I ordered a 5950x from Mike's Computer Shop on launch day in the first few minutes. Still waiting, they told me that they basically haven't gotten any stock of the higher end chips and very minimal numbers of the 5600x and 5800x.
GPU makes sense, because it will give you good (>60) framerates in pretty much anything out there right now. I wouldn't upgrade the CPU unless you're also planning a significant GPU upgrade (better than a 1070) because you'd not going to get those super-high framerates in modern games without a...
I think Intel already has the patent licensing set up for GPUs. AMD and Intel have a lot of cross-licensing agreements and Intel and Nvidia have an agreement on GPU patents as well.
It is a bit weird that Chris Hook is now being tapped to market a product that as of this time doesn't exist. The...
Rarely do you find a company as openly contemptuous of their customers as Apple is. They're nearing the level they were at in the late 90's right before they nearly crashed into the ground last time. A huge YouTube channel damaged a brand new iMac Pro and can't get it repaired (at their cost)...
When they completely redesigned the Camaro for the 2016 model year they made it smaller and lighter, by building off the GM Alpha platform they use for the smallest Cadillacs instead of Zeta imported from Australia. It's now slightly lighter than the Mustang (although I'm sure this will go back...
This is exactly the same thing that happens every time Microsoft releases a big new release of Windows. Many people complain about the changes, the install base goes up, many people switch, and then they discontinue updates. The same thing happened with Windows 3.1, 98, XP and now it's 7.
If...
If it doesn't have at least a week of battery life I'll never buy one. My current watch has 2+ years of battery life and does 90% of what I'd use a Smart Watch for (Look pretty, tell time), but not let me check weather real quick. Notifications that just direct you back to the phone are pretty...
The number is accurate, but the conclusion is a bit silly. 240mph is a record for Hyperloop One, yes. But it's still much slower than JR's traditional mag levs have gone (375mph), seeing as Hyperloop One is running a mag lev train in a low-pressure envionment, 240mph isn't very impressive.
Man, I'm excited to see how this performs. I have a distinct impression that this will be the first card that can really handle 4K at solid frame rates. I can't really justify paying $3000 for a video card, I'd rather invest that money and buy the $1000 version in 6-12 months that will be 99% as...
If Google aren't a bunch of idiots this will just be a new front end for Google Play Music.
But past performance suggests that they might not know what they're doing and have built an entire separate offering for no reason.
I think the concept of movie theaters is "an untenable model.", they only still exist because of traditional thinking. At some point that's likely to break down.
I had a similar experience when my Samsung 840 Pro 256GB failed this summer (a 4.5 year old drive). I called Samsung and they told me I had to take it back to the retailer, which was strange. But they did take the drive back and a few weeks later furnished a replacement 850 PRO 256GB, which has...
This is something that pretty much everyone who has ever written an iPhone app that uses the camera knows about. I'm frankly surprised that anyone is surprised, That's probably why no one has bothered mentioning it before. Camera permission means they can access the camera, seems innocuous if...
I have been seeing Bootleg copies of Star Fox 2 for the last few years, based on the bug fixed leaked version (which is basically the same).
chenw, are you sure Star Fox 2 is shorter. Yes, it is short, but I just beat Star Fox yesterday in about 50m (I know because the SNES mini told me when I...
Translation: This cost significantly more money to operate than it took in.
I'm not surprised they're pulling this, I don't see how they could have ever made it into a profitable product and Opera isn't exactly Apple or Microsoft profitability-wise.
I wonder if the fact that the substrate has space for 4 dies means that the socket can support 4 cpu dies if AMD wants to release a 32core/64thread CPU in a TR4 socket. They probably won't, but who's to say what the future will bring. AMD has a history of keeping the same socket designs for a...
I feel like every year since Activision bought Blizzard out they've slowly destroyed part of what Blizzard special. It's not an outright gut, but a slow series of cuts that may end up with the same result. This is just another example of mindless meddling from Activision. At least this time they...
I'm sure they'll make one and they'll make it as soon as there are too few people who worked on the original left to outweigh the demand to make a sequel. The Sequel will be made by a totally new team and it will be completely untrue to the source material. Come to think of it, that's already...
Web applications are big business now, probably about half the programming jobs out there are for web applications. I'm a web developer and the current trend in web development is moving more towards JavaScript. All the fancy new web technologies, which are normally referred to as HTML5 are...
I can't see it happening, but I'd be happy if it does get built (assuming it works). We need faster, better transit and mass-transit is one good way to reduce pressure on roads.
Apparently, the actual problem is that Imagination Technologies is refusing to update the drivers for the integrated graphics on the GPUs. The good news is that this is the last Intel CPU with an Imagination Technologies GPU so this isn't likely to happen again any time soon...
The 6700HQ is a wierd chip because many notebook makers ship the CPU in notebooks that have really marginal cooling, if used in such a configuration it throttles like a mofo all the time. I have an XPS 9550, which also has a Geforce 960 and they share cooling. Under the stock configuration CPU...
Well, this is a big change from the i7 vs Ryzen 7 review. The Ryzen 5 chips look like they're at least competitive across the board and even the cheapest one is a little ahead in most of the processing-intensive benchmarks. Looks like a good buy for most performance-oriented buyers, at least...
Wi-Fi sucks, is there anyone who doesn't realize that it adds latency?
I wonder if some of the other comments in this thread are from people who don't have very good internet access, because if you're looking at a 200ms ping anyway, a 100ms spike probably isn't noticeable. If you have fiber to...
The court should just stop wasting their time and invest in a small cluster of GPU-accelerated password cracking servers. It's so easy to brute-force passwords that are less than 12 characters long now it's not funny.
Quite often this sort of thing is to reduce costs. Why write a lot of code to work around limitations in older versions of an OS when no one will be using it in a couple of years anyway? If you don't like Windows 10, use Linux, staying on old versions of Windows doesn't make sense long term and...
Nope, I'm perfectly happy with my 1070. I'll upgrade when my games start getting choppy and I'm sticking with 1080p so I'm hoping to get at least 5 more years out of this card.
Well, I've preordered one and Zelda. Wish me luck, I haven't bought a Nintendo system on launch since the GameBoy Advance SP (so much better than the regular one). I've wanted to play Mario Kart 8 since it came out for the Wii U but I couldn't stomach buying a dead system. Zelda and the new...