https://www.techspot.comLongform articles and reviewshttps://www.techspot.com/images/techspot-rss-logo-small2.pnghttps://www.techspot.comen-usCopyright 2019 TechSpot, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.https://www.techspot.com/article/1618-ryzen-2600x-vs-2600/https://www.techspot.com/article/1618-ryzen-2600x-vs-2600/If you've got some $200 to spend on a new CPU and you want something that can handle any and all tasks you throw at it with maximum efficiency, the Ryzen 5 2600 series is a must-have. But should you buy the Ryzen 5 2600X or the non-X 2600?



]]>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 02:02:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/bestof/cpu/https://www.techspot.com/bestof/cpu/All in all, while Intel does offer some interesting choices at certain price points, AMD remains king across our recommendations. After all the extensive testing you are familiar with, we've come up with this concise guide on the best CPU choices available right now.



]]>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 01:30:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/article/1814-sotr-ray-tracing/https://www.techspot.com/article/1814-sotr-ray-tracing/Critically-acclaimed game Shadow of the Tomb Raider has been updated to receive support for both DirectX ray tracing shadows and Nvidia's DLSS upscaling technology. It's been seven months since ray tracing was shown off in this title and a good six months since the game was released, but hey, the feature was added in eventually and it's a very good game, we must add.



]]>Sat, 23 Mar 2019 07:06:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1813-geforce-gtx-1660-mega-benchmark/https://www.techspot.com/review/1813-geforce-gtx-1660-mega-benchmark/This is our second look at the new GeForce GTX 1660. Not to be confused with the 1660 Ti that was released a month earlier, both GPUs offer great value at mid-range prices of $220 for the GTX 1660 and $280 for the Ti version.



]]>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 05:54:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1812-geforce-rtx-2080-max-q-laptop/https://www.techspot.com/review/1812-geforce-rtx-2080-max-q-laptop/Following our coverage into Nvidia's laptop RTX GPUs, today we're reviewing the top-end RTX 2080 Max-Q. As an "RTX 2080" Turing part, this GPU comes with 2944 CUDA cores, 368 Tensor cores and 46 ray tracing cores. But that's where the similarities between the RTX 2080 Max-Q and the desktop RTX 2080 end.



]]>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 06:05:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/article/788-world-wide-web-25-year-timeline/https://www.techspot.com/article/788-world-wide-web-25-year-timeline/The Web is turning 30 years old this month and clearly we've come a long way since Tim-Berners Lee wrote his paper proposing an information management system to facilitate information-sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world. Nowadays it's hard to imagine what life would be like without the web.



]]>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 01:06:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1811-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060/https://www.techspot.com/review/1811-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060/The latest member of the Turing GTX family is making its debut in the form of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660. An anticipated release after the launch of the GTX 1660 Ti, which proved to be a great buy, now the vanilla GTX 1660 has been set at $220 and it looks to provide great value for your money.



]]>Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:00:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/article/1809-amd-intel-radeon-geforce-config-test/https://www.techspot.com/article/1809-amd-intel-radeon-geforce-config-test/Today we're looking at a few different hardware configurations to see if certain matchups work better than others. We're testing some popular games using the Ryzen 7 2700X and Core i7-8700K processors, pairing each with the Radeon VII, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and RTX 2080, as all three GPUs provide a similar level of performance.



]]>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 06:02:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/article/1810-lg-freesync-and-nvidia-geforce/https://www.techspot.com/article/1810-lg-freesync-and-nvidia-geforce/Earlier this year we first put Nvidia's support for FreeSync monitors to the test, grabbed every FreeSync monitor we had in the office, and verified that in all cases adaptive sync worked as expected. LG recently sent us 5 of their latest FreeSync monitors, which we've used to revisit Nvidia's FreeSync support.



]]>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:03:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1808-geforce-gtx-1660-ti-vs-rtx-2060-vs-gtx-980-ti/https://www.techspot.com/review/1808-geforce-gtx-1660-ti-vs-rtx-2060-vs-gtx-980-ti/Today we're revisiting the GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see how it stacks up to the newly released RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Ti, particularly in more recent titles such as Apex Legends, Resident Evil 2 and Far Cry New Dawn. The GTX 980 Ti is now four years old, so you'd expect new GPUs around half the price to deliver a similar level of performance... or do they?



