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Laptop Buyer’s Guide: May R4500 to R8000

The month of May is upon us and in a few short weeks it’s going to be absolutely crazy – Computex, Intel’s Haswell reveal, the PS4, E3 and everything in it and whatever AMD decides to squeeze in to steal the limelight. It will also be the last month of Intel’s Ivy Bridge for desktop processors. This month, it’s pretty much the end of the road for Intel’s mobile Ivy Bridge processors – from June onwards, all the focus will be on Haswell and rightly so – it will change a lot of things. But for now, lets focus on bargains that laptop buyers can look forward to this month!

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Posted by Wesley Fick May 10, 2013
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System Builders Guide: April R18,000 to R28,000

As we close up the month of April with this guide, we finish off with the high-end systems that people that saved up oodles of money from their piggy bank to spoil themselves. If you’re one of those people, well done – here, you deserve a Noddy badge. For the rest of you not able to buy anything in this episode of the guide today, click through anyway to join the other NAGlings in drooling over beautiful hardware.

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Posted by Wesley Fick Apr 23, 2013
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System Builders Guide: April R10,000 to R15,500

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the System Builders Guide. We’re in the mid-range segment this week and as NAG’s previous surveys have shown, this is where most of the magazine’s readership spending power is concentrated. This also where the sweet-spot is – our R13,000 budget is the de facto standard for gaming rigs and if you’re looking for value for money, this guide will help you get all that and more. Follow me after the jump.

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Posted by Wesley Fick Apr 16, 2013
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ASUS shows off a new, more effective fan design

You guys all remember the GTX670 DirectCU II Mini (man, that’s a mouthful) that I reported on a while back? It turns out that there’s a reason why ASUS felt comfortable with putting in such a small fan – they redesigned it to better move air around the heatsink and it looks like that paid off quite handsomely. Hit the jump to check out their video demonstration!

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Posted by Wesley Fick Apr 10, 2013
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The world explodes with frame latency testing

Its a bit disconcerting to wake up one morning and find that overnight the entire review scene for both graphics cards and processors has changed dramatically. Together with several websites and writers in the technology field, Nvidia released their in-house frame latency testing tools to the public. Frame latency testing first took off with Tech Report’s Scott Wasson showing the world that frame latencies were to blame with jitters and micro-stutters observed in games, and that FPS averages were being used to mask the otherwise obvious issues to give graphics cards more favourable scores. Over time many sites have begun to include frame latency data using FRAPS, but Nvidia’s solution, designed with the help of PC Perspective, takes things to a different level entirely.

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Posted by Wesley Fick Mar 28, 2013
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PS4 GPU equivalent to “low-to-mid-range” PC, says Nvidia

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Speaking to TechRadar, NVIDIA senior vice president of content and development, Tony Tamasi , has said that “compared to gaming PCs, the PS4 specs are in the neighborhood of a low-end CPU, and a low- to mid-range GPU side.” Ouch.

Tamasi believes that the console, which is due to launch at the end of 2013, is made up of hardware that is already outdated.

“If the PS4 ships in December as Sony indicated, it will only offer about half the performance of a GTX680 GPU (based on GFLOPS and texture), which launched in March 2012, more than a year and a half ago,” said Tamasi.

Some might argue that Tamasi has an obvious agenda in promoting PC gaming over console gaming, even though his company provides the GPU technology that powers the PS3. According to Tamasi, it was NVIDIA’s choice to not provide hardware for the PS4.

Tamasi told TechRadar that “we came to the conclusion that we didn’t want to do the business at the price those guys were willing to pay.”

Posted by Nic Simmonds Mar 18, 2013
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ASUS is working on a tiny GTX670

Called the GTX670 DirectCU Mini, it’s a special version that ASUS has been trialling consumer response with in the ASUS ROG forums for the past two weeks, figuring out that ITX enthusiasts might snap one or two up. Featuring a very short PCB, it swaps out two 6-pin PEG connectors for a single 8-pin one, retaining the SLI fingers but using a very small  blower design to save on space. For now, ASUS has said nothing about clock speeds, VRM layout or how much it’ll be, but feast your eyes on the images doing the rounds on the internet in the meantime.

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Posted by Wesley Fick Mar 11, 2013
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Nvidia Titan Analysis: Bring out the BFG

Its no secret that Nvidia chose to dumb down their launch lineup for Kepler. After all, once the company realised that GK104 would be competitive with AMD’s GCN at the highest level in the form of the Pitcairn-based HD7970, they chose to launch the GTX680 with the GK104 core and coined the money it was saving by using a GPU with a smaller die size. We all know how that went – even though the HD7970 was king of the hill for a good few months and extended its reign even after the GTX680 launch, it was short-lived and the high-end market remains hotly contested. Because Nvidia normally launched any new GPU family with a large-size die around 500mm² in the past, the GTX680 was a bit perplexing. They fixed that last week though, with the Nvidia Titan.

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Posted by Wesley Fick Feb 25, 2013
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Nvidia comes up with a bundle with Geforce cards for UK, US

Similar to AMD’s Never Settle Bundle, Nvidia has been distributing free copies of Assassin’s Creed III to buyers of the Geforce GTX650 Ti and the GTX660 Ti through participating brand and stores. While AC III is a fantastic game, the bundle does seem to pale in comparison to AMD’s Never Settle bundle with free copies of Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs. Nvidia has now hit back with another bundle, this time targeting the F2P market with Planetside 2, World of Tanks and Hawken.

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Posted by Wesley Fick Feb 12, 2013
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System Builders Guide: February R10,000 to R15,000

So here we are with another System Builders guide and today we’re looking at rigs in the price range most people set aside for themselves to build a good computer that will play games for a long time to come. According to last year’s NAG survey the average spend of most readers on their rig is R13k, which we’ll actually have a look at today. Some price changes and new products have changed the value of these builds significantly, so if you’re interested, have a peek, if only to drool and day-dream!

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Posted by Wesley Fick Feb 12, 2013
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