MaximumPC 2006 04

MA XIMUMPC

Quick Start Will heat concerns

lead to a socketed GPU? ........................ 8

Head2Head Two virtual

surround-sound techs face off ............. 16

Watch Dog Maximum PC takes

a bite out of bad gear ............................. 20

How To Achieve an ergo nomic

computing environmnet ........................ 55

Ask the Doctor Diagnosing

and curing your PC problems .............. 58

Contents

R&D What you should know

about Blu-ray and HD-D VD ............... 60

In the Lab Benchmarking the

la pto p that we built ............................ 66

In/Out You write, we respond ....... 110

Rig of the Month PC parts

hitch a sweet ride ............................. 112

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Departments

Reviews

Not ebook PC Dell

Inspiron E1705 ......................................... 68

Vi deocard ATI Radeon

X1900 XTX ............................................... 70

LCD monitors Samsung 214T;

HP LP2065; Envision EN2028;

Gateway FPD2185W; BenQ FP202W ... 72

Water-cooling kits Swiftech

Apex Ultra; Corsair Nautilus 500 ............. 74

USB thumb drive Memo rex

U3 TravelDrive ......................................... 76

Videocard PNY Verto

GeForce 6800 GS ................................... 76

CPU c ooler Cooler Master

Hyper L3 ................................................... 78

Video capture device

Neuros MPEG-4 Video Recorder 2 ......... 78

APRIL 2006 MA XIMUMPC

MIMO routers Linksys

WRT54GX; Netgear WPNT834 .............. 80

PC enclosures MGE Dragon;

Raidmax RX-9 .......................................... 81

2.1 s peakers Creative

I-Trigue L3800 .......................................... 82

Image editor Picture Code

Noise Ninja ................................................ 82

Video editor Pinnacle Systems

Studio Plus 10 ......................................... 86

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Peter Jackson’s King Kong .............. 88

25 t o Life ................................................ 88

Gaming

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