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Plot twist: It will be an amazing cryptocurrency miner, and thus, no gamers will be able to buy one for nine months.

Well...my old ASRock Z68 Extreme3 finally bit the dust after four years of hard use, and I killed the fans on yet another video card (Asus 770). Going to give this 7870K setup a try for the light gaming I do these days. The illuminated audio boost chipset is a really useful touch for sure :laugh:

Add in card share might be a bit misleading, as it doesn't account for integrated / APU market share. The most popular games now like MOBAs, CS:GO, minecraft, and many indie titles run just fine on a higher end APU or very low end dedicated card. PC games that really need high end add in cards...

Yes, it is an opinion based on my experience... Even in the photos posted for the review you can see how the wire fan clips are bending inside, which makes it so they don't line up in the tiny holes, and has a tendency to bend the outer layer of fins. There are better systems for mounting a fan...

Still rockin the Rev. A on a 2500K too :) Probably should have put the fan clips as a negative. They work fine outside the case for install and getting the fan clipped in, but they are a nightmare to work with while the heatsink is installed inside a case. The get bound up in the fins, bend the...

Pretty straightforward question, would it be worth it to finally upgrade my 2500K for gaming and encoding h.264 videos? I've had the 2500K for well over 3 years now, and I also kinda want a mobo with a USB3 header finally...but it's hard to know just how much better the 4690K is, and if I'll...

I didn't know chieftec still existed. They should make a 2014 edition of the old Alienware style case...with contemporary features. Retro, right?

The Achilles heel of Android has always been lousy OEM support for new API levels. As the hardware development speeds towards a plateau, it seems increasingly ridiculous to buy a new device for the latest level, or mess around with a custom build. Google got around that with the Moto products...

If you are not paying for a product, you are the product. The "free" host are either trying to suck you into an overpriced paid plan for the 1 in 10,000 accounts that host a real website for more than 30 days, an overpriced domain registration, or jamming ads onto your site. This work because...

The market for high end desktops has pretty much shrunk to enthusiast and professionals, and even we / they don't need to upgrade every few years. It makes no sense for AMD to spend what little resources they have trying to compete in that sector when growth is in cloud servers, console APU's...

Really impressive results and price on both the 290 cards, but too bad AMD cheaped out on the heatsink to hit a price point, or whatever the reason is for it. How long will it take for non-reference cards to come to market? If you look at the PCB layout of both 290 cards and a 7970 they look...

http://youtu.be/vV3xUyfYQdI Glad to know I wasn't crazy in thinking something has been very, very wrong with the netcode and hit detection. DICE needs to get this fixed ASAP; it's completely ruining what is otherwise an amazing game.

I've spent quite a bit of time studying the weapon charts and still don't quite get the gun balance yet, but part of that is me still adjusting to the game. PDW's should be turbo mode in CQC, but get mowed over by ARs. The ARs and carbines in general seem to be freaking death lasers with no...

I think it's high time Nvidia did something with guts, like a 780 Subway Edition with a 4 slot chambered heatsink that doubles as a toaster oven for foot long sandwiches.

Some games refer to this as interpolation. In short, it guesses where player models should be when the server is not reporting the information frequently enough to make it look smooth. Turn it down to 0, jump on some crappy 64 player server or one with very high latency, and you'll see models...