Innehållsförteckning för September 2019 från Maximum PC

SUMMER IS OFTEN a quiet time for PC hardware, but this year things are different. We’ve had a slew of important releases hit our test benches all at once, and it could just be that the PC scene will never be the same again after this summer. Serious words, but reasonable when you’re talking about a new PCIe bus that will usher in the promise of incredible storage performance and improved graphics. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, AMD has released a new processor family as well as its much anticipated Navi GPUs this month, and (spoiler alert!) they’re both impressive. Admittedly, it’s the CPUs that really loosened our collective jaws, but thanks to Nvidia also releasing new GPUs, AMD was forced to drop the prices of its…

AS IT THREATENED, the Federal Trade Commission has hit Facebook with a $5 billion fine for its infringements of privacy (handing out the personal data of 50 million people to a third party). As part of the ruling, Facebook has to review and document the way it handles data. Bad news for Facebook? Not really. It’s a large sum, the largest ever imposed by the FTC on a technology company, but Facebook had been expecting it, and budgeted accordingly. The company had set aside over $3 billion, and has cash reserves of over $40 billion. Investors weren’t worried either; the stock price rose by 1.8 percent immediately after the announcement. If anything, the ruling has shown that Facebook is too powerful to be affected by such actions. However, there are…

NINTENDO HAS A NEW VERSION OF ITS SWITCH CONSOLE, and it’s not what pundits were expecting. The Switch Lite is a smaller, all-in-one handheld version, with built-in controllers. Gone is the Switch’s innovative two-in-one design, and it’s back to basics. Nintendo’s two biggest-selling consoles ever, the DS and Game Boy, were handheld, and only the PS2 has sold more than the DS. The Switch Lite is pitched as an upgrade for the 150 million people who want their Nintendo gaming handheld. The Lite is, of course, lighter and smaller: The 720p screen drops from 6.2-inch to 5.5-inch. It’ll play any Switch game that supports handheld mode. However, you won’t be able to play games that require motion detectors, although it will sync to Joy-Con controllers. There’s no TV output, HD…

OFF-THE-SHELF is good as far as it goes, but there comes a time when you want to put your personal stamp on something, and with Windows, you’ll be surprised by just how much control you can wield over its look and feel.We’ve dug out no fewer than 60 tips to help you customize it to your personal satisfaction. There’s a reminder of some familiar tips, but we’ve dug deeper to reveal buried settings and little-known techniques that can do more than simply change the background picture or apply a color scheme. Indeed, we open this feature by introducing two free tools that, between them, open up a wide array of customizable options that normally require you to be a maestro at Registry editing. You’ll tackle the desktop and its constituent parts:…

In October 2018, Verizon beat other carriers to the punch by rolling out its Verizon Home 5G service in a handful of cities, including Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, and also offers a full retail service for mobile 5G users in a handful of cities. AT&T turned on 5G in 12 cities at the end of 2018, adding more since, but only offers the service to a select number of business customers. Sprint launched its network in May, and like Verizon has gone for a more limited initial offering in terms of locations, but with full availability to consumers. As we go to press, here are some of the currently available locations and services. AT&T What’s on offer: Mobile 5G to a small number of business customers Where: Los…

YOU’LL NEED THIS SERVER HARDWARE Use whatever spare silicon works for you. LUBUNTU Grab it from http://lubuntu.net. DOCKER COMMUNITY EDITION You can find out more at www.docker.com. EVERY GOOD HOME NEEDS A SERVER. It doesn’t really matter what you intend to use it for. Whether you’re throwing media around, performing backups, running game servers, or doing any other nebulous serving work, a dedicated machine is the best way to go about it—it leaves your main box free to work its hardest, and means those services are available whenever you need them. But the worst thing about a server is when it isn’t there any more. If one of your software components forces a reboot, crashes the machine completely, or if it decides it likes system resources so much that it…

YOU’LL NEED THIS WUNDERLIST Download the app from the Microsoft Store, or use the web-based version at www.wunderlist.com. WHEN IT COMES TO MANAGING YOUR LIFE, Wunderlist offers a number of benefits over writing down everything you need to do on the back of an envelope. In the first place, when you sign up, you’ll see that you can access Wunderlist via the dedicated desktop app or the website, so your to-do items are safely synched to the cloud. You can also have Wunderlist prompt you via push notification and/or email about important things you need to do. If you’re planning a major project, Wunderlist also supports dividing activities into subtasks and annotating them with your own notes. You can create as many lists as you want and even share them…

