Will splashing out on expensive RAM make a real difference to PC performance? And if so, how much should you buy? PC Authority supply the benchmarks and lay the details bare.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Logically, a computer sees memory as it is. So you can't say that having x of higher speed memory is like having 2x of lower speed memory. The biggest chunk x can handle is x, NOT 2x. When 3x needs to be loaded, it will read it in 3 chunks of x. Programs need room, so a nice empty warehouse is better than a studio in the city.
Of course, there are uses for faster memory. Obviously graphics memory comes to mind. The framebuffer needs faster memory for reads and writes, and everything else that are just reads can be in slower memory.
For system memory, the memory controller is what determines what kind of memory you can use. A 4x167 CPU is best coupled with 2x333 memory. Step the memory up a notch and what will happen is that the CPU will be forced to overclock. Stepping up to 2x400 (ddr2 800) will mean the CPU will be 4x200.
Depends on how you use it.
"It's not the size. It's how you use it." <-- where was that from again???
Only bother if your going for games.
And loving it