PC Gaming
Throwing in the towel The only thing worse than waiting for months on a developer to fix a broken game you’ve already paid for is discovering that the game’s still busted once the fix is in place. Okay, maybe that’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s certainly annoying. It’s also what some…
AMD’s answer to GeForce Experience If you own and AMD graphics card, don’t grow attached to the Catalyst Control Center, it’s being replaced by something significantly different and better suited for the modern era of gaming. Meet Radeon Software Crimson, a brand new interface that will do for AMD graphics cards what Nvidia’s GeForce Experience…
The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B features a 900MHz ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, 1Gb of LPDDR2 SDRAM, and can handle most repetitive tasks with ease. Repetitive tasks that you perform using aPC can be tedious and time-consuming. Transferring data from spreadsheets, cataloging photos or music, and resizing images over and over again can quickly put your…
Top Deal: In case you missed it, Steam is running its annual Halloween sale. It’s the perfect excuse to beef up your games catalog, and once you’ve done that, you then have an excuse to upgrade your graphics card. See how that works? It makes perfect sense to us! And if it does to you…
Getting pushy Are you using Windows 7 or Windows 8/8/1? Microsoft would really like for you to upgrade to Windows 10. Like, really badly. So bad, in fact, that Windows 10 will soon be officially listed as an optional update (not really new) and will be upgraded to a recommended update in 2016. Microsoft has…
Candy for adults While the kids get ready to dress up as their favorite characters and go beg for sugary sweets from your neighbors, you can treat yourself to some discounted candy — eye candy, that is. Just head over to Steam, pick up a discounted game, and crank up the visual quality settings. Steam’s…
Level up your laptop Now that Skylake is here, the DDR4 era has begun in earnest. That applies to both desktops and laptops, the latter of which G.Skill is targeting with the addition of DDR4 SO-DIMMs to its Ripjaws series. These are high performance modules with rated speeds of up to 2800MHz, available in capacities…
This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. A build based on a poll published by reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace Length of Time 1 1/2 Hours | Level of Difficulty: Easy The Mission There are plenty of places on the web where PC enthusiasts congregate….
Top Deal: Want to know a secret? You probably don’t need a super high wattage power supply for your new build. We say “probably” because we don’t know what you’re planning, but save for the most extreme builds, a 1,000W PSU or even 800W PSU is overkill. You can save yourself some coin by going…