PC Gaming

The Doctor helps you keep your cards cool, upgrade your GPU, heal a hurting HDD, and maintain your cores Feeling The Heat I’ve been a PC gamer since 1998 and a reader of Maximum PC for almost 10 years. I recently built my own system, mimicking the Turbo build in your February 2015 issue. It…

Convertible Chromebook, anyone? Apparently Google and its hardware partners are going to target non-education markets with at least six 2-in-1 Chromebook models scheduled for release this year. Two of them will come directly from Google, while Hewlett-Packard and Acer also plan to release branded models of their own. These upcoming systems will join existing 2-in-1…

Advancing the smartphone Remember when telephones were used for making actual phone calls? They used to have cords and a rotary dial, and they weren’t very smart. Not like today’s devices, anyway. The modern day smartphone is used for all kinds of tasks, even occasionally making voice calls, and models continue to get smarter. Enter…

Saying the right things I’m going to make a prediction: Charter’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable will clear regulatory approval even though the FCC recently squashed Comcast’s attempt to do the same. Why? For one, Charter is a smaller company than Comcast, so the same monopolistic concerns don’t apply (not to the same extent,…

Sharing your Wi-Fi doesn’t mean giving up security When family and friends come over, the first thing they inevitably want to do is connect their mobile devices to your home network, especially if they’re staying for an extended visit. Picture a holiday like Thanksgiving. Your sister Suzy and her husband Jim both have mobile phones…

Top Deal: Solid state drives are where the performance is at, but when it comes to bulk storage, mechanical hard drives still offer the best bang for buck. Just ask yourself, can you configure 3TB of SSD storage for under a C-note? Yeah, right. But on the flip side, check out today’s top deal for…

Computex can’t get here fast enough The annual Computex convention kicks off next week (June 2) and one of the highlights could be Nvidia’s new graphics card, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. First pics of the forthcoming card have found their way to the web, along with a few specs. Both Videocardz.com and WCCFTech.com posted…

Android partners line up for Office Part of the reason Steve Ballmer stepped down as CEO of Microsoft was so that fresh blood could navigate Redmond in the mobile era that we now find ourselves in. Enter Satya Nadella, current boss of Microsoft, who continues to push an aggressive multi-platform strategy for the company’s top…

A semiconductor Mother Nature would approve of U.S. and Chinese researchers have come up with a potential solution for all the electronic waste that’s created by obsolete semiconductors — wooden chips. No, not the kind you decorate your yard with or use to fuel a camp fire, but biodegradable computer chips made out of cellulose…