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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SOME DREAMS SHOULD BE ATTAINABLE

Streaming Wars • The fight is on for your video streaming subscriptions

TWITTER GOES APOLITICAL • Media giant to ban all political advertisements

FLASH NEARLY DEAD • FROM HERO TO ZERO

WIN 7 END DATE • The nagging starts in earnest

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

Electronic Arts Back on Steam

Google Buys Fitbit

Atom Gets New Microarchecture

xCLOUD STREAMING GOES BETA • Rival to Google’s Stadia is on its way

Do You Really Need to Upgrade Your CPU? • Just when things seemed to be settling down, a whole new wave of processors is descending upon us. AMD’s third-generation Ryzen CPUs are proving to be potent competitors to their Intel counterparts, and while 10nm mobile processors from Intel are shipping, the battle for the desktop is beginning to look grim.

THE LIST • THE BEST G-SYNC MONITORS RIGHT NOW

Why We Respect Ubuntu • WHETHER YOU LOVE Canonical’s Debian-based Linux offering or loathe it, Ubuntu has an important role to play in the Linux ecosystem as one of the most popular OSes for desktop and server applications. With Ubuntu 19.10 hitting the net back in October, it might be good to think a bit about what Ubuntu’s release cycle provides for the Linux ecosystem.

PCIe Gen3 M.2 vs. PCIe Gen4 M.2 vs. SATA SSD • The fourth generation of peripheral component interconnect express—PCIe, for those of us without time to waste—has arrived, and more Gen4 M.2 drives are appearing. But is it truly superior to PCIe Gen3? The fourth generation is still in its fledgling stage, while the range of Gen3 M.2 drives is expansive and varied. Then there’s their predecessor: good old SATA SSD. Which deserves the storage crown? (No, that’s not a real thing.) Let’s find out….

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

THE $6,000 RYZEN 4K SLI BUILD

BUILDING THE MONSTER • A STEP-BY-STEP BUILD-IT GUIDE, DIVING INTO THE COMPLEXITIES OF THIS AQUATIC BEAST

LIQUID-COOLED CONCLUSIONS • Questions asked; questions answered

10 IS THE MAGIC NUMBER • Intel’s 10th-gen Core CPUs are here, and with them its 10nm production process. But, as Jeremy Laird found, the power of 10 is proving a little problematical

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TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR AUDIOBOOKS • Rip, convert, and stream your audiobook collection to any device, with Nick Peers

DOWNLOAD AUDIBLE BOOKS

BUILD A LOCAL AUDIOBOOK LIBRARY

CONFIGURE YOUR BOOKSONIC SERVER

TECH PORN

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

AUTOPSY • THIS MONTH WE DISSECT…

Advanced VirtualBox Tips and Tricks

Monitor Tweaks for Competitive Gamers

Get to Know the New Luminar 4

Push Live System Stats to the Cloud • TELEGRAM IS AN ENCRYPTED private messaging service with an open API that is really easy to use. In this tutorial, we’re building a Telegram bot—code that reacts to commands issued by the user from inside Telegram. Our bot will give us the latest CPU temperature, CPU usage, and current available RAM for a Raspberry Pi [Image A].

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