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4K Video Editing PC - November 2018
Battlefield V Ray Tracing Performance on GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Deepcool CASTLE 240RGB AIO Liquid CPU Cooler Review
HyperX Gaming microSD 128GB Review
The Spectre/Meltdown Performance Impact On Linux 4.20, Decimating Benchmarks With New STIBP Overhead



4K Video Editing PC - November 2018

A few years ago, your PC just couldn't be fast enough for digital video processing. By now every average PC is able to process Standard Definition (PAL 720x576) as well as HD Ready, but technology doesn't stand still. By now just about every smartphone can record in Full HD and the new frontier is Ultra HD, also known as 4K. This resolution and the 'accompanying' codec HEVC / H.265 require seriously powerful hardware.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Battlefield V Ray Tracing Performance on GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

When the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards were announced in August 2018 they promised to bring real-time ray tracing to PC games. After some unfortunate delays along the way we finally have the hardware and software to play Battlefield V with DICE DirectX Raytracing (DXR) reflections technology enabled. Read on to see how it performs on the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Deepcool CASTLE 240RGB AIO Liquid CPU Cooler Review

Featuring impressive looks thanks to both its RGB fans and pump and performance levels surpassing most AIO Liquid CPU Coolers released by Deepcool to date the brand new CASTLE 240RGB has nothing to fear from the competition.

Read full article @ NikKTech

HyperX Gaming microSD 128GB Review

We typically think of RAM or its line of headsets when thinking of the HyperX brand but more recently Kingston has taken its gaming brand to new levels introducing SSDs, Portable SSDs, and MicroSD cards. Today, we have their 128GB microSD in-house.

Read full article @ TweakTown

The Spectre/Meltdown Performance Impact On Linux 4.20, Decimating Benchmarks With New STIBP Overhead

As outlined yesterday, significant slowdowns with the Linux 4.20 kernel turned out to be due to the addition of the kernel-side bits for STIBP (Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors) for cross-HyperThread Spectre Variant Two mitigation. This has incurred significant performance penalties with the STIBP support in its current state with Linux 4.20 Git and is enabled by default at least for Intel systems with up-to-date microcode. Here are some follow-up benchmarks looking at the performance hit with the Linux 4.20 development kernel as well as the overall Spectre and Meltdown mitigation impact on this latest version of the Linux kernel.

Read full article @ Phoronix