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Review: ASUS ROG G752 Gaming Laptop
Gaming laptops have gained immense popularity over the past few years. With great performance, and greater portability, gaming laptops can form a perfect companion for those who are constantly travelling but do not want to stay away from their beloved titles. To this, ASUS ROG have introduced their own beast of a laptop, the ROG G752. This 17.3″ laptop comes with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M graphics card with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM, perfect for high-resolution gaming at fast frame rates. Moreover, it uses vapor cooling technology to keep the GPU temperatures low, maintaining a smooth and stable gaming experience. It’s loaded with the Intel i7-6700HQ “Skylake” processor with a base clock speed of 2.6 GHz and max boost clock speed of 3.5 GHz. 6th-generation Intel Core i7-67...
The Mindfuck That Fell Short – Asemblance Review
Think The Butterfly Effect. Then mix it with a little bit of PT and add a dab of The Stanley Parable, and you’ve gotten yourself the mind boggling psychological horror that is Asemblance. According to Nilo Studio’s official website, their first game is “the pilot episode of a mind-bending franchise inspired by The Twilight Zone, The X-Files and the Black Mirror Television series.” As exciting as it may sound, the game feels forgettable at the best. Mind you, there are plenty of great things about the game, but the execution feels a little sloppy, making the entire experience unfulfilling. Now you can’t talk much about the game without spoiling some of it, so we’ll try not to mention the story too much. Your aim is to enter numerous memories using a simulation, in order to...
Not As Simple As It Seems – Simple Spy PC Review
Simple Spy is a precision platformer by an Indian studio called Kodari Games. It is available on the PC (Steam), iOS and Android platforms. Developed by a two member team, this game is easy to get into, hard to master and sometimes straight up frustrating. Don’t get us wrong, that’s what we like about the game. The game combines excellent music, simple menu designs with minimalist aesthetics and hardcore gameplay. There are over 60 levels to master, each more difficult that the previous one, and you can choose from different characters. But there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Once you actually get into the game, you realize that it is harder than it seems to be. As you jump, roll and climb walls making your way around the obstacles, the precision element of the g...
Rocket Cars And Football, Because Why Not?! – Rocket League Collector’s Edition Review
A few years ago, if someone had said that you should play football with rocket fueled cars in a thunderdome style environment, they would’ve been quickly dismissed as a crazy, maybe psychotic person. But this is exactly what gave birth to something that almost everyone has come to love – Rocket League. The game has the players engulfed in a frenzy, and it’s hard to think of any reasons of why it shouldn’t. Psyonix’s new game on the block is a perfect blend of strategy and speed, requiring the players to make split-second decisions, while acrobatically flying across a football arena, trying to score against the opponents. The approach is pretty simple. You’re placed in a football field in a 1v1 / 2v2/ 4v4 match, and all you need to do is get past the defe...
ZION Xtreme DDR4 RAM Review
Rapid development in CPU technology has caused a ripple effect, demanding a similar push for development of better optimized and compatible products. With RAM becoming cheaper and cheaper by the day, DDR4 RAM has become very popular in the past year. Recently, ZION released its Xtreme DDR4 2133MHz RAM and we couldn’t wait to check it out. Like its previous counterparts, the DDR4 RAM maintains a similar design featuring their brand’s bold red colour, though we feel that the older DDR3 models looked slightly better. These RAM sticks come with inbuilt heat sinks for more efficient cooling. The RAM is clocked at 2133 MHz. An AIDA64 test was carried out to see the memory read, write and copy speeds for the RAM and the numbers were pretty impressive, with all the values greater than...
Review: iBall Exelance Compbook
iBall launched the CompBook Excelance and CompBook Exemplaire laptops in India about two months ago. Apart from their screen sizes, both laptops have almost similar specifications and are available for purchase across the country for price tags of INR 9,999/- and INR 13,999/- respectively. Here we are with a review of the Compbook Excelance. Processor 1.83Ghz Intel Quad Core Processor RAM 2 GB Internal Memory 32 GB Dimensions 291 x 203 x 24 mm Weight 1090 g Colors Blue Screen Size 11.6 inches (1366 x 768) Battery 10000 MAh Camera Yes Bluetooth Yes (4.0) Wlan/Wi-fi Yes USB yes (2 x 2.0 USB Ports) Operating System Windows 10 The Excelance runs on Windows 10. Powered by an Intel Atom Z3735F processor (quad core, 2MB L2 cache, 1.33GHz base clock, 1.83GHz Burst clock) paired with 2GB of DDR3 R...
