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OCTOBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 63 on the fly using small sound shaders. We’ve heard id uses sound shaders to cre- ate even more variati ...

NO MORE FLOPPIES Have we come to the point where a PC can be built without a floppy drive? I want to build an Athlon 64 system h ...

new pair of speakers that are absolutely great, but the problem is that when I play my MP3s the sound crackles and pops. I think ...

How To...^ A step-by-step guide to tweaking your PC Experience TIME TO COMPLETION 2:30 HOURS MINUTES MA XIMUMPC T hink of how yo ...

OCTOBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 69 Update Your Setup Files STEP 2 Our next objective is to extract Service Pack 2 to a folder so we can ...

 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2004 Create a Customized Setup Routine STEP 5 You’re almost there. In this step, we’ll make a file called W ...

F or years, striping together two or more hard drives in a RAID 0 array has been the power-user’s configura- tion of choice. Usi ...

Reviews OCTOBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 73 Best of the Best As of October, 2004 After last month’s major hardware regime change, October ...

Reviews 74 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2004 W e’ve seen and even previewed a few prototypes of palm-top PCs capable of running the full d ...

Reviews eVGA e-GeForce 6800 Ultra AGP A plain exterior hides ultra-fast performance T he eVGA e-GeForce 6800 Ultra AGP may look ...

Reviews O ur parents used to call televi- sion the “boob tube” and the “idiot box,” yet, paradoxically, the whole family always ...

Reviews Y ou’ve heard the promise of the media server, haven’t you? A PC squirreled away in some discreet location that’s dedi- ...

Reviews Iomega REV 35GB/90GB USB 2.0 External Drive ! noVel approach to remoVaBle storage that fails to impress Though the indus ...

H ey, we’d all love to have a set of 5.1 speakers, but cramped quarters and crabby neighbors can quickly spoil that party. Rathe ...

Reviews Altec Lansing AHS602 This headset’s beauty is marred by a few ugly warts W hen we first received the Altec Lansing AHS60 ...

Reviews I f Canon’s new pro-oriented digital camera had a mantra, it would have to be “I can’t drive 55,” because this Mk II fol ...

LaCie Bigger Disk A humongous, no-frills hard drive that delivers the gigs T hink you have a big disk? So did we, until we recei ...

Reviews F or some strange reason, mouse manufacturers occasionally confuse their product with Adidas sneakers, and insist on emb ...

Reviews 92 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2004 Keyspan USB Server A remote USB hub for your entire network C an’t afford an expensive networ ...

Reviews Singles: Flirt Up Your Life If you thought gonorrhea was a drag, try this If you can recall the crushing disappointment ...