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RAM TODAY’S WAY Kingston’s HyperX memory features low latencies and blue heat spreaders marked with the famous “red head” Kingst ...

RAM R A M TABLE 1: COMMON DDR MEMORY SPEEDS PC RATING THROUGHPUT DDR RATING (EFFECTIVE CLOCK SPEED) ACTUAL CLOCK SPEED PC1600 1. ...

RAM R A MBUYERS GUIDE 40 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 COMMON QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DDR2 RAM uses a ball-grid array to mount the chip ...

OCTOBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 41 INSTALLING RAM THE RIGHT WAY RAM is fragile—not so much physically as electronically. During the inst ...

44 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 PHOTOGRAPHY BY MAR K MADEO ...

2005 D onald Trump might be able to afford the $12,870 quad-core Dream Machine we built in our September issue, but what about y ...

46 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 CPU Athlon 64 3000+ LM ‘05 can run a 64-bit OS and has SSE3 to boot, thanks to the 90nm shrink of its ...

48 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 PLANNING FOR TOMORROW Though more expensive, we chose the Athlon 64 in Socket 939 over Socket 754, fo ...

OCTOBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 49 Naturally, anyone who’s building or upgrading should ask themselves what they want to do with their P ...

Tap into your videocard’s hidden power with this detailed look at ATI’s and nVidia’s videocard control software Whether you’re u ...

52 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 how (^2) IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME GETTING STARTED ATI offers two types of con ...

GETTING STARTED To access your nVidia card’s most powerful tools, right- click your Windows desktop, and then click Properties f ...

MISSING: 1GHZ I recently reinstalled my OS. After I had my PC back up and running, I noticed that Windows XP’s System Properties ...

Ask the Doctor 56 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME Continued from page 5 5 FELINE ...

S uccess or failure in building the ulti- mate home theater often hinges on the spouse factor. How much will your signifi - cant ...

Hardware Autopsy and ceiling to refl ect and disperse the sound waves, audio events arrive at your ear at pre- cisely the right ...

Preview QUAKE 4 I t’s been way too long since we kicked some Strogg ass, so we were totally stoked about the opportunity to romp ...

Josh Norem Explores the Dangers of Tap Water I f you just built a water-cooling rig and filled it with tap water instead of usin ...

How We Test Real-world benchmarks. Real-world results OCTOBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 6 BEST OF THE BEST High-end Videocard: GeForce 78 ...

64 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 W e can’t remember the last time we heard someone say, “What the world needs now is a good set of 3D ...