NVidia, one of the largest manufacturers of graphics processing units (GPUs) for video cards has brought features offering by their high performance GPU product lines to Linux devices with ARM processors. The features are Ray Tracing and DLSS. Windows PCs using the x86 instruction set architecture as well as the Xbox and PlayStation consoles have…
Sales of the Nintendo Switch portable game console exceeded 20 million units in Japan as of June 2, 2021. The console was launched in 2017, so it took four years to reach this milestone. Global sales have exceeded 84 million, which is impressive. The popularity of the Switch shows that game consoles are still hanging…
Dell has discontinued the Alienware Graphics Amplifier (AGA) — an external GPU that turned heads with its ability to plug high performance graphics into supported laptops. The ability to plug a desktop graphics card into a laptop was appealing to anyone that needed that level of performance in a laptop, although it used Dell’s proprietary…
Alienware has taken on the challenge of manufacturing gaming laptops that are thin, cool, and powerful — a very difficult combination to achieve. They have released their new X15 laptops which are 15.9mm thick (two of its configurations, at least). The X15 base model is $1,999, and that contains an Intel i7-11800H processor – a…
The upcoming USB-C 2.1 standard will support up to 240 Watts — a large increase from the 100 Watts that the current USB-C Power Delivery (PD) standard supports. USB-C PD has really changed the way that we connect and power devices by combining high current carrying capacity with USB data lines. This resulted in fewer…
Sony PlayStation fans have been trying to obtain PlayStation 5 units for some time. However, the PS5 shortage is likely to continue into the year 2022. The issue is largely caused by a global chip shortage, which has been affecting the supply of electronics in general. According to Sony’s CFO Hiroki Totoki, even if Sony…
Microsoft is launching the Xbox Cloud gaming service for iPhones, iPads, and PCs this week. They are doing so on an invite-only basis, for now. The service, formerly called xCloud is a cloud-based service that enables users to play games in the Xbox cloud instead of running it natively on your phone or PC. With…
Earlier this year, NVidia designed their latest RTX 3060 card to limit the efficiency with which it can mine Ethereum blocks by 50%. Miners quickly surpassed the restriction, and now NVidia is rumored to be implementing mining limiters in the entire GTX 30-series product line. The restriction was supposedly intended to save some video cards…
Sony has added several features, including improved 120Hz functionality in their latest PlayStation 5 firmware update.
The Thermaltake Luna 12 is a 120mm (4.7-inch) axial case fan for PCs. It is twice the size of many of the case fans you’ll see in a typical microATX PC. However, that results in a greater airflow-to-noise ratio (or greater airflow-to-audible noise ratio). At its maximum speed, the Luna 12’s noise level was barely…
‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’ is a video game that was released in 2015, but has now seen a resurgence in popularity and players since the series ‘The Witcher’ premiered on Netflix. The game broke into Steam’s Top Sellers category for December 2019, during which the game surpassed 93,000 players on Steam (a PC gaming…
Facebook has tasked developers with the challenge of building their own operating system (OS). The company has been expanding its offerings and building experience outside of its original niche — social networking. One of which is VR — a budding industry that is likely to take off massively in the future as it provides highly…