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Fortnite - the game that has captured everyone's attention from the media to your average gamer. Created by Epic Games, the game was released during 2011 but was officially released during 2017 with its Battle Royale mode. It is a paid early access ( for Save The World) but is expected to be free - to - play by late 2018. It has at least 125 MILLION players worldwide and approximately 3.2 MILLION concurrent players. But what's the big hype about it ?! BREAKDOWN Lets break down the core mechanics of the game it self and finally explain why is it so popular. First of all , Fortnite is a free - to - play with no Pay 2 Win at all! It all just boils down to pure skill and teamwork. The game offers in-game skins and cosmetic items but they do not affect your skill and is purely just for appearance !  The game it self is F2P for the Battle Royale mode which already entices ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed a 32GB TITAN card based on the already monstrous Titan V which was priced at $3000 . It supersedes any previous record holders of the most powerful card. However , don't expect to get your hands on it any time soon as it is only available to 20 lucky researchers at Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition 2018 at Salt Lake City. It is called the 'CEO' Edition but is still based on the same architecture as the vanilla Titan V but has a hefty increase of VRAM, from 12GB TO 32GB and other increases in performance. It is specifically designed for machine learning but one can definitely use it for gaming but its price tag isn't in reach for most consumers. Its performance is on par with Nvidia's much more expensive Tesla series.  Specs include :   Volta Architecture  125 Deep Learning Tera...

Welcome to the first post of Tech Talk where out first battle will roam on the grounds of Graphic Cards. A long debated topic in the computer industry is between the main two competitors : AMD  Nvidia Today I will discuss the best and worse of both companies and maybe  give you  an insight on your next video card selection. Nvidia and AMD have both been at a knives edge for competition and both offer an array of graphical options for you to indulge in ! Nvidia offers their Pascal line up of series 10xx GPUs with a choice for everyone from those who opt for a lower end choice such as the GTX 1050 whereas other will love the graphical horsepower of the GTX 1080ti and Titan XP however they are hinting to release their Volta line up of 11xx video cards. AMD are equally able and can offer you a selection from th...

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