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This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Welcome to the Wild West of VR Length of Time: 1-3 Hours | Difficulty: Medium The Mission Virtual reality is a hot topic for PCs right now, and everyone wants a piece of the…
AMD gamers shopping for a new monitor should look no further than the ASUS MG278Q that’s slated for a North American release in early September. The panel supports AMD’s FreeSync technology and provides a 144 Hz refresh rate, two features that eliminate annoying screen tearing. Unfortunately, ASUS didn’t provide pricing in its product announcement but…
Top Deal: Some items are reserved for the one-percenters. They’re the ballers, the shot callers, and for them, it’s all about excess. But even those who can afford to spend an obscene sum on a PC can appreciate saving a bit of coin, as they would with today’s top deal for a 128GB kit of…
Nvidia reports that an upcoming version of its GeForce Experience tool will feature the Share early access beta, which will provide new tools including an in-game overlay and GameStream Co-op with built-in voice chat support. Access to the beta will be provided sometime in September along with the system requirements. The big news here is…
Google to the rescue Google is working on a fix for an issue that prevents the 64-bit version of its Chrome browser from running correctly in the newest Windows 10 Preview Build (10525). In the absence of a fix, Chrome users are complaining of various annoyances, such as webpages not loading at all and tabs…
Upgrades in sight Remember that Surface Pro 3 sale a couple of days ago, the one in which Microsoft marked down the Core i5/128GB model to $799 (compared to its $999 MSRP)? It was a one-day thing, though expect more sales and maybe even an permanent price cut as the Surface Pro 4 comes into…
At a Glance (+) Maxwell: Affordable; 1080p gaming ready; energy efficient; quiet. (-) Farewell: Still needs 6-pin power; not much cheaper than GTX 960. Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 950: Maxwell 2.0 on the Cheap If there’s one thing we love more than fast GPUs, it’s affordable and fast GPUs. The best-selling graphics cards of all time…
This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. I wasn’t mentally prepared for E3—not as a journalist, and not as a Linux user When the doors admitting the unwashed masses to E3 opened at noon, the floor was filled with the multitudinous…
Set up a streaming solution for your old movies So, you’ve watched all the good movies on Netflix. You know that there’s a big box of DVDs buried somewhere in your closet, but it would be too much trouble to rummage through all of your junk for just one movie night. The good news is,…
A helping hand Most of you reading this would have no trouble swapping out a pokey 5400 RPM mechanical hard drive for a blazing fast solid state drive, and doing so could reinvigorate an aging laptop. But for those who are inexperienced at such things, SanDisk is offering a $40 SSD “Concierge Service” that aims…