PC Gaming
Cases and keyboards and headsets, oh my! Rosewill has been Newegg’s house brand for over a decade now, though for the past couple of years, the company’s been focusing on making a name for itself as a budget friendly manufacturer of gaming products. Sometimes that strategy can equate to boring products, though Rosewill has some…
The name may be different, but the add-on support is still the same XBMC has a new name: Kodi. The official change happened last fall, but it’s more of an attempt to get away from XBMC’s former name-Xbox Media Center-than a reinvention of what’s undoubtedly one of the most beloved open-source media players. To celebrate…
It’s all about gaming Corsair always seems to have gamers in mind, so we’re not surprised that it brought several gaming-related products with it to Computex. One of them is the company’s forthcoming Bulldog system, a DIY PC console kit. When we first heard about the Bulldog earlier this week, we speculated it would be…
All of our in-depth buying guides in one place “Maximum” means different things to different people, but here, it means we only show you the best hardware. From graphics cards, to air and liquid coolers, to SSDs, we cover the most important aspects of the PC. We’ve put together a list of all of our…
Fast storage for everyone One of our more interesting visits at Computex from a geek knowledge perspective was with Seagate. Sure, the company brought along a whole bunch of solid state storage products to showcase, and while it’s nice to drool over the speeds and specs, understanding how things are measured can get pretty interesting….
Expanding into peripherals Make no mistake, Patriot has power users in mind with its new product releases, several of which it brought to Computex. That includes new high capacity RAM options — namely, 64GB and even 128GB kits of Viper 4 DDR4 RAM sporting 14-16-16-31 timings and running at 2400MHz. Such high capacities are going…
Xbox team decides to join the PC Gaming Show Microsoft today announced that its Xbox team will be participating in PC Gamer’s new PC Gaming Show. In a move that might surprise many PC gamers, Microsoft indicated that its intent is to demonstrate the power of Windows 10 and how the new OS will make…
Don’t try picking it up Who would have thought that Thor’s hammer would make a kick-ass case mod? Suchao Prowphong, that’s who. The talented modder built the case you see above from the ground up, and it’s currently on display at Computex over at Thermaltake’s booth. According to The Verge (which is hosting a ton…
Top Deal: We can sit back and dream of running a system with quad graphics cards, terabytes of solid state storage in RAID 0, multiple IPS displays, and so forth. But save for the 1 percenters, such a setup will remain a dream. The good news is, you can build a sweet system on a…
Tri-fan cooling and G-Sync on the go One thing you can always count on when there’s a new graphics card launch is custom cooling designs. So it goes with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti, the newest addition to Nvidia’s lineup and the recipient of Gigabyte’s tri-fan Windforce treatment. There’s obviously plenty of cooling potential that…