How SCARY FAST are M3 Macs? The Hidden Meaning in Apple’s Performance Numbers
How fast can we expect M3 Macs to be? Let's take a closer look as we review each of the 3 chips' configurations.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 on macOS Sonoma Game Mode: Mac Studio M2 Max Performance Benchmarks
How well does Baldur's Gate 3 run on the base M2 Max Mac Studio with macOS Sonoma Game Mode, and can we reach 120 fps for a smooth gaming experience? Let's find out!
Don’t Buy the NVIDIA RTX 4070 If You Want the Best Value Mid-range GPU!
NVIDIA just launched the RTX 4070 GPU at a price point of $599, but is it a good value? We'll compare it to some of its closest competitors from the current gen and last gen on performance, price, and features.
Graphics Card Makers and Semi-Passive 0dB Fan Modes
In recent years, video card makers have come to realize that even though gamers want powerful, well-cooled GPUs, they don’t always want to listen to a vacuum cleaner, especially when there are no game or movie sounds to cover up…
NVIDIA GTX 1080, 1070 & 1060: Best for Silent PC Gaming?
The GeForce 10 series of graphics cards from NVIDIA are extremely powerful, but also power-efficient, making them ideal candidates to use for a silent gaming computer. Of the 3 cards currently available, which should you choose? The answer depends on…
Completely Silent Gaming PC Build (2015): Open Air Edition
After trying to build a completely silent gaming PC by going through various “silent” cases, which focus on hiding noise rather than getting rid of it’s source, I decided to try a different philosophy: There’s no need to hide noise…
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Reviews Indicate nVidia Still The Better Choice for Silent PC Gaming
AMD’s new Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card just had a bunch of performance reviews posted today. While it appears to trade blows with the similarly priced (at $649) nVidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti in terms of performance (i.e., FPS),…
Silence Your Video Card with Prolimatech MK-26 (on a GTX 780)
The Prolimatech MK-26 is a very well regarded graphics card cooler, but how well can it perform when the objective is silent / quiet computing? To find out, I installed the MK-26 on an EVGA GTX 780 SC ACX video…
Building a Quiet Water Cooled Gaming PC – Part 2: Water Cooling Components
It’s been a long time since I wrote Part 1 of this series, and the system is actually already built and has been running for several months. In Part 2, I will list out the various water cooling components I…
Building a Quiet Water Cooled Gaming PC – Part 1: Choosing a Case
I’ve been building desktop PCs for a long time, but a constant obsession of mine that I have never been able to get just right is the balance between noise and power. Simply put, I want silence and the ability…
nVidia GeForce GTX 770 Price Gouging for $50,000?
nVidia’s GeForce GTX 770 series GPU lauched today, and reviewers seem pretty happy with it, particularly its price point. At $400 MSRP yet with slightly better performance (though also higher power consumption) than the GTX 680, it seems to be…
How to Enable GPU Scaling Options in AMD Catalyst
If you have an AMD/ATi graphics card, you might have noticed that the GPU Scaling options portion of the control panel seems to be grayed out (aka. disabled), if you can even find it hidden deep in the monitor attributes…
Building a Silent Yet Powerful PC: mATX Core i7 Edition
When building a computer, one often has to compromise on one of the three conflicting factors of power, noise, and price. Powerful machines are usually noisy due to the high heat output, and therefore required cooling. Advanced cooling solutions with…