PC Gaming
Meet the only curved display with G-Sync support Curved monitors aren’t new. Monitor’s supporting Nvidia’s G-Sync technology aren’t new, either. But what is new and so far exclusive to Acer is a curved monitor with G-Sync baked in, the XR341CKA. We have to deduct 250 geek points from Acer for not coming up with a…
Living large Well, it’s about time! We know what you’re thinking, “I’ll jump on the DDR4 memory bandwagon and overhaul my rig as soon as a company comes out with a 128GB kit capable of running at 2,800MHz, and not a moment sooner!” We all pretty much share the same sentiment, right? Probably not, but…
Turning the wireless world upside down Google is nothing if not ambitious. Of course, not everything Google touches turns to gold the way search and Gmail did — we’re looking at you Google Plus. So, we’ll have to wait and see what impact Google’s newest venture, Project Fi, has on the industry it’s competing in…
Giving back to the community always feels good At Maximum PC, we do a lot with our computers, work, content consumption, and gaming. We love gaming. Gaming is the one major industry that really pushes the PC ecosystem forward. So what better way to support the community than to give back? Ubisoft is celebrating the…
Intel delivers an impressive first step in the ultra-small PC movement When Intel announced the Compute Stick earlier this year at CES, we were excited. There are a handful of devices already on the market that get content onto your TV. Amazon’s Fire Stick and Google’s Chromecast are both competent devices, and then there are…
Top Deal: Do you remember the first time you did it? The pure ecstasy, the way it felt, the noises your actions made? And once you do it, you can’t get enough of it! Ah yes, the joy of typing on a mechanical keyboard. If you’re a virgin to the pure delight of pecking away…
Find bugs, get paid If you’re good at finding security flaws in software, you could add more than just a little jingle to your pockets. That’s because Microsoft is significantly expanding its bug bounty program, part of which includes a new bounty for Project Spartan, the codename for Microsoft’s new browser found in Windows 10….
A real desktop for virtual gaming You can feel that we’re on the verge of a virtual gaming revolution, or so several companies heavily invested in VR technology hope. We’re right there with them — not from an investment standpoint, but from the perception of a fan, as we’ve played around with some awesome VR…
Striping and parity across three drives, oh my! Of all the RAID levels that consumers are likely to use on their home systems, RAID 5 is one of the more exotic choices. While RAID 0 and 1 are pretty straightforward, RAID 5 is a little more complex. As we discussed in earlier articles, RAID 0…
Top Deal: Had Intel stuck with its Netburst architecture, maybe we’d be looking at 20GHZ single-core CPUs by now. Who knows where that direction might have taken us. In the end, efficiency and multi-core processors won out, leading to chips like the one that’s the focus of today’s top deal, an AMD FX-9590 Vishera 8-Core…