Defragmentation, SMART monitoring, and more tips to keep your hard drives chugging along In an age of increasingly affordable flash storage, hard drives are slowly disappearing from enthusiast rigs and mass-market laptops alike. Although SSDs are markedly faster than their platter-based counterparts, hard drives are still useful for long-term storage, archival, and massive media libraries…
Hi gang – checking in from R&R to share a quick update from the folks at Treyarch regarding their esports plans for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Don’t forget: the beta kicks off on PS4 in just a couple of weeks – August 19th. Hello PlayStation Nation, We’re excited to have the opportunity to…
Top Deal: There was a day when buying a monitor with an In-Plane Switching (IPS) panel meant taking out a second mortgage. Not anymore! Just check out today’s top deal for a Dell P2314H 23-inch IPS Monitor for $160 with free shipping (normally $200 – use coupon code: [EMCAWAR45]). This IPS monitor sports a 1920×1080…
Not your average looking desktop Whenever Intel launches a new processor line, system builders come out of the woodwork to announce new PCs that use the newest hardware. Skylake is no exception, and with it comes a new Predator gaming desktop from Acer. Like previous Predator desktops, the Predator G6-710 with Skylake inside sports a…
An easier way to create presentations After 10 months of testing, Microsoft today announced that its digital storytelling app, Sway, is moving out of Preview form and into general availability. And the timing couldn’t be better, with the back-to-school season coming into view. Sway joins Microsoft’s Office suite and is available as a free download…
An easier way to create presentations After 10 months of testing, Microsoft today announced that its digital storytelling app, Sway, is moving out of Preview form and into general availability. And the timing couldn’t be better, with the back-to-school season coming into view. Sway joins Microsoft’s Office suite and is available as a free download…
Over on both the EVGA and GeForce forums, a Nvidia customer going by the name “Ozy311” is reporting that SLI is broken in Windows 10. According to the customer, he performed a fresh install to make sure there would be no conflicts when playing games in SLI. However, he’s getting a DirectX function error once…
Over on both the EVGA and GeForce forums, a Nvidia customer going by the name “Ozy311” is reporting that SLI is broken in Windows 10. According to the customer, he performed a fresh install to make sure there would be no conflicts when playing games in SLI. However, he’s getting a DirectX function error once…
You can do better Now that you’ve upgraded to Windows 10, you might be wondering what options you have for playing DVDs. In the old days, that functionality was included in Windows, and as long as you had an optical drive capable of reading DVDs, you were golden. That’s not the case with Windows 10,…
Greetings! Anyone heard of Gravity? Interstellar? Jupiter Ascending? Pluto’s surface? While everyone seems to be on space frenzy nowadays, it sounds just fit to talk about space shmups too! No, not another 2D retro look-a-like. Something more respectful of what this great genre deserves. A truly 3D space shmup that pushes it both on challenge…