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Top Deal: You can store your data in the cloud, but what happens when your Internet connection takes a dump? Or your file hosting service is hacked? Or the data center is hit with lightning and goes offline? Or, or, or (the list goes on). That’s when you’ll be glad you setup a local NAS…
Coated to protect against moisture Buying a graphics card isn’t always easy. First you have to figure out what level of performance you’re after and how much you can spend, which will hopefully narrow your choices down to two or three graphics card series. Then you have to choose one, select a manufacturer, and sort…
Temporary future proofing It seems inevitable that the moment you fork over your credit card information and purchase a computer part, a new model is announced. Such is the way it goes in the fast moving world of technology, though with Intel having recently launched an army of Skylake processors, many of which are aimed…
Have you updated to Windows 10, or are you still rocking Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1? If you’re in the latter group, chances are that you already have Windows 10 stashed away on your hard drive whether you want to upgrade or not. Why? Because Microsoft wants to make the upgrade process quick and easy……
EVGA’s second fastest GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA just added yet another graphics card to its GeForce GTX 980 Ti line. It’s the GeForce GTX 980 Ti FTW featuring the company’s ACX 2.0+ cooling technology and is billed as the company’s second fastest GTX 980 Ti solution next to the K|NGP|N. That brings the total…
Opening a new Office In a blog post today, Microsoft’s general manager of Office 365 Technical Product Management, Julia White, confirmed earlier rumors that Office 2016 would release to the public on September 22, 2015 (two Tuesdays from now). “You may have heard the rumors, but today I’m happy to confirm that Office 2016 will…
At a Glance (+) Condensed Milk: Compact; quiet; tiny; efficient; did we say small? (-) Sour Milk: Expensive; not as fast as larger GPUs; 4GB VRAM; niche. Meet the AMD R9 Nano: World’s Tiniest High-End GPU If the name didn’t give it away, and you haven’t been paying much attention to AMD’s marketing for the…
This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Demystifying Processor Power Consumption My recent column on AMD’s advanced voltage/frequency scaling confused some readers. It’s worth tackling this subject again, because power consumption is the most challenging problem for chip designers. It’s also…
Following the release of its cube-shaped PC chassis last week, Lian Li has introduced a new mini tower case called the PC-Q21. The company boasts that PC builders can cram a “full-powered” mini-ITX system within the case’s aluminum walls with a little planning and “finger flexibility” on the builder’s part. “The small size of the…
A dedicated graphics team AMD is getting serious about graphics. So serious, in fact, that it’s created a new Radeon Technologies Group to tackle the future of graphics development and the various avenues that graphics will play a role, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, integrated solutions, and of course discrete graphics. Heading up this…