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    Thank You, But Pcie 5.0 Is In Another Castle
    NOW WE GET to the pain. The frustration of finding out only after the fact that your motherboard doesn’t actually support M.2 PCIe 5.0 is frustrating. Always read the fine print. It makes it doubly worse, as we’re using two PCIe 5.0 drives, not just
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    DOJ Goes For Apple
    APPLE IS WORTH $2.5 trillion, and has weathered many challenges, but the latest legal assault looks to have weight behind it. The Department of Justice, working with 16 state and district attorney generals, has filed an anti-trust case that claims it
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    Adobe Photoshop vs GIMP
    ADOBE Photoshop and GIMP have some very similar features: they’re both raster image editors. Both programs also support virtually every image editing feature you’re ever likely to need, including selection editing, layers, alpha channels, scripting,
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    Hardware Havoc
    Intel’s Core i9-14900K might be one of the hottest chips around (seriously, we’ve not actually seen this thing not run at 100C under full load), but it’s one of the fastest. With eight performance cores, 16 threads, 16 efficient cores, and 36MB of sm
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    Nvidia’s AI Superchip
    ON THE FIRST DAY of its annual GPU technology conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang showed off the company’s next big thing: Blackwell. Nvidia is keen to point out that Blackwell is a platform, not a GPU, and will power the next generation of AI accele
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    Parallel Or Serial Component Connections
    Depending on your loop configuration, you can configure it so two tubes will run coolant to and from your components. For instance, you could run a pump reservoir to your GPU, up into your CPU, back down into your GPU, and into the radiator. This is
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    Maximum PC
    Editor-in-Chief: Guy Cocker Contributing Writers: Ian Betteridge, Fraser Brown, Tim Danton, Nate Drake, Ian Evenden, Dave James, Jeremy Laird, Chris Lloyd, Aleksha McLoughlin, Nick Peers, Nik Rawlinson, Zak Storey, Adam Timberley Production Editor: S
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    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 ‘Themes and Related Settings’, then click ‘Desktop icon settin
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    Nvidia Drops An AI Bombshell With Blackwell
    The mid-cycle refresh H200 has just started shipping. This means it’s time for Nvidia to reveal its post-Hopper data center GPU plans. Meet Blackwell. As we mentioned on page 8, the work of its namesake, David Blackwell, has had an impact on the rese
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    Optimize Your PC For Gaming
    YOU’LL NEED THIS Stable internet connection (Optional) gaming mouse THERE’S NO BETTER WAY to experience gaming than on a dedicated PC with a high-end graphics card, liquid cooling system and RAM to spare. Still, even the very best hardware can have i
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    Asus Zenbook Duo OLED 2024
    EVERY NOW AND THEN, something comes along that challenges your expectations about how a product will work. We’re used to opening the lid of a laptop and using it like an L-shaped thing with a keyboard that’s too close to the screen, but what if that
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    Liquid Lunacy: Advanced PC Cooling In 2024
    WE OFTEN DESCRIBE PC building as Lego for adults. For the most part, modern systems are incredibly easy to construct. There are, of course, certain pitfalls that you can encounter, but most of it comes down to cable management, clearances, and hardwa
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    Intel’s Crazy Plan For 1nm Silicon
    First, we need to understand the true implications of Intel’s existing plan for new chip nodes. In reality, it added up to far fewer than five nodes. Officially, the new nodes in question are Intel 7, Intel 4, Intel 3, Intel 20A, and Intel 18A. Intel
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    What Is Quantum Tunneling?
