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Asus Prime X299-Deluxe
Our first look at Intel’s new Skylake X platform.
3 min |
August 2017
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Real-Time Ray Tracing This Year
Photorealistic games are on the way, thanks to DXR
2 min |
May 2018
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Direct X Ray Tracing: The Quest For The Holy Grail
THE NEXT GENERATION of Microsoft’s DirectX API, DirectX Raytracing (DXR), is intended to bridge the gap between rasterization and ray tracing, allowing for new and increasingly realistic renderings. But what exactly is ray tracing, and why do we need it?
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May 2018
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Battlezone Combat Commander HD Laid Bare
Big Boat Interactive’s Mike Arkin gives us the low-down on what it took to remaster this classicWe sat down with Mike Arkin, CEO of Big Boat Interactive and lead developer of the original Battlezone II, to discuss the challenges involved in bringing the FPS/RTS classic into the modern era with the addition of HD graphics and modern-day OS compatibility.
7 min |
May 2018
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Cooler Master MasterBox Lite 5 RGB
Meet the new Budget Blueprint
3 min |
May 2018
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Roccat Khan AIMO
Is RGB lighting and high-res audio enough to make this king Khan?
3 min |
May 2018
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Young knight lights up the dark ages
2 min |
May 2018
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Recover Your Data
Nothing is lost until you’ve looked for it, says alex cox.
10 min |
Spring 2017
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Asus X99-E-10G WS
The epitome of workstation heaven?
3 min |
December 2016
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EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Gaming
Nvidia claims the throne once again.
3 min |
December 2016
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talking tech
hyperx discusses its keyboard design and more marcus hermann and edward baily talk peripheralsa subsidiary of kingston, gaming-oriented hyperx has dominated memory and highend storage, and has created some fantastic headphones. now it’s produced the award winning alloy keyboard. we spoke to senior business manager, marcus hermann, and edward baily, emea hyperx business manager, about what the future holds for the company and the peripherals market, and what impact esports is having on the industry.
6 min |
februray 2017
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intel's awesome ssd tech
will optane drives finally arrive in 2017?
3 min |
februray 2017
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intel core i7-7700k
the return of 5ghz
3 min |
februray 2017
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viewsonic vp2468
a pro panel for a puny price?
3 min |
februray 2017
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Tech Porn
Sound: It Defines Our World.
1 min |
October 2016
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Today's Best Upgrades
What hardware to upgrade in your ageing machine, and when.
10+ min |
January 2017
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Build The Ultimate Windows Repair Disc
Turn panic into minor irritation by crafting your own customized recovery disc with Nick Peers.
10+ min |
January 2017
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Build Your Own Ryzen PC
Budget? No, it’s certainly not that—this is our AMD-powered, plug-and-play, rendering titan
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May 2017
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Create Your Own Logo Wallpaper
Your wallpaper, or screen background, is a very personal thing. It’s easy enough to place just about any image you want on your desktop with a click of the right mouse button, but you almost immediately get into problems with aspect ratios and resolution—an image that’s too small looks terrible when stretched across your monitor.
4 min |
May 2017
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Ryzen on a Reasonable Budget
An affordable counterpoint to this month’s feature build, we put the Ryzen value proposition to work
8 min |
May 2017
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MSI Aegis Ti3
Mean machine makes a mega impression
3 min |
May 2017
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Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
Dell’s updated Linux laptop—we wish we were richer
3 min |
May 2017
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The Supply Of Power
Everything you need to know about your PSU, and some things you probably didn’t
10 min |
February 2018
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Optimize Your Upgrades
Identify bottlenecks and break through into pro-grade benchmarking
10+ min |
June 2018
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Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition
Unstoppable series requires bottomless hard drive
2 min |
June 2018
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Steel Series Arctis Pro + GameDAC
Hi-res audio for gaming and music? DAC’s entertainment
3 min |
June 2018
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Asus ROG Zephyrus M GM501
Six cores of pure gaming sizzle
3 min |
June 2018
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Mesh vs Wi-Fi vs Ethernet
A functioning network isn’t just a luxury—it’s one of life’s essentials. Heat, water, and delicious broadband piped through the home. But there’s a lot to choose from, both in terms of standards and individually within those brackets. We’re not here to pick out specific hardware, but if you’re looking to renovate your network, you’ll need to make the right choice. Will it be good old Wi-Fi? Perhaps its close cousin, mesh? Or do the reliable wires of Ethernet make the most sense? Read on, and choose what works for you.
5 min |
April 2018
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Apple TV 4K
About iFixitiFixit is a global community of tinkerers dedicated to helping people fix things through free online repair manuals and teardowns. iFixit believes that everyone has the right to maintain and repair their own products.
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April 2018
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2019 Tech Preview
Take your mind back a moment. It’s November 1996, Bill Clinton has just beaten Bob Dole to the presidency, “Macarena” is topping the charts, and Star Trek: First Contact is about to make waves at the box office. In the world of tech, however, something more wonderful is about to happen. Andrew Grove, Intel’s CEO of the day, is about to drop one of his truth bombs, and that truth? Well, it’s that by 2011, thanks to a combination of Moore’s Law and genius architectural advancements, Intel CPUs will be operating at the 10GHz mark and beyond. Although that prediction may have fallen a bit flat over the years,it’s not to say we haven’t advanced since then, technologically at least. The world of the transistor stops for no nerd, and as another orbit of the sun comes to a close, it’s time for us here at the Maximum PC Lab to condense all of our prophetic ability into one clean, crisp, potentially slightly wooly, article. So, folks, likely more accurate than your election-time pollsters, and definitely more truthful than those Hurricane Florence weather forecasts, hold on to your hats, because it’s time for Maximum PC’s Tech Preview 2019.
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