Maximum PC Magazine - December 2022

In this issue

ADA LOVELACE
Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture is here. Jarred Walton runs his eye over the range.

HISTORY OF APPLE
How gaming has played a part in Apple Computer’s success—and how Apple has influenced gaming.

HOLIDAY GIFTS
Your guide to some of the best festive gifts around for every type of PC lover in your life.

Nvidia's Hot New Card

Both metaphorically and literally

3 mins

INTEL'S 13TH GENERATION

Raptor Lake looking fierce

1 min

Logitech Goes Cloud Gaming

Logitech's handheld is like a customized smartphone for streaming games from the cloud.

1 min

STADIA'S DEAD

Google pulls out of cloud gaming

1 min

Ethereum ends mining, EVGA exits GPU market

THE PC LANDSCAPE IS ABOUT TO see the biggest upheaval in years. AMD Zen 4 CPUs, Intel Raptor Lake, Nvidia Ada Lovelace, and AMD RDNA 3 are all here or coming soon. But perhaps just as big and impactful on the PC enthusiast community is the successful transition of Ethereum from proof of work mining to proof of stake minting—the very next day, EVGA announced that it would be closing down its graphics card division.

2 mins

Nvidia's Lovelace letdown

TRADE CHAT | IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE this way. 2022 had all the makings of a stellar year for PC graphics, so good it would make up for the pandemic- and crypto-fueled bubble. Alas, Nvidia has kicked off the latest round of GPU launches with the RTX 40 Series, otherwise known as Lovelace. And it’s a crushing disappointment. It’s also worrying for AMD’s upcoming GPUs.

3 mins

NVIDIA'S ADA LOVELACE ARCHITECTURE

Potentially the biggest jump in generational GPU performance ever

10+ mins

History of Apple

With Apple now in its fourth decade, Craig Grannell explores some of the key products from its history, the impact they had on gaming, and the sometimes surprising impact that gaming had on Apple itself

10+ mins

Apple Watch Ultra

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2 mins

Manage hardware with Windows 11

KEEPING TABS ON THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS and peripherals that make up your PC's hardware can be a time-consuming task, but Windows 11 has you covered. The operating system has long offered a myriad of tools for managing and tweaking your hardware but has traditionally struggled to make them easily accessible and sensibly organized.

10 mins

GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

A tour de force for Nvidia's Ada Lovelace

3 mins

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Insane multithreaded performance

3 mins

Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition

Player 3 has joined the game

3 mins

Lenovo Legion Y25-30

This gaming panel is a nifty little number

3 mins

HP Spectre x360 16 2-in-1

An outstanding OLED-powered, 16-inch all-rounder

3 mins

BenQ X3000i

Game big or go home?

3 mins

NZXT H7

Sleek and stylish, but is it the best?

3 mins

Crucial P3 Plus 2TB

More capacity. Less cash. But is there a hidden cost?

3 mins

Return to Monkey Island

Deep in the Caribbean, there's a three-headed monkey

5 mins

Gmail vs. Outlook

What's the best platform for managing your email?

5 mins

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