FALLING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

JUST WHEN it felt like we were seeing

Welcome to the AI PC

Microsoft unveils a new type of computer

AMD’S GAMING DIVISION STRUGGLING

THE FIGURES FOR AMD’S earnings for the first

GOOGLE AI IN EVERYTHING

GOOGLE USES ITS annual I/O event to set

ARROW LAKE GETS 21 SKUS

Intel finally ready for a major desktop launch

APPLE’S NEW M4 CHIP ARRIVES

New SoC makes its debut in the iPad Pro

Fat New HDD Drives

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New ChatGPT

OpenAI has released GPT4o. The ‘o’ is for

RTX 5080 to come first?

Nvidia usually launches a new GPU family with

For Sale: Cheyenne Supercomputer

IF THERE’S ONE THING WE KNOW about PC hardware, it’s that it becomes outdated. The Cheyenne supercomputer is testament to the rapid improvements over the past decade in the world of extreme scalability, coupled with a warning about things not always going as planned. Apparently, ongoing reliability, repair, and maintenance issues reached the point where the best option was to pull the plug and start afresh.

THE LIST

THE BEST GAMING MONITORS

How to emulate x86’s success

TRADE CHAT

DOCTOR

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TINY TOWER ULTIMATE POWER

THE TRANSPLANT BUILD

comments you write, we respond

LETTERS WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON...

blueprint a part-by-part guide to building a better pc

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REAL WORLD BENCHMARKING

Nate Drake explores how tools like 3DMark, Geekbench 6, UNIGINE, and Superposition reveal your device’s true capabilities

BEST FREE SOFTWARE

To Stay 100% Private Online

CENTERFOLD

PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

HOW TO BACK UP EVERYTHING

Want to back up your important data for free? Nick Peers has your safety net

HOW TO

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

Rabbit R1 vs Humane AI Pin

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Edit your photos in Luminar Neo

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Master LibreOffice 24

YOU’LL NEED THIS A RECENT INSTALL OF LIBREOFFICE

Use your tablet as a second PC monitor

YOU’LL NEED THIS SPACEDESK Download the PC software

LAB NOTES

Want to experience the future of PC laptops?

Alienware 32 AW3225QF

Demanding but stunning 4K OLED gaming

2TB Lexar NM790 PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD

Flawless pricing gives this drive a competitive edge

Acer Predator X27U

The latest in a long line of gaming monitors embraces the OLED

HP Spectre Foldable

All the gear, no idea

Acer Predator Helios Neo 16

With the latest tech comes the same old problems

Benq X500i 4K Short Throw Projector

4K gaming projection just got cheaper… sort of

Phanteks XT Pro

$50 goes a long way these days

Cherry Xtrfy K5V2

New switches, who dis?

HyperX Cloud III Wireless

These are not the headphones you're looking for…

Homeworld 3

The Hiigaran fleet returns for a third outing

Arc vs Chrome

A new challenger enters the battle of the browsers