A TIME TO REFLECT

MAXIMUM PC to me has always been more than just

Apple’s New Chips

Company to switch to its own ARM designs

INTEL LOSES KEY PLAYER

TOP CHIP DESIGNER RESIGNS

AMD SAYS YOU NEED 8GB OF VRAM

4GB cards obsolete

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

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

PS5 REVEAL

Mixed reaction as Sony finally shows PS5

Stop With The Mobo Auto-overclocking Shenanigans

RECENTLY, AMD X570 MOTHERBOARD makers came under scrutiny for potentially running the latest Zen 2 CPUs out of spec. This is nothing new, though the methods behind the Zen 2 “cheats” are slightly different. There are various opinions, which distill down to two basic philosophies

COMET LAKE PC

We look at what you can achieve with Intel’s latest processors in the world of gaming and rendering

LICENSE TO FAiL

Join Christian Guyton for a walk down memory lane as we recall the 20 biggest computer industry flops of the last 20 years

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

After more than a decade of dominance, Intel has fallen behind its main rival, AMD. Jeremy Laird investigates where Intel went wrong and how it will fight back

OPEN SOURCE

One Boot Disk To Rule Them All

THE LIST

EIGHT SERIOUSLY GAUDY PC COMPONENTS

EK Fluid Gaming 275-AG Vanquish

WHEN IT COMES TO liquid cooling, EK is the genuine

HOW TO

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

LIQUID DIET

The EK Liquid Gaming PC we’ve featured in Tech Porn

How to Silence your PC for Less Than $20

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, you don’t actually need to spend

Start (& Secure) your own WordPress Blog

Any reputable web host will do, or you can host

Customize the Desktop with Rainmeter

THE DEFAULT WINDOWS DESKTOP customization experience is fine, but not

A Sound Plan

This month, we’re building an audio-recording PC to perfectly complement any home studio

THE BUILDS

THERE’S QUITE THE HIKE on power supply prices this month

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

Intel Core i5-10600K

The gaming staple finally gets Hyper-Threading

Acer Nitro 7

Laptop gaming without the hefty price tag

MSI MEG Z490 Ace

Intel’s new chipset finally hits our lab

Asus ROG Strix Go 2.4

Ready, set, go

Aukey KM-G6 LED Mechanical Keyboard

Click clack to reality

Before We Leave

Build a cosy colony, but beware of the whales

Gears Tactics

Do you know the way to Fenix Point?

Black Lives Will Always Matter

We don’t get political, but it shouldn’t be political to say it

INDUSTRY INSIDER

When will the 4000 series of Ryzen processors arrive? AMD

T2 Road Warrior Gaming Chair

FROM SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT something so ridiculous. I do feel

CORSAIR HYDRO SERIES H115I RGB PRO XT

A few years back I built my old pops a