NINE MONTHS AFTER the RTX 2070 went on sale, yields have likely improved and Nvidia now has a reason to improve performance. The result is the RTX 2070 Super, moving up to the TU104 GPU with additional cores and performance. Silly branding aside (seriously, “Super” was the best name Nvidia could come up with?), there’s not much new to report. The GeForce RTX 2070 Super uses the same Turing architecture as the existing RTX cards, and the summary is that additional CUDA cores and higher clock speeds make it faster than the outgoing RTX 2070. Unlike the vanilla RTX 2060, which will remain on sale even though there’s an RTX 2060 Super, vanilla 2070 and 2080 cards are being phased out. The 2060 Super has the advantage of being able…

THE HEADSET MARKET has changed a lot in the past few years, spurred on by streamers and YouTubers, and by the increasing popularity of esports. You know this, of course. But does Roccat? We ask because this new Noz headset feels like a great budget offering from, well, a few years back now. Yes, it’s unfussy and affordably priced, and it certainly has its plus points. But we can’t help but think back to the days of Vine, ice bucket challenge videos, and Miley Cyrus’s foam finger when we use the Noz. It would have earned an appreciative budget recommendation not so long ago, but times have changed. Let’s start with the spec sheet. There’s certainly nothing wrong with the 50mm neodymium magnet drivers on paper, as they offer a…

PUZZLE GAME BRING HER. That’s all you’re told. But where? And why? The strange force interfering with the self-aware AI of the space station Observation, whisking it across the solar system and making all but one of its crew disappear, couldn’t possibly have nefarious intent, could it? Despite there being one human still alive on the Observation, it’s the AI you play as, seeing and interacting with the world through security cameras in a rare example of a second-person game. It’s a subtle backdrop for a sci-fi thriller, almost silent apart from the hum of life support, and the click and whir of the cameras. Fisher, the surviving crew member, fights fires and carries out repairs with SAM the AI’s help, getting you to open hatches and vent fumes. You…

THIS IS MORE THAN just a soundbar. The Sonos Beam is a wireless, voice-controlled speaker, capable of pumping out brilliant sound quality that fills a room or even a house. It’s packing four drivers, five amps, and a tweeter, laid out along the front of the bar to maximize range. There are five microphones, which can pick up voice commands from across a room, even while your music is blaring. One of the biggest draws of the Beam is its ability to play music from virtually any source. Whether it’s your phone or tablet, a network-connected drive, or your streaming service of choice (Spotify and Apple Music are obviously supported, but the Beam can also link to Tidal, Amazon Prime Music, Deezer, and more), this bar has got you covered.…

The RX 5700 XT might have been the star AMD card this issue, but its little brother shouldn’t be disregarded. We’ll touch more on the RX 5700 next month, with a full review, but for now, just be assured that it’s a quality GPU that modestly outperforms the GeForce RTX 2060 for exactly the same price. That’s all that needs to be said; gains only range from 5–15 percent with various games and graphical settings, but that’s an improvement that costs not one dollar more. Sapphire is a trusted manufacturer of Radeon GPUs—XFX and Asus are good options, too. $350, www.sapphiretech.com…

FOLLOWING the launch of AMD’s Zen 2 desktop chips, the next step is Zen 2 server chips, EPYC. Get this right, and there are fortunes to be made, and AMD looks to have got it right. Its new EPYC 7002 series, code name Rome, is due very soon, and numerous details have leaked out. The initial range apparently runs to 19 variants, from eight-core entry chips at under $500, through to 64-core monsters, which pack eight of AMD’s eight-core Zen 2 chiplets into one processor. They all carry a decent amount of L3 cache, from 32GB up to a laudable 256GB. TDPs run from a quite cool 120W to a warm but not overly hot 225W. We thought it was going to be fast, now we know. An unverified submission…

