You can play modern high-end PC games at ‘Ultra’ settings on a Dell XPS 13 with this simple upgrade!
Here’s what you will need:
- PCIe to Thunderbolt 3 board
- PCIe riser cable
- 750w ATX Power Supply
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB
- Double-sided mounting tape…
Category: Reviews
AKiTiO Node Thunderbolt 3 eGFX Box
The AKiTiO Node is a 7Kg black metal powered external enclosure for connecting a full-size graphical processing unit (GPU) to any computer with a Thunderbolt 3 port. The front 12cm fan can be removed to make room for a water cooling radiator. The carry handle helps it to be more portable than a full tower PC, although it is bigger in real life than it seems in photos.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Deus Ex is widely regarded as one of the best computer games of all time, thanks to its immersive dystopian future setting, RPG-style character development, and a story that begins with a New York terror attack (before 9/11 happened), a genetically-designed disease outbreak (before CRISPR), and real conspiracy theories like global internet surveillance (before Snowden).
Fixing the XPS 13 9350
A follow-up to my previous post about the Dell XPS 13 9350. Thermal performance, dynamic brightness control, and a failed BIOS update.
Dell XPS 13 Review
Testing a Titan
We recently acquired a Nvidia GTX Titan graphical processing unit (GPU) for statistical computing at work, specifically double-precision floating point operations on the CUDA API. Before I lock it away in the server room I would like to see how it compares to my primary GPU at home – a Nvidia GTX 680, and my older GPUs – a pair of AMD Radeon HD 5770. This act of comparison is called benchmarking – running a number of standard tests and trials in order to assess the relative performance of a piece of hardware or software.