BUILDING FOR TOMORROW

IT’S DIFFICULT FOR US to really talk about

THE NEWS

AMD Starts to Stack

NEW WINDOWS VERSION DUE

WINDOWS 10 GETS AN END DATE, TOO

APPLE STRENGTHENS PRIVACY

© APPLE CORP, WESTERN DIGITAL Hides your IP

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

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

CHIA BOOM HITS DRIVE MARKET

But mining trashes consumer SSDs

WEBSITES DOWNED BY ONE USER’S CHANGE

Bug crashes Fastly’s network of proxy servers

IBM Sues GlobalFoundries

IBM wants some money back on the promises

AI Chips Design AI Chips

Google is to use AI algorithms to help

Heavyweight Passive Cooling

© FASTLY, GLOBALFOUDRIES, TENSOR, NOCTUA High-end silicon throws

A DLSS Competitor That Works on Any GPU

FOR THREE YEARS, we’ve been talking about Nvidia’s DLSS tech—Deep Learning Super Sampling. The original DLSS 1.0 was a bit lacking, as it was limited in what it could do and required per-game training on Nvidia’s supercomputer. DLSS 2.0 changed the underlying algorithm and made it easier to use, with better results. Now AMD has created a competitor: FSR

Are Hard Drives Set to Return From the Dead?

YES, I KNOW THEY’RE NOT REALLY DEAD. HDDs offer an excellent source of affordable storage. But with SATA SSDs (and even M.2 drives) becoming cheaper and providing comically faster speeds, it’s not hard to see why the humble 3.5-inch hard drive has fallen out of favor for many builders

TALKING TECH

Folding@home In Practice

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

BUILDER’S GUIDE

Take a peek at how we go about building PCs, as there’s always time to learn something new

CORONAVIRUS vs. THE GIANT COMPUTER

How Folding@home took time off from curing cancer to tackle a pandemic

GET STARTED WITH FOLDING

If your PC is connected to the Internet,

THE SCREENS OF TOMORROW

Move over gamers, it’s time for plain old productivity panels to get in on the upgrades

MINI-LED VS. MICROLED

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

IS OLED REALLY ALL THAT?

THE TECH WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

GET CONNECTED

USB-C IS ABOUT TO GET EVEN BETTER

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 40mm

1 AMOLED DISPLAY With a 1.2-inch display, packing

A PARENT’S GUIDE TO PROGRAMMING

Mike Bedford investigates which languages to consider if you want to help your children get a head start in coding

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

TIP OF THE MONTH AERO SHAKE Your open

STRESSES AND STRAINS

I must confess, I planned to fix a

AUTOPSY

THIS MONTH WE DISSECT

Amp Up Your Frame Rate in Game

YOU’LL NEED THIS RAZER CORTEX Download for free

Create Surreal Spherical Art

YOU’LL NEED THIS ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2018 ONWARD

Build a Better Liquid-Cooled Setup

YOU’LL NEED THIS .A SYSTEM TO BUILD Plus

Machine of the Month: Fujitsu FM Towns (1989)

YOU’LL NEED THIS TSUGARU EMULATOR AND BIOS FILES

Improve Video Calls in Nvidia Broadcast

YOU’LL NEED THIS ANY GEFORCE RTX GPU With

A Pseudo Retro Conversion

The curious case of Raijintek…

Will We Ever Get Total Ray Tracing?

The math says no

Editor’s Pick : Elgato EpocCam App and Multi Mount L

Where the iPhone meets webcam

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Say hello to diminishing returns

Acer Predator Orion 3000

A small but mighty system

Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503Q

With a GPU rarer than diamonds, does the G15 shine as bright?

HP E27D G4

1440p productivity at a painfully premium price

Cooler Master MasterBox 540

Striking design, but at a cost

Razer Opus

Can Razer enter a new market?

Elgato EpocCam & Multi Mounts

Repurpose what you have

SteelSeries Rival 5

Jack of all trades, master of none

Resident Evil Village

Not the towering achievement its early levels suggest

Radeon Software vs. GeForce Experience

Battle of the, uh, utility software

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

THE BUILDS

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