PC Gaming
A different kind of streaming box In the old days, PC gamers would sit in front of a large CRT monitor in a dedicated room littered with spare parts, game boxes (yes, there was actually a time when PC games came in big retail boxes!), empty potato chip bags, and other things scattered all around….
CyberPower Trinity PC, tiny PC on an HDMI stick, and more While CES 2015 was more of an evolutionary year as opposed to a revolutionary one, there were some interesting devices in the PC space. If you’ve read our CES 2015 prediction piece, nearly all of that came true. We saw a bunch of VR…
A look at Evolve’s minimum and recommended specs Evolve by publisher 2K Games and developer Turtle Rock Studios is expected to release to Windows (as well as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) on February 10, 2015. However, up until now we didn’t know what the recommended and minimum specs would be to run this…
Score a point in favor of the home brewed PC You don’t have to sell us on the merits of building a PC from scratch — it’s what we’ve been doing for decades, and it’s one of the core principles of our brand. Heck, the desire to roll your own rig may have even been…
The need for speed Now that Haswell-E and accompanying Intel X99-based motherboards requiring DDR4 RAM are here, we expect to see a lot of record announcements. It always happens when new platforms are introduced, and G.Skill is wasting no time adding to its virtual shelf of overclocking tropies — G.Skill today announced that it set…
Microsoft views Google’s disclosure as a “gotcha” During the holiday break, Google’s Project Zero team disclosed a vulnerability in Windows 8.1 after Microsoft failed to issue a patch within the 90-day deadline that Google gives vendors. That sparked a debate on whether or not Google did the right thing, and while many (not all) of…
Low power SSD hits ultra high speeds (2,150MB/s reads, 1,550MB/s writes) One of the biggest developments in the solid state drive market has been that of falling prices over the past couple of years. We hope that trend continues, though it’s not the sole storyline — there’s also the transition to PCI Express, and with…
Top Deal: As you wait impatiently for files to transfer from point A to points B and C, and as you spy stuttering in your in-home streams, have you ever thought to yourself, ‘There must be a better way?’ Well, there is, and it starts with tossing that 10-year-old router in the trash bin. You…
Yahoo recently replaced Google as the default search provider for Firefox in the U.S. In November, Yahoo and Mozilla reached an understanding to make Yahoo Search the default search provider for the latter’s Firefox browser in the United States and the results are already out there for all to see. According to the latest U.S….
The team at Mionix reaches their Kickstarter goal for the first biometric gaming mouse. One of the interesting things that we managed to get our hands on during CES this year was an unlikely candidate: a mouse. But unlike other more traditional gaming peripherals, Mionix’s new NAOS Quantified Gaming device is both a body sensor…