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Candy for adults While the kids get ready to dress up as their favorite characters and go beg for sugary sweets from your neighbors, you can treat yourself to some discounted candy — eye candy, that is. Just head over to Steam, pick up a discounted game, and crank up the visual quality settings. Steam’s…
Level up your laptop Now that Skylake is here, the DDR4 era has begun in earnest. That applies to both desktops and laptops, the latter of which G.Skill is targeting with the addition of DDR4 SO-DIMMs to its Ripjaws series. These are high performance modules with rated speeds of up to 2800MHz, available in capacities…
This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. A build based on a poll published by reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace Length of Time 1 1/2 Hours | Level of Difficulty: Easy The Mission There are plenty of places on the web where PC enthusiasts congregate….
Top Deal: Want to know a secret? You probably don’t need a super high wattage power supply for your new build. We say “probably” because we don’t know what you’re planning, but save for the most extreme builds, a 1,000W PSU or even 800W PSU is overkill. You can save yourself some coin by going…
A collection of lights Razer continues to grow its catalog of Chroma peripherals with fancy lighting effects, and if you own one, there’s a new microsite you can go to and find all Chroma-enabled game titles, apps, and community created Chroma lighting profiles. Currently supported Razer Chroma devices include: Razer BlackWidow Chroma Razer BlackWidow TE…
Learning to Yoga on a budget If you want a Surface Pro-like system for a cheaper price, Lenovo last week unveiled its Yoga 900, a convertible PC that comes with a keyboard and starts at $1,200. And if you want to pay even less, Lenovo today added two sub-$1,000 Yoga 700 convertibles to the mix,…
“Virtual reality is likely to be the final form of media,” says the Oculus founder Just ahead of the Oculus Connect 2 event held last month, we had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. In our 12-minute interview, we cover a variety of high-level topics. In the discussion, Luckey…
Over on Indiegogo, MagicStick creator Niraj Kumar and his team reveal that the first units will go out to backers sometime in December 2015. MagicStick is essentially an Intel ComputeStick PC-on-a-stick but more powerful, packing up to 8GB of RAM and an Intel quad-core “Cherry Trail” processor. Launched in September, the Indiegogo project actually has…
Batman returns Good news, Batman fans, the final installment in the Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Knight, is all polished up (presumably) and once again available on the PC. What’s more, Batman returns with a bag full of goodies. More on that in a moment. To recap, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment suspended sales of the PC…
Top Deal: We get it, you’re not on an unlimited budget, and as much as you’d like to fill your PC with multiple top-end graphics cards, nagging things like a mortgage and food get in the way. That’s okay, you can still be a gamer and have nice things without obliterating your bank account. To…