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The ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 sets a new overclock record

Each time a new CPU, RAM or graphics card comes onto the market, overclockers get down to work and to find ways to reach their limits to beat new records. The German overclocker Dancop has succeeded in setting an ASUS ROG Strix GTX 1080 graphics card to 2.645 MHz in boost mode, making it the fastest GTX 1080 in the world.

For this, he has had to use liquid nitrogen and a motherboard ASUS ROG Rampage V Edition 10 with an 10 core i7-6950X , with which they have beat the GPUPI 1B 1x test record of 13 seconds with an amazing 492 milliseconds when using the ASUS ROG Strix GTX 1080.

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The New Pascal-based Nvidia Titan X and Quadro GPUs

Nvidia, a leading graphics card manufacturer, has recently announced new GPUs based on its next-generation Pascal architecture. The Nvidia Titan X is a step above the 1080 GTX, while the new Nvidia Quadro is suited to the professional sector.

The Nvidia Titan X – New flagship

The new Nvidia Titan X promises benefits that are 50% greater than the 1080 GTX.

According to Nvidia, the Titan X is able to offer performance up to 50% higher than the company’s previous flagship, the 1080 GTX, which was already the most powerful GPU at the time. While the latter only boasted with 8 GB of GDDR5 RAM memory with a 256-bit bus, the Nvidia Titan X has 12 GB and a 384-bit bus, with a consumption of 250 W – just 70W superior to GTX 1080 and just as much as the old GTX Titan X.

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AMD Radeon RX 470 vs RX 460: What‘s the difference and Which is worthy to buy?

Today is the day. AMD has officially presented the RX 470 and RX 460; two graphics solutions that are meant to cover one of the mid-range and mid-lower-range segments and are marketed to those players who have a budget of approximately 100-200 dollars.

In the end, almost all of the leaks and rumors that we have been seeing have been confirmed, which has certainly surprised us, but we want to make use of all of the official information that AMD has given us to create a special article with which we hope to ease all of your doubts.

Like always, you can leave any question that you may have in the comments, and I will answer them without any problem.

Radeon RX 470, mid-range with high-range aspirations

RX 470 and RX 460

The RX 470 has proved itself to be a graphics solution that’s very similar in specs to the RX 480. As we can see in the photo, it has 2,048 shaders, keeps the 256-bit bus and has 128 texture units and 32 raster units. This means that its performance should be slightly inferior to that of the RX 480 4GB GDDR5, but we can’t tell the exact difference.

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Leaked official specifications of the RX 470 and RX 460

AMD made a presentation the other day to show the media specialized new Radeon RX 470, and RX 460 are coming. As always, “someone” has not respected the confidentiality agreement and leaked slides that show the technical characteristics of these two graphs, as well as its theoretical performance in games.

The same old story, and now we have complained many times. All media have this information in advance (logical, we have to report it when they arise, in addition to doing appropriate reviews), but we cannot publish because we have signed a confidentiality agreement, but there is always someone who not only skips but also it puts watermark to your images so that when we do echo others quit their website in large letters.

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How to Reset Android Phone to Factory Settings (Fully Erase Everything)

Before selling any computer, smartphone or tablet, it is essential to protect your privacy by formatting the device. Formatting – as you surely know already – is a process by which you delete all files on a drive keeping it serviceable.

Be careful though: simple formatting is not enough. To make sure that your old data has been truly deleted and cannot be subsequently recovered with some specialist software (like the ones I mentioned in the tutorial on how to recover photos on Android), you need to overwrite all the empty space on the drive using a process called “wiping”.

I know that it may seem like a tricky thing to do – a prerogative of experienced users – but it really is not so. In order to prove it, I will now explain how to format Android and how to “wipe” a smartphone or a tablet using some free apps. I bet you will be surprised by how simple it is!

Preliminary operations

Backup

Before formatting your device, save a backup copy of all its files and apps. There are a lot of apps suitable for the purpose, and I will point some out to you right away:

  • Titanium Backup (Need Root)- the best app for backups on Android devices. It saves apps and data on external or internal storage. I have explained how to use it in quite some detail in my guide about how to backup Android.
  • EasyBackup – another backup app, less powerful than Titanium but works without root access. You can find info and instructions on how to use it in the post about Android backup I have just linked.
  • SMS Backup & Restore – Excellent free app that lets you back up all text messages saved on your phone.

