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DREAM MACHINE 2004 303030 MAMAMAMAMAMAMA XIMXIMXIMXIMXIMXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMPPPPPPPCCCCC SEPTEMBERSEPTEMBER 2004SEPTEMB ...

SEPTEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 31 The Parts new Intel 925X chipset, three PCI Express slots, dual-channel DDR2 support up to DDR2/600 ...

34 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 PSU: PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 Deluxe Express We lecture so often on the virtues of using ...

DREAM MACHINE 2004 3 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 tured into the 10,000rpm SATA market. We also considered a four-drive array, but ...

see your private pictures in the event of your death? You got it. Pack 1GB onto a 700MB CD? Roger that. Need to throttle down yo ...

DREAM MACHINE 2004 40 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 Dream Machine 2010: 16GB of RAM and a 4TB Drive? display, a resistive touch scre ...

42 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 The Making of the dream machine Building the Dream Machine is always an ulcer-inducing process. But ...

SEPTEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 43 With PCI Express and DDR2, Dream Machine 2004 heralds a new world order in computing. But, sadly, i ...

SEPTEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 4 We road test seven new MP3 players to find out! We road test seven new We road test seven new We ro ...

46 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 MP3, AAC, OGG—what’s it all mean? Codecs (a contraction for coder/decoder) do for audio and video w ...

SEPTEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 47 designed with fi le size reduction and network streaming in mind; as such, it shines only at very l ...

Rio Karma FORMATS: MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC BATTERY LIFE: 13 hours continuous CAPACITY: 20GB The effortless hardware interface that m ...

WeWa Stanchion WMP-6606FM FORMATS: MP3, WMA, WAV BATTERY LIFE: 14 hours continuous CAPACITY: 256MB Here comes another irrepressi ...

 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 We rounded up as many PC cases as our Lab could hold with one goal in mind: helping you choose the ...

SEPTEMBER 2004AUGUST 2004 MA XIMMA XIMUUMMPPCC 4353 L ike leg warmers, Cabbage Patch Dolls, and poignant soft saxophone solos, t ...

4 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 AUGUST 2004 MA XIMUMPC MAXIMUM PC REVIEWER’S GUIDE: PC ENCLOSURES Here’s what our Lab experts look ...

Chenbro Xpider II With its web-patterned front bezel and strangely angular side win- dow, a casual observer might think the Xpid ...

ClearPC Secret Agent Briefcase The Secret Agent Briefcase takes the concept of a clear case one step fur- ther by fashioning an ...

Thermaltake Xaser V Damier V6000A First reviewed in the July 2004 issue. Pronounced zaser , this all-aluminum mid-tower features ...

5844 MA XIMMA XIMUUMMPPCC AUGUST 2004SEPTEMBER 2004 Xoxide UFO This unusual case is part Borg, part Battlebot, and part Hellrais ...