Obligatory Meltdown and Spectre post.

Written by Shane on January 4, 2018. Posted in Front Page

Okay. Let me clarify a couple of things here. First of all, Meltdown and Spectre ARE real, so this isn’t some doomsday viral post. That said, it’s mostly a problem for virtualisation and enterprise networks (which is my job, so it’s a legitimate concern for me). A Linux kernel update has already been released to resolve the issue. The performance drop is ESTIMATED to be between 5%-29% (it’s not concrete yet). Microsoft are aiming to put out an update to patch it on January 9th. Even if a performance hit arises due to the patch, they do have a goal…

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Titan V Announcement

Written by Shane on December 8, 2017. Posted in Front Page

NVIDIA have announced the new flagship Titan V touting an NVIDIA Volta GPU and 12 GB of HBM2. All this can be yours for the low, low price of $2999.99. So hop on it and get your SLI game on. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/

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Mega Man 11 and X Collection announced.

Written by Shane on December 4, 2017. Posted in Front Page

There has been an announcement on Mega Man’s official twitter for the release of not only Mega Man 11, but also Mega Man X-X8 for the Switch, Xbone, PS4, and PC. You can scope the tweets here: Get equipped with Mega Man 11, coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC in Late 2018! Watch the #MegaMan30 livestream at https://t.co/qn8POJ2KIj! pic.twitter.com/wpz3x4rybj — Mega Man (@MegaMan) December 4, 2017 All 8 Mega Man X games are coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC! Tune in at https://t.co/qn8POJ2KIj for more details! pic.twitter.com/dAHMD7w5rb — Mega Man (@MegaMan) December 4, 2017

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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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