PC Gaming
A mouse for lefties and righties It seems that the blueprint for a gaming mouse these days is that it has to sport more buttons than you can count on one hand, have a funky design, leave out left-handed gamers, and cost a king’s ransom. None of those are true of Corsair’s new Katar gaming…
A mouse for lefties and righties It seems that the blueprint for a gaming mouse these days is that it has to sport more buttons than you can count on one hand, have a funky design, leave out left-handed gamers, and cost a king’s ransom. None of those are true of Corsair’s new Katar gaming…
Biostar introduced the Hi-Fi Z170Z5 on Monday, a new motherboard based on Intel’s Z170 chipset that supports both DDR3 and DDR4 memory modules. The company says that customers can install up to 16GB of DDR3L-1866(OC)/1600/1333 (2 DIMMs) or up to 32GB of DDR4-2133/1866 memory (2 DIMMs). Compatible with Windows 7, 8, and 10, Biostar’s new…
The idea probably looked good on paper. If the iOS customer’s Wi-Fi connection craps out for some reason, the iOS 9 device could kick in the cellular connection to finish the job, whether it’s downloading an app or streaming a movie on Hulu. Actually, the idea sounds somewhat decent if the consumer willingly pays for…
There’s nothing like a free upgrade, even more so when it means you don’t have to yank out the hardware and send it in for a new model. This week’s free offering arrives by way of Gigabyte to customers who own the GA-Z170X-Gaming G1, GA-Z170X-Gaming GT, or GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboards. By downloading the latest version…
At a Glance (+) Bigfoot: Awe-inspiring performance; massive overclocks; great cooling. (-) Smartcar: Pricey; requires lots of space; higher power requirements. Taking a triple-wide GPU for a spin Remember the days when graphics cards were called video cards, they used to spit out a whopping 256 colors (or 16 or even 4 colors/monochrome if you…
Top Deal: A power supply’s job is a thankless one. Think about it — the PSU dutifully shows up to work every day, powers the entire show, and only draws attention when it messes up while the CPU, GPU, and sometimes storage always get showered with praise. Thankfully, the best built PSUs rarely turn against…
Is that a Kangaroo in your pocket or are you just ‘hoppy’ to see me? InFocus is kind of breaking new ground with what it’s dubbed Kangaroo, a mobile desktop PC running Windows 10. Kangaroo is smaller than a NUC or any number of mini PCs on the market, and more flexible than a stick…
Now open for business Microsoft now has more than 110 retail location spread across the U.S., Canada, and Puero Rico, the newest of which is its first flagship store located on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The new flagship is the biggest to date at over 22,000 square feet. That gives Microsoft plenty of…
at a glance (+) Lego Tiny; dual storage; reasonably priced. (-) Cinder Block Fans a bit noisy; middling performance; not as efficient as NUC. This article was published in the October 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. This compact PC could make for a great HTPC Small…