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Centaurus Computers - We take pride in building high quality custom computers for gamers and professionals who demand top performance, reliability and professional technical support. Our custom gaming computers are built with the best parts available, we make sure every configuration is well balanced and does not have weak spots. We care about your satisfaction much more than about anything else and we will build your computer as we would build our own. At Centaurus Computers we know that high quality gaming computer can make all the difference between victory and defeat in the hands of professional gamer. At the same time we know that professional users need top reliability and speed for their projects and we deliver all that as well.
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Featured Gaming Desktops - Custom Gaming Computer configurators with discounted prices - Weekly Specials
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News Feed
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- AMD Radeon video cards prices are finally started to getting down to MSRP levels. It looks like mining card market is saturated enough and new miners are not so fast as before buying all Radeon inventory available. With prices at MSRP levels AMD is getting more affordable and interesting for gamers, who right now switched to Nvidia because of much better value at the moment.
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- Nvidia 335.23 GeForce driver was released one day before Titanfall release. It promises improved Titanfall performance, optimization for newer video cards, bonus speed in some other games as well. It’s always a good idea to have the most recent certified driver for your video card as it will provide the best free performance boost without any investment. Other system drivers may improve stability and sometimes speed of the system as well.
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- Intel will refresh Haswell CPU lineup in Q2 2014, most likely in May. Expect around 20 new processors including i7 4790, i5 4690, i3 4360, Pentium G4350 along with some low power S parts. At the same time new motherboards based on Z97 and H97 chipsets will be released. Same socket LGA 1150 but with more features, ports, bandwidth and more. Obviously new boards are meant to go with new processors, though we don’t see any obstacles for older boards like Z87 to support new processors with BIOS update.
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- NZXT designed its new case H440 without 5.25” drive bays. It means that you will not be able to install DVD or Blu-Ray in such case. It’s a bold move and many will like it, but are you ready to finally ditch DVD drive? While we barely use it in our systems it still has some utility in it, but then again - it’s easy to add external DVD drive which is only a few $ more expensive than internal ones. Well, eventually it will become a trend and Microsoft with ship Windows OS on flash drives in the future :-)
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- Valve is going to release Family Sharing Plan which allows up to 10 users to share same account with all games in it on different machines. New process requires two-step authentication and will allow to share full game collection across 10 different machines (family, friends, roommates...)
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- Windows XP share has dropped to 10-20% (according to different sources with different numbers. At the same time Windows 8/8.1 goes up above 10% for the first time. Still Windows 7 is the most popular. We see half of our customers prefer Win 7 over 8, even though the latter is the default option. There is not charge for Windows switch between 7/8 in options, so it's just your pure preferences. BTW we still use Win 7 in our office, but we like Win 8 phones.
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- New record: over 7.6 Million users signed in to Steam at the same time. Steam holiday sale brought so many gamers together that we can say for sure - PC gaming is not dead. And why would it be - Steam sales provide healthy boost to games sales all the time! Steambox is coming, new consoles look like PC more than ever...
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- EVGA made a DisplayPort HUB allowing 3 monitors on single DP connection. That's a good way to expand without second video card! Your video card should have DisplayPort as well as all 3 monitors, which could be a bit more expensive than simple HDMI/DVI variations. Also you will need to connect such hub to power outlet
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- Some people have used Steam controller and it shows some promise. At least it's different from console controllers in a good way. There will be 2 touch zones both of which can be used differently in different scenarios. Most of the times left one will work as WASD, right can be either as a mouse (free-look), 4 buttons or something else. Circle strafe made easy that way. And it's better for RTS but still not as good as keyboard.
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- SteamOS will be released soon but it's not 100% baked yet, expect it to be ready in 2014. It's another great product that could possibly become something big over time. Steam has great online gaming ecosystem with millions of users. SteamOSĀ will compete with consoles, by allowing small gaming computers to become easier to operate in gaming environment without being limited to just one set of hardware like all consoles. Such small machines controlled by SteamOS can be as powerful as your budget allows, which creates wide range of possibilities for such market. It's time to add some ITX machines to our PC selection now!
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