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Dream Machine  MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 IN YOUR DREAMS CASE + PAINT JOB The Silverstone TJ09 features an ingenious side-mount ...

Dream Machine SEPTEMBER 2006 MA XIMUMPC  IN YOUR DREAMS KEYBOARD When you spend as much time as we do with your keyboard, anyt ...

38 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 Dream Machine Dreamy Speed We said it’s more than just a pretty face—Dream Machine 11 brings the he ...

P icture this: It’s late at night and you’re sitting at your computer playing Battlefi eld 2 , when suddenly, Windows freezes! Y ...

ERROR NAME There are many parts to a BSoD, but the most important ele- ment is right at the top. The name of the error is presen ...

The most common cause of this blue screen is improperly installed drivers for a newly installed piece of hardware. For example, ...

46 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 While many blue screens can be traced back to a new hardware install or bad memory, this particular ...

0048 MA XIMMA XIMUUMMPPCC AUGUSTSEPTEMBER 200 62006 crash course If you see this blue screen, you’re probably overclocking your ...

Reading blue screens of death is fun, but there’s another, easier way to discover what your 0C’s problem is: the Event 6iewer. W ...

 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 BY JOSH NOREM If you want the ultimate in cooling performance—and who doesn’t?—water-cooling is the ...

SEPTEMBER 2006 MA XIMUMPC 55 t fi rst blush, water-cooling a PC seems about as wise as spending an afternoon in Mexico drinking ...

56 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 XXXXXXX XXXXXXX 20020066 MAMAMA XIMMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUUMMMPPPPCCC 0000 The diameter of the inlet and ...

INSTALLATION TIPS It’s a good idea to assemble your wa- ter-cooling kit outside your case and test it for leaks before installin ...

RADIATOR/FAN Warm water enters the radiator and is squeezed into small aluminum columns that have fins soldered to them. The wat ...

With a little know-how and a few common tools and materials, you can add a drawer to the front of your case, and use it for stor ...

2 Cut the Box and Make Shims 64 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME After you’ve ma ...

 Mount the Drive Rails Now it’s time to measure and drill the holes you’ll use to mount your drive rails onto the case. Make su ...

Ask the Doctor 66 MA XIMUMPC SEPTEMBER 2006 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME Just as some medical doctors ...

In our last 802.11n white paper (November 2005), we concluded that none of the then- current MIMO implementations would have any ...

Hardware Autopsy Dual-GPU Videocard The only thing more fun than benchmarking expensive hardware is taking it apart. We were par ...