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JANUARY 2006 MA XIMUMPC 57 Craploads of drivers, background services, and a bloated OS can bring even a top-tier rig to its knee ...
Installing and using Linux on a PC used to be nigh-impossible for a neophyte. But with today’s newb-friendly distros, Linux is e ...
60 MA XIMUMPC JANUARY 2006 how (^2) IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME 2 Prepare Your PC 4 Partition Your Disk 3 S ...
Install and 5 Configure Once the disks are partitioned, you’ve done most of the hard work. The Ubuntu installer will install the ...
FIDDLIN’ WITH NERO I recently built a BartPE disk with Nero 6 on it, fol- lowing Logan Decker’s November 2005 “How To” article. ...
Ask the Doctor 64 MA XIMUMPC JANUARY 2006 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bir ...
r&dBREAKING DOWN TECH —PRESENT AND FUTURE 66 MA XIMUMPC JANUARY 2006 Y ou’ve no doubt heard or read the term “head-related t ...
Hardware AutopsyHarHardwardware Autopsye Autopsy is that two things affect your perception of sounds around you: the difference ...
to the computer or to the headphones. When the HRTFs used in processing input audio are varied in real time in response to your ...
T hey may look like mirrored surfaces to your eye, but the bot- tom of your heatsink and the top of your CPU look more like a Th ...
How We Test Real-world benchmarks. Real-world results JANUARY 2006 MA XIMUMPC "EST OF THE BEST High-end videocard: eVGA e-GeF ...
reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED 72 MA XIMUMPC JANUARY 2006 T he original CM Stacker was so auda- cious that we wondered wha ...
JANUARY 2006 MA XIMUMPC 73 even has a handle on it, which should be a feature of every case. Both side doors and the motherboard ...
reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED S 1 Digital’s sexy-looking Media Center Platinum Edition—which is available, for the record ...
J ust when we thought external radiators for water-cooling kits couldn’t get any more outlandish, along comes the freakishly lar ...
T he most common problem with setting up a surround-sound speaker system is that you have to string cables across the floor to t ...
P alm’s hard drive-based LifeDrive was, apparently, as much fun and games as the company could take for a while, so it’s back to ...
W e’re of three minds when it comes to the Olive Musica streaming box. The audiophile in us says, “We’ll pay any price for a str ...
reviewsTESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED MA XIMUMPC JANUARY 2006 T he iPod Nano proved Apple still has creativity to spare in its ...
L ast month we had high praise for Zalman’s super-quiet VF700-CU LED VGA cooler, but this month we zero in on Arctic Cooling’s e ...
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