BUILDING THE MINI MAESTRO

BACKING UP THE FUTURE

I AM FASCINATED WITH AI. It’s one of

THE NEWS

Can You Run Win 11?

GPU PRICES FALLING

MINING BAN STABILIZES MARKET

WINDOWS’ PRINT NIGHTMARE

Patch required after bug details appear online

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

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

Kaseya

WORLDWIDE RANSOMWARE ATTACK

WINDOWS IN THE CLOUD

New subscription service launches

Intel Kills Lakefield

INTEL ISSUES PRODUCT CHANGE notifications regularly, listing chips

Ring Gets Encryption

Ring has added end-to-end encryption to its smart

WD Drives Delete Everything

A vulnerability in the firmware on Western Digital’s

China’s Crypto Crackdown

IT TOOK LONGER THAN MANY OF US EXPECTED, but the beginning of the end for the latest surge in cr yptocurrency prices seems to have finally arrived. Predicting this stuff is about as accurate as predicting the weather 28 days in advance, and who knows? By the time you read this, maybe something else will have happened and prices will be heading back up. But realistically, China’s crackdown on mining and cr yptocurrency use in general looks to have radically altered the cr yptolandscape. Sorr y, no more made-up cr yptowords, I promise

Windows 11: We’ll Just Have to Live With It

HAVING SPENT SOME TIME running tests (and watching YouTube) in MaximumPC’sunderground lab, we have come to the following conclusions about Windows 11: It is from Microsoft. It is an operating system. And we’re all going to have to get used to it, because it’s the future

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

THE MINI MAESTRO PC

When it’s not about gaming, what can you get on a budget?

THE ULTIMATE BACKUP GUIDE

How safe is your data? Nick Peers reveals how to set up a foolproof backup plan

THE MACHINE LEARNING REVOLUTION

According to the hype, ar tificial intelligence will soon be capable of any thing. Jeremy Laird examines the true nature of machine learning

GAMES OF THE DECADE

The last 10 years have really pushed gaming to new frontiers; Ian Evenden highlights the most impor tant games of the 2010s

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

THE BUILDS

THIS MONTH’S STREET PRICES

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

TIP OF THE MONTH © WETRANSFER, MSI, RASPBERRY

A SMALL HURDLE

I presumed after my first PC build that

Get Started With Adobe Illustrator

YOU’LL NEED THIS ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CC 2020 To

Prepare Your PC for Windows 11

YOU’LL NEED THIS A PC WITH THE CORRECT

Build a DIY Raspberry Pi NAS

YOU’LL NEED THIS A RASPBERRY PI Fourth generation

Play Old DOS Games on Raspberry Pi

YOU’LL NEED THIS RASPBERRY PI 4/400 Plus a

BUILD IT

Bigger is Better

LAB NOTES

Do-It-Yourself Wall-Mounted PC

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

8GB of GDDR6X isn’t enough

MSI Pulse GL66 11UDK

Entry-level ray tracing on a budget

Alienware M15 R5

Close encounters of the Ryzen kind

LG UltraGear Ergo 27GN880-B

An ergo-armed work-play curiosity

Corsair 7000D Airflow

More cooling! More cooling!

SK Hynix Gold P31 1TB

Give your PC some affordable TLC

Whirlwind FX Atom

Atomic power clicking up a storm

Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless XT

Star of the show

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

Fantasy hack-and-slash that lacks one major feature

Acronis vs. Macrium

Which drive-imaging app offers better protection?