PC Gaming
Unnamed sources have informed Korea’s ET News that Samsung’s foundry business has signed on to manufacture AMD’s next graphics chip, code-named Greenland, starting in Q2 2016. The chip will be produced using second-generation 14nm FinFET LPP processing, making it more power efficient and faster than the current 28nm Fiji GPU on the market. GlobalFoundries, who…
It’s a VR thing Sorry folks, but if you were hoping AMD would release a dual GPU variant of its Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card by the end of the year, you’re going to be disappointed. AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed that plans have changed and the company is now looking at a…
Last minute gift options Whether you scored an actual holiday bonus (and not a Jelly of the Month Club membership) and want to splurge on yourself or are scrambling around for last minute gift ideas, you have some digital options. Lots, actually. First, Valve’s annual Steam Winter Sale is going on now. Yes, right now….
Net neutrality shenanigans? T-Mobile purposely delivers lower quality video streams for select services through its Binge On program, which allows subscribers to watch unlimited video in at least 480p without it counting against their data caps. That’s fine and dandy, except YouTube says T-Mobile is throttling all streaming video, not just the services that participate…
Extreme sports wearables, and electric hybrid road cars These Technolust posts are always torture to write. It’s like going on your favorite PC hardware website, stocking up your basket with your own personal Dream Machine, and then writing a 1,500 word thesis on how and why your life would be so much better with it….
Top Deal: If you’re sitting on a Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 license, congrats, your path to Windows 10 is free. For everyone else, you have to pay to play, but why pay full price? You don’t have to if you take advantage of today’s top deal — it’s for Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit (OEM)…
Who owns the game? French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir has filed a lawsuit against Valve demanding that it alter its policy to allow for the resale and transfer of PC games on Steam, the company’s digital platform. The ban on the resale of games through Steam is one of a dozen clauses the association says…
Rule changes Microsoft has put the word out to developers that ad injection software that uses any of a variety of man-in-the-middle (MiTM) techniques — injection by proxy, changing DNS settings, network layer manipulation, and so forth — will run afoul of its updated adware rules. “We’re updating our Adware objective criteria to require that…
It’s a shim, not a sham Aqua Computer, a German PC parts vendor, is doing Skylake CPU owners a solid by offering a relatively low cost spacer to help with the installation of heavy heat sinks. It’s essentially a shim, not unlike the ones that were popular for AMD CPUs back in the day (as…
At a glance Gear VR (+) A lot of varied content; social VR adds a sense of presence; resolution is surprisingly good; only $100!Fear VR (-) Overheats and drain’s phone’s battery life; some motion sickness present depending on experience; can get heavy and cause eye strain after a while Competent virtual reality on the go…