PC Gaming
Big price cut for a little card AMD has a post-holiday treat for small form factor builders, and it comes in the form of a price cut. It’s not an insubstantial one, either — AMD is cutting the price of its high-powered Radeon R9 Nano to $499, a savings of 23 percent off its original…
Ready, set, fight! HTC made a name for itself as a pioneer in the Android space. Tucked away in my basement, I still own an HTC Dream, otherwise known as the T-Mobile G1, and again otherwise known as the first commercially available Android handset. Unfortunately for HTC, the landscape is different now, with Samsung and…
Overkill today, laughable tomorrow? G.Skill is one of the most active participants in the DDR4 memory market. It seems that every few weeks it’s either announcing an overclocking record or, like today, a new memory kit, the latest supposedly the world’s fastest 128GB DDR4 kit around. Part of the company’s Ripjaws V series, the new…
Sound off Your brain is amazing. With two holes and some cartilage on the sides of your head, you can precisely pinpoint the position of an object in 3D space purely based on auditory cues, a process known as localization. Stop for a moment. Listen to the sounds around you. No, really. Stop. Listen. Even…
CES is becoming more of an automotive show than anything else. Every year there’s more car companies and more car demos. This year was no exception. The PC industry really needs to have its own show. Thankfully, there are still plenty of nuggets to be found and ASUS showed off some goodies this year. ROG…
New lineup for 2016 Before leaving Las Vegas and saying goodbye to this year’s CES, we met up with Origin PC to see what it has on tap for 2016. One of the rigs it showed us is its new mini ITX Chronos system, which supposedly rocks the world’s smallest chassis for the amount of…
There can be only one Eurocom has been a routine purveyor of high-end—nay, extreme—notebooks for several years, and last year they announced their new Sky X9 offering. Hot on the heels of that beast comes the new Eurocom Sky DLX7, which is sort of the slightly less monstrous version of an incredibly high-end notebook. The…
Tricked out motherboard Just ahead of CES, Asus announced a new flagship motherboard for Skylake builds, the Maximus VIII Formula. We got a chance to see one in person before zipping out of Las Vegas, along with some of the company’s other products. If it’s an LED light show you’re after, the Maximus VIII Formula…
Keeping your cool Digital Storm has a new rig in its stable, the Aventum 3, and it’s not just a minor revision of the previous model. When we met up with Digital Storm’s Darren at CES, he told us that the Aventum 3 was built from the ground up to accommodate the company’s HydroLux Pro…