PC Gaming
at a glance (+) Guiness DraftPlenty of top-shelf components; lots of connections.(-) Natty IcePricey; unwieldy; lacks HDMI. The gold-plated kitchen sink of soundcards In the constantly shifting landscape of PC tech, soundcards have risked becoming a footnote, like dial-up modems and network adapter cards before them. When a system seller like Dell or HP can…
Only available to the Windows Insider Program’s Fast Ring Late last month, Microsoft released Windows 10 preview build 10130 to those in the Windows Insider Program’s “Fast Ring.” The company said at the time it was open to pushing the said build to the Slow ring and even releasing ISOs. While the former has yet…
The feature is optional as of now In April, Google changed the way Chrome handles Flash content, introducing a “detect and run important plugin content” option which when enabled automatically pauses all non-essential Flash media. Apart from providing a middle ground between the two extremes of allowing or disallowing plugins on a blanket basis, this…
How to build an amazing experience with the right tweaks, mods, and hardware Computer games age in dog years, and Minecraft has been around since 2009. So by most measurements, it should be in the old folks’ home, laid back in a recliner, watching reruns of Jeopardy, and gumming some tapioca. Instead, the game is…
Consumer variant set for a holiday 2015 launch Valve has begun shipping Vive Developer Edition virtual reality (VR) headsets to, well, developers. According to the company, some big movie studios are among the first batch of recipients, as are triple A game developers and indies “working on their first titles.” “In the box is a…
Still requires a plugin Microsoft introduced a beta version of the Skype for Web app back in November, giving a small number of testers the ability to make voice over IP (VOIP) calls from within the comforts of their browsers. While still in beta (and far from a true web app), the solution is apparently…
Top Deal: Why go with one GPU when you can have two? And why air cool your GPUs when you can liquid cool them instead? While we’re asking questions, why buy two graphics cards to get a pair of GPUs when you can buy one? If you can’t satisfactorily answer those questions, then check out…
A little bit of everything Acer has its hands in multiple markets, and with that being the case, the company brought along a varied sample of products to Computex. One of them has yet to be finalized — a new Predator gaming PC. While the final parts haven’t been selected, Acer says users will be…
Preparing for Skylake Even though Intel just recently added to its Broadwell line with the first LGA socket chips to sport Iris Pro 6200 graphics, the CPUs we’re really waiting for are still right around the corner. We’re talking about Skylake, which will require a new motherboard (due to a socket change) and new RAM…