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This article was published in the July 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Moore’s Law turns 50 Now that we’re marking the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, everyone is offering opinions about its history and future. Why shouldn’t I join the fray? After all, as a microprocessor…
So you want to play PC games, and can’t spend your rent money on a rig? Don’t worry, we’ve got your back Gamers don’t always have a ton of money to spend on a machine, so we designed the Budget Gamer to get the most bang for the buck. Make no mistake, though: This machine…
Top Deals: Monitors have gone through several changes over the years. Remember bulky CRTs? And those square-shaped LCDs? Both still have their fans, but you’re ready for a different experience, an ultra-wide monitor will deliver one. Even better, you don’t have to spend a fortune on one. Just check out today’s top deal for an…
4,000MHz or bust G.Skill has been preparing for Intel’s Skylake-S launch by releasing new DDR4 memory kits at a pretty consistent pace. Yes, Skylake CPUs support both DDR3 and DDR4 RAM, but if you’re scoping out a Z170-chipset motherboard, it’s the latter you’ll need. The question is, which kit? There are many to choose from,…
Turning the Xbox One into a Steam Machine When Microsoft announced that anyone with an Xbox One would be able to stream their games to a PC running Windows 10, we thought, ‘Cool! Now let’s see that work in reverse.’ And to be honest, we’re a little creeped out — apparently Microsoft can read our…
Back to the future Microsoft made a bold move when it introduced Windows 8 back in October 2012. The platform provided a new Start Screen that focused on touch and live tiles instead of mouse/keyboard input and static shortcuts. While this touchy new interface was great for tablets, many desktop consumers weren’t happy with the…
Top Deal: Remember when you had hair? And sanity? That’s before you pulled it all out and lost your sanity trying to decide between the sweet performance of a solid state drive or the capacity and price-per-gigabyte of a mechanical hard drive. Tough decision, but if you can only choose one, why not choose both?…
Get a grip! There’s a new mouse that’s about to be let out in the wild — the Castor by Mionix. By who, you say? You get a pass if you haven’t heard of Mionix. It’s a Swedish company that was co-founded by Peter Nygren in 2007, and while it doesn’t have the same brand…
No pardon for you! The Obama administration is not going to pardon Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who went on the lam after disclosing thousands of classified documents to the media. That much was made clear by the White House’s long awaited response to a petition seeking a “full, free, and…
New memory technology runs circles around NAND Few would argue against the notion that today’s high performance solid state drives are blazing fast, especially compared to mechanical hard disk drives, but imagine what tomorrow’s SSDs will be like. Before you do that, take into consideration that Intel and Micron just unveiled a new non-volatile memory…