PC Gaming
Tricked out motherboard Just ahead of CES, Asus announced a new flagship motherboard for Skylake builds, the Maximus VIII Formula. We got a chance to see one in person before zipping out of Las Vegas, along with some of the company’s other products. If it’s an LED light show you’re after, the Maximus VIII Formula…
Keeping your cool Digital Storm has a new rig in its stable, the Aventum 3, and it’s not just a minor revision of the previous model. When we met up with Digital Storm’s Darren at CES, he told us that the Aventum 3 was built from the ground up to accommodate the company’s HydroLux Pro…
Let there be light Waterblocks aren’t overly interesting, not outside of their function, anyway. But with so many parts of a build getting blinged out by manufacturers, it was only a matter of time before a company gave the same treatment to a waterblock. That company is Zotac. Inside Zotac’s booth at CES, we had…
Why not? For those of you who remember Home Improvement, you’ll recall that Tim “The Toolman” Taylor never once asked why he should mod a lawn mower into a hot rod, instead living by a philosophy of ‘Hey, why not?’ And so it is with DeepCool, which brought a liquid cooled power supply to CES….
Up close with a Predator HyperX brought its new Predator NVMe SSD to CES. It’s HyperX’s first NVMe drive and it’s fast — the drive was posting read and write speeds of 2,585MB/s and 1,354MB/s, respectively, at HyperX’s booth. HyperX isn’t revealing too many details about the drive just yet, such as what NAND flash…
Smaller than mini ITX If you thought mini ITX builds were small, wait until you see ones built around the new mini STX form factor. To give you a glimpse of where things are headed, we coaxed ECS into letting us film and post information about an announced motherboard based on the new tiny form…
Swappable sensors, cables, and more SteelSeries brought a pet mouse to this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. It’s called the Rival 700, and unlike every other mouse out there, this one sports a customizable onboard OLED display to track things like headshots and other stats. It’s just one of many unique features. Customization is the name…
Save $200 off the PC and jump to the front of the Rift pre-order line. During a CES dinner today, Alienware revealed that its VR-ready X51 PC will cost $1,200, but if you pre-order it bundled with the Oculus Rift, you’ll be able to get a $200 discount on the system sometime in February through…
There are very few times in my life that I’ve had the chance to try out something as incredible as Sennheiser’s new Orpheus headphones. It’s really difficult to describe just how good these headphones sound. That’s $55,000 sitting on my head. To appreciate the fidelity being delivered by the Orpheus’s electro-static drivers, you’ll have to…
Seeing double We’ve heard of dual-CPU and dual-GPU configurations, but two separate computers inside a single chassis? That’s what CyberPowerPC concocted, and it’s not a prototype, but a real system. Why two PCs? It’s for playing games and streaming at the same time. By handing off streaming chores to a dedicated system, gamers don’t need…