Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

PROJECT ORANGE

WHILE A QUICK GLANCE over past Maximum PC

Red vs. Blue

Two new chip families get ready to go head-to-head

PCIE VERSION 7.0 BEING PREPARED

IS YOUR RIG RUNNING PCIE 5.0? Then it’s

INTEL 4 THIS YEAR

Team Blue’s ambitious plans ahead of schedule

CHIP MARKET COOLS OFF

Companies cutting back on orders

RDNA3 VS. ADA LOVELACE

Next generation graphics cards square-off

Threadripper goes all Pro

The HEDT market loses its brightest star; Threadripper

Apple’s Hot Books

The new M2 chip made its debut in

Samsung goes 3nm

Samsung has beaten arch-rival TSMC to the 3nm

AMD Kills Off Non-Pro Threadripper

HEDT (HIGH-END DESKTOP) platforms once reigned as the fastest CPUs available, targeting enthusiasts who wanted more. Intel created the HEDT space with socket LGA1366 in November 2008, and for a while the Core i7- 920 was one of the best enthusiast processors. It was the first consumer four-core/eight-thread CPU, running at 2.66GHz base and 2.8GHz boost.

TOP FIVE GAMING LAPTOPS

GAMING LAPTOPS are a contentious issue here at

Intel’s PC platform problem

YOU CAN READELSEWHERE in this issue about the future of the PC platform— the bottom line is an increase in bandwidth across the board. But the PC platform is not monolithic, instead, it’s bifurcated between Intel and AMD. And increasingly, it looks like AMD will have an advantage for some time

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES...

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON...

BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO AN ABUSED GRAPHICS CARD

Drop your GDDR6X temps and noise levels

BUILD YOUR OWN NAS

Nick Peers extols the virtues of building your own network storage device

GOING BIG ON BANDWIDTH THE FUTURE OF THE PC PLATFORM

Forget CPUs and GPUs. As Jeremy Laird explains, the PC’s future is all about more bandwidth,foreverything from storage to memory and even display interfaces

CENTERFOLD

Alienware Aurora R13

THE WORLD MOST ICONIC PCs

What do we mean by iconic? Here, we’re talking about the influencers. The computers that changed perceptions of what computers could be, or inspired a new type of design

HOW TO

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

BUILD IT

Teenage Engineering Rig

LAB NOTES

Form factors

PowerColor RX 6400 ITX

Bottom of the budget barrel

Asus ROG Flow X16

HDR done right, at last

Acer Predator XB323QK

32 inches of fantastic 4K 144Hz action

HP X34

Great value ultrawide for gamers

ASUS TUF F15 2022

Value, performance and a new image for TUF?

Razer Leviathan V2

The best PC soundbar just got better

Logitech MX Master 3S Wireless Mouse

The best productivity mouse

Audeze Euclid

Earphones for the price of a desktop? You read that right

Corsair HS65 Surround

A good value daily gaming headset?

Sniper Elite 5

Rebellion has Enemy at the Gates in its sights

WordPress vs. Wix

Which website-building platform should you use?

THE BUILDS

THIS MONTH’S STREET PRICES...