MACBOOK KEYBOARDS have a tendency to break. The problem first appeared on 2015’s MacBook, but it took Apple until June 2018 to admit there was a problem and start paying for repairs. The butterfly switch mechanism used means even a relatively small piece of dirt or debris that works its way under a key can cause it to stop working. It seems Apple is finally going to change the mechanism to the scissor design it used before 2015. Apple hasn’t officially announced this yet, but it has applied for patents for a new scissor switched keyboard. Why no official announcement? Because the new design isn’t ready yet, and Apple has just refreshed its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, which have the butterfly keyboards. Thankfully, they’re eligible for free repairs…

That “nearly” is important. Small impurities in the wafers can lead to errors or non-functional parts. It’s not just impurities, though; the crystalline structure of the wafer also varies slightly. Chips from the center of a wafer tend to be “better” than those near the edge, so they may require less voltage to hit the same clock speed, or may run at higher clock speeds at the same voltage. Because of the complexity of modern CPUs and GPUs, rather than having one failed circuit ruin the whole chip, redundancies are built into the design, and it’s possible to disable portions of a chip. Take AMD’s new Ryzen CPUs, where everything from the Ryzen 5 3600 up through the Ryzen 9 3950X is built using the same eight-core CCD (core chipset…

> Linux on the Go > AMD Upgrades > Cryptic BSODs Mobile Linux Dear Doctor, I am trying to install Ubuntu on my HP Stream Notebook. The problem I’m having is that I can’t get the notebook to boot from my USB drive. Please help! –Matthew Parr THE DOCTOR RESPONDS: It sounds like you’ve already downloaded Ubuntu and created a bootable thumb drive. But the notebook’s eMMC storage device is the first device it looks to at startup, so Windows loads before the UEFI even sees your USB key. The fix should be as simple as rearranging the firmware’s boot order. With the USB drive plugged in, repeatedly tap F10 as the Stream powers on. If you’re successful, the HP Setup Utility should appear. If not, it’ll continue loading Windows…

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TIP OF THE MONTH WRITE BETTER WITH GRAMMARLY If you use your PC for word processing, you might be familiar with Grammarly, a program for simplifying and improving your writing. Well, there’s a Chrome extension, too—install it, and it actively works to turn whatever typing you do online into concise, typo-free writing worthy of Hemingway himself. It works for messages, comments, documents, and even social media posts, and the standard version is completely free. CHRISTIAN GUYTON STAFF WRITER SUPED UP I’ve been toying with the idea of a GPU upgrade, but decided to hold off until the new AMD and Nvidia cards landed. I’m I glad I did; I imagine there’s more than a few angry PC gamers trying to get their RTX 2070 cards refunded now Nvidia has officially…

What’s running on your Docker box? Given how easy it is to fire up a new container, the answer quickly becomes “quite a lot.” Managing those individual software appliances is key to having an efficient time with everything. If you’re using the command line, typing sudo docker ps lists all the processes that Docker is currently managing; once you’ve got that information, you can use sudo docker kill followed by the process ID to shut things down as required. Basics of management covered, then, but there’s much more to it than that. Creating a “docker-compose” file for all of your apps is a great way to make sure they’re all configured properly (see http://docs.docker.com/compose for more on that) and to run a large collection of them with a single command.…

YOU’LL NEED THIS OPEN LIVE WRITER Download it from the Microsoft Store or directly from http://openlivewriter.org. THE WORLD HAS YET to reach “peak blog.” Until it does, the Internet will continue to be swamped with bloggers sharing their obsessions, from exotic vacations to rare bottle caps. There are hundreds of platforms to choose from, many of which offer free tiers. Open Live Writer is a lightweight, open-source fork of the popular Windows Live Writer. It’s designed to bring order to the madness of juggling various blogs. On first launch, you’re asked to connect your blogging account—a number of popular platforms, such as WordPress, Blogger, and DashBlog, are supported. Once logged in, you can use the word processor-style interface to create and edit blog posts. The application supports basic features, such…

