Asus ROG Strix XG248QSG Ace 610 Hz gaming monitor review: A new frame rate frontier

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Asus ROG Strix XG248QSG Ace is currently the fastest monitor you can buy. But those frame rate bragging rights will cost as much as a premium OLED. If 500 or 600fps is your goal, it’s the only game in town.

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    Solid contrast with zone dimming feature

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    Very colorful with best-in-class HDR

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    Incredible frame rates with low input lag

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    Superb video processing with

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AMD first entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago — the Am9080 cost 50 cents apiece to make, but sold for $700

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The chip which paved the way for AMD’s illustrious future, eventually creating some of the best CPUs we've ever tested, entered mass production 50 years ago. AMD’s Am9080 had something of a shady origin, as it was a reverse-engineered and cloned Intel 8080 . However, due to the importance of second-sourcing among organizations that would end up buying boatloads of 80

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Microsoft for Startups exec says ‘my whole job is begging for GPUs,it's been that way since 2020’ — says that AI bubble doomsters are deluded

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Britton Winterrose, Microsoft ’s lead in Technical Business Development for Startups, has taken to social media to complain that “my whole job is begging for GPUs.” In a brief Tweet-rant, highlighting the current supply/demand situation, he was also very dismissive of AI bubble doomsters. And, to add further relish to his very public grumble, Winterrose appeared to criticize Jensen Huang for his perceived support of “random bitcoin miners”.

many days it feels like my whole job

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Power up your PC like a fighter jet — enthusiast demos 'an unnecessary complicated way of starting your PC'

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Occasionally, curiosity or boredom may serve as the primary catalysts for inventive creations. If you have grown weary of turning on your PC with the standard power button, Reddit user veloci_official has suggested a more intricate yet impressive method. Recall the scenes from movies when the pilot is about to fly a fighter jet? The approach by veloci_official resembles that scenario.

I was bored, so this is how my PC turns on now from r/pcmasterrace

The invention

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Microsoft responds to Gaming Copilot controversy, says it uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not for training AI models — optional feature can be turned off, but not easily uninstalled

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Microsoft ’s Gaming Copilot feature recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta , with the company adding the feature to the operating system’s built-in Xbox Game Bar. However, one user complained on ResetEra forums, stating that their system’s network traffic showed the AI feature sending information about their actions to Microsoft’s servers, including private details on their screen. That set off a flurry of media coverage. We reached out to Microsoft for further details and the company

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Saying goodbye to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as it rides into the sunset - we benchmark 2017's hottest graphics card against some modern GPUs

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Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti shook the world of gaming like few other products have when it arrived over eight years ago in March 2017. I personally reviewed it at launch, and I was astounded by how smoothly and fluidly it handled the most challenging games of its time, even at 4K (and without the benefit of DLSS or FSR).

The 1080 Ti’s arrival also marked the beginning of nearly four

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Ludicrous $6 billion Counter Strike 2 skins market crashes, loses $3 billion overnight — game update destroys inventories, collapses market

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Valve pushed a "small" update to Counter-Strike 2 yesterday that mostly consisted of minor optimization tweaks, along with changes to how hard it is to acquire certain skins in-game. A lot of you will be familiar with how Counter-Strike's market works — it's player-to-player, meaning anyone with a rare item can sell it to another person for real money. These transactions often land in the hundreds of thousands range for

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Intel

Internet ads firm’s CEO posts wild job description for 'A-players,' draws internet ire

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A tech services firm’s Careers page has been raising the hackles of netizens worldwide. Icon.com’s flagship product is AdGPT, “think ChatGPT for ads,” and its CEO proclaims that he would “eat dog poop if it means winning.” However, new “A-player” recruits must also show similarly unswerving devotion to the company cause.

Take all the best macho posturing one-liners from Capitalist Noir movie classics like Glengarry Glen Ross and Wall

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IBM's boffins run a nifty quantum error-correction algorithm on standard AMD FPGAs, and it is' 10 times faster than what is needed' — research propels IBM's Starling quantum computer project forward

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Hot on the heels of Google's breakthrough in the practical application of quantum computing, IBM is now poised to announce a quantum leap of its own. According to a Reuters report, a team of IBM researchers will publish a paper on Monday, October 27, detailing how they performed quantum error correction on standard AMD chips. That should smooth one of the major roadblocks to the practical usability of quantum computers, namely, result accuracy.

The error-correction algorithm reportedly not only runs

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Enjoy next-level gaming with this Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for under $1,900 — save $400 off the list price

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The CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme Gaming Desktop (SLC7700WST), usually priced at $2,299.99, is now available for $1,899. It's always exciting to build your gaming PC from scratch, but sometimes, buying a prebuilt makes more sense because you can save money, and that's precisely what the Gamer Supreme from CyberPowerPC offers.

The Gamer Supreme really hits all the marks you'd

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