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Wednesday, 16-March-2016 10:33:40 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Microsoft's push to get everyone upgraded to Windows 10 continues, even targeting corporate end-users directly, thanks aftahours. The company had previously announced that domain joined machines would soon see upgrade banners to Windows 10 if they were not managed by WSUS and after this month’s patches were released, network administrators are reporting that their users are now seeing an update prompt; some have reported seeing the messages even if they are using WSUS. It also seems some Windows 7 users are being automatically upgraded without (much) consent.
AMD have a new dual GPU card. AMD has been hinting at their dual-GPU for the better half of a year, but today is the day that we've been introduced to their dual-GPU: the Radeon Pro Duo. Up until now, we thought it would be called the Radeon R9 Fury X2, as well as the tease of Gemini, but AMD landed on the name of Radeon Pro Duo. More info here on Tech Report.
They've also unveiled XConnect Technology. What is the AMD XConnect Technology? It is basically an external graphics card solution for notebooks. It allows you to pair a desktop-class AMD Radeon graphics card with a compatible notebook using Thunderbolt 3. Let’s take a look!
PCPerspective have an interesting article on benchmarking DX12 / UWP games. Yesterday morning Andrew pointed me to a GitHub release for a tool called PresentMon, a small sample of code written by a colleague of Andrew's that might be the beginnings of being able to properly monitor performance of DX12 games and even UWP games.
Also an interesting read, this Wired article covers how Dropbox moved away from Amazon. In other words, those billions of files were stored on Amazon’s machines, rather than machines owned and operated by Dropbox. But not anymore. Over the last two-and-a-half years, Dropbox built its own vast computer network and shifted its service onto a new breed of machines designed by its own engineers, all orchestrated by a software system built by its own programmers with a brand new programming language.
HardOCP look at Far Cry Primal performance. A new game in the Far Cry series is out on the PC called Far Cry Primal. We will run FCP through its paces on six video cards including SLI and CrossFire with the latest drivers and game patch to see what it takes to push these pixels. We will discuss this games stripped down graphics quality compared to Far Cry 4 and what it means for gaming.
IBM have a VR tour of a nanotechnology lab.
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