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A Look at NVIDIA Turf Effects in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
AMD’s successor to Ryzen CPUs could launch in early 2018
BenQ Zowie XL2540 Review
ECS LIVA Z Review
EVGA Z270 Classified K Motherboard Review
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review
Gigabyte teases GTX 1080 Ti Aorus
How to install Docker on Fedora 25
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (16nm Pascal) Review
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Graphics Card Review
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti On Linux: Best Linux Gaming Performance
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review: The Fastest Gaming Graphics Card Yet
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti CPU Showdown: i7 7700k Vs Ryzen R7 1800x Vs i7 5820k
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition VIdeo Card Review
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti Review
Nvidias GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card reviewed
Super Flower Leadex II 1000W 80 Plus Gold Review
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founder's Edition Review: Bigger Pascal for Better Performance
The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Review



A Look at NVIDIA Turf Effects in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands

On March 7, 2017 Ubisoft released the latest Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon game title, Ghost Recon Wildlands ($59.99 for PC). The game was developed by Ubisoft Paris and while it is the tenth installment in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series, it is the first to be set in an open world environment. The game is available on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But let's not kid anyone, you're here to read about the eye candy offered up by the glorious PC! That is one place where Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands does not skimp, the graphics in this game are tremendous. Ubisoft Paris had some tricks up their sleeves when it came to making this game look as well as it does, thanks to NVIDIA. This is the first game title to feature NVIDIA's Turf Effects.

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AMD’s successor to Ryzen CPUs could launch in early 2018

AMD has shared some interesting details on the next-gen Pinnacle Ridge processors.

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BenQ Zowie XL2540 Review

If gaming is all about speed, this 240Hz monitor should be right up your street. The numbers surrounding electronic sports, or eSports, are astounding. According to Twitch, the streaming video service, in December 2016, Dota 2, CS: Global Offensive and League of Legends racked up almost 40m hours of competition coverage air time alone. Think about that for a second. If that's not impressive enough, Valve's The International event had a prize pool of over $20m... with the winners taking home over $9m. eSports is wildly popular and potentially very lucrative.

So it's no surprise that hardware manufacturers are queuing up to launch eSports-specific peripherals and screens. Team sponsorship plays a big part in promoting their wares, because what's good enough for Wings Gaming or Digital Chaos - two of the best-known teams - is appealing to the casual gamer with an interest in the competitive side of gaming.

Zowie, now owned by BenQ, has built its reputation on providing no-nonsense hardware to the eSports community. The company's design philosophy of function through form is an antithesis of modern-day thinking that loads peripherals with RGB lighting, often-superfluous buttons and garish colours.

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ECS LIVA Z Review

The Celeron itself was mediocre at best from my experience. Two cores weren't enough to get a responsive feel while browsing the web. It did however load up Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 just fine and was snappy in the interface, but using applications or browsing the web showed the true lack of processing power which is a trending subject I keep returning to. This means the N3350 model has very little going for it besides a low entry price point if you are a person who isn't used to waiting. Web pages will eventually fully load and 1080p videos generally play smooth enough, but this may be a deal breaker unless 720p video and basic web browsing is all you plan on doing. Skipping ahead to the N3450 SoC which is also clocked at 1.1GHz, but includes 4 cores, may be the solution to snappier experience. It does have the same HD 500 graphics with 12 Execution Units, so video playback will not change. Simply having two extra cores will alleviate some overhead and should provide an overall better experience browsing the web. Finishing up, the LIVA Z powered by the Pentium N4200 SoC is your best bet for performance. While not cheap, it does have 4 Cores and the HD 505 with 18 Units. It also holds some architecture features found in the Kaby Lake CPU series, making it newer and more powerful than the Celerons running Skylakes HD 500 series. I have an i3 laptop nearly four years old now using the HD Graphics 4000 with 16 Units and it can play 4k video just fine. Therefore, I have no doubt that this Pentium variant will also.

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EVGA Z270 Classified K Motherboard Review

Back in January at CES 2017 EVGA showed us their Z270 motherboard lineup which they launched at the show. This included the Z270 Classified K, Z270 FTWK, and the Z270 Stinger. Today we have the chance to take a look at one of those boards, which is the Z270 Classified K. The Z270 Classified K currently sits as EVGA’s flagship Z270 motherboard and it is jam packed with features! This E-ATX motherboard features Creative Sound Core3D audio, Killer E2500 gaming networking, Thunderbolt 3, U.2 as well as dual M.2 32 Gb/s ports, a 13-phase power delivery system and more! Let’s get this board on the test bench and see what it can do!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review

In this article we'll look at the fastest graphics card your money can get you, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti based on Pascal architecture. Armed with 11GB of GDDR5X graphics memory and that all new GP102-350 GPU, we are certain we're gonna break some records today.

