Maximum PC - USA (2022-03)

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MARCH 2022

28 MOORE’S LAW Will our PCs keep on getting faster, year after year? Jeremy Laird lays down the law

38 DATA RECOVERY That feeling when you delete valuable files... Nick Peers offers some advice to help recover them

50 HOME THEATER All the tips and tricks you need to know to set up your own PC-based big screen at home

QUICKSTART

90 HALO INFINITE

80 ASUS PROART STUDIOBOOK PRO 16 OLED (W7600)

89 HYPERX CLOUD REVOLVER 7.

74 ASUS RTX 3070 NOCTUA

Lenovo Thinkbook Plus Gen 3: A productivity laptop with a twist—an 8-inch LCD display next to the keyboard.

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THE NEWS AMD aims for laptops; Activision in $69bn deal; Radeon’s RDNA2 card

TECH TALK Why we need a console-style integrated GPU for the PC

THE LIST Six of the best hardware releases that caught our eye at CES 2022

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HOW TO What’s new in Photoshop Elements 2022; Commodore VIC-20; combat malware

AUTOPSY The Nothing ear (1) earbuds go under the knife in our teardown

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