50 Essential Free Apps

Whatever you want to do, do it, and pay absolutely nothing in the process.

SOCIAL ENGINEERING

CONVINCING PEOPLE TO DO THINGS NOT IN THEIR INTERESTS HAS BECOME QUITE THE ART FORM, SO DON’T BE FOOLED. CLICK HERE FOR PUPPIES…

GAMESCOM 2019 ROUND-UP

A LOOK AT WHAT THE WORLD’S BIGGEST GAMING EVENT REVEALED.

ASRock X570 Taichi - Steampunk Style On A Thoroughly Modern Mobo

Steampunk style on a thoroughly modern mobo.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 - A Step Down From The 5700 XT

A good alternative that isn’t quite as beefy or handsome as the 5700 XT, for a lower price.

Ready To Reinstall Windows? Here Are Your Options..

Ready to reinstall Windows? Are you really? Let’s look at your options...

Facebook's New Money

The social media giant takes on the finance industry with Libra.

The Best PC-Building Assistants

Need help with your PC build? These are our go-to resources for everything PC related.

Corsair Drops A PCIe 4.0 Bandwidth Bomb

Corsair drops a PCIe 4.0 bandwidth bomb.

Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240P Mirage

Cooling in color

The Death Of The Loot Box

Could the reign of random-rewards terror finally be coming to an end?

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super

No Founders Edition premium makes this a decent $700 card.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super

This card just cut the price of 2070 performance by $100

Create A Custom Windows Installer

Cut down or bulked up; Alex Cox helps you to have the Windows you need.

Get Ready For 8K

It was wall-to-wall 8K TVs at CES this year. 8K is almost certainly headed for the PC, but should we welcome it, wonders Jeremy Laird

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

All hail Pascal, the new king… again?

The Council Episode One: The Mad Ones

Why you should never take your mother to a party

Roccat Kone AIMO

Eleven years of work produce a thoroughbred

Intel SSD DC P4510 2TB

The artist formerly known as SFF-8639.

Intel Hades Canyon NUC8i7HVK

Vega? We’d like you to meet Kaby

MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC

With a great architecture comes great responsibility

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

It’s semi-shrunk, but is it truly second gen?

The Fan Zone

Fans are simple enough, right? Not quite. There are a few things you need to learn before you can pick with confidence. 

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

The Goldilocks of AMD’s new Ryzen CPU range?

AMD Ryzen 7 1700

Is this the new ruler of the value performance realm?

Magnetic Hard Drive vs. SATA SSD vs. M.2 NVMe

Storage was once the final frontier of PC performance, and the last component to become fully solid state. Today, the latest M.2 SSDs powered by the new NVMe protocol and hooked up via zappy PCIe connections deliver performance that a conventional hard drive wouldn’t recognize. Yet the hard drive isn’t dead. Not when it offers so much capacity for so little money. Meanwhile, the trusty SATA SSD offers a combination of compatibility and speed that’s awfully compelling. Time to find out which storage technology is the best.

Play PC Games On Your Smartphone

We’re not short of options when it comes to streaming games. We’ve talked plenty in these pages about the immensely useful Steam In-Home Streaming, we’ve covered the likes of GameShow and XSplit, which send your games up to Twitch and other online streaming services, and we’ve even looked at ways you can beam console games through your network and play them on your PC. Well, add Remotr to the list. It’s immensely flexible, offering up client apps for smartphones, tablets, and other Windows PCs, happily streaming over cell phone networks if you have the data allocation for it, and it’s incredibly simple to set up and use.Let’s preface this a little, though, with a couple of caveats. Point one: Don’t expect ultra performance or lag-free gaming. Remotr’s solution is quick and very well coded, but it’s not going to be suitable for the twitchiest games, particularly if you’re streaming outside of your local network. It also scales down the quality of streaming (though not the quality of the source game) to meet your network specifications, so if you’re obsessed with uncompressed graphical fidelity, you might be best staying at your home PC.

Ashampoo Backup Pro 11

Backup software is boring—until you need it

Is 3D XPoint Intel's Secret Weapon?

Jeremy Laird asks, what is 3D XPoint? A supercharged flash alternative or the gateway to 100GHz optical computing?

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

The Red Wedding