PC Gaming
Have a look inside Most cases that give you a glimpse of its guts have a window built into the side panel, but with Lian Li’s new PC-Q10, the acrylic window is the side panel. By going this route, onlookers get a clear view of the entire build (better practice those cable routing skills). The…
Is DirectX 12 really worth your privacy and freedom? One of the biggest problems with proprietary software isn’t the “black box” nature of its inner workings, but the nature of the agreements users give their consent to. When you begin using a new piece of software or an online service, how often have you actually…
Top Deal: Summer is officially over, folks. The back-to-school season is in full effect, and that means less time to do the things you like to do. It also means you might not have time to build a budget box for Aunt Mabel, who says she wants a machine for surfing the web and posting…
Low frills, low price headset The iPhone 6s isn’t the only piece of tech gear coming out tomorrow (September 25, 2015), so is Turtle Beach’s new Ear Force Recon 50 series, which is a new line of headsets for PC (Recon 50), Xbox One (Recon 50X), and PlayStation 4 (Recon 50P). Turtle Beach didn’t go…
One step closer to being invisible on the web There are certain websites you might not want others to know you visit. Whether it’s shopping for a surprise gift, signing up for Justin Bieber’s fan club, or (more realistically) surfing porn sites, what you do on the web is your business, except that websites try…
Giving Bing the boot Forget about the search engine wars, Microsoft decided that getting as many people possible on Windows 10 is more important than increasing Bing’s market share, at least in China. With that mindset in place, Microsoft partnered with Baidu to have the company’s search engine take the place of Bing as the…
There are times when having a bit more performance is better. Actually, who are we kidding? Having more performance is always better. In the case of networking, this is especially true. You can never have enough bandwidth. There will be some, though, who argue that x number of megabits or gigabits per second is “more…
Top Deal: Congratulations, you recognized the importance of backing up your data and picked up a NAS box! It sure is pretty, isn’t it? Look at it sitting there, just dutifully waiting to do the one thing it was born to do, which is archive your data. There’s only one small problem — it can’t…
Intel’s most powerful SSD line yet The key to offering increasingly fast solid state drive options has been tapping into the power of the NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) interface. Samsung did it with its gum-stick sized 950 Pro SSDs announced yesterday, and Intel continues to do it, this time with its new DC P3608 Series….
Best gaming experience for Killing Floor 2 Nvidia has a new WHQL-certified driver available for users running GeForce brand graphics, version 355.98. According to Nvidia, this is the driver you want if you plan to play Killing Floor 2. “This new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in Killing…