A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD2 - First Realtek 1185 Media Streamer in the Wild!

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  464 words  |  Tandra Barner

After CES 2011, we had written about A.C.Ryan trying to get into the US market with their new product lineup. One of the products we covered in the write up was the second generation PlayOn!HD2, an updated version of their flagship product from last year. While the first generation product was based on the Realtek 1073DD chipset, the second generation is based on the Realtek 1185DD. In order to provide A. [Read More]

All K-pop tours in 2024, confirmed. From Enhypen, to Aespa

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1319 words  |  Billy Koelling

Get ready to be immersed in a kaleidoscope of electrifying performances, mesmerizing choreography, and the undeniable charisma of your favorite K-pop stars. From chart-topping girl groups, to fiery boy bands, the year promises a lot of sweat and tears as a huge lineup of tours are set to take off in 2024. Big names like Aespa and Enhypen are just some of the impressive K-pop acts that will be touring this year. [Read More]

Ampere For Gaming, Starting With RTX 3080 & RTX 3090

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  20 minutes  |  4221 words  |  Martina Birk

With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the next generation of video cards, the GeForce RTX 30 series. Based upon the gaming and graphics variant of NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture and built on an optimized version of Samsung’s 8nm process, NVIDIA is touting the new cards as delivering some of their greatest gains ever in gaming performance. All the while, the latest generation of GeForce will also be coming with some new features to further set the cards apart from and ahead of NVIDIA’s Turing-based RTX 20 series. [Read More]

Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, and 12 other actors who were way older than the characters they play

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1698 words  |  Kelle Repass

Acting is magic and, while Scarlett Johansson was wrong when she said she should be able to play “any person, tree or animal” when confronted with her choice to play an Asian character, there are some liberties actors can take when choosing the characters they take on. One of those is age — a factor that has been virtually made moot by the advent of make-up and CGI. Recommended Videos As a result, Harrison Ford has been able to reprise his character of Indiana Jones in flashback scenes set in the 1940s, when his character was 35 years old, despite Ford being 79 during filming. [Read More]

ASUS GR Series Goes Broadwell i5-5200U: The GR6

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  550 words  |  Billy Koelling

At Computex last year ASUS formally announced its mini-PC platform in the shape of the GR8. It was designed to fit within a bookcase on a shelf and act as a mini-Steam PC for gaming and streaming duties with its i7 U-series Haswell processor and integrated GTX 750Ti. The GR8 was ultimately designed to accelerate a niche where small form factor gaming was at the heart of the home. While we haven’t reviewed it at AnandTech as of yet, one could easily predict that it was going to end up getting a refresh for Broadwell, which is the case today. [Read More]

Bam Margera says he was basically pronounced dead after battle with pneumonia

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  432 words  |  Patria Henriques

It sounds as though Bam Margera was in even greater dire straights than previously believed when it was reported that he was “fighting for his life” in a San Diego, California hospital last month. As the 43-year-old Jackass star told his old pal Steve-O on his Wild Ride! podcast this week, he very nearly lost that battle. Recommended Videos “Well rock and roll, we have a lot to talk about because I was basically pronounced dead on Elvis’s birthday, Dec. [Read More]

Best episodes of Attack on Titan to binge-watch before The Final Season: Part 3 releases

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2047 words  |  Billy Koelling

Attack on Titan stands on the precipice of its grand finale, with MAPPA coming back next year to wrap the story of Eren Yeager and the Subjects of Ymir with one last epic run. Recommended Videos The journey has been long in the telling. From the first season where both the viewers and our protagonists conceived the Titan threat as an existential crisis, season two where they realized the Titans are their compatriots, to seasons three and four which twisted the narrative into a scale model of prejudice and conflict in human history, this philosophical allegory of a story has taken a decade to unfold. [Read More]

Best standing desk deals: Plenty of options under $200

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1014 words  |  Tandra Barner

If you spend a lot of your day working at a desk, adding one of the best standing desks to your office is worth considering. A standing desk can boost comfort and productivity, and even improve your overall health. If you feel like you’re spending too much of your day sitting at a desk, we’ve got some good news, as there are quite a few standing desks seeing impressive discounts right now. [Read More]

Corsair Carbide Air 240 Case Exterior

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  678 words  |  Tandra Barner

Corsair Carbide Air 240 Exterior "And we shall call it…mini-540". This is what Corsair must have been thinking while designing their latest addition to the Carbide series, the Air 240. The new Micro-ATX case looks exactly like an undersized version of the Carbide Air 540 that we reviewed a little over a year ago. With a size of 315mm × 265mm × 400mm (H×W×D) and a total volume of 0.0334m3, the Carbide Air 240 is not a very compact Micro-ATX case, yet it takes less than half the volume of the Air 540 (61. [Read More]

CPU & Memory Subsystem - The Snapdragon 845 Performance Preview: Setting the Stage for Flagship Andr

 Posted on September 1, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1382 words  |  Patria Henriques

CPU & Memory Subsystem As we mentioned earlier, the Snapdragon 845 is the first SoC employing ARM’s new cluster technology DynamiQ. The different CPU cores are no longer hosted in dedicated cluster subsystems but are now integrated in a larger DynamiQ cluster. This change means that the cluster cache which to date was referred to as the L2 cache becomes the L3 cache and the individual CPU cores now receive a new private per-core L2. [Read More]