PC Gaming
Playing the blame game A Russian gamer located in Krasnoyarsk has filed a lawsuit against Bethesda that essentially blames the developer for building a fun game. Of course, the lawsuit doesn’t quite word it way. What’s at issue here is the 28-year-old’s obsession with Fallout 4 and the price he paid for spending too much…
Contains GameWorks VR tweaks Today’s a good day for early adopters of virtual reality technology. There’s an interactive version of Futuremark’s upcoming VRMark benchmark to play around with on Steam, and if you own a GeForce graphics card, Nvidia has a new set of WHQL-certified drivers available, version 361.43. The Game Ready driver update is…
Upcoming virtual reality benchmark Futuremark’s set of benchmarks are well known and commonly used among reviewers and home consumers alike. Sometime next year, the company will add VRMark to the fray, a benchmark focused on virtual reality performance. Ahead of that release, you can take a sneak peek via an interactive preview that’s now available…
Memory upgrade Nvidia is said to be readying a new batch of mobile GPUs to replace its current GeForce 920M, 930M, and 940M for entry-level and mainstream laptops. Citing information obtained from an “industry insider,” the folks at Notebookcheck say the new parts will be called GeForce 920MX (N16V-GMR), GeForce 930MX (N16S-GMR), and GeForce 940MX…
Capacity and speed collide G.Skill has been making a lot of noise about its growing DDR4 memory line, and in what could possibly be its last announcement for 2015, the company is championing what it claims is the fastest 64GB (4x16GB) memory kit on the market. The kit in question is rated to run at…
Following through with promises There’s a new version of AMD’s Radeon Software Crimson Edition available to download, version 15.12. It brings with it a bunch of fixes, but perhaps just as importantly, it’s a sign that AMD is committed to following through with its promise to deliver more frequent driver updates. AMD talked a big…
Top Deal: Remember when read and write speeds in the 550MB/s range used to be exciting? That was before there were options in the PCI-E space. If you need mind boggling read and writes, then check out today’s top deal for an Intel 750 Series 2.5-inch 400GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive…
A coming of age tale at a glance Pro (+) Super sharp screen; extremely portable; fast and quiet; very adjustable hinge. Noob (+) Keyboard sold separately; only one USB port; makes concessions as a laptop and tablet. When the original Surface Pro came out in 2012, it was seen as the awkward redheaded stepchild in…
Overclocking locked Skylake processors Good news, budget builders — motherboard makers are releasing BIOS updates that allow non-K Skylake processors to be overclocked. That isn’t how it’s supposed to be. Like Haswell and Broadwell, Intel “locks” certain 6th Generation Core processors so that users can’t easily make BCLK adjustments to boost base clock frequencies. If…