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MINIMUM BS • OCTOBER 2006 Call Anywhere Free! Skype phones make it easy to VoIP up your home Core 2 Extreme Unleashed! Intel's n ...

The More Things Change... Contents Ed Word Please send feedback and short- bread to [email protected]. B y now, you all know th ...

FUTURE US, INC 4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 400, South San Francisco, CA 94080 http://www.futureus-inc.com PRESIDENT Jonathan Sim ...

08 MAXIMUMPC october 2005 O ne look at today’s tech headlines and you might think it was Wife Swap or Desperate Housewives , not ...

quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL I f you witnessed the arrival of 1-kilowatt PSUs and rolled ...

This month (on page 82) we knock Pioneer’s fi rst-gen Blu-ray drive for not being able to read or write to CDs. The drive also d ...

A brand-new memory standard is being developed that could fuse the best fea- tures of today’s various types of memory into a sin ...

I f you read our September 2006 Dream Machine feature you already know about Intel’s shockingly fast Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU. B ...

PERFORMANCE This is the category that should matter most to a Maximum PC reader, and there are no surprises here: The Core 2 Ext ...

The Results T o test the two CPUs, we used two different but similar platforms. For the Athlon 64, we used an Asus M2N32- SLI mo ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog 22 READY TO BE PHARMED? Everyone with a pulse knows not to open “phish- ...

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HOME THEATER PC BUILD THE ULTIMATE 26 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 There comes a time in every young lad’s life when he outgrows his p ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Hardware...............p. Cases....................p. Software............... p. How-To..................p. H ...

We’re building a different type of computer here, so rounding up the usual suspects just won’t cut it. We need to walk the razor ...

OPTICAL DRIVE There hasn’t been a whole lot of action in the optical drive arena over the last year—everyone has just been waiti ...

VIDEOCARD We strongly recommend choosing a videocard that’s equipped with HDCP, even though we’re not ready to endorse Blu-ray o ...

32 MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 THERMALTAKE BACH WITH MEDIA LAB Thermaltake’s Bach case is similar to a standard desktop enclosure, an ...

COOLER MASTER CM MEDIA 250 The CM Media takes a slightly different tack than other HTPC cases. It sports extraordi- narily squat ...

MAXIMUMPC OCTOBER 2006 MYTHTV The open-source community has created dozens of great prod- ucts, including Firefox , OpenOffi ce ...