PC Gaming
Two speed demons team up Are you planning to build a system around Gigabyte’s X99-XOC Champion motherboard? If so, Corsair say its new Dominator Platinum DDR4 3400MHz memory kits are performance tuned to run at that frequency and beyond using air cooling when paired with that specific Gigabyte motherboard. It’s a bit of a marketing…
Save up to $150 on Surface Pro 3 Microsoft has been wheeling and dealing its Surface Pro 3 tablets at reduced prices recently, and you have to wonder why the company doesn’t just go ahead and permanently lower the cost. Regardless, Surface Pro 3 tablets are again on sale with savings of up to $150…
A sound board for budget buyers Is it time to start taking Biostar seriously in power user circles? We’ll need to spend some more hands on time with the company’s products to answer that question, but in the meantime, Biostar continues to release intriguing motherboards aimed at select groups, such as gamers, overclockers, Bitcoin miners,…
A tiny PC with big home entertainment ambitions The Revo One RL85 mini PC that Acer first showcased at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas is about to hit store shelves, albeit only in Europe. The RL85, as is apparent from its understated yet elegant design, has been crafted to seamlessly fit into any…
Well, that was quick The recently concluded Pwn2Own contest—a lucrative hacking competition held as part of the annual CanSecWest conference—saw all four major internet browsers get their soft(ware) underbellies exposed. Three of the ten browser bugs exposed at the two-day event were in Firefox, which emerged as the second-most pwned browser at the event behind…
OEMs are currently required to allows users to manually disable UEFI Secure Boot Microsoft courted controversy when it emerged, in the lead-up to Windows 8’s release, that OEMs were required to enable Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)Secure Boot by default in order to have their systems certified for use with Windows 8. Widespread fears that…
The latest MacBooks don’t support Windows 7 installation via Boot Camp It has now been more than five years since Windows 7—the most widely used desktop operating system out there—first walked into our lives, promising to right Vista’s many wrongs. Although it has carried the workhorse mantle previously associated with XP pretty well, the OS…
Exciting times ahead for us, and for you Two magazine issues ago I wrote an article indicating that you were part of the Maximum PC crew. It wasn‘t a joke. I really do believe that our readership very much guides us in a fashion that‘s congruent to us guiding you on the next hardware upgrade….
Top Deal: It’s time to stop procrastinating, don’t you think? After all, those collection of games in your Steam library aren’t going to play themselves! We feel your pain — Steam sales always seem to have at least one game (or half a dozen) that we just can’t pass up, and each time we promise…
Not a single browser was left standing Could the world use yet another browser? Sure, if security is at the forefront of your mind. At the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest that took place this week, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari all fell prey to remote code execution exploits by the second day. Not to…