Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Akitio Node Lite w/ Intel Optane SSD Review
AMD GPU Generational Performance Part 2
ASUS GeForce RTX 2080 STRIX OC 8 GB Review
Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti RoG Strix Review
ASUS ROG Strix B450-I Gaming Motherboard Review
Fedora be pretty - The ultimate customization guide
Firewall Zero Hour Review
Fnatic STREAK Mechanical Keyboard Review
GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Review
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Review
Initial NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Linux Benchmarks
iStorage datAshur PRO 64GB Secure USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review
Logitech G305 Review
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio 8 GB Review
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Duke 11 GB Review
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X TRIO Review
noblechairs HERO Review
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series Review Ft. RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Graphics Cards
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 & 2080 Ti Review
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Review
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition 8 GB Review
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review: Faster, More Expensive Than GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Reviewed
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 Benchmark Review
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti And RTX 2080 Benchmarks: Turing Is A Beast
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition 11 GB Review
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition Review: A Titan V Killer
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Review: No Seriously, Just Buy It
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080TI & RTX 2080 GPU Review
Nvidia RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti review: A tale of two very expensive graphics cards
Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition 8GB Review
Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card reviewed
Palit GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming Pro OC 8 GB Review
Palit RTX 2080 Super JetStream Graphics Card Review
SilverStone NJ450 450W Fanless Power Supply Review
Sunmae Gaming Chair Review
The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep Review – Burrows Into Our Hearts
Turing RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Benchmarked with 36 Games
Xerox PARC: A Nod to the Minds Behind the GUI, Ethernet, Laser Printing, and More
ZOTAC GAMING RTX 2080 Ti AMP Review

Akitio Node Lite w/ Intel Optane SSD Review

Ive reviewed several Thunderbolt 3 SSDs over the last year or so, and the Akitio Node Lite with Intel Optane SSD is the best performer of them all. Advertising speeds up to 2600 MB/s read, its the only external SSD that Ive tried thus far that skirts close to such a speed rating without being affected by noticeable thermal throttling.
Granted, the combo package of Akitio Node Lite + Intel Optane SSD should be a great performer, after all its price is $1500 for a 960GB SSD. Thats a lot of money to pay for storage when you can buy a 1TB version of Samsungs bus-powered Thunderbolt 3 SSD for less than half the cost.
But if youre in the market for an SSD that delivers workstation-class performance and endurance, then the Akitio Node Lite with Intel Optane SSD is worthy of consideration. Not only does it have a high performance ceiling, but it can sustain that performance while under load. Watch our hands-on video for more details.

Read full article @ 9to5Mac

AMD GPU Generational Performance Part 2

Ever wonder how much performance you are really getting from GPU to GPU upgrade in games What if we took GPUs from AMD and compared performance gained from 2013 to 2018 This is our AMD GPU Generational Performance Part 2 article focusing on the Radeon R9 280X, Radeon R9 380X, Radeon RX 480 and Radeon RX 580 in 15 games.

Read full article @ HardOCP

ASUS GeForce RTX 2080 STRIX OC 8 GB Review

ASUS ROG Strix RTX 2080 OC is the company's fastest RTX 2080 offering, and designed to rival the quality of NVIDIA's own Founders Edition products. A high factory-overclock, bolstered by a strong VRM solution add to its premium credentials.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti RoG Strix Review

We had a couple of hours hands-on time with the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti RoG Strix, this article is 80% of the final review, but is intended to just to give you some photos and benchmarks close to RTX launch day. So please remember, we'll update this article in the days to come.

