Amazon Prime Day GPU Deals - Finally, Good GPU Prices!

Is now the time to buy a new GPU?

Published: 12th July 2022 | Source: Amazon Prime Day | Author: Mark Campbell

Here are the best Amazon Prime Day GPU deals that we could find

Amazon Prime Day is here, and with it has come a large number of great deals, allowing PC builders to gain access to a graphics card at a reasonable price, something that wasn't possible a few short months ago.

These offers are only available to Amazon Prime members, whether

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Prime Day has some awesome SSD deals - Fast 1TB NVMe £70 and more

Here are some of Amazon's best Prime Day SSD Deals

Published: 12th July 2022 | Source: Amazon Prime Day | Author: Mark Campbell

Need a new SSD? Prime Day has you covered! - Here are the best deals

Amazon Prime Day is here, and with it has come a large number of excellent SSD deals, allowing PC builders to gain access to a tonne of ultra-fast storage without an ultra-premium price tag.

These offers are only available to Amazon Prime members

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How Nvidia's beating Moore's Law with AI and smart silicon design

As Moore's Law slows, technology companies need to get creative

Published: 11th July 2022 | Source: Nvidia | Author: Mark Campbell

Nvidia's using AI to make their GPUs more efficient

Moore's Law is slowing down. Transistors are not shrinking at the same rate as they were in the early 2000s. As time as progressed, physics has become harder and harder to bend to our will, and shrinking transistors has become increasingly impractical. Companies within the computing

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Xbox Series consoles can now be used to run Windows 98 classics

Want to install Windows 98 on your new Xbox?

Published: 11th July 2022 | Source: Digital Foundry | Author: Mark Campbell

Digital Foundry use RetroArch to run Windows 98 on a retail Xbox Series X

Microsoft's Xbox Series X and S consoles have proven to be very popular for emulation, with Microsoft's paid "Developer Mode" allowing users to install a wide range of software on the system, including RetroArch.

Recently, Xbox users have discovered ways to get RetroArch installed


Intel

5.5GHz Raptor Lake i9-13900K Tested in Geekbench

Does Raptor Lake impress?

Published: 11th July 2022 | Source: @BenchLeaks | Author: Mark Campbell

Intel i9-13900K benchmarked with 5.5GHz boost speeds

Intel's 13th generation i9-13900K processor has been benchmarked on Geekbench, highlighting the performance of Intel's next-generation flagship. The i9-13900K is due to supplant the i9-1290

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Overclockers UK start selling high-end GPUs below their MSRPs

GPU prices are getting lower, especially in the high-end

Published: 11th July 2022 | Source: Overclockers UK | Author: Mark Campbell

GPU prices are continuing to get lower at retail

GPU prices have fallen, with high retail stocks and large numbers of used sales placing pressure on GPU manufacturers to deliver more competitive prices. Today, we spotted some noteworthy GPU deals over on Overclockers UK, deals which Overclockers themselves claim to be the best in the UK. This includes several graphics cards that are

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Has Windows 11 Improved for Content Creators? - Puget Systems Answers

Windows 11 is getting better, but Windows 10 is still faster in some cases

Published: 11th July 2022 | Source: Puget Systems | Author: Mark Campbell

Has Windows 11's performance improved?

Let's face it, Windows 11 did not have a good launch. Between early bugs, lower than expected performance on some systems, and the OS' more restrictive system requirements, it was never going to be adopted as fast as Windows 10. Even so,

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Assassin's Creed Liberation HD will soon be rendered unplayable by Ubisoft

Why is this happening to a single player game?

Published: 11th July 2022 | Source: Steam - Via @Nors3 | Author: Mark Campbell

Ubisoft's making Assassin's Creed Liberation HD unplayable on September 1st

Ubisoft does not care about game preservation. That's the only conclusion that we can draw based on what's happening to Assassin's Creed Liberation HD. Soon, the PC version of Liberation HD will be unplayable on PC, despite the fact that the

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Intel

Overclocker pushes unreleased Threadripper 5990X to incredible speeds

AMD has working Threadripper 5000 (Non-PRO/WX) processors

Published: 11th July 2022 | Source: Skatterbench | Author: Mark Campbell

Skatterbench boosts AMD Threadripper 5990X engineering sample to 4.82GHz for record-breaking Cinebench results

Skatterbench, the extreme overclocker, has achieved something extraordinary. Not only can he now boast a Cinebench R23 score of over 100,000, but he has done so using an unreleased Ryzen

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Meta Quest VR headsets will no longer need Facebook accounts from next month onwards

Meta VR users will no longer require a Facebook account next month

Published: 8th July 2022 | Source: Meta | Author: Mark Campbell

Meta will roll out dedicated Meta accounts starting next month

When Oculus users were forced to link their devices to Facebook accounts, a major mistake was made. Today, even Facebook acknowledges this, confirming last year that they would be decoupling Oculus (now Meta) headsets from their Facebook ecosystem.

Now, Meta has confirmed that they will be rolling out dedicated Meta accounts next

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