PC Gaming
Chrome OS versus Windows, round 2: FIGHT! After getting off to a slow start, Chromebooks finally began to grow in popularity as lower cost alternatives to Windows-based machines. And for a long while, Chromebooks represented the top selling laptops on Amazon. Now that Windows laptops can be bought for $250 or less, Chromebooks aren’t as…
Handy dandy VR We spoke with Razer about its Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) ecosystem at the Consumer Electronics Show a couple of months ago and were excited about the possibilities. Even more intriguing is the announcement that Leap Motion has partnered up with Razer to integrate its motion-tracking capabilities right into Razer’s OSVR headset…
Introducing USB 3.1 to AMD MSI is laying claim to the world’s first AMD motherboard with USB 3.1 support. The board in question is MSI’s new 970A SLI Krait Edition, which sports a black and white tuxedo theme that would probably look pretty nifty inside a white theme enclosure. But behind the looks is a…
Never run out of cloud storage again The future of cloud storage is likely to come down to price and supplementary features rather than allotted storage space. Looking to push the issue, Amazon today announced a pair of unlimited storage options with Amazon Cloud Drive that are available to anyone and everyone, not just Amazon…
This mouse is as subtly handsome as it is precise Last week, Logitech stopped by the Maximum PC office to show off its new mouse, the MX Master. The device looked pretty compelling, as did the short promo video, but we looked forward to using the mouse to see how it really fared. The Logtech…
Up your speed by linking two or more drives in RAID 0 For serious PC builders, speed is the name of the game. Too often, storage becomes a bottleneck that holds back even the beefiest CPU. Even with the advent of SSDs, leveraging a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) can drastically reduce boot and…
Put the pedal to the metal Cover your eyes if you live way out in the boondocks or anywhere else where broadband Internet access is about as mythical as a unicorn, this might sting a little. It turns out the U.S. is seeing faster download speeds. According to data pulled from Ookla’s Speedtest, the average…
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When air cooling isn’t enough Have you ever tried liquid cooling a graphics card? It’s not the most difficult thing in the world, though between the water cooling loop and delicately removing the card’s stock cooling solution, it can be a little intimidating. And then there’s EVGA’s new GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid with an all-in-one…
Lines have been drawn Some changes are coming to the way Microsoft’s Project Spartan and Internet Explorer browsers will handle the web once Windows 10 ships. As originally conceived, both browsers would use the new rendering engine built for Project Spartan, and both would be capable of switching back to the legacy Trident engine to…