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Today NVIDIA has brought variable refresh rate support to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The company initially promised variable refresh support on GeForce Now back in early January during CES, and has seemingly waited so that it could launch alongside GeForce Now Day Passes, which are also now available. Variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies, including NVIDIA's own G-Sync, have been around for around a decade now, and allow a monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to the instantaneous framerate of a game. This synchronization prevents screen tearing, when two or more frames are present on a display at the same time. Without a VRR technology, gamers either have to tolerate the visual incongruity of screen tearing or enable V-Sync, which solves screen tearing by...
MSI GT72 Dominator Pro Review: GTX 980M Reigns Supreme
When it comes to high-end gaming notebooks, there are only a few real competitors: Alienware, ASUS, Clevo (under various brand names), and MSI are the main options, with a...
57 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2014
NVIDIA 344.65 Drivers and GeForce Experience 2.1.4.0
NVIDIA has updated their drivers to version 344.65 drivers and they're available now. These are Game Ready drivers for Assassin's Creed: Unity, and they're ready one week in advance...
18 by Jarred Walton on 11/10/2014
AMD Civilization: Beyond Earth and Never Settle Space Edition Promotion
AMD is updating their Never Settle bundles in a different fashion today, effectively doubling down on the bundles. In addition to the existing Never Settle: Space Edition, AMD will...
11 by Jarred Walton on 11/6/2014
HP Launches Omen: A Thin Gaming Laptop
HP today announced the availability of their new Omen laptop, a name that hearkens to their acquisition of Voodoo PC clear back in 2006. It's been a while since...
32 by Jarred Walton on 11/4/2014
NVIDIA Free To Play 2014 Fall Bundle
Going along with their Ubisoft Bundle for high-end GPUs, NVIDIA also announced an updated Fall 2014 Free To Play gaming bundle that applies to their "mainstream" GPUs. As with...
2 by Jarred Walton on 11/4/2014
NVIDIA and Ubisoft Team Up for Pick Your Path Gaming Promotion
This morning NVIDIA announced a new gaming bundle for their top GPUS. New buyers of GTX 980, 970, 780 Ti, or 780 desktop GPUs qualify for the offer, along...
14 by Jarred Walton on 11/4/2014
Acer Announces UHD V Nitro Black Edition Laptop
Back in late September, Acer announced a new line of laptops, the V Nitro Black Edition of their popular V series. The V series in many ways is the...
20 by Jarred Walton on 11/3/2014
MSI GT80 Titan: A Beastly Notebook with a Cherry MX Keyboard
Yesterday MSI announced their latest notebook addition, the GT80 Titan. I'm a bit unsure what to think of the notebook, but it's obviously unique in that it offers a...
34 by Jarred Walton on 10/31/2014
Alienware's Graphics Amplifier Announced - An External Video Card Chassis Shipping Soon
The idea of an external PCI-Express chassis for video cards is practically as old as PCI-Express itself. However over the years the idea has failed to reach the consumer...
80 by Ryan Smith on 10/28/2014
Investigating NVIDIA's BatteryBoost with MSI GT72
BatteryBoost initially launched with the GTX 800M series earlier this year, and our first look at the technology came with the MSI GT70 with GTX 880M. That may not...
26 by Jarred Walton on 10/23/2014
Benchmarked - Civilization: Beyond Earth
One of the longest running gaming franchises around, the Civilization series goes all the way back to my high school years. There have been many changes along the way...
73 by Jarred Walton on 10/23/2014
NVIDIA 344.48 WHQL Drivers Available; DSR Added To Fermi & Kepler
NVIDIA just released their latest driver updates today, bringing us up to version 344.48. These are WHQL certified drivers, and they're also Game Ready for several upcoming titles. NVIDIA...
41 by Jarred Walton on 10/22/2014
SteelSeries Apex Gaming Keyboard Capsule Review
RGB variants of mechanical keyboards are very popular nowadays, but what about those users that want to stick with a classic membrane keyboard and gamers on a budget? SteelSeries'...
19 by E. Fylladitakis on 10/20/2014
The 2014 Razer Blade Review
In early 2014 the Razer Blade got a refresh. The significant updates over the 2013 model are the display, moving from a (rather poor) 1600x900 panel to a 3200x1800...
69 by Brett Howse on 10/10/2014
MSI GT72 Dominator Pro: Performance Preview
NVIDIA just launched their new GTX 980M/GTX 970M GPUs, and unfortunately we were unable to get a notebook in time for testing… which just changed a few hours ago...
53 by Jarred Walton on 10/8/2014
MSI Gaming Notebooks with GeForce GTX 980M and 970M
As noted in the conclusion of our GTX 980M/GTX 970M launch article, we're going to be covering some of the notebooks that are being announced today in separate Pipeline...
13 by Jarred Walton on 10/7/2014
Benchmarked - Metro: Last Light Redux
Last month 4A Games released updated versions of the two earlier games in the Metro series, Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux. The games have both been...
29 by Jarred Walton on 10/2/2014
NVIDIA 344.11 & 344.16 Drivers Available
In the crazy rush to wrap up the GeForce GTX 980 review in time for the NDA lift yesterday, news of the first R343 driver release may have been...
39 by Jarred Walton on 9/19/2014_carousel.jpg)
NVIDIA GameWorks: More Effects with Less Effort
While NVIDIA's hardware is the big start of the day, the software that we run on the hardware is becoming increasingly important. It's one thing to create the world's...
22 by Jarred Walton on 9/18/2014
NVIDIA Announces GAME24 - 24 Hour Live Gaming Celebration
It seems company sponsored live events are becoming more popular. Not long after AMD hosted their own gaming celebration, NVIDIA is upping the ante with a 24 hour live...
2 by Stephen Barrett on 9/3/2014
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