Striping and parity across three drives, oh my! Of all the RAID levels that consumers are likely to use on their home systems, RAID 5 is one of the more exotic choices. While RAID 0 and 1 are pretty straightforward, RAID 5 is a little more complex. As we discussed in earlier articles, RAID 0…
Top Deal: Had Intel stuck with its Netburst architecture, maybe we’d be looking at 20GHZ single-core CPUs by now. Who knows where that direction might have taken us. In the end, efficiency and multi-core processors won out, leading to chips like the one that’s the focus of today’s top deal, an AMD FX-9590 Vishera 8-Core…
Looking beyond Windows Much of what we cover on Maximum PC revolves around Microsoft’s Windows operating system, though lest anyone forget, there’s this alternative called Linux. And of course there are many varieties of Linux to choose from, including Fedora 22 beta, which is now available. According to the Fedora Project, desktop and workstation users…
It’s time for an introduction Wow, has it been nine years already? Happily (or sadly, to some of my critics), this isn’t another article bidding Maximum PC readers a fond farewell—we’ve had too many of those over the past several years. Instead, it’s a “thank you” note to those of you who’ve stuck around to…
Get your starting at $955 We first spied CyberPower PC’s funktastically designed Trinity gaming PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. Back then, Trinity was in the prototype stage, and all too often we’ve seen such things turn to vaporware. Not this time. CyberPower today announced that its Trinity PC…
Remarkable 15-year run Linksys today announced that it has sold over 100 million wired and wireless routers around the world. No other company has crossed the 100 million mark in router sales, a milestone that took Linksys just over 15 years to accomplish. As a pioneer in the router market, the company’s first consumer grade…
Hello again, PlayStation fans! Here at iam8bit, we’re huge fans of Journey. It’s a masterpiece — and we can’t wait to relive its epicness when it arrives on PS4! Last week, I had the pleasure of sharing a behind-the-scenes look at the Hotline Miami 2 Collector’s Edition vinyl, and I’m back today with some very…
Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations is the newest game based on the hit Cartoon Network series. It takes our heroes and the Land of Ooo to a whole new dimension of gameplay and visuals on PS4 and PS3. What new dimensions, you ask? Read on! At its heart, Finn and Jake Investigations is a…
We also say adios to technical editor Tom McNamara. In episode 238 of the No BS Podcast, we tackled a number of hot issues that include the PC release of GTA V and what it looked like in 4k using three Titan Xs. We then switched over to Linux’s chicken-or-the-egg problem with proprietary software and…
This unnamed beauty cleans up real nice Most case mods involve flashy lights, obvious branding, and a shtick of some sort. Brendon Serack’s unnamed build is all about clean lines, clean componenets, and clean cable management. It may not be a toaster, but it’s still a stunning rig that’s more than worthy of being this…