Failing Forward

Coming Up Short – Perfecting the Fine Art of Failing Forward Driving around Silicon Valley, we pass buildings and catch ourselves naming companies and people who had visions of changing the industry but ultimately failed. But they didn’t really fail. …

The RX 480 8GB Review – Polaris Arrives with Potential – 26 Games Benchmarked

The RX 480 has arrived for evaluation as an 8GB card. This is not the reference 4GB RX 480 with slightly slower vRAM that will sell for $199, but a more expensive $239 reference 8GB version. AMD has released its …

The XFX 390 Double Dissipation XXX OC vs. the Reference 290X

This short evaluation will focus on the performance of the 8GB XFX R9 390 Double Dissipation XXX OC Video Card versus the reference 4GB VisionTekR9 290X. It is similar to our September 2015 Evaluation of the MSI Gaming R9 390X …

Big Content

Studios, Nets Work to Leverage Viewers’ Web Involvement Have you noticed that the noise level about who watches what, when, where and on what is becoming intense? If the news comes from a mobile service/device company, they swear we’re ditching …

The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW vs. the Founder’s Edition & vs. the Fury X

Five weeks ago, Nvidia released its Pascal flagship, the GTX 1080 reference Founders Edition video card which decisively took the performance crown from Nvidia’s TITAN X and from the GTX 980 Ti as well as easily beating AMD’s flagship, the …

The Zus Smart Car Finder & Dual USB Car Charger Review

We spend hours in our cars using smart devices that often guide, entertain, and connect us. The Zus Smart Car Finder & Dual USB Car Charger by Nonda is a crowd-funded project designed to change the way we stay connected. …

Crimson SW 16.6.1 brings performance increases for Fury X

Today’s Crimson Software 16.6.1 beta hotfix driver performance analysis charts the performance of 26 games focusing on the Fury X and the 290X compared with Crimson 16.5.3 hotfix drivers which we last tested for our recent SLI vs. CrossFire comparison. …

Business Goes Up, Down and Around

New Ride – Today’s Business Goes Up, Down and Around at Thrilling Speeds Business is recovering from what we often refer to as the Great Recession of 2007-9. To accomplish complete recovery and growth, management has to win and retain …

GeForce 368.39 brings more performance to the GTX 1080

Today’s GeForce 368.39 driver performance analysis charts the performance of 26 games focusing on the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070 compared with their launch drivers. We also chart the performance changes of the GTX 980 Ti from the last …

Nvidia’s E3 Contest with $100K in Prizes

We love contests! And Nvidia is kicking off a contest leading into E3 next week. This one is easy because all that you have to do to enter is to share why you are excited to see the games of …

Healthy Skepticism is Your Best Protection

Security, Privacy – Knowing the Risks and Having a Healthy Skepticism is Your Best Protection The biggest problems of today’s technology privacy, security – communications, understanding. Or to say it a little differently… privacy and security are an illusion in …

EVGA’s New Full-Tower DG-8 Gaming Cases

Introducing the EVGA DG-8 line of full-tower cases. These cases are built for the enthusiast with an optimized airflow path that gives you dedicated cooling fans for your graphics cards, a K-Boost button that automatically boosts fan speed and CPU/GPU, …