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Editor-in-Chief: Guy Cocker Staff Writer: Sam Lewis Contributing Writers: Barry Collins, Tyler Colp, Ian Evenden, Dave James, Jorge Jimenez, Jeremy Laird, Chris Lloyd, David Nield, Nick Peers, Nik Rawlinson, Jacob Ridley, Chris Szewczyk, Jarred Walto

IT TOOK NVIDIA over two and a half years, but we finally have a successor to the RTX 3060Ti in the form of the new RTX 4060Ti. I’m sure many of you will have already seen the online discourse about the merits (or not) of the $399 card, but we have ou

AS WE EXPECTED, Intel is to refresh its Raptor Lake chips before the switch to Meteor Lake. A round of BIOS updates for existing motherboards for a ‘next generation’ chip pretty much gave it away—Meteor Lake uses a new socket, so there’s no need for

MICROSOFT CAN’T STOP FIDDLING with the interface on Windows 11. In a recent Insider build, it let slip that it was removing features in the folder options for File Explorer. There were nine options for the chop, including showing drive letters, hidin

NVIDIA’S MONSTROUS GeForce RTX 4090 introduced us to the equally monstrous 16-pin power connector. Things did not go smoothly. There were reports of cables melting, and even cards getting burnt. It soon became clear that you had to be careful that th

STOP THE TRACKING DuckDuckGo has a browser that uses little Google code, and offers a high level of privacy. LASERS NETWORK Scientists have made a laser that can shift terrabits per second, enough for a satellite network to replace undersea cables. 4

The AI engine behind ChatGPT is a remarkable thing. It can certainly be used to create writing that, on initial perusal, looks to be the work of a human. Cue dire predictions that much of the internet could be AI creations. We’ll see—however, it is i

PCIe 5.0 isn’t universal yet, and PCIe 6.0 chips are at testing, but the PCI Special Interest Group is unstoppable. The organization mulled over the PCIe 7.0 last year, and has confirmed the main features with version 0.3. Speeds will double, reachin

The cheapest HDDs now start at under $0.015 per GB. The cheapest SSDs start at $0.03 per GB, with more desirable M.2 PCIe 4.0 models that don’t use QLC NAND starting at $0.06 per GB—about four times the cost of an HDD. Even though you could buy ten 2

AN NVME SSD will breeze through loading screens and make day-to-day PC use a smoother experience. They’ve been steadily falling in price over the last few months—one Maximum PC staffer even bought his first 4TB model this month. There are loads of ma

The purpose of the Toolkit is straightforward: it allows unmodified Windows games to run on MacOS and therefore the latest Macs and MacBooks with Apple silicon. In other words, M1 and M2 chips. It’s essentially the same as Valve’s Proton technology,

LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 HOURS LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM WE LOVE KICKING OFF a build by going to the core chassis and finding out exactly what we’re working with. Corsair has made this process very easy for us, as you don’t need any tools to get to the

WE’LL CERTAINLY TOUCH on whether or not this is the perfect living room gaming solution shortly, but first, we need to talk through how this build went down. Before we ever build a small form factor PC, we always get nervous about how awkward and fid

BEFORE WE START, it’s safe to say that mid tower PCs haven’t gone out of fashion by any means. Yet, with advancements in technology occurring all the time, it’s inevitable that we’re going to get more power from components while they get smaller and

Gerald Tömpsett says: “I’ve used markup since the 90s and shareX to capture to cloud (imgur) and its OCR to import into Vim. Both are platform-agnostic so work equally well on Nix, macOS or Microsoft. I now use PowerShell along with AutoHotkey to con

OPERATING SYSTEMS should just get out of the way. Increasingly, however, Windows 11 appears intent on getting in your face. Perhaps emboldened by a decade of largely being left to its own devices by the competition authorities, Microsoft is increasin

NO, 2023 is probably not going to be the year of Linux on the desktop, either. But if you’re sick of using operating systems that see you as the product, Linux Mint is worth considering. It comes in three flavors: Cinnamon is the best-looking and mos

The beauty of both Files and Sigma File Manager is that while they’re designed to replace File Explorer, they sit quietly alongside it, giving you time to try both before deciding if either is a suitable replacement. You might decide that they’re goo

To create a workspace, click the Workspaces button, followed by the edit (pencil) button. Click + to add a new workspace. Name it and type the full path to the directory you want this to point Navigator to—for example, E:/Photos. Now, click ‘Add New

SCANNER, SOME OLD FAMILY PHOTOS Also recommended: VueScan scanning software, Paint. NET, Photoshop Express, and VanceAI PC app IF YOU’RE FORTUNATE ENOUGH to possess a trove of old family photos, then you’ll know that they rarely come down to you in t

GOOGLE ACCOUNT A smartphone Time required: One hour PASSWORDS ARE OLDER THAN YOU THINK. Far from arriving with the first computers, they were first used in ancient times to prove a visitor’s identity and—assuming the password provided was correct—gra

Now that you know what passkeys are and how they work, it’s time to set up your first one. We’ll explain how to use Google’s passkeys to sign into Gmail, Google Drive, and other services provided by the company. Open a new browser window on your comp

THIS IS NOT a review. We have review pages for that. Indeed, this is not really a new product. Certainly, the graphics chipset at its heart is years old, so it says a lot about the state of PC gaming that this might be the best graphics card you can

> Podcast Petitioning > Creative Demands > Nvidia Driver Confusion > Honest PC Magazine I read the letter in the July issue suggesting the resurrection of the No BS Podcast. I would love to see the podcast return. During its run, it made many of my