BUDGET BUILDS

Zak Storey I DO LOVE a good challenge,

THE NEWS

Stadia Shuts Game  Developers Studio

PUSHBACK OVER ARM DEAL

PROPOSED ACQUISITION WILL SHAKE MARKET

MINING NIXED ON THE RTX 3060

Nvidia would rather you bought special mining cards instead

INTEL’S FIRST GRAPHICS CARD

Basic, and original manufacturer only

Samsung Puts a Processor Into Memory

©INTEL, SAMSUNG, WHATSAPP SAMSUNG HAS DESIGNED a new

TECH TALK GDDR6X Hot Potato

© NVIDIA GRAPHICS CARDS LIKE lots of memory

TRADE CHAT Is PC Gaming Still “Worth It”?

© BLIZZARD AS A LIFELONG CONSOLE and PC gamer,

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

HEADPHONE HEAD TO HEAD

Discover the best sound for your needs

THE ULTIMATE BUDGET PC

ZAK STOREY GETS HIS HANDS DIRT Y AND BUILDS THE CHEAPEST RIG POSSIBLE

THE BUDGET BUSTER

GET HANDS-ON AND BUILD YOUR OWN SUPER-CHEAP SYSTEM

SET UP YOUR OWN NAS SERVER

Nick Peers reveals  how to build and set up  your own custom  NAS-beating server

Gigaby te Aor us 15G XC

PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

WI-FI 6E THE 6GHZ REVOLUTION

It’s not just humans that are hungry for more  wireless bandwidth. A 15-billion-strong army  of interconnected machines wants in on the  action, too. Luckily, Wi-Fi 6E has every single  one of them covered. Jeremy Laird explains

WI-FI 6E AROUND THE WORLD

WHAT’S HAPPENING OVERSEAS?

WHERE ARE ALL THE WI-FI 6E DEVICES?

GET READY FOR THE 6GHZ ARMY

6E AND 5G

WIRELESS FRENEMIES

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

HOW DOES WI-FI 6E FIT INTO THE WI-FI HIER ARCHY?

HOW TO ash head system boasts a STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

TIP OF THE MONTH TIP OF THE MONTH Ever

AUTOPSY THIS MONTH WE DISSECT...

IFIXIT presents: Apple AirPods Max About iFixit iFixit is

How to Use Photoshop Part 2

YOU’LL NEED THIS ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2018 ONWARDS

Make Your Own Custom Backplate

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Chromebook

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Emulating the Commodore 128

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Worrisome Wireless Woes

Wireless mice just aren ’t really wireless anymore

Editor’s Pick: Harman Kardon Neo Speaker

Budget portability doesn’t have to be poor quality

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

The usurper has come

Razer Book 13

A new chapter

Lenovo Q27H-10

USB Type-C connectivity for a reasonable price

1TB Samsung 870 EVO

Can Samsung teach old SATA new tricks?

MSI MPG Gungnir 100

The spear that never misses flies wide of the mark

IBM Model M 1990

How does a 31-year-old keyboard hold up in 2021?

Katar Pro XT

They say good things happen in threes

Noblechairs ICON Series Black Edition

The right throne for your setup ?

Netgear Nighthawk XR1000

Excellent wireless, but we demand more ports

Hitman 3

The trilogy comes to an end, pushed into a grape press

Norton vs McAfee

Which of these security titans has the edge in 2021?

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

THE BUILDS

BUDGET WE’RE STARTING to dread putting these build