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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

Optimize Your Upgrades

Identify bottlenecks and break through into pro-grade benchmarking

Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition

Unstoppable series requires bottomless hard drive

Steel Series Arctis Pro + GameDAC

Hi-res audio for gaming and music? DAC’s entertainment

Asus ROG Zephyrus M GM501

Six cores of pure gaming sizzle

Mesh vs Wi-Fi vs Ethernet

A functioning network isn’t just a luxury—it’s one of life’s essentials. Heat, water, and delicious broadband piped through the home. But there’s a lot to choose from, both in terms of standards and individually within those brackets. We’re not here to pick out specific hardware, but if you’re looking to renovate your network, you’ll need to make the right choice. Will it be good old Wi-Fi? Perhaps its close cousin, mesh? Or do the reliable wires of Ethernet make the most sense? Read on, and choose what works for you.

Apple TV 4K

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2019 Tech Preview

Take your mind back a moment. It’s November 1996, Bill Clinton has just beaten Bob Dole to the presidency, “Macarena” is topping the charts, and Star Trek: First Contact is about to make waves at the box office. In the world of tech, however, something more wonderful is about to happen. Andrew Grove, Intel’s CEO of the day, is about to drop one of his truth bombs, and that truth? Well, it’s that by 2011, thanks to a combination of Moore’s Law and genius architectural advancements, Intel CPUs will be operating at the 10GHz mark and beyond. Although that prediction may have fallen a bit flat over the years,it’s not to say we haven’t advanced since then, technologically at least. The world of the transistor stops for no nerd, and as another orbit of the sun comes to a close, it’s time for us here at the Maximum PC Lab to condense all of our prophetic ability into one clean, crisp, potentially slightly wooly, article. So, folks, likely more accurate than your election-time pollsters, and definitely more truthful than those Hurricane Florence weather forecasts, hold on to your hats, because it’s time for Maximum PC’s Tech Preview 2019.

Deep Into Storage Space

At the edge of the final storage frontier, the universe’s greatest storage system is about to unfold

Video Encoding Deep Dive

Next-gen encoders deliver better quality with smaller files; get up to speed now

OnePlus 6

OnePlus 6

Acer Swift 3 SF315-41

AMD’s Ryzen makes the move to mobile

Samsung C49J89

So, you said you wanted widescreen…

Corsair Crystal 280X RGB

Corsair makes a stab at an RGB microATX cube