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Core 2 Mobo Shootout! Find out which mobo is best to buy for Intel’s smokin’ fast CPU! The Fastest PC Ever! This quad-core beast ...

40 Vista Reviewed! Find out how Microsoft’s next version of Windows stacks up. The Good and Bad of In-Game Ads !IHNeHNs Ed Word ...

MAXIMUMPC EDITORIAL EDITOR IN CHIEF Will Smith MANAGING EDITOR Katherine Stevenson EXECUTIVE EDITOR Michael Brown SENIOR EDITOR ...

08 MAXIMUMPC JANUARY 2007 W hen your competitor has you on the ground with a quad-core boot at your throat, do you tap out or bu ...

FPS Action on the Web Sick of wasting time at work with puzzle and word games? Frag your cube mate instead! Nvidia Buys PortalPl ...

10 MAXIMUMPC JANUARY 2007 quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL Tom McDonald has been covering gam ...

quick start The beginning of The magazine, where arTicles are small 12 MAXIMUMPC JANUARY 2007 E ver have a talking doll when you ...

E veryone not living in a cave knows that Intel’s desktop Core 2 Duo rocked the Pentium D and Athlon 64’s world. But what about ...

Core 2 Duo T $423, http://www.intel.com Core Duo T $423, http://www.intel.com head 2 head Two Technologies enTer, one Technology ...

And the Winner Is... benchmarks Best scores are bolded. 18 MAXIMUMPC january 2007 Testing Methods C omparing notebook CPUs is mo ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog 22 ONLINE DISTRIBUTION GONE BAD I bought a copy of Prey from the online ...

dog Our consumer advocate investigates... PTriton Online Service PCoolmax PMore Bad Sony Batteries that’s 19 amps doubled for ab ...

26 MAXIMUMPC JANUARY 2007 WELCOME TO THE Revolution!Revolution!Revolution!Revolution!The era of incremental improvements in PC g ...

JANUARY 2007 MAXIMUMPC 2 The new geometry shader produces sophisticated 3D models. Unified shader architecture translates to mo ...

Y ou’re probably familiar with Moore’s Law, which holds that the number of transis- tors on a chip—and by extension, the computa ...

XXXXXXX JANUARYJANUARY 2007 MAMAXIMXIMUUMMPPCC 00 2 for the PC nearly as consistent as it is for game consoles. DEDICATED DOESN ...

Nvidia GeForce 8800 The most powerful graphics processor we’ve ever tested 30 MAXIMUMPC JANUARY 2007 T esting incrementally fast ...

JANUARY 2007 MAXIMUMPC 31 PHYSICS PROCESSING Nvidia and ATI have both been touting the idea of using their GPUs to acceler- ate ...

Hands-on with the First DirectX 10 Videocard S o, Nvidia has won the race to produce the fi rst DirectX 10 videocard. The GPU an ...

 MAXIMUMPC JANUARY 2007 R TS games have lagged in visual qual- ity compared to fi rst-person shooters because the games must r ...