MaximumPC 2005 06

6 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2005 MEMORY ADVICE FOR A NEWBIE This is my first time building a computer and I was wondering if you could gi ...

JUNE 2005 MA XIMUMPC 63 suffering a heat-related crash. If you’re running the stock cooler for the 2400+, you should try a fatte ...

In the Lab ,ab tested 0entium --to-3ocket 4 adapter Teaching an Old Board New Tricks A behind-the-scenes look at Maximum PC t ...

Best of the Best As of June 2005 This month, we switched from our long-time favorite case—the Silverstone Nimiz TJ03—to Thermal ...

Reviews Polywell Poly 939N4-SLI We’ll take one gig of graphics memory, Alex P olywell Computers specializes in reasonably priced ...

iBuyPower Gamer-X The Gamer-X cuts through the price tags but can’t dent the benchmarks A fter a few months of reviewing PCs equ ...

Reviews W hen Tascam contacted us about reviewing its $100 VL- S21 2.1-channel speaker system, we wondered if anyone at the comp ...

ReviewsReviews Small Formfactor Fisticuffs^ Screw the Mac Mini! Build your own micro PC J ust when you thought small formfactor ...

Reviews 74 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2005 T he ARAID 2000 is a two-drive RAID enclosure for either SATA or PATA drives that occupies two 5 ...

G enerally speaking, high-speed wireless has always been a con- tradiction in terms. And while the chipset muckety-mucks have lo ...

Reviews Xitel SoundAround 2 + 1 does not equal 5 B efore we listened to Xitel’s SoundAround, we thought any device or software t ...

Reviews Dear Mom and Dad, Sorry I haven’t written in a while, but the Germans have been fighting us tooth and nail, and I just h ...

JUNE 200 5 MA XIMUMPC 79 Reviews I f you think about it, it’s absolutely astounding that a motor sport in which drivers pretty m ...

Reviews Silent Hunter III UbiSoft rules the deep with one of the best simulations of 2005 I mmersive, atmospheric, enthralling—p ...

96 MAXIMUMPC JUNE 2005 T H I S M O N T H: Craig Tate’s blingGreen P rior to its present incarna- tion, this month’s Rig was a ho ...