Gaming
Let us pretend we are desktop people, thinking about building a new system. What would we look for? If we are after a gaming system, clearly we need a big GPU. A very beefy CPU is a nice touch as well if we want to keep the GPU fed. Plenty of memory, lots of storage, and maybe lots of ports for expansion. Add in a nice RGB keyboard, perhaps a high refresh display, and lots of cooling. Now let us imagine we pack that into a 2.9 kg / 6.4 lb package. That seems impossible, doesn’t it? What if we added in a 99.9 Wh UPS as well? Now that is really crazy. Let me present to you the MSI GE76 Raider, which brings...
NVIDIA Announces GameWorks SDK 3.1
Innovation is hard work. Doing work that has already been done elsewhere can be satisfying, but also annoying - no-one wants to reinvent the wheel every time. In the...
52 by Daniel Williams on 3/16/2016
The Lenovo Ideapad Y700 Laptop Review
The PC gaming market has been pretty strong market over the last couple of years, and recent developments have pushed the boundaries again. With launches of virtual reality headsets...
52 by Brett Howse on 2/11/2016
Giveaway: Rise of the Tomb Raider (PC)
After a bit of a break we’re back with another giveaway for everyone to enjoy. This time the folks over at Square Enix sent over a rather sizable cache of...
76 by Ryan Smith on 2/3/2016
Interview with Ian Livingstone CBE: Gaming in VR and Development in the UK
This week I decided last minute to attend PG Connects, a trade show conference on mobile gaming, attended by developers and business looking to promote or sell their games...
8 by Ian Cutress on 1/22/2016
Supermicro Quietly Launches the C7Z170-OCE: Multi-GPU focused with PLX8747 for $300
One of the biggest changes to the motherboard scene since the release of Skylake is the distinct lack of motherboards designed to cater for more than two PCIe cards...
21 by Ian Cutress on 1/18/2016
CES 2016: MSI’s 27-inch 4K Gaming AIO with Full Sized Discrete GPU, the 27XT 6QE
Back at Computex in 2015 we saw and reported on MSI’s first design ideas surrounding an all-in-one computer (where the PC is essentially in the frame of the monitor...
13 by Ian Cutress on 1/14/2016
CES 2016: MSI’s Golden Idea for Motherboards
The problem with a gold motherboard color is that it often looks too much like copper, and several companies have tried it in recent years (ASUS on Z77, ECS&rsquo...
28 by Ian Cutress on 1/13/2016
CES 2016: GIGABYTE’s Double Length Gaming BRIX
The BRIX mini-PC line from GIGABYTE is an odd internal mashup within the company whereby the server business unit designs it, but the consumer arm does the marketing and...
12 by Ian Cutress on 1/12/2016
Going for Gaming: An Interview with MSI VPs Charles Chiang and Ted Hung on Gaming and Strategy
MSI’s march on the gaming market has been well documented with plenty of pushes into notebooks, motherboards, graphics and an attempt to move the barrier forward with both brand...
17 by Ian Cutress on 12/18/2015
The GIGABYTE Z170X-Gaming G1 Review: Quad-SLI on Skylake, and now with Thunderbolt 3
This is a review of a $500 motherboard for Skylake processors. For some readers, there’s going to an instant reaction of a series of question marks, confused emoji and...
67 by Ian Cutress on 12/1/2015
Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2015
Welcome to part two of our best laptop guide for 2015. The first part was traditional notebooks, this installment will focus on gaming notebooks, and our final piece will...
31 by Brett Howse on 11/25/2015
The AMD A8-7670K APU Review: Aiming for Rocket League
Over the past couple of years, AMD has slowly released their mainstream brand of Kaveri processors. In turn, we have reviewed them, and they consistently aim to provide a...
154 by Ian Cutress on 11/18/2015
ASUS Announces the ROG Maximus VIII Impact Z170 Motherboard
At the initial Skylake launch, we provided a rundown of all the Z170 motherboards we could get information on from the major motherboard manufacturers. Even with details on over...
45 by Ian Cutress on 10/10/2015
Fable Legends Early Preview: DirectX 12 Benchmark Analysis
DirectX 12 is now out in the wild as a part of Windows 10 and the updated driver model WDDM 2.0 that comes with it. Unlike DX11, there are...
141 by Ryan Smith, Ian Cutress & Daniel Williams on 9/24/2015
The MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Review: The Step Up to Skylake
June, July and August in 2015 have all been a roller coaster of desktop and processor news. Intel officially launched the Broadwell processors at Computex, with NVIDIA also entering...
56 by Ian Cutress on 9/21/2015
ASUS Refreshes ROG Laptops With G752 and Liquid Cooled GX700 Series
Today at IFA ASUS is announcing some of its fall laptop lineup. As with the other vendors, they have been waiting on Windows 10 which launched at the end...
28 by Brett Howse on 9/2/2015
The ASUS Republic of Gamers G751 Review: G-SYNC Comes To The Notebook Computer
At Computex 2015, NVIDIA announced what will almost certainly be one of their marquee features on gaming notebooks going forward, with NVIDIA’S G-SYNC variable display refresh rate technology coming...
52 by Brett Howse on 7/29/2015
The MSI Z97A Gaming 6 Motherboard Review
Choosing a motherboard is not as easy as it sounds. Most people rely on price, brand experience, perhaps specific features and online reviews to help decide what fits best...
14 by Ian Cutress on 7/24/2015
The MSI GT80 Titan Review: The Broadwell Gaming Laptop Your Desktop Envies
I was lucky enough to be on-hand when MSI launched the GT80 Titan at CES. It was a big event for them, and all of the MSI people were...
103 by Brett Howse on 6/26/2015
The Cougar 600K Mechanical Keyboard & 600M Gaming Mouse Review
Our first encounter with Cougar's peripherals was just a few months ago, when we reviewed the flagship keyboard and mouse, the 700K and 700M. The 700K and the 700M...
25 by E. Fylladitakis on 6/19/2015
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