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OEMs are currently required to allows users to manually disable UEFI Secure Boot Microsoft courted controversy when it emerged, in the lead-up to Windows 8’s release, that OEMs were required to enable Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)Secure Boot by default in order to have their systems certified for use with Windows 8. Widespread fears that…
The latest MacBooks don’t support Windows 7 installation via Boot Camp It has now been more than five years since Windows 7—the most widely used desktop operating system out there—first walked into our lives, promising to right Vista’s many wrongs. Although it has carried the workhorse mantle previously associated with XP pretty well, the OS…
Exciting times ahead for us, and for you Two magazine issues ago I wrote an article indicating that you were part of the Maximum PC crew. It wasn‘t a joke. I really do believe that our readership very much guides us in a fashion that‘s congruent to us guiding you on the next hardware upgrade….
Top Deal: It’s time to stop procrastinating, don’t you think? After all, those collection of games in your Steam library aren’t going to play themselves! We feel your pain — Steam sales always seem to have at least one game (or half a dozen) that we just can’t pass up, and each time we promise…
Not a single browser was left standing Could the world use yet another browser? Sure, if security is at the forefront of your mind. At the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest that took place this week, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari all fell prey to remote code execution exploits by the second day. Not to…
An unexpected face in the consumer gaming space You’ve probably at least heard of Supermicro, a well established player in the server and workstation markets. Supermicro also dabbles in small form factor (SFF) cases, but as far as full fledged gaming PCs go, options are few and far between. Nevertheless, Supermicro is getting ready to…
AMD claims that Nvidia G-Sync technology can negatively affect FPS Shore up your homes everyone, it appears that another battle is about to be waged between AMD and Nvidia consumers. The resulting storm is going to be over AMD’s FreeSync and Nvidia’s G-Sync technologies. While AMD announced that four new monitors with FreeSync support are…
We also introduce Maximum PC’s new Associate Editor Alex Campbell There has been a lot of PC news since the No BS podcast last convened and on episode 237, the crew gets busy tackling it. Topics on this week’s show include Nvidia’s new $999 Titan X GPU, Valve’s revolutionary Vive VR system, GTC, GDC and…
Top Deal: March Madness is here, so you get a pass if you’ve been too busy filling out your bracket to research hardware components and go deal shopping. It’s a good thing we bring the bargains to you, such as today’s top deal for a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ Motherboard for $110 with $1 shipping (normally…
Some upgrade scenarios will require physical media Microsoft dropped a bombshell yesterday when it revealed that even Windows pirates will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost, though we have a clarification on that, which we’ll get to in a moment. The Redmond outfit also outlined how you’ll be able to make…