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News – IBM Reveals IBM Q System One – World’s First Commercial Quantum Computer

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While everyone is ‘waisting’ time with smart belts and cat toilets at CES 2019, IBM casually unveiled the world’s first commercially available quantum computer. The IBM Q System One is the first ever quantum computer that’s been available for use outside of a lab. This entirely new method of computing combines both quantum and traditional computin

GeForce GTX 1060 News – GeForce GTX 10 Series Gaming Graphics Cards Have Almost Sold Out Worldwide

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Nvidia has almost completely sold out of its entire inventory of GeForce GTX 10 Series graphics cards from the GeForce GTX 1060 and upwards according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Speaking during a Q&A session, Jensen fielded questions on the blowback from the rapid decline in demand from cryptocurrency demand. This resulted in a large excess in

News – Sony PlayStation Will Not Be At E3 2019 – PlayStation 5 Reveal in Late 2019 Rumoured

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Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed it will not host a conference at E3 2019, nor will it appear on the show floor. It’ll be the first time PlayStation hasn’t been present during E3’s entire 24-year history. “As the industry evolves, Sony Interactive Entertainment continues to look for inventive opportunities to engage the community,” wro

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – The Final Season News – Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Back to the Future and Monkey Island Delisted From Steam

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The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – The Final Season Can I Run It? Add FPS Compare GPU Trailers The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – The Final Season Have your say User Review 0 Optimisation 10 Most Demanding 100+ The sorry story of Telltale Games has taken another step closer to the grave, this time with the delisting of an a

News – First 65′ Nvidia BFGD Monitors Available to Pre-order – 4K 144Hz G-Sync for $4999

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First revealed this time last year, Nvidia and its hardware partners have finally got their butts into gear and announced the first Nvidia BFGD gaming monitors will be shipping from February. BFGD stands for Big Format Gaming Displays and these things are absolutely massive at 65 inches, with a price tag to match. In order to meet the criteria for

GeForce GTX 2080 News – First Raytracing Battlefield V Benchmarks Revealed on Nvidia RTX 20 Series Graphics Cards

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Battlefield V Can I Run It? Add FPS Compare GPU Trailers Battlefield V Have your say User Review 6.68 Optimisation 8 Most Demanding 44 The first raytracing benchmarks from Battlefield V are beginning to surface. A number of sites that have their mitts on Nvidia’s top-end GeForce RTX 20 Series graphics cards have been busy testing just how deman

Radeon VII 16GB News – AMD Radeon VII Flagship GPU Revealed. 16GB HBM2, 1TB Memory Bandwidth – First Benchmarks

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One of the undoubted highlights of AMD’s CES 2019 showcase was the unveiling of its next high-end graphics card – the Radeon Vega VII. The world’s first 7nm gaming GPU finally puts AMD back in contention for enthusiasts, offering a stonking 16GB of HBM2 and performance which AMD claims to rival that of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080. “AMD Radeo

GeForce GTX 2070 News – First Mini ITX Nvidia RTX Graphics Card Revealed – MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Aero ITX

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MSI has announced the first mini ITX graphics card based on the Turing GPU. The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Aero ITX is a shortened ITX graphics card designed for small form factor (SFF) PC builds. As it currently stands, the MSI RTX 2070 Aero ITX is the smallest GeForce RTX 20 Series graphics card in existence. Like all ITX form factor GPUs it will have

Radeon VII 16GB News – Nvidia CEO Says Radeon VII is ‘Underwhelming’ and ‘Lousy’, ‘They Thought of it This Morning’

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AMD is understandably proud of its new flagship Radeon VII GPU, a new high-end competitor to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080. Nvidia head honcho Jensen Huang isn’t having any of it though, delivering a series of withering put-downs in regards to his competitor’s new graphics card. “It’s underwhelming,” said Huang during a chat with PC World, bluntly att

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti News – Widespread Reports of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Graphics Cards Breaking and Causing BSOD

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UPDATE: Having brushed it off as a perfectly normal issue a fortnight ago, Nvidia has confirmed there is an issue with an early batch of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition graphics cards. In a statement on the Nvidia forums, Tim@Nvidia said “Limited test escapes from early boards caused the issues some customers have experience with RTX 20

Command and Conquer News – EA Confirms Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn Remasters – No Microtransactions

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Command and Conquer Can I Run It? Add FPS Compare GPU Trailers Command and Conquer Have your say User Review 0 Optimisation 10 Most Demanding 100+ It’s official. After EA producer Jim Vessella said the studio was considering Command and Conquer remasters last month, it’s now been confirmed. Both Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Command &

Radeon VII 16GB News – Rumour: AMD is Manufacturing Fewer Than 5000 Radeon VII Graphics Cards in Total

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You’ll need thumb and index fingers the size of Hercules’ thigh to pinch enough salt for this one, but it is being claimed that AMD is manufacturing fewer than 5,000 Radeon VII graphics cards. In total. Ever. This extremely tenuous claim comes by way of Tweaktown, who also claimed a couple of years ago that AMD would have fewer than 16,000 Radeon

News – Which Graphics Card is Better for Photoshop in 2019? – Hardware Guide

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Times change and Adobe Photoshop isn’t the demanding software it once was. Just about all new graphics cards will work with Photoshop without a hitch, and it’s even possible to run Adobe Photoshop without a display adaptor. However, there are a number of GPU-exclusive features in the Adobe Photoshop software.  Photoshop requires a grap

Onimusha: Warlords Remaster News – Onimusha Warlords Remastered System Requirements Slash Into View

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Onimusha: Warlords Remaster Can I Run It? 10 Most Demanding 100+ The Onimusha Warlords Remaster is due to arrive in January 2019, providing a much-needed graphical touch-up for one of Capcom’s most beloved cult classics. Neatly summed up as samurai Resident Evil, Onimusha: Warlords is a slow-paced adventure game with puzzle-solving and bloo

News – Phison Shows Off First PCIe 4.0 SSD Controller With 4.2 GB Per Second Write Speed

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It’s been a long time coming but the PCIe 4.0 standard is almost upon us. PCI Express 4.0 will officially be supported by AMD’s upcoming Ryzen third-gen Matisse CPUs but in the meantime, Phison, a Taiwanese manufacturer of NAND flash controllers, has been showing off its E16 NVMe SSD controller during demo sessions at CES 2019. The new PCIe 4.0 st

News – Cloud Gaming ‘Will Never Replace the PC’ Says Nvidia CEO

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The full transcript has emerged from the CEsS 2019 Q&A session in which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called out the Radeon VII as “lousy”. It turns out there were plenty of other takeaways from the session as well, including Huang’s affirmation that while cloud gaming will be huge, PC gaming on local hardware is here to stay. Nvidia has pumped a lo

Fallout 76 News – Nvidia GeForce 416.94 Provides Performance Boosts for Battlefield V, Hitman 2 and Fallout 76

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Fallout 76 Can I Run It? Add FPS Compare GPU Trailers Fallout 76 Have your say User Review 3.21 Optimisation 3.1 Most Demanding 100+ Nvidia’s getting a bit too rapid with its graphics driver updates these days. In fact, we’d quite like them to slow down. It’s only been a few a matter of days since the GeForce 416.81 driver and now the GeForce 41