The graphics card is an essential component. It’s the part of your rig responsible for pumping out pixels and if you’re not getting the smooth frame rates you deserve in XCOM 2 or Hitman, then maybe it’s time to look for a new GPU. Our guide to the best graphics card will tell you all you...
My first serious pair of headphones were from Sennheiser, but they were bought so long ago I don’t even remember the model number. I loaned them out to a relative and they came back to me broken. I never got around to replacing them and haven’t owned a pair since then. Until I brought in a total...
When they first appeared on the PC scene the solid state drive was very much a luxury item, and even then capacities of 250GB seemed like extreme extravagance. Now it’s almost an expected component of a proper gaming PC. And gone are the lowly 30-60GB capacity SSDs too, with even a 120GB drive looking like...
When they first appeared on the PC scene the solid state drive was very much a luxury item, and even then capacities of 250GB seemed like extreme extravagance. Now it’s almost an expected component of a proper gaming PC. And gone are the lowly 30-60GB capacity SSDs too, with even a 120GB drive looking like...
VR is the talk of the town right now, with all the major players set to ship devices at the end of the month. Wander around GDC and you couldn’t swing a cat without smacking someone wearing a VR headset in the noggin. With multiple VR options showing up, one of the questions we inevitably...
We used a lot of VR while we were at GDC 2016. It was the heart of the conference this year, and we’re rapidly approaching the day the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are available to anyone with money to burn. So we gathered to discuss what the main differences between the two are, and what could be deciding...
AMD has updated the Gaming Evolved client, its software for game optimization along with video capture and sharing. One notable new recording feature adds automatic creation of highlight videos that are already edited and ready to share. This is only available with League of Legends and Counter Strike: Global Offensive for now, but AMD says more games...
Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. Since the word on Batman versus Superman isn’t out yet, I’ll keep this case mod piece as agnostic as possible—y’know, to future-proof it. Wow. Holy cow! Movie fans, how about that film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of...
Lots of ATX mid-towers can be very, very similar. Even from different manufacturers, the layouts and features generally stay the same. That’s why we fell in love with Cooler Master’s Master Case. There’s a lot to say about Cooler Master’s new flagship case. We used it for a Build It at Maximum PC, and later went back...
Nvidia Flow and Rigid Body Physics Besides the released libraries, some of which are available on GitHub with full source code (e.g., Volumetric Lighting), Nvidia has a couple new beta additions with the 3.2 SDK. The first is Nvidia Flow, slated to be integrated into Unreal Engine 4 in Q2 2016, and it’s an updated library...
