You’ve built your gaming PC that possibly features an SSD for speed, you probably know the difference between WD Green vs Blue, and now you want to start streaming on Twitch. We’re here to help. (If you haven’t built yourself a streaming PC, read our Guide to Building a PC for Game Streaming.)
This quick guide should take you from a streaming novice to confident broadcaster. Don’t forget that if you’re using a public internet connection, find the best vpn for streaming so that you’re secure.
The time has come for Intel’s Skylake CPUs to (almost completely) replace Haswell on the Logical Increments parts list. As a result, we have upgraded many of our motherboard recommendations to socket 1151, and our RAM recommendations to DDR4.
Every year, Steam has several sales, usually coinciding with the various holidays. Two days ago, Steam’s Winter sales started, bringing down the prices of over 10,000 different games.
Some people would say that 10,000 is a large number of games, and we would agree. We have combed through the sales, and picked out about 60 titles that we liked the most. We split the recommendations in bigger and smaller titles. Since there are so many games on sale, we only looked at games with discounts of 50% or more.
Build complete, but can it handle the stress?
Very few things in life are more satisfying than assembling all the parts to a new PC, hitting the power button, and watching it boot up properly. That’s what we at Logical Increments are all about!
But even if your build starts up and seems to work without problems, you might want to make sure all the components are fully functional. Does your graphics card pump out pretty pictures at the level promised by the manufacturer? Does your RAM operate consistently for hours on end? Does your CPU process the desired number of ones and zeroes under intense loads without overheating?
To answer these questions, we turn to stress testing: Making sure that all of your parts can handle the work that they’re designed to do (or overclocked to do). They might be fine under normal use, but you want to know that they’ll be able to handle heavier tasks down the road, such as high-end gaming or media editing.
Missed out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Well, “Monday” means “a whole week” to Newegg, so you can take your pick from these Cyber Monday Week deals!
For more advice on getting good deals on Cyber Monday, read our article on Black Friday 2015: How to Get the Best PC Parts Deals. (Yes, our Black Friday advice also applies to Cyber Monday!)
Please note: The best deals are dependent on rebates. Rebates are reliable, but only if you follow the instructions exactly and submit everything on time, so be careful!
ASUS R7 370 STRIX
Newegg’s Cyber Monday deals are here! If you missed Black Friday, well, Newegg has you covered with some excellent choices!
Logitech G602
You might have thought you were safe from deals now that Black Friday was over, but you’d be wrong. There is always Cyber Monday, with even more deals!
EVGA GTX 970 SC+ ACX 2.0
It’s finally the true Black Friday, and that means brand new deals from Amazon! We’ve combed through, and these are our favorite picks.
EVGA GTX 980 Ti
It’s finally Black Friday, and that means Newegg has rolled out even more deals to go along with their seemingly month-long Black Friday sale so whether you’re looking for a 13 inch gaming laptop or an SSD, now is the perfect time to buy. We’re continuing to round up the best deals we can find, and we’ve listed the newest ones at the top of this post.
MSI GTX 980
It’s Canada’s turn to get in on some of the crazy Newegg deals going on this week!
