The gents over at Overclockers Club have put together their take on overclocking your NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 video card. While many of us think "we already know how to do it," it is always good to have new information. OC Club goes into the dynamics of NVDIA GPU Boost 3.0, system stability, and memory and GPU core clocking. They have an interesting way of going about it, and it makes a lot of sense as well and may get you through the process faster than the way you are doing it now.
Lastly, for you hardcore overclockers, if you periodically run a benchmark and write down the results, you may find the score going down after a certain point. This is a common problem. As the card exceeds its maximum potential, it can be a trickster. A higher overclock does not always translate to a better experience.
Got a drone problem? Have no fear, Dedrone is here. Personally my favorite drone control device is a Mossberg 930 SPX, and it has plenty of other uses as well, but assuredly may not be for everyone.
Drone Tracker is used around the world to protect critical infrastructure, stadiums, prisons, and VIPs from illegal or improper intrusion by small drones. Dedrone’s most notable references include the Clinton-Trump televised debates, the Suffolk County prison in New York, the Royal Family of Qatar, and the New York Mets’ stadium. In November of last year, Dedrone was recognized as one of the most promising start-ups in the world as part of the Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge.
At CES 2017, Cooler Master unveiled a limited edition of their MasterWatt line of power supply units: the MasterWatt Author ME 1200 W. As the name implies, this is a 1200 W power supply, rated at 80 Plus Titanium efficiency levels (which means >94% energy efficiency), though Cooler Master claims this PSU is able to achieve >95% efficiency levels. Built exclusively with Murata components, Cooler Master are presenting this one as the best power supply they've ever made, and they're therefore pitting it as a special, limited edition PSU, of which only a few thousand samples will be produced and sold: at an over $1000 price-tag.
WOW! 1000 US Dollars! A little bit more Googling turned up a video.
So given that this week, we turned up a SilverStone Strider 1000W PSU that showed to be an excellent value at less than $173 after $15MIR and Prime Shipping, we really, really, really, want to review the CoolerMaster MasterWatt Maker 1200. What you say CoolerMaster? You got the conjones to send us one? (Told you I knew some Spanish.)
Watch President Obama’s farewell speech live tonight in VR so says the Verge.
Tonight at 9PM ET, President Barack Obama will give his farewell address, before handing the reins over to President-elect Trump later this month. If you don’t happen to be in Chicago to watch it, the next best thing may be a 360-degree live stream of the event, hosted by VRScout. The video will be shot with multiple Nokia Ozo cameras, placed around the venue at McCormick Place. You can watch it either in full virtual reality (through YouTube on PlayStation VR and Google Daydream, for instance, or Facebook on Samsung Gear VR) or as a flatscreen 360-degree video online.
I got ten bucks that say President Obama has a custom VR environment where he does nothing but choke out Joe after he says something stupid. Not to mention a few others.
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? This app made news about two weeks ago, but now it’s dead already after a third-party complaint. While Netflix didn’t issue it themselves, I can only assume it was very much on their radar.
"Free Netflix Downloader"…was the first Windows application that allowed people to download Netflix videos to their computers through an easy-to-use interface. "This is the ONLY app in the world that can do this trick now!" DVDVideoSoft’s Alex informed TF two weeks ago. While the resulting video quality wasn’t particularly good, the software did what it was supposed to do and appealed to a broad audience. This didn’t go unnoticed by Netflix and others, which soon led to an official complaint. As a result, DVDVideoSoft has decided to pull the plug and discontinue its development. "The development of Free Downloader for Netflix is discontinued by a third-party request. The program is not available for download now," a message on the download site now reads.
Autofill can be very convenient, but here’s a reason to be cautious about it. People have already chimed in with fixes so obvious (e.g., restricting autofill only to visible fields) that it makes you wonder why browsers don’t already have such safeguards.
…browsers like Chrome and Safari are set to autofill information into text boxes with data like your phone number, address, credit card number, etc. Typically, browsers will determine the type of information the site is asking for, then keep the rest. But, Kuosmanen notes, hackers can obscure certain text boxes—meaning users wouldn’t they’ve been autofilled. And since the malicious websites can be designed to look like pretty much anything, the danger is real.