]]>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 06:04:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/bestof/graphics-cards/https://www.techspot.com/bestof/graphics-cards/If you're looking to buy a new graphics card today, don't mind all the testing, marginal fps gains, power consumption figures, or overclocking potential. TechSpot's Best Graphics Cards is written to get a simple question answered: Given a certain budget, which is the graphics card you should buy?



]]>Sat, 09 Mar 2019 02:02:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1807-asus-rog-strix-scar2-rtx-laptop/https://www.techspot.com/review/1807-asus-rog-strix-scar2-rtx-laptop/The Asus ROG Strix Scar II GL504GV is a fine laptop with a good design, a good trackpad and keyboard, and generous I/O. It's not overly portable, it's not overly chunky. It's got a pretty good display, upgradeability options, and the internal hardware and performance is good, too.



]]>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 05:56:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1806-apex-legends/https://www.techspot.com/review/1806-apex-legends/Apex Legends is a tasting menu of battle royale moments, rather than the potato chip jump-die-restart of my Fortnite experiences. There are countless moments to surprise or disappoint yourself. The hero aspect of the game is a change for battle royales, but other than that, the basics are standard for the genre.



]]>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:20:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1804-geforce-rtx-2060-laptop/https://www.techspot.com/review/1804-geforce-rtx-2060-laptop/Considering the popularity and widespread use of the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming laptops, the new RTX 2060 is set to be one of the key offerings in Nvidia's latest lineup.



]]>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 06:02:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/article/1802-amd-ryzen-mobile-drivers/https://www.techspot.com/article/1802-amd-ryzen-mobile-drivers/Today we're looking at the very first set of official Ryzen Mobile GPU drivers to come from AMD. Owners of Ryzen Mobile laptops have been waiting for this day for months now, so the fact these drivers are finally out is great news for the small but growing community of Ryzen laptop early adopters.



]]>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 06:02:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/guides/1591-microsd-buying-guide/https://www.techspot.com/guides/1591-microsd-buying-guide/If it's been a while since you've bought portable flash memory, you might be surprised by the broad availability and affordability of high speed, high capacity microSD cards. Commonly used to expand the storage in devices ranging from smartphones to drones, microSD cards are becoming more frequently purchased than any other SD form factors, although full sized cards remain popular among digital camera owners.



]]>Mon, 04 Mar 2019 01:27:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/article/1803-are-quad-cores-dead/https://www.techspot.com/article/1803-are-quad-cores-dead/Today we're discussing quad-core processors, namely how relevant they are in 2019. The last time we covered this specific topic was back in 2017, so this article means to explore if these budget quad-cores are worth buying for gamers, or are they dead on arrival.



]]>Sun, 03 Mar 2019 06:04:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/article/1801-nvidia-dlss-metro-exodus/https://www.techspot.com/article/1801-nvidia-dlss-metro-exodus/It's time for our final look into Metro Exodus, exploring the game's DLSS implementation which is exclusive to GeForce RTX graphics cards. We've been covering both ray tracing and DLSS closely, testing where it makes sense and following up as patches are released. As one of the key features on Nvidia's flagship RTX graphics card, the discussion is not only relevant but necessary.



]]>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 05:58:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1800-anthem/https://www.techspot.com/review/1800-anthem/Every once in a while, a game comes along that that does something surprising, different, memorable. Anthem is not one of those games. Anthem's core idea of "jetpacks plus guns" works excellently on its own, but nothing else in the game quite lives up to it.



]]>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:12:00 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1799-geforce-gtx-1660-mega-benchmark/https://www.techspot.com/review/1799-geforce-gtx-1660-mega-benchmark/We're following up to our GeForce GTX 1660 Ti review with an even more ample 33 game benchmark test. The day-one review looked at more recent games such as Resident Evil 2, Metro Exodus, Apex Legends, and many others. Now we're keen to see how the 1660 Ti stacks up in a much wider range of games.



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