Speaking about text messages, I must point out my post on how to re-install WhatsApp where I have shown you the proper steps to save WhatsApp chats and restore them if necessary

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How to Backup Android Phone to PC or Cloud

Are you afraid that your dear – and pretty expensive – Android smartphone could suddenly get broken? That you could lose all apps and data you saved on the device? Well, it’s good of you to be worried of it. But don’t be paranoid!

By now, there are really lots of apps with which you can save data from Android devices and, when needed, restore it pretty easily. Install one of those on your smartphone, and you’ll finally free yourself from worries of losing texts, contacts, photos, videos, calendar appointments or any other data saved on the device’s memory.

Be careful though: the most effective and complete apps for Android’s backup need the root. This means that – if you haven’t done it yet – you must read my guide about how to root Android and unlock you phone, by following its instructions. Then, roll up your sleeves and find out precisely how to make an Android backup, with the instructions I’m giving to you. I assure you everything will be easier than you think.

Titanium Backup

Titanium Backup is the top about Android backup. It lets you copy all the apps installed on your phone, their settings and data, offering, at the same time, a quick restore option, which allows you to reintegrate them on the device just with a few “taps”.

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Lenovo ideapad Y700-15ISK Gaming Laptop Review (256GB SSD, 4K Touch Display)

Lenovo ventures into gaming world, too!

We all acknowledge Lenovo as one of the world’s most trusted and acclaimed brands, one of the most important worldwide computer manufacturers, well, it has not been a matter of luck. Lenovo’s remarkable strategy, which focuses on offering products with excellent relation between quality and cost (“price quality relationship marketing”), along with the good reputation of their ThinkPad computers specially designed for professionals, have established them as one of today’s world references.

Lenovo Y700

They got some time trying to set into the gaming pc market, and so in this opportunity we give you the review of Lenovo Y700 15”, the company’s ultimate creation for portable gaming.

The device has a very powerful hardware, features like: an Intel i7 – 6ªgeneration processor, and the brand new DDR4’s 16 GB memory capacity. Being a midrange portable gaming computer, it comes to you with the Nvidia GTX 960M, although, contrary to many to others, this one has been equipped with a 4Gb dedicated memory. As for storage capacity, it brings a magnetic 256GB SSD..

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How to boot iPhone in DFU mode

Are you trying to restore or update your iPhone, but you can’t complete the operation due to unusual error messages shown in iTunes? Don’t panic. Before you call Apple support service, or even think about a replacement of your apple phone, try to reset the device through DFU mode.

The DFU (acronym for Device Firmware Update) is a modality that lets you reinstall or update the iPhone firmware, bypassing its boot loader, so avoiding all those obstacles and troubles that sometimes could make iTunes freeze or crash.

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How to Restore / Factory Reset an iPhone / iPad

You have decided to sell your iPhone but do not know how to restore it and erase all data on the device? You have been noticing strange malfunctions that make your iPhone lose connection or “get stuck” from time to time? Do not despair: I am here today to explain how restore an iPhone and deal with this kind of situations.

What are you saying? You are not very good when it comes to technology and you are afraid that my suggestions are going to be too hard to follow or too complex for you? You have no reason to worry – I can assure you of that. You do not need to be a computer whiz or use any kind of specialist software to reset an iPhone, you have my word. The only thing you are actually going to need is a few spare minutes, together with a little patience and attention – nothing else.

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How to recover Android photos Free

How many times have I told you? Photos you take with your smartphone should not stay on the phone’s memory: you need to transfer them regularly to your PC and back them up on HDDs and memory cards.

But you did not listen, and now you find yourself with a dozen photos you liked very much simply vanished into thin air. What are you saying? Are you blaming some app that promised to delete useless files and picture duplicates? It does not matter.

The damage is done and now you have to try to fix it. Roll up your sleeves right away and find out how to recover Android photos thanks to the apps I am going to recommend you in the following paragraphs; with a bit of luck you will be able to recover all the lost shots.

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