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4 Things You’ll Need to Build a High-End Gaming Keyboard
For serious gamers looking to improve their experiences, keyboards shouldn’t be overlooked. While some gamers will debate which is the better option between conventional controllers and keyboards, the latter approach seems to win out for PC users. And there are some instances, and some games, for which a mouse and keyboard setup is clearly superior.
Which Components to Prioritize When Building a Gaming Computer
Every serious gamer knows that it’s the technology behind the skill that enables you to go above and beyond in your strategy, reach record-high scores, and ultimately, become an all around better gamer. If you’re ready to commit to better gaming, you’ll likely want to start by updating your gaming rig.
Real Time Ray Tracing in Quake 2 in 2017, or How Far We’ve Actually Come in a Year
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NVIDIA’s real time ray tracing hype has been taking a beating for its low performance when compared to traditional render methods – namely rasterization, which is what is used in current games. To fully appreciate just how amazing the technology really is, let’s take a look at real time ray tracing from last year. The game is 20 years old and the card was the prime of its time – Quake 2 on a Titan Xp.
3dfx Interactive and Voodoo Graphics – The Technologies Within
“You could play a PC CD-ROM game without a 3DFX card, but I wouldn’t recommend it” – Gary Keith of Eidos at the time. That’s quite a powerful statement. Most of you have heard of the now-defunct company 3dfx Interactive, which was acquired by NVIDIA in December 2000 for $ 112 million (a process which took more than eight years to finalize), but who were they and what did they do that immortalized them in time? What innovations did they bring to the table that either stuck with us for a significant period of time, possibly appearing in different iterations in other products, and what has stuck with us ever since?
