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Be Quiet! Dark Base Pro 900

Just keep doing what you’re doing, Be Quiet!

Turtle Beach Elite Pro Headset

A well-built triumph for design quality

Creative T4 Wireless

The top end of old-school 2.1 speakers

Build A Kick-Ass Budget Gaming PC

Advances In Technology Aren’t Limited To The High End, As This $599 Machine Proves.

Xbox Goes 4K

Microsoft has the world’s most powerful console

Gaming On Windows On Linux Ain't So Bad

Using Linux has always meant being a second-class citizen for gaming. But if you’re up to the task, you can have the best of both Linux and Windows worlds.

Asus ROG Strix GL502VS

A truly portable gaming powerhouse.

Asus Prime X299-Deluxe

Our first look at Intel’s new Skylake X platform.

Real-Time Ray Tracing This Year

Photorealistic games are on the way, thanks to DXR

Direct X Ray Tracing: The Quest For The Holy Grail

THE NEXT GENERATION of Microsoft’s DirectX API, DirectX Raytracing (DXR), is intended to bridge the gap between rasterization and ray tracing, allowing for new and increasingly realistic renderings. But what exactly is ray tracing, and why do we need it?

Battlezone Combat Commander HD Laid Bare

Big Boat Interactive’s Mike Arkin gives us the low-down on what it took to remaster this classicWe sat down with Mike Arkin, CEO of Big Boat Interactive and lead developer of the original Battlezone II, to discuss the challenges involved in bringing the FPS/RTS classic into the modern era with the addition of HD graphics and modern-day OS compatibility.

Cooler Master MasterBox Lite 5 RGB

Meet the new Budget Blueprint

Roccat Khan AIMO

Is RGB lighting and high-res audio enough to make this king Khan?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Young knight lights up the dark ages

Recover Your Data

Nothing is lost until you’ve looked for it, says alex cox.

Asus X99-E-10G WS

The epitome of workstation heaven?

EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Gaming

Nvidia claims the throne once again.

talking tech

hyperx discusses its keyboard design and more marcus hermann and edward baily talk peripheralsa subsidiary of kingston, gaming-oriented hyperx has dominated memory and highend storage, and has created some fantastic headphones. now it’s produced the award winning alloy keyboard. we spoke to senior business manager, marcus hermann, and edward baily, emea hyperx business manager, about what the future holds for the company and the peripherals market, and what impact esports is having on the industry.

intel's awesome ssd tech

will optane drives finally arrive in 2017?

intel core i7-7700k

the return of 5ghz

viewsonic vp2468

a pro panel for a puny price?

Tech Porn

Sound: It Defines Our World.

Today's Best Upgrades

What hardware to upgrade in your ageing machine, and when.

Build The Ultimate Windows Repair Disc

Turn panic into minor irritation by crafting your own customized recovery disc with Nick Peers.

Build Your Own Ryzen PC

Budget? No, it’s certainly not that—this is our AMD-powered, plug-and-play, rendering titan

Create Your Own Logo Wallpaper

Your wallpaper, or screen background, is a very personal thing. It’s easy enough to place just about any image you want on your desktop with a click of the right mouse button, but you almost immediately get into problems with aspect ratios and resolution—an image that’s too small looks terrible when stretched across your monitor.

Ryzen on a Reasonable Budget

An affordable counterpoint to this month’s feature build, we put the Ryzen value proposition to work

MSI Aegis Ti3

Mean machine makes a mega impression

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition

Dell’s updated Linux laptop—we wish we were richer

The Supply Of Power

Everything you need to know about your PSU, and some things you probably didn’t