PC Gaming
Braswell crashes the mini PC party Intel continues to release new NUC models, the latest of which feature 6-watt processors based on the company’s Braswell architecture inside. There are two models, the NUC5CPYH with a Celeron N3050 and the NUC5PPYH with a Pentium N3700. Braswell is the 14nm successor to Intel’s 22nm Bay Trail-D line…
This is the second lawsuit alleging use of stolen tech in the Oculus Rift Facebook-owned Oculus VR finds itself at the heart of another legal battle. Total Recall Technologies (TRT) is suing both Oculus and its founder Palmer Luckey for “breach of contract and wrongful exploitation” of its virtual reality-related intellectual property. The Hawaii-based company…
A formal announcement is likely next month Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has promised to officially unveil its newest Radeon flagship graphics card before the ongoing quarter is out. The announcement is most likely to take place at either Computex in early June or a little later at E3’s maiden PC Gaming Show, and the company…
R Series PCs will let you combine two disks into a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration Zotac is a seasoned campaigner when it comes to the mini-PC market, where it has been a key player for many years now. It’s once again trying to make its presence felt with the new R Series ZBOX…
The chip maker is looking to data centers for growth The PC market fared rather poorly in terms of sales in the first quarter of 2015, recording a pretty significant decline compared to the same period last year. Attributing this decline to a slowdown in the Windows XP replacement trend, however, leading analysts forecast better…
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Cheaters never prosper Well known security vendor ESET said it discovered over 30 scareware applications available for download on Google Play, most of which were masquerading as cheats for Minecraft. According to ESET, the more than two dozen malicious apps were installed by over 600,000 Android users before Google showed them the door. “It’s not…
First of a kind event for PC gaming fans Let’s face it, there’s no other platform like the PC for playing games. You know it, we know it, and deep down inside, console gamers know it, too. That being the case, it’s about time the PC got its due at E3, don’t you think? Well…
Pick your color logo Here’s a tip — don’t ever pick out a power supply based solely on the design of the manufacturer’s logo. That said, if you end up going with one of FSP’s new Hydro G Series PSUs, you’ll have the option of applying a red or green logo’d sticker over top of…
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