Yes, the STRIX is back with that familiar triple fan look. We review and test the Republic Of Gamers card from ASUS which comes all custom cooled and a revamped custom PCB design. We've already covered a lot of new technology as the Turing architecture of the new GPUs offers a fundament change in the graphics card arena as next to your normal shading engine, NVIDIA has added RT (Raytracing) cores, as well as Tensor (AI), cores onto the new GPUs, and these are active. Is Turing is the start of the next 20 years of gaming graphics? Well, that all depends on the actual adoption rate in the software houses, they guys and girls that develop games and a dozen or so RTX games are in development and a dozen or so announced titles will make use of deep learning DLSS running utilizing the Tensor cores. For the new RTX series, it's mostly about Raytracing though. So welcome to a long row of RTX reviews. We start off with the reference cards and will follow with the AIB cards as for whatever reason NVIDIA figured it to be an okay thing for them to launch everything at once. First a quick recap of what's tested in this article, a bit of architecture and then we'll dive into real-world testing of course. You better grab a drink as these reference articles are prone to be lengthy with all the information we are covering.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

ASUS ROG Strix B450-I Gaming Motherboard Review

ASUS does B450 mini-ITX, exactly like X470 only cheaper. A compact mini-ITX system no longer has to be Intel by default as AMD’s Ryzen CPUs have facilitated a plethora of appealing alternative options for the small form factor segment. In particular AMD’s B450 chipset offers high-performance mini-ITX computing at a reasonable price point and sacrifices very little compared to the more costly AMD X470 chipset. As such motherboard vendors can build high-spec mini-ITX motherboards at competitive price points, the ASUS attempt of which is the ROG Strix B450-I Gaming.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Fedora be pretty - The ultimate customization guide

As the title days - there's gonna be a lot of superlatives in this article. Here's a nice little howto showing a range of visual, functional, ergonomic, and productivity tweaks for the Fedora distribution running the Gnome desktop environment, including references to previous guides, new themes, icons and wallpapers, Ubuntu fonts, additional extensions, fine tuning, awesome gallery, and more. Enjoy.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

Firewall Zero Hour Review

Multiplayer action is still a genre that has yet to be fully explored in the virtual reality space. Sony has tried before with RIGS, but for those that want a more tactical approach to their firefights, not many other options have presented themselves. Modeled loosely upon the successes of Rainbow Six: Siege, First Contact Entertainment have tried to capture the essence of tight corridors and intense gunfights within PlayStation VR in their first title for the platform: Firewall Zero Hour.

The crux of Firewall Zero Hour (and rather the only competitive mode available to players at launch) is in the form of Attacking/Defending a laptop objective in the Multiplayer Contracts mode. Two teams of four Operators face off on opposite sides of the battlefield; Attackers must breach the firewall from one of two randomly generated locations and initiate a data transfer on a sensitive laptop while Defenders need to use every tool at their disposal to prevent this from happening. In a similar fashion to Counter-Strike’s infamous de_dust2, attackers only get credit for their win if they can successfully complete the data transfer (just like defusing a planted bomb in CS) as just wiping out the enemy team won’t initiate the win. Defenders can secure a win for themselves just by wiping out the enemy team, but it’s important to lay down fortifications such as Signal Jammers or Door Blockers just in case they can’t finish the job.

Read full article @ Wccftech

Fnatic STREAK Mechanical Keyboard Review

Recently, we reviewed the Fnatic miniSTREAK tenkeyless mechanical gaming keyboard, which proved to be a great Cherry MX keyboard for the price. This time, we have the bigger brother in hand, the Fnatic STREAK. The STREAK features full RGB illumination, onboard macro recording, competition mode, a USB pass-through port, and the Fnatic OP software for further customization. Even with different options of genuine Cherry MX switches (Red, Red Silent, Blue, and Brown), this keyboard beats many of its competitors when it comes to value. In this article for Benchmark Reviews, we will be taking a look at the STREAK mechanical gaming keyboard with Cherry MX Red Silent switches.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Review

For our next review we take the GeForce RTX 2080 Founders (reference) edition for a 40-page spin. The little sister of the Ti model still packs some serious punch as it takes on the 1080 Ti anywhere and everywhere. Of course, the RTX 2080 will also have tensor and raytracing cores. Join us in a review of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080.