    Quantum tunneling has been a headache for Moore’s Law enthusiasts for some time now, particularly in regard to processors and transistor size. In a very simplified explanation, how a transistor works (effectively flipping from 0 to 1) is that a curre
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    Big Tech In Trouble In Europe
    THE EUROPEAN UNION has a piece of legislation called the Digital Markets Act, aiming to address the practices of large online companies, the so-called ‘gatekeepers’. If you qualify as one, you must comply with a set of rules and obligations. You can
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    Retroarch Teardown
    RetroArch serves as a frontend to multiple emulators. While running, you can download multiple ‘cores’ to run titles from various systems. These will then be accessible via the main menu. When ‘content’, i.e. a game, is loaded, it will play automatic
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    Navigate Podman In Cockpit
    Cockpit’s podman plugin displays all running containers regardless of which account launched them by default. Use the drop-down menu and keyword filter to create customized views. Click ‘Show images’ to view all downloaded images—including those not
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    HP Omen Transcend 14
    THE NEW HP Omen Transcend 14 gaming laptop is properly impressive. Usually, gaming portables come with a painful price tag. Not so with this beauty. It’s still more expensive than some RTX 4060 gaming laptops, but you won’t find many this compact, no
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    To Crt Or Not Crt?
    Die-hard retro gaming fans sometimes complain that one downside to playing retro games on modern hardware is that the look and feel is slightly off due to the rise of LCD and HD monitors over bulky CRT models. In our opinion, the difference is neglig
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    A History Of Liquid Cooling
    FOR AS LONG AS there have been computers, cooling has been a problem, particularly as CPUs have continually increased their transistor density, clock speed, and power draw. In the early 1950s, machines like the UNIVAC1 and IBM’s System 360 famously u
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    The Builds
    IT FINALLY LOOKS like prices are stabilizing somewhat, certainly compared to last issue. Our blueprints this month have had some significant price decreases across the board, particularly for AMD processors. We’ve gone a bit off the cuff with these b
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    Tech Triumphs and Tragedies
    Google has launched a competition with $5 million in prizes to find uses for quantum computers. Huawei claims to have invented a magneto-electric disk 0PB drive, drawing 2KW. Researchers in Australia have made an experimental surface covered in silic
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    Let’s Watercool Our Machine
    WE COULD spend another six pages explaining the finer details on how to build the perfect liquid-cooled PC from start to finish, but as we’re saving that for a future Dream Machine in an upcoming issue, we’re going to give you the best crash-course a
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    Debloat Windows 11
    YOU’LL NEED THIS WINDOWS 11 An up to date installation. (Optional) 8GB USB stick for clean install THERE’S NOTHING QUITE as annoying as booting up your brand new Windows 11 PC for the first time, only to find that it’s crawling to a snail’s pace due
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    Editor’s Pick: Philips 40B1U6903CH
    WHAT’S THE PERFECT premium productivity monitor form factor? 34-inch ultrawide? Too small. 32-inch 4K? Better, but arguably a bit constraining. What about one of those 49-inch 32:9 aspect monsters? Interesting, but they’re a little too low-resolution
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    Rotational Madness
    LENGTH OF TIME: 1-2 hours DIFFICULTY: Easy With the hardware selected (although mildly erroneous on the PCIe SSD side, but we’ll leave that to the end), it’s time to start building this beautiful thing, and trust us when we say that it’s going to loo
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    Taking Control
    For a truly authentic gaming experience, nothing beats the tactile sensation of a controller. If you’re a purist, websites like Retro USB (www.retrousb.com) have USB adapters for old-style NES, SNES, N64, and Genesis controllers, meaning you can add
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    Migrate From Docker To Podman
    YOU’LL NEED THIS PODMAN You can install this natively in Linux or through WSL in Windows. For a beginner’s guide to Podman, see the February 2024 issue. A COUPLE OF ISSUES AGO, we introduced you to a new, more secure way of running containerized apps
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    Super Hero Fatigue
    THIS ISSUE, we wrap up the RTX 40-series Super voyage we’ve been on for the last few months, as we’ve now built machines featuring the enhanced versions of the RTX 4070, 4070 Ti, and now 4080 cards. Each card has something interesting, whether it’s a
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    The Ultimate Gaming PC
    It can be argued that Nvidia’s 40 series Super cards have been incredibly disruptive since their launch. We’ve focused these last two issues on the 70 and 70 Ti Super, and the value that they represent, pairing them with suitable processors, and apt

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