PC Gaming
In this corner, wearing the red shorts: Fury X We’ve known about Fiji for months: AMD’s latest and greatest GPU, with HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) capable of an impressive 512GB/s of memory bandwidth. Couple that with 4,096 shader units compared to the previous 2,816 in Hawaii’s 290X/390X, and on paper, we can expect some impressive…
This article was published in the January 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. The strong pull of nostalgia in games Nostalgia is a sweet, sweet drug. It screws with our perceptions and judgment, but pays us back with a warm feeling and a sure sense that, once…
Windows 10’s new Start menu, what it comes with, and how to customize it One of the big beefs desktop consumers have with Windows 8 is the lack of a proper Start Button/Menu. Even Windows 8.1 doesn’t fully return the coveted feature back to its original taskbar seat. The thinking on Microsoft’s part during the…
Time Warner Cable has been hit with an informal net neutrality complaint Broadband provider Time Warner Cable was hit with an informal net neutrality complaint on Monday that claims the company is violating the FCC’s “no paid prioritization” and “no throttling” rules. The complaint was filed by streaming company Commercial Network Services (CNS) and essentially…
The Doctor answers your questions about second monitors, USB testing, Blu-ray codecs, PCI issues, and display crashes Multiple Displays I like to keep websites open or watch a movie on my secondary monitor while gaming. Would using a USB-attached device like an HP DisplayPort for the second display give me much of a performance increase,…
The doctor answers your questions about bloated systems, transferring SSDs, water cooling, maximizing performance, and fixing graphics cards Feeling Bloated Doc, I’m looking to upgrade my rig. Currently, the hardware is liquid-cooled. I’m running an Asus P9X79 motherboard, an Intel 256GB SSD, three WD My Book External hard drives and one 250GB WD hard drive,…
After drawing the ire of the open-source community over the past couple of weeks, SourceForge published a blog post today explaining how it will generate ad revenue going forward. The online software repository landed itself in hot water after it was found to be bundling adware with free and open-source software downloads, most notably the…
Float like a butterfly, look like a bee at a glance (+) Honey-baked HamSurprising roominess; lots of cooling options; pleasing aesthetics. (-) Breakfast SyrupPriced on the high side; handle can obstruct CPU coolers. Performance enthusiasts like big stuff. Big cases, big videocards, big monitors. But we also enjoy the challenge of fitting a lot into…
Top Deal: Why put up with screen tearing and stuttering during game play if you don’t have to? If you’re rocking an old monitor that stinks for gaming, it’s time to kick that LCD (or CRT, if it’s really old) to the curb and get something new. And if you want buttery smooth game play,…
Aggressive pricing We have good news and we have bad news. Starting with the bad, it doesn’t look like any of AMD’s forthcoming Radeon 300 series graphics card will feature the company’s Fiji GPU with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Instead, it looks as though AMD is tweaking and rebadging existing cards. That’s a bummer, but…