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.

Maximum PC

SMALL BUT MIGHTY

THE NEWS Intel Refreshes • Chips, branding, and organization get a new look

MICROSOFT DOES LISTEN • PROPOSED CHANGES TO FILE EXPLORER DITCHED

NEW 12VHPWR DESIGN FOR 4090 • New designs for the troublesome power connector

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

APPLE’S EXPENSIVE GAMBLE • Could this be the tipping point for AR?

THE THIRD ARC CHIP • New GPU sits exactly in the middle

Ryzen 7000 Goes Pro

ChatGPT Easily Spotted

PCIe 7.0 Gets Mapped-out

Revisiting the slow but capacious hard disk drive • RWE DON’T TALK ABOUT hard disk drives (HDDs) much these days. When you’re after maximum performance, solid state drives (SSDs) are so much faster But HDDs still have a place, particularly if you have large archives of movies, videos, photos, and other files that don’t need a lot of speed.

THE LIST • THE BEST NVME SSDS FOR GAMING

Can Apple save us all from overpriced GPUs? • APPLE? SAVING ANYONE FROM OVERPRICED ANYTHING? The simple answer is no. But the new Game Porting Toolkit, shown at the most recent installation of Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, gives a glimpse of a future where Nvidia and AMD find it harder to hold us all to ransom.

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

THE KICK-ASS MICRO PC • Small case + i5-13600K + RTX 4060 Ti =?

TINY & MIGHTY • WILL THIS ITX MACHINE PACK AN ATX-SIZED PUNCH?

THE PERFECT LIVING ROOM GAMING SYSTEM?

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR MINI PC • A FEW QUICK WINDOWS 11 SETTINGS TO SPEED UP YOUR SMALL-FORM

PLAY CLASSIC RETRO GAMES ON YOUR PC • Discover how to emulate old computers, consoles and even arcade machines with Nick Peers.

STANDALONE EMULATORS

BUILD A RETRO-GAMING PC

PLAY CLASSIC PC GAMES

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50 WAYS TO WORK FASTER • The best way to achieve more is to work smarter, which is why we’ve put together 50 productivity tips based on our editors’ and readers’ advice

4 MORE QUICK TIME-SAVERS

CENTERFOLD PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

WINDOWS 11 TAKE OUT THE TRASH • Microsoft is increasingly stuffing Windows 11 with cruft: tabloid news stories, AI assistants, needless apps. Barry Collins shows you how to streamline the operating system

Lightweight Windows alternatives • Looking for the antidote to Windows’ ad stuffing? These might be worth a spin

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

Next-level Windows file management

NAVIGATE WITH SIGMA FILE MANAGER

REPLACE FILE EXPLORER

WORKSPACE MANAGEMENT

Repair and colorize old photos

QUICK-FIRE PHOTOSHOP FIXES FOR FREE

TWEAK IMAGES IN IMAGECOLORIZER

A BRIEF HISTORY OF COLORIZATION

Replace passwords with passkeys

SET UP A PASSKEY FOR YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT

LAB NOTES • Finally upgrading from decade-old WiFi

Editor’s Pick: ASRock Challenger D RX 6700 XT • The pinnacle of gaming graphics cards?

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti • The...