PC Gaming
Prepare your PC The beta period for Star Wars: Battlefront is about ready to get underway. In just two days, Electronic Arts will launch the title in beta form, and in anticipation of that, the publisher revealed what the game’s minimum and recommended system requirements are. Here’s a look at the bare minimum you’ll need…
A better Windows Phone Little by little, we’re seeing Microsoft flesh out its Windows 10 strategy. A key component of that is executing on mobile, and from what we’ve seen of Microsoft’s newly announced Lumia 950 and 950 XL devices, the company is on the right track. The Lumia 950 and 950 XL are the…
Choose your weapon, mobile road warriors Microsoft has long pitched its Surface Pro as a tablet that can replace your laptop and that’s still the case with its Surface Pro 4 introduced today. At the same time, for users interested in strictly a notebook form factor, Microsoft also unveiled the Surface Book, its first laptop….
10 security software options for Windows 10 Now that Windows 10 is available to download and install, how are you going to protect your system from viruses and malware? Don’t rely on Windows 10 to keep all the nasties off your hard drive, even though it boasts superior security over previous versions. Instead, you might…
Head over Oculus VR’s “Oculus-Ready PCs” page and you’ll see three manufacturers listed at the bottom: Alienware, Asus and Dell. Asus will have the cheapest starting price of the trio, costing $949 while the other two will have starting prices of $999. Asus also provides additional information as does Alienware while Dell says more information…
Top Deal: Looking to pick up a low cost notebook that doesn’t suck? Good news, you have options, and they don’t involve putting the words “Chrome” and “book” together. Not that we’re hating on Chromebooks — they’re fine for their intended purpose. However, even the best Chromebook models won’t be able to keep up with…
Invading the retail space It seems like we’ve talking about Steam Machines for 100 years or so (it’s actually been closer to 2 years, which in all fairness is roughly the equivalent of 100 in technology years), and come next month, official Steam hardware devices will finally launch. This is really happening, and it won’t…
Swimming in a live-stream Microsoft is planning to unveil new hardware during a special press event tomorrow in New York City, though you won’t have to attend in person to see it go down. Instead, you can sit at home in your skivvies and watch the announcements through a live-stream. The event kicks off at…
Breaking the speed limit At the beginning of September, Patriot Memory announced a dual-channel Viper 4 memory kit rated to run at 3400MHz. At the time it was the fastest speed Patriot offered, though that was before the launch of its new 3600MHz RAM. Patriot’s new dual-channel kit is also part of the DDR4 Viper…
HDD performance in a nutshell Last week, we posted our new SSD test suite with some initial results. We included a few references to hard drive performance, and at the time that seemed sufficient, but let’s really put the hard drive vs. solid state performance debate to rest. We all know SSDs are faster, particularly…