Custom PC - UK (2020-02)

MEMORY RAMisoftenoneofthemostconfusingcomponents whenbuildinga PC.WithDDR4speedsrangingfrom 2133MHzallthewayuptoover4000MHz,it’s ...

FEATURE/ ANALYSIS Graphicscard(averagefps) 1,920x 1,080 GTX 1050 RTX 2060 Super RTX 2080 Super RiseoftheTombRaider 30 123 141 PU ...

Nonetheless,thetestsinthisfeature do bring home the point that, if you’rethinkingofupgradingyour graphics card, you need to know ...

FEATURE/ ANALYSIS MIDRANGE If you’respendinga littlemoremoneythenyoumightaswellgiveyourself atleasttheoptionofCPUoverclocking,s ...

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FEATURE/ ANALYSIS KEYBOARDS Doyouneeda gamingkeyboard?Essentially,no.Thatwasthebroad conclusionwereachedinourtesting.Thereareall ...

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FEATURE / ANALYSIS ALL ABOUT ANTI-ALIASING ...

f all the graphics settings that confront you when tweaking a graphics card driver or setting up a new game, perhaps the most co ...

FEAATURE//ANALYSSIS With anti-aliasing, in all its various forms, we’re looking to find a way of cheating the lack of resolution ...

Super-sampling (SSAA or FSAA) The first and most brute-force approach to anti-aliasing in a 3D scene is super-sampling AA (SSAA) ...

FEAATURE//ANALYSSIS sharp, such as textures, aren’t blurred and softened. Moreover, it means there’s far less of a performance h ...

the surface of an object to simulate actual transparent substances, such as glass, as well as more complex 3D forms that would b ...

FEAATURE//ANALYSSIS At least that’s the theory. In practice, FXA can look a bit blurry, and in a way that isn’t offset by the si ...

Temporal AA (TAA) There’s yet another general type of AA that’s fundamentally different from both the classic and the post-proce ...

FEAATURE//ANALYSSIS mesandperforming post-processing. tead, it’s an enhancement of the classic AA method. Here, the temporal ele ...

Because it requires RTX cards to test, and the fact that it’s in some ways not a direct rival to other AA techniques, we haven’t ...

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CUSTOMISATION / HOBBY TECH W hen the first microcontrollers based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) hit the ...