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Best Budget 4K Monitors 2021

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) When it comes to sharp image quality, 4K resolution is where it’s at in 2021. Sure, there are 8K screens and even more modest 6K ones. And lower resolutions deliver higher frame rates on even the best graphics cards. . But if we’re being realistic about what our eyes need… Read more

Philips Momentum 558M1RY 55-inch Monitor Review: Jumbo 4K Gaming With Audio to Match

Our Verdict The Philips 558M1RY represents a price breakthrough in the jumbo gaming monitor category. Though it leaves out HDMI 2.1, it brings everything else to the gaming table with 120 Hz, adaptive sync and accurate DCI-P3 and sRGB color. Add in killer HDR and you have a winner for a relatively low price. For… Read more

Emtek Revises GeForce RTX 2060 Design In Latest Revival

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Emtek, a South Korean manufacturer, has revamped one of its GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card designs to offer it at a lower price tag. Now that Nvidia is replenishing its board partners with GeForce RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 Ti dies to offset the impact of recent shortages, it begs… Read more

Gigabyte Rains On Partners’ Parade By Cancelling GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo

Home News Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo 24G (Image credit: Gigabyte) News outlet CRN reported that Gigabyte has retired the GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo 24G announced back in September of last year. The product page for the graphics card is no longer available, which confirms CRN’s report. Gigabyte’s sudden plans to cancel the GeForce RTX… Read more

Despite Nvidia’s Anti-Mining Lock, RTX 3060 Can Still Earn Up To $7 a Day Mining

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Yesterday, Nvidia announced that the RTX 3060 would limit hashing power when it detected Ethereum mining, but Nvidia was oddly specific about Ethereum. That made us wonder: What about other coins? After all, Ethereum isn’t the only crypto coin out there, and new coins and algorithms come out on a… Read more

Nvidia: RTX 3060 vBIOS Prevents Removal of Hash Rate Limiter

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Yesterday, excellent news from Nvidia landed — namely that it is putting the brakes on hashing performance of the RTX 3060. Whether this tech will also come to other GPUs in the lineup is currently unclear. To make it up to miners, Nvidia is coming out with a special line… Read more

Nvidia says it won’t nerf the Ethereum mining performance of existing GPUs

This morning, Nvidia announced that it would artificially reduce the performance of its upcoming $329 GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card when it comes to one specific task: Ethereum cryptocurrency mining. As weird as that news might sound, it was music to the ears of some gamers — who have been trying and failing to get… Read more

GeForce RTX 3060 Takes 42% Performance Hit in Mining Operation

Home News GeForce RTX 3060 (Image credit: CryptoLeo/Youtube) Nvidia announced today that it has taken necessary actions to gimp the GeForce RTX 3060’s mining performance in an effort to stop cryptocurrency miners from getting their hands on the graphics card. YouTuber CryptoLeo has put the GeForce RTX 3060 through its paces and found Nvidia’s measures… Read more

Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate, Unveils New ‘Cryptocurrency Mining Processor’ Line of GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia today announced its new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) line of GPUs to “address the specific needs of Ethereum mining” and, hopefully, improve the availability of the best graphics cards in the GeForce product line in the process. The company also limited the mining performance of the soon-to-be-launched RTX 3060… Read more

Nvidia is nerfing its new RTX 3060 for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining

Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that will accompany the release of the GPUs later this month will reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining by around 50 percent, using software detection for cryptocurrency mining. “We designed GeForce GPUs for gamers, and gamers… Read more

BenQ Zowie XL2546K 240 Hz Monitor Review: Brilliant Blur Reduction

Our Verdict The BenQ Zowie XL2546K leaves out HDR and extended color but has DyAc+, which is the best blur reduction feature we’ve ever seen. The monitor delivers smooth and responsive gameplay. With a few tweaks, it delivers excellent color too. It’s definitely worth a look if a 240 Hz monitor is on your radar…. Read more

Best Ultrabooks and Premium Laptops 2021

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Whether you’re a student, a professional or just want to stay connected and productive, a laptop is one of the most important tools of the trade. But some are better than others, with wide differences in keyboards, battery life, displays and design. If you’re looking for a powerful laptop… Read more

Passively-Cooled RTX 3080 Comes With a Hefty Price

Home News (Image credit: Turemetal, Mical Wong) The Nvidia RTX 3080 is a beast of a graphics card, able to pump out frames like no tomorrow. But, it’s also a power-hungry card, obviously begging the question: how feasible is it to passively cool? Okay, so that’s definitely not an obvious question to ask, but there… Read more

HWiNFO Will Soon Sense Peak ‘Hotspot’ Temp of Nvidia GPUs

Home News Nvidia RTX 2080 Super GPU Exposed (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) To date, temperature monitoring tools such as HWiNFO have only been able to display the GPU temperature of Nvidia GPUs as an average of its sensors, but that’s about to change. According to Igor Wallossek, who recently got his hands on an unreleased… Read more

German Retailer Briefly Lists RTX 3070 Ti PC Build

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia’s RTX 3070 is a great GPU, but the RTX 3060 Ti edges so close to it in performance that it has become the more popular card. But between the MSRP’s of the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, which are supposed to retail at $499 and $699, respectively, there is… Read more