We've already covered a lot of new technology as the Turing architecture of the new GPUs offers a fundamental change in the graphics card arena as, next to your normal shading engine, NVIDIA has added RT (Raytracing) cores, as well as Tensor (AI) cores into the new GPUs, and these are active. Is Turing the start of the next 20 years of gaming graphics? Well, that all depends on the actual adoption rate in the software houses, with the guys and girls that develop games. A dozen or so RTX games are in development and a dozen or so announced titles will make use of deep learning DLSS utilizing the Tensor cores. For the new RTX series, it's mostly about Raytracing though. So welcome to a long row of RTX reviews. We start off with the reference cards and will follow with the AIB cards as, for whatever reason, NVIDIA figured it to be an okay thing for them to launch everything at once. First a quick recap of what's tested in this article, a bit of architecture and then we'll dive into real-world testing of course. You'd better grab a drink as these reference articles are prone to be lengthy with all the information we are covering.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Review

Information has been rumored, announced and coming but finally, we can show you our review on the new RTX series graphics processors from NVIDIA. In this review, we'll cover the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders edition.

We've already covered a lot of new technology as the Turing architecture of the new GPUs offers a fundamental change in the graphics card arena as next to your normal shading engine, NVIDIA has added RT (Raytracing) cores, as well as Tensor (AI), cores onto the new GPUs, and these are active. Is Turing the start of the next 20 years of gaming graphics? Well, that all depends on the actual adoption rate in the software houses, they guys and girls that develop games and a dozen or so RTX games are in development and a dozen or so announced titles will make use of deep learning DLSS running utilizing the Tensor cores. For the new RTX series, it's mostly about Raytracing though. So welcome to a long row of RTX reviews. We start off with the reference cards and will follow with the AIB cards as for whatever reason NVIDIA figured it to be an okay thing for them to launch everything at once. First a quick recap of what's tested in this article, a bit of architecture and then we'll dive into real-world testing of course. You better grab a drink as these reference articles are prone to be lengthy with all the information we are covering.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

Initial NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Linux Benchmarks

Here are the first of many benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti "Turing" graphics card under Linux with this initial piece exploring the OpenGL/Vulkan gaming performance.

This article is going to be short and sweet as just receiving the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti yesterday and then not receiving the Linux driver build until earlier today... The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has been busy now for a few hours with the Phoronix Test Suite on the Core i7 8086K system running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with the latest drivers.

Read full article @ Phoronix

iStorage datAshur PRO 64GB Secure USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

Just like with the diskAshur 2 line of USB 3.1 portable hard drives the datAshur PRO line of USB 3.0 flash drives by iStorage offers unparalleled hardware based encryption for your sensitive data.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Logitech G305 Review

One more stand-out feature is the up to 250 hours of battery life when using a AA battery, that is partially thanks to the technology mentioned above and the software that can alter the G305's behaviour to make it even more efficient.

Read full article @ Vortez

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio 8 GB Review

The premium value of MSI's Gaming X brand is reflected in the amount of design and premium components that went into building the RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio, besides a healthy factory-overclock, in its contention to be the fastest sub-$1000 graphics card.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Duke 11 GB Review

MSI Duke brand no longer represents cheap close-to-reference alternatives. The company has given this cheaper and less glamorous implementation of the flagship RTX 2080 Ti enough love to differentiate it from the premium Gaming X product. And then there's NVIDIA RTX, and all the delights that come with it.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X TRIO Review

Oh yes, you figured we only had founders reviews to show, au contraire my fellow guru, in this review, we'll peek at the Mc Daddy of them all, you know the quarter pounder, the royale with cheese or 'le big mac'. Yes, at launch week MSI is already offering their MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X TRIO. A card with terrific looks, super sweet cooling, and low noise levels. Oh heck, and its factory tweaked pretty sweet as well.