Am I the only who thinks single player and multiplayer should be completely separate entities? They played around with this idea in Mass Effect 3, and I hated how you were kind of forced into dealing with MP to get the "best" ending.
…series producer Mike Gamble… revealed that the multiplayer in Mass Effect: Andromeda will be tied closely to the campaign, and will have a direct impact on the story, not unlike how multiplayer functioned in Mass Effect 3. According to Gamble, players will be able to access Andromeda‘s multiplayer mode while playing the single player campaign, so it should feel like a natural extension of the story instead of a separate feature. Dubbed Strike Team, the multiplayer missions will be built around the planet Helios, which will have a story that feeds into the larger narrative. And luckily for Mass Effect fans that would rather experience everything solo, Gamble has confirmed that the story content seen in the multiplayer mode can be accessed in the single player campaign as well.
Another CES has come and gone, and sites are compiling their list of what was great, and what wasn’t so great. Most of this "bad tech" is merely unnecessary; others are genuinely stupid.
The Moore USB Drive claims to be able to offer unlimited data storage anytime, anywhere — even when there's no internet connection available. …it automatically knows what data you need on the device at all times and makes sure it's available locally. Let me kick you a scenario: The flash drive is 32GB and you've uploaded 3,200GB of data. You get on an airplane and you're looking for a movie you edited from a couple years ago — the ingenious AI will have the movie ready for you! You don't need internet access and you don't need to sync. BWAHA! Nope. I'm thinking this company thinks we're dumb.
Krazy Nathan Kirsch of Legit Reviews fame has the meager Intel Core i3-7350K processor up for review today. The i3 now has HyperThreading along with a 4.2GHz clock, all for $168. If you don't need a couple of extra cores, you will be very happy with the 5GHz+ overclocking he is pulling in.
You can read our Core i7-7700K Overclocking article here, and our IPC article here.
The battery life of the new MacBook Pros may not be as disappointing as Consumer Reports had suggested. Apple has released a fix to one of the issues, a Safari bug, but we will have to wait until second-round testing is complete to see just how much more consistent the battery life is this time around.
We have now downloaded the software fix and are rerunning our battery tests with the fix in place on the same computers previously tested. If the battery life results are consistently high, the ratings score for MacBook Pros would rise, and those laptops will then receive Consumer Reports’ Recommended rating given their performance in all our other evaluations. We communicated our original test results to Apple prior to publication on Dec. 22 and afterward sent multiple rounds of diagnostic data, at the company’s request, to help its engineers understand the battery issues we saw in our testing. After investigating the issue, Apple says that the variable battery performance we experienced is a result of a software bug in its Safari web browser that was triggered by our test conditions.
The obvious relevance here is that older Pentiums did not have hyper-threading. With HT enabled, these processors could very well perform on par with an i3 and would make them a great choice for budget systems. We can only speculate why Intel allowed this, however.
Historically, last-generation Pentium processors only had two cores and never, ever had hyper-threading enabled. This new feature will make the 60-Euro ($63) processors behave and likely perform at Core i3-level performance. The one thing the Pentium will not support is the AVX2 instruction set, which mainly is handy and very fast with video editing/transcoding. It might be a terrific processor for a low-cost net PC. Hyper-threading has been verified with Intel. It is not a typo in the ARK processor database.
It appears that LG’s vision for the future of phone displays is wider screens. I suppose it’ll make things a tiny bit easier to hold, and your typical movie will have less noticeable black bars, but this is probably just a hasty attempt toward originality.
We already know LG is abandoning its modular effort for the upcoming G6, but today the company delivered another interesting nugget: It'll sport a 5.7-inch Quad HD+ panel with an 18:9 aspect ratio. Yes, that's really a 2:1 screen (math!), which means it'll be a bit taller than a typical 16:9 screen. While that might seem unwieldy, it could be a way for the company to implement some features from its dual-screen "V" phones in the G6. And really, at this point LG needs to do whatever it can to stand out from the pack.
