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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Maximum PC February 2023.
MORE NEXT-GEN BUILDING
SINCE THE Nvidia RTX 4090 arrived to a ‘9 Kick-Ass’ award in our December 2022 issue, we’ve been fixated on the card. I admit to being personally impressed when I did the cover build for ...
New GeForce Cards
NVIDIA’S GeForce RTX 4090 is a power-hungry giant of a card that sets new performance standards. It’s also a buck shy of $1,600 at retail and requires a monster of a rig to give it room to work....
GIGABYTE EMBR ACES ARC
INTEL’S ARC GRAPHICS card hasn’t made much of a splash, with AMD and Nvidia owning top-level gaming. However, mid-range cards are where the majority of sales are made and, here, Arc Alche...
THE RETURN OF V-CACHE
THE LAUNCH of AMD’s Zen 4 Ryzens had one thing missing: there were no 3D V-Cache chips with that wad of L3 cache laid over the cores. The previous generation’s eight-core Ryzen 7 5800X3D ...
Tech Triumphs and Tragedies
TRIUMPHS
✓ CHIP IN YOUR HEAD? Neuralink is months away from human trials of an implanted brain-computer interface.
✓ APPLE OPENS-UP SHOP It saw off Fortnite, but now Apple is prepari...
RAPTOR LAKE GETS A REFRESH
INTEL’S development is running at some pace, although Meteor Lake appears to have hit a snag, so Raptor Lake will be refreshed this year instead. New slides leaked from Intel show this is...