Month: September 2016
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Performance Leaked
Last week, we got our first word of what GP107 would look like. According to the information leaked, there would be not one but two GP107 based GeForce cards. The GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 would feature the full and cut-down die variants of the GP107. Today, a new…
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Three New Online Games Announced by Amazon
Amazon has taken another step into the world of gaming today, taking to the stage at Twitchcon to reveal three brand new online games. Of course, all of these games come fully integrated with Twitch, allowing streaming and viewing natively. All three games come from the Amazon developed game engine,…
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Record-Breaking DDoS Was Delivered By 145k Hacked Cameras
DDoS attacks are nothing new, they’re going on all the time around the web, taking down websites, companies, stores, you name it. However, the attack that recently took down KrebsOnSecurity website knocked the site out for 24 hours with what is now believed to be a record-breaking 620 gigabit-per-second DDoS attack.…
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Microsoft: “There’s Been a Real Renaissance in PC Gaming”
Microsoft’s relationship with the PC gaming community has been turbulent due to their focus on consoles and the horrendous Games For Windows Live DRM. Over the years, the company made numerous promises to take the PC platform seriously but none of these came to fruition until lately. Also, one could argue that…
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MSI Announces Kaby Lake BIOS Updates For LGA1151 Motherboards
Intel’s new Kaby Lake architecture is predicted to release relatively soon and should provide a minor bump in performance compared to Skylake. Of course, upgrading a CPU sometimes requires a different socket which forces the consumer to invest in a new motherboard. Thankfully, there are occasions when this doesn’t occur which…
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Anti-Piracy Groups Take on Kodi ‘Epidemic’
Kodi is a highly-popular piece of software offered at zero cost which couples together various forms of entertainment in a streamlined user-interface. Many Android streaming boxes are designed with Kodi is mind and pre-install the application to provide users with the best possible experience. The software has caused some controversy…
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Cryorig C7 Low-Profile CPU Cooler Review
Introduction Cooling is a very important deal when it comes to computers, and keeping your CPU in cool and (optionally) quiet can really make or break your systems performance. The stock coolers that come with CPUs are more often than not “enough” to keep the thing running, but offer little…
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Goat Simulator Dev Strikes Development Deal With PewDiePie
Felix Kjellberg, better known as the YouTube star PewDiePie, looks to be moving into the world of gaming development, again, having just signed a deal with Armin Ibrisagic, one of the key designers for Goat Simulator and his new development studio, DoubleMoose. No specific games have been announced as part…
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Nvidia Launching GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti Next Month
Are you looking forward to getting your hands on the latest budget-friendly Nvidia graphics cards? It looks like you’ll have a few to choose from! It seems that Nvidia is preparing to launch two variants of the GTX 1050 mid-range graphics card next month, with the faster GTX 1050 Ti…
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GALAX Unveils GTX 1060 EXOC White Edition
White gaming hardware is more popular than ever, so we’re certainly quite a few of our readers are going to love the new GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 6GB EXOC White Edition graphics card. Those looking for a full-white card, the kind we’ve seen in the past from GALAX, Galaxy, or…
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Ubisoft Say “F**K IT” and May Delay 2017 Games to Improve Quality!
Ubisoft has done a lot of damage to the gaming scene over the years and to their own reputation. Time and time again they’ve delivered severely rushed and broken games, yet they keep powering on year after year doing the same damn thing. Slowly, it seems that Ubisoft has been trying to…
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Explore Planets and Kill Creatures in No Man’s Sky Inspired Doom Mod
What sounds better than No Man’s Sky? A lot of things, ok not the best way to introduce this. How about the sound of the original Doom game with interplanetary exploration, open world areas and a heap of guns? That’s what Modder Robert Prest envisioned and that’s exactly what he has…
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HP Backtracks on Third Party Ink Cartridge Blocking
A couple of weeks ago, HP got into quite a bit of controversy as their latest printer update would render third party ink cartridges useless by displaying an error message that the cartridge is missing or damaged. That issue gathered quite a lot of negative feedback from the media and users…
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Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti May Launch at CES 2017
After releasing their top end Titan X Pascal, Nvidia is ready to follow up with their next high-end graphics card under the GeForce banner. Using the same GP102 silicon as the Titan X Pascal, the GeForce 1080 Ti is reportedly in the works for a launch in early 2017. According to…
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IEEE Approves New 802.3bz Ethernet Standard For 5Gbps Speeds
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, better known as IEEE, has approved a new networking standard that might give us faster ethernet connections through existing cables. I say might here, because only time will show whether manufacturers will embrace this and bring it to the market or not. With the…
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