There are fancy 4K TVs that cost less than their monitor equivalents Displays have come along way since the old days of CRTs. Everyone’s gone flat, and then there is the curved stuff, which I don’t really buy into yet. I mean, even the screen on Jean-Luc Picard’s desk was flat, and that’s way into…

Wading into the deep end of the pool Deepcool has been around for 18 years, but it’s kept out of the closed-loop liquid cooling (CLC) fray until now. Its Gamer Storm series includes several CLCs, and the Maelstrom 240 is the top of the line. It’s a sleek red-and-black affair with ribbed tubing, sleeved cables,…

Fast, compact and loud As both certified performance enthusiasts and smaller-PC fetishists, we wondered how long it would take to get Intel’s new eight-core hotness, the Haswell-E, in a tiny case. While Polywell’s MiniBox X9900x doesn’t exactly qualify as “tiny,” it’s probably as small as you’re going to see with Intel’s Core i7-5960X powering it….

The CPU and GPU maker expands to SSDs The market for solid-state storage has gotten pretty crowded, and most SSDs can use up all available bandwidth on the SATA III bus. With SATA Express and M.2 devices emerging, the transition away from older, slower technology is in full swing. Despite this, AMD is expanding its…

Top Deal: Nothing quite compares with a solid 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound speaker set, which allows you to hear all of the in-game explosions, gun shots, and enemies creeping up from every which direction. Ah, but that’s not always appreciated by your significant other or roommate in the wee hours of the morning. The…

If it looks like a duck but barks like a dog, what is it? We were really impressed with Hewlett-Packard’s Omen laptop when we reviewed it last year. With a design that paid homage to its Voodoo PC namesake, the model we received proved a capable gaming machine wrapped in a sexy chassis with a…

Get your PC ready for GTA V After what seemed like an eternity (and then some), Rockstar Games is finally ready to release Grand Theft Auto V to PC, which officially debuts at midnight on April 14, 2015, in the U.K. In the U.S., it should unlock today, April 13, at 7:00 PM ET /…

From the Virtual Boy to the Oculus Rift According to Merriam-Webster, virtual reality is: “an artificial world that consists of images and sounds created by a computer and that is affected by the actions of a person who is experiencing it.” We like to think of it in simpler terms and define virtual reality as:…