TR's Fall 2014 System Guide
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The holidays are fast approaching. PC hardware makers have spent the past little while getting their ducks in a ...Read more...
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Here's what's cooking in Damage Labs
My two identical GPU test rigs—one for Radeons and another for GeForces—have served me well for several years. And they're purty!
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Here's the not-so-live video version of The TR Podcast 164
After clumsily knocking over a few technical hurdles, we managed to live stream our podcast recording session last night on Twitch. We'll try to stream future versions right here, if you'd like to watch. I've also moved the video over to our YouTube channel for your viewing pleasure, and it's embedded below:
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Deal of the week: An IPS ultra-wide for $420, plus cheap SSDs and more
One of these days, we're just going to skip the intro and dive right into the bulleted list. But not today. This counts as an intro, right?
That's all for this week. If you see any good deals ...
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Microsoft's quarterly revenue up 25% on strong Surface, Xbox sales
Microsoft is the latest in a string of tech companies to report positive quarterly financial results. For its first fiscal quarter, which ended September 30, the firm took in $23.2 billion in revenue, a 25% increase over the same quarter last year. Redmond cleared $4.52 billion in profit, too, though that figure represents a 13% decline from 2013. Here are the numbers:
Microsoft's net income would have increased had it not been for $1.14 billion in expenses related to its restructuring efforts and to the "ongoing ...
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Assassin's Creed Unity PC requires 6GB of RAM, GTX 680
Ubisoft has posted the hardware requirements for the PC version of Assassin's Creed Unity,
and they're a doozy. In addition to 50GB of free storage space and a
64-bit version of Windows 7 SP1 or later, the minimum requirements call
for:Yep, that's six gigs of RAM and a high-end Kepler GPU at minimum . ...
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Join us as we attempt to live stream The TR Podcast tonight
We've been mulling over the possibility of live-streaming The TR Podcast recording session for several weeks now, and I think perhaps tonight will be the night that we make it happen. I'm going to make an attempt, at least. We'll see if we can get the config right for all four of us at once.
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Civ: Beyond Earth with Mantle aims to end multi-GPU microstuttering
The next installment in Sid Meier's Civilization series, Civilization: Beyond Earth, comes out tomorrow. The folks at AMD have been working with its developer, Firaxis, to optimize the game for Radeon graphics cards. Most notably, Firaxis and AMD have ported the game to work with AMD"s lightweight Mantle graphics API.
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CPU startup claims to achieve 3x IPC gains with VISC architecture
A Silicon Valley startup known as Soft Machines has just exited its "stealth" phase and is presenting at the Linley Microprocessor Conference today. The firm is introducing a new CPU architecture that it calls VISC.
In its press release , Soft Machines claims that the "VISC architecture achieves 3-4 times more instructions per cycle (IPC), resulting in 2-4 times higher performance per watt on single- and multi-threaded applications" than ...
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VisionTek's new USB 3.0 thumb drive has SSD performance
There are speedy USB 3.0 thumb drives, and then there's VisionTek's newly announced Pocket SSD. Apparently, the drive's "aircraft-grade aluminum" housing conceals a SandForce controller backed by enough flash chips to hit 455MB/s during reads and 440MB/s during writes—you know, about the same level of performance as a proper SATA SSD.
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Lian Li's latest Mini-ITX chassis houses 11 hard drives
Mini-ITX motherboards can be ideal for home file servers, but the associated enclosures typically have a limited number of drive bays, especially for 3.5" mechanicals. Lian Li's new PC-Q26 should have no problem housing a massive RAID array, though. The firm's latest mini contender is loaded with 11 drive bays.
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Gmail and Google Now conspire to streamline your Inbox
Google is trying to reinvent email with a new mobile and web app called Inbox.
This "fresh start" seems primarily geared toward streamlining the
experience by using Google's information-gathering prowess—and access to
email contents—to present a series of simplified previews populated
with relevant details. Images and attachments are highlighted by the
feed-like interface, which also provides map, package tracking, and
flight check-in shortcuts, among other useful links.Integrated intelligence organizes the feed into "bundles" of related messages based on user-defined parameters and popular categories like travel, purchases, and promotions. A to-do list is part ...
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