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At a glance Elite (+) Awesome new d-pad; easy-to-use software; premium design; plenty of sticks to choose from; included audio jack. Destitute (-) Expensive; paddle sticks would occasionally fall out; no dual-trigger design; accidentally launches SBP upon shutoff. Best in class The PC is no stranger to high-end gaming peripherals. We’ve got super fancy RGB…
Enthusiasts use 3D printers for great PC mods 3D printers, such as MakerBot’s Replicator, give enthusiasts a new tool to create their own case mods. In case you’ve been living under a rock, old-school PC modding is still alive and well—modders still cut new fan mounts, install custom case windows, or completely gut a case…
This article was published in the November 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. How games have learned from art, music, and math—and how the world might learn from games And on the third day, God made the world. And He saw that it was quite crummy. And…
At a Glance [+] Redline: Insanely fast; good build quality; overclockable; great features. [-] Meltdown: Insanely expensive; large and heavy; only 1080p (for now). Preparing for battle For the past year, the fastest notebook GPU has been the GTX 980M. With AMD and Nvidia both stuck on the 28nm process node for 2015, most didn’t…
Price Breakdown RC18015xs+: $4,000 (each)RXD1215sas: $3,500Seagate 1200 SSD: $2,800HGST He8 SAS HDD: $600 In the world of business storage, there are so many options that it can make an IT admin’s head spin. What you’ll typically find though, if you’re looking for rackmount business storage solutions, is that there’s often a redundant amount of compute…
The three laws of robotics I’m a child of the ’80s, and even 30 years later I still have fond memories of watching cartoons after school and on Saturday mornings. One of the classics was The Jetsons. For those who aren’t old enough to remember the show, or just never watched it, the Jetsons are…
Taking the Red Pill The past few months have seen some interesting happenings over in the AMD camp. First up was the creation of the Radeon Technologies Group, tasked with focusing on graphics to create better experiences for the end users. Coinciding with the RTG announcement was the launch of the R9 Nano, a graphics…
A build we can covet like a Red Ryder BB gun Here it comes, in all its consumer-economy glory: Black Friday. The name alone evokes visions of the plague, demons, and the apocalypse. What horrors await unsuspecting holiday shoppers. If you’ve been following our Fall builds, we’ve already listed our Budget Gamer and Midrange builds….
On your mark, get set, SAVE! Here’s a fun fact you can toss around the dinner table on turkey day: Black Friday, now the busiest shopping day of the year, is a term that took hold in Philadelphia back in the early 1960s. It was used to describe the hustle and bustle of holiday shoppers…