We've already covered a lot of new technology as the Turing architecture of the new GPUs offers a fundament change in the graphics card arena as next to your normal shading engine, NVIDIA has added RT (Raytracing) cores, as well as Tensor (AI), cores onto the new GPUs, and these are active. Is Turing is the start of the next 20 years of gaming graphics? Well, that all depends on the actual adoption rate in the software houses, they guys and girls that develop games and a dozen or so RTX games are in development and a dozen or so announced titles will make use of deep learning DLSS running utilizing the Tensor cores. For the new RTX series, it's mostly about Raytracing though. So welcome to a long row of RTX reviews. We start off with the reference cards and will follow with the AIB cards as for whatever reason NVIDIA figured it to be an okay thing for them to launch everything at once. First a quick recap of what's tested in this article, a bit of architecture and then we'll dive into real-world testing of course. You better grab a drink as these reference articles are prone to be lengthy with all the information we are covering.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

noblechairs HERO Review

Today we look at the HERO, with several additions, most importantly of which is the increased size, now catering for the larger person. Padding is also increased, to help support heavier people, with a maximum quoted weight of 180KG (roughly 28 stone).

Read full article @ Vortez

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series Review Ft. RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Graphics Cards

Keeping their tradition alive of launching a new graphics architecture every two years, this year, NVIDIA announced the Turing GPU. Primarily aimed at the consumer sector which includes both Quadro and GeForce segments, the Turing GPU is a big departure from traditional GPU designs.

The Turing GPU architecture has a lot to be talked about in this review, but so does the new RTX lineup. One of the key and most disruptive features being talked about regarding Turing is that it will support real-time ray tracing, which has long been considered the holy grail of computer graphics. RTX means a lot to NVIDIA which is why they have decided to change the name of their most historic consumer brands.

Read full article @ Wccftech

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 & 2080 Ti Review

After a month-long wait since Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 20 series, we can finally bring you our performance review. As you all know by now, we have a new flagship graphics card in the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with pricing starting at $1,000 for partner cards and $1,200 for the Founders Edition version, we're talking Titan X money here. Meanwhile the vanilla RTX 2080 is landing at $700 for partner models and $800 for the Founders Edition.

Read full article @ TechSpot

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Review

At this point, it seems that calling NVIDIAs 20-series GPUs highly anticipated would be a bit of an understatement. Between months and months of speculation about what these new GPUs would be called, what architecture they would be based off, and what features they would bring, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti were officially unveiled in August, alongside the Turing architecture.

Weve already posted our deep dive into the Turing architecture and the TU 102 and TU 104 GPUs powering these new graphics cards, but heres a short take away. Turing provides efficiency improvements in both memory and shader performance, as well as adds additional specialized hardware to accelerate both deep learning (Tensor cores), and enable real-time ray tracing (RT cores).

Read full article @ PC Perspective

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition 8 GB Review

It was very bold of NVIDIA to debut its flagship implementation of the Turing architecture right next to the RTX 2080, poised to be the poster-boy of this architecture. This card packs the promise of real-time ray-tracing, of sorts. NVIDIA also put out its best cooler design since TITAN. All that beauty comes at a price.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review: Faster, More Expensive Than GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is in a difficult position. It has to compete against GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at a higher price point, and with a number of features not yet available to enjoy. Can it shine as bright as the flagship RTX 2080 Ti?

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review

While it was roughly 2 years from Maxwell 2 to Pascal, the journey to Turing has felt much longer despite a similar 2 year gap. But finally, at Gamescom 2018, NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 20 series, built on TSMC’s 12nm “FFN” process and powered by the Turing GPU architecture. Launching today with full general availability is just the GeForce RTX 2080, as the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti was delayed a week to the 27th, while the GeForce RTX 2070 is due in October. So up for review today is the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080.

