Sabrent Quad Drive NVMe RAID Card Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Published: 26th July 2023 | Source: Sabrent | Price: | Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

The storage requirements of the average user have swayed back and forth across the years. We're old enough to remember tapes, then floppy discs, 20MB hard drives and all the way up to the latest and greatest.

When SSDs first appeared on the market their speed was so transformative that we all gladly gave up the capacity we'd enjoyed with our HDDs to

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Verified - Nixxes confirms that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be playable on Valve's Steam Deck

Valve's Steam Deck is slowly becoming an unofficial PSP successor

Published: 26th July 2023 | Source: Nixxes | Author: Mark Campbell

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart launches on PC with Steam Deck verification

Ahead of the game's launch on PC, Nixxes Software has announced that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is Steam Deck verified, which means that PC gamers will be able to play the game without any issues on Valve's Steam Deck handheld gaming system.

Having Steam Deck verification at

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Major disappointment - AMD's budget-friendly Ryzen 5 7500F will be SI-only outside of China

Want a Ryzen 5 7500F? You'll probably need to buy a pre-built PC

Published: 26th July 2023 | Source: HardwareLuxx | Author: Mark Campbell

AMD's cost-effective Ryzen 5 7500F will only be available inside pre-built systems outside of China

Earlier this week, AMD launched their Ryzen 5 7500F processor globally, a cost-effective Ryzen 7000 series processor that is a compelling offering for

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AMD confirms ray tracing stability issues in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

AMD users should probably disable ray tracing in Rift Apart, at least for now

Published: 26th July 2023 | Source: AMD | Author: Mark Campbell

AMD's working with Insomniac Games to address ray tracing issues in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Within their release notes for their newly released AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 23.7.2 drivers for Windows, AMD has confirmed that users of Radeon graphics cards are experiencing issues when playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with ray tracing enabled on

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Ubisoft Clarifies - No accounts with purchases will be deleted due to inactivity

If you have purchased something,

Published: 26th July 2023 | Source: Twitter | Author: Mark Campbell

Ubisoft can delete inactive Connect accounts, but only if you have not purchased anything

Earlier this week, PC gamers reported online that Ubisoft were closing inactive Ubisoft Connect (formerly Uplay) accounts if they were found to be inactive, alleging that affected users would lose all of their purchased games and DLC forever. Ubisoft has confirmed that while they do delete inactive accounts, they do not close accounts that

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DRM Removed - Forspoken is now Denuvo-free on PC

Square Enix has removed Denuvo a lot earlier than expected

Published: 25th July 2023 | Source: Steam | Author: Mark Campbell

Forspoken's latest update has removed Denuvo from the game on PC

As part of their latest update for the game, Square Enix has removed Denuvo's anti-tamper technology from the PC version of Forspoken, signalling that the company has no plans to release any more content for the game.

At launch, Forspoken ran poorly on PC and consoles, and over time

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Nvidia showcases the power of RTX with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Sony's pushing PC's latest tech with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Published: 25th July 2023 | Source: Nvidia | Author: Mark Campbell

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart features DLSS 3, and RTX IO, Nvidia's latest technologies

Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is launching on PC tomorrow, and it will be shipping with all of the latest PC technologies, including ray tracing, DirectStorage 1.2 support, and upscaling solutions that include DLSS 3,


Payday 3 is a lot easier to run than expected

Payday 3's launching on September 21st

Published: 25th July 2023 | Source: Steam | Author: Mark Campbell

Payday 3's PC system requirements are here, and you won't need a mega powerful PC to run it

Starbreeze and Deep Silver are launching Payday 3 on September 21st, and on the game's official Steam page, the game's PC system requirements have just been released.

Payday 3 is the highly anticipated sequel to 2013

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Intel

New instructions and more performance - Intel reveals AVX10, AVX10.2, and APX

APX aims to deliver significant performance increases without major code changes

Published: 25th July 2023 | Source: Intel | Author: Mark Campbell

Intel aims to deliver more performance with future CPUs using AVX10, AVX10.2, and new APX instructions

There are three main ways to boost the performance of CPUs. First there are clock speed increases, boosting the number of clock cycles (work) that can be done in any given time. Next there are core/architectural changes, which

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PS3 Emulator RPCS3 is dropping support for Legacy Windows OS'

If you don't want to use Windows 10 or 11, you can always try Linux

Published: 24th July 2023 | Source: RPCS3 | Author: Mark Campbell

RPCS3 is dropping support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and that's a good thing

RPCS3 is an emulator that allows gamers to play PlayStation 3 games and run PlayStation 3 software on non-PlayStation 3 hardware. Primarily, RPCS3 is used by PC gamers to play PlayStation