PC Gaming
Adiós, Hola! Whoever first said that the best things in life are free forgot to mention that there’s often a catch. For users of the super popular Hola VPN extension for browsers, the cost for using the free add-on came in the form of forking over bandwidth and unknowingly being a part of a botnet….
Top Deal: Grand Theft Auto V. The Witcher 3. Mortal Kombat X. Batman: Arkham Knight. The list of games goes on and on and on and on, especially if you’ve taken advantage of Steam’s many sales. It might not be a matter of when you’ll have time to play them all, but when your rig…
A BIOS update awaits AMD yesterday announced the arrival of a new APU, the A10-7870K. The new A-Series APU is part of AMD’s “Godavari” lineup, which are basically extensions of Kaveri, and as we said they should serve as painless drop-in replacements on any socket FM2+ motherboard. Lest there be any doubt, Asus was quick…
Microsoft’s way or the highway Microsoft this week made public the changes it’s rolling out to the Windows Store app certification policies in an effort to clean up the clutter and improve the overall experience for customers. As part of that process, Microsoft will keep a closer eye on app pricing to make sure that…
DisplayPorts gone wild Zotac is plenty experienced in the mini PC movement, and if you can conceive it, they’ve probably already built it or have it on a roadmap. That also means that some of its offerings are niche products — or niche within a niche, since not everyone cares about NUC-sized systems — like…
Pushing the pedal to the metal The number of people who overclock their desktop PCs is growing, according to data found in the latest HWInsights Quarterly Report. We have no idea how HWInsights tracks such things, but apparently there was a 50 percent uptick in the annual growth of overclockers from the first quarter of…
We show you how to back up your games, so you don’t have to re-download them With modern PC games tallying up download sizes of 20GB (and even soaring up to GTA V’s massive 70GB), sometimes it’s better to back up the game to an external drive rather than slog through the long download again….
Today AMD announced the availability of a new APU, codenamed Godavari: the A10-7870K. There’s also an A8-7670K coming soon, though it wasn’t part of today’s announcement. Despite the new codename, these APUs are effectively extensions of the existing Kaveri APU lineup, and they should be drop-in replacements on any socket FM2+ motherboard. Other than clock…
Top Deal: Take it from us, you don’t want to smell smoke coming from your PC. That’s one of the risks you take when you skimp on a power supply and buy a generic brand for pennies on the dollar. Just. Don’t. If you’re in the market for a PSU, a much better idea is…