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Shadow of Mordor on AMD Ryzen CPU suffers from a performance hit due to non-optimal thread scheduling

By ghem, 27 May 2017

While doing some comparative benchmarks between my RX 470 and GTX 1060 on a Ryzen 1700 CPU and an i7-2700k CPU, I encountered odd behaviour with Shadow of Mordor.

AMD Ryzen 9 'Threadripper' announced with up to 16 cores

By Liam Dawe, 17 May 2017

Well then, AMD are truly back in the game now aren't they! They have announced the AMD Ryzen 9 'Threadripper' which will come with up to 16 cores.

AMD
Hardware

Steam Controller & Steam Link on sale for a few days, the Link is especially cheap

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2017

Valve have put up the Steam Controller and Steam Link for sale for the next few days and the Steam Link has a pretty big saving.

The 'Razer DeathAdder Chroma' is quite possibly the nicest mouse I've ever owned

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2017

After my wireless mouse finally stopped charging anything and the temporary £5 replacement mouse was just terrible, I decided to take a look at the Razer DeathAdder Chroma.

The next version of SDL will have Steam Controller support out of the box

By Liam Dawe, 28 Apr 2017

If there's one thing that does frustrate me about the Steam Controller, it's that games often need SC Controller to be run if outside of Steam. If the game uses SDL, in future this may not be needed.

Hardware

NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster

By Liam Dawe, 6 Apr 2017

Based on their Pascal architecture, NVIDIA has announced their top-end GPU the 'TITAN Xp' and it's an absolute monster of a card.

The Entroware Kratos-3000 is another power-house laptop Linux users might be interested in

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2017

Entroware have updated their Linux laptop line-up again with the Kratos-3000 and it's a little beast for sure.

Hardware

AMD have announced Ryzen 5 will launch in April

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2017

AMD initially launched Ryzen 7 their enthusiast higher performing chips, but now they're gearing up for the lower end with Ryzen 5 which will launch on April 11th.

AMD
Hardware

Razer looking to improve Linux support on their 'Blade' series of laptops

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2017

It seems Razer have been getting a lot of requests for Linux support on their 'Razer Blade' laptop line, so they are looking for feedback.

Hardware

NVIDIA have announced the 1080 Ti and it's a beast

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

NVIDIA have let a few details out on the 1080 Ti and it sounds like an absolute power-house of a GPU.

Entroware have unleashed the 'Aether' laptop for Linux enthusiasts featuring Intel's 7th generation CPUs

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2017

Entroware, the UK-based Linux hardware vendor have released a new laptop named 'Aether' and it's quite the little beast.

Hardware

AMD officially announce Ryzen 7 CPUs for launch on March 2nd

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2017

AMD will be officially releasing their Ryzen 7 CPUs on March 2nd, so there's not long to go! They can be pre-ordered right now too if you're that excited about it.

System76 have refreshed their most powerful Linux laptops now with 7th Gen Intel CPUs

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2017

System76, the Linux hardware vendor sent out a press release announcing a refresh of their most powerful laptops, which now boast 7th Gen Intel CPUs.

Hardware

Intel Haswell now supports OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa-git on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2017

In another push towards Mesa finishing OpenGL for all vendors where possible, Intel Haswell chips now have support for OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa on Linux.

Lars Doucet, a game developer, is asking Valve to open source the Steam Controller software

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Lars Doucet, developer of Defender's Quest has written up a reddit post requesting Valve to open source the Steam Controller software.

System76 have been working with NVIDIA on Linux driver fixes, a chat with the System76 community manager

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

System76, the Linux hardware supplier for laptops, desktops and more has been working with NVIDIA on fixing up their drivers.

Stefan Achatz, the developer who worked on Linux support for Roccat devices answers why he's stopping

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2016

Stefan Achatz, the developer who had been working on supporting Roccat devices on Linux has stated why he's stopping.

Hardware

AMD 'Ryzen' is the official name of the Zen processors, more details released today

By Liam Dawe, 13 Dec 2016

AMD have released more information about Zen, but the official name is now AMD 'Ryzen' (pronounced as Rye-zen). Their livestream event just finished, so here's a quick overview for you.