PC Gaming
New gear for gamers If you’re looking for new PC gaming peripherals, Corsair has a handful of products you might be interested in. The company announced several new items at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, including a pair of keyboards, three headsets, and a mouse. Starting with the keyboards, Corsair unveiled the Strafe RGB and Strafe…
Big update rolls into view Well that was fast. In this new era of Windows as a Service (WaaS), Microsoft has released its first cumulative update for Windows 10, which some are calling Service Release 1 (tongue in cheek, of course). Microsoft lists the update as KB 3081424 and it’s a big one. It replaces…
Defragmentation, SMART monitoring, and more tips to keep your hard drives chugging along In an age of increasingly affordable flash storage, hard drives are slowly disappearing from enthusiast rigs and mass-market laptops alike. Although SSDs are markedly faster than their platter-based counterparts, hard drives are still useful for long-term storage, archival, and massive media libraries…
Top Deal: There was a day when buying a monitor with an In-Plane Switching (IPS) panel meant taking out a second mortgage. Not anymore! Just check out today’s top deal for a Dell P2314H 23-inch IPS Monitor for $160 with free shipping (normally $200 – use coupon code: [EMCAWAR45]). This IPS monitor sports a 1920×1080…
Not your average looking desktop Whenever Intel launches a new processor line, system builders come out of the woodwork to announce new PCs that use the newest hardware. Skylake is no exception, and with it comes a new Predator gaming desktop from Acer. Like previous Predator desktops, the Predator G6-710 with Skylake inside sports a…
An easier way to create presentations After 10 months of testing, Microsoft today announced that its digital storytelling app, Sway, is moving out of Preview form and into general availability. And the timing couldn’t be better, with the back-to-school season coming into view. Sway joins Microsoft’s Office suite and is available as a free download…
Over on both the EVGA and GeForce forums, a Nvidia customer going by the name “Ozy311” is reporting that SLI is broken in Windows 10. According to the customer, he performed a fresh install to make sure there would be no conflicts when playing games in SLI. However, he’s getting a DirectX function error once…
You can do better Now that you’ve upgraded to Windows 10, you might be wondering what options you have for playing DVDs. In the old days, that functionality was included in Windows, and as long as you had an optical drive capable of reading DVDs, you were golden. That’s not the case with Windows 10,…
At a Glance (+) Speed Boats: Good performance; overclocks well; Z170 platform offers new features. (-) Tug Boats: Not much faster than Haswell; still quad-core; no heatsink included; needs new motherboard and RAM. Making waves on Skylake Skylake. The name invokes images of a serene outdoor setting, with clear water surrounded by forests, and blue…
Top Deal: Do you hear that noise? No? Listen harder. Still nothing? Great! That’s the benefit of a low noise and/or silent power supply. And no, you don’t have to compromise performance for silence. Want proof? Check out today’s top deal for an EVGA 1,000W Super Silent Power Supply for $170 with free shipping (normally…