Another board for Skylake-S As we’ve already seen, Gigabyte is prepared for Intel’s Skylake launch (presumably in just a couple of weeks) with a handful of motherboards already. In addition to the ones already shown, you can add the Z170X SOC Force to the growing list. WCCFTech discovered a bunch of pictures of the board…
Putting the foundation in place Exciting things are happening as we get closer to the launch of Windows 10. Just last week, Microsoft announced that all Xbox One owners could stream games from their Xbox One console to their Windows 10 PC, a feature that was first made available to Xbox One Preview participants a…
Surface rises up Microsoft posted a record $3.2 billion loss on revenues of $22.2 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2015, though there’s more to the story than that. Typically a company would be in big trouble if it was losing billions of dollars per quarter, but in this case, the results are indicative…
Hello fellow PlayStation fans. I’ve been playing tower defense games for a long time, starting from the early days when they were popular as Warcraft and Starcraft mods, then as Flash games, and lately on mobile devices. What I love about them is that they are easy to pick up and play but can be…
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Top Deal: When it was clear that LCD monitors had won the war against CRTs, there was a battle cry among photo editors and color conscious users — “Give us IPS panels, or give us death!” Seems like a pretty hardcore stance to take against TN panels, but you can quote us, this is real…
The wait is almost over Microsoft launched its toned down Surface 3 tablet back in May with two introductory models — a $499 SKU with an Atom x7-Z8700 processor, 2GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage, and a $599 model with the same CPU and twice as much memory (4GB) and storage (128GB). At the…
Performance restored The previous Title Update (1.28) for Grand Theft Auto V attempted to thwart gamers from using mods in Grand Theft Auto Online, though it had the unfortunate side effect of causing performance issues in Story Mode. There were complaints of significantly reduced frame rates, sometimes as low as 3fps on well equipped systems,…
All supported versions of Windows are affected In a rare move, Microsoft has issued an out-of-band (read: emergency) security patch for Windows to address a zero-day vulnerability that could allow a hacker to take control of a system remotely. The security threat and subsequent patch affect all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 10. “The…