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Steam vs Epic Games Store

Digital storefronts battle it out for your money

Stream From a Birdbox With a Pi

YOU’LL NEED THIS - A RASPBERRY PI & A COMPATIBLE IR CAMERA

How To Apply Thermal Paste

NON CONDUCTIVE THERMAL PASTE Recommended, Noctua NT-H1.

Samsung Odyssey G7

LIGHT: It’s one of the few inherent constants in our universe. Those photons that continually bounce around at a meagre 186,282 miles per second allow us to experience this fantastic place we inhabit, in a way that no other sense truly can allow for.

Big Navi Lands

AMD’S BIG NAVI, the RDNA 2 architecture, is finally here, and for the fist time in about a decade AMD is gunning to be the fastest card. There are three initial models: The RX 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT. All carry 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, and 128MB of Infinity Cache.

Baldur's Gate III

Remembering the Forgotten Realms

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition

Heir to the Titan throne

Razer Tomahawk Mini-ITX

A chassis from Razer?

HP EliteBook 845 G7

AMD teams up with HP for a sweet new laptop

AOC C27G2

Punchy pricing for 165Hz, pity about that VA panel

TECH PORN

PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

MSI MPG Sekira 500X

Good, but not that original

Microsoft Flight Simulator

No snakes on these planes

Crusader Kings III

The king is dead! Long live the king!

Corsair K100

Reimagining a champion

Big Navi Lands

With AMD’s new launch, Nvidia has a serious rival at last

Audacity vs Audition

Battle of the digital audio workshops

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080

Time to get Ampered for Nvidia’s new starting lineup

Asus ROG Maximus XII Extreme

Aint no kill quite like overkill

Röki

Take a stroll through a deep, dark wood

NEXT-GEN DISTROS

Step right up: Jonni Bidwell is here to unveil the finest Linux distros around!

Hydra Mini

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

MSI Raider GE66

Raiders of the lost laptop

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition

Oh give me a home, where the robo-buffalo roam…

Google Docs vs LibreOffice

The last word no longer belongs to Microsoft

Corsair 4000D Airflow

Obsidian meets 2020

Testing Nano Coolant We get handson with one of the world's most advanced liquid coolants

WE KNOW WHAT you’re thinking: “This is odd.” And you’re right—it’s not something we’d usually cover here at Maximum PC. It’s not a gaming rig specced out to some arbitrary number set by the management bods, nor is it a deep-dive into the latest technological architecture from the likes of Nvidia (next issue—don’t worry!). No, this is something we’ve never done before: A case study and the chance to test something that very few people can get their hands on.

GMMK Compact Barebones Keyboard

A small, mighty keyboard you can build yourself

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT

Incremental increases

Premiere Pro vs DaVinci Resolve

Choose your champion in the battle of the big video-editing apps