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Steam Summer Picnic Sale, Day 2!

The Falcon
24th Jun 2016
PC Gaming
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The second day of the Steam Sales is here! Let us take a look at all the nice games with good discounts that are available.

Steam Summer Picnic Sale Begins!

Today is the first day of the Steam sales. We take a look at the current deals that caught our eye, pointing out the games that we feel are both good games, and that received a major discount.

New Updates to CPUs, Mobos, RAM, and SSDs on Logical Increments

Intel’s Skylake Pentium G4400 has been added to our Modest tier.

New PC hardware releases (and falling prices on older hardware) have caused a lot of small updates to our PC parts recommendations. This update focuses on improving our recommendations in the mid-range tiers. There are a lot of small updates, so let us take them category by category.

GTX 1070 Added to Logical Increments Parts List

The time has come. The GTX 1070 Founder’s Edition has launched, and it has majorly disrupted our graphics cards recommendations on the Logical Increments parts list.

High-End Intel Broadwell-E CPUs Added to Logical Increments

Intel has launched its latest set of high-end CPUs, the Broadwell-E series. This is a set of 4 CPUs, at $450, $650, $1100, and $1750 price points.

We have added the following CPUs to the Logical Increments parts list:

i7-6800K, $450, added to the Extremist tier
i7-6850K, $650, also added to the Extremist tier
i7-6900K, $1100, added to the Monstrous tier
i7-6950X, $1750, also added to the Monstrous tier

AMD’s Upcoming RX 480 GPU and Zen CPUs

Prepare yourself for lots of AMD news this year.

We are finally getting some solid information about upcoming AMD releases this year, so let’s get straight to it:

GTX 1070 to Appear on Logical Increments June 10th

Now that the GTX 1080 (Founder’s Edition ) is available and on the Logical Increments parts list, it’s time to turn our attention to NVIDIA’s more affordable GTX 1070, launching June 10th.

GTX 1080 Will Appear on Logical Increments May 27th

The NVIDIA GTX 1080 is releasing on May 27th, and early reviews (see below) indicate it is quite majestic.

This new card will launch at $700 for reference versions, with $600 versions coming later. The card performs between 20-25% better than the $1000 GTX Titan X, the previous generation’s king. Right off the bat, it has some impressive numbers:

NVIDIA 1000-Series Graphics Cards Launching in May and June

The GTX 1080 will be out by the end of the month.

The GTX 1080 will be out on May 27th.

Last night, NVIDIA unveiled its upcoming GeForce GTX 1000-series, based on its new 16nm Pascal architecture. The GTX 1080 launches May 27th for $600, while the GTX 1070 will arrive on June 10th for $380.

Updated GPU Benchmarks, and Saying Goodbye to the R9 290

Goodbye, old friend.

Greetings! We have two updates we’d like to share.

First, we’ll start with the sad news…

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