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…
Big, bold, and expensive We’ve seen chambered cases before, but none like Antec’s new Signature S10. The case sports three separate chambers, which you access by swinging open a two-piece side panel. It’s a big case that can accommodate up to XL-ATX motherboards. It can also fit two 280mm or 420mm radiators and a host…
This Cougar won’t scratch your couch Ever heard of Cougar? The German company has only been on the seen since 2007, which isn’t exactly newcomer status at this point, but still lacks the decades of experience that some of its competitors boast. Nevertheless, Cougar continues to claw its way into the North American market with…
Fill out form, get $5 Comcast is probably the most hated ISP out there, but for customers in the western U.S., the cable giant is making a gesture of penance. On Monday, a widespread outage affected internet customers in when Comcast’s DNS servers were overloaded and took a nose dive. Service was slowly restored to…
We cram two radiators, five fans, a dual-GPU video card, and 850-watt power supply into a micro-ATX cube—no big deal This rig should take two to four hours to build. Difficulty level is medium. The Mission Anyone can put some fancy gear into a regular tower case. It’s like Lego, but not as expensive. With…
Record breaking RAM Adata is a company that kind of flies under the radar — it doesn’t have the same brand recognition as the Corsairs and Crucials of the world, and it doesn’t chase world records in RAM frequency as fervently as G.Skill. But it does offer some interesting products, not just in the value…
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…and cause for ire Thermaltake managed to ruffle a few feathers with the release of new cases at Computex. One of them is the Suppressor F51, a case that looks almost identical Fractal Design’s R5, though it’s the company’s new premium line of W Series cases that have caused…
Welcome back to PlayStation Underground, our online show about video games! Today, we go underground with Destiny: House of Wolves, the latest expansion to Bungie’s sweeping, sci-fi opus. Specifically, we gear up and enter the brutal Prison of Elders, a wave-based arena mode that pits Guardians against voracious enemies in exchange for legendary rewards. My…
A deep dive into Intel’s Haswell-E After three long years of going hungry with six cores, red meat is finally back on the menu for enthusiasts. And not just any gamey slab full of gristle with shared cores, either. With its new eight-core Haswell-E CPU, Intel may have served up the most mouth-watering, beautifully seared…