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AMD Radeon RX 480 can overclock 1.5 GHz+

AMD RX 480 will also have a “Beast Mode” variants for higher OC potential, AMD OverDrive to be upgraded! Things are looking interesting as AMD’s upcoming Polaris card are just a few days away. It...

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AMD Radeon RX 480 exceeds PCIe power limit

Reviews indicate overclocked RX 480 fails to stick with PCIe specification Certain reviews indicate that an overclocked AMD Radeon RX 480 draws exceeds PCIe power limitation. Typically the PCIe x16...

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AMD addresses RX 480 PCIe power draw concerns

Upcoming hotfix expected to roll out by tomorrow! A couple of tech websites have done a detailed analysis of the RX 480’s power consumption in the past week. It was found that the card was drawing more...

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Future-release AMD Zen APUs to use Polaris GPU

The Polaris-equipped Zen APUs is reportedly scheduled for 2017 release While AMD Zen architecture is ready for release by this year. One of the SKUs is expected to be quad based processing unit with up...

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Pascal-based Titan P to be shown in August

Nvidia Titan P expected to be 50% faster than GTX 1080 FE While we know how Nvidia Pascal-based GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 performs, it’s expected that the green team will release a more powerful version...

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Early Radeon RX 480 4GB can be flashed to use 8GB VRAM

This puts a whole meaning to the sentence “You can download RAMs” AMD introduced its RX 480 with two VRAM choices- 4GB AND 8GB GDDR5. But what’s recently been discovered that early adopters can get...

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Vive VR unusable with GTX 1000 Series via DisplayPort

Nvidia is aware and still working on it! The currently available GTX 1000 cards are advertised to be VR-ready graphic cards. It promises of offering Breakthrough VR experiences. And it does…...

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Security exploit found in Gigabyte MBs, HP and Lenovo

Security exploit possibly in Intel 8 series UEFI common codes A security flaw is recently exposed in certain systems and a motherboard manufacturer. The exploit called ‘ThinkPwn’ is a low-level access...

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TP-Link forgets to renew its router setup’s domain names

TP-Link device’s login domains are currently owned by a 3rd party Router and Wifi extender manufacturers assign a domain name to make its device’s access procedure a little more user-friendly. But...

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Nvidia 368.39 driver ‘Game Ready’ for DiRT Rally VR

Nvidia rolls out the new 368.69 ‘Game Ready’ driver for DiRT Rally VR. That’s pretty much it along with the addition of SLI profiles and fixes with certain applications. They are as follows: Game Ready...

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GTX 1060 for $249 with GTX 980-Class Performance

GeForce GTX 1060 uses Pascal-based GP106 Nvidia introduces a new 16nm FinFET GP106 based graphic card- the GeForce GTX 1060. Despite its modelling that suggests towards lower-mid end performance,...

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Radeon 16.7.2 WHQL update brings Vulkan optimisation for DOOM

AMD released its newer GPU WHQL drivers released which were in BETA since July 12th. The last WHQL update was on March with 16.3.2.  As per its release notes, there are three update highlights, the...

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Cryptocurrency Mining Malware affects flawed NAS units

Many Seagate Central network-attached storage devices are now targetted by a cryptocurrency mining malware called ‘Miner-C’, also called as ‘PhotoMiner’. This problem has started to appear since June...

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GTX 1050 Ti 3DMark benchmarks conveniently leaked

The news is out that Nvidia would roll out two graphic cards SKUs the near future. While this news is not official, the information leaks about the upcoming cards are practically standing with a...

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Intel Kaby lake CPU and Chipset Info conveniently leaked!!

Question remains- when will it be out?? Intel was supposed to reveal its Kaby Lake desktop CPU lineups by early 2017. But a convenient leak from a product change notification gave a good idea of the...

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Nvidia GTX 1080Ti specs conveniently leaked

Good enough to hold up on your GTX 1080 upgrade plans?  Nvidia GTX 1080Ti was spotted recently and it appears this may have been accidentally posted by Nvidia. Luckily for everybody, we can get a good...

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Core i5-7600K is just 10% Faster than i5-6600K

10% Performance most likely due to difference in clock speeds A Chinese website got its hands on one of the upcoming Kaby Lake SKU Core i5-7600K and tested it on an LGA 1151 motherboard with compatible...

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AMD and Nvidia outs Call of Duty optimized drivers

As you’d expected, both the discrete graphic card manufacturers have released its new driver for the Call of Duty Infinite Warfare and its Modern Warfare Remastered edition. Nvidia GeForce 375.70 Game...

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AMD Radeon outs the new 16.11.2 Hotfix

Yes, AMD released the Crimson Edition 16.11.1 yesterday!! Weird as it looks, AMD released the new 16.11.2 driver just a day after releasing the .1 version. The .2 version driver increases AMD Shader...

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Nvidia outs 375.95 to fix GTX 10 series memory issue

Factory Overclocked GTX 10 Series Pascal Cards suffered low memory clocks After series of complaints about Nvidia GeForce 375.86’s low memory clock issue with factory overclocked Pascal graphic cards,...

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