But a standard new generation of gaming GPUs this is not. The “GeForce RTX” brand, ousting the long-lived “GeForce GTX” moniker in favor of their announced “RTX technology” for real time ray tracing, aptly underlines NVIDIA’s new vision for the video card future. Like we saw last Friday, Turing and the GeForce RTX 20 series are designed around a set of specialized low-level hardware features and an intertwined ecosystem of supporting software currently in development. The central goal is a long-held dream of computer graphics researchers and engineers alike – real time ray tracing – and NVIDIA is aiming to bring that to gamers with their new cards, and willing to break some traditions on the way. But naturally well see how closely they keep the biggest one: traditional performance in current gaming.

Read full article @ Anandtech

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Reviewed

Looking at the raw performance of these Turing architecture cards there is no doubt that NVIDIA has built the performance curves to absolutely crush the competition. When you see performance results on the order of 30% to 40% or better than the previous generation you know that a new standard of performance has been set. In each and every game the performance of the RTX 2080 Ti Rounders Edition and RTX 2080 Founders Edition just keep pushing the envelope. There is not a game in my test suite that was not playable at 4K. Overclocking the cards just pushes the performance envelope even higher. The new tuning tools in EVGA's Precision X1 application enable the novice overclocker to get a respectable performance increase by pushing one radio button on the screen. The application does the rest for you. Just don't forget to apply the settings. Part of what drives this performance increase is the all new full length vapor chamber based cooling solution. By switching from a radial fan to a pair of 100mm axial fans cooling performance improves by 10 degrees over the Pascal based GTX 1080 Ti FE and GTX 1080 FE without a noise penalty. NVIDIA borrowed a page out of their board partners tool box with this redesign.. If it works why fight it. When you see the on die transistor count increase by 2x plus you have to keep the silicon cool. That the cooling solution does.

Read full article @ OCC

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 Benchmark Review

The NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 20-series is without a doubt the most anticipated graphics cards for 2018. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10-series was released in May 2016, so this new series has been years in the making. Read on to see how the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition and the GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition graphics cards perform like!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti And RTX 2080 Benchmarks: Turing Is A Beast

To date, NVIDIA has disclosed a number of details regarding its GeForce RTX series graphics cards, based on the bleeding-edge Turing GPU architecture. We covered NVIDIA’s official announcements direct from Gamescom, where high-level features like Ray Tracing, DLSS, NVLink, and pricing were initially revealed and followed up with a nice, long podcast chat with NVIDIA’s own Tom Petersen, during which a handful of interesting tid-bits were divulged. We were able to dive into the Turing architecture last week, where we detailed and explained what makes Turing tick in all of its brain-melting glory. Today though, we can finally reveal how the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080 actually perform. We know many of you have been eagerly awaiting this important data...

Read full article @ HotHardware

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition 11 GB Review

NVIDIA debuted its Turing graphics architecture today, straightaway with the flagship RTX 2080 Ti. This card packs the promise of real-time ray-tracing at 4K UHD, besides huge gains in performance. NVIDIA also put out its best cooler design since TITAN, commanding a very high price for some very beautiful visuals.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition Review: A Titan V Killer

Priced at $1200, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is out of reach for most gamers. But if you're an enthusiast with a 4K monitor and the desire to max out the quality of today's most taxing titles, this is the card you want.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Review: No Seriously, Just Buy It

NVIDIA's new Turing GPU architecture makes its first consumer graphics cards with the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080, and the upcoming RTX 2070 that will launch next month. NVIDIA had only just unveiled the next-gen Turing GPU architecture the month before at SIGGRAPH 2018, where it unveiled new Quadro RTX branded graphics cards that fanned the flames of the rumor mill of a brand change to RTX. We heard last year that NVIDIA were going to be mixing up the branding of the cards, but not to the extent of retiring the GTX moniker. NVIDIA's new Turing GPU architecture has ray tracing at its soul, with new RT Cores and Tensor Cores that it has borrowed from the Volta GPU architecture. Turing was built from the ground up for ray tracing, and was in development for 10 years alongside the development of previous GPU architectures in Maxwell and Pascal.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080TI & RTX 2080 GPU Review

