PC Gaming
An engineering marvel When Nvidia told us that it managed to shrink its desktop GTX 980 GPU to fit inside notebooks, we went through two stages of denial. The first stage was disbelief. “The 980 is a huge and powerful card,” we thought to ourselves. The second stage was dismissiveness. “It’s got to throttle tremendously.”…
Who Knew Raiding Tombs Could Be So Difficult? You have to love Lara and her single minded focus on getting whatever she wants. And if you’re like us, you’re also jealous that she has all the money and equipment needed to jet set around the globe to all sorts of exotic locales. I have to…
Fancy pants PCs Quick, name three different boutique system builders. Was CybertronPC among them? Probably not (unless you were swayed by the headline), though the company’s been around since 1997 and boasts that it’s the 15th largest system builder in the U.S. Out of how many, we don’t know, though CybertronPC is attempting to boost…
Not for the faint of wallet It’s been less than three weeks since G.Skill announced its big and bad Ripjaws 128GB DDR4-3000MHz memory kit, and now it’s back with another kit that’s just as big and even faster at 3,200MHz. Like the previous offering, this newest Ripjaws V series memory kit consists of eight 16GB…
Making it rain in Redmond Microsoft gets to head into the weekend on a positive note. That’s because the numbers for its second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2015, are in and they’re cause for celebration. All of its businesses combined, Microsoft collected $25.7 billion in revenue (non-GAAP) during the quarter. Though that’s down from…
At a glance X2 (+) Good value; quiet; decent battery life. X-Men: The Last Stand (-) No integrated USB type-A port; performance not great; kickstand solution needs work. For those that want a Surface Pro, but can’t afford one Now that Microsoft’s Surface Pro line of computers is catching some hype, HP is jumping on…
If you think of archaeology in pop culture, two big names come to mind: Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. If someone were to make a game about archaeology—real archaeology—it would be boring as hell. There’d be a lot of reading, fundraising, and cataloging tiny bits of pottery called sherds that often measure around a centimeter…
Synology has released a new NAS server aimed at the small office and home user, the DiskStation DS216+. This backup solution offers on-the-fly H.264 4K to 1080p video transcoding for video streaming, two drive bays for up to 16TB of storage, and the intuitive DiskStation Manager (DSM) interface that should make data management a breeze…
Unnamed sources have informed the New York Post that Amazon has set out to create a full-blown streaming music subscription service to take on Apple Music and Spotify. Rumor has it that the plan is in an early stage, but that the company has been conversing with music publishers over the last several weeks to…