BUILD IT

VIRTUAL FUTURES

Zak Storey I’VE ALWAYS had a soft spot

Rocket Lake Lands

Intel’s desktop chips finally get a new core

Rocket Lake Preparing for Launch

Jarred Walton I FIRST STARTED WRITING for Maximum PC

The Golden Age of PC Gaming

Brittany Vincent IN LAST MONTH’S TRADE CHAT, I discussed

> Thunderbolt 3 on PC > Login Problems > Moving Folders

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

VIRTUAL REALITY IN 2021

How close  to a different  reality can  virtual reality  really take us?

THE WORLD OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES

Digital cash, mining, and a grim look at the future of graphics cards

A POTTED HISTORY OF LINUX

Or how a 21-year-old’s bedroom  coding project took over the  world and a few other things  along the way

A COLOSSAL SECRET

Ian Evenden discovers how British WWII  braniacs, faced with an impossible task,  helped save millions of lives and invented  the computer as we know it

HOW TO

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

AUTOPSY

THIS MONTH WE DISSECT

How to Use Photoshop Part 3

YOU’LL NEED THIS ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2018 ONWARD

Manage Your Docker Containers Easily

YOU’LL NEED THIS A PC OR MAC RUNNING

Encrypt Messages With Your Pi

YOU’LL NEED THIS PYTHON Any sort of computer

Emulating the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

YOU’LL NEED THIS A COPY OF RETRO VIRTUAL

PCs Make the World Better

TESTED  REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED

Editor’s Pick: The Wrong Program

Versatility is what really makes the PC shine

Intel Core i9-11900K

Oh boy, here we go

Gigabyte Aorus 17G

Strong, mean, desktop rivaling machine?

Lenovo Legion Y25-25

IPS and 240Hz for a price you can afford

Phanteks Evolv Shift 2 Air

Super-compact madness

Vive Cosmos Elite

Where does Vive’s latest headset stand in the VR world?

Corsair K70 RGB TKL

Slick updates all around

Endgame Gear XM1 RGB Dark Frost

Raw performance and only minor niggles? We're in!

Razer Kiyo Pro

Capturing the moment

Everspace 2

In space, nobody can hear you go “YEE-HAH!”

Duolingo vs. Babbel

Learning whole new  languages online has never been easier

COMMENTS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

THE BUILDS

BUDGET ANOTHER MONTH of drought, another month of