What’s in a name? Turing, more specifically Alan Turing was an English computer scientist, mathematician, cryptanalyst, and held a few other titles. Alan Turing developed the Turing Test. In short, the Turing test is designed to test a computers ability to pretend to be human. To pass the test, the computer (or program) must fool a judge into thinking they are interacting with a real human. This is just a small part of what is called A.I. or Artificial Intelligence. One of the features of Nvidia’s latest GPU features acceleration of A.I. based feautres in the form on Tensor cores. Hence, the name Turing or so I would imagine.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Nvidia RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti review: A tale of two very expensive graphics cards

Remember when $700 seemed like a lot of money for a top-of-the-line GPU? Quaint times. Like any piece of expensive technology, a top-of-the-line graphics card comes with all manner of lingo and abbreviation. You'll need a glossary to wade through the stuff inside (processors, CUDA cores, ROPs), the speeds measured (memory bandwidth, boost clocks, TeraFLOPS), and the results you want from a good card (anti-aliasing, frame rates, higher resolutions).
Thanks to Nvidia's newest products, the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, that required glossary is only getting bigger.

Read full article @ ArsTechnica

Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition 8GB Review

Is the RTX 2080 worth upgrading to? It's £749 and we bare all in this review. It has been over two years since Nvidia announced the GTX 1080 in Texas. Those two years saw its GeForce 10 series, based on the Pascal architecture, dominate the graphics card market – if you wanted the fastest consumer card available, you had to go with Team Green.

Last month in Cologne, Germany, Nvidia took things a step further with the launch of its GeForce 20 series, and the unveiling of the new Turing architecture. Today we have reviews of both the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, but this article is concerned with the former graphics card. Priced at £749 here in the UK – more than last generation’s flagship GTX 1080 Ti – what can the RTX 2080 offer to those who don’t want to spend over £1000 for a single graphics card?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review

Following on from the huge success that was the Pascal architecture, today marks the release of Nvidia’s Turing architecture into the wild. We have reviews of both the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti ready for launch – but this particular review focuses on the £1099 behemoth that is the RTX 2080 Ti.

Nvidia has certainly gone with a different pricing strategy with Turing – the GTX 1080 Ti costs £669 , when its supposed successor will set you back an extra £430 at launch. That’s an effective 64% generation price hike – so what are you getting for your money?

Foremost among the appeal of the RTX 2080 Ti is the ray tracing abilities. As you may already be aware, we cannot yet test this feature out in actual games – we are still waiting for Microsoft’s DirectX Raytracing (DXR) update that is slated for next month. We do have the results from one ray tracing demo, presented later in this review, while of course there are the usual slew of benchmarks as well.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card reviewed

Earlier this year, a fellow editor and I did some pie-in-the-sky thinking about Nvidia's plans for its next-generation GPUs. We wondered how the company would continue the impressive generation-to-generation performance improvements it had been delivering since Maxwell. We guessed that the AI-accelerating smarts in the Volta architecture might be one way the green team would set apart its next-generation products, but past that, we had nothing.Turns out the company did us one or two better. With the Turing architecture 's improved tensor cores and unique RT cores, Nvidia is shipping a pair of intriguing new technologies in its next-generation chips while also bolstering traditional shader performance with parallel execution paths for floating-point and integer workloads.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Palit GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming Pro OC 8 GB Review

Palit's GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming Pro OC is built to a cost and closely resembles NVIDIA reference design, and is meant for those who want to buy into the RTX 2080 ecosystem.There's still a surprising factory-overclock to be had with this card.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Palit RTX 2080 Super JetStream Graphics Card Review

he time has finally come, as the next wave of next-generation graphics cards is finally here, starting with the Palit Super JetStream RTX 2080. Sure, it does seem that Nvidia is competing with themselves right now, but what the hell, it’s going to be fun. The GTX 1080 Ti is already the fastest card on the market and great for 4K gaming. However, the market is pushing for bigger performance figures, high resolutions, high framerates, VR, HDR, and beyond. With that in mind, the RTX series of cards have a lot of new features that promise to push gaming technology forward once again. While the RTX 2080 isn’t the flagship of the new series, that honour resides to the 2080 Ti. However, most consumers are likely to go for the RTX 2080, likely due to its more attractive price point.

