PC Gaming

The three laws of robotics I’m a child of the ’80s, and even 30 years later I still have fond memories of watching cartoons after school and on Saturday mornings. One of the classics was The Jetsons. For those who aren’t old enough to remember the show, or just never watched it, the Jetsons are…

Taking the Red Pill The past few months have seen some interesting happenings over in the AMD camp. First up was the creation of the Radeon Technologies Group, tasked with focusing on graphics to create better experiences for the end users. Coinciding with the RTG announcement was the launch of the R9 Nano, a graphics…

A build we can covet like a Red Ryder BB gun Here it comes, in all its consumer-economy glory: Black Friday. The name alone evokes visions of the plague, demons, and the apocalypse. What horrors await unsuspecting holiday shoppers. If you’ve been following our Fall builds, we’ve already listed our Budget Gamer and Midrange builds….

On your mark, get set, SAVE! Here’s a fun fact you can toss around the dinner table on turkey day: Black Friday, now the busiest shopping day of the year, is a term that took hold in Philadelphia back in the early 1960s. It was used to describe the hustle and bustle of holiday shoppers…

Packing power in a small package Holiday shopping is coming, and there’s the stress to buy the right thing for the right person, all within a tight holiday deadline. It sucks. It’s stressful. And it probably makes you want to kick an elf right in its stupid elfy face. For some of us, building a…

Respectable power and performance on a budget Believe it or not, it’s that time of year again. Red frills and decorations are everywhere, and holiday music fills every conceivable retail space. Love them or hate them, the holidays are just around the bend. At least there are some deals to be had. When we went…

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again At a Glance (+) Time Travel: Great price-to-performance ratio; runs quiet; faster than the competition. (-) DeLorean: Less efficient than the competition; not much different from R9 380. Flashback: The date is December 11, 2011, and AMD has just launched their latest and greatest graphics processor, the HD 7970,…

FPS encounters in the post-apocalypse Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard about Fallout 4, the latest entry in the acclaimed post-apocalyptic RPG series. And if you missed it, you might also want to check out the awesome case mod in our latest Rig of the Month! Fallout 4 uses an…

You can never have enough when it comes to gear and tech; there’s always something coming out that’s going to be better. When does it ever end? Hopefully, never. Here are my choices for this week. Balanced and neutral audio There are “PC speakers” and then there are speakers. I’ve used plenty of PC-oriented speakers…