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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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TIME FOR TEAM RED

AMD’s Fastest Yet • 16 cores and 144MB of L2 cache on a desktop processor

PC SALES SLUMP • PC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES HUGE DROP IN UNIT SALES

WINDOWS ON AN APPLE • Getting Windows running on an Apple Mac has never been simple

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

RTX 4070 THIS APRIL • 4060 to follow, as 40 series goes mainstream

CHATBOT WARS • Microsoft and Google square-up over AI

Intel’s mobile monster

Activision sale

44TB of My Book

The Meteoric Rise of ChatGPT • DEEP LEARNING, artificial intelligence, and large language models (LLMs) aren’t entirely new—we’ve been hearing about them for years in various forms. But 2023 could mark the tipping point where things truly go mainstream, after a company called OpenAI shook the foundations of multiple industries by releasing its ChatGPT tool to the public.

THE LIST • THE TOP FIVE PC FANS

It hurts to admit it, but Nvidia is good for the PC • HOW MUCH LONGER will this ludicrous graphics card pricing last? I believe that an adjustment will happen, eventually, but is Nvidia to blame and do silly GPU prices prove that the company is a malign influence? The answers to those questions are yes and, surprisingly, no. The company is no angel. But the PC is still better off with Nvidia.

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

BUILD A RYZEN PC • Do AMD’s new Ryzen chips beat Intel and Nvidia’s? Sam Lewis finds out

WHAT’S IN THE BOX

THE 7900XT MACHINE • 7900X MEETS 7900XT – IS IT THE PERFECT MATCH?

CONCLUSION • 7900X + 7900XT =?

AMD ADRENALIN SOFTWARE • THE ALL-IN-ONE APPLICATION TO GET YOUR AMD SYSTEM UP AND RUNNING

BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO OLD KIT • Nick Peers finds ways to eke even more use out of your old laptops, phones, and tablets

USING CHROME OS FLEX

UBUNTU TOUCH TIPS AND TRICKS

RECYCLE YOUR OLD KIT

SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE OVER 71%

Erase ALL Your PRIVATE DATA • Remove personal data from your PC to prevent others from seeing it. Robert Irvine explains how to remove all trace of your activities using two free tools

How to use Privacy Eraser and PrivaZer

Should you pay for privacy cleaners?

XGIMI Horizon Pro

INTEL ARC REVISITED • Lots of driver updates in four months

DEDICATED GRAPHICS, ROUND TWO

LAUNCH DRIVERS VS CURRENT DRIVERS • The difference in performance between Intel’s 3490 launch drivers, and the latest 4123 drivers across three of its GPUs. In some cases, performance improves greatly (Mass Effect 2), in some it drops slightly (Control), but mostly there is a small improvement.

LOOKING BACK AT LAUNCH PERFORMANCE

THE INTERNET AT THE END OF THE EARTH • How do you transmit high-resolution images of exoplanets using an internet connection that’s stuck in the 1990s? James O’Malley meets an astronomer in Antarctica to find out

THE SEARCH FOR EXOPLANETS

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

Keep passwords safe with Vaultwarden

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

RUN A PASSWORD AUDIT

ANATOMY OF YOUR STORED LOGONS

Check for lost data packets on your Wi-Fi

Back up your PC for...