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Guide: AMD Radeon RX 460 vs RX 470 vs RX 480 Specs and Benchmark Comparison, which model should I choose?

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The new AMD RX and NVIDIA GTX 1000 are now available for purchase, a new generation of graphics cards with which their manufacturers have followed a very clear and distinct strategy.

On one hand, AMD has presented three new products: the RX 480, the RX 470 and the RX 460, while NVIDIA has presented a total of five: the 3GB GTX 1060, the 6GB GTX 1060, the GTX 1080 and the GTX TITAN X Pascal.

As we can see, the folks at Sunnyvale have made a more controlled launch, betting on upper middle and lower middle range products, but are working on Vega, their new high end graphics card, planned to be launched in 2017.

This strategy is easily understood for one simple reason, which is that they are trying to capitalize on the investment they made on the Fury and Fury X, equipped with HBM memory cards and that are capable of great performance.

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MSI VR Ready GT72VR Dominator Pro-015 Review (Intel Core i7-6700HQ, GTX 1070, 256GB SSD +1TB HDD)

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While the general PC market is not going through its best times, gaming oriented hardware is thriving with new needs emerging in the form of massive online competitions or the rebirth of virtual reality, and in this market gaming laptops have a very special niche.

MSI has been working hard in recent years to become one of the crucial points of reference in PC gaming. All this work has paid off as recently they have become the number one gaming laptop manufacturer in the world beating with a market share of 19% to its main rival ASUS, which was left behind with 15%.

MSI VR Ready GT72VR Dominator Pro-015

Staying on the crest of the wave ain’t easy so the company keeps launching new models with the latest technology on the market, and today the latests are the new NVIDIA Pascal GPUs for laptops like the GTX 1070 that the company has integrated into the GT72VR 6RE Dominator Pro Tobii that we will be analyzing today.

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ASUS ZenBook UX305UA-AS51 Review (6th Generation Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, Windows 10)

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The world of ultra portable computers has undergone a great evolution, specially after the important diversification that some manufacturers have created, who have incorporated new products with great features at constantly more affordable prices, a category in which we can perfectly put the ASUS ZenBook UX305UA.

Thanks to the courtesy of ASUS we have been able to test this unit, specifically the model that comes with a Core i5-6500U processor, 13,3 inch 1080p screen, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 256 SSD.

After using it for more than one month we have been able to draw a number of interesting conclusions which we will share with you in this analysis, where as always we will give the product a final score based on our personal experience.

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Full HD vs 4K: what differences are there?

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Until the 10th of July, UEFA Euro-cup will be the predominant media event on papers, online media and, above all, television.

Precisely, and despite other screens, like tablets, mobile phones or laptops, television is still the preferred media to enjoy sports competitions, in our own homes, at a friend’s or at public places like pubs and bars. And the bigger the screen,the better.

Generally, TV screens are categorised by the diagonal size of the screen, associating a larger size with a better quality of the device. But there are other parameters relevant in the quality of the screen, besides its diagonal inches.

Screen resolution

One of the characteristics of a television device, besides its size, is the screen resolution. Through history, this resolution has been increasing, coming from 365 lines of the analog TV, to the 576p of the SD (Standard Definition) resolution, later to the 720p of the HD (High Definition) and to the 1080p of the Full HD.

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AMD Radeon RX 470 vs RX 460: What‘s the difference and Which is worthy to buy?

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Today is the day. AMD has officially presented the RX 470 and RX 460; two graphics solutions that are meant to cover one of the mid-range and mid-lower-range segments and are marketed to those players who have a budget of approximately 100-200 dollars.

In the end, almost all of the leaks and rumors that we have been seeing have been confirmed, which has certainly surprised us, but we want to make use of all of the official information that AMD has given us to create a special article with which we hope to ease all of your doubts.

Like always, you can leave any question that you may have in the comments, and I will answer them without any problem.

Radeon RX 470, mid-range with high-range aspirations

RX 470 and RX 460

The RX 470 has proved itself to be a graphics solution that’s very similar in specs to the RX 480. As we can see in the photo, it has 2,048 shaders, keeps the 256-bit bus and has 128 texture units and 32 raster units. This means that its performance should be slightly inferior to that of the RX 480 4GB GDDR5, but we can’t tell the exact difference.