This is an interesting development toward the practicality of future EVs, as Tesla’s superchargers take half an hour to charge and only provide 170 miles of range in comparison. But let the jokes and fiery consequences begin…
Samsung’s SDI battery subsidiary announced a new battery cell designed for use in electric vehicles that offers improved density to manage a max range of up to 372 miles on a full charge, with a quick charge capacity that will help it regain 310 miles or so of charge on just 20 minutes of charging. Unveiled at the North American International Auto Show for the first time, the new battery tech come with a 10 percent decrease in the number of units and weight required vs. current production battery units made by Samsung SDI. Mass production isn’t set to begin until 2021, but the tech should arrive in time to supply the first crop of autonomous cars, which are also targeting street dates sometime within that year from a range of manufacturers.
Is Elon Musk our guy? It sounds like he’s been playing a bit of Overwatch these days, but he also mentions the new Deus Ex and how its story falls short of the original—a point I think we all can agree on.
Let this be a lesson to those who enter the headset game in the future (assuming Mr. Sweeney is on point): make sure it’s open source. That’s easy enough to believe, since nobody wants to be locked to any one ecosystem—but I would also think that HTC having an arguably more advanced and complete product played some part.
According to the founder of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, the HTC Vive is outselling the Oculus Rift by a ratio of 2:1. Claiming that the reason for the greater success rate of the Vive is its open-platform design, Sweeney said he expects this trend to continue and that ultimately open platforms will dominate in the VR space. Oculus was once the darling of the virtual reality world. The developer of early VR kits like the DK1 and DK2 and headed by then well-loved, VR evangelist, Palmer Luckey, Oculus rode a wave of popularity to its consumer release. However after backtracking, a higher than expected price and a very Apple-like stance on software stores, much of the Oculus good will evaporated throughout 2016.
The fact that this is a mere rumor should be reiterated, as the information comes from a single source, but an MSI rep supposedly let slip that the 1080 Ti will finally be presented during PAX East. Many think that Nvidia were sitting on things, just scoping out AMD’s Vega plans.
…a nugget of gold handed to us from a friendly rep at the MSI booth, which provides a bit more insight into what's going on over at Nvidia (info Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang apparently wasn't ready to share personally). It turns out that there really is such thing as the GTX 1080 Ti, and not only will it be available from board partners (MSI being one of the biggest), but it will be coming around PAX East 2017, which kicks off on March 10, 2017.
Four years of active development is down the drain, as Platinum Games’ hyped title Scalebound has been officially cancelled. Originally an Xbox One and PC exclusive, the game would have had you control a dragon in first-person, and was expected to be pretty good since it was spearheaded by the guy who came up with titles such as Okami and Resident Evil 2.
Multiple sources have confirmed to Eurogamer that Microsoft and developer Platinum Games have parted ways on the project, and that work concluded before the end of 2016. This tallies with a just-published Kotaku report which states the game is currently in trouble, and possibly cancelled. Scalebound was last seen in public back at Gamescom 2016 in August. Since then, the relationship between Microsoft and Osaka-based developer Platinum Games dramatically soured. Work on the game took a serious knock last autumn, Eurogamer sources say, when several senior members of the development team were forced to take a month away from the pressure of the project's heavy workload.
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Apple may have just hampered the plans of numerous smartphone companies, as they have just been awarded a patent on what could already be on a lot of drawing boards. A future iPhone iteration will very likely have an edge-to-edge display, with typically visible components hidden underneath.
Awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple's U.S. Patent No. 9,543,364 for "Electronic devices having displays with openings" describes a method by which various components can be mounted behind perforations in a device screen that are so small as to be imperceptible to the human eye. This arrangement would allow engineers to design a smartphone or tablet with a true edge-to-edge, or "full face," display. Until recently, smartphone aesthetics have been both defined and limited by their most dominant feature: the display. Conventional candybar designs made popular by iPhone put the screen front and center, with supporting hardware arranged along its periphery.
Not content with mere price hikes, Verizon will also be punishing "unlimited" users with a 200GB usage limit. Those who dare to venture beyond that face the consequence of losing their plans and being forced to migrate to another. Interestingly, even users who are nowhere near the limit have been getting warnings from the company.
