Recent content by Star Pilgrim

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    News Microsoft to Bring DirectStorage API to Windows in 2021: Speeding Up Gaming With NVMe SSDs

    Sadly Optane is still the only viable option for that. And it will continue to be, just because how SSD memory works. Some are made for sequential reads,.. some are meant for something grater. At a premium of course.
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    News Microsoft to Bring DirectStorage API to Windows in 2021: Speeding Up Gaming With NVMe SSDs

    It is not a "let us reuse some old tech and make it better" this time around. No. It is lets take new tech and make it superb. So yeah, you need to pimp up your PC rig. We all do.
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    News Microsoft to Bring DirectStorage API to Windows in 2021: Speeding Up Gaming With NVMe SSDs

    And... this is bad somehow to you? I don't get it. It is an evolution of a tech, which came to fruition. M$ deserves praise this time around.
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    News Intel Brings Its Own Benchmark to Refute AMD's '2X' EPYC Claim

    BUT !!!! When Intel applies all the security fixes needed for their shitty CPUs, regardless of hyper-threading, AMD Rome still beats it a lot. Those multi million dollar contracts it got is not simply based on some online journalists benchmarks. They do professional considerations in-house to...
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    AMD Vega Frontier Edition Now Available For Pre-Order With $999 Price Tag

    Since this is not a gaming variant, NO ONE should espect it to approach 1080 Ti. Same as no one should pit Nvidia Quadro 6000 against 1080 Ti, or even 1080 for that matter. That gaming mode this FE has, is only a middle road so people can "somewhat" use it in gaming also. Wait for Vega RX+ if...
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    AMD Vega Frontier Edition Now Available For Pre-Order With $999 Price Tag

    Since this is not a gaming variant, NO ONE should expect it to approach 1080 Ti.
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    Samsung Testing Samsung Pay In Korea

    Finally!!!! I need it in Europe already. My S6 Edge is looking to do some payments.
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    Imagination Creates PowerVR GR6500 Low-Power Real-Time Ray Tracing GPU

    If nVidia bought this and incorporated into its GameWorks, it would be the final nail in the AMD coffin. If AMD bought this, it would once again be king, as it would make shadows look realistic with no CPU/GPU impact.