Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Dark Hero

TOUCHING GREATNESS

Guy Cocker WHEN IT COMES to building novel

AMD’s APUs go Zen4

8000-series good news for budget gaming

WIN12 NEXT YEAR?

THE NEW WINDOWS MIGHT FINALLY HAPPEN

COPILOT GETS GPT4 TURBO

This AI is about to get even more intelligent

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

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

NVIDIA SWERVES CHINESE SANCTIONS

Regulators not happy about it either

WIN10 USERS TO PAY FOR SUPPORT

Home users need to upgrade or pay

Threadripper hits 6GHz on 96 cores

AMD’S ZEN 4 THREADRIPPER 7000-SERIES launched recently. There

The L2 RAM Disc

Fast storage means getting close to the processor.

AI ain’t Green

We all know that cryptocurrencies chew through a

RTX 4090 Banned in China

TECH TALK

THE LIST

THE BEST GAMING KEYBOARDS

We’re to blame when our AI overlords arrive

TRADE CHAT

DOCTOR

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How Much Power Do You Need?

Core i9 vs Core i5

STOP USING PASSWORDS

Passwords are a hassle to remember and enter, and offer only weak protection for your online accounts. Robert Irvine explains why you should now switch to passkeys

WINDOWS 10 STICK, UPGRADE OR SWITCH?

Don’t panic THOSE WERE THE WORDS so famously

Linux Mint

Nik Rawlinson is already a Linux convert. Here, he offers a few good reasons to switch

Tiny11

We asked Nik Rawlinson to move out of his comfort zone and give this strippeddown version of Windows 11 a try

Windows 11 in the cloud

There is a novel, if painfully expensive, option: stream a Windows desktop instead. Jon Honeyball delivers his verdict

Windows 10 end-of-life security reality check

Davey Winder explains how vulnerable you’ll be if you decide to carry on using Windows 10 past its sell-by date

CENTERFOLD

PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

WELCOME TO STREAMING SCHOOL

How to get started streaming on Twitch and what hardware you need for it

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

TIP OF THE MONTH © MICROSOFT, PI-HOLE.NET ,

Ban intrusive ads from your network

YOU’LL NEED THIS PI-HOLE ( https://pi-hole.net ), which

Supercharge Chrome (and Edge)

YOU’LL NEED THIS GOOGLE CHROME https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chrome CHROME

Use package managers to download safely

YOU’LL NEED THIS WINDOWS 10 OR 11 www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download

Yet another GPU shortage

This time, it’s political

Ducky ProjectD Outlaw65

Construct your own keyboard

Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RT X 4090 OC

What is going on with RTX 4090 prices?

Lenovo LOQ 15APH8

A rare miss from one of the best laptop brands

Asus ROG Strix Scar 16

If there’s such a thing as a value $2,500 gaming laptop, this is it

Asus ZenScreen GO MB16AWP

A take-anywhere monitor that’s a surprisingly complete package

ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi

Do you really need to spend more?

Nacon Revolution 5 Pro

Not one for the PS5 owners, that's for sure

Corsair iCUE LINK Ecosystem

Single cable daisy-chaining luxury

Creative Zen Hybrid Pro SXFI

Well-rounded headset offering great value

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

A good Far Cry with big problems

Google Chrome vs Firefox

One’s a behemoth, the other an old(er) pretender

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