Last year, Verizon began informing customers who used an "extraordinary" amount of data on unlimited plans that they would no longer be able to keep those unlimited data plans. At the time, Verizon wouldn’t set a specific number of GB on that "extraordinary" number, but we ventured to guess it was around 100GB per month or more after hearing feedback from readers and with Verizon pointing to their 100GB plan over and over. As it turns out, that number has either adjusted to a higher number or we were simply wrong. Either way, another wave of customers are getting the boot and need to find a new plan or carrier by February 16.
Insiders are getting a big taste of what is coming to Windows 10 in the latest preview, which includes a handful of all-new features such as custom Start menu folders, low-blue-light mode, and high-DPI improvements for desktop apps. Even the new Green Screen of Death makes its debut here.
Windows 10's Creators Update is due early this year, and Microsoft served up what you might call a hearty appetizer Monday morning: its massive Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15002, with so many improvements that we’ve broken out the back-end ones, which include pauseable updates, app throttling and even a new Green Screen of Death, into a separate article. Build 15002 is being released for the PC only, as part of the Fast Ring of Insider builds. Be aware of a few bugs: Miracast connections won’t work, and the Netflix app probably won’t render video (instead, use Edge).
While this sounds cool as hell, it certainly gives me a bit of the heebie jeebies. The Pentagon has successfully launched a drone swarm from three F-18 hornets...that will seek you out and peel your skin off with their tiny propellers. (I made that last part up, but you know its true.)
"Perdix are not pre-programmed synchronized individuals, they are a collective organism, sharing one distributed brain for decision-making and adapting to each other like swarms in nature," said William Roper, director of the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office. "Because every Perdix communicates and collaborates with every other Perdix, the swarm has no leader and can gracefully adapt to drones entering or exiting the team."
Of course this comes on the back of No Killer Robots....I am sure these drone swarms will be used for delivering 103 pizzas to the guys on the front lines. Not that we don't think that is an awesome idea.
Facebook Inc. bet early on virtual reality, buying Oculus VR 2 1/2 years ago to get its groundbreaking headset. Now it’s fighting claims that the Oculus Rift was built with stolen technology and promoted with a false origin story about a young entrepreneur tinkering in his parents’ garage.
And this looks like it is going to get ugly too for The Zuck and our friend Carmack of DOOM fame.
Carmack, who became chief technology officer of Oculus, said in a December court filing that his employment agreement at ZeniMax allowed him to be involved in Oculus because it wasn’t a gaming company in competition with ZeniMax. He said ZeniMax allowed him to publicly disclose his virtual reality research.
Seeing the case is here in Dallas, maybe I will get a chance to get over and see who screws the pooch on the stand. I will have to look into the rules of being in the courtroom.
The case is ZeniMax Media Inc. v. Oculus VR Inc., 3:14-cv-01849, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas).
Update: Oculus representatives did reach out today to as they "wanted to provide you our on-the-record statement and request that you update your article to include it. Can you let me know?"
"We're eager to present our case in court. Oculus and its founders have invested a wealth of time and money in VR because we believe it can fundamentally transform the way people interact and communicate. We're disappointed that another company is using wasteful litigation to attempt to take credit for technology that it did not have the vision, expertise, or patience to build." – Oculus spokesperson
Now to find this anonymous "Oculus spokesperson" in the hallowed halls of the Federal Court building here in North Texas.
I am not sure anyone that reads HardOCP actually gives a damn, but here is some cut and paste action just in case.
Mayer, five others to resign from Yahoo board; company to be renamed Altaba
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, co-founder David Filo and others plan to resign from the company's board when it completes its $4.8 billion sale to Verizon.
Last week we showed you a video from Nude CNC that used the LGA socket mechanism to hold the Ncore water block in place. Many of us, including myself, called BS on this as being a safe way to do things when water cooling your CPU. We just got an email from the inventor of the Ncore water block as he wanted to address our concerns with a simulation that he thinks proves his mounting system's worthiness. That's a lot of bricks!
I know that many enthusiasts do not trust the latest and greatest BETA driver, and if you are one of those guys you will be happy to know that the AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 16.12.2 has been given Microsoft WHQL certification. You can grab the Win 10 64-bit driver here. This driver is the same as the previous BETA from what we can tell. If you are not aware of the new ReLive features, you can get the quick scoop in the video below.
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