PC Gaming

Breaking the speed limit At the beginning of September, Patriot Memory announced a dual-channel Viper 4 memory kit rated to run at 3400MHz. At the time it was the fastest speed Patriot offered, though that was before the launch of its new 3600MHz RAM. Patriot’s new dual-channel kit is also part of the DDR4 Viper…

HDD performance in a nutshell Last week, we posted our new SSD test suite with some initial results. We included a few references to hard drive performance, and at the time that seemed sufficient, but let’s really put the hard drive vs. solid state performance debate to rest. We all know SSDs are faster, particularly…

Netgear on Thursday expanded its ReadyNAS 200 Series of Network Attached Storage (NAS) products with the launch of two new units: the ReadyNAS 212 (RN212) and the ReadyNAS 214 (RN214). Both are ideal for the home and home office, packed with a quad-core ARM Cortex A15-based processor clocked at 1.4GHz and real-time 1080p high-definition video…

Microsoft’s Skype team stated on Thursday that Skype Translator has come out of beta and is now rolling out to the Skype for Windows desktop app. Skype Translator aims to break down the walls of communication starting with six voice languages – English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, and Spanish – and 50 messaging languages. “Since…

So, you want to use Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 10, but you’re not sure how to set it as the default browser. The first trick is to actually find the desktop program, which you can do by simply typing “Internet Explorer” in Cortana’s search field. After that, here are instructions on how to make…

Are you a Google Chrome user and want to make it the default application for surfing the Internet? We show you how to make that change in several easy steps, along with how to clear the browser cache and history. Make Google Chrome your default browser: 1. Click the button to the right side of…

Want to make Mozilla’s Firefox browser your default gateway to the Internet? Want to cover your tracks and delete your browsing history? You’ve come to the right place, as we lay out instructions on how to make Firefox your default browser, how to clear the history, and how to get rid of the cached files….

Let’s try this again AMD recently released a new Catalyst driver in beta form, version 15.9, which contained “performance and quality” optimizations for the Star Wars: Battlefront beta and DirectX 12 optimizations for the Fable Legends: Benchmark. Good stuff, except it also introduced a memory leak. “We are aware that some users are experiencing an…

Insights into what’s coming in the world of VR from Oculus Connect The thing about virtual reality is that it’s hard to describe to people who have never experienced it. Imagine something awesome that you’ve never experienced, and is wholly subjective. It’s similar to trying to describe the effects of drugs or alcohol to people…