“The GeForce RTX 2080 is based on the Turing TU104 GPU. TU104 contains 13.6 Billion transistors, making it more complex than the GP102 GPU previously used in NVIDIA’s flagship TITAN XP. The GeForce RTX 2080 is designed for gamers who want high-fidelity 4K gaming. It delivers 4K HDR at 60Hz for a more immersive gaming. When combined with a 60Hz 4K VRR display, the RTX 2080 powers a truly killer gaming experience.” – Palit

Read full article @ eTeknix

SilverStone NJ450 450W Fanless Power Supply Review

SilverStone is no stranger to small form factor PC power supplies as it is the most complete supplier of these to the enthusiast PC marketplace. Today SilverStone is adding complete silence to these SFF PSUs with the 450 watt Nightjar. Excellent efficiency makes silence easier, but can the Nightjar stand up to an extremely hot case

Read full article @ HardOCP

Sunmae Gaming Chair Review

Over the past year we’ve reviewed a handful of different gaming chairs. These were from brands that were quite well known. Recently we’ve been contacted from quite a few companies selling gaming chairs on Amazon who we had never heard of before. The prices are quite low too. While we originally turned down these offers to review such chairs, we decided to check one out to see if there was a difference between these chairs and the name brand chairs we’ve already taken a look at. So today we have the Sunmae Gaming Chair, which comes in at $164 on Amazon, making one of the cheapest gaming chairs available.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep Review – Burrows Into Our Hearts

I had the chance to speak to some of the developers of The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep at Gamescom this year. They talked passionately about making a game that felt like it had evolved with industry over the many years the series has been silent. After trying the title myself I’m not sure they accomplished that goal, but I also don’t think that is a bad thing.

The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep straddles the line between nostalgic warmth and gameplay ease. It doesn’t feel as new and fresh as perhaps the developers wanted, but its oldness is comforting. Playing it feels like the smell of an old book, like an impossibly well-preserved relic from another time, that somehow exists and comingles with its counterparts today.

Read full article @ Wccftech

Turing RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Benchmarked with 36 Games

BTR received a RTX 2080 Ti and a RTX 2080 from NVIDIA last week, and we have been testing them using 36 games versus the TITAN Xp, the GTX 1080 Ti, the GTX 1080, and also versus AMD’s flagship, the liquid-cooled Vega 64. In addition to bringing revolutionary new features including ray tracing to significantly improve visuals, NVIDIA promises that Turing will bring large performance increases over Pascal.

Since we got the drivers for the new cards on Friday night, this review has to focus on performance as well as consider whether the new RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition at $1199 ($999 for entry-level AIBs) or the RTX 2080 Founders Edition at $799 ($699 from AIBs) represents good value as an upgrade from Pascal.

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Xerox PARC: A Nod to the Minds Behind the GUI, Ethernet, Laser Printing, and More

Launched in 1970, Xerox's PARC has played an instrumental role in the engineering of laser printing and many of the technologies that compose the PC you're reading this on: the graphical user interface, ethernet, the mouse, among others. We'd like to take a few and give credit where credit's due.

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ZOTAC GAMING RTX 2080 Ti AMP Review

In our first NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti custom-design, we have in our hands the ZOTAC GAMING RTX 2080 Ti AMP. As tradition would have it, ZOTAC's AMP edition graphics cards are factory overclocked and with this next-generation model, we also receive a triple fan configuration in a bid to keep temperatures under control. While the memory clock speed remains untouched, the GPU boost clock benefits from a mere 7% overclock - taking the Founders Edition boost of 1545MHz, up to 1665MHz.

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