Using Prime95 to place full load on all cores/threads we measured the power consumption of each system. Unsurprisingly, the Celeron G1820 consumed the least amount of power at just 77 watts, followed by the Pentium G3220 with 84 watts and then the Core i3-4350 at 89 watts. Between the Core i3-4350 and i5-4690K we find the i5-2500K and i5-760, while the Core i7-870 consumes roughly the same amount of power as the i5-4690K....
The developer also mentions the inclusion of Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) – an enhancement of the parallax mapping technique, which in turn is an enhancement of Bump Mapping, something I first recall seeing heavily used in Doom 3 where it brought textures to life. POM gives flat textures 3D definition by using a displacement map to make the textures change relative to perspective. POM is typically used on flat ground surfaces like concrete roads since the silhouette doesn’t change....
On Friday, Tobii announced a deal to incorporate its eye-tracking technology in PlayStation VR2. The company already has experience bringing the functionality to headsets, but the PlayStation 5 accessory presents the first opportunity to introduce it to a mainstream audience. Modern VR headsets already use motion sensing to track a user’s head and limbs — key to making them feel grounded and immersed in virtual environments. It also gives users additional input mechanisms....
Using the high quality settings at 1080p the game looks impressive, which is probably why we find graphics cards such as the GTX 780 and R9 280X falling short of a 60fps average. The more affordable current gen cards, such as the R9 380 and GTX 960, were able to deliver playable performance, albeit sub-60fps performance. The most affordable GPUs to break the 60fps barrier were the GTX 970 and R9 390, both of which cost around $300....
Ironically, it’s often these large releases that benefit the most from the improved load times of a speedy drive, which is likely to be filled faster than you’d expect if it’s on the smaller side of SSDs – e.g. a 250GB model would be stuffed with four GTA V-sized titles. Fortunately, Steam has made it easier to move games from one location to another, no longer requiring you to open a Windows command prompt or download third-party tools, though we’ll outline those methods, too, given that they still work....
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) released its preliminary report on its Q1 2022 earnings this week. The world’s largest semiconductor foundry said it recorded sales of NT$146.9 billion (around $5.2 billion) in February. This is the company’s highest recorded revenue figure for the month of February, and while it’s down 15 percent month-on-month when compared to January, it represents a 38 percent increase when compared to the same period last year....
Last month, Pixel 7 users began reporting strange fractures in the glass covering the phone’s rear camera lenses. Reddit, Twitter, and Google’s support forums are riddled with complaints and pictures of Pixels with their rear coverings appearing as if shot with a small projectile. Most users are baffled about the breakage since they claim they have never dropped or banged their phones. Some say the glass just shattered while resting in their pocket....
Good news came down the pipe this week as Valve said it recently sent out the first batch of order e-mails to Q2 reservation holders. Better yet, Valve is ramping up Steam Deck shipments and will be sending more order availability e-mails each week – up to two waves per week at times. No additional specifics were provided. A quick check of the Steam Deck product page indicates new order expected availability has slipped to October 2022 or later....
During the 80’s and 90’s, Nintendo experimented with many different ways to make the home console better, add to the user experience, and keep consoles fresh and fun. We can find plenty of examples in the add-ons for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) like the Power Pad, Power Glove, and Zapper – all enabling new ways to play games. By mid-90’s the Super Nintendo was becoming obsolete and newer consoles were still a year away from release....
Interestingly, in some demographics there is currently a push to remove individual PCs and go back to using a variation of thin clients powered by a central server. The difference between the original method and the modern one is that the modern one works by providing the user with a virtual desktop that is intended to be nearly indistinguishable from a physical desktop. So even though the user just has a little thin client, it appears to them like they have the full power of a local PC....
Most people could learn the basics of HTML coding within a few hours, and starting around 1994, others could use WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) apps like Adobe PageMill. At one point, even web browsers came bundled with basic website creation tools. But then the problem was hosting your site online. Servers cost money (especially back then) and not everyone wanted to pay for that service, or could pay for it, if they were teenagers or college students....
At any other period in time, such drastic measures would have certainly crushed the economy in all of its facets but fortunately, technology is on our side. Thanks to computers and the Internet, millions of people can effectively do their job remotely from home while complying with social distancing measures. Naturally, this cannot be said of every single job, but many different industries would be facing more dire consequences if not for the technology tools at our disposal....
If you’re in the market for a camera, you know there are many options with a wide range of prices. The Wyze Cam Pan is a powerful security camera with an incredibly low price. This camera has full pan, tilt, and zoom (PTZ) capabilities, a free mobile app for monitoring, automatic motion tracking and alerts, free cloud backup, two-way voice communication, and an SD card slot for extended recording space....
128 GB storage - Snapdragon 652 - 4 GB RAM - $350 64 GB storage - Snapdragon 652 - 3 GB RAM - $260 32 GB storage - Snapdragon 650 - 3GB RAM - $240 - Reviewed 16 GB storage - Snapdragon 650 - 2GB RAM - $190 Clearly the best value model here is the 64GB variant, which features an upgrade on the 32GB unit in both storage and SoC for just $10....
During the recent Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2022 conference in Aspen, Colorado, Google SVP Prabhakar Raghavan said they keep learning that new Internet users don’t have the same expectations and mindset that we’ve become accustomed to. “The queries they ask are completely different,” the executive added. Raghavan noted that in Google studies, they are seeing roughly 40 percent of young people turning to TikTok or Instagram when searching for a place to have lunch....
Whether that’s due to unique and innovative gameplay mechanics, compelling stories, or even a combination of both, these games represent the absolute best of what the PC gaming industry has to offer. While we couldn’t possibly cover every single one of these must-have games in a single article, and the list itself is subjective by nature, we’ve done our best to narrow things down to the classics you don’t want to miss....
For testing we used the Intel Core i3 540 processor as this is the most likely candidate to be paired with an Intel H55 motherboard. Since Turbo Boost is not available on Core i3 chips the motherboards were not tested using this technology. That said, this is a feature we often disable anyway when benchmarking as it can skew the results. Interestingly, when loading the default BIOS settings, all of the H55 motherboards with the exception of the Asrock H55M Pro used a 133MHz FSB with the 23x clock multiplier for a clock speed of 3059MHz....
Unreal Tournament 3 is a notoriously bandwidth sensitive game. That said, we do not see a huge difference in performance between the various P55 motherboards at 1024x768. Upping the resolution to 1920x1200 the average frame rate locked in a 183fps on almost every P55 motherboard. The Batman Arkham Asylum results are similar to those of Unreal Tournament 3 with just 9fps separating the fastest motherboard from the slowest at 1024x768....
But Windows provides several other ways to screenshot, many of which are better options than simply mashing the print screen button, depending on your requirements. So below we’ve listed seven alternate methods of screenshotting that may come in handy in day to day life. Alt + Print Screen This simple keyboard combination is one that we use every day. By simultaneously hitting Alt and Print Screen, instead of capturing your entire screen, Windows 10 will only capture the active window....
At the heart of every one of these devices is some form of CPU, responsible for executing program instructions as well as coordinating all the other parts that make the computer tick. For an in-depth explainer on what goes into CPU design and how a processor works internally, check out this amazing series here on TechSpot. For this article, however, the focus is on a single aspect of CPU design: the multi-core architecture and how it’s driving performance of modern CPUs....