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Lenovo ideapad Y700-15ISK Gaming Laptop Review (256GB SSD, 4K Touch Display)

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Lenovo ventures into gaming world, too!

We all acknowledge Lenovo as one of the world’s most trusted and acclaimed brands, one of the most important worldwide computer manufacturers, well, it has not been a matter of luck. Lenovo’s remarkable strategy, which focuses on offering products with excellent relation between quality and cost (“price quality relationship marketing”), along with the good reputation of their ThinkPad computers specially designed for professionals, have established them as one of today’s world references.

Lenovo Y700

They got some time trying to set into the gaming pc market, and so in this opportunity we give you the review of Lenovo Y700 15”, the company’s ultimate creation for portable gaming.

The device has a very powerful hardware, features like: an Intel i7 – 6ªgeneration processor, and the brand new DDR4’s 16 GB memory capacity. Being a midrange portable gaming computer, it comes to you with the Nvidia GTX 960M, although, contrary to many to others, this one has been equipped with a 4Gb dedicated memory. As for storage capacity, it brings a magnetic 256GB SSD..

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Acer Predator 15 G9-591-70XR Review

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Predator emerges as a gaming brand.

The gaming fever seems to be living a great moment. Much it is so, that no brand has wanted to miss out this opportunity and has all joined the trend.

One of the most notable cases is Acer, which until now has concentrated in offering mid-range laptops at a very competitive price. To break with this image as older brands have done in the past, they have developed the Predator family to differentiate themselves from range-computers, with their own nomenclature and personality.

And now we’re going to make inside the first truly portable gaming laptop of the brand an analysis of the Acer Predator 15. We don’t count anymore with an unremarkable design that goes unnoticed, and its features are light years ahead from the rest of the laptops of the brand.

Acer Predator 15

Among the features of the Acer Predator 15, we count with a pointer hardware with an Intel i7 6th generation processor along with a NVIDIA GTX 980M graphic card, also with a primary 256 GB SSD with a 1 TB secondary disk.

It also counts with 16 GB of RAM DDR4 memory that can enlarge itself to 64 GB. We also have a series of innovating features in the cooling system which we will mention next and what makes it so attractive. The predators have come to give a good bite to the market.

Design

If you had to draw in your mind an Acer laptop, the image that you would have would certainly be different from this chassis. We can see how it has made a great effort to make a chassis with very innovating lines, and we can say that it has managed to have its own personality.

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UHDTV and QuadHD: Beyond the High-Definition.

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A story that is likely to be repeated all around the world and it’s something that has us like protagonists, just as mere spectators of the vagaries of technology. Surely, we have bought our cutting-edge FullHd TV just some weeks ago, thinking that this technology will last for a long time with us. Unfortunately, this is a wrong fact because in this precise moment are settling the bases of its replacement. One of this wonders is the UHDTV, which thanks to its resolution that can deploy in front our eyes, is going to make our cutting-edge TV become absolutely obsolete in a short period of time.

The competence to show beyond of what our eyes can see, it’s being developed in the design tables with a few but quite expensive things to show on the stores’ shelves. However, the way which technology goes in fast pacing, there is no need to be waiting plenty of time necessary for that situation to goes in reverse, and newly we will find ourselves in the mission to get the TV which works to enjoy the new experience.

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Best Antivirus for Windows 10 home

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Microsoft is making changes in Windows 10 and wants to make sure that it is the safest system against all sorts of malware, but many users still think that the solution is on an external antivirus and that it is mandatory, to keep computers away from threats. Thanks to a new round of questions from the German institute AV-TEST, now we can help you all to choose the best solutions for the windows 10 devices at home, from all the users surveyed about their favorite antivirus, the most voted was Bitdefender Internet Security2016. Bitdefender’s security has received the highest possible score (6 points) in all categories, from protection, performance and use, scoring above rivals such as Kaspersky or Norton. Other antivirus were very close to this position, but it has been Bitdefender who’s taken the medal for the best antivirus for Windows 10 of the moment.

Best Antivirus

What about free antivirus?

For many users, it is also important to find free solutions that work equally well, and if you think you have to pay to get full safety, you’re wrong. Avast Free Antivirus 2016 has achieved 6 points of 6 in protection, but only 4.5 points in performance. AVG Internet Security received 5.5 points in protection, 5 points in performance and 6 points in use.

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