PC Format Issue 280

This issue is dated July 2013 and priced at £5.99.

Features
Music, music everywhere - Neil Mohr - 6 pages (68-73)
 * Lose yourself in a world of multi-room, multi-streamed music with Neil Mohr.

The Bitcoin Gold Rush - Neil Mohr - 6 pages (70-75)
 * Is there gold in them there hills, or is it all virtual? Neil Mohr goes mining for bitcoins.

Hot Wired

Mine for Bitcoins - Alan Dexter - 3 pages (76-78)
 * Alan Dexter shows you how to turn your gaming rig into the perfect mining platform.

Fight disease with your PC - 2 pages (80-81)
 * Use your PC to help scientists cure the world's worst diseases with Folding@home

Follow your favourite sites - Alex Cox - 4 pages (82-85)
 * Alex Cox explains why you don't need to to trawl the web for news - RSS does it all for you.

Master Reddit - Nick Odzantis - 4 pages (86-89)
 * Nick Odzantis takes you on a journey into the hyperactive mega-forum.

Ask Luis - Luis Villazon - 5 pages (108-112)

Supertest
Next-Gen PC Gaming - 4 pages (6-9)
 * PCs are defined by their tech, so how does the PC stay ahead of the game?

Intel still dissing desktops - 1 page (10)
 * With punters buying laptops and tablets in droves, will Intel bother to make faster desktop CPUs?

Game on for AMD - 1 page (11)
 * After a very shaky 2012, the future looks surprisingly bright for AMD CPUs.

Trickle-down Titan - 1 page (12)
 * New graphics tech from Nvidia isn't imminent, but its best chips are about to get much cheaper.

Rehashed Radeons - 1 page (13)
 * AMD has got its graphics in the new games consoles, but what about faster chips for PCs?

Stacking up - 1 page (14)
 * DDR4 is coming, but it's stacked memory that could really drop the bandwidth bomb.

Tiny is the new trendy - 1 page (15)
 * Small motherboards are the next big thing. Oh, and don't worry about that soldered CPU scare.

Beating the bottleneck - 1 page (16)
 * SSD performance has hit the wall thanks to the limitations of SATA, but there is a solution.

The price of pixels - 1 page (17)
 * Big panels are no longer pricey. Is pixel density to rival smartphones the next trend in cheapness?

Piecing it all together - 1 page (18)
 * There's a wind of change blowing through the peripheral landscape.

Future Sight - 2 pages (20-21)
 * What about the long term? This is how the PC will change...

Better, faster, stronger - 1 page (22)
 * The PC will become the main target of games development.

Hardware
All scores rated out of 5. Wireless Speaker Round-Up - 2 pages (52-53) New Gear... Matt Hanson - 1.5 pages (54-55) Tech Briefing: Next-gen Nvidia - Dave James - 2 pages (56-57)


 * It's graphics galore as Dave James gets his techie paws all over the latest generation of graphics cards from the minds at Nvidia.

Tech Porn - AMD Radeon HD 7990 - Dave James - 2 pages (58-59)

Tech Briefing: Rig Builder - Dave James - 2 pages (66-67)

Games
"Company of Heroes 2 is like CoD, but from the perspective of a despairing lieutenant." - Dan Griliopoulos - 1 page (90)

Other Credits
Deputy Editor
 * Dave James

Reviews Editor
 * Matt Hanson

New Media Editor
 * Jeremy Ford

Technology Writers
 * Jeremy Laird, Luis Villazon

Art Editor
 * Fraser McDermott

Managing Editor
 * Cat Hackforth

Operations Editor
 * Chris Thornett

Production Assistant
 * Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

Contributors
 * Matthew Bolton, Richard Cobbett, Alex Cox, Simon Crisp, Nathan Ditum, Phil Iwaniuk, Rich McCormick, Neil Mohr, Tyler Wilde, Henry Winchester, Andy Kelly, Nick Odzantis, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Griliopoulos

, Craig Owens, Evan Lahti, Marsh Davies