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Giving back to the community always feels good At Maximum PC, we do a lot with our computers, work, content consumption, and gaming. We love gaming. Gaming is the one major industry that really pushes the PC ecosystem forward. So what better way to support the community than to give back? Ubisoft is celebrating the…
Intel delivers an impressive first step in the ultra-small PC movement When Intel announced the Compute Stick earlier this year at CES, we were excited. There are a handful of devices already on the market that get content onto your TV. Amazon’s Fire Stick and Google’s Chromecast are both competent devices, and then there are…
Top Deal: Do you remember the first time you did it? The pure ecstasy, the way it felt, the noises your actions made? And once you do it, you can’t get enough of it! Ah yes, the joy of typing on a mechanical keyboard. If you’re a virgin to the pure delight of pecking away…
Find bugs, get paid If you’re good at finding security flaws in software, you could add more than just a little jingle to your pockets. That’s because Microsoft is significantly expanding its bug bounty program, part of which includes a new bounty for Project Spartan, the codename for Microsoft’s new browser found in Windows 10….
A real desktop for virtual gaming You can feel that we’re on the verge of a virtual gaming revolution, or so several companies heavily invested in VR technology hope. We’re right there with them — not from an investment standpoint, but from the perception of a fan, as we’ve played around with some awesome VR…
Striping and parity across three drives, oh my! Of all the RAID levels that consumers are likely to use on their home systems, RAID 5 is one of the more exotic choices. While RAID 0 and 1 are pretty straightforward, RAID 5 is a little more complex. As we discussed in earlier articles, RAID 0…
Top Deal: Had Intel stuck with its Netburst architecture, maybe we’d be looking at 20GHZ single-core CPUs by now. Who knows where that direction might have taken us. In the end, efficiency and multi-core processors won out, leading to chips like the one that’s the focus of today’s top deal, an AMD FX-9590 Vishera 8-Core…
Looking beyond Windows Much of what we cover on Maximum PC revolves around Microsoft’s Windows operating system, though lest anyone forget, there’s this alternative called Linux. And of course there are many varieties of Linux to choose from, including Fedora 22 beta, which is now available. According to the Fedora Project, desktop and workstation users…
It’s time for an introduction Wow, has it been nine years already? Happily (or sadly, to some of my critics), this isn’t another article bidding Maximum PC readers a fond farewell—we’ve had too many of those over the past several years. Instead, it’s a “thank you” note to those of you who’ve stuck around to…
Get your starting at $955 We first spied CyberPower PC’s funktastically designed Trinity gaming PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. Back then, Trinity was in the prototype stage, and all too often we’ve seen such things turn to vaporware. Not this time. CyberPower today announced that its Trinity PC…