Changing the Way Businesses and Consumers Connect

Maybe Too Big Today, people have a few needs – just-in-time-information, constant feedback, things that do things for us and privacy. That’s tough to achieve in our always-on world. O.K., it’s impossible. We have our IoT (Internet of Things) and …

The GTX 950 arrives as the ASUS STRIX DirectCU II OC – the full review

The GTX 950 arrived this morning at $159 to take direct aim at AMD’s $149 R9 370. Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture arrived in mid-September, 2014 and the GTX 970/980 brought some amazing performance and energy-saving improvements at 28nm without moving to …

ASUS STRIX GTX 950 DirectCU II OC Performance results with 29 games

We received an ASUS STRIX GTX 950 DirectCU II OC Edition a week ago under NDA and are still writing this review. It will be published in its entirety within the next few hours. This is an important launch for …

Innovation

No Status Quo – Innovation Comes in Large, Small Increments Lots of really smart people have made predictions about the future and were wrong: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” — Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Patent Office, …

Catalyst 15.7.1 Performance Analysis Featuring 290X & 290X CrossFire

As part of a regular feature for BabelTechReviews, this driver analysis will look at the performance of 32 PC games using the latest Catalyst 15.7.1 drivers which were released the day before Windows 10 was launched on July 29. We …

Hacking – The Job that Just Keeps on Giving

Lovin Code The hacking “industry” has come a long way since 1972 when Woz and Jobs would make blue boxes similar to Draper’s “Cap’n Crunch” boxes and would sell them to folks who wanted to make free phone calls anywhere …

TV Anywhere

OTT, 4K Content Driving Infrastructure, Viewing Changes Netflix’ Reed Hastings has warped reality … TV isn’t dead. It’s in the middle of a gut-wrenching change to keep pace with consumer expectations and the dizzying array of options that are emerging …

HyperX Releases FURY DDR4 Kits for Skylake

HyperX®, a division of Kingston® Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the addition of 8GB and 16GB dual-channel kits of two to the HyperX FURY DDR4 family. The new kits are available in low-latency …

GeForce WHQL 353.62 Performance Analysis

As regularly featured by BabelTechReviews, this evaluation charts the performance of 32 games using the latest GeForce WHQL 353.62 driver that was released the day before Windows 10 was launched on July 29, versus the last Geforce WHQL 353.30 driver …

It’s All About the Consumer

It’s All About the Consumer, Not Social Domains Businesses are running so fast today trying to catch the next great thing, they’ve lost sight of the reason they’re in business … the customer. They’re setting up departments to handle the …

Hackers are getting better

Blacker Blackhats: Hackers Are Getting Better, the Rest of Us Are Getting Worse “Don’t shift your weight, look always at your mark but don’t stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don’t make him laugh. He’s got to …

Overclocking Fury X – Part 2

We purchased a Sapphire Fury X earlier this month from etail, and reviewed it against the reference GTX 980 Ti and also versus the EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC at stock and overclocked settings, using 32 games. Besides being generally …