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Gigabyte teases GTX 1080 Ti Aorus

We are quite sure that the GTX 1080 Ti Aorus will end up to be similar to the earlier released Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1080 Aorus Xtreme, so we can expect high-end components like Titan X-grade chokes and capacitors, copper back plate cooling, same Windforce 3x 100mm cooler with RGB Fusion lighting and even possibly the Aorus VR Link, which provides two extra HDMI ports located at the front part of the card.

Read full article @ Fudzilla

How to install Docker on Fedora 25

If you long to run Docker, and Fedora is your platform of choice, it's incredibly easy to get this container solution up and running.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (16nm Pascal) Review

A Titan X in all but name? Nvidia lays unassailable claim in having the world's fastest consumer GPU. The Titan X (Pascal) crams in over 3,500 shaders and almost 11GFLOPS of compute performance that's backed by effective memory bandwidth close to 500GB/s. Such heady numbers are the platform from which it is claimed that Titan X offers true 4K60 gaming potential.

With AMD's last generation Fury X failing to cut the mustard in the premium PC gaming space, Nvidia charged a lofty £1,200 for this creme de la creme graphics card. Titan X was designed to be exclusive, so much so that it was sold as an Nvidia-built Founders Edition board directly from the company's website, with the usual horde of partners not getting a look in. Going down the system integrator route was the only other option, and many understandably charged more for a base unit than a reasonably priced car.

Read full article @ Hexus

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Graphics Card Review

The power race is about to kick up yet another gear this week, as Nvidia prepare to launch their new flagship consumer gaming graphics card; the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. The new high-end card features the GP102 GPU used in the Titan X, delivering a staggering 3584 CUDA cores, 224 Texture Units, a 352-bit memory controller, and a massive 11GB of GDDR5X memory. The boost clock is more than 85% higher than that of the GTX 980, and while it's a few years old, the 980 is hardly a slouch in gaming tasks. It's also clocked to deliver around 35% performance improvement over the GTX 1080, the biggest boost for any Ti series card to date! So we're expecting nothing short of exceptional performance from this graphics card.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Review

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is now the fastest graphics card available, and at $500 cheaper than the previous champ! Should you buy now, or wait for AMD's Vega?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11 GB

Today NVIDIA released the GTX 1080 Ti, which is the company's fastest graphics card ever. It conclusively beats the much more expensive GTX Titan X in our testing. While the NVIDIA reference cooler looks amazing, its cooling potential could be improved though as our review shows.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition Review

NVIDIA picked the GDC 2017 event last week to be the stage for its next GeForce GTX Ti card reveal. It took the Green Team almost a full year to add some "Ti" to the GTX 1080, but it was time very well spent by the looks of it. It's very hard not to spoil this kind of review, so let's get it off my chest: the $699 USD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is the new undisputed heavyweight champion of the VGA arena and should reign supreme for a while. Or at least until NVIDIA or AMD decides to grace us with its next gen video cards lineup that will hopefully blow everyone's mind away! For now however, if you get your hands on a GTX 1080 Ti, you will be gaming with the best of them, even at 4k!

Read full article @ Neoseeker

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti On Linux: Best Linux Gaming Performance

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is NVIDIA's newest, most powerful graphics card for gamers not only on Windows but also under Linux. I only received the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti this morning so here are my initial Linux performance figures for this new high-end Pascal graphics card compared to other NVIDIA and AMD Radeon graphics cards. Linux VR tests, CUDA/OpenCL compute benchmarks, and additional GeForce GTX 1080 Ti results will be published in the days ahead when having more time to spend with this graphics card.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review

Nvidia's Pascal architecture marked a new milestone for PC graphics last year, with graphics chips that were considerably faster and more efficient, could comfortably run 4K games, and more. Almost a year later, we are getting Titan levels of performance for less.

Read full article @ TechSpot

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review: The Fastest Gaming Graphics Card Yet

NVIDIA is officially launching its most powerful gaming graphics card today, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. It was announced last week at the Game Developers Conference and pre-orders began shortly thereafter. But the cards will begin shipping tomorrow, from on-line retailers, system builders, and add-in-board partners.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti’s specifications may elicit some quizzical stares in light of previous-gen offerings, with its odd 11GB of GDDR5X RAM and 352-bit memory interface, but rest assured this card is an absolute beast...

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Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti CPU Showdown: i7 7700k Vs Ryzen R7 1800x Vs i7 5820k

The day of Ryzen has finally come and while I’m sure many of you have been eagerly awaiting this, we’ve been even more excited to be some of the first people in the world to get our hands-on the new hardware and see what it can really do. There have been many leaks and lots of speculation hitting the market, and we’ve seen some cherry picked benchmarks from AMD and other sources floating around, but now it’s time to put our best foot forward and see what all the fuss is really about!

