PC Gaming
Say hello to Contact Hardening Shadows So what’s the verdict, was Grand Theft Auto V for the PC worth the wait? It’s a question that can spark a debate, and if you’re in the “Yes!” camp, one piece of evidence to support your claim is GTA V’s inclusion into AMD’s Gaming Evolved program. As part…
Where does Intel go from here? Let’s get one thing straight before the doomsday sayers come out of the woodwork — the desktop isn’t dead. However, desktop sales did decline to the tune of 6.7 percent last year, according to data provided by International Data Corporation, and with Intel so heavily vested in the desktop…
Benchmark info and 4K pictures galore GTA V finally launched for the PC yesterday. Given that GTA IV was a resource hog of a port coupled with Rockstar’s numerous delays of the PC version, we thought we would run the game through its paces using the beefiest rig we had in the Lab. We opted…
Budget doesn’t have to mean junk Cheap cases. They’re not as scary as the phrase implies, even though we acknowledge that the lower end of the case spectrum can deliver some real clunkers. Thankfully, none of the cases in our roundup this month fit that profile. In fact, we’re seeing a number of features previously…
Don’t sweat it, playa’! Thermaltake’s Tt eSports division has concocted a mouse that fights back against sweaty palms with a vented top side that should help you keep your cool during those intense fire fights. Or so that’s the theory behind the hexagonal patterned ventilation on the Ventus X, which also boasts hexagonal side grips….
And so it begins Official opposition to the net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission published yesterday to the Federal Register has already begun. The rules, as laid out by the FCC under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 face attacks from multiple angles, including an effort by Republicans in Congress to…
Valve, we have a problem Some patient PC gamers who waited this long to finally experience Grand Theft Auto V on their platform of choice (Windows PCs) are being asked to wait a little longer, jump through some installation hoops, or receive a refund and move on. At issue is a bug that’s preventing GTA…
There are fancy 4K TVs that cost less than their monitor equivalents Displays have come along way since the old days of CRTs. Everyone’s gone flat, and then there is the curved stuff, which I don’t really buy into yet. I mean, even the screen on Jean-Luc Picard’s desk was flat, and that’s way into…
Wading into the deep end of the pool Deepcool has been around for 18 years, but it’s kept out of the closed-loop liquid cooling (CLC) fray until now. Its Gamer Storm series includes several CLCs, and the Maelstrom 240 is the top of the line. It’s a sleek red-and-black affair with ribbed tubing, sleeved cables,…
Fast, compact and loud As both certified performance enthusiasts and smaller-PC fetishists, we wondered how long it would take to get Intel’s new eight-core hotness, the Haswell-E, in a tiny case. While Polywell’s MiniBox X9900x doesn’t exactly qualify as “tiny,” it’s probably as small as you’re going to see with Intel’s Core i7-5960X powering it….