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Samsung is in full gloat mode over having begun mass producing what it says is the industry’s first 10-nanometer class, 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAM chips, along with full-fledged modules that use the new chips. There are a few things to note here. The first is that these are not 10nm chips, but 10nm-class, which can mean...
One thing you can count on from EVGA is that it’s going to offer in the neighborhood of half a dozen different SKUs for any particular model graphics card, sometimes more. That includes EVGA’s now 14 different SKUs of the somewhat spunky GeForce GTX 950. The newest of those models don’t require a 6-pin power...
When Oculus Kickstarted the Rift three years ago, it was hard to believe that we’d be able to buy a working, affordable VR headset for our PCs—and now here we are with two seriously impressive VR headsets launching a mere week apart. The Vive, a collaborative effort between HTC and Valve, is now shipping to...
Considering you’re reading this on PC Gamer, chances are you have a reasonably potent graphics card inside your PC, which you use to play games. Every year, Nvidia puts on their GPU Technology Conference (GTC—not to be confused with GDC, the Game Developer Conference we had last month), and the focus moves from games to all...
Top Deal: Are you regularly backing up your data? If not, either your name is Leeroy Jenkins and you’re content to munch on some chicken when everything goes wrong, or you just haven’t gotten around to implementing a backup scheme yet. There’s no help for the former, but for the latter, you can take your...
A VR workhorse In case you haven’t noticed—maybe you’re waking up from a coma or just returned to civilization after deciding to go off the grid for a spell—virtual reality is a pretty big deal right now. The VR bandwagon is bursting at the seems with so many players on board, though most of the...
Here’s the thing: the system I configured has dual 980 Tis and not vanilla 980s, and it still costs $1400 less than the Vortex. I have enough money left over to upgrade from dual 128GB NVMe drives to a pair of 512GB 950 Pro SSDs, and then toss in a 2TB 850 Evo SATA drive for good measure....
Nvidia’s VRWorks SDK Since we started with AMD, when we talk about Nvidia’s VRWorks, a lot of this is going to be a rehash. Rather than starting with the big differentiating factor, we’re going to quickly cover the similarities first. There’s not a 1-to-1 mapping between LiquidVR and VRWorks, but at a high level there...
Form and function I can’t praise the strap design of the Oculus Rift headset enough. The semi-rigid rubber strap wraps around the back of my head and cradles my skull closely enough to balance the weight of the headset, giving it a vital leg up on gravity. The Rift weighs 470 grams, but a good...
