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MINIMUM BS • OCTOBER 2005 SURROUND SOUND FROM A SINGLE SPEAKER? DAP tech will de-wire your living room! NEXT-GENNEXT-GEN Windows ...

36 Vendorama The idiot-proof, plain-English guide to choosing the right memory for rig. Fix Windows Now! Contents Ed Word Please ...

Quick Start Can ATI regain ground lost to rival nVidia? ................... 10 Head2Head Which chipset for your Pentium 4: nForc ...

quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL A TI has already told Maximum PC it would have liked to have ...

quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL OCTOBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 11 Microsoft Unveils IE7–Now with Ta ...

WOW-FI Several college students from Ohio recently won a Wi-Fi shootout in Nevada by establishing Wi- Fi connectivity between tw ...

A ccording to a recent report in DigiTimes , motherboard and vid- eocard maker Abit is trying to recover from a spate of fi nanc ...

Pentium 4 Chipset Showdown FEATURES Pentium 4/D chipsets (including the two boards we looked at) are so rich in features that ou ...

Pentium 4 Chipset Showdown Our Testing Method PERFORMANCE This is where the silicon meets the benchmark. Intel almost always mai ...

headhead 22 headhead TWO TECHNOLOGIES ENTER. ONE TECHNOLOGY LEAVESTWO TECHNOLOGIES ENTER, ONE TECHNOLOGY LEAVES The Showdown Int ...

MICRO SOLUTIONS PUT IN A LOCKBOX I recently bought a new external hard drive with fingerprint authentication, called the LockBox ...

22 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 word was incorrect. I called tech support and was told that I left my Internet connection on too many ...

6 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 Microsoft’s next version of Windows will be around for 10 years, when it finally arrives. Here’s a sn ...

OCTOBEROCTOBER 20052005 MA XIMMAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUUMMMPPPPCCC  Windows VISTA Comes Together ...

S ometimes you just have to start over and do it the right way. That’s what Apple did with OS X, and it’s paid off in huge perfo ...

OCTOBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 29 Controller—the shared Xbox 360 and PC gamepad—as well as the basic Windows mouse- and keyboard-input ...

Eye Candy A picture truly is worth 1,000 words. These shots of the Aero interface reveal the building blocks from which Vista is ...

MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 T o make Windows easier to use, and make every second spent with your computer more effi cient, Vista in ...

OCTOBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 33 S pyware, viruses, and other apps that embed themselves so thoroughly in the innards of Windows that ...

3600 MA XIMMA XIMUUMMPPCC OCTOBEROCTOBER 20052005 VENDORAMA Don’t cripple your fast rig with insuffi cient short-term memory: He ...