PC Gaming
At a Glance (+) Carmen Miranda: Good 1080p performance; beefy cooling; runs quiet. (-) Hokey Pokey: Aging architecture; less efficient than Maxwell; needs lower quality settings on some recent releases. Doing the Tonga Tango AMD’s Tonga architecture has always been a bit of an odd man out. It’s essentially a refined version of the old…
Microsoft’s Mandy Tidwell took to the company’s blog this week to ensure governments that Windows 10 has the best security to thwart hackers. Tidwell says that security was a prime focus as Microsoft developed Windows 10, which was released last summer. The platform promises to protect governments from the growing rise of attacks better than…
Following recent news that Windows 95 can be run in a browser without any plugins, the Internet Archive announced on Thursday that it has added hundreds of Windows 3.1 programs to its collection. Now you can relive the days of the early 1990s when consumers played games and carried out simple tasks in Microsoft’s popular-but-now-ancient-looking…
Being prepared As you probably know already, Hitman is getting a reboot. A beta version will available to PlayStation 4 gamers tomorrow, followed by a beta release to Windows PCs on February 19, 2016 (a week from Friday). Can your PC handle it? That would have been tough to answer prior to today, but thanks…
4K on a budget Going 4K doesn’t have to be expensive, not anymore. AOC made sure of that with its new U2879VF monitor featuring a 28-inch display with a 3840×2160 resolution (@60Hz). The asking price? About $400 when it comes out next month. At that size and price combination, you wouldn’t expect an In-Plane Switching…
Useful software or bloat? If you’re not the type to install a custom ROM on your Android phone, then the first thing you’re likely to do when buying a new handset or tablet is see which bits of pre-installed software can be removed. The rest can be tossed in a custom ‘junk’ folder (out of…
Tech tips and tools that will help you be more productive While we all wish we could have personal assistants to get ourselves through the day (because being an adult is hard), most of us have to forego that luxury. Luckily, computers and technology have come a long way, and can help us save time,…
Top Deal: You’ve seen your share of monitors—black and white models, those bulky CRTs, early era LCDs that were thick and heavy, and today’s crop. Each and every time, you tell yourself, “Self, I want a big display, but doggone it, the bang-for-buck is so much higher if I go smaller.” Well, it’s time you…
The Pirate Bay this week announced a plugin offered by Torrents Time, offering users the ability to stream movies directly from torrent files. Currently in beta, the feature isn’t made obvious until users click on a torrent and see the “stream it” link residing between the torrent link and the anonymous download link. This is…
Top Deal: Today’s top deal is a little different than usual. It’s not actually a product with a discount, but a new product that’s really, really unique—it’s the MSI GT72S G Tobii-805 Gaming Laptop with Tobii Eye Tracking Technology for $2599 with free shipping (Exclusive Launch at Newegg). This beast of a laptop (17.3-inch display,…