Google Chrome users can install the Wunderlist extension. This enables you to quickly bookmark items and save links to your Wunderlist account from sites such as Amazon, Gmail, and Outlook.com. To add the extension, go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore and click “Add to Chrome.” Once installed, the Wunderlist icon appears to the right of your address bar. Click this, then log in to your Wunderlist account. Once this is done, click the Wunderlist extension icon again to automatically create a new to-do item from the current URL. Use the drop-down menu to choose which list you want to add the item to. Alternatively, choose “Create New List” to begin a new list—“Christmas Shopping,” for example. The URL itself is stored in the “Notes” section for each task. Click the link to launch…

YOU’LL NEED THIS GOOGLE ACCOUNT If you don’t have one, sign up at https://drive.google.com. TALK OF “THE CLOUD” CAN BE CONFUSING if you’re unfamiliar with the term, but it’s really just a way of referring to storing files online. You may want to store a second copy of important files online to serve as a backup, for instance, or you may want to access your files from any computer connected to the Internet. Storing files in the cloud also makes them easier to share. There are numerous cloud storage services to choose from, but perhaps the most well known is Google Drive. You can use it in a couple of ways, the first being to employ your web browser to explore, create, and edit files online. Perhaps more useful is…

THE BUILD-UP to AMD’s launch party for its Ryzen 3000 CPUs, aka third-gen Ryzen, aka Zen 2, has been huge. The Ryzen 3000 processors are the first mainstream CPUs to utilize a 7nm manufacturing process, and after flirting with the crown for the first two Ryzen generations, this could be the day AMD claims an outright victory. Will the Ryzen 9 3900X be the best CPU for gaming—and everything else? It’s time to find out. Zen 2 adds an improved L2 TAGE branch predictor, has a larger micro-op cache, doubles the maximum size of the L3 cache, and doubles the AVX floating point performance. There’s also a third address generation unit, larger buffers, multiplication latency is reduced to three cycles, and there are wider buses to improve bandwidth. PCIe Gen…

THIS ISN’T SOMETHING that we’d normally review. It’s not a component, nor a game, nor is it a full-fledged multi-thousand-dollar gaming rig. But it’s undeniable that the Raspberry Pi has only been improving in recent years, getting ever closer to becoming a proper desktop computer in its own right. The Pi 4 Model B is the newest iteration in the Raspberry Pi saga, taking the product from a basic programming education tool to a genuinely brilliant little PC. All the software remains backward compatible, as does the shape of the little board itself; the Pi 4 can be easily dropped into any existing projects you might have if you’re a Pi fanatic. The hardware also represents a significant step up. The processor is a 1.5GHz quadcore Cortex-A72 from Broadcom, an…

RAZER HAS NOT NECESSARILY been quick in updating its heavy-hitting Blade Pro line—we last saw it a good two years ago—but the jump to RTX cards is far from a straight component swap. Outwardly, things have been significantly redesigned, with the soft-edged heft of the previous model replaced by a far more slimline body, both thinner and less wide than before, which brings the Blade Pro 17 into design line with the rest of the company’s laptop pack. Not that the guts have been ignored; things have been seriously cooked up, in terms of both the RTX 2080 and hex-core i7-9750H in our review model, and strengthening its position as a laptop for people who love games, speed, and spending wads of cash in equal measure. This is a refresh,…

THE PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION of chips is becoming increasingly important. You can only shrink a chip so far before the basic laws of physics interfere. AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series has introduced the chiplet design to the mainstream. Intel has been working on similar tech for years, has bought companies working in this field, and invested billions. At the SemiCon West trade show, it showed off the results: three new technologies for packaging chips. Intel already uses EMIB (Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge) and Foveros (chip-stacking technology). EMIB is a way to put a number of chips together on one package, using a interposer layer embedded into the substrate, while Foveros is a method of stacking chips on top of each other. EMIB is used on Kaby Lake G chips, and Foveros is…

If you’re under a certain age, you might not remember purchasing a 32-bit system or CPU for a build. The last 32-bit system I bought was my Asus EeePC—which has an Intel Atom N270—back in 2009. For most PCs still running today, there’s a darn good chance that it’s a 64-bit system. Hell, even a Raspberry Pi or your smartphone is 64-bit. That’s a good thing: Most desktop systems today come with at least 8GB of RAM. Most laptops you can buy rarely have less than 8GB as well. Because of the limited address range available to 32-bit CPUs, most OSes don’t have more than 4GB of addressable memory on a 32-bit system. The advance of 64-bit systems has been partly responsible for systems with large filesystems, large amounts of…

