Turn your Windows PC into a Steam Machine With the upcoming Steam Machines, Valve is making a big play to bring PC gaming into the living room, but if you’re unwilling to wait for them to launch this fall, we’ve got a big tip that will help you bring PC gaming into your living room…
For budget builds AMD today introduced the newest addition to its A-Series line of desktop processors, the A8-7670K APU. Billed as an “affordable APU that combines the energy efficient processing power of an AMD CPU with the pixel pushing power of AMD Radeon graphics in one convenient package,” the new chip brings to the APU…
Top Deal: If this heat wave has you sweating profusely, can you imagine how the poor components in your rig feel? That’s especially true if your cooling scheme isn’t up to par. Luckily it’s pretty easy throw some fans at the problem, and if you’re looking for a big one, check out today’s top deal…
DDR4 and DDR3 duke it out One of the nice things about Intel’s Skylake microarchitecture is that it supports both DDR3 and DDR4 memory standards. That means you can dive into Skylake without having to buy new RAM, assuming you already own DDR3 memory. However, just because you can doesn’t necessarily mean you should. The…
Sky’s the limit for Skylake-S Intel is gearing up to launch its Skylake processors at the beginning of next month (the rumored launch is August 5), and most of what we’ve seen so far about the new architecture has been impressive. You can add overclocking potential to the list. Chinese-language website HKEPC posted a CPU-Z…
Over 37 million accounts compromised “Like us or not, this is still a criminal act.” Those are the words of Noel Biderman, CEO of Avid Life Media, the Toronto-based firm that owns AshelyMadison.com, a hookup website with the tagline, “Life is short. Have an affair.” He said them in a statement to KrebsOnSecurity after it…
Over 37 million accounts compromised “Like us or not, this is still a criminal act.” Those are the words of Noel Biderman, CEO of Avid Life Media, the Toronto-based firm that owns AshelyMadison.com, a hookup website with the tagline, “Life is short. Have an affair.” He said them in a statement to KrebsOnSecurity after it…
Tembo The Badass Elephant – out tomorrow on PS4 – is the type of game I’ve always wanted to make. As a kid growing up in England in the ‘90s, I would play a lot of platform games on the SNES and Mega Drive, and then come up with my own characters and game ideas,…
“Buy one, get ‘10′ free” With the countdown to Windows 10 in its final phase, don’t be surprised if you find PC vendors offering some steep discounts on older, Windows 8.1-running models like Hewlett-Packard is currently doing. The company is offering discounts of up to $350 on some of “our most popular Windows PCs.” As…
Intel wants you to stick to the original operating system As you may be aware, Intel has plans to offer a Ubuntu 14.04-running variant of its Compute Stick, PC-on-a-stick device that’s powered by the chip maker’s quad-core Atom Z3735F “Bay Trail” processor. While this new model will be a good $40 cheaper than its $150…