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LEGOs are great for a plethora of things, such as building cool model trains, determining where exactly your feet are positioned while walking in a dark room, or building a six-foot replica of a GeForce GTX 690. Besides building GPUs, though, did you know LEGOs can be used to help GPUs? One creative Redditor at...
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Today we'll have to visit a dark, dark place for gamers. No, we're not talking about the gloomy scenes in Alan Wake 2. Remember the great graphics card shortage that happened just a few years ago due in part to the mining craze? That's the type of nightmarish scenario that keeps gamers on their toes, looking around...
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There's nothing more satisfying than ingesting tiny morsels of rumors before a new graphics card release. Sure, games such as Alan Wake 2 have hype aplenty, but you'll need some beefy hardware to run it. Wild speculations have been recently piling up concerning NVIDIA's GeForce RTX Super refresh. The most tasty of...
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Just under a year ago, EVGA cut ties with NVIDIA and initiated its exit from the graphics card market together, ending an approximately 24-year run in the market. In that time, the company had some GPU gems, especially those made in collaboration with Vince “Kingpin” Lucido. As a memento of that, Lucido sent out some...
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It took a country minute, but there's finally a mainstream graphics card available at retail that's based on NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace architecture, the GeForce RTX 4060 starting at $299. Technically you could call the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti a mainstream SKU as well. Fair enough, but as far as being the most affordable GeForce RTX 40 series product
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We're accustomed to seeing GPU driver updates delivering modest performance gains in games, and sometimes even big ones to the tune of a double-digit percentage jump of up to around 20 percent. So it goes with Intel's newest Arc GPU driver—version 31.0.101.4514 in beta form—but according to Intel, it's also optimized...
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In just a couple of days, EA Sports will release F1 23 on Windows PCs and consoles. For those who plan to play the Codemasters developed game on a PC powered by GeForce hardware, heads up that NVIDIA has begun pushing out a new Game Ready GPU driver that's optimized for the upcoming racing sim. It's also packed with...
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A German TechTuber has observed that some graphics cards have started to routinely fail due to the stresses imposed by their physical size and fixing orientation. KrisFix, whose day job is in computer repair, asserts that he has started to see a trend in NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards being brought in –...
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PowerColor has teased us with a new Radeon RX 7900XTX Hellhound graphics card that will be dressed in white. This new variant will be called Spectral White, featuring a white shroud, backplate, and PCB, akin to the Galax RTX 40 series Hall of Fame video cards. PowerColor says the new graphics card will be coming soon...
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A leaked NVIDIA slide has apparently confirmed the general specifications and price of NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4070. The slide appears to support rumors, confirming that the GPU will come with a 200W TDP, 12GB of GDDR6X memory, and a price of $599. Best of all, the slide also shows average gaming power...
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Rumors detailing several new specifications of Intel’s upcoming Battlemage GPU architecture have been published by RedGamingTech. The new rumors point toward Battlemage having double the core capacity on the top die compared to Intel’s Arc equivalent and will subsequently have GeForce RTX 4070 Ti to RTX 4080 grade...
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The latest Halo Infinite update has unexpectedly disabled 3GB GPU support from the game's system requirements. Gamers running 3GB GPUs, such as the infamous GTX 1060 3GB can no longer run the game and will be greeted by an error screen explaining the issue. 343 Industries seemingly did not announce the GPU requirement...
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It's barely been a week since we highlighted price drops across Intel's Arc Alchemist discrete graphics card lineup, including a custom ASRock Challenger Arc A750 8GB card for the ridiculously-low price of just $239.99. That's still a great deal, though if you prefer Intel's own Limited Edition (LE) variant, you can...
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Chinese tech media headlines were grabbed over the weekend when some very steep double-digit percentage AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics card price cuts were observed. Happily, the RDNA 3 price cutting trend has already moved west, with US online tech retail giant Newegg offering a Radeon RX 7900 XT at $829. This...
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Do you remember playing games on a Voodoo 5 6000 graphics card? Neither do I, though only because 3dfx Interactive, a pioneer in discrete graphics accelerators, never actually released the card before the company fell on hard financial times, prompting a sale of assets to NVIDIA. However, the Voodoo 5 6000 did reach...
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Didn't get what you really wanted this holiday season? Well, turn that frown upside down—in addition to the plethora of tech related deals that continue to pop up, Palit is hosting a 'White Christmas' giveaway event with several white-themed PC hardware items up for grabs, including the only custom GeForce RTX 4080...
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A series of photos alleging to show a hefty new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card have been shared on social media. An image showing the headlining quad-slot triple-fan behemoth appeared first, with the card installed in a new-looking Lenovo Legion PC. The poster has followed up with two further images, showing...
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It's widely expected that NVIDIA will unveil its next-generation GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards based on Ada Lovelace at GTC next week, so the wait for concrete details is likely coming to an end very soon. In the meantime, various leaks and rumors may be cluing us into some details ahead of NVIDIA's launch. One...
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Nobody likes it when a game freezes up or outright crashes (not even gaming masochists), so kudos to NVIDIA for pushing out a GeForce hotfix driver to address that very thing in a handful of popular titles. The hotfix also promises better overall stability in some specific games, and addresses a performance issue some...
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NVIDIA today quietly introduced a new entry-level graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1630. You can expect a much bigger hoopla from NVIDIA when its eventual GeForce RTX 40 series based on Ada Lovelace launches, but in the meantime, budget gamers looking for some added oomph over integrated graphics have another low end...
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Intel is taking a slow and staggered roll out for its Arc series of discrete GPUs, having already launched a few SKUs in mobile and the A380 on the desktop (in China). More first-generation Arc releases are coming. Among them will be Intel's first workstation graphics cards based on Arc, two of which have seemingly...
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The GPU nightmare might not be over just yet, but every month we get a little bit closer to waking up to a stabilized market. Whether we get all the way there before AMD and NVIDIA begin shipping out next-gen graphics cards remains to be seen, and that presents gamers with any interesting quandary—does it make sens to...
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