PC Gaming
Fast, compact and loud As both certified performance enthusiasts and smaller-PC fetishists, we wondered how long it would take to get Intel’s new eight-core hotness, the Haswell-E, in a tiny case. While Polywell’s MiniBox X9900x doesn’t exactly qualify as “tiny,” it’s probably as small as you’re going to see with Intel’s Core i7-5960X powering it….
The CPU and GPU maker expands to SSDs The market for solid-state storage has gotten pretty crowded, and most SSDs can use up all available bandwidth on the SATA III bus. With SATA Express and M.2 devices emerging, the transition away from older, slower technology is in full swing. Despite this, AMD is expanding its…
Top Deal: Nothing quite compares with a solid 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound speaker set, which allows you to hear all of the in-game explosions, gun shots, and enemies creeping up from every which direction. Ah, but that’s not always appreciated by your significant other or roommate in the wee hours of the morning. The…
If it looks like a duck but barks like a dog, what is it? We were really impressed with Hewlett-Packard’s Omen laptop when we reviewed it last year. With a design that paid homage to its Voodoo PC namesake, the model we received proved a capable gaming machine wrapped in a sexy chassis with a…
Get your PC ready for GTA V After what seemed like an eternity (and then some), Rockstar Games is finally ready to release Grand Theft Auto V to PC, which officially debuts at midnight on April 14, 2015, in the U.K. In the U.S., it should unlock today, April 13, at 7:00 PM ET /…
From the Virtual Boy to the Oculus Rift According to Merriam-Webster, virtual reality is: “an artificial world that consists of images and sounds created by a computer and that is affected by the actions of a person who is experiencing it.” We like to think of it in simpler terms and define virtual reality as:…
‘Redirect to SMB’ affects all versions of Windows, including Windows 10 While in the process of hunting for ways to abuse a chat client feature that provides image previews, security researchers at Cylance say they stumbled upon a new technique that hackers could use to pluck sensitive login credentials from any Windows PC, tablet, or…
Long-term outlook isn’t all that bad, though Research firms IDC and Gartner have published their respective PC shipment estimates for the first quarter of 2015 and they don’t make for pretty reading. According to both firms, the PC market squandered the momentum of recent quarters during the latest three-month period, though they don’t see eye…
There’s a new version of Microsoft Solitaire Collection in this one It’s time for your weekly dose of Windows 10 builds. Over the past month or so alone, we’ve had as many as five new builds—both official releases and leaks—with the last one finding its way onto the Internet Friday. (A few more and we’ll…
The Linux-based ‘Developer Edition’ starts at $949 In late 2012, Dell released a Ubuntu-running variant of its XPS 13 laptop as part of its “Project Sputnik” initiative. Named the Developer Edition, in reference to its target demographic, the Linux-based variant has accompanied every XPS 13 refresh since then and this year is no exception. The…