PC Gaming
Up close with a Predator HyperX brought its new Predator NVMe SSD to CES. It’s HyperX’s first NVMe drive and it’s fast — the drive was posting read and write speeds of 2,585MB/s and 1,354MB/s, respectively, at HyperX’s booth. HyperX isn’t revealing too many details about the drive just yet, such as what NAND flash…
Smaller than mini ITX If you thought mini ITX builds were small, wait until you see ones built around the new mini STX form factor. To give you a glimpse of where things are headed, we coaxed ECS into letting us film and post information about an announced motherboard based on the new tiny form…
Swappable sensors, cables, and more SteelSeries brought a pet mouse to this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. It’s called the Rival 700, and unlike every other mouse out there, this one sports a customizable onboard OLED display to track things like headshots and other stats. It’s just one of many unique features. Customization is the name…
Save $200 off the PC and jump to the front of the Rift pre-order line. During a CES dinner today, Alienware revealed that its VR-ready X51 PC will cost $1,200, but if you pre-order it bundled with the Oculus Rift, you’ll be able to get a $200 discount on the system sometime in February through…
There are very few times in my life that I’ve had the chance to try out something as incredible as Sennheiser’s new Orpheus headphones. It’s really difficult to describe just how good these headphones sound. That’s $55,000 sitting on my head. To appreciate the fidelity being delivered by the Orpheus’s electro-static drivers, you’ll have to…
Seeing double We’ve heard of dual-CPU and dual-GPU configurations, but two separate computers inside a single chassis? That’s what CyberPowerPC concocted, and it’s not a prototype, but a real system. Why two PCs? It’s for playing games and streaming at the same time. By handing off streaming chores to a dedicated system, gamers don’t need…
Uptown case design Would you pay $799 for a computer case? In-Win is banking on there being a market for premium enclosures that cost a king’s ransom, one of those being its new H-Frame 2.0, one of the company’s signature cases that was on display at CES. The H-Frame 2.0 is an updated version of…
This week during CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Samsung claimed the “world’s first” title with the introduction of its new Samsung CF591, a “frameless” curved monitor. The company also introduced two other “framed” monitors at the show, the Samsung CF390 and the CF391, both of which are also curved. All three support AMD’s FreeSync Technology,…
A virtual discussion Oculus Rift is finally here, at least in pre-order form. It’s available to pre-order for $599 (read our thoughts about the price point), starts shipping in March, and comes with a few extra goodies, including Eve: Valkyrie, a multiplayer dogfighting shooter set in the same Eve universe as Eve Online. We met…
Taking a peek at Polaris AMD is moving to a 14/16nm FinFET process technology on its GPUs, that’s something we’ve known for some time now. But what exactly will it be and when? AMD’s next generation GCN architecture will manifest in Polaris, which is scheduled to arrive around the middle of the year. That’s a…