Slovenia-based EK Water Blocks has unveiled a new line of all-in-one liquid cooling solutions, the EK-Predator family. The company says that these new products are “the next big thing” that will shake things up in the liquid cooling market. That’s probably because they are geared for the mainstream market but use enthusiast-based components, providing a…

This article was published in the August 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. An ultra-budget gaming PC for the shallowest of pockets Length of Time: 1-3 Hours | Level of Difficulty: Medium The Mission One letter came in from retired army sergeant first class Harley Roam, who…

Top Deal: We get it, you didn’t splurge on your smoking fast gaming PC with dual graphics cards, loads of SSD storage, and a burly CPU just so you could game at 1080p. That’d be like buying a Lamborghini for grocery store runs. You could go with a 30-inch 2560×1600 panel for some added gaming…

Beef up your security Dropbox is making it more difficult for the bad guys to infiltrate your online storage account, provided you take advantage of the service’s new support for USB-based two-factor authentication. Effective immediately, Dropbox supports Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) security keys as an additional method for two-step verification, albeit only if you’re using…

No more searching for keys Microsoft hasn’t done away with Windows activation in Windows 10, though it did make things easier for users who perform clean installs on occasion. Once you upgrade and activate Windows for the first time, you can perform subsequent clean installs without having to track down your product key. In fact,…

Rough quarter Lenovo said it’s planning to reduce its workforce by around 5 percent, which works out to 3,200 job cuts. It’s a cost cutting measure that Lenovo anticipates will reduce expenses by about $650 million in the second half of this year, and $1.35 billion annually. News of the staff reduction came as Lenovo…