Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti review: A fine graphics card—but price remains high
Vega 56 should have led to lower prices. Instead, the 1070 Ti maintains the status quo.
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Mark Walton
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Mark is Consumer Editor at Ars Technica UK, and has been writing about video games and tech since his early twenties. He's written extensively for GameSpot, as well as reported for The Sun, the BBC, and Sky News. He's also a keen musician, having studied music at university, and still holds out hope that one day the music industry will recognise him for his "mad guitar skills".
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Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti takes fight to AMD RX Vega 56 for $450
2,432 CUDA cores, 8GB GDDR5, 256GB/s of memory bandwidth, and yes, you can overclock it.
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Ultimate Ears adds Amazon Alexa to Blast and Megablast speakers
$229 or $299 buys portability, IP67 water resistance, and excellent sound quality.
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Logitech Craft review: A slick keyboard combo that takes on the Surface Dial
It's not cheap, but Craft is well built and offers a great experience for creatives.
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Intel Coffee Lake Core i7-8700K review: The best gaming CPU you can buy
It even beats an eight-core Ryzen in many content creation apps—but boy does it run hot.
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Intel Core i9-7960X review: It beats Threadripper, but for a price
80% more cash than a 1950X for less than 20% more performance? Tough sell.
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Intel Coffee Lake i7-8700K brings six cores to the mainstream on October 5
Plus, i3 gets a bump up to quad-core, but prices are up across the board.
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New Amazon Fire HD 10 adds full HD display, hands-free Alexa
Amazon pairs compelling features with excellent build quality for $150.
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How to RGB: A system builder’s guide to RGB PC lighting
With the right set of components and Asus Aura, a fully-synced RGB system is within reach.
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Google Chrome will block autoplay video starting January 2018
Only muted video and user "interest in the media" will be allowed by default.
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Nintendo Switch lands Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Plus, Nintendo's Arcade Archives retro classics, red JoyCon, and a Pokemon-themed 2DS.
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Alleged Intel i7-8700K Coffee Lake benchmarks leak online
Six-core chip beats i7-7700K by 30% in Cinebench, but Ryzen may still have the edge.
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iPhone X: Software leak appears to confirm name, features, and specs
Meanwhile, iPhone 8 is an updated iPhone 7 with a glass back, and wireless charging.
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Hive 360 Hub brings sound-based security to the smart home
Detects sounds like smoke alarms and barking dogs, and sends out an online alert.
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Jaguar Land Rover to electrify all its cars by 2020
A mix of fully electric, plug-in hybrid, and mild hybrid vehicles are promised.
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Cancelled Pokémon Go gatherings return to Europe
"Safari Zone" runs in Denmark, Czech Republic, Sweden, and Netherlands in October.
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The best tech at IFA 2017
From shape-shifting laptops, to svelte smartphones, to 4K projectors, IFA had it all.
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Attention mini-ITX PC builders: Gigabyte has the world’s smallest Nvidia GTX 1080
The tiny Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Mini ITX 8G measures just 169mm in length.
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Sony Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact: Sony can do better than this
3D scanning tech does little to save Sony's phones from a drab design and $700 price.
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LG V30 takes on Galaxy S8 with “FullVision” display, dual cameras
After a succession of middling phones, LG has finally made a desirable one.
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Asus Zenbook Flip laptops get quad-core Intel CPUs and discrete graphics
ZenBook Flip 14 called "world's thinnest 2-in-1 with high-performance discrete graphics."
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Asus’ Windows Mixed Reality headset is priced on the steep side
Sure the "3D Polygon" shell looks nice, but is it worth a premium?
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Acer Predator Orion 9000 is an 18-core, quad-GPU desktop for l33t gamers
Plus, a curved 35-inch, 21:9, 1440p, 200Hz G-Sync gaming monitor dubbed Predator X35.
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Final Fantasy 15 on PC: Has Square Enix lost its way, or do graphics really matter?
FFXV director talks Nvidia GameWorks, the death of consoles, and playing games on robots.
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Potential Half-Life 3 plot outed by series writer Marc Laidlaw
Given Valve's recent e-sports focus, this is about as close to closure as we're going to get.
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Final Fantasy 15: Windows Edition coming to PC in 2018
Promises the "ultimate quality" with 4K HDR support and Nvidia Gameworks enhancements.
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Jurassic World Evolution is a theme park sim from Planet Coaster dev Frontier
Theme Park with dinosaurs coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One in 2018.
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Nokia 8: An all-aluminum flagship with same-day Android security updates
At €600 (~£550) it's on the edge of value—but where's that beloved Nokia charm gone?
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AMD Threadripper 1950X review: Better than Intel in almost every way
Cheaper, faster, and more feature-rich than Skylake-X—what's not to love?
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Intel 18-core Core i9-7980XE launches September 25 for $2,000
Sports a 2.6GHz base clock and 4.4GHz boost—but can it combat AMD's Threadripper?
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Red Hydrogen phone gets a video preview: It’s big—very big
$1,500 smartphone has camera quality "only surpassed by Red's bigger cameras."
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The external graphics dream is real: Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box reviewed
But even with a Thunderbolt 3 connection, there are still trade-offs to be made.
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Nvidia and Remedy use neural networks for eerily good facial animation
The neural network just needs a few minutes of video, or even just an audio clip.
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RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56: AMD will “trade blows” with GTX 1080 for $499
$399 RX Vega 56 goes up against GTX 1070; RX Vega 64 goes for $499—both launch August 12.
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Sky Soundbox: A high-end sound bar, with a massive discount for subscribers
Soundbox developed by audio company Devialet. Priced at £800, or £300 for subscribers.
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AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and 1200: True quad-core CPUs for just $130 and $110
Ryzen 3 competes with Intel i3—but don't forget it lacks an integrated GPU.
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