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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A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME

Open-Source Smart Home • Major players join forces to get into your home

ANYONE READY FOR CCPA? • Personal data protection law now in force

TWITTER ACCOUNT HIJACK • BUG LEFT ACCOUNTS VULNERABLE

SONOS DELIBERATELY BRICKS HARDWARE • Trade-up scheme kills older speakers

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

TSMC Reveals Its 5nm Progress

Instagram AI to Warn of Offense

Russia Tests Its Own Internet

TOTAL IMMERSION • For those who want the coolest PC possible

The Death of Multi-GPU Support in Gaming • ONCE YOU BUY the fastest hardware currently available, what do you do if it’s still not fast enough? That’s a question we explore with Dream Machine, pushing beyond the limits of what’s reasonable, and trying to build the most bodacious system possible. Every recent iteration of Dream Machine has doubled down on the graphics cards—sometimes even quadrupling down.

Excellent Open-Source Tools for Road Warriors • WHEN TRAVELING OR SIMPLY WORKING in a local coffee shop, how secure is your Internet connection? Often, these access points are open and unencrypted, introducing security risks to smartphones and laptops. There are a few ways to mitigate these risks and preserve privacy in a world that is increasingly saturated with wireless devices and snoopers.

THE LIST

Threadripper 3970X vs. Core i9-10980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3950X • Last month we looked at affordable APUs; this time, we’re going in the opposite direction, and pitting the biggest and baddest CPUs around against each other. These are the highend desktop parts, the big boys, the costly but high-powered processors that many of us will never even hold in our hands. These CPUs have more cores, higher clock speeds, and monstrous power draws compared to your average desktop processor, making short work of CPU-heavy tasks and benchmarks. But which one is best? Let’s take a look.

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

2020 TECH PREVIEW • The Maximum PC team predicts what the coming year holds for PC technology

GRAPHICS CHANGING THE STATE OF PLAY

MAX QUESTIONS

CHEAP & CHEERFUL

PROCESSORS THE RACE FOR MORE, FASTER CORES

ARMING AN ALTERNATE FUTURE

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DDR5?

STORAGE MORE SPACE, FASTER DRIVES, ALL FOR LESS MONEY

SCREENS THE YEAR HIGH REFRESH GOES MAINSTREAM?

FREE UP SPACE • How can you ensure your PC doesn’t run out of storage? Nick Peers has some pointers…

MONITOR YOUR DRIVE SPACE • Find how what happens when you run out of free space, and how to keep an eye on how much is left

A DIFFERENT VIEW

MONITOR DISK SPACE WITH WinDirStat

CLEAN UP YOUR PC • Before buying more, ensure you’re not wasting the storage you have

ARCHIVE OLD FILES

REMOVE DUPLICATES WITH AntiTwin

MOVE YOUR FILES • Transfer files elsewhere—on to another drive or into the cloud

INTO THE CLOUD

MOVE DATA TO A NEW DRIVE

UPGRADE YOUR HARD DRIVE • Another way to increase storage is to migrate Windows to a separate, faster SSD drive

MIGRATE TO A NEW DRIVE

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