Ad Blockers Jeopardize Free Content on the Internet
Ads Count I like ads – that is, good ads. I really believe that good ads have the ability to persuade you to buy something. Put an hour of the top 100 video ads on TV … I’m there! I …
BTR’s July Contest is open to all community members
BTR would like to reward our community members who contribute so much to our site. We are continuing our series of contests by offering one new AAA PC title as July’s Grand Prize. For our second BTR contest, we are …
The GTX 1060/6GB will be available on July 19 for $249
The AMD Polaris RX 480 arrived a week ago as a 4GB or 8GB 150W card on 14nm FinFET that more or less matched the GTX 970 OC/R9 390 performance for $199 or $239, depending on its vRAM capacity. We …
Back to Basics – Good Writing
Getting the Message Out … Everything Changes But Clarity, Continuity With the dramatic growth of social media, instant news and the 140 plus-character message, some folks like to say citizen journalism has paved the way for the demise of professional …
Devil’s Canyon i7-4790K vs. Skylake i7-6700K using the RX 480
BTR has changed our review platform from Devil’s Canyon i7-4790K to Skylake i7-6700K and we have had a chance to test the brand new RX 480 on both platforms. This is a very short evaluation as we will also be …
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 …
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. …