MaximumPC 2006 12
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the top of the mountain. The apex of technological achievement. Our first annual Best Of The Be ...
BEST CPU Asus P5W DH Deluxe What, were you expecting an nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition moth- erboard? We were too, but Nvidia’s lu ...
42 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2006 XFX GeForce 7900 GTX XXX Edition We fi nd it diffi cult to get excited about a top-shelf Direct3D 9.0 ...
44 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2006 Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeMusic If our PC were a life raft and we were forced to toss two cards off fo ...
46 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2006 Plextor PX-7558A With Intel eliminating PATA completely in the 965 chip- set, we see the writing on t ...
Intel pours on the power with the world’s fi rst quad-core PC processor Power!Power!Power! Quad Intel pours on the power quad-co ...
W hoever said that technology just gets cheaper and better should have his or her name on a plaque somewhere in Silicon Valley; ...
50 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2006 his hands and knees looking for naturally occurring specimens. QMy Pentium Extreme Edition shows up a ...
52 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2006 Extreme X6800 runs at 2.93GHz, while the quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6800 runs slower, at 2.66GHz. Tod ...
5 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2006 Putting Quad to the Test Our benchmarks reveal some interesting things about multicore computing T o ...
With a quick sign-up and a little know-how, you can transform Google’s free mail service into the ultimate online messaging app. ...
3 Take Notice with a Notifier You don’t have to log into Gmail every time you want to see if you’ve got mail. Instead, download ...
5 Turn Gmail into an MP3 Player In the interest of convenience, Gmail has its own built-in audio player for use with file attach ...
PROMISES, PROMISES I purchased an MSI Pro 266R Master R motherboard a few years ago to experiment with RAID configura- tions. I ...
Continued from page 60 Ask the Doctor SECOND OPINION 62 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2006 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT ...
r&dBREAKING DOWN TECH —PRESENT AND FUTURE 64 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2006 V ideocards wouldn’t be all that interest- ing if each ...
Hardware Autopsy r&dBREAKING DOWN TECH —PRESENT AND FUTURE applies a weighted blend of the colors of the object and its back ...
T he industry has known for months that Nvidia would be the first GPU manu- facturer to introduce a Direct3D 10 part, but absolu ...
V endors often make “cheating” alle- gations against competitors to the media, but it’s normally done on the down-low. Something ...
december 2006 MAXIMUMPC 69 best of the best How to Read Our Benchmark Chart Maximum PC’s test beds double as zero-point systems, ...
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