RAM IS A CORE COMPONENT of any computer. With DDR4 now well and truly entrenched in the memory market and DDR5 on the horizon, manufacturers are looking out in different directions: massive 64GB and 128GB sets running across eight channels, and faster speeds than ever seen before. Frequencies only continue to rise, with companies such as HyperX and Corsair pushing commercially available sticks at well over 4,000MHz. But it ain’t cheap. RAM price-per-GB skyrocketed between 2016 and 2018, although recent trends have shown that DDR4 kits have slowly lowered in price from the latter half of 2018. RAM offering 3,000MHz and above remains expensive, with a seemingly endless list of brands and product lines to choose from. It’s daunting. The vast majority of modern memory comes packaged with integrated heatsinks, with…

A ZILLION INTERNET of Things devices all connected at once. Lagless cloud-based gaming. Cable-free connections for home Internet. Doctors operating remotely on patients. Smart farms. An end to traffic jams. And, yes, 10Gb/s in your pocket. All of that and way, way more is the promise of 5G. If it delivers—and it’s a big “if”—5G is going to change our lives. Simply put, 5G is just the inevitable progression of cellular wireless communication networks. It’s the fifth such generation, hence the name. As for 5G’s sales pitch, it goes like this: 5G will be vastly faster than previous networks; it will achieve dramatically lower latencies; and it will support a far larger number of devices connected in parallel. The precise impact of all that will be complex. Early demos of…

5G handsets are grabbing the early YouTube and social media bandwidth, but 5G is actually far from just a mobile technology. Indeed, when Verizon launched its first 5G services last year, it actually implemented its home 5G product first, following with a mobile service later. The immediate benefits of home 5G are obvious enough. It enables fast broadband to be delivered without the need to connect to a wired infrastructure. In other words, no more digging up streets to lay cables and fiber. Verizon charges either $70 dollars a month for a standalone service or $50 to its mobile customers who have an existing plan of at least $30 per month. The first three months are currently free, and there are no other up-front fees. For that you get claimed…

MacBook Pro 15-inch Touch Bar 2019 About iFixit iFixit is a global community of tinkerers dedicated to helping people fix things through free online repair manuals and teardowns. iFixit believes that everyone has the right to maintain and repair their own products. To learn more, visit www.ifixit.com. BACKGROUND Apple’s newest MacBook Pro is its fastest yet, featuring an optional eight-core processor—a first in a MacBook—and a mysterious new keyboard material. As it’s unlikely that Apple’s going to expound on this “material,” and we’re never satisfied with an unsolved mystery, it’s time to take a closer look at the infamous butterfly keyboard. MAJOR TECH SPECS 15.4-inch LED-backlit IPS Retina display with True Tone, 2880x1800 resolution (220 dpi), P3 wide color gamut 2.6GHz six-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz)…

YOU’LL NEED THIS A RASPBERRY PI Version 2 or better. RASPBIAN BUSTER The latest spin on the Pi OS. COWRIE A great honeypot (see https://github.com/cowrie). WHETHER THEY’RE OPPORTUNISTIC “SCRIPT KIDDIES,” actual paid hackers on some Chinese payroll, or zombie computers compromised by malware, there’s a huge number of forces trying to sniff around your network. A quick browse of your router’s firewall logs (or those of Windows’ own second-line-of-defense firewall) will likely make for worrying reading: Your ports are probably being scanned, probed, and poked to within an inch of their lives. There’s little you can do, save for sleuthing out the snoopers and stopping them in real life (something we don’t endorse). Instead, how about taking the path of least resistance, and just letting them in? Crazy talk, right?…

The overall look and feel of Open Live Writer is very similar to that of popular word processors, such as Microsoft Word. If you need to edit an existing post for any reason, simply go to “File > Open Recent Post,” then choose your previous entry. Open Live Writer only supports editing posts that were originally created in the app itself. Highlight any text, then you can choose a new font from the drop-down menu in the taskbar. The fonts available should match those on your blog platform. For more advanced editing, click the “Insert” tab. From here, you can add tables, insert maps, and even embed videos. You can hugely boost your posts’ SEO ranking by using tags. To start doing this, first select a tag provider, such as…

