Maximum PC

Maximum PC is the magazine that every computer geek, PC gamer, or content creator should read every month. Get Maximum PC digital magazine subscription today for punishing product reviews, thorough how-to articles, and the illuminating technical news and information that PC power users crave. Maximum PC covers every single topic that requires a lightning-fast PC, from video editing and music creation to PC gaming; we write about it all with unbounded enthusiasm for our collective hobby.

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THE NEWS First Zen 5 Chips • New desktop and mobile chips put AMD back in charge

APPLE WORKING ON BUDGET VISION PRO

FTC SUES ADOBE

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies • A monthly snapshot of what’s good and bad in tech

COMPUTEX 2024 • Cool cases, wacky mods, and more

NVIDIA WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY • AI has earned the green team a fortune

Microsoft cans Recall

AMD gets hacked

Audio AI watermark

TECH TALK Intel Taps TSMC for its Lunar Lake CPUs

THE LIST • THE BEST STEAM DECK GAMES

TRADE CHAT The battle for next-gen laptops and handhelds

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

The Best Sub-$1,000 Gaming PC pushing the envelope on value • With Ryzen 9000 right around the corner, is now the perfect time to buy? Zak Storey finds out

999 dollars on the wall

Build Mastery

Minimalism is the Ultimate Sophistication

$999 Performance

Upgrade Paths

CPU vs GPU THE UPGRADER’S DILEMMA • Jarred Walton investigates 16 combinations of graphics cards and processors

TEST HARDWARE

THE GAMING SUITE

WHAT ABOUT AMD GPUS?

TAKE YOUR LINUX KNOWLEDGE FURTHER

7800X3D: NOT ALWAYS THE WINNER

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The Life & Times of Gaming Keyboards

Where it all began • The rise, fall, and rise again of mechanical keyswitches

Chiclet & membrane

Modders leading the way • Custom keyboards have radically developed the marketplace and its preferences, but why?

The rise of Glorious

The future?

CENTERFOLD • PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

BUILD THE ULTIMATE RESCUE DISC • Nick Peers on how to prepare for the worst

SET UP VENTOY ON YOUR BOOTABLE DRIVE

MORE TOOLS FOR YOUR RECOVERY DRIVE

CUSTOMIZE YOUR WINPE BUILD

SUBSCRIBE TODAY • Find your next great read

HOW TO • STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

Audacity 3.5 MasterClass

MASTERING AUDACITY

THE AUDACITY CONTROVERSY

Clean and optimize your PC for free

CUSTOMIZE WINTOYS SETTINGS

BEYOND WINTOYS

SIX QUICK BOOSTS

Recover deleted files

IMAGING YOUR DRIVE

QPHOTOREC QUANTIFIED

LAB NOTES

Editor’s Pick: WD Passport 6TB • A seriously chunky backup drive

Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD • Another monitor miss from Samsung

Netgear Orbi 970 • Mega speed for a mega price

Philips Evnia 49M2C8900 • Philips gets in on the uberwide OLED action

Lenovo LOQ 15IRX9 • A well-specced gaming machine that’s just a little bit unexciting

Phanteks XT View • Flawless, purely flawless

HP Spectre X360 14 (2024) • A sleek two-in-one that’s bright, fast… but uses integrated graphics

Bag a software bargin • Don’t pay full price for software when we can offer you huge reductions on everything from security software to Windows 11 Pro

Geometric Future Model 4 Caliburn • Challenging...