PC Gaming
Mark your calendars? Microsoft’s been fairly mum when it comes to offering a release date for Windows 10, though the company has said to expect it sometime “this summer.” That’s only semi-helpful if you’re planning a new build around Windows 10 and don’t want to bother with the free upgrade. In that case, how’s end…
Out with the old and in with the new Fractal Design rightfully assumes that there’s a userbase no longer interested in optical drive bays. That’s not to say everyone falls into that category, but with Valve’s Steam platform dominating game sales and companies like Microsoft and Adobe moving services to the cloud, the need for…
Fast upgrade option for SFF PCs Patriot Memory on Monday fleshed out its solid state drive lineup with the introduction of the Ignite Series. The Ignite is a line of M.2 SATA SSDs that Patriot says is intended for portable devices such as ultrabooks, notebooks, and ultra-compact PCs, or mini PCs as they’re also called…
Company feels its UDP-based QUIC network protocol is almost ready for prime time Over the last quarter, Google has been busy stress-testing its QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) network protocol, subjecting it to an ever increasing amount of traffic. At the moment, “roughly half of all requests from Chrome to Google servers” are being sent…
And a dollop of Material design The interplay between Chrome OS and Android is not just limited to the ongoing effort to get Android apps to work on the former. They are drawing close to each other in other respects as well, and the latest Chrome OS update, which began rolling out on Thursday, is…
Sorry spammers, you need to pay $5 per account to keep enjoying the service With spam on Steam getting out of hand and users becoming increasingly fed up, Valve has finally stepped in. The company has tweaked the prerequisites for lifting of limits on new user accounts. As first pointed out by Reddit user “KillahInstinct”,…
Nvidia’s latest and greatest GPUs remain unchallenged Advanced Micro Devices will talk about its much-awaited (and long overdue) next-gen graphics cards later in this quarter, the company’s CEO Lisa Su said in an earnings call earlier this week. This is significant because if there was ever a need for a graphics card refresh, it’s right…
Fake tech companies we love to hate As evil as some tech companies are, most of them can’t hold a candle against some of Hollywood’s most vile fictitious tech companies. For instance, EA might be one of the most hated companies in America, but against Cyberdyne Systems and Skynet? Fuggedaboutit. With that said, we have…
Search rankings Have you used Bing lately? An increasing number of people are, and perhaps one day it will earn verb status the way Google has. In the meantime, Microsoft can celebrate snagging a 20.1 percent share of the search market as of the end of March, up from 19.8 percent at the end of…
How boutique builders do it Building a computer isn’t all that difficult. Though it may seem like a daunting proposition to anyone who’s never assembled a PC before, it’s really just a matter of preparation and patience. Where things tend to get a little more challenging is when you aim for a professional looking build…