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HEAD 7 Kickin’ Cases! Our torture tests will help you fi nd your next enclosure! Free Software! MINIMUM BSMINIMUM BS • • APRIL 2 ...
34 Softy Awards Meet our 10 favorite software applications— they’re all free! Another Reason Not to Upgrade to Vista !IHNeHNs Ed ...
MAXIMUMPC EDITORIAL EDITOR IN CHIEF Will Smith MANAGING EDITOR Tom Edwards EXECUTIVE EDITOR Michael Brown SENIOR EDITOR Gordon M ...
L aid out by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore in 1965, Moore’s Law states that tran- sistor density on chips will double every 18 mo ...
quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL APRIL 2007 MAXIMUMPC 09 A subscriber with a $17.99 plan, for ...
Tom McDonald has been covering games for countless maga- zines and newspapers for 11 years. He lives in the New Jersey Pine Barr ...
D espite Intel’s recent wins over AMD in high-perfor- mance parts, AMD continues to steal x86 market share from its archrival. I ...
O ne’s been the enfant terrible of the tech industry for the bet- ter part of 30 years. The other’s the richest man in the world ...
O ne’s been the enfant terrible of the tech industry for the bet- ter part of 30 years. The other’s the richest man in the world ...
HOBBIES While he was running NeXT, Steve Jobs made the little purchase of Pixar, which he tinkered with until he finally sold it ...
watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog 18 FREE SKYPE ENABLES ABUSE When Maximum PC reader Barry G. started rec ...
watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog ONE GEEK’S TRASH IS ANOTHER GEEK’S TREASURE Nvidia apparently doesn’t t ...
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APRIL 2007 MAXIMUMPC 21 INSIDE BEST HIGH-END GPU ................................... 22 HARD DRIVES: SPEED VS. SIZE............. ...
HARD DRIVES: SPEED VS. SIZE 22 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2007 OVERCLOCKED 8800 GTS VS. STOCK-CLOCKED 8800 GTX W e’d prefer to pit an ATI/A ...
D espite the excitement over AMD’s Quad FX platform, the company hasn’t given up on Socket AM2 and has introduced its fast- est ...
ATI CROSSFIRE XPRESS 3200 VS. NVIDIA NFORCE 590 SLI U nlike GPU-makers, who duke it out tooth and nail, motherboard-chipset vend ...
28 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2007 ➭➭ B uying a new hard drive doesn’t have to be an outrageously expensive proposi- tion. In fact, we’re n ...
32 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2007 B uying fl ash memory is like trying to pick out a toothbrush. The products make tons of promises, but i ...
APRIL 2007 MAXIMUMPC 33 OPERATING SYSTEM BATTLE T he OS is fi nal. The drivers are done. It’s time to put Microsoft’s new operat ...
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