graphics hardware
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This Old Tech: Cracking Open My Ancient Childhood PC in All Its Dusty Glory
There is enough dust lingering in the bowels of my old, childhood desktop tower to make my roommate sneeze and cough while sitting on the couch 10 feet behind me. It’s been a long time since I dared crack the shell on my ancient PC, a decade and a half since I first put it…
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Alienware’s Newest Desktop Design Leaves the Mothership and Heads Back Down to Earth
The Aurora R16 gaming PC features a more boxy, streamlined case that Alienware promises is smaller, quieter, and contains more efficient cooling.
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 Has Arrived — And You Should Probably Avoid It
Nvidia today quietly launched the GeForce GTX 1630, an entry-level graphics card set to compete against the AMD Radeon RX 6400 and Intel Arc 380M as a basic upgrade to integrated graphics. The GTX 1630 is based on a Turing TU117-150 graphics processor and sports 512 CUDA cores. For comparison, the new card lags behind…
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Early Intel Arc A370M Benchmarks Are Grim
Intel’s first discrete Arc graphics cards are slowly trickling into the market, and now we finally have an idea of how they perform. The TL;DR? Not great. But remember, Intel is only starting to dip its feet into the market — significant improvements are expected in the near future.