PC Gaming
At a Glance (+) Speed Boats: Good performance; overclocks well; Z170 platform offers new features. (-) Tug Boats: Not much faster than Haswell; still quad-core; no heatsink included; needs new motherboard and RAM. Making waves on Skylake Skylake. The name invokes images of a serene outdoor setting, with clear water surrounded by forests, and blue…
Top Deal: Do you hear that noise? No? Listen harder. Still nothing? Great! That’s the benefit of a low noise and/or silent power supply. And no, you don’t have to compromise performance for silence. Want proof? Check out today’s top deal for an EVGA 1,000W Super Silent Power Supply for $170 with free shipping (normally…
Double the speed, but is it enough? Comcast is doubling the speed of its low-cost Internet Essentials service to 10Mbps, the company announced today. It’s the third time the discounted tier has seen a speed increase since it was introduced to low income families four years ago. In addition, both new and existing Internet Essentials…
Pricing out Skylake-S If you’re planning to build a system around Intel’s Skylake-S architecture, it would be helpful to know how much the CPUs will cost, would it not? In all likelihood, you’ll find out official price points tomorrow when Intel is supposed to launch Skylake-S, but in the meantime, there’s a leaked price list…
A new gaming mouse from Asus ROG Looking for a new mouse for your gaming rig? The Republic of Gamers arm of Asus has introduced a new mouse “ergonomically designed” for long gaming sessions. Called the GX860 Buzzard, this peripheral includes high-quality Omron switches, LED illumination (red, orange, or green), and a two-way DPI switch….
Take back your bandwidth At last unofficial account, Windows 10 had been downloaded and installed on tens of millions of devices, and that number may be in the hundreds of millions at this point. A big reason why is because Microsoft is giving the OS away for free as a no-cost upgrade for existing Windows…
Although we knew Windows 10 would arrive on the Xbox One console later this year, Microsoft revealed during its Gamescom press conference that the new Windows 10–powered interface will begin rolling out in November. But don’t worry, Xbox One owners: the Windows 10 update won’t turn it into a game-playing desktop. “We won’t see people…
Chromebook killer? Acer on Tuesday announced a pair of “online-oriented” Aspire One Cloudbooks. You can think of them as Chromebooks for Windows users, at least in terms of price and hardware. Or you can view them as modern day netbooks for the Windows 10 era of computing. No matter how you slice it, these inexpensive…
Now that Windows 10 is out and about, many consumers who “reserved” a spot in the rollout may be disappointed that their copy of the new OS wasn’t available on day one. According to Microsoft, the wait could range from days to weeks. The Windows 10 notification app that resides on the system tray will…