Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

OF COOLANT AND KEYBOARDS

IT’S HAPPENING! It’s finally happening- we’re back in the office

Testing Nano Coolant

WE KNOW WHAT you’re thinking: “This is odd.” And you’re

NEXT-GEN DISTROS

TAKE A MOMENT to cast your mind back 15 years

Linux Milestones

LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS have come a long way since the good

User-friendly Usability

LET’S LOOK AT LINUX MINT FIRST, which continues to be

The New Generation

UBUNTU DERIVATIVES ARE A DIME A DOZEN. Some you could

Next-gen Distro Tech

FEDORA IS RED HAT’S COMMUNITY DISTRO, where new technologies are

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT

THE AMD RYZEN 9 3900X was released exactly a year

MSI Raider GE66

LET’S NOT BEAT about the bush here: for us, MSI’s

Hydra Mini

AS CHASSIS DESIGN goes, this is the most extreme example

Corsair 4000D Airflow

A COUPLE OF ISSUES back we waxed lyrical about Corsair’s

GMMK Compact Barebones Keyboard

COMPARED TO MANY peripheral companies, Glorious PC Gaming Race is

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition

MANY OF THE GAMES that come to Maximum PC have

Röki

HERE’S A LOVELY THING: An adventure game based on Scandinavian

Google Docs vs LibreOffice

OFFICE SUITES are a hard thing to get excited about

The Perfect Key Switch?

ASKING SOMEONE about their favorite switch is akin to asking

INDUSTRY INSIDER

Nvidia has finally debuted its latest-gen GPUs, the RTX 3000

Duolingo Plus

I MENTIONED, two issues back, that I was dropping gaming

EDITOR’S PICK

It’s been a while since I chatted here about my

Tiger Lake Lands

IT’S BEEN a while since Intel had something properly new

AMPERE LANDS

NVIDIA HAS LAUNCHED AMPERE, its new 8nm GPU chip architecture,

OCULUS INTEGRATED

WHEN FACEBOOK BOUGHT OCULUS in 2014, one of Oculus’s founders,

APPLE VS. EPIC

IN AUGUST EPIC announced a new payment method in Fortnite

THE LIST

8 MICROSOFT 1980 Something weird clearly happened at Microsoft as

Nvidia’s Ampere Doubles Everything

There’s a saying from the days of DOS: Wait for

MECHANICAL MYSTERIES

KEYBOARDS ARE THE TRUE KINGS of input devices. They predate

Corsair iCue Suite

The LT100 “starter kit” that we’ve got here consists of

CHECK OUT MODES IN RYZEN MASTER

If you’re running an AMD processor (specifically a Ryzen or

MOVE ON UP

This month, I’m moving house. Well, to be more accurate,

Nintendo Game Boy

iFixit is a global community of tinkerers dedicated to helping

Create Stop-motion Animation with a Pi

WALLACE AND GROMIT, THE EVIL SKELETONS created by Ray Harryhausen…

Hack Stadia: Stream Gaming onto the Pi

PC OR LAPTOP (Or custom game server) running on the

Do More With Your WordPress Website

Any reputable web host will do, or you can host

Find The Perfect Black Friday Deal

CAN NOVEMBER really be rolling round again? Yup, and that

Testing, Testing

SOMETIMES we need to test stuff. In fact, sometimes it

THE BUILDS

ALTHOUGH WE CONSIDERED properly swapping out the motherboard in our

DOCTOR

I have three licenses attached to three computers. One is

LETTERS

I would like to bring your attention to the fact