E ach year as we work with the excellent folks who put together Intel LANFest events around the country, we participate in a number of CPU-Intel LANFest Case Mod Contests. The winner of each of those contests becomes eligible to win a larger contest among that year’s winners, with the best mod winning coverage in … Read more
Make pop-up notifications less annoying Avast (www.avast.com) is our favourite free antivirus (See our cover feature, Issue 415) but every time you launch it, a pop-up will ask you to upgrade to the paid-for version. You can adjust the duration of this pop-up by changing Avast’s settings. Click Settings, Appearance and scroll down to Sounds. … Read more
In the last couple of months, we’ve examined a number of ADATA’s external hard drives. The DashDrive Air AE800 is a 500GB external hard drive and much more. Nearby Wi-Fi devices can wirelessly access files on the AE800, effectively making it a portable server that can stream video, audio, images, and documents to Android, iOS, … Read more
We’ve taken a look at Cooler Master’s Seidon 120M in the past, and the Seidon 120V is similar in that it comes with a 120mm PWM fan that runs as slowly as 600rpm and as fast as 2,400rpm. The wide PWM range ensures that the closedloop system will perform well under load and will function … Read more
Most enthusiasts are familiar with GIGABYTE’s G1-Killer series, the lavish motherboards that are decked out with high-end gaming capabilities. GIGABYTE recently announced two boards for midrange systems—the G1.Sniper Z5S and G1.Sniper Z5—to expand the G1-Killer lineup. Both the Z5S and Z5 come with many of the features you’ll find on the upper echelon G1-Killer series … Read more
No-Compromise Storage Has Arrived. High-speed random reads and writes. High-speed sequential reads and writes. Compressible data. Incompressible data. TRIM and garbage collection. Long-term endurance and dependability. A fast, capable controller. Cutting-edge NAND flash memory. Solid firmware and a useful software toolkit.There are many factors to consider when deciding on SSDs for your PC, and up … Read more
From store.steampowered.com VERDICT The stealth mechanics feel superficial at times, but this moving exploration of family life is decision-based gaming at its best. DAN KAPLAN HAS a problem. His new book is going nowhere, he’s drifting apart from his wife Linda and his son Tommy is falling behind at school. In an attempt to try … Read more
Valve, the company behind the hugely successful Steam game service, has released a Linux-based OS designed purely for games. We see if it’s the future of PC gaming.THERE’S BEEN PLENTY of hype around so-called Steam Machines; mini-PCs running Valve’s own Steam operating system, designed exclusively to play games downloaded from the Steam service. SteamOS is … Read more
What happened? Mozilla has said it plans to run advertisements in Firefox for the first time, in a bid to raise funds. The ads will appear in the “directory tiles” – the nine boxes that appear in the Firefox window each time you open a new tab (see screengrab, above). At the moment, they start … Read more
Need a utility to expand your wi-fi powers? Then look no further. Wireless networks can be a mix of blessing and a curse. Yes, they are fantastic in that they can provide you with access to the internet or networked resources without the need to trail lengthy wires around the place (or while you’re out … Read more
May not be usable as foot clothing.This isn’t the first Super OverClock product we have reviewed from Gigabyte, but it is the fastest. Alongside the MSI Lightning and the ASUS Direct CU II GTX 580, the Gigabyte GTX 580 SOC ¡s one of the three fastest single-GPU cards currently available on the market, and is … Read more
Ever thought you were clumsy? Well, after playing Octodad, you may think again. One of the latest indie releases to be generating quite the buzz is Young Horses’ Octodad: Deadliest Catch, and after playing it for only a few minutes youll see why: it’s pure genius. As the eponymous Octodad, an octopus disguised as a … Read more