MaximumPC 2005 05

CORE LOGIC Discover how a good chipset can pump up your PC, and how a bad one can choke it. Page 46 How one brave soul survived ...

Release Notes Contents 0 5. REGULARS 6 In/Out You write, we respond 12 Quick Start Big news, small articles 20 Head2Head This mo ...

FEATURES MAY Contents PRESIDENT Jonathan Simpson-Bint VICE PRESIDENT/CFO Tom Valentino VICE PRESIDENT/CIRCULATION Holly Klingel ...

You write, we respond VIDEOCARD CATECHISM In “The Ultimate Upgrade Bible” [April 2005], you say some of the newer videocards are ...

LETTERS POLICY: MAXIMUM PC invites your thoughts and comments. Send them to [email protected]. Please include your full name, ...

 MA XIMUMPC MAY 2005 W ho says it ain’t a race? Intel, which last September said it wasn’t rushing to ship the first dual-core ...

▼▼ 2004 MA XIM 13 UMPC Multicore Madness Tom Halfhill was formerly a senior editor for Byte magazine and is now an analyst for M ...

Quick Start Pentium M Conversion Kit Arrives Adapter breathes new life into aging mobos W e don’t have to tell you that the hot ...

 6 C ontinuing its trend of pushing into new markets dominated by Intel, AMD has announced an all-new processor line designed t ...

Head 2 Head A showdown among natural PC competitors THIS MONTH: Surro und-Sound Headphones! W hen we heard about headphones capa ...

THE UPSHOT THIS MONTH: Surro und-Sound Headphones! MAY 2005 MA XIMUMPC  Rich music playback, more pronounced surround effects, ...

IBM “Deathstar” Settlement in the Works IBM is close to settling a long-running class- action lawsuit over its famously fast but ...

IBM 75GXP Deskstar >Altec Lansing >CompUSA >QPS Radio-Free Altec Lansing DEAR DOG: I recently purchased an Altec Lans ...

Y our party has stalked the dreaded dragon Azuregos through Azshara for more than 30 minutes, waiting for the perfect moment to ...

MAY 2005 MA XIMUMPC  Maximum PC takes you behind the scenes of massively multiplayer online networks to fi nd out how the most ...

 MA XIMUMPC MAY 200 5 HOW MMO WORKS Every massively multiplayer online game can be divided into two parts: the server and the ...

FIVE TICKS IN THE MATRIX ONLINE Even something as seemingly simple as killing a single mob—a computer controlled enemy—requires ...

30 MA XIMUMPC MAY 200 5 monsters. And once the monsters have been created, their attacks are fi ne-tuned to diffi culties approp ...

34 MMO games are notorious resource hogs, but you can whip your machine into shape with just a few tweaks and inexpensive hardwa ...

FIVE TICKS IN THE MATRIX ONLINE Even something as seemingly simple as killing a single mob—a computer controlled enemy—requires ...