PC Gaming
Can AMD’s Crimson 16.1.1 Hotfix Rise to the Occasion? Last week, Rise of the Tomb Raider launched and received fairly good reviews. We then benchmarked the game to see how AMD and Nvidia GPUs stack up, along with checking out the CPU side of things. At the time, AMD was running “unoptimized” drivers while Nvidia…
Need to know Product: Modmic 4.0Company: Antlion AudioPrice: $43 (starting)Options: Omni or uni-directional; muteless or mute-ableLink: www.modmic.com So you’re into gaming, which means unless you’re a gaming hermit, you’re probably communicating with your friends and other gamers via some sort of “gaming” headset. I never understood the word “gaming” for computer peripherals—they’re usually reserved for…
Comcast announced this week the rollout of gigabit Internet connections for a handful of cities across the nation. The new service will hit residences and businesses in Atlanta and Nashville in early 2016, followed by Chicago, Detroit, and Miami in the second half of this year. Comcast hasn’t yet provided pricing information. What makes this…
Got a lot of hard drives you need to pack into a single mini-tower chassis? You’re in luck, as Lian Li just introduced the PC-M25, a small form factor case that provides space for up to seven 3.5-inch hard drives. There’s even a hot swap HDD cage that supports up to five 3.5-inch drives, and…
Top Deal: It’s time to upgrade your graphics card and you’re thinking, “Go big or go home!,” right? But then you check out the asking price for a GeForce GTX Titan X and think, “Hmm, maybe I’ll go just a little less big.” Hey, there’s no shame in that, and if you’re looking for a…
Time’s up Google’s Project Zero team doesn’t mess around when it comes to security vulnerabilities—if it finds one that’s noteworthy, it gives companies 90 days to fix the issue before going public. Surprisingly, one of the latest disclosures involved Malwarebytes, a popular anti-malware program. No anti-malware program is perfect, though in our experience, Malwarebytes does…
Proving an expensive point Benson Leung, the Google engineer who took it upon himself to test and review USB Type-C cables and adapters on Amazon to call attention to the dangers of using ones that are out of spec, just sacrificed his Chromebook Pixel to the digital gods. No cheap lesson, Chromebook Pixels start at…
Budget drives by circumstance only Even if you have no plans whatsoever of overhauling your setup and upgrading to a fancy pants NVMe-based solid state drive, you should be super excited about the category. Why? Simply put, those stupid-fast drives that take advantage of PCI Express are pushing yesterday’s performance models into budget territory. Just…
In a recent interview with The Australian Financial Times, Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell revealed the company’s plans for entering the virtual reality market. However, don’t expect to see products from the company any time soon. Darrell indicated that Logitech intends to enter the VR market late rather than bust in “early and awkwardly.” “Just like…
War, War Never Changes… … the hardware and software you’re using, on the other hand, can change in rapid fashion, often rendering older results meaningless. This is the case with Fallout 4, which we initially benchmarked right after launch. Two and a half months later, we’ve just received the latest official 1.3 patch, which was…