PC Gaming
New gear for gamers MSI brought a variety of products to show off at Computex, including a mini ITX system housed in a 10-liter chassis. Despite its small size, MSI says it can hold up to a GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, which would be powered by a 350W power supply. This isn’t MSI’s first…
New monitors for gamers There’s a bit of standards war brewing between AMD and Nvidia (what else is new, right?) in regards to display technology. While AMD is pushing its FreeSync technology, Nvidia would like the monitor industry to adopt G-Sync. Both accomplish the same thing in slightly different ways — smoother game play with…
If it types like a Ducky, and clicks like a Ducky, it’s a Ducky You haven’t truly lived until you’ve typed on a mechanical keyboard. That’s not to say there aren’t some very good membrane keyboards out there, but even the best ones fall short of the finger-pecking ecstasy that mechanical key switches induce. And…
More than meets the eye Remember the transforming PC case we told you about yesterday? It’s safe to say that In Win captured our attention, so we headed over to the company’s booth at Computex to check it out for ourselves. What we learned is that there are actually two versions — In Win’s own,…
Latest Broadwell parts up the ante in graphics Faster graphics is fast becoming a theme at Computex. First we had Nvidia representing the discrete side of the fence with its GeForce GTX 980 Ti (check out our review and benchmarks), and today Intel rolled out no less than 10 new processors sporting Iris Pro 6200…
Providing power without the noise Ever tried building a quiet PC? It’s not overly complicated, you just need to select the right components. That includes the power supply, and one way to go when selecting a PSU for a quiet or silent build is with a fanless design. That’s exactly what Enermax had on display…
Thinking outside the beige box We’ve spied some funky case designs over the years, some of which have been intriguing while many have been…interesting, to put it nicely. It’s always a gamble to come out with something drastically different than the norm, but that didn’t stop Deepcool from diving into the deep end of creativity,…
New RAM and peripherals There’s a lot going on at Computex, and kicking off our coverage is a visit to G.Skill’s booth. It’s there that we caught a glimpse of the company’s new Ripjaws 4 Series DDR4 memory clocked at 3800MHz running in an ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer motherboard alongside an Intel Core i7 5960X…
Is that shiny-new GeForce GTX 980 Ti not fast enough for you? Overclock it! GeForce GTX 980 Ti is fast; this we know. And now that you’ve just spent $650 on your new “baby Titan X,” what are you planning to do? Sure, you could play games all day, but we have other plans. With…
Just the numbers, please! We’re learning a lot of official details about Windows 10 in a very short time. For example, we know it’s rolling out to the general public on July 29, and if you have a valid copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you may have already seen a pop-up asking you…