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MAXIMUMPC

OCTOBER 2004 MAXIMUMPC 7

Contents

FEATURES

OCTOBER

The 10 Best

We donned our pith helmets

and hacked through the darkest

corners of the Internet to find

10 unheralded utilities that no

power user should be without!

51 Utilities

40

Desktop

Deathmatch

Six gaming PC

titans go head to

head: Watch the

competitors drop off

until only a single

winner

remains.

Find out what makes

the year’s freakiest

game tick in our

exclusive look under

the hood. Plus, our

definitive gameplay

review!

58

Doom 3

Everything you need to know about

how Windows Longhorn could change

the way you interact with your PC.

30

Windows Longhorn

EverythingEverythingEverything you need to know about you need to know about

how Windows Longhorn could change

the way you interact with your PC.

EverythingEverythingEverythingEverything you need to know about you need to know about you need to know about

how Windows Longhorn could change

the way you interact with your PC.