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at a glance (+) TitaniumCrisp; good-looking; stunning build quality; superb water-cooling support, feature packed. (-) It’s GrayPerforated PSU floor; front I/O could be better. This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. A feature-packed modder’s dream So, why is this Evolv ATX…
at a glance (+) Bending the RulesSpectacular wrap-around in-game visuals; VA panel packs plenty of contrast and black levels. (-) Just BentCurved geometry looks weird in Windows; poorly calibrated colors; expensive against competition. This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Curved…
Fancy new box art Unless there are any last minute changes, Intel will formally introduce Skylake-S (desktop variant of Skylake) on August 5 at Gamescom. The launch will presumably include the immediate availability of Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K CPUs, though at least one vendor has jumped the gun. Both the 6700K and 6600K have…
We compared graphics performance between Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 with our standard benchmarks. The results? Meh. We were in the midst of running benchmarks and writing the stories for our Budget Gamer, Midrange and Turbo Blueprints builds when Windows 10 launched on Wednesday. So we figured, “Hey, while we’re at it, let’s take a…
At A Glance (+) Furies: High performance; good cooling; more efficient than stock Fury; less expensive than Fury X. (-) Furries: Still expensive; requires lots of space; less efficient than GTX 980; drivers could use tuning. Asus Strix R9 Fury, aka Rocky II It’s not a stretch to say that the launch of AMD’s Fury…
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Building a compact workstation The small form factor movement grows stronger with each new generation of hardware, though it’s not only home consumers looking to build a compact game box or general purpose PC who are buying in. There are also DIYers who are interested in small sized workstations, and for them, Asus is offering…
Too hot to handle Nvidia is voluntarily recalling tens of thousands of Shield Tablets that were sold between July 2014 and July 2015. These include models that were sold in GameStop brick-and-mortar locations, along with online sales at Amazon, BestBuy, GameStop, Newegg, TigerDirect, and other web retailers. Not to be confused with Nvidia’s Shield handheld…
Browser battle Though the initial reviews for Windows 10 (read ours here) have been mostly positive, much to Microsoft’s delight, Mozilla isn’t all that pleased with the initial rollout. It isn’t that Mozilla doesn’t like Windows 10, it’s the way Microsoft is handling the upgrade process in regards to the default browser selection. “We are…
Start of a new era Windows 10 has officially arrived and now that we’re more than a day removed from its launch, Microsoft can breathe a sigh of relief. Unlike Windows 8, which was met with heavy criticism even before it was released to the public, the response to Windows 10 has been, for the…