This article was published in the Holiday 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Assembling the cage Most of the time, our builds end up in PC cases that encloses the guts on all six sides. Even if there is a side panel window, five out of six…
Former Aereo CEO Chaitanya “Chet” Kanojia tried to shake up the cable TV industry by transmitting over-the-air network TV signals to Aereo subscribers. That plan eventually failed, and now he’s set his sights on the broadband Internet sector by launching a new wireless service that promises speeds of up to one gigabit everywhere. That service…
AMD gamers looking to build a new system might want to start with the latest release from Asus, the 970 Pro Gaming/Aura ATX motherboard. It’s the first board based on the new AMD 970+SB950 chipset and not only supports two-way, quad-GPU CrossFireX configurations, but two-way, quad-GPU Nvidia SLI setups as well. The board even sports…
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A familiar face Sony dumped its Vaio PC brand two years ago and hightailed it to mobile, though you could be forgiven for thinking it was still involved in some way. That’s because the newest Vaio laptops retain the same overall look as systems that came before them, and of course carry the same branding….
Continuing to innovate This is generalizing things a bit, but not that long ago it seemed like the monitor market was stuck in a rut with options limited to low-end models, mid-range offerings, high-quality IPS panels, and the granddaddy of them all, a 30-inch monster with a 2560×1600 resolution. Times have changed. Those options still…
Lara Croft approved this message Attention Nvidia GeForce GPU owners, there’s a new Game Ready driver available to download, one that’s intended to deliver the best possible gaming experience for Rise of the Tomb Raider and the beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division. It’s a minor update with optimizations for both of the aforementioned titles,…
This month you can protect Super Earth in an intergalactic war while feeding soup to aliens! Presenting your free PS Plus games for February on PS4. Set in a satirical and dystopian future, Helldivers offers chaotic combat against three invading enemy species. This top-down shooter focuses heavily on teamwork, as squads battle to become Heroes…
When my brother, Anatole, and I first hatched the plan to make a game independently, we never imagined where it would take us. We started off thinking about the kinds of games we grew up with and how much fun playing games together has always been. We love old-school action-platformers and games that let you…
This Schiit’s great! If you haven’t gathered by now, I’m somewhat of an audio enthusiast. Notice I didn’t use the word “audiophile.” That’s because the term’s now being thrown around like a Frisbee. No one even knows what it really means anymore, other than “Hey, my stuff’s expensive.” This is an unfortunate situation, and the…