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TEMPTED BY AMD’S RYZEN 7000 CHIPS? • Wait a little longer, advises Richard Swinburne, as the upgrade path has many new considerations

IS META ON ITS LAST LEGS? • Tracy King takes a highly sceptical look at recent claims about the future of the metaverse, including the use of VR in clinical settings

Incoming

INTEL ARC GPUs FINALLY LAUNCH

CORSAIR SYNCS UP WITH NANOLEAF

THERMALTAKE ATX 3 PSUs FOR SALE

NVIDIA ‘UNLAUNCHES’ 12GB GEFORCE RTX 4080

INTEL CORE i9-13900K / £700 inc VAT

INTEL CORE i5-13600K / £380 inc VAT

AMD RYZEN 5 7600X / £326 inc VAT

INTEL AND AMD CPU RESULTS

INTEL AND AMD CPU RESULTS

WHICH RAM TO USE WITH RAPTOR LAKE

OVERCLOCKING RAPTOR LAKE

SUBSCRIBE TO custom PC • ALL PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW COME WITH A FREE DIGITAL SUB

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4090 /~£2,400 inc VAT

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4090 RESULTS

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO / £669 inc VAT

ASUS ROG STRIX Z790-A GAMING WIFI D4/£400 inc VAT

ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI/£327 inc VAT

ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-I GAMING WIFI/£470 inc VAT

CHILLBLAST DEFIANT/£1,879 inc VAT

GARMEE CUP WARMER / £25.99 inc VAT • Phil Hartup checks out the latest gadgets, gizmos and geek toys

KKM MAGNETIC WIRELESS CHARGER / £16.99 inc VAT

WINEDON GAMEPAD/£23.99 inc VAT

How we test

custom PC AWARDS

Penny pinching pointers • Edward Chester puts ten sub-£40 gaming mice through their paces, proving that you don’t have to spend big to get decent gaming performance

AOC GAMING GM530/£25 inc VAT

COOLER MASTER MM711/£30 inc VAT

CORSAIR SABRE PRO CHAMPION SERIES/£40 inc VAT

ENDGAME GEAR XM1R/£40 inc VAT

GLORIOUS MODEL O/£40 inc VAT

LOGITECH G203 PRODIGY/£30 inc VAT

NZXT LIFT /£40 inc VAT

RAZER DEATHADDER ESSENTIAL/£25 inc VAT

STEELSERIES RIVAL 3/£25 inc VAT

TRUST GXT 981 REDEX/£28 inc VAT

Elite • Our choice of the best hardware available

LEAK DETECTING • The growing number of video game leaks are a consequence of an industry being stretched to breaking point, argues Rick Lane

ARCADE PARADISE/£15.99 inc VAT

Immortality / £15.49 inc VAT • DEVELOPER Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid/PUBLISHER Half Mermaid

CULT OF THE LAMB / £19.49 inc VAT • DEVELOPER Massive Monster/PUBLISHER Devolver Digital

SAINTS ROW / £49.99 inc VAT • DEVELOPER Volition/PUBLISHER Deep Silver

VELOCIRAPTOR • INTEL’S 13TH-GEN CORE PROCESSORS HAVE ARRIVED, BRINGING IMPROVED CLOCK SPEEDS, MORE E-CORES AND SEVERAL UNDER-THE-BONNET CHANGES. EDWARD CHESTER EXPLAINS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW CHIPS

ATX 3 POWER SUPPLIES? • ATX 3 PSUS ARE ALREADY APPEARING IN STORES, AND THEY BRING A NEW 16-PIN POWER CONNECTOR WITH THEM, BUT DO YOU NEED ONE AND WHAT ARE THEIR BENEFITS? RICHARD SWINBURNE DELVES INTO THE SPEC

Jolly Module • The latest tips, tricks and news in the world of computer hobbyism, from Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Android to retro computing

Framework launches Chromebook variant

Shareware Heroes

DevTerm gets a CM4 upgrade

Start saving for your next motherboard • Case mods, tools, techniques, water-cooling gear and everything to do with PC modding

A trip to Intel’s Israel fab

How to Boost your GPU’s cooling • Antony Leather shows you how to change your graphics...