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News – First 65′ Nvidia BFGD Monitors Available to Pre-order – 4K 144Hz G-Sync for $4999

First revealed this time last year, Nvidia and its hardware partners have finally got their butts into gear and announced the first Nvidia BFGD gaming monitors will be shipping from February. BFGD stands for Big Format Gaming Displays and these things are absolutely massive at 65 inches, with a price tag to match. In order to meet the criteria for

Command and Conquer News – EA Confirms Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn Remasters – No Microtransactions

Command and Conquer Can I Run It? Add FPS Compare GPU Trailers Command and Conquer Have your say User Review 0 Optimisation 10 Most Demanding 100+ It’s official. After EA producer Jim Vessella said the studio was considering Command and Conquer remasters last month, it’s now been confirmed. Both Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Command &

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti News – Widespread Reports of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Graphics Cards Breaking and Causing BSOD

UPDATE: Having brushed it off as a perfectly normal issue a fortnight ago, Nvidia has confirmed there is an issue with an early batch of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition graphics cards. In a statement on the Nvidia forums, Tim@Nvidia said “Limited test escapes from early boards caused the issues some customers have experience with RTX 20

News – Phison Shows Off First PCIe 4.0 SSD Controller With 4.2 GB Per Second Write Speed

It’s been a long time coming but the PCIe 4.0 standard is almost upon us. PCI Express 4.0 will officially be supported by AMD’s upcoming Ryzen third-gen Matisse CPUs but in the meantime, Phison, a Taiwanese manufacturer of NAND flash controllers, has been showing off its E16 NVMe SSD controller during demo sessions at CES 2019. The new PCIe 4.0 st

Radeon VII 16GB News – Nvidia CEO Says Radeon VII is ‘Underwhelming’ and ‘Lousy’, ‘They Thought of it This Morning’

AMD is understandably proud of its new flagship Radeon VII GPU, a new high-end competitor to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080. Nvidia head honcho Jensen Huang isn’t having any of it though, delivering a series of withering put-downs in regards to his competitor’s new graphics card. “It’s underwhelming,” said Huang during a chat with PC World, bluntly att

Radeon VII 16GB News – Rumour: AMD is Manufacturing Fewer Than 5000 Radeon VII Graphics Cards in Total

You’ll need thumb and index fingers the size of Hercules’ thigh to pinch enough salt for this one, but it is being claimed that AMD is manufacturing fewer than 5,000 Radeon VII graphics cards. In total. Ever. This extremely tenuous claim comes by way of Tweaktown, who also claimed a couple of years ago that AMD would have fewer than 16,000 Radeon

News – Sony PlayStation Will Not Be At E3 2019 – PlayStation 5 Reveal in Late 2019 Rumoured

Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed it will not host a conference at E3 2019, nor will it appear on the show floor. It’ll be the first time PlayStation hasn’t been present during E3’s entire 24-year history. “As the industry evolves, Sony Interactive Entertainment continues to look for inventive opportunities to engage the community,” wro

News – IBM Reveals IBM Q System One – World’s First Commercial Quantum Computer

While everyone is ‘waisting’ time with smart belts and cat toilets at CES 2019, IBM casually unveiled the world’s first commercially available quantum computer. The IBM Q System One is the first ever quantum computer that’s been available for use outside of a lab. This entirely new method of computing combines both quantum and traditional computin

Radeon VII 16GB News – AMD Radeon VII Flagship GPU Revealed. 16GB HBM2, 1TB Memory Bandwidth – First Benchmarks

One of the undoubted highlights of AMD’s CES 2019 showcase was the unveiling of its next high-end graphics card – the Radeon Vega VII. The world’s first 7nm gaming GPU finally puts AMD back in contention for enthusiasts, offering a stonking 16GB of HBM2 and performance which AMD claims to rival that of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080. “AMD Radeo

News – Cloud Gaming ‘Will Never Replace the PC’ Says Nvidia CEO

The full transcript has emerged from the CEsS 2019 Q&A session in which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called out the Radeon VII as “lousy”. It turns out there were plenty of other takeaways from the session as well, including Huang’s affirmation that while cloud gaming will be huge, PC gaming on local hardware is here to stay. Nvidia has pumped a lo