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OCTOBER 2005 MA XIMUMPC 65 tial stereo. Unfortunately, even the nVidia drivers have a couple problems that might or might not be ...

66 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 reviews TESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED W e’re acknowledged hardware snobs, so we readily admit it take ...

68 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 reviews TESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED T he Aquian is a revelation in that it’s an internal water-cool ...

B TX is the Rodney Dangerfield of formfactors: It just doesn’t get any respect from power users. But the new formfactor finally ...

 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 reviews TESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED R emember the classic Princess phone? You picked it up, pressed ...

M iniature notebooks can be like small dogs. They’re cute and cause people to say “ awww ” but they don’t have much of a bite. B ...

76 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 reviews TESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED E veryone needs someone to love, and every CPU needs a cooling ...

N o matter how ugly somebody’s kid is—even if he looks like a goat—eti- quette prohibits discussion of the malady. No such rule ...

reviews TESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED 8 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 T hese days, if a case doesn’t have GPS, anti-matter shielding, ...

T hermaltake’s Schooner is a fanless VGA cooler that sends heat from your videocard’s GPU into two huge heatsinks via heat pipes ...

5 $100, http://www.turtlebeach.com W e know good surround-sound headphones exist. We pitted models from Pioneer and Sony against ...

H ave you ever seen a flying squirrel take to the air? They don’t really fly, they just glide for a few yards and then crash int ...

T he question is, how much more black could it be? The answer, in the words of the inimitable Nigel Tufuel, is, “none.” With no ...

J uiced is the latest underground racing sim to hit store shelves, and it reeks more of commercial exploitation than le- gitimat ...

W e began to suspect that Area 51 might not be the end-all, be-all of shooters when we saw that the ad campaign for the game clo ...

106 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 We tackle tough reader letters on... PDream Machine ‘0 5 PUtility Software PKonfabulator’s Newfound ...

MA XIM UM PC ’s VIDEOCARD BUYERS GUIDE Confused? Bewildered? Vexed? No problem—Maximum PC has the answers on choosing your next ...

108 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005 MAXIMUM PC (ISSN 1522-4279) is published monthly by Future Network USA, 150 North Hill Drive, Suite ...