MaximumPC 2006 06

JUNE 2006 MA XIMUMPC  DUAL—CORE You’ve got a dual-core CPU, but do you know how to use it? Follow along as we show you how to ...

The Windows XP Hotfi x Windows XP has issues with dual-core processors’ low-power states. For example, in WinXP, AMD’s Cool ‘N’ ...

To Affi nity and Beyond If you suspect that your dual-core CPU is causing problems with a game or applica- tion, and you want to ...

Keep Your Dual-Core Happy with the Right Diet When Intel introduced Hyper-Threading in 2002, it was nearly impossible to fi nd m ...

46 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2006 onth in and month out, we sing the praises of all-out, overclocked rigs of destruction fi t for a prince ...

JUNE 2006 MA XIMUMPC 47 PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAMANTHA BERG THE $ 1 , 000 GAMING PC ...

48 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2006 Our Budget Badass Sure, it’s no Voodoo system, but this rig offers gaming muscle, upgradeability, and in ...

CPU: The brains behind the whole operation is AMD’s Athlon 64 3700+. It rings in at 2.2GHz, which we over- clocked to 2.53GHz (b ...

W e performed some preliminary benchmarks during our videocard/ CPU selection, so we had a pretty good idea where this rig would ...

What invaluable data is on your hard drive? Wedding photos? Financial records? Your saved games from Oblivion? Here’s how to pre ...

54 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2005 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME SyncBack’s profile tool greatly simplifies the pr ...

Recovering From Disaster Let’s say you fire up your PC one morn- ing and the only noise you hear besides the fans whirring insid ...

Ask the Doctor 56 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2005 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME Zero Assumption Recovery is a surp ...

Ask the Doctor 58 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2005 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME Interested in over- clocking your ...

r & d BREAKING DOWN TECH —PRESENT AND FUTURE 60 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2006 T he DLNA is a consortium of nearly 300 companies in th ...

Hardware Autopsy r & d BREAKING DOWN TECH —PRESENT AND FUTURE 60 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2006 White Paper: DLNA Home Networks JUNE 2 ...

W hen we built our last round of zero-point systems in April 2005, using Athlon 64 FX-55 procs and GeForce 6800 Ultra cards in S ...

How We Test Our new benchmarks stress real-world applications over synthetic performance JUNE 2006 MA XIMUMPC  W e’ve always p ...

64 in the lab REAL-WORLD TESTING: RESULTS. ANALYSIS. RECOMMENDATIONS and chipset performance. A shortfall in any of these areas ...

66 MA XIMUMPC JUNE 2006 in the lab REAL-WORLD TESTING: RESULTS. ANALYSIS. RECOMMENDATIONS BEST OF THE BEST High-end videocard: X ...