PC Gaming
Can we combine compact size, high performance, and loads of storage? We’ll give it a shot Length of Time: 1–2 Hours | Level of Difficulty: Low The Mission If you couldn’t tell by now, we’re performance junkies here at Maximum PC. Just last summer, we were crazy enough to build a $30,000 liquid-cooled computer with…
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Windows 10 is the end-game, and the beginning We know that Windows 10 is coming and will arrive sometime this summer. Microsoft has said as much. But what comes after Windows 10? Windows 11? Windows 12? Yes and no. There’s been plenty of chatter about Microsoft transitioning to a Windows as a service model, though…
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New APUs, new prices AMD decided to shake things up at its 2015 Financial Analyst Day by announcing new AMD 7000 Series APUs for mobile systems (formerly codenamed Carrizo-L and part of the Carrizo platform in the 2015 AMD mobile APU family roadmap), new Radeon 300 Series desktop graphics cards for OEMs, new Radeon M300…
Let the games begin Gigabyte is tapping into NVIDIA’s newest mobile Maxwell GPUs to power its P55K, a 15.6-inch notebook that’s the first of a new generation of “powerful gaming laptops.” In this instance, Gigabyte chose the GeForce GTX 965M with 2GB of GDDR5 video memory. Combined with the other parts, including an Intel Core…
It may not seem it at first, but Intel’s Haswell-E “Lite” is a sweet deal and a solid foundation for a build Length of Time 2-4 hours | Level of Difficulty: Medium The Mission We’ve found there are really two kinds of PC builders today. Those who are content with Intel’s “consumer” LGA1150 socket, and…
Blast from the past I remember back when optical drives were new (and expensive), there was a game called Myst that helped drive sales. The point-n-click adventure game was just too massive to fit on floppy, so if you wanted to play it, you needed a CD drive. This is the early 1990s I’m talking…
Android M is just around the corner It’s not really a secret that Google uses its Google I/O convention to unveil major versions of its mobile operating system known as Android. In case you were in doubt anyway, for a brief period, Google’s schedule for Google I/O later this month included a mention of Android…
For multi-device networks Linksys today announced the availability of what it claims is the industry’s first MU-MIMO (multiple-user, multiple input, multiple output) enabled 802.11ac wireless router, the EA8500. Or if you prefer long product names, you can also find it listed as the Linksys Max-Stream AC2600 MU-MIMO Gigabit Router. No matter what you call it,…