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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RETURN OF THE KING

The empire strikes back • But AMD’s rebel alliance is ready for Intel’s Alder Lake

FACEBOOK QUITS LOOKING AT FACES • YOUR FACEPRINT WILL BE DELETED

MICROSOFT PUSHES EDGE • New Win11 build getting obstructive

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

GRAPHICS DUOPOLY ALL OVER • Rivals eye the lucrative GPU market

HARD DISKS TO GO PCIE • Seagate begins move to faster data transfer

Nvidia open-sources upscaling tech

Haswell kills DX12 games

Qualcomm backs ARM

Multi-Chiplet GPUs could be the future of graphics • USING MULTIPLE GPUS—or any processor—to accelerate a task by breaking it up into smaller, independent pieces isn’t exactly a new idea. 3dfx did that with its Scan Line Interleave (SLI) technology back in the late 1990s, and Nvidia’s SLI (Scalable Link Interface) and AMD’s CrossFire have been doing it since 2004 and 2005, respectively.

THE LIST • THE TOP SIX VR HEADSETS

8K screens and the future of high-DPI computing • MICROSOFT HAS BEEN PUSHING the idea of high pixel density computing since the release of Windows 7 10 years ago. That it hasn’t happened yet—a fact we were reminded of by a recent question on 8K gaming from a reader—is odd, because consumers are used to high-DPI displays on their smartphones.

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

2022 TECH PREVIEW • THE MAXIMUM PC TEAM LOOKS INTO ITS CRYSTAL BALL TO GIVE YOU A HINT OF WHAT’S TO COME IN 2022

TO GPU OR NOT TO GPU?

MONOLITHIC DIES VS. CHIPLETS

FAN…TASTIC NEWS? NOT REALLY

NEWCOMERS TO THE ARENA

MAXIMUM PC’S 17TH IRREGULAR GEEK QUIZ • WELCOME TO OUR ANNUAL BRAIN-TEASING SESSION

GEEK POINT AVERAGE

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LINUX WINDOWS • Old rivalries have been forgotten and ancient boundaries blurred. Jonni Bidwell explains the Redmond-Penguin harmony

PLATFORMS, TRUSTED PLATFORMS AND WINDOWS 11 • Windows hardware requirements have always promoted confusion, and this time is no different…

GIVE ME ALL YOUR TPM

LINUX IN WINDOWS • Never mind Windows 11, the latest version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux is where it’s at

FOREIGN FILESYSTEMS

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP (ON WINDOWS) • Running graphical applications is impressive, so the next step is to try and run a complete desktop. What are you waiting for?

HARDWARE-ACCELERATED WSL

DUELING OSes • Linux has always tried to co-operate with Windows oddities and, despite common gripes, it does a pretty good job

PARAGON NTFS3 DRIVER

ULTIMATE NETWORKING SECURITY GUIDE • Add extra layers of security to protect you and your networks with the help of Nick Peers.

UPGRADE YOUR ROUTER

DD-WRT INSTALLATION

DIAL HOME SECURELY

PROTECT INDIVIDUAL DEVICES

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

presents: AUTOPSY • THIS MONTH WE DISSECT…

Textures, & repeated patterns in Illustrator

REPEATED PATTERN

Upgrade Raspberry Pi to Bullseye

NEW THINGS

OVERCLOCKING A RASPBERRY PI 4

Machine of the Month: Apple IIGS (1986)

Building a better file server with the...