We kick things off today with the flagship Ryzen chip; the Ryzen 7 1800X, which offers up 8 cores, 16 threads, and an incredible launch price of just $499, which comes in at less than half the price of a similar specification Intel Core i7-6900K. While we want to see AMD set some top scores today, even if it’s a close call compared to the performance of the Intel hardware, at half the price, we would still chalk that up as a huge win, both for AMD and consumers.

All Ryzen CPUs come with an unlocked multiplier, that feature is enabled by the motherboard rather than the chip itself. Of course, we’ll be putting the 1800X we have in one of the latest X370 motherboards, so we’ll be pushing this chip to its limits to see what it can really do. The chip can overclock itself using Extended Frequency Range (XFR) and can push the speeds up to a tasty 4.1GHz assuming that the CPU has thermal headroom, so a powerful cooler is recommended to get the most out of it, but that’s true of overclocking on any CPU or platform.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review

Nvidia’s Titan X Pascal has been dominating at the top of GPU performance charts for a little over seven months, with the gap to the GPU maker’s second-in-line GTX 1080 being a sizeable one. With AMD’s high-end competitors still not available for public adoption, the enthusiast market is ready for a GTX 1080 Ti GPU to offer Titan X-like performance at a price point closer to that of a high-end offering, rather than an ultra-high-end (borderline silly-money) one.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition

After almost a year of different rumors, Nvidia announced the GTX 1080 Ti last week along with a few other announcements at GDC. Recently GTX 1080 owners were most likely disappointed to hear about the price drops for the GTX 1080 and the new faster 1080’s as well. Not to mention the new GTX 1080 Ti is promised to be 35% faster than the GTX 1080. That in itself is really exciting because that is a big performance jump but given all of the launches this year, 2017 is looking like an exciting year for gaming and enthusiasts hardware. Well, today the NDA drops and I can finally dive into the performance of the new video card. Nvidia sent over the GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition, but I hope to see what the aftermarket cards can do as well here soon.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition VIdeo Card Review

It has been almost a year since NVIDIA launched their 1000 series graphics cards and that launch sparked a worldwide upgrade campaign that not only made the NVIDIA stock skyrocket but also created a worldwide shortage of GPUs. The huge demand was sparked by the new Pascal architecture which is not only the fastest GPU on the market but also the most power efficient.

In this review I’ll be looking at the latest release in the NVIDIA Pascal lineup the GTX 1080 Ti. Everyone knew this card was coming and was first predicted shortly after the launch of the Titan X Pascal. Titan X was the first card to use the entire Pascal core but was designed for professional applications and gamers with really deep pockets. The GTX 1080 Ti is a more mainstream version with plenty of power at only a fraction of the cost.

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NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti Review

Once again, the launch encompasses a Founder's Edition reference design, complete with familiar cooling solution and angular aluminium shroud; partner models are expected in the coming weeks. Aside from raw performance highlights include a new GDDR5X memory speed that will be filtered down to other Pascal SKUs, and a larger memory buffer than has been available in the performance segment thus far; but make no mistake - raw performance is definitely the GTX 1080 Ti's main selling point.

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Nvidias GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card reviewed

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card brings the power of the Titan X Pascal to mere mortals. We go Inside the Second to see just how high a bar it sets for consumer graphics-card performance.

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Super Flower Leadex II 1000W 80 Plus Gold Review

We have reviewed a handful of high end Super Flower power supplies in recent years, even focusing (https://www.google.com/search?q=eVGA+PSU+review+kitguru&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) on several EVGA units featuring Super Flower as an OEM partner. All of the units have scored extremely well in our tests, combining stellar technical proficiency, good build quality with competitive pricing. Today we look at their latest Leadex II 1000W unit, which is fully modular and 80 Plus Gold Certified.

Read full article @ KitGuru

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founder's Edition Review: Bigger Pascal for Better Performance

Unveiled last week at GDC and launching tomorrow is the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Based on NVIDIA’s GP102 GPU – aka Bigger Pascal – the job of GTX 1080 Ti is to serve as a mid-cycle refresh of the GeForce 10 series. Like the GTX 980 Ti and GTX 780 Ti before it, that means taking advantage of improved manufacturing yields and reduced costs to push out a bigger, more powerful GPU to drive this year’s flagship video card. And, for NVIDIA and their well-executed dominance of the high-end video card market, it’s a chance to run up the score even more.

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The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Review

The GTX 1080 Ti has finally arrived! NVIDIA claims its performance is faster than the TITAN X but will our benchmarks confirm that? In a word, YES!

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