RYZEN TO THE CHALLENGE?

Guy Cocker FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS,

The Eagle has landed

Intel’s Lunar Lake arrives on the mobile market

HERE COMES THE 5090

© AMD, NVIDIA NVIDIA IS PREPARING its

INTEL AND AMD AI PCs THIS FALL

Red and blue teams set to join AI party

AMD’S KRAKEN POINT

New Zen 5 mobile aims at Lunar Lake

PLAYSTATION 5 GOES PRO

Play everything in fidelity mode at full speed

Radeon quits high-end cards

JANUARY’S CES should see AMD launch new

Window 11 is gaming favorite

Win 11 has become the most popular gaming

Most AI fails

The tech industry is falling over itself in

US wants Nvidia & Apple to use Intel’s foundries

THE US GOVERNMENT has been busy over the past year or two handing out large subsidies and grants to help boost local silicon manufacturing efforts. Intel was once the undisputed leader in the race for ever smaller and faster fabrication nodes, but after major stumbles in the transition from 14nm-class to 10nm-class technologies, TSMC passed it by.

THE LIST

THE BEST MINI-ITX MOTHERBOARDS

PS5 Pro makes the PC more relevant than ever

THE PS5 PRO has arrived. It’s far, far more powerful than the plain old PS5, but it’s also a lot more expensive at $700. Does the PS5 Pro make gaming PCs look like good value again? Or are GPU prices still so high, you’d have to be very serious about PC gaming to overlook Sony’s latest console?

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES...

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON...

THE BUILDS

THIS MONTH’S STREET PRICES...

RYZEN 9000 UNLEASHED

Zak Storey puts AMD’s latest chips and motherboards to the test

THE ART OF ETHICAL AI

Is the advent of AI a force for good, or a ticking time bomb?

THE RACE FOR ADVANCED ENCRYPTION

Strong encryption hasn’t always been freely available to the public. Nate Drake tells the story of how the first Data Encryption Standard transformed the cryptography landscape

BEST OF IFA 2024

Berlin’s annual festival of gadgetry is the biggest tech show, at least in terms of attendance figures. That’s because, unlike most conventions, it’s open to the public. Guy Cocker was there ahead of the masses to see the best new portable PCs coming soon.

CENTERFOLD

PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

WHAT IS ZTNA?

Nate Drake explores the concept of ZTNA and the obstacles businesses face with its adoption

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

TIP OF THE MONTH © RAINMETER.NET , MICROSOFT,

Find files and apps quickly

YOU’LL NEED THIS FLOW LAUNCHER Download the app

Rip the perfect media file

YOU’LL NEED THIS HANDBRAKE Download it from www.handbrake.fr

Harness your VPN kill switch

YOU’LL NEED THIS WINDOWS 11 An up-to-date installation.

Write a novel with Quoll Writer

YOU’LL NEED THIS QUOLL WRITER FOR WINDOWS, MACOS

Hypervisor hell with AMD & NZXT

LAB NOTES

Editor’s Pick: Alienware AW2725QF

One monitor, two native resolutions

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

AMD’s top Zen 5 CPU looks very similar to its predecessor on paper

Acer Nitro 14

AMD puts on a good show, but it still lacks punch

Gigabyte FO27Q2

Speed is of the essence with this OLED screen

AndaSeat Kaiser 4 XL

A chair as big and as comfortable as they come

Gigabyte MO34WQC

An ultrawide that won’t break the bank—or your desk

Acer Predator GM712

2008 called, it wants its projector back

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro

Razer’s pro controller is even better than Microsoft’s

Razer BlackWidow V4 75%

Solid and compact, with hot-swappable switches

Elgato Wave Neo

The Kanye West of mics: Easy to get into, but a little weird

Elgato Facecam Neo

Always sees us in the best light but lacks focus: 8/10 boyfriend, er, camera

Frostpunk 2

CITY-BUILDING SURVIVAL GAME

Google Gemini vs. ChatGPT

Which LLM currently holds the crown?