ShadowPlay vs. Xbox Game Bar

Which is the better video capturing utility?

Company of Heroes 3

Relic’s latest is a failed experiment, but a great game

SteelSeries Aerox 5

To be wired or not to be wired? That is the question

HyperX ProCast

Truly incredible sound... at a cost

SteelSeries Apex 9 TKL

Is this keyboard an apex predator or bottom feeder?

Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 360

All-around excellence from Samsung's flagship two-in-one

BenQ Mobiuz EX480UZ

Go big (and pricey) with this 48-inch OLED monitor

NZXT H9 Flow

A piece of art from NZXT?

Philips Evnia 27M2C5500W

Philips' Evnia gaming line makes a subtle debut

ASRock Arc A770 8GB Phantom Gaming D

Phantom card doesn't stand a ghost of a chance

Intel Core i9-13900KS

The fastest and most power-hungry PC chip ever

THE INTERNET AT THE END OF THE EARTH

How do you transmit high-resolution images of exoplanets using an internet connection that’s stuck in the 1990s? James O’Malley meets an astronomer in Antarctica to find out

INTEL ARC REVISITED

Lots of driver updates in four months

XGIMI Horizon Pro

PROJECTORS HAVE COME a long way in a short time. Long gone are the days when they required expensive, fragile bulbs and a roll-down screen.

Erase ALL Your PRIVATE DATA

Remove personal data from your PC to prevent others from seeing it. Robert Irvine explains how to remove all trace of your activities using two free tools

BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO OLD KIT

Nick Peers finds ways to eke even more use out of your old laptops, phones, and tablets

Run Linux in a virtual machine

THERE ARE PLENTY of reasons you should want to try out Linux, but in keeping with our first tutorial this month, one of them is to make it harder for your activity to be tracked online.

Dead Space

A definitive remake and a promising precedent

Forspoken

An exceptionally middling experience

Samsung Odyssey Neo G8

Can one screen do it all?

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Let me introduce myself, again

CREATING WITH THE NUC 13

ALTHOUGH IT'S more console-sized than a regular PC, gaming isn't the only thing this Intel NUC 13 build can do.

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

IT'S BEEN A LONG WAIT for OLED technology to make the jump from HDTVs to the desktop PC.

AMD RX 7900 XTX Vapor Chamber Woes

FOR A MONTH OR TWO, Nvidia was in the hot seat due to the melting 16-pin adapters on its RTX 4090 graphics cards.

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

THE MOTHERBOARD MAP

The motherboard is the foundation of every PC but how well do you know this complicated component? Darien Graham-Smith explores all its main features

CENTERFOLD: Elgato Stream Deck+

WE ALL KNOW that a cluttered desk can be the sign of a cluttered mind, so the idea of adding yet another peripheral to your workspace might appear to only further compromise your efficiency.

BEST FREE DOWNLOADS FOR 2023

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

GREAT THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES

WHEN YOU THINK of a PC setup, you may typically envisage a desktop ATX machine paired with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

ULTRA COMPACT 4070 Ti GAMING PC

What happens when you take Nvidia's latest RTX 40 series GPU, Intel's hottest new CPU, and squeeze them into a tiny NUC 13 Extreme case? As Sam Lewis finds out, this compact chassis packs some punch...