Games We’re Playing, June 2017 Edition

Written by Sharkis on June 13, 2017. Posted in Front Page, Reviews

What we’re playing: RimWorld, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Wargame: Red Dragon Games we wish we could play (cause we paid for them and can’t run them well enough to enjoy): Astroneer, Space Engineers Summary: I feel like I’ve been caught in the casual gaming web. RimWorld’s visuals and soundtrack make it seem like it’s something I could have on in the background, but this is definitely not the case. From my playthroughs, it requires a LOT of attention. The concept of the storyteller is great, I really feel like it lets me have enough breathing room to learn about the game…

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Intel i9 Confirmed.

Written by Shane on May 15, 2017. Posted in Front Page

The new Core i9 range based on Skylake-X was leaked last week. Now some benchmarks have also been leaked. While these don’t show much yet, they do confirm the i9 line. In this leak, we also learned of the new Kaby Lake-X i7 line. Core i7-7740K: 4C/8T, 4.3GHz to 4.5GHz, 8MB cache, 112W, 16 PCIe lanes Core i7-7640K: 4C/4T, 4GHz to 4.2GHz, 6MB cache, 112W, 16 PCIe lanes Core i9-7920X: 12C/24T, unknown clocks, 16.5MB cache, 140W, 44 PCIe lanes Core i9-7900X: 10C/20T, 3.3GHz to 4.3GHz, 13.75MB cache, 140W, 44 PCIe lanes Core i9-7820X: 8C/16T, 3.6GHz to 4.3GHz, 11MB cache, 140W,…

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Farewell, Veesta.

Written by Shane on April 12, 2017. Posted in Front Page

Today, Weendows Veesta’s eexteendeed support eends. Wee weell meess you, Veesta.

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Project Scorpio Specs

Written by Shane on April 6, 2017. Posted in Front Page

So, if you’re like me and can’t stand the guy’s voice who did the Digital Foundry presentation about Scorpio’s specs, here they are: Project Scorpio Xbox One PS4 Pro CPU Eight custom x86 cores clocked at 2.3GHz Eight custom Jaguar cores clocked at 1.75GHz Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 2.1GHz GPU 40 customised compute units at 1172MHz 12 GCN compute units at 853MHz (Xbox One S: 914MHz) 36 improved GCN compute units at 911MHz Memory 12GB GDDR5 8GB DDR3/32MB ESRAM 8GB GDDR5 Memory Bandwidth 326GB/s DDR3: 68GB/s, ESRAM at max 204GB/s (Xbox One S: 219GB/s) 218GB/s Hard Drive 1TB 2.5-inch…

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Nvidia GeForce 1080 Ti Launch Announced.

Written by Shane on March 1, 2017. Posted in Front Page

The inevitable 1080 Ti was announced by Nvidia at GDC to be arriving March 5th. The GPU boasts Nvidia’s most powerful consumer GPU, the GP102. The 1080 Ti is also estimated to have a 35% performance increase over the 1080. NVIDIA GPU Specification Comparison GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA Titan X GTX 1080 GTX 980 Ti CUDA Cores 3584 3584 2560 2816 Texture Units 224 224 160 176 ROPs 88 96 64 96 Core Clock ? 1417MHz 1607MHz 1000MHz Boost Clock 1582MHz 1531MHz 1733MHz 1075MHz TFLOPs (FMA) 11.3 TFLOPs 11 TFLOPs 9 TFLOPs 6.1 TFLOPs Memory Clock 11Gbps GDDR5X 10Gbps…

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AMD Ryzen Launch Announced.

Written by Shane on February 23, 2017. Posted in Front Page

AMD’s new processor launch–the first in 5 years–has finally had its details revealed. The processors will come out on March 2nd with pre-orders available now. The Ryzen 7 will have 3 SKUs available at launch. Ryzen 7 1800X: 8C/16T, 3.6 GHz base, 4.0 GHz turbo, 95W, $499 Ryzen 7 1700X: 8C/16T, 3.4 GHz base, 3.8 GHz turbo, 95W, $399 Ryzen 7 1700: 8C/16T, 3.0 GHz base, 3.7 GHz turbo, $329 The new IPC boasts a 52% improvement over Bulldozer, AMD’s last flagship architecture. This surpasses their goal of a 40% IPC improvement. AMD have also released some benchmarks showing the…

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Rambusco Discord Server

Written by Axel on February 15, 2017. Posted in Front Page

https://discord.gg/ntT3syZ Seems like it’s in a good place.

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Fallout 4 High Resolution Texture Pack

Written by Shane on February 7, 2017. Posted in Front Page

Fallout 4’s free high-resolution texture pack dropped today. It can be yours for only 58 GB. Recommended for GTX 1080 8GB or higher GPUs. You can grab it here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/540810/

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Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

Written by Shane on December 2, 2016. Posted in Front Page

Your browser does not support the video tag. Gearbox has announced Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, a remaster of 2011’s Bulletstorm, set for release on April 7th, 2017. Gearbox will be adding additional features and content, such as increased texture resolutions and 4K resolution support, as well as Duke Nukem’s Bulletstorm Tour mode, which will be free to those who pre-order it before launch.

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