PC Gaming
A sound decision When’s the last time you fired up a monitor and thought, “Wow, the speakers in this thing are amazing!”? Probably never. The best you can really hope for from the tinny cans that manufactures shove inside of monitors is serviceable audio, but more often than not, they simply suck. Granted, nobody goes…
Surface Pro 3 starts at $699 for a limited time Maybe Microsoft is still scarred from having to take a $900 million charge on unsold Surface RT tablets a year and a half ago, or perhaps a refresh is around the bend. Either way, the Redmond outfit is trying its best to entice people to…
Pi 2 sells 500,000 units since launch It is hard to believe that the Raspberry Pi has been around for three years already. Launched back in 2012, the credit card-sized PC attracted quite a bit of attention due to its $35 price and potential ability to encourage programming with children. Today, it was revealed that…
A Steam box for the enthusiast Much like what Alienware did with its Alpha console, CyberPower PC is transforming its Steam Machine into a Windows box (you can thank Valve’s delay of its hardware initiative for that). CyberPower PC is branding its new line of PCs under its Syber Vapor line, which is an obvious…
Top Deal: Rumor has it that Intel is delaying Skylake until the end of August, but if you’re not wanting to wait that long (or longer) to build a new system, there’s no shame in sticking with Haswell — it’s far from chopped liver. Sound like a plan? If so, check out today’s top deal…
Get ready to see more of these One thing I’ve noticed over the last few months is an increased focus on mini ITX builds. New cases like In Win’s funky D-Frame Mini and Corsair’s LAN-friendly Graphite Series 380T underscore a growing desire to build high-end systems with smaller footprints, but what about the parts that…
You asked for it, they listened With just 15 days left and only $210 pledged so far towards its $50,000 goal on Kickstarter, we don’t know if One Technology’s Phantom One system will gain enough momentum to be successfully funded, but give credit to the team behind the project. When we first reported about the…
Look who’s watching Security outfit Kaspersky Lab has found evidence that the National Security Agency (NSA) may be implanting highly sophisticated malware into the firmware of consumer hard drives where it’s not easily detected or removed. Kaspersky’s report found custom payloads residing in HDDs from several major brands such as Western Digital, HGST, Seagate, Maxtor,…
Premium looks at an affordable price tag The newly available Asus Zenbook UX305 might be the sexiest 13.3-inch Ultrabook you can buy for $699. According to Asus, it’s certainly the slimmest — measuring just 0.48 inches thin weighing a mere 2.6 pounds, we won’t argue that claim. But getting back to the price tag, Asus…
Waiting on Skylake Rumor has it that Intel is delaying the release of its 14nm Skylake desktop CPUs until around the end of August instead of late in the second quarter as originally scheduled. Keeping in mind that none of this is official — Intel hasn’t made any Skylake announcements that have to do with…