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Intel stakes World’s Fastest Chips claim

Company claims both desktop and mobile crowns

NVIDI A’S MARKETING MESS

POOR PERFORMANCE AT HIGH PRICES

HOT RADEON 7900 CARDS

Faulty vapor chamber to blame

Tech Tr iumphs and Tragedies

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

ZEN 4 V-CACHE LANDS

Sixteen cores, 144MB of cache, a gaming monster

NEW MACBOOK PROS AND MINIS

Debut of the M2 Pro and M2 Max processors

Microsoft drops $10 billion on Open AI

MICROSOFT SEEMS to have retreated from the metaverse

Win10 is dead

From Januar y, you can no longer buy

Battlemage next year

Intel entered the graphics card market with a

AMD RX 7900 XTX Vapor Chamber Woes

FOR A MONTH OR TWO, Nvidia was in

THE TOP FIVE STEAM DECK ACCESSORIES

RECENTLY CELEBRATING its first bir thday, Valve’s Steam

OLED screen tech is finally here, but I’m not feelin’ it

TRADE CHAT © CORSAIR IT’S BEEN A LONG

Elgato Stream Deck+

WE ALL KNOW that a cluttered desk can

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES...

4070 Ti GAMING PC

What happens when you take Nvidia’s latest RT X 40 series GPU, Intel’s hot test new CPU, and squeeze them into a tiny NUC 13 E x treme case? As Sam Lewis f inds out, this compact chassis packs some punch...

WHAT’S IN THE BOX

ZOTAC GAMING GEFORCE RTX 4070 TI TRINIT Y

CRACKING INTO THE CASE

Is it a petite powerhouse, or a diminutive danger?

GREAT THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES

1 1 It’s a tight 1 squeeze, to

GAMING WITH THE NUC 13

WITH THE SYSTEM UP and running and ticking

CREATING WITH THE NUC 13

ALTHOUGH IT’S more console-sized than a regular PC,

OUR FAVORITE SMALL FORM FACTOR CHASSIS

THE INTEL NUC is at the forefront of

LETTERS WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON...

> Budget Build issu > Cases, Cases, Cas > Wrist-based 2FA

THE BUILDS

THIS MONTH’S STREET PRICES...

BEST OF CES 2023

After a quiet 2022, the world’s biggest tech show returned to normal in Las Vegas. Guy Cocker was on the ground to find the PC hardware that will shape 2023

BEST FREE DOWNLOADS FOR 2023

Make the most of your PC this year without spending a dime. Robert Irvine reveals all the best free sof t ware, apps, and downloads to get you through the year ahead

3D PRINTING comes of age

Whatever happened to the 3D-printing revolution? Nik Rawlinson takes a fresh look at the much-maligned technology and finds that the hardware has come a long way

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

TIP OF THE MONTH SNAPDROP A nyone who’s

AUTOPSY THIS MONTH WE DISSECT...

GoPro HERO11 Black Mini

Block all adverts in Windows

YOU’LL NEED THIS

Run Linux in a virtual machine

YOU’LL NEED THIS VIRTUALBOX AND UBUNTU

Stop your printer being hacked

YOU’LL NEED THIS WEB-CONNECTED PRINTER

Expand your laptop’s keyboard

YOU’LL NEED THIS

LAB NOTES GUY COCKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Tech Trends from CES

Editor’s Pick:A.N. Other broken miniLED monitor

What’s going on with monitor makers these days?

Nvidia GeFor ce RTX 4070 Ti

Let me introduce myself, again

Samsung Od yssey Neo G8

Can one screen do it all?

Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i

A touch of class f rom the Yoga lineup

Linksys Atlas Pro 6 (AX5400)

Wi-Fi 6 mesh system at an accessible price point

Intel NUC 13 Extreme Raptor Canyon

A sizzling Small Form Factor per formance

Netgear Orbi RBK 763

The best WiFi 6 mesh networking kit

Corsair HS65 Surround Wireless

The HS65 has been given a features boost

Roccat Kone Air Wireless

Hi-tech batterypowered mouse

Roccat Vulcan II Max

A keyboard that prioritizes looks over substance?

Forspoken

An exceptionally middling experience

Dead Space

A definitive remake and a promising precedent