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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BUILD AN EFFICIENT AND SOLID FOUNDATION

Intel’s New Top Dogs • Intel’s HEDT chips get a little faster and a lot cheaper

NAVI GOES MASS MARKET • It’ll power “world’s most technologically advanced 1080p gaming desktops”

MICROSOFT HIDES ACCOUNT OPTIONS • WANT AN OFFLINE WIN 10 ACCOUNT? IT’S NOT EASY

PAYPAL LEAVES LIBRA • Wheels start to come off Facebook’s currency project

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

More PlayStation 5 Details Emerge

Robot Dog for Sale

The Galaxy Fold returns

SURFACE SHOCK • Microsoft hardware gets innovative and stylish

Open-Air vs. Blowers • FOR MOST OF THE PAST 10 YEARS, nearly every new high-end graphics card has relied on some sort of a blower fan for cooling. The first such designs, such as the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, had a terrible and well-deserved reputation for being too loud.

Get Rid of the Gross, Bad Apples • RICHARD STALLMAN was forced to resign from MIT and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) after criticism regarding his defense of Jeffery Epstein. It wasn’t the first time he’d made questionable statements. And his isn’t the only instance of toxic behavior in the open-source world.

THE LIST • THE BEST OF IFA 2019

Radeon VII vs. RTX 2080 Super vs. RTX 2080 Ti • The last hurrah in our series of GPU head to heads, this month we’re looking at the high-end cards. We’re talking 4K, baby! The focus is primarily on 4K gaming, although other elements are taken into account as well. In the red corner, we have AMD’s top offering, the Radeon VII, poster boy for the 7nm GPU architecture. Meanwhile, Nvidia sits opposite with the recently released GeForce RTX 2080 Super and the older but stronger RTX 2080 Ti. There are pros and cons to purchasing any of these cards, but which one is the best? Let’s dive straight in.

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

$500 BUILD IT CHALLENGE • Can we build the best upgradable system for under half a grand?

READY TO BUILD • ONCE YOU’VE GOT ALL OF YOUR COMPONENTS READY, FOLLOW OUR STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO ASSEMBLE THIS VERSATILE $500 PC

THE HISTORY OF THE PC • In a world of competing processors and operating systems, John Knight explores how the PC began

Desktop Predecessors

Apple II The great rival

PCjr

The OS Wars Begin

The 386 and the 32-Bit Era

BeOS The sleek alternative

The Raspberry Pi Revolution

What About SteamOS?

TECH PORN

HOST YOUR OWN PASSWORD SERVER • Take control of how your passwords are synched and where they’re stored

SYNC IN KEEPASS

INSTALL BITWARDEN ON YOUR NAS

SECURE YOUR SERVER

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

Nintendo Switch Lite

Avoid Excessive Transcoding in Plex

RIP BLU-RAYS

HARDWARE TRANSCODING

HOW TO MONITOR TRANSCODING ON PLEX

Install Kodi on a Fire TV Stick

EASY AS ADB

Discover Invaluable Windows Shortcuts

WINDOWS EXPLORER SHORTCUTS

Recover or Repair Windows 10

Explore Affinity Photo’s Personas

LAYERED DEVELOPMENTS

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Acer ConceptD 500 • Acer enters the fray...