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EDITORIAL
EDITOR IN CHIEF Will Smith
MANAGING EDITOR Katherine Stevenson
EXECUTIVE EDITOR Michael Brown
SENIOR EDITOR Gordon Mah Ung
ASSOCIATE EDITOR David Murphy
SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR Steve Klett
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Norman Chan, Gord Goble, Tom
Halfhill, Cameron Lewis, Paul Lilly, Thomas McDonald
EDITOR EMERITUS Andrew Sanchez

ART
ART DIRECTOR Natalie Jeday
ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Boni Uzilevsky
PHOTO EDITOR Mark Madeo
ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHER Samantha Berg
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Sandra Silbereisen

BUSINESS
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER 646-723-5453, [email protected] Danzi

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PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richie Lesovoy
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Dan Mallory

CIRCULATION
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NEWSSTAND MANAGER Elliott Kiger
PRINT ORDER COORDINATOR Heidi Hapin
FULFILLMENT MANAGER Peggy Mores

Quick Start AMD’s new 4x

platform and CPUs unveiled! ................. 08

Head2Head Intel’s mobile CPUs

face off .................................................... 16

WatchDog Maximum PC takes

a bite out of bad gear ............................. 22

How To Build and host your own

blog, in less than an hour! ...................... 55

Ask the Doctor Diagnosing

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

Contents

R&D How Voice over IP (VoIP)

telephony works .................................. 60

In the Lab Vista test beds;

USB thumb drive benchmarks ............ 62

In/Out You write, we respond.......... 94

Rig of the Month Brian Carter’s

Boeing 737 mod .................................. 96

Departments

Reviews

Gaming rig Maingear F131.............. 64

Videocard Asus EN8800 GTX ......... 66

Motherboards

Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H;

Asus P5N32-SLI Premium;

EVGA nForce 680i ................................... 68

Videocard BFG GeForce

8800 GTS .................................................. 70

Videocard HIS X1950 Pro

IceQ3 Turbo ............................................ 70

Network storage Buffalo

LinkStation Pro ........................................ 72

Streaming device Roku

SoundBridge Radio .................................. 72

USB thumb drives Corsair

Flash Voyager; Patriot Xporter XT;

Kingston DataTraveler Secure ................. 73

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Splinter Cell: Double Agent ............. 74

Reservoir Dogs ..................................... 75

Sid Meier’s Railroads ......................... 75

Gaming

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