PC Gaming
Let the games begin Gigabyte is tapping into NVIDIA’s newest mobile Maxwell GPUs to power its P55K, a 15.6-inch notebook that’s the first of a new generation of “powerful gaming laptops.” In this instance, Gigabyte chose the GeForce GTX 965M with 2GB of GDDR5 video memory. Combined with the other parts, including an Intel Core…
It may not seem it at first, but Intel’s Haswell-E “Lite” is a sweet deal and a solid foundation for a build Length of Time 2-4 hours | Level of Difficulty: Medium The Mission We’ve found there are really two kinds of PC builders today. Those who are content with Intel’s “consumer” LGA1150 socket, and…
Blast from the past I remember back when optical drives were new (and expensive), there was a game called Myst that helped drive sales. The point-n-click adventure game was just too massive to fit on floppy, so if you wanted to play it, you needed a CD drive. This is the early 1990s I’m talking…
Android M is just around the corner It’s not really a secret that Google uses its Google I/O convention to unveil major versions of its mobile operating system known as Android. In case you were in doubt anyway, for a brief period, Google’s schedule for Google I/O later this month included a mention of Android…
For multi-device networks Linksys today announced the availability of what it claims is the industry’s first MU-MIMO (multiple-user, multiple input, multiple output) enabled 802.11ac wireless router, the EA8500. Or if you prefer long product names, you can also find it listed as the Linksys Max-Stream AC2600 MU-MIMO Gigabit Router. No matter what you call it,…
The new standard for Ultrabooks Dell’s XPS 13 line of laptops has been around for many years now, and while the company’s 2015 model doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel, Dell has made enough improvements to it to claim that it has the best Ultrabook on the market. We’ll see about that… The compact chassis…
Top Deal: Protip: Very few people actually need a massive power supply that takes wattage into four-digit territory. It’s easy to overspend on a PSU, though you’d be surprised at how much PC a well-built PSU with a modest wattage rating can handle. If you’re looking to save a bit of coin by being prudent…
Will 18 cores suffice? We’ve seen a lot of action in the micro server market as of late, but lest anyone forget, there’s still a need for servers on the other end of the spectrum, ones that deal with machine learning, real-time data analytics, and other mission critical tasks suitable for scale-out data centers. It’s…
At long last, a release date! It’s been over two years since Oculus Rift captured the hearts and imagination (and over $2.4 million) of backers willing to pledge support for something billed as the “the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games.” There’s been a lot of movement in the VR space since…
Follow these steps to avoid having licensed music removed from your YouTube videos If you’ve ever tried to legally inject a copyrighted song into your YouTube video (meaning you licensed it or otherwise own the song in question), you know it can be an exercise in frustration. It’s not that using music is difficult—the problem…