PC Gaming
A power play for ultrathin PCs Samsung’s been on a roll with releasing solid state drives that offer high performance at comparatively reasonable price points. One of those drive series is the 850 Evo, which Samsung is now offering in M.2 and mSATA form factors. They’re about one-tenth the weight of a traditional 2.5-inch SSD,…
Top Deal: We know your dirty little secret. And you know what? It’s totally fine. Seriously, there’s nothing at all wrong with sneaking away to play games on an Xbox One console every once in awhile. Maybe you’re waiting on a replacement part for your PC or want to play an exclusive. Whatever the reason,…
We’d tap that glass The third generation small form factor (SFF) Bolt from Digital Storm is arguably the best looking version yet, assuming you like side windows. If you do, you’ll probably love Digital Storm’s Bolt 3 featuring an edge-to-edge glass side panel, brushed aluminum chassis, “enthusiast level cooling,” and relatively small footprint measuring 18.3…
Celebrating 20 years of graphics card production It was in 1995 that Asus introduced its first graphics card, and to celebrate 20 years of graphics card production, Asus is releasing a limited edition 20th Anniversary Golden Edition GTX 980 that it claims is the fastest of its kind. How fast? Asus cranked the GPU to…
Small size aluminum case supports full size graphics cards Boutique system builder Velocity Micro sent word today that its new NX chassis is available immediately, provided you let the company fill it with parts with configurations starting out at $879. In other words, you can’t buy the compact case on its own, though if you’re…
Find the best torrent software for you One of our favorite BitTorrent clients, uTorrent, recently came under fire over complaints that an updated build silently installed a cryptocurrencly miner called EpicScale. Several uTorrent users took to the Internet to voice their displeasure over the situation, though it turns out there was plenty of blame to…
All your Chromebase belongs to Acer It was rumored earlier this month that Samsung and Hewlett-Packard were both working on Chrome OS all-in-one desktops, but it looks like Acer has beat them to the punch. Not only that, but Acer’s new Chromebase AIO is the first of its kind to sport a touchscreen display, the…
Upgrade your data resiliency with RAID 1 The sound of a dying hard drive can be terrifying. It means a headache, downtime, and replacement costs in the best case. In the worst case, it means sending the drive to a data rescue lab. Using a redundant array of independent disks with mirroring (RAID 1), you…
Top Deal: Everywhere you look these days, it’s mini ITX this and micro ATX that. In a world filling up with tiny PCs like the NUC and small form factor cases galore, is there anyone out there still building in full tower enclosures? You betcha! And if you’re one of them, have a look at…
Two years later… It was just over two years ago that Nvidia unveiled plans to build a futuristic campus located across the street from where it is now. The reason? What started off as a three-person startup some two decades ago has grown to over 9,000 employees spread out across 40 sites. Following the delay,…