Review: NVIDIA GTX 1070 Founder’s Edition
The wait is over. NVIDIA’s little brother to the GTX 1080 is out and we couldn’t wait to try it out. The GTX 1070 is a little toned down version of the 1080, and hence more affordable as well. More and more people want to know about it as the GTX 1080 might shoot their budget out of the comfort zone, so here we are with a quick review for the GTX 1070. Streaming Multiprocessors 15 CUDA Cores 1920 Base Clock 1506 MHz GPU Boost Clock 1683 MHz Total Video Memory 8 GB Texture Units 120 Memory Clock 4006 MHz Memory Bandwidth 256 GBit/s Bus Width 256 Bit ROP 64 Manufacturing Process 16 nm TDP 150 W Like it’s elder counterpart, the GTX 1070 is based on the new Pascal architecture. But instead of 2560 CUDA cores, it has about 1920 cores. Add to that 6.5 teraflops of computing pow...
Unplayable at Best: Homefront – The Revolution Quick Review (PS4)
Stutters, FPS drops, downright hanging – these are some of the best words that describe Homefront – The Revolution. Not to mention that the story is a drag as well. Don’t get me wrong, it has a novel approach towards first person shooters, but it fails to deliver at every step of the way. Homefront is about defending post-invasion America occupied by North Korean forces. In an alternate timeline, North Korea is the world’s biggest superpower, providing the US with all sorts of technological innovations. However, these come with a back door and one fine day, North Korea decides to shut all of it down, rendering the US defenseless. Cut to present day, where you play as Ethan Brady, a member of a resistance group rebelling against the KPA forces in the city of Philadel...
Quick Review: Sapphire Nitro Radeon R9 Fury Desktop GPU
The Fury is AMD’s series of top-notch high-end performance graphic cards, and Sapphire’s version of the R9 Fury is bang on buck. Needless to say, it is well equipped to handle anything you throw at it without breaking a sweat. Take a look at these specs to get started: GPU 3584 Stream Processors 28 nm Graphics Core Next (GCN) 1020 MHz Engine Clock Interface PCI-Express 3.0 Memory 4096 bit Memory Bus HBM Memory Type 1000 MHz Effective Memory Clock 4096 MB Size BIOS Support Legacy BIOS UEFI BIOS Displays Maximum 5 Outputs Output 1 x DVI-D 1 x HDMI 3 x DisplayPort Resolution 4096X2160 Pixel DisplayPort Resolution 2500×1600 Pixel Dual Link DVI Resolution 2160P HDMI Resolution API OpenGL® 4.5 OpenCL 2.0 DirectX® 12 Shader Model 5.0 Feature AMD CrossFire AMD PowerTune AMD ZeroC...
Quick Review: AMD FX 8350 Desktop CPU
Based on the Piledriver architecture, AMD FX-8350 is a mid-range octacore desktop processor. With a base clock speed of 4 GHz and max turbo speed of 4.2 GHz, it is an optimal choice for upgrading from old chips as well as building a new PC from scratch. No. of Cores 8 Processor Model FX-8350 Compatible Socket AM3+ Clock Speed 4 GHz Max Turbo Speed 4.2 GHz Power Consumption 125W Cache Memory Details L2 – 8MB L3 – 8MB The CPU comes with the same AM3+ socket as the old processors, so anyone with the compatible motherboard looking to upgrade can go for it. The FX-8350’s increased clock speed and improved efficiency make it faster than the old FX-8150 across the board. Moreover, like its other FX series counterparts, the processor is unlocked for overclocking, and overclocking this CPU i...
Quick Review: AMD FX 6350 Desktop CPU
The FX 6350 is one of the latest additions to budget gaming chips by AMD, with the special edition including the Wraith Cooler for near-silent operation. It has 6 cores, providing it with a high multi-tasking potential. This CPU operates at a stock clock speed of 3.90 GHz, 1.10 GHz faster than an average desktop processor. If that isn’t enough power, the FX-6350 has been tested by AMD to handle a maximum overclocked speed up to 4.20 GHz. The technical spec are as follows: No. of Cores 6 Processor Model FX-6350 Compatible Socket AM3+ Clock Speed 3.9 GHz Max Turbo Speed 4.2 GHz Power Consumption 125W Cache Memory Details L2 – 6MB L3 – 8MB Though AMD have been a little quiet about their CPU releases recently, it’s easy to see their hard at work improving their previous CPUs...
Quick Review: AMD A8-7600 Desktop APU
Based on the recent Kaveri architecture, the AMD A8-7600 APU aims to bring CPU and GPU closer than ever, now that they are already merged into one die. Take a look at the specifications before we dive into the actual review. Number of Cores 4 Processor Number A8-7600 Compatible Processor Socket Socket FM2+ Clock Speed 3.1 GHz Max Turbo Speed 3.8 GHz Thermal Design Power 65 W Cache Memory Details L2 – 4 x 1 MB Thermal Design Power 65 W Cache Memory Details L2 – 4 x 1 MB Intergrated Graphics type Radeon R7 Series Graphics Frequency 720 MHz It is a quad core CPU performing at a clock speed of 3.1 GHz and max turbo speed of 3.8 GHz. For a mid range APU, the A8-7600 has a decent performance. As per the 3D Mark 11 scores for a similar price range, this APU actually fares far better...