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Magnetic Hard Drive vs. SATA SSD vs. M.2 NVMe

Storage was once the final frontier of PC performance, and the last component to become fully solid state. Today, the latest M.2 SSDs powered by the new NVMe protocol and hooked up via zappy PCIe connections deliver performance that a conventional hard drive wouldn’t recognize. Yet the hard drive isn’t dead. Not when it offers so much capacity for so little money. Meanwhile, the trusty SATA SSD offers a combination of compatibility and speed that’s awfully compelling. Time to find out which storage technology is the best.

Play PC Games On Your Smartphone

We’re not short of options when it comes to streaming games. We’ve talked plenty in these pages about the immensely useful Steam In-Home Streaming, we’ve covered the likes of GameShow and XSplit, which send your games up to Twitch and other online streaming services, and we’ve even looked at ways you can beam console games through your network and play them on your PC. Well, add Remotr to the list. It’s immensely flexible, offering up client apps for smartphones, tablets, and other Windows PCs, happily streaming over cell phone networks if you have the data allocation for it, and it’s incredibly simple to set up and use.Let’s preface this a little, though, with a couple of caveats. Point one: Don’t expect ultra performance or lag-free gaming. Remotr’s solution is quick and very well coded, but it’s not going to be suitable for the twitchiest games, particularly if you’re streaming outside of your local network. It also scales down the quality of streaming (though not the quality of the source game) to meet your network specifications, so if you’re obsessed with uncompressed graphical fidelity, you might be best staying at your home PC.

Ashampoo Backup Pro 11

Backup software is boring—until you need it

Is 3D XPoint Intel's Secret Weapon?

Jeremy Laird asks, what is 3D XPoint? A supercharged flash alternative or the gateway to 100GHz optical computing?

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

The Red Wedding

Asus Crosshair VI Hero

Welcome to the AM4 chipset!

Corsair K95 RGB Platinum

Next up: gold-plated frames, and every key topped with rubies, sapphires, and emeralds

ViewSonic XG2703-GS

Watch out Asus, ViewSonic is gunning for you

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Fetch an umbrella, it looks nasty out there

Intel And AMD Inside

Rivals to collaborate on hybrid mobile chips

Windows Server Vs. Network Attached Storage

In the blue corner, Windows Server; in the red, an opensource NAS. The only way to see which is best: a fight!

Go Extreme With Antialiasing

Forget Fair microtransaction models and the magic formula for a successful esports game— these are but flash-in-the-pan challenges the games industry faces currently. For a much longer time, 3D designers were stumped by a far more prosaic problem: how to draw curved and diagonal lines without them appearing like a blocky staircase of pixels.

Speed Up Windows 10

Give windows a shot in the arm by cleaning up and optimizing your pc.

origin pc chronos

small but mighty

Frostpunk

All that glisters is very cold.

Cooler Master MasterBox MB500

What’s cooler than being cool? Being cheap, too, obviously.

Gigabyte Aorus Radeon RX 570 4GB

When Vega? WHEN VEGA?!

HP Z2 Mini G3

It tries to break workstation preconceptions, but ultimately reinforces them.

Aoc Agon AG251FZ

So fast, it really hertz.

Intel Core i9- 7900X

Ten cores: Just the beginning...

AOC AGON AG271UG

AOC’s latest premium panel comes at a price

Prey

You’ve got to prey, just to make it today.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III

Tabletop gaming comes alive, but death’s never far off.

AMD Goes 32-Core, Intel Hits 28 at 5GHz

AMD and Intel battle for headlines—one true, one fake

A Modder's Insight Into the World of Custom PCs

Alphacool’s Dave Alcock discusses the industry, modding, and where the future will take us

Logitech G513 Carbon (Linear)

In which we talk for a while about graphs

Corsair HS70 SE Wireless

Our new favorite wireless cans?

AMD Threadripper 2920X

Twelve cores of pure unadulterated joy

Acer Predator X27

HDR done right on the PC, but at a price

Asus ROG Strix GL12CX COD Edition

A super PC for Call of Duty super-fans? Hmm…