PC Gaming
Drivers optimized for Black Ops III As Nvidia is prone to do, it has new WHQL-certified drivers available just in time for a new game, this one being Call of Duty: Blacks Ops III. The newly available GeForce “Game Ready” 358.87 drivers come with the promise of delivering “the best possible experience” in Black Ops…
Two new premium laptops Samsung on Thursday updated its portfolio of laptops with two new models, one of which is the Ativ Book 9 Pro, the company’s first notebook to boast a 4K resolution display. That 3840×2160 resolution is packed into a 15.6-inch touch panel with real time HDR enhancements. It supports an “Outdoor Mode”…
Holding cable makers’ feet to the fire Listen up folks, not all cables are created equal. You might already know that, but to drive the point home, an engineer at Google has begun leaving user reviews on Amazon for a variety of USB Type-C cables. His name is Benson Leung and he has a vested…
This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. A repository for more than you’d expect There are several places on the Internet that have become workhorses for free and open-source software projects. GitHub is definitely one of them, and the more I…
On Halloween night, one of our analytics providers (PageFair) suffered a security breach, allowing an attacker to take advantage of the hole and consequently serve an ad that claimed your Flash plugin was out of date and that you should update. This then lead to adware/malware installers that, well, then would attempt to attack you….
USA Today has posted an interesting write-up about Rufus Cuff, a communicator users wear on their wrist. The device sports a 3.2-inch touchscreen, making it bulkier than a smart watch but smaller than a tablet. Rufus Cuff’s overall dimensions are actually larger than that to make room for the 1175mAh rechargeable battery, speaker, front-facing camera,…
Unnamed insiders told Paul Thurrott that Microsoft is expected to green-light Threshold 2 this week. Unfortunately, they weren’t exactly forthcoming with a release date, but said that Microsoft is expected to finalize the “bits” this week and prepare the update for mass consumption. Microsoft is also not commenting on when the “upcoming update” will be…
Top Deal: Building a PC is all about matching the appropriate parts. For example, you wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) pair a Titan X with a lowly dual-core APU, and while bother with a 1,000W power supply if you’re running a lower-end system that could thrive comfortably on a solid 400W PSU? That same philosophy extends beyond…
An all-black motherboard MSI is fleshing out its Pro motherboard series with the Z170A SLI Plus, an “all-black” board based on Intel’s Z170 chipset for Skylake. The dark theme definitely dominates the motherboard, though we can spot some bits of silver, white, gray, and a dash of orange (on some capacitors). Whether you want to…
Official Popcorn Time fork shuts down The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is trumpeting a victory in the war against piracy and it wants the world to know about it. Specifically, it managed to shut down the official Popcorn Time fork and YTS, a torrent site serving up copyrighted movies and TV shows, through…