Maximum PC - USA (2022-06)

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JUNE 2022

26 STATE OF THE GPU-NION How do older GPUs measure up today? We test some of the best.

38 GAME OVER Why do some games get abandoned by their developers? Christian Guyton investigates.

48 SCREEN TECH With OLED monitors now here, Jeremy Laird looks at the next screen tech on the horizon.

QUICKSTART

74 ASUS RTX 3090 Ti TUF GAMING

76 VELOCITY MICRO RAPTOR Z

88 RAZER HUNTSMAN MINI ANALOG

87 NZXT CAPSULE

A decent PC speaker system will boost your gaming, music, and streaming.

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THE NEWS Intel’s chip breaks records; Win security; AMD 6000-series goes Pro.

TECH TALK How AMD’s 3D V-Cache is giving gaming performance a huge boost.

THE LIST Great sound for gaming? Here are our top five PC speaker systems.

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LETTERS

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COMMENTS

HOW TO Get the most from Win11 Registry Editor; emulate the NEC PC- from 1980s Japan; go 3D in GIMP.

BUILD IT What if we only used components from one manufacturer in our build? Let’s see, shall we...

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