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TIME FOR TEAM RED

WE PROMISE it’s nothing personal, but we’ve been

AMD’s Fastest Yet

16 cores and 144MB of L2 cache on a desktop processor

PC SALES SLUMP

PC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES HUGE DROP IN UNIT SALES

WINDOWS ON AN APPLE

Getting Windows running on an Apple Mac has never been simple

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

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

RTX 4070 THIS APRIL

4060 to follow, as 40 series goes mainstream

CHATBOT WARS

Microsoft and Google square-up over AI

Intel’s mobile monster

AMD’S NEW DRAGON RANGE has been outclassed a

Activision sale

Microsoft wants to buy Activation for its wealth

44TB of My Book

Western Digital has launched its highest capacity consumer

The Meteoric Rise of ChatGPT

ChatGPT and other AI tools already offer impressive results—and

THE LIST

THE TOP FIVE PC FANS

It hurts to admit it, but Nvidia is good for the PC

© NVIDIA HOW MUCH LONGER will this ludicrous

CENTERFOLD

PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES...

BUILD A RYZEN PC

Do AMD’s new Ryzen chips beat Intel and Nvidia’s? Sam Lewis finds out

BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO OLD KIT

Nick Peers finds ways to eke even more use out of your old laptops, phones, and tablets

Erase ALL Your PRIVATE DATA

Remove personal data from your PC to prevent others from seeing it. Robert Irvine explains how to remove all trace of your activities using two free tools

INTEL ARC REVISITED

Lots of driver updates in four months

THE INTERNET AT THE END OF THE EARTH

How do you transmit high-resolution images of exoplanets using an internet connection that’s stuck in the 1990s? James O’Malley meets an astronomer in Antarctica to find out

HOW TO

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

Keep passwords safe with Vaultwarden

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Check for lost data packets on your Wi-Fi

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Switch to private versions of software

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Samsung on the slide

What is going on with Samsung’s quality control?

Editor’s Pick: RedMagic 8 Pro

High-end phone with PC-like gaming features

Intel Core i9-13900KS

The fastest and most power-hungry PC chip ever

ASRock Arc A770 8GB Phantom Gaming D

Phantom card doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance

Philips Evnia 27M2C5500W

Philips’ Evnia gaming line makes a subtle debut

NZXT H9 Flow

A piece of art from NZXT?

BenQ Mobiuz EX480UZ

Go big (and pricey) with this 48-inch OLED monitor

Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 360

All-around excellence from Samsung’s flagship two-in-one

SteelSeries Apex 9 TKL

Is this keyboard an apex predator or bottom feeder?

HyperX ProCast

Truly incredible sound… at a cost

SteelSeries Aerox 5

To be wired or not to be wired? That is the question

Company of Heroes 3

Relic’s latest is a failed experiment, but a great game

ShadowPlay vs. Xbox Game Bar

Which is the better video capturing utility?

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON...

THE BUILDS

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