THE TIME OF OUR LIVES

AS PC ENTHUSIASTS, we’ve never had it so

Mobile Wars

Two new generations of chips, two approaches

MICROSOFT’S $69BN ACTIVISION DEAL

BIGGEST EVER ACQUISITION FOR THE GAMES SECTOR

CANON’S GENUINE COUNTERFEITS

Printers identify official cartridges as frauds

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

A monthly snapshot of what’s good and bad in tech

OVERCLOCKING THE ‘IMPOSSIBLE’

It voids your warranty but goes fast... really fast

RADEON’S RDNA2 GOES BUDGET

Cut-down card cut down

Intel’s new mega-fab

Will Intel’s plant help the company realize its

Intel Alchemist enters the fray

If there was ever a time for a

AMD’s RDNA2-Powered Rembrandt APU

AMD’s Ryzen 6000-series processors pack up to eight

THE LIST

BEST HARDWARE AT CES 2022

Don’t blame Nvidia

NVIDIA’S NOT-SO-NEW GeForce RTX 3080 12GB graphics card

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

THE BUILDS

THIS MONTH’S STREET PRICES

$600 BUDGET BUILD

Create an awesome rig on a shoestring budget

MOORE, MOORE, MOORE

It’s not dead. It isn’t slowing down. It’s not even sick. Give it up for Moore’s Law, the computing paradigm that’s still very much alive and kicking. Jeremy Laird investigates how much longer our PCs can keep getting faster

DATA RECOVERY

Lost valuable files? Don’t panic! Nick Peers is here to help you recover them

CENTERFOLD

PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

MAXIMUM THEATER!

Power up your enter tainment with the full home cinema experience

HOW TO STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

TIP OF THE MONTH SHOW FILE EXTENSION TYPES

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THIS MONTH WE DISSECT

Start composing your own beats

YOU’LL NEED THIS FL STUDIO 20 www.image-line.com CREATING

New in Photoshop Elements 2022

YOU’LL NEED THIS PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2022 http://www.adobe.com/ photoshop-elements

Machine of the Month: Commodore VIC-20

YOU’LL NEED THIS ALMOST ANY PC Windows or

How to Combat Malware

YOU’LL NEED THIS A PC RUNNING WINDOWS OR

PC gamer goes Analogue

A blast from the past and lots of nostalgia

Asus RTX 3070 Noctua

Supersize your graphics card!

Asus Vivobook 13 Slate OLED

Affordable but flawed OLED awesomeness

BenQ EW3880R

Certainly spectacular, arguably flawed, undeniably expensive

Asus ProArt Studiobook Pro 16 OLED (W7600)

A 4K OLED HDR laptop aimed at the creative pro

Asus H1 Projector

Bringing the big screen home

MSI VIGOR GK50 low profile TKL

Is taking a low profile best for compact gaming?

Fractal Design Torrent

Set airflow to 11

Sennheiser HD 400 PRO

Are Sennheiser’s studio reference cans ideal for casual users too?

HyperX Cloud Revolver 7.1

Surround sound gets serious

Halo Infinite

What’s up, Chief?

Splice vs Sounds

Two royalty-free sound libraries in the mix