PC Gaming
Looking beyond 4K Ultra HD Consumers have yet to fully embrace 4K Ultra HD displays, but now that the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has published the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.4a standard, it will only be a matter of time before 8K resolution panels end up on all-in-one PCs, laptops, and even mobile devices like…
Take a look at some Skyrim graphics mods One of the best reasons to be a PC gamer is modding. There is a passionate and dedicated community that helps to breathe new life into many PC games because of it. Yet while the scope and diversity of mods available are vast, we are focusing on…
Examining the different scenarios Microsoft has been granted a patent for “Windows 365” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and of course the immediate reaction is that Windows is headed towards a subscription model similar to Office 365. Indeed that may be the case, though from everything that we know, it probably…
Say hello to USB 3.1 Biostar’s been making a concerted effort to gain a reputation as a high-end hardware player, and it’s doing it by releasing boards with enthusiast grade and sometimes unique feature-sets. We saw it last summer with the release of the TD85, a motherboard with half a dozen PCI-E slots intended for…
Top Deal: Haven’t you heard? iPad sales are down and tablet growth as a whole has slowed considerably. If we were analysts jumping the gun, we’d call this the post-tablet era. Either way, if you’ve had your fill of the tablet life and now find yourself in the market for an affordable gaming laptop, check…
Company is ‘putting finishing touches’ Ever since the furor over GTX 970’s specs first erupted last month, AMD has been having plenty of fun rubbing salt into Nvidia’s self-inflicted wounds, reminding GTX 970 owners how Nvidia lied to them and asking those interested in getting a “real video card at a decent price” to go…
SMPS chip to blame The Raspberry Pi 2 credit card-sized computer that went on sale a week back has been a talking point ever since. Initially, it was all about its many improvements over the first-gen Pi and the fact that it will eventually be to run a free version of Windows 10. Now, however,…
Current version of Project Spartan is said to be only marginally better than IE11 in HTML5 compliance When it officially unveiled the Project Spartan (codename) browser last month, Microsoft said it would not be part of “our first few Insider builds.” It is hard to say how much longer we might have to wait for…
Current version of Project Spartan is said to be only marginally better than IE11 in HTML5 compliance When it officially unveiled the Project Spartan (codename) browser last month, Microsoft said it would not be part of “our first few Insider builds.” It is hard to say how much longer we might have to wait for…
The new low-level API easily outperforms DX11 in Star Swarm benchmark The latest preview build of Windows 10 includes DirectX 12 and supports a new graphics driver model in the form of Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.0. Lest you take the new graphic driver architecture lightly, know that this is the most significant WDDM…