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BUILD A $942 GAMING PC

We dive into the Intel dimension to see if you can game on a budget at 1080p with the company’s latest CPU and GPU offerings

CPU architectures what's the difference and why it matters

Apple, AMD, and Intel all take different approaches to building CPUs. Darien Graham-Smith explains why

VIDEO ENCODING SHOWDOWN

How to use the latest GPUs to boost your livestreaming video quality

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.