PC Gaming
Gaming the education system Kids looking to convince their folks to let them spend more time in front of the PC playing games can now play the college card. How so? The University of California, Irvine, is launching an official e-sports initiative this fall and plans to hand out as many as 10 academic scholarships…
Opposites attract If you think Windows and Linux go together like peanut butter and mustard, you’re in for a surprise. Out of all the things Microsoft has talked about at its Build Developer Conference so far, one of the most interesting is its plan to bring native Bash and with it support for Linux command…
Ripping open the Rift There’s a somewhat depressing trend in today’s mobile gear, and that’s the copious use of glue to hold things together. It’s effective, but it also makes do-it-yourself repair a headache. Unlike the majority of desktop PCs, mobile gadgets just aren’t designed to be user serviceable. Of course, there are exceptions to…
Top Deal: When you lose your cool, you might shout out a few obscenities, punch a pillow, or fire up loud music until you feel better again. But when your PC loses its cool, things tend to freeze up, restart, and spit out errors, especially if you’re overclocking. If you find that your CPU is…
More to the iPhone story The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice are no longer trying to force Apple to break into the iPhone 5c handset that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters, but the precedent the U.S. government sought is an issue that will likely come up again. As it…
Keeping the pedal on the metal Microsoft’s ultimate goal is for Windows 10 to be installed on 1 billion devices within the first 2-3 years of availability. Sure it’s ambitious, but just 8 months removed from Windows 10’s launch, the OS now finds itself on 270 million active devices. That’s the word from Terry Myerson,…
Big screen gaming in little spaces Forget about that 32-inch monitor you’ve been eyeing up, Acer’s newly available Predator Z850 projector can beam images up to 120 inches on your wall or screen. The question is, are you willing to pay $5,000 for it? That’s Acer’s bold asking price for what it claims is the…
Top Deal: So you’re building a new system and decided to make the plunge into Skylake, is that it? That’s not a bad option—you can build a killer system around Skyake with careful component selection, starting with today’s top deal for a kit of Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4…
Go ahead and overclock EVGA unveiled its SC17 gaming laptop at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. One thing that’s notable about the system is that EVGA didn’t source an existing system and slap its name on the box, this one was designed 100 percent in-house. It’s also now available to…
Capture 1080p at 60 frames per second One thing you can say about Razer is that it’s not afraid to spread its wings into different product categories. We’re reminded of that today with the introduction of the Razer Ripsaw, the peripheral maker’s first game capture card. The Ripsaw is an external box that plugs into…