Hey folks: I specifically requested that my byline be removed from past articles. No further comment, but it's not something that was initiated by the new management.
TR literally wants to win the lottery so someone can pay reviewers to keep doing what TR has always done, all because the business model isn't self sustainable anymore. Aside from the part where I'm literally not employed by the site any longer and speaking only in a personal capacity, you may want...
OK, so who pays? That is, at the end of the day, the mile-high question mark behind which lies sustainability. And to be clear, this is an industry-wide question for all of media, not just The Tech Report or PC hardware more broadly.
[DISCLAIMER: I do not represent The Tech Report, and none of this post is autobiographical unless otherwise noted, nor should it be read as a statement regarding The Tech Report's past, present or future specifically] It's deceptively easy from the outside to say "do this, do that, and do the o...
Will the 8 threads of the 9700k be worse for encoding than the 16 of the 2700x? If so, I think 2700x really is the way to go for me in terms of price and performance. Fortnite isn't the most demanding title out there right now, and from what I've seen it's fairly easy to maintain 144hz (with some d...
Here's the problem with testing at 2560x1440: there are at least two different ways you could go about it. Are you going to use the rendering power you're freeing up by lowering resolution to increase frame rate at the same settings as 4K testing (which may not include taxing AA methods) or go the o...
You don't want a Ryzen 7 1700 today and you certainly don't want that chip in a laptop body. The primary advantage of the Ryzen 7 1700 is that it can be overclocked in a desktop form factor to overcome its low all-core boost clock (3 GHz) for performance-focused users. You can't practically overcloc...
As a last resort, you might try Display Driver Uninstaller to get to a completely blank slate before reinstalling the latest graphics-card drivers: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html You can also use the sensor readouts in GPU-Z to get a sense of how your ca...
Computex 2018 is the only big event we likely have to deal with in June so far, and that'll be the first full week of the month so the 16th or 23rd work fine here. August is less certain but I'll likely be open.
Newegg motherboard reviews are, to put it politely, a very poor source of objective information on the quality of a product. I have both the ROG Zenith Extreme and Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7 here and I've used both in the course of my Threadripper testing. They are both excellent. The Asus is very...
I'm not going to jinx myself but graphics cards are much more straightforward to test than CPUs. We've automated a lot of the back-breaking data digestion work that we used to have to worry about, so getting graphs and supporting material is a lot faster and easier than it used to be. I expect to ha...
Not to gloat, but you can't say I didn't warn you: http://techreport.com/blog/31924/spitballing-the-performance-of-amd-radeon-vega-frontier-edition-graphics-card Virtually every prediction I made in that post was proven correct yesterday: http://techreport.com/news/32163/updated-radeon-vega-frontier...
I cannot for the life of me find the source again, but I'm pretty sure that the CPU-Z devs were aware of their program producing spurious results at the Ryzen launch and said to avoid making any conclusions based on its performance with the benchmark at the time. I would have a hard time believing i...
Whether you'll really notice a difference from a CPU upgrade depends on what resolution and settings you like to play games at. If you run your GTX 970 at 1920x1080 with medium to high settings (prioritizing high refresh rates) you will notice the largest difference from a CPU upgrade. If you play o...
It's probably running at the right speed. Remember that RAM runs at double the data rate of the clock, so you should be getting 2666 MT/s from that 1333 MHz clock speed. Some utilities report the clock speed in MHz rather than the actual transfer rate.
I don't know what's "inconsistent" about Ryzen's gaming performance. In well-threaded titles, it produces smooth gameplay at slightly slower rates than competing Intel CPUs. In poorly-threaded and memory-bandwidth-intensive titles, it gets the double whammy of lower clocks/IPC than Intel a...
DrDominodog51 is correct—that's an i7-5960X. The 6950X has a distinctive heat spreader that marks it as a Broadwell-E chip; it's in a test rig right now. I would probably be whisked away by the black helicopters already if that was a (purported) Skylake-X chip
I'll mark off the weekend of the 15th on the calendar! Should be lots to talk about this year.
I'll likely be clearing most of my test cases out of my attic this year, so if you want a free or nearly-free case (some sweating on the cornhole grounds might be involved), make plans to be there.
The Tech Report and Corsair are teaming up to give away an RM1000i Special Edition PSU to our readers in celebration of two major milestones: Corsair's tenth anniversary of producing PSUs, and its 10 millionth PSU sold. This is the entry thread for the contest. If you'd like to learn more about the ...
Now that I've rolled it back to the 373.06 drivers, it's hitting 2.35 million. I also spun up a pair of 980 Tis in another machine and that machine is doing about 1.17 million.
Since it's not doing anything else at the moment, I'm tossing TR's i7-6950X and three GTX 1080s into the pile for a bit in response to this tweet. I don't know what I'm doing but it sure is making a lot of noise and sucking down some watts.
