MaximumPC 2006 09

MINIMUM BS • SEPTEMBER 2006 HOW TO WATER COOL YOUR PC: ADD H 2 O TO YOUR RIG WITH OUR SIMPLE & SAFE GUIDE! LAB TESTED! Singl ...

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quickstart THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL CPU for Dream Machine 2050? A team of scientists from IBM and ...

ATI surprised no one with last June’s announcement that its GPUs would sup- port physics acceleration using Havok’s physics midd ...

How do you make the handiest tool in the world handier? Make it cordless, and scale it down so it’s easy to carry around, that’s ...

W ireless-router manufacturers are enticing you with Draft-N and third-generation MIMO routers that pledge range significantly s ...

PRICE/PERFORMANCE RATIO If we were looking only at price tags, this category would be a tie: Netgear’s WGXB102 54Mb/s Powerline ...

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watchdodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog ■ Hewlett-Packard says some 679,000 Photosmart R707 digital cameras it s ...

22 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAMANTHA BERG 22 MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCCSEPTEMBER 2006 PHO TOG RAP HY^ BY^ SAM ...

SEPTEMBER 2006 MA XIMUMPC 23 DREAM MACHINE 2006 Take a moment and look closely at this rig. You can’t see it beneath the glossy ...

24 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 Dream Machine UNDER THE HOOD THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Yeah, we’ve been raving like AMD fanboys since ...

SEPTEMBER 2006 MA XIMUMPC  UNDER THE HOOD THINK OF IT AS A RAPCUDA Paleontologists will make a shocking discovery in 35 mil- l ...

 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 Intel Core 2 Extreme X The new Conroe CPU delivers in a big way, with plenty of horsepower to spare ...

nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition There’s only one way to run Core 2 Extreme with SLI, and we have it MOTHERBOARD The Dream Machine h ...

VIDEOCARDS We toyed with the idea of fueling the Dream Machine’s video engine with nVidia’s dual-GPU, single-slot GeForce 7950 G ...

32 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 Two WD Raptor 150GBs, three Seagate 7200.10 750GBs HARD DRIVES The Dream Machine’s storage confi g ...

 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 Silverstone TJ09 & Smooth Creations One luscious chassis decked out to the nines, to make any g ...