Maximum PC

Maximum PC is the magazine that every computer geek, PC gamer, or content creator should read every month. Get Maximum PC digital magazine subscription today for punishing product reviews, thorough how-to articles, and the illuminating technical news and information that PC power users crave. Maximum PC covers every single topic that requires a lightning-fast PC, from video editing and music creation to PC gaming; we write about it all with unbounded enthusiasm for our collective hobby.

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HONEY, I SHRUNK THE PC!

AMD Announces Radeon RX 9000 • Next-gen GPUs promise significant performance gains

FORTNITE CHEATERS PROSPER • EPIC OFFERS CHEATERS A SECOND CHANCE WITH NEW BAN POLICY

OPENAI PREVIEWS GPT-4.5 • The latest model features more intuitive chat and fewer hallucinations.

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies • A monthly snapshot of what’s good and bad in tech

MICROSOFT ROLLS OUT WINDOWS 11 • The optional update includes PC Game Pass

FRAMEWORK REVEALS ITS MINI PC • Framework enters the desktop market

Twitch monetization tweaks

Google simplifies removing info

Gaming PC sales milestone

Help us, AMD RDNA 4! You’re our only hope • NVIDIA’S BLACKWELL ARCHITECTURE has landed with a bit of a wet splat. It’s not that the GPUs are bad; it’s that you simply can’t find any of them in stock at reasonable prices. There’s also the matter of the new cards offering relatively limited gen-on-gen performance improvements—unless you’re specifically using Multi Frame Generation (MFG) as a smoothing substitute for higher frame rates.

THE LIST • THE BEST MINI PCs

Stuck between a rock and a tariff place • THE CEOS OF NO LESSER CONSUMER TITANS than Best Buy and Target both think that tariffs are going to turn into higher prices for consumers. That’s right—just when you thought graphics card prices couldn’t get any worse, here comes something to mess things up all over again.

DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…

TINY BUT MIGHTY • You still can’t buy that GPU, but this ITX Adonis delivers some astonishing 4K performance

THE UNDERDOG

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

MICRO MACHINE

NVIDIA BLACKWELL RTX DEEP DIVE • The biggest changes all revolve around AI

NVIDIA ARCHITECTURES PAST TO PRESENT

TSMC 4N RIDES AGAIN

MOBILE GPU SHENANIGANS

NEURAL RENDERING

OTHER GPU UPGRADES

MELTING 16-PIN, AGAIN?

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THE RISE AND FALL OF PACKARD BELL • In this new series, we’ll be exploring the companies and tech that made an impact on the computing landscape, but faded away. This month, we’ll be covering Packard Bell—a PC brand that dominated desktop computing, and should be familiar to anyone who experienced desktop multimedia in the ‘90s

ITX {A HISTORY}

CENTERFOLD • PERFORMANCE GEAR LAID BARE

BUILD A STEAM DECK • John Knight tries one of several SteamOS imitations, and is overwhelmed by the future possibilities for Linux PC gaming

Bag a software bargain • Don’t pay full price for software when we can offer you huge reductions on everything from security software to Windows 11 Pro Upgrade

HOW TO • STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

Galaxy S25 Ultra • THIS MONTH WE DISSECT…

How to detect AI content

Build your own streaming server

Beat Games with Edge Game Assist

Pass on your passwords

Samsung announces PCIe 5.0 SSD… finally • It’s here. It’s finally here

Editor’s Pick: Asus Zenbook Duo 2025 • You won’t want to go back to one

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 • Built...