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Welcome to the RTG Summit Earlier this month, AMD hosted their first ever RTG Summit, replacing the former AMD Technologies Summit. (Side note: it’s interesting that the branding was all about Radeon; the AMD logo was not seen as far as I can recall.) The subject was all about graphics technologies, and the message was…

Top Deal: The neat thing about Skylake is if you’re willing to buy a system based on a previous generation architecture, like Haswell, you can score a snazzy deal. So it goes with today’s top deal for an Acer Desktop Computer w/ Intel Core i5-4460 (3.2 GHz) for $400 with free shipping (normally $600; Free…

Addressing a buggy wasteland Have you gotten stuck in a terminal in Fallout 4? It’s one of the more common complaints with the PC version of Bethesda’s latest nuclear wasteland title, and as promised, the developer addressed the issue with its first major patch (version 1.2). It’s one of several issues the patch fixes. It…

Living on borrowed time Dropbox is finding out how tough it can be to juggle multiple services. It can become a distraction to your core business, so rather than continue down that road, Dropbox announced it’s shutting down both Mailbox and Carousel. Mailbox, which Dropbox acquired in 2013 to leverage the market shift in mobile…

Losing your cool After taking Cooler Master to court over patent infringement claims and winning a permanent injunction earlier this year against certain products, cooling guru Asetek now has AMD and Gigabyte in its sights, GamerNexus reports. Asetek has reportedly sent both firms cease and desist letters, Gigabyte for its GeForce GTX 980 Water Force…

Fatal errors It’s enough to make you want to cry. A Haswell CPU, left, sits next to a broken Skylake CPU, right. Sometimes we all do things that make us feel a little stupid. A couple of months ago, I felt like an idiot when I bent the corners of an Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake….

This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Will XPoint technology shake up the storage industry? Reader surveys indicate that most Maximum PC readers are using SSDs as boot drives. You’re apparently still using large hard drives for mass storage, however, creating…

At a Glance (+) Super Nova: Tons of capacity; great price per GB; good performance, endurance, and warranty; SATA is ubiquitous. (-) Black Hole: 2TB SSDs are still expensive; not as fast as PCIe solutions; SATA is limiting. A giant among stars Solid-state drives are a game changer when it comes to the responsiveness of…

A super expensive smartwatch, augmented reality, and virtual reality With the holidays here, my tech wishlist this week is full of expensive and unreasonable things to ask Santa for, but then again, that’s the whole point of our Technolust column. $1,500 Tag Heuer Connected smartwatch Up until now, I’ve been a watch guy, but I…