PC Gaming
Fixing a hairy situation There have been complaints that enabling Nvidia’s proprietary Hairworks technology in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt results in what seems like an unnecessary hit on performance, in particular on AMD Radeon graphics cards. Well, there’s good news, both from developer and publisher CD Projeckt Red and AMD. CD Projeckt Red will…
The platform that refuses to go away Chromebooks received a lukewarm reception when Google introduced them several years ago, though in more recent times, they’ve grown in popularity. Education remains the primary market for Chromebooks, followed by home consumers looking for a second system. Businesses aren’t all that big on Chrome OS, but even with…
Let there be light Show of hands, how many of you always wished for a mouse mat with LED lighting? Anyone? We’re willing to bet that the majority never even thought of such a thing, but Razer did, and the result is the Firefly, a hard gaming mouse mat infused with the company’s Chroma lighting…
Top Deal: There’s no rule that says you need a high-end router. By that same token, there’s no rule saying you need excellent wireless range or fast file transfers on your home network. But if you want those things, well, skimping on a router is not the way to go. Instead, check out today’s top…
Slim, sexy, and limited Our normal reaction to anything that says “limited edition” is to roll our eyes, as if making tens or hundreds of thousands of something truly qualifies as limited. Yeah, right. And that would have been our reaction to the Asus Zenbook UX305 in “crystal white,” except that only 200 of these…
Uphill battle Several weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled a pair of SDKs intended to make it relatively easy for iOS and Android developers to port their apps over to Windows 10 (for mobile devices). Called Project Islandwood (iOS) and Project Astoria (Android), Microsoft envisioned its toolkits transforming Windows from an also-ran into the mobile space to…
AMD is calling HBM a “revolution in chip design” GDDR5 will soon stall GPU performance growth, says AMD. According to the red team, GDDR5 is entering an inefficient region of the power-to-performance curve. GDDR5 will soon reach a performance bottleneck. Historically, AMD would try and solve these power-to-performance issues by shrinking chips and integrating functions,…
A look at various Windows 10 upgrade scenarios Sometimes it feels like the closer we get to the release of Windows 10 (slated for this summer), the less we actually know. Yes, Microsoft finally revealed a list of Windows 10 editions last week, of which there are quite a few, but how exactly will upgrades…
Top Deal: Remember when single-core computing was awesome? Ya, neither to do we. The GHz race isn’t quite over, but by and large, we’re living in a multi-core world. If you want to take things to a whole other level on Intel’s side of the fence, then check out today’s top deal for an Intel…
First tablets, now phones Following up on its launch of touch friendly Office apps for Android tablets back in January, Microsoft today announced that a preview version of Office for Android phones is now available. That includes previews for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all of which look similar to and share the same features as…