PC Gaming
Where did all the colors go? Corsair’s Vengeance K70 RGB mechanical keyboard is supposed to deliver a color palette that’s precisely 16,777,216 wide, which the industry rounds up to 16.8 million. However, a curious user who often works with Arduino LED projects noticed that something seemed off with his plank, so he did a bit…
Here come the memes Nividia ticked a lot of people off when it came to light that its GeForce GTX 970 graphics card was suffering from performance issues when games tried to access onboard memory above 3.5GB. Turns out it’s the result of an architectural design, one that doesn’t exist on the GTX 980, and…
Top Deal: We’re all friends here, right? Good, because friends don’t let friends run aging mechanical hard drives when they could be rock and rolling with a speed solid state drive, especially when there’s a deal involved. What kind of deal? Today’s top deal, which is for a Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB SSD for…
Where barebones and Broadwell meet Shuttle’s been a player in the small form factor (SFF) space ever since our cave dwelling ancestors first discovered the PC, which back then was made out of stone and dinosaur bones (this is why we don’t teach history, folks). Fast forward to today and Shuttle is still making SFF…
Plugin allows developers to add virtual hands to games Epic and Leap Motion have teamed up to create and launch an official Windows plugin for Unreal Engine 4 that’s supposed to make it easy for developers to integrate virtual hands into their games. The plugin is available in the Unreal Engine 4.7 source code, which…
Carrizo’s coming to town AMD has high hopes for its energy-efficient Carrizo System-on-Chip (SoC) for laptops and low power desktops. The Sunnyvale Chip designer wants you to be optimistic as well, and so it shared several details about Carrizo’s architecture at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), saying that Carrizzo will deliver a bunch…
Packed to the gills with hardware Quick, hide your small form factor (SFF) PC and any NUC-like devices you might have hanging around, we wouldn’t want any hurt feelings. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum of all these pint-sized PCs that are suddenly vogue is Boxx’s new Apexx 5, “the world’s most advanced…
The fight for the living room just got bigger Unlike most developers and publishers that tend to inundate consumers with trailers, screenshots, developer diaries, and press releases to keep their games in the public’s eye, Valve tends to stay quiet. So while we know that the company has been working on its Steam Machines and…
A guide to interpreting game settings PC gamers have been fiddling with graphics settings since the dawn of time, but it takes a special kind of know-how to understand what each of those settings actually does. It doesn’t help that there aren’t any standard naming conventions, which means that options like “model” and “object” quality…
Top Deal: HD-DVD lost the high definition format war and there was a collective cry about how much more expensive Blu-ray was. We all shook an angry fist at Sony, then got over it. But if you didn’t, instead choosing to hold a grudge and refusing to purchase Blu-ray hardware until it dipped into affordable…