PC Powerplay

PC PowerPlay is Australia's original and best-selling PC games magazine, with 100% Australian content. Its distinctive, informed and amusing style is widely respected. Offering a mix of games and hardware coverage, the magazine gives a complete picture for the PC entertainment enthusiast. Breaking news of new games, detailing reviews of upcoming games, and helping readers make sense of the array of hardware and tech products that hit the market each month. PC Powerplay doesn’t just promote tech, it benchmarks and analyses it to help gamers make the most intelligent purchasing decision.

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The future of graphics • INTEL DREAMS BIG AT COMPUTEX 2019.

RED’S NOT DEAD • AMD comes out swinging with new graphics and new processors, and a rosy future.

AMD UNVEILS ITS RYZEN 3 CPU RANGE • UP TO 16 CORES AT 105W WITH BACKWARDS AM4 COMPATIBILITY.

AMD REVEALS RX 5700 NAVI SERIES • AN ATTACK ON THE ALL IMPORTANT MAINSTREAM GAMING MARKET.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Understanding CPUs • WHAT’S ON A PROCESSOR DIE, AND WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW.

HOT TOPIC

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE

ALL ABOARD

What makes a gaming motherboard? • Chris Lloyd reveals what really matters when it comes to enthusiast class hardware.

Shadow Ghost

Cloud Gaming: dream or nightmare • As Google announces the Stadia, Christian Guyton investigates the past and future of cloud gaming.

CONSOLATION PRIZE

GAME ON

CLOUD AND PROUD

STREAM IT YOURSELF

The BIGGEST picture • EXCITING NEW MONITORS FOR EVERY GAMING SET-UP

Netgear Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR700

Get ready for 8k • It was wall-to-wall 8K TVs at CES this year. 8K is almost certainly headed for the PC, but should we welcome it, wonders Jeremy Laird.

IS MICROLED THE ANSWER?

8K TODAY, NOT TOMORROW WHAT’S DELL’S 8K MONITOR ACTUALLY LIKE?

2019 DREAM MACHINE • Return of the king.

The $26,468 machine • It’s hard work deciding what to do with a system like this.

2019 Dream Machine Step-by-step build it guide • Diving Into the complexities of this titanic Beast.

Conclusion Little Dream & Big Dream • What a rough old fight it’s been to get this thing up and running.

Thermaltake Changes The Game • INTRODUCING THE BATTLESTATION GAMING DESK AND TOUGHRAM.

SO RETRO • We asked John Knight to relive the entirety of computing history through open source. He almost died trying…

Emulation basics • What’s inside the box? Another box…

MAME AND GAME

Computing pre-history • Defining the earliest “computer” is tricky, but they’ve certainly been around for longer than you might think.

WHERE’S ALAN TURING?

The mainframe in the room • Awarding the title for “first videogame” is also tricky, and generally depends on who you believe — but here’s a rough guide…

RUNNING SPACEWAR!

Battle of the 8-bits • In the 1980s, two home computers ruled the roost.

SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM

COMMODORE 64

EMULATION

COMMODORE 64 MUSIC

The 16-bit era: bring the multimedia • A golden era of choice, rapid development, and modern capabilities.

ATARI ST

COMMODORE AMIGA (500)

EMULATION

DOSBOX

How the PlayStation changed emulators • Modern console emulation had a drawn-out and painful birth, but it was all worth the effort.

SEGA SATURN (1994)

SCUMMVM & LEGAL ROMS

LEGAL ROMS

2019 COMPUTEX • THE ANNUAL TECH EXTRAVAGANZA THAT IS COMPUTEX HAS COME AND GONE FOR ANOTHER YEAR. CHRIS SZEWCZYK GALLIVANTED ACROSS TAIPEI IN SEARCH OF THE BEST PC TECH OF 2019.

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