PC Gaming
DisplayPorts gone wild Zotac is plenty experienced in the mini PC movement, and if you can conceive it, they’ve probably already built it or have it on a roadmap. That also means that some of its offerings are niche products — or niche within a niche, since not everyone cares about NUC-sized systems — like…
Pushing the pedal to the metal The number of people who overclock their desktop PCs is growing, according to data found in the latest HWInsights Quarterly Report. We have no idea how HWInsights tracks such things, but apparently there was a 50 percent uptick in the annual growth of overclockers from the first quarter of…
We show you how to back up your games, so you don’t have to re-download them With modern PC games tallying up download sizes of 20GB (and even soaring up to GTA V’s massive 70GB), sometimes it’s better to back up the game to an external drive rather than slog through the long download again….
Today AMD announced the availability of a new APU, codenamed Godavari: the A10-7870K. There’s also an A8-7670K coming soon, though it wasn’t part of today’s announcement. Despite the new codename, these APUs are effectively extensions of the existing Kaveri APU lineup, and they should be drop-in replacements on any socket FM2+ motherboard. Other than clock…
Top Deal: Take it from us, you don’t want to smell smoke coming from your PC. That’s one of the risks you take when you skimp on a power supply and buy a generic brand for pennies on the dollar. Just. Don’t. If you’re in the market for a PSU, a much better idea is…
Endless storage Thanks to the advent of the mobile phone, we’re all photographers now — just peek at your camera roll and see if you can scroll through all the pictures you’ve taken in less than a week. The more important ones we tend to back up, but with Google Photos, being selective is no…
at a glance Celery: Fine for even heavy browsing; truly stupendous battery life. Rutabaga: Lackluster graphics performance; should be cheaper. Insane battery life, pedestrian performance It may surprise you to know, but we absolutely love writing about Chromebooks. Sure, none of us would trade our daily drivers in for one, but the category is vastly…
at a glance Mercury, God of Poetry: Runs cool; performs quietly; installs smoothly; looks snazzy. Mercury Tracer (1988): Thick tubing may make some installs tricky. The true successor was worth the wait When it comes to closed-loop liquid coolers, size does matter. You might not need a CLC at all for a dual-core CPU in…
at a glance Xenon: A lifetime warranty that is actually lifetime.Xenu: Dual-core feels simply quaint. You may literally get a lifetime of service from this box If there’s one lesson we’ve learned in life, it’s this: Don’t create false dichotomies. You know, such as: “There are only two kinds of Maximum PC readers: those who…
Upgrading and switching your CPU, integrating your GPU, checking your HDD space, and fixing some Samsung issues Upgrade or Wait? My system: Intel Core i7-920 at 3.8GHz, an Asus P6T motherboard, 18GB RAM, Crucial m500 480GB SSD, 4TB HDD, Gigabyte WindForce GTX780, with Windows 7 64-bit Pro. Although I can play games maxed out at…