PC Gaming
Top Deal: Hey, we get it — saying goodbye is tough. That’s especially true after a long and fruitful relationship in which you’ve both been faithful to each other. But sometimes, the grass really is greener on the other side, especially when the one you’ve been leaning on starts making funky noises at random intervals….
Cutting the cord on Momentum, and more Whenever talk turns to audio, Sennheiser is a name that inevitably comes up. And with good reason — we’ve sampled several different Sennheiser brand headsets and earphones over the years, and more often than not, we end up liking what we hear. Will that trend continue into 2015?…
Turn an HDMI display into a Windows 8.1 PC Intel already used the Consumer Electronics Show as a platform to introduce its newest 5th Generation Core micro-architecture (14nm Broadwell), but that’s not all it wanted to show off. On a somewhat smaller scale, Intel today introduced its Compute Stick, a $149 dongle that turns your…
Well, there goes all our free time! If your friends and co-workers all seem unusually busy as of late, it’s probably because they discovered a virtual gold mine of gaming goodness. You can discover it too, courtesy of the Internet Archive and software curator Jason Scott, who assembled a collection of roughly 2,400 MS-DOS games,…
We’re gonna need a bigger desk Dell announced today that it was going to start selling the U3415W, a 34-inch “ultra-wide” 21:9 curved IPS monitor, on its website tomorrow. We first heard about this hot item at PAX last year, but they weren’t talking about availability at the time. It has a resolution of 3440…
Another attempt to get Android in the living room You can always count on Razer to introduce a surprise product or two every year at the Consumer Electronics Show. Last year it was Project Christine, a modular PC concept that may one day become an actual consumer product. And this year? Well, Razer has multiple…
Hardware overload for gamers Gaming at 4K is still a pipe dream for many people. Too many roadblocks exist, one of them being the need for high-end hardware to push all those pixels around on a screen at a comfortable pace. However, for those who are equipped with sufficient GPU horsepower, you’ll be glad to…
Laptops and desktop CPUs and PC consoles, oh my! We’ve already seen some interesting developments coming from boutique system builders at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, though there’s still plenty more to talk about. Like what? Well, Origin PC arrived at CES with laptops configured with desktop processors and a few living room…
A killer system that’s pre-wired for liquid cooling Liquid cooling isn’t new by any means — enthusiasts have been cooling their PCs with water since around the discovery of fire (give or take a few years). But what makes Digital Storm’s new Aventum 3 system a different kind of beast is how the liquid cooling…
The straight dope on Oculus VR You may have noticed that over the years, Maximum PC sometimes doesn’t have a filter — that’s part of where our “Minimum BS” tagline comes from. With that in mind, we sent Online Managing Editor and number one Geraldo Rivera fan Jimmy Thang on a mission to seek out…