ids something that is …more

Of the over 2 billion PC users in the world, there are around 1 billion users who are too intimidated to open up a their PCs to make any sort of modification or upgrades on their hardware to build up a gaming PC. NVIDIA is aware of this and has responded by announcing the “GeForce …more

What Is The NVIDIA GeForce Experience 3.0 Those of us who are new to PC gaming may have a little bit of difficulty when it comes down to deciding what settings to set our games to. NVIDIA has introduced a program that will help us with just that and the addition of a few other features: …more

Those of you with an MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Series Card with Micron VRAM are in luck, as MSI quietly released a BIOS update for their cards last night that addresses the low-voltage issue that was afflicting cards that had Micron VRAM. The issue would lead to odd issues like artifacts and instability when pushing memory …more

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Roundup The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has proven itself to be a winner at the $139 price point when we took an in-depth look at the MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4G OC during last months launch. Getting the best gaming GPU for the money is important as it …more

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Overclocking When the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti came out earlier this week we didn’t have enough time to properly overclock it, but we were impressed by the performance that the stock card had for $140 price point. The MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4G OC graphics card ($139.99) showed that it …more