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THE NEWS

Intel’s new monster

AI ROBOT ATTRACTS BIG INVESTORS

FIGURE AI is a start-up robotics company that

TRANSPARENT LAPTOP

LENOVO has proved rumors true and built a

AMD LAUNCHES RADEON RX 7900 GRE

$549 gets you 16GB for gaming

INTEL’S BIG BET

CEO says 18A is the “biggest bet we have ever made”

Smell-O-Game

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AMD’s RX 7900 GRE goes worldwide

TECH TALK

THE LIST

THE BEST CPUS FOR GAMING

Why are graphics drivers so hard?

TRADE CHAT

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES...

MAXIMUM FLOW THE 4070 Ti SUPER

The perfect balance of RGB and style

Hardware Heaven, con’t

SSD 2TB Kingston Fury Renegade M.2 PCIe 4.0

Go With The Flow

LENGTH OF TIME: 2 HOURS LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY:

The future of cable management?

Is there a better way? The BTF form factor says ‘maybe’

LETTERS WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON...

> All-AMD Build > Windows Where? > UK

THE BUILDS THIS MONTH’S STREET PRICES...

BUDGET IF THIS MONTH has taught us anything,

BUILD YOUR OWN NAS 2024

Build your own fast, low-powered, 24/7 server with the help of Nick Peers

CENTERFOLD PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super LONG AGO, before

STATE OF THE PC INTEGRATED GRAPHICS

Can you get by without a dedicated GPU?

PC BUILD GUIDE

Strap in as we divulge 20 more tips on how to become the next master PC builder

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

TIP OF THE MONTH

AUTOPSY THIS MONTH WE DISSECT...

While the Vision Pro does offer some modularity,

Use an open-source password manager

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Control your settings with the Nvidia app

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Make Shortwave your AI Assistant

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Turn on hidden Windows tools

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Editor’s Pick: Asus ROG Strix XG27ACS

The monitor you’ve been waiting for?

MSI GeForce RT X 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X

Iterative change and 4K dominance

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

As cost-effective as an RTX 4080 Super

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

1080p gaming with integrated graphics? Hell, yes

Dough Spectrum One

As stunning as Dough’s original glossy display

Lenovo Legion Go

A handheld gaming PC, just on a larger scale

Hyte Y40

Traditional design meets Hyte

2TB Crucial T500 M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD

The best budget 4.0 drive?

32GB Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5

All the bells and whistles

Benq X3100i

Chunky 4K brilliance

Helldivers 2

Bombastic, funny, and challenging, but still a bit buggy

WhatsApp vs Signal

Which secure messaging app is the winner?

Hardware Heaven

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D The Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies