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Maximum PC
August 2023
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PCIe 7.0 Gets Mapped-out
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Revisiting the slow but capacious hard disk drive
WE DON’T TALK ABOUT hard disk drives (HDDs) much these days. When you’re after maximum performance, solid state drives (SSDs) are so much faster But HDDs still have a place, particularly if you have large archives of movies, videos, photos, and other files that don’t need a lot of speed.
Can Apple save us all from overpriced GPUs?
APPLE? SAVING ANYONE FROM OVERPRICED ANYTHING? The simple answer is no. But the new Game Porting Toolkit, shown at the most recent installation of Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, gives a glimpse of a future where Nvidia and AMD find it harder to hold us all to ransom.
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Next-level Windows file management
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The tightly regimented mid-range Ada card delivers no surprises
AMD Radeon RX 7600
Shakes up the entry-level gaming gpu market
Asus ROG Ally
The first in line for the Steam Deck’s throne 
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