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MSI Trident X

You’ll forget how it looks once you see it running

Welcome To The World Of Budget Software

You don’t have to buy the market leader to get the tools you need. Ian Evenden looks at the world of budget software.

Asus Rog Crosshair VI Hero

Old faithful AM4 motherboard made manifest.

Gigabyte GA-AB350 Gaming 3

A sample of AMD’s budget spec

Windows 10 Creators Update Explained

The second major update to Windows 10 has just dropped. Here’s all you need to know. 

Dual-Boot Elementary & Windows

Set up this slick Linux OS alongside Windows.

Create a Cool Color Splash Effect

There’s A Photographic Effect you may have seen if you’re friends with any parents on Facebook. An image is drained of color, apart from specific hues, which are injected back into the otherwise monochrome image.It’s a bit overused—and, if we’re being honest, groan-inducing, especially when applied to photos of newborn babies—but by recreating it, we can gain some insights into how Photoshop works, because it’s possible to do it in a couple different ways, depending on whether you choose to work on the colors involved specifically, by selecting them directly, or just the area you want to work on more generally, by selecting the pixels in a certain area, no matter what color they are.It’s a relatively simple effect, albeit a striking one, so is something you could achieve in image editing apps other than Photoshop. And if you can use it to make a new mom smile, then we’ve all made the world a better place. 

Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Nitro+

Revamped, reclocked, rebadged.

Corsair One Pro

System integrator Corsair. Wait—what?

Cooler Master MasterPulse

Comfy convertible cans.

PNY on Breaking into the Gaming Market

Jonathan Filleau reveals why gaming is important to the industry, and what PNY can bring to the table

Lenovo Y900 RE

RGB as far as the eye can see

Logitech G533 Wireless

Tireless wireless

NZXT Kraken X62

The classy king of AIO liquid cooling

Intel NUC Kit NUC6i7KYK

Reaching for the stars from the tiniest of platforms

EVGA X99 Micro 2

X99 microATX perfection?

SteelSeries Apex M500

Mechanical keyboards for all

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?