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SINCE THE Nvidia RTX 4090 arrived to a ‘9 Kick-Ass’ award in our December 2022 issue, we’ve been fixated on the card. I admit to being personally impressed when I did the cover build for the following issue, and after some frustrating boot problems,

NVIDIA’S GeForce RTX 4090 is a power-hungry giant of a card that sets new performance standards. It’s also a buck shy of $1,600 at retail and requires a monster of a rig to give it room to work. The RTX 4080 isn’t any smaller, but can’t reach the sam

INTEL’S ARC GRAPHICS card hasn’t made much of a splash, with AMD and Nvidia owning top-level gaming. However, mid-range cards are where the majority of sales are made and, here, Arc Alchemy cards are making an appearance. Most cards we’ve seen are In

✓ CHIP IN YOUR HEAD? Neuralink is months away from human trials of an implanted brain-computer interface. ✓ APPLE OPENS-UP SHOP It saw off Fortnite, but now Apple is preparing to allow third-party apps on iOS, breaking the monopoly of its own App Sto

Editor-in-Chief: Guy Cocker Staff Writer: Sam Lewis Contributing Writers: Jeremy Laird, Chris Lloyd, Jarred Walton, Ian Evenden, Nick Peers, Robert Irvine, Louise Blain, Lee Grant Production Editor: Jon Crampin Editor Emeritus: Andrew Sanchez Art Edi

THE LAUNCH of AMD’s Zen 4 Ryzens had one thing missing: there were no 3D V-Cache chips with that wad of L3 cache laid over the cores. The previous generation’s eight-core Ryzen 7 5800X3D had 96MB of L3, making it a gaming demon. AMD said it would ret

INTEL’S development is running at some pace, although Meteor Lake appears to have hit a snag, so Raptor Lake will be refreshed this year instead. New slides leaked from Intel show this is scheduled for this fall, almost exactly a year after the launc

The common trope for AI is that the machines will take over, and there are plenty of tasks where AI does a better job than a human. Google’s DeepMind division has proved this by making AI-powered gaming systems that can beat almost everyone easily. N

Virtual reality in its various forms has been the next big thing for so long now, it’s become a standing joke. Despite Meta’s floundering metaverse, Apple is set to join the party and is going to do it in its own unique way. There’s a dedicated opera

WHEN NVIDIA OFFICIALLY announced its Ada Lovelace architecture, it revealed plans for three graphics cards: RTX 4090 as the king of the hill at $1,599; RTX 4080 16GB as the step-down prince for $1,199; and the RTX 4080 12GB at $899. To say people wer

IT’S NOT EVEN NEWS to point out that PC graphics card pricing is ridiculous. And yet to merely complain about over-priced graphics boards fails to capture the disconnected, unhinged state of the GPU market. The way AMD and Nvidia priced their new car

Price: $349 Within the recently-released AMD 7000 series lineup sits the often overlooked yet understated Ryzen 7 7700X. Our Zen 4 captain of choice for our RTX 4080 gaming monster comes with eight threads and a total of 16 cores for reliable, effort

CREATING A PODCAST is rather like making a radio show, or indeed a basic music recording using microphones. At its simplest, a podcast studio can be your desk or a spare room, preferably one that’s away from unwanted background noise, such as a noisy

With your mic connected, open GarageBand and make sure it appears in the Input Settings menu. Double–click on the Voice template to open a new project. It has four channels but you may not need them all yet. Wear headphones or mute your speakers whil

ANDROID, IOS, OR WINDOWS DEVICE Windows 10 or 11 Email software Headset or desktop mic VOICE RECOGNITION is improving every year and getting cheaper too. A decade ago, if you wanted to talk to your computer rather than type, you’d have had to spend s

OLED PANELS ARE seen as the shizzle when it comes to premium screen technology. But like any new tech, OLED panels come with their own issues. For proof, look no further than the spectacular new Corsair Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240. It’s a 45-inch monster o

A FEW YEARS AGO, there was an explosion of high-end microphones from companies such as Razer, Blue, and HyperX. They’d clearly all realized there was a nascent market of wannabe streamers, YouTubers, and content creators who wanted to sound good and

Sponsored by AS PERIPHERALS and components come out with new variants and generations all the time, prices naturally creep up—something that has certainly sneaked up on us all within the tech industry. After a recent review of this section, we notice