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Today NVIDIA has brought variable refresh rate support to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The company initially promised variable refresh support on GeForce Now back in early January during CES, and has seemingly waited so that it could launch alongside GeForce Now Day Passes, which are also now available. Variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies, including NVIDIA's own G-Sync, have been around for around a decade now, and allow a monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to the instantaneous framerate of a game. This synchronization prevents screen tearing, when two or more frames are present on a display at the same time. Without a VRR technology, gamers either have to tolerate the visual incongruity of screen tearing or enable V-Sync, which solves screen tearing by...
Humble Square Enix Bundle #2
Lots of gaming bundles exist and come and go on a regular basis, and we’ve generally held back on trying to cover them all because… well, a lot of...
13 by Jarred Walton on 2/17/2015
NVIDIA 347.52 WHQL: Get Ready to Evolve
Today marks the release of the latest gaming beast: Evolve. Powered by CryEngine, you’d expect this to be another graphically demanding game that will require a lot of GPU...
43 by Jarred Walton on 2/10/2015
ASUS ROG Announces the B85M-Gamer Motherboard
In recent months it would seem that ASUS’ Republic of Gamers brand has split into some very distinct segments. We used to only have three SKUs to choose from...
30 by Ian Cutress on 1/31/2015
Interview at CES 2015: Eric Kuo and Sam Chern from MSI Notebooks
As part of a series of getting into the minds of those who run our industry, we were able to take the time at CES to interview two key...
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Oculus Demos Crescent Bay and VR Audio
I’ve been following Oculus Rift since the Kickstarter a couple years back, and while I didn’t help kickstart the project it has always been an intriguing idea. Of course...
21 by Jarred Walton on 1/13/2015
Origin PC Shows Off High-End Notebooks and the “Not-a-Steam-Machine” Omega
CES now over, which means for a lot of the editors we can finally sit down and write about some of the stuff we saw during the week. If...
33 by Jarred Walton on 1/13/2015
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 965M
In a rather unusual turn of events, the first I officially knew of the GeForce GTX 965M was when I saw it in some of MSI’s new gaming notebooks...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015
AORUS Notebooks Updated with New X5 and X3 Plus
If you think the rather subdued (some might even go so far as to say drab or boring) Gigabyte gaming notebooks aren’t for you, the company has their AORUS...
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Hands On with Gigabyte Notebooks at CES
One of the notebook vendors that I’ve been really interested in visiting is Gigabyte, as their P-series offerings look quite promising. Aesthetics are of course a rather subjective topic...
8 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015
MSI GT80 Titan: Full Specs Revealed
Last year, MSI teased us with some images of their upcoming GT80 Titan notebook, an 18.4” gaming behemoth with support for SLI GPUs and a full Cherry MX mechanical...
23 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
MSI Announces GS30 Shadow Laptop and GPU Expansion Dock
One of the very interesting looking laptops from MSI is their upcoming GS30, which carries on the thin and light theme of the GS series but extends that down...
41 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
MSI Unveils GE62 and GE72 Apache Notebooks
After reviewing the GT72 Dominator Pro last year, I wondered how long it would take to see some of the updated industrial design elements make their way into other...
1 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
ROCCAT Ryos MK Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Capsule Review
2014 is drawing to a close, and today we have a review of ROCCAT's flagship mechanical keyboard, the Ryos MK Pro. It was launched earlier this year and has...
21 by E. Fylladitakis on 12/31/2014
NVIDIA 347.09 Beta Drivers Available
After the last 344.75 NVIDIA driver update, I thought maybe we might not get any more updates until the New Year. Certainly I wasn't expecting to move from the...
15 by Jarred Walton on 12/19/2014
Best High-End Laptops: Holiday 2014
High-End Laptop Recommendations Our holiday guides have covered a lot of products so far, and just on the laptop side of things we've looked at budget laptops, Chromebooks, and mainstream...
85 by Jarred Walton on 12/18/2014
ASUS Maximus VII Impact Review: Premium Gaming Z97 in mini-ITX
Over the years we have reviewed a number of Republic of Gamers (ROG) motherboards, usually focusing on the high end Extreme and gaming ATX focused Formula. We probed the...
42 by Ian Cutress on 12/9/2014
Logitech 2014 Switzerland Tech Day: The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Romer G
Now armed with their Logitech G brand for gaming for a number of quarters, Logitech invited influential media to their Daniel Borel Innovation Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, to get...
56 by Ian Cutress on 12/8/2014
Best $1000 Laptops: Holiday 2014
Mainstream Laptop Recommendations So far we've covered the budget laptop sector as well as Chromebooks in our Holiday 2014 Guides, but if you want a good quality laptop that can...
80 by Jarred Walton on 12/5/2014
Benchmarked - Assassin's Creed: Unity
The fifth game in the Assassin's Creed series (depending on how you want to count), Assassin's Creed: Unity is perhaps one of the most demanding games to ever hit...
122 by Jarred Walton on 11/20/2014
Benchmarked: Lords of the Fallen
Officially launched on October 28, Lords of the Fallen had a bit of a rocky start so it took longer for me to finish running benchmarks on the game...
54 by Jarred Walton on 11/12/2014
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