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Kingston HyperX Predator NVMe 480GB
At a Glance (+) Great Find: Faster than SATA; high endurance; HHHL adapter for older systems. (-) NeVer Mind-e: Not as fast as other NVMe offerings; expensive; short warranty; requires NVMe BIOS support to use as a boot drive. Fly Like an Eagle With all the hullabaloo about M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs, users of older…
Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB
At a Glance (+) Great Find: Faster than SATA; high endurance; HHHL adapter for older systems. (-) NeVer Mind-e: Not as fast as other PCIe offerings; expensive; short warranty; no NVMe support. Fly Like an Eagle With all the hullabaloo about M.2 PCIe SSDs and NVMe, users of older systems might feel left out. Enter…
Newegg Daily Deals: Asus Intel Core-i5 Desktop, HP Intel Core-i3 Laptop, and More!
Top Deal: You don’t need to wait for the influx of official Steam Machines to enjoy PC gaming in your living room. There are several existing console-sized PCs just itching to take residence in your living room, including today’s top deal for an Asus Destkop Computer with an Intel Core i5-5200U CPU for $600 with…
Razer Redesigns BlackWidow Ultimate Mechanical Keyboard, Extends Warranty
A flashy keyboard Razer on Thursday announced a new mechanical keyboard, the BlackWidow Ultimate 2016. At a glance, it looks similar to last year’s model, though Razer says it’s been redesigned from the ground up with an all-new set of features. Chief among them is fancy per-key backlighting. Each green glowing key has its own…
Vizio’s 120-Inch Reference Series 4K TV Will Only Set You Back $130,000
You won’t find this in Walmart Vizio announced pricing for its new Reference Series televisions with Dolby Vision, and yes, they’re expensive. Crazy expensive, even — Vizio’s aksing $6,000 for the 65-inch model and a jaw-dropping $130,000 for the 120-inch version. No, our zero-key isn’t sticking, Vizio’s price tag of more than a $1,000 per…
Fast Forward: Are We Living in Sim City?
This article was published in the November 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Is our universe an immense computer simulation? Is everything we perceive an illusion rendered in super-resolution pixels? Are we mere pixels, too? Lately, I’ve seen these questions debated more often in Internet forums, and…
HP Dishes Out Custom Star Wars Laptop
Just weeks before Star Wars Episode VII awakens the sleepy franchise with a new film, Hewlett Packard (HP) introduces a special edition notebook that should make all Star Wars nerds with at least $700 somewhat giddy. This Windows 10 notebook is not only packed with impressive hardware that should make R2-D2 a little jealous, but…
Newegg Daily Deals: MSI GeForce GTX 970, Samsung 850 Pro 2TB SSD, and More!
Top Deal: Hey, we’d all love to stuff multiple GeForce Titan X graphics cards inside our rigs, but barring the ability to pick the correct Powerball numbers, such gaming goodness is cost prohibitive for most. The good news is, you don’t need that level of investment to play high end titles. If you’re looking for…
HP Refreshes Stunning Spectre X360 with Skylake, Improved Audio
A better looking 2-in-1 One of the better looking 2-in-1 devices out there is HP’s Spectre X360. In celebration of Bang & Olufsen’s 90th anniversary, a limited edition version of that hybrid tablet/laptop will add even more sex appeal to the design with an ash silver color and copper accents. What does the color treatment…