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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Maximum PC January 2023.
MID-RANGE MONSTER
Guy Cocker
LAST MONTH, I went all-out on building a system with the latest and greatest (i.e. most expensive) components available. It was an exercise in seeing what was capable at th...
GPU War Heats Up
AMD’S NEW GPU series, known as RDNA3, has landed in the form of the 24GB Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the 20GB 7900 XT. AMD claims the cards have the most advanced technology and ‘breakthrough’ levels...
FASTEST HARD DRIVES EVER
© INTEL, AMD, SEAGATE
SEAGATE’S SECOND GENERATION of Mach.2 drives, the Exos 2X18 and 2X16, can manage data transfer rates of 545MB/s over a SATA 3 interface, which is comparable to S...
ZEN 4’S V-CACHE CHIP DUE SOON
AMD’S SECRET weapon for the Zen 3 range was its V-cache version, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. It stacked high-speed memory on top of eight cores and tripled the L3 cache, making for the world’s f...
Tech Triumphs and Tragedies
TRIUMPHS
SUPER-EFFICIENT
The Flatiron Institute’s Herni system returns 65.091GFLOP/ Watt, making it the world’s most power-efficient supercomputer.
MUSHROOM ELECTRONICS
The skin...
WORLD RECORD OVERCLOCK
Raptor Lake puts Intel back in the game and is proof Gelsinger’s plan is no idle boast.
INTEL’S 13TH-GENERATION Raptor Lake processors are impressive beasts. After struggling against ...