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Top Deal: First time PC builders will never know the struggle of saving for months and months to afford a solid state drive, only to be rewarded with a low capacity (think 64GB) model with laughable speed ratings (compared to today). Thankfully those days are long gone. NAND flash memory pricing took a dump, the…
aT A GLANCE (+) Outdoor Camping Fast; customizable; solid build quality; TPM support. (-) FPS Camping Expensive; somewhat bulky; mediocre battery life. This article was published in the October 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. One year later, Nvidia’s GM204 is still the king of mobile GPUs…
This article was published in the October 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. The Doctor tackles your questions about: SSDs Thunderbolt Mobos Upgrading CPUs SSDs in RAID Hi Doc. I recently replaced my four 300GB Western Digital Raptors in RAID 0 with two Samsung 850 EVO SSDs,…
This article was published in the November 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. The Doctor tackles your questions about: Prebuilt PCs Outdated GPUs Coil whine PSU Prebuilt Peril Hey Doc, I purchased a great system at a great price: Lenovo’s K450e with a Core i7-4790, 12GB of…
Delay could push users over Edge Even though Windows 10 is off to a fast start with over 110 million installs since launching at the end of July, users haven’t been as quick to adopt Microsoft’s Edge browser. Adding an extensions ecosystem might help, but we won’t find out until sometime next year. A Microsoft…
This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. The Doctor tackles your questions about: BIOS Settings Bottleneck speeds Non-gaming PCs IDE To AHCI Greetings Doctor. My PC has a 256GB SSD as its primary drive. Back when I installed it, I neglected…
Let the frenzy begin Razer is now accepting pre-orders from the general public for its Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) Hacker Development Kit (version 1.3), a head mounted display for VR production, the company announced. This is the first VR headset from OSVR for use by general consumers and industry developers alike. It’s already proven…
Looking for a new, simple way to keep your CPU liquid cooled but don’t want the limitations of an all-in-one prefilled solution? Enter the EK-XLC Predator 360, a take on the AIO form factor that provides a nifty quick disconnect (QDC) feature so that you can expand the liquid cooling to string another pre-filled QDC-based…
This article was published in the November 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. An upgrade can give your aging PC a new round of usefulness, even with older architectures Length of Time: 1 Hour | Level of Difficulty: Easy The Flight Plan Here at Maximum PC, we…
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