MaximumPC 2004 09

SEPTEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 59 BUDGET Chenbro Xpider II Chenbro is quickly becoming the king of budget cases by milling enclosures ...

PUSHING ALL THE RIGHT BUTTONS I have a Windows XP Pro-based machine with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ processor, a GeForce 3 Ti 200 vi ...

PARDON MY PARTITION I’m installing Windows on a new computer, but I can’t format a partition bigger than 137GB. What’s up with t ...

How To...^ A step-by-step guide to tweaking your PC Experience TIME TO COMPLETION 3:00 HOURS MINUTES MA XIMUMPC In part two of o ...

NO The newly born Windows Form, future home of our GUI. Simple. Unassuming. Gray. Very gray. Windows Application on the right of ...

How To 68 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 3 Create your app’s graphical framework DEFINING TERMS CONTROLS: Objects such as TextBoxes a ...

How To  MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2004 4 Tie the new GUI to the program The GUI is designed, so let’s get down to coding. Because t ...

SEPTEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC  5 (continued) the txtPlaintext control is a box the user can type text into when he or she runs the ...

CPU Athlon 64 3400+ Athlon 64 FX-51 % Difference Athlon 64 FX-51 % Difference Athlon 64 3400+ Clock speed 2.2GHz 2.2GHz 2.2GHz 2 ...

Reviews SEPTEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 73 Best of the Best As of September, 2004 After months of dominating our Best of the Best list ...

Reviews W e thought we sensed the coming of a PC revolution. Now Falcon Northwest’s FragBox II confirms it: Small form- factor ( ...

I t took 80 years for Star Trek’s engineers to go from building tricorders that were shoulder- slung boxes the size of old casse ...

I f you’ve ever experienced the con- venience of using a shared network drive at work or school, you know how much easier it can ...

H ere we are again. Two mortal combatants, squaring off in the death-ring that is the Maximum PC testing Lab. In the green corne ...

Midrange Videocard Mamba A tad bit cheaper, these next-gen 3D cards are still lightning-fast Reviews SEPTEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC  ...

Reviews SPECS MODEL Dell P1230 Viewsonic P225f VIEWABLE AREA 20.3-inch 20.0-inch GRILLE PITCH 0.24mm 0.24mm MAX REFRESH@MAX RES ...

Reviews Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 The buffest 7,200rpm drive ever T he first consumer-level hard drive with 16MB of onboard cach ...

Reviews Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising Great tactical shooter—for team players I n Novalogic’s new tactical shooter Joint Oper ...

Rig of the Month P ut yourself in the shoes of a PC nut who has recently completed an arduous computer mod with all the bells an ...