PC Gaming
Breaking the speed limit Back in January, G.Skill announced the availability of its Ripjaws 4 DDR4 Series RAM in memory kits clocked at 3,400MHz. The kits came with their own cooling fans, and soon after, we began seeing other DDR4-3400 kits, such as Corsair’s Dominator Platinum DDR4-3400 kit for Gigabyte’s X99-SOC Champion motherboard. Apparently G.Skill…
Basic photo editing with GIMP If Microsoft Paint isn’t enough for your photo-editing needs, GIMP is the next logical step. It’s totally free, open-source, and can go toe-to-toe with Photoshop—at least in terms of basic image manipulation. Need to crop a photo? Look no further. Want to add some basic filters or effects? GIMP has…
Top Deal: Solid state drives are the sexy storage option these days, but mechanical hard drives still have their place. They’re comparatively cheap, capacious, and generally offer superior data retention if you need to unplug it from a power source. If you’re looking for a new drive for your expanding data needs, check out today’s…
SSDs without a power source could begin losing data in just a single week It’s more affordable than ever to build a new PC with a solid state drive as the primary storage device, and as capacities increase, some people are using SSDs for storage chores, too. That’s fine and dandy if your SSD is…
FCC will forge ahead with new neutrality rules The Federal Communications Commission wasn’t moved by a joint petition filed by a group of U.S. cable companies and telecom providers seeking to delay implementing new net neutrality rules until a court can rule on the matter. For that to happen, the petitioners would have to show…
SSD-6000M to begin shipping in July Japanese firm Fixstars may not be a familiar name in the storage space but it is doing everything it possibly can to change that. In February, it introduced the 3TB SSD-3000M in the States, claiming it to be the world’s highest-capacity 2.5” SATA SSD (solid-state drive). But the SSD-3000M…
SSD-6000M to begin shipping in July Japanese firm Fixstars may not be a familiar name in the storage space but it is doing everything it possibly can to change that. In February, it introduced the 3TB SSD-3000M in the States, claiming it to be the world’s highest-capacity 2.5” SATA SSD (solid-state drive). But the SSD-3000M…
Preview build lacks key drivers So you just received the Surface 3 tablet you had pre-ordered a while back and are now planning to install Windows 10 on it? Not so fast. That’s not what Microsoft would like you to do — and it has strong reasons for it. The Surface 3 is, for the…
CHIP is a single-board computer that runs Linux Raspberry Pi is probably the first name that springs to mind when one thinks of single-board micro computers, but if the folks at Next Thing Co. are successful with their latest product the micro PC movement could soon have a new poster child. Founded last year, the…
Offers buyers a partial refund Touted as the “world’s lightest” 13.3-inch laptop, Lenovo LaVie Z was one of the most talked about products at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but it has all been downhill since then. When the device began shipping a few days back, it became clear that the Chinese vendor had over-promised…