PC Gaming
Top Deal: Microsoft did users a solid when it announced that Windows 10 would be a free upgrade for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 users for the first year. That also means you can forge ahead with that new build you were planning and not have to have invest in another OS once Windows 10…
Now with twice the GDDR5 memory There were rumors earlier this year that 4GB versions of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 960 graphics card would show up in March, and it turns out they were right. EVGA has emerged as the first to cross into 4GB territory with its GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC graphics card announced today….
Goodbye Mantle, we hardly knew ye In a blog post on Monday, AMD’s Raja Koduri waxed nostalgic on Mantle and how it “revolutionized the industry’s thinking on low-overhead/high-throughput graphics,” among other things. But at the end of what reads like a reluctant death sentence, AMD told developers that if they’re interested in Mantle 1.0’s functionality,…
Fast and capacious storage It’s been a couple of months since Mushkin first trotted out its Striker line of solid state drives. First announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year, the Striker line drew interest for its rated speeds, which can reach up to 565MB/s for read and up…
In the PDF archive of the September 2014 issue, you can find: Dream Machine 2014! Gaming Mice roundup Calibrate Your Monitor Review: Falcon Northwest Tiki Z Review: Microsoft Surface 3 Much more… …read more
In the PDF archive of the August 2014 issue, you can find: Liberate Your Media Z97 Motherboards The Evolution of DirectX Build It: Tight Squeeze, Primo Parts Review: Origin PC Genesis More! …read more
Five percent royalty rate still applies to commercial projects At last year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), Epic Games made the decision to license its next generation Unreal Engine 4 to anyone and everyone for $19 per month, giving subscribers unfettered access to its complete C++ source code hosted in GitHub. If you sold and/or made…
Big things come in small packages If you can jam an 8-inch tablet in your pocket, then you’ll be down with Lenovo’s pitch of “pocket-sized productivity” for its newly announced Ideapad Miix 300 Windows tablet. Lenovo made the announcement at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, while also unveiling several other mobile devices, including four Android…
Hype is high Benq today announced that its 27-inch RL2755HM “blazing fast professional gaming monitor” is now shipping, meaning you should be able to find it online, if not now then soon. Selected as the official console gaming monitor of both Major League Gaming (MLG) and UMG, they hype machine is in overdrive on this…
Making a move for mobile Intel last week had already given the heads up that it was rebranding its Atom processors into three performance tiers — Atom x3, Atom x5, and Atom x7. The Santa Clara chip maker didn’t provide any details at the time, leading us to speculate that the first new Atom parts…