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What are the common BIOS settings, and what do they really signify and actually do for you? If you’ve ever spent time tweaking your system, chances are you’ve played around in the motherboard’s BIOS settings. You sift through the options, only to find a massive laundry list of settings you can tweak, with many of…
The new ‘Pinnacle Canyon’ NUC kits start at $129 A brace of new NUC (Next Unit of Computing) became available for pre-order from Amazon a couple of days back. These latest additions to Intel’s three-year-old range of barebone PCs are the same Braswell-powered models we told you about in May: the $172 NUC5PPYH and the…
The patch will re-enable automatic Windows updates on its laptops A few days back, Samsung was caught using a small executable (installed as part of its Software Update tool) to sneakily block Windows updates from being automatically downloaded and installed on some of its PCs. The discovery, as was to be expected, caused quite a…
Last week during E3 2015, Re/code got a chance to chat with Oculus VR co-founder Palmer Luckey who was at the show demonstrating Oculus Rift. He hinted that virtual reality will be as big as Apple’s launch of the original iPhone. However, the difference is that mobile phones existed long before the iPhone arrived whereas…
Top Deal: For new builders, the power supply is arguably the most underrated component. All the attention gets paid to the CPU, GPU, RAM, and storage, but it when it comes time to select a PSU, new builders often wonder why they should pay more for a name brand model when generic high wattage models…
Old school design meets new school hardware Do you have sit back and reminisce about the old days of computing? Lenovo does, and if there are enough people out there pining for a blast from the past, the world’s top PC supplier may bring back the ThinkPad X300. Well, sort of. Lenovo’s David Hill wrote…
This article was published in the May 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Low noise doesn’t mean low joys Length of Time: 2-4 Hours | Difficulty: Medium The Mission Over the last few months, in the creaking depths of the secret Maximum PC lair, we’ve been constructing…