September 2020

Though Amazon Prime Day, the retailer’s annual sale event, did not happen this summer as it has in year’s past, it’s coming on October 13th and 14th. That’s before the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, but late enough for you to buy gifts for yourself or others. Whether you’re shopping for instant pots or Amazon Echo speakers, you’ll find significant discounts on mainstream consumer gadgets that day and likely for a few days thereafter.But what about PC hardware? Though the hottest selling items overall on Prime Day are usually Amazon’s own gadgets, there will likely be some great…

Find a monitor this holiday season with the specs you need at a price you can afford. With events like Amazon Prime Day fast approaching, now is the best time to locate a high-quality display at a great bargain. We’ll be updating this page every day with the best monitor deals we can find.We’ve seen an increase this year of individuals working from home and students starting the school year remotely. If you’re looking for a way to improve your home office, an external monitor is a great way to start. If price isn’t a concern, you may want to…

Update 9/30/20 11:00am PT: ZDNet reports that the leaked Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 source code, which was largely regarded to be authentic, has now been confirmed as genuine.NDETV compiled the source code for both operating systems and was able to be used as a working operating system. The final compile is missing a few components, such as winlogon.exe, that prevent the OS from being distributed as a fully-working OS replacement, but there is room for additional alterations that could lead to full ‘retail’ versions of the operating system. Naturally, of more pressing concern, the authenticity of the leak does…

MPG X570 Gaming Pro Carbon WiFi (Image credit: MSI)MSI announced today the availability of new firmwares for 11 of the brand’s AMD 500-series motherboards. According to MSI, the beta firmwares land with support for “future AM4 socket processors,” which we know is Zen 3.The updated firmwares incorporates AMD’s latest Combo PI V2 version 1.1.0.0 BIOS and brings other improvements to the table. The firmwares come with an updated SMU module, optimizations for DDR4 memory overclocking and solve specific issues when overclocking.The first X570 motherboards that received the new firmwares include the MPG X570 Gaming Pro Carbon Wi-Fi, MEG X570 Godlike,…

Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed numerous times by CD Projekt Red, and for the most part, the community has taken the delays well, preferring a polished release over a rushed, bug-riddled experience. However, now, as reported by Bloomberg, the game studio CD Projekt Red has gone into overdrive for the final pre-release crunch.Part of this final stretch is that CD Projekt Red has informed employees that 6-day weeks are now mandatory — something the studio has previously promised wouldn’t be asked of its employees.https://t.co/Ie5W0O7iiv pic.twitter.com/IJBZ3IIT6mSeptember 30, 2020Adam Badowski, the studio’s head responded to Bloomberg and tweeted, acknowledging that this goes…