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A number nerd’s wet storage dream If you’re a regular reader of Maximum PC, then a name you’re likely to remember is Backblaze, a cloud-based backup firm that routinely shares its data about hard drive failures and various operations. The level of openness is pretty rare, as not too many companies offer the same level…
G.Skill Ripjaws 4 memory kit hits 4355MHz You know that friend of yours that can’t help but to go over the speed limit at every opportunity? That’s G.Skill, a memory maker that’s heavily involved in the overclocking scene, and with DDR4 RAM being relatively new, there’s plenty of uncharted memory frequency territory to explore. A…
Reinventing Wi-Fi If nobody ever bothered to reinvent he wheel, we’d all be riding around on four semi-circular stones with uneven surfaces and poor braking performance. Keeping that in mind, we won’t necessarily dismiss a startup’s attempt to reinvent Wi-Fi as you know it. In short, startup Eero wants to blanket your home in fast,…
Another bottleneck bites the dust Out with the old and in with the new, or in this case, MSI is anxious to bid a fond farewell to the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) and get cooking with Non-Volatile Media Express (NVMe). To get the party started, MSI issued a round of BIOS updates for a…
Top Deal: Not yet ready to invest in a 4K or 5K panel? Holding out for when 8K panels become mainstream? No problem, though that 15-year-old CRT is a bit of an eyesore, don’t you think? While you wait for whatever super-duper-ultra-high resolution monitor it is you’re after, a nice Full HD 1080p can the…
Secret deals come to light You’re not supposed to know it, but Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Taboola have been paying the developers of Adblock Plus to stop blocking ads on their respective websites, according to a paywalled article in the Financial Times. The deals are confidential in nature, though FT says it was able to…
Refreshed Blade sees several upgrades Razer’s original Blade laptop is officially old news. That’s because Razer today introduced a pair of refreshed Blade gaming notebooks, one with a Full HD 1080p (1920×1080) IPS display and the other with a touch-enabled QHD+ 3K IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) panel. Both models feature updated internals, including a…
Leaked slide shows next generation chipsets with more PCIe lanes It’s been several years since we’ve seen a meaningful upgrade to PCI Express in Intel’s chipsets. For the most part, budget on up to high-end motherboards have been limited to eight lanes at Gen2 speeds, though it appears that’s going to change once Skylake arrives….
Hi! I’m happy to say that our No BS Podcast returns tomorrow! The last podcast debuted on October 31, 2014, and since then there hasn’t been an update. The good news is that the Maximum PC crew will be at it again, fresh, tomorrow! There are a good number of things we’re going to be…
We’ve tried HoloLens and Crescent Bay—our thoughts on both headsets With Microsoft now entrenched in the headset realm with HoloLens, many of you might be wondering how it stacks up against Oculus VR’s Oculus Rift. After all, both are head-mounted displays. Still, while they have their similarities, they are also quite different. Whereas a virtual-reality…