Tuesday, October 31, 2017
GEFORCE GTX BATTLEBOX
The GeForce® GTX Battlebox is a powerful gaming rig that gives you everything you need to step up your gaming experience. The extreme power of the world’s best graphics cards. The latest high-performance hardware from top system builders. And a history of dominating every game.
Get battle-ready with the ultimate gaming machine, whether you're a first-person marksman or an eSports professional. Battlebox Ultimate combines the extreme power of a GeForce GTX graphics card with the latest high-performance hardware to bring you an incredible experience—every time. Gear up. Play like the pros.
DirectX 12: Discover features like realistic smoke and shadow effects for more lifelike gaming
Stunning 4K/HDR: Enjoy your favorite 4K games at their most brilliant at max settings.
STEP UP TO GREAT PC GAMING
Step into the arena battle-ready with the Battlebox Essential, a finely tuned rig optimized for gaming. The recommended rig for today’s top games like Overwatch and League of Legends delivers 1080p at 60 FPS, lifelike gaming with DirectX 12, next-gen GeForce GTX graphics cards, and advanced gaming hardware. It’s a whole new way to step up your game.
CPU Intel Core i7 or Intel Core i9 Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5
Memory 16 GB+ DDR4 RAM 8 GB+ RAM
Storage SSD SSD
OS WIN 10 WIN 10
All specifications are minimum requirements to earn the Battlebox badge.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Intel core i9
Intel core i9
Intel made a big splash at Computex with its new Core i9 X-series family, with the crown jewel being its 18-core processor for desktops. But until we haven't heard much in the way of technical details. Today, Intel revealedthat the 18-core i9-7980XE will feature a base speed of 2.6GHz, with a Turbo Boost 2.0 clock of 4.2GHz. And using Turbo Boost 3.0, which speeds up performance of its fastest two cores, it'll reach 4.4GHz.
That's just below the 4.5GHz top speed of Intel's Core i7-7700K, its fastest mainstream processor for desktops. Basically, that means the 18-core chip will be no slouch when it comes single-threaded performance for games.
Yes, it might seem strange to see the company's most powerful processor with a base clock speed under 3GHz. But what's more important are the boost figures, which will kick in when you actually need more computing power. As for the other members of the X-series family, the 16-core model will feature speeds between 2.8GHz and 4.4GHz, while the 14-core version starts at 3.1GHz. As usual, Intel can reach higher speeds on chips with fewer cores since there's less of a heat issue to worry about. It'll be a while until we get full benchmarks from these chips, but Intel gave us a small preview from its own testing. The 16-core i9 CPU reached a Cinebench R15 score of 3,200, while running an NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti GPU. That's below a 24-core Xeon E5 2697, according to 3D Fluff's database. The quad-core i7-7700K, meanwhile, scored just 966 on that same benchmark.
You can nab the 14- to 18-core i9 CPUs on September 25th while the 12-core version is coming sooner, on August 28th. The other chips are already available.