PC Gaming
How Much Is “A Lot”? AMD officially launched their Radeon Fury X last week, and in a few more weeks, we should see the air-cooled version (though exact specs for the vanilla Fury are not yet clear). With our initial Fury X review, we didn’t have time to test everything as thoroughly as we’d like,…
Top Deal: It can get awfully lonely sitting in a hotel room. Things are even worse when the TV only gets a few channels and you’re stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Luckily, the high-speed Internet works, and you had the foresight to bring along a gaming laptop. You did bring one along, right?…
Skylake can’t arrive fast enough We’re all anxiously awaiting the arrival of Intel’s Skylake-S processors, which are rumored to debut on August 5, 2015, at Gamescom. In the meantime, we’re left to speculate about speeds and features, and drool over pictures of motherboards that will support the batch of CPUs from Intel. What, you’re lacking…
Dark times in Sunnyvale AMD on Monday announced that revenue for the second quarter ended June 27, 2015, is expected to drop 8 percent sequentially, compared to the company’s previous guidance of a 3 percent decline, plus or minus 3 percent. The Sunnyvale chip designer blamed its financial struggles on weaker than expected PC demand…
Only at Newegg Those of you new to the wonderful world of DIY computing missed out on an era when RAM makers were practically tripping over themselves trying to release new, high speed kits. These days memory announcements are few are far between, even with DDR4 trying to usurp DDR3, though they’re not completely absent….
Say goodbye to pump noise If you were interested in buying a Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card and were lucky enough to find one in stock, you might have been disappointed to find that it exhibited pump noise. While not all Fury X cards are affected, it’s a known issue with some early production…
Oh, my! Feeling a bit frisky and need some alone time? A company called Naughty America (NSFW!) has developed and released a virtual porn “scene” starring Nikki Benz, Jaclyn Taylor and… possibly you! That’s right: this scene will feature a threesome that can’t be described here. All you’ll need is Samsung’s Gear VR for Android,…
Windows 10 is expected to go RTM by Friday The latest rumor surrounding the upcoming Windows 10 platform is that Microsoft plans to finalize the operating system by the end of the week. Currently, the most recent build of the Technical Preview is 10162, which was the third release in just a week that also…
Top Deal: Maybe you’ve heard that Samsung introduced new 2TB capacity 850 Pro and 850 Evo solid state drives. With SSD capacities on the rise, you can run a large, single SSD for OS chores (rather than two in RAID 0) and a single, even larger hard disk drive for storage duties. If that sounds…
The wait is almost over If you’ve been champing at the bit (or chomping, if you want to get loosey-goosey with the original idiom) for Intel’s Skylake-S launch, you can rest easy knowing that you’re in the homestretch. Well, probably, While nothing is yet official, we’ve been hearing for some time now that Skylake-S chips…