YOU’LL NEED THIS ADOBE PHOTOSHOP Subscribe to a suitable package at www.adobe.com. THE FINAL FRONTIER IS NOT, as we’d previously supposed, a custom loop of hard-piped water cooling, but space itself. Until we can use miniature stable wormholes to employ the chilly temperatures of a hard vacuum to cool our CPUs (give it time, it’ll happen), we have to resort to our imagination to conjure planetscapes around distant stars. Photoshop is well placed for this kind of digital background painting, as it contains all the tools you need to create a reasonably lifelike solar system view. If you want to import your own textures, you can, but we’ve chosen to use the app’s own features, and fix their shortcomings. Good textures for a planet’s surface can be anything from a…

1. BACKUP AND SYNC SETTINGS Configure which folders should be synchronized, or opt to back up your entire computer. 2. LOCAL GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER The contents of the folders you specify are synchronized between your PC and the cloud. 3. WEB SHORTCUTS Shortcuts to the web-based version of Google Drive, as well as Google Photos and your local Drive folder. 4. AVAILABLE SPACE There is a storage limit to which you need to stick. Here, you can see how much space you have used up. 5. SYNC UPDATES Keep an eye on synchronization activity. How long files take to sync depends on size and connection speed. 6. BACKUP AND SYNC To synchronize files between your PC and Google Drive, you need to have this app running in the background.…

FOR PROOF THAT the gaming monitor market is in total overdrive, look no further than the new Acer Predator XB3. It looks like a high-end precision panel for content product pros, with its sober suit and three-sided glare-reduction hood. But no, this is a full-on gaming panel, and just one of three such monitors Acer now sells in the 4K 27-inch segment. The XB3 represents the tweener in the trio, above the Nitro XV3 and below the Predator X27. All three offer ostensibly the same proposition: a 27-inch 4K IPS panel with 144Hz refresh and adaptive sync. But drill down into the details, and you’ll discover why the XV3 is yours for $899, the X27 goes for around $1,650, and this XB3 model lands at $1,299. Compared to the megabucks…

CAST YOUR MIND BACK one whole issue, and you’ll remember our review of Logitech’s G502 Lightspeed, a tremendous wireless reimagining of a mouse design, which has attracted enough reverence to stay a top-line choice for many years. Corsair’s Nightsword isn’t a G502, but boy, would it like to be. It’s laid out in almost precisely the same way in terms of buttons and thumb shelf, it also features customizable weighting, and Corsair’s engineers are no doubt looking very pleased with themselves for besting the G502’s ludicrous 16,000 dpi sensor with an even sillier 18,000 dpi eye, last spotted in Corsair’s Ironclaw wireless mouse. As much as we’d like to shove this aside as some kind of wannabe clone of the king, though, it’s also very much its own beast. It…

STRATEGY GAME AFTER THE STRIPPED-BACK nature of Thrones of Britannia comes the full-fat, heavyweight, no-holds-barred game. Three Kingdoms is as expansive as the name suggests, taking inspiration from a 14th-century historical novel chronicling the events at the end of the Han dynasty and the steps toward Chinese unification. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel contains nearly 1,000 characters and 800,000 words, and it feels like the game does, too. On the surface is the classic Total War structure: a turn-based strategy game in which armies and generals prowl the map, capturing cities and building them up, before rooting out enemies and rebellions, and a real-time tactical battle game when armies clash. You’re offered a choice: Do you play in Records mode, in which generals and other characters are quite…

Integrated power measurement sets this one apart. So, you did your research and figured out which is the best graphics card for your setup, bought it, and installed it in your PC. Now what? Playing games is the natural thing to do at this point, and a new frame rate capture tool from Nvidia will help you analyze performance to make sure your shiny new card is working as it should be. It's called FrameView, and it’s essentially a modified version of PresentMon, with some extra features added by Nvidia. For example, you can track power usage with FrameView, but you can’t in utilities like FRAPS and AMD’s OCAT (Open Capture and Analytics), so it’s a nifty perk. Read the full article: https://bit.ly/2XGQJUe…