TIP OF THE MONTH
DESKTOP ICONS
‘Themes and Related Settings’, then click ‘Desktop icon settings’. From there, you can enable or disable whichever desktop icons you want.
MAKE – USE – CREATE
KEEPING PACE
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we use our hardware, and how certain categories of components are becoming almost superfluous in their performance improvements.
Even if you 3D render, edit videos, or do anything related to data analysis, the majority of your time is still going to be spent not doing those heavy-load things. For the bulk of our operations, the current speed and performance we have with the best SSDs and DDR is fairly superfluous.
A SATA SSD or DDR4 will—at least day-to-day—perform fairly identically to the best PCIe 5.0 M.2 and 8,000 MHz DDR5. Even in gaming, we’re starting to see this power creep—CPU, DDR, and SSDs don’t affect much. I do benchmarks of SSDs that utilize game load times, and differentiate between a good or bad SSD via millisecond load times. How ridiculous is that?
We’re getting to a point where technology is so fast, it’s hard to see any benefit. Okay, you will see time saved and better results, but outside of fps with GPUs, there’s really no single component that can alter our engagement with the PC. It’s like owning a supercar; yeah, you can go fast, but most of the time you still have to deal with the speed limit, and the person in the Toyota can still get from A to B in the same amount of time.
Bu hikaye Maximum PC dergisinin May 2024 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Giriş Yap
Bu hikaye Maximum PC dergisinin May 2024 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Giriş Yap
NZXT H6 Flow
Possibly the best budget chassis out there
Intel's crazy plan for 1nm silicon
FIVE NEW CHIP PRODUCTION NODES in four years. That was Intel’s plan to get back to technology leadership. It has now added a new 1nm lithography node to its roadmap, due in 2027. But here's the thing: in terms of products to buy, Intel has achieved little of its original plan. So, what’s going on?
BIG TECH IN TROUBLE IN EUROPE
The EU isn't happy with the big players
THE BUILDS
IT FINALLY LOOKS like prices are stabilizing somewhat, certainly compared to last issue.
Dragon's Dogma 2
A cult classic in the making
NZXT Function 2
Ultra-fast, fully configurable, and relatively affordable
liyama GCB3480WQSU-B1 Red Eagle
The gaming goliath youre after?
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super
The $999 card that’s really $1,200
HOW TO
Ever needed to get rid of your fixed desktop icons, or add them back in? Did you download Minibin because you just hate that Recycling Bin icon on your desktop? Click the Start menu, type
COPILOT PRO & COPILOT FOR MICROSOFT 365
Why Copilot is great, when it’s awful and which version you should buy