PC Gaming
An unexpected face in the consumer gaming space You’ve probably at least heard of Supermicro, a well established player in the server and workstation markets. Supermicro also dabbles in small form factor (SFF) cases, but as far as full fledged gaming PCs go, options are few and far between. Nevertheless, Supermicro is getting ready to…
AMD claims that Nvidia G-Sync technology can negatively affect FPS Shore up your homes everyone, it appears that another battle is about to be waged between AMD and Nvidia consumers. The resulting storm is going to be over AMD’s FreeSync and Nvidia’s G-Sync technologies. While AMD announced that four new monitors with FreeSync support are…
We also introduce Maximum PC’s new Associate Editor Alex Campbell There has been a lot of PC news since the No BS podcast last convened and on episode 237, the crew gets busy tackling it. Topics on this week’s show include Nvidia’s new $999 Titan X GPU, Valve’s revolutionary Vive VR system, GTC, GDC and…
Top Deal: March Madness is here, so you get a pass if you’ve been too busy filling out your bracket to research hardware components and go deal shopping. It’s a good thing we bring the bargains to you, such as today’s top deal for a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ Motherboard for $110 with $1 shipping (normally…
Some upgrade scenarios will require physical media Microsoft dropped a bombshell yesterday when it revealed that even Windows pirates will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost, though we have a clarification on that, which we’ll get to in a moment. The Redmond outfit also outlined how you’ll be able to make…
Fastest commercial Chromebook around? Acer later today will be adding a new configuration to its C910 line of Chromebooks, one that will sport an Intel Core i5 5200U processor. Equipped with the new chip, Acer says it feels confident claiming that it’s the fastest performing commercial Chromebook on the market. At the same time, the…
Performance that will make you see double So you might have heard that Nvidia released the GeForce GTX Titan X video card yesterday. It’s the fastest single-GPU card on the planet (though not the fastest single card, because of the dual GPUs in the Titan Z and the Radeon R9 295X2). Maybe most people would…
Top Deal: Components aren’t fickle, even if the ones handling them are. That’s to say your parts can be just as content in a well built budget chassis as in a much more expensive luxury case. And in some instances, you don’t have to give up a whole lot. For example, check out today’s top…
Just in time for Battlefield Hardline Electronics Arts’ highly anticipated Battlefield Hardline game released to PC (and consoles) yesterday, and with it Nvidia has a new WHQL driver release, version 347.88, that it says will ensure you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in EA’s latest title. The new driver also comes right as Nvidia…
A new flagship Trendnet unveiled a new flagship router — AC3200 Tri Band / TEW-828DRU — at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas back in January, but at the time, it wasn’t available. Now it is, or soon will be once stores update their inventories. Trendnet tells us the TEW-828DRU is now shipping to…