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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition Review

Introduction Today NVIDIA releases the GeForce RTX 4070 Ada—we have the review. The new RTX 4070 (non Ti) is the most affordable graphics card in the RTX 40-series so far, which also makes it the most important one. At a starting price of $600, and with the promise of maxed out 1440p gaming, or 4K… Read more

ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Dual Review

Introduction ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Dual is the company’s most affordable custom-design RTX 4070 offering. The DUAL brand of ASUS has a lot in common with the company’s PRIME brand of motherboards—they are both under the company’s main marquee, unlike the ROG Strix or TUF Gaming lines; and ASUS ensures they directly represent the company… Read more

MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ventus 3X Review

Introduction The MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ventus 3X is the company’s most affordable custom-design RTX 4070 graphics card, and can be had at the NVIDIA-set baseline price of $600. The card sticks to reference clock speeds, and has a close-to-reference PCB design, but backs it with a large, triple-fan cooling solution, which is where the… Read more

PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Review

Introduction PNY GeForce RTX 4070 leads the company’s custom-design RTX 4070 lineup from the front. As a company, PNY has come a long way from a memory products vendor for photographers, to an OEM focusing on professional-visualization graphics cards. The company has seriously stepped up its game in the consumer graphics segment with the RTX… Read more

Gainward GeForce RTX 4070 Ghost Review

Introduction Gainward GeForce RTX 4070 Ghost is the company’s most compact and affordable graphics card based on the new RTX 4070 Ada that NVIDIA is unveiling today, as it’s priced bang on the NVIDIA-set MSRP of $600. You’ll find that all the RTX 4070 graphics cards we’re reviewing today (April 12) come at this price,… Read more

ECS LIVA One H610 Barebones Mini-PC (Core i3-12100) Review

2 on Apr 11th, 2023, Manufacturer: ECS Packaging & Contents » Introduction A big thank you to ECS for supplying the review sample. Elitegroup Computer Systems, more widely known as ECS, was formed in 1987. From their humble beginnings, they have expanded into an industry-leading OEM that manufactures many products for themselves and other vendors. ECS… Read more

Endgame Gear XM2we Review

Introduction Endgame Gear is a peripherals company based in Germany. With the XM2we, Endgame Gear finally turns their XM1r wireless. The XM2we is the budget version of the XM2w, whose release is still pending, and thus has been released prior to the XM2w. Whereas the XM2w will be using PixArt’s PAW3395 sensor along with a… Read more

Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-7000 CL34 2x 16 GB Review

9 Packaging & Contents » Introduction Corsair is a well-known brand name by this point in the United States and Europe, partially thanks to easily identifiable yellow product boxes. The company has been well established in the computer market for a number of years now, offering gaming peripherals, flash drives, SSDs, AIOs, watercooling hardware, power supplies… Read more

FiiO FT3 Open-Back Dynamic Driver Headphones Review

Introduction No, you are not looking at a different company named FiiO. This is the same audio brand we’ve covered numerous times before and the same team that has impressed us with products ranging from IEMs to portable DAC/amps to higher-end more powerful sources, all at various price points. FiiO has decided it needs a… Read more

Resident Evil 4 Remake: DLSS and XeSS Community Patch Review

Introduction Following our testing of the FSR 2.1 implementation in Resident Evil 4 Remake, the loyal modding community continues to improve games before developers even release their patches. Several days after the release, PureDark and Praydog from the modding community introduce another important in-game improvement—NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing (DLAA), NVIDIA’s DLSS Super Resolution (DLSS 3.1)… Read more

Epomaker RT100 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard Review – Tiny TV Time!

Introduction The recently reviewed Epomaker EP75 was one of several new keyboards here from the brand and I had mentioned how we’ll be going through some unique offerings. I was originally going to review another keyboard but then Epomaker mentioned there’s a new retro-style keyboard coming up that uses the increasingly popular OLED display feature… Read more

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Review – The Best Gaming CPU

Introduction In this review we’re testing AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which is the company’s latest gaming monster based on the 3D Vertical Cache technology. It features an 8-core Zen 4 CCD with high frequencies, and should be able to provide a generational gaming performance uplift, letting AMD surpass even the fastest of Intel’s 13th… Read more

LAMZU Atlantis Mini Review

Introduction LAMZU is a peripherals company based in China. As the name already suggests, the Atlantis Mini is a smaller version of LAMZU’s ambidextrous Atlantis. For the Mini, the Atlantis has simply been scaled down uniformly, albeit to a significant degree. As a result of the smaller size, the Mini weighs 6 g less than… Read more

The Last of Us Part I: FSR 2.2 vs. DLSS Comparison Review

Introduction The Last of Us Part I is out now on PC, with plenty of additional visual enhancements over its PlayStation 5 release, such as higher quality textures, higher quality screen space and real-time reflections, full support for ultra-wide screens and more. The Last of Us Part I also has support for NVIDIA’s DLSS Super… Read more

Antec Performance 1 FT Review

Introduction I would like to thank Antec for supplying the review sample. Antec has been steadily releasing mid-tower enclosures in recent times which are all more or less different, targeting various consumer segments. Many of those are based on a smaller set of case tooling with design, fan and accessory differences to set them apart… Read more