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 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2007 MAXIMUM PC’ s FIFTH ANNUAL BY THE MAXIMUM PC STAFF ...

APRIL 2007 MAXIMUMPC  CCleaner It’s like a high colonic for Windows XP You’re probably feeling a little like Harcourt Fenton M ...

How do we love thee, Hamachi? Let us count the ways, even though there’s really just one. But, boy, are we smitten. Hamachi make ...

Pick and choose exactly which aspects of your system WinAudit reports on. Other Internet radio stations have promised to intuiti ...

38 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2007 MAXIMUM PC’ s FIFTH ANNUAL While Trillian users enter their third year without a major update, Gaim afi ...

CASES 40 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2007 A SPOTLIGHT ON PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAMANTHA BERG ...

XXXXXXX XXXXXXX 20072007 MAMAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUUMMMPPPPCCC 0000 We examine seven new cases, from supersized to shrinky-dink ...

Choosing the Perfect Case Before purchasing your next case, consider the following CONSTRUCTION The materials that make up your ...

A SPOTLIGHT ON CASES ANTEC NINE HUNDRED This case rocked us like a hurricane Antec’s Nine Hundred is solidly con- structed and s ...

Say Hello to DTX AMD introduces a new motherboard formfactor for small rigs Although most of the cases in this feature are geare ...

GiGabyte 3D aurora 570 Ho. ly. Cow before we begin, we’re compelled to set the stage for an introduction worthy of Gigabyte’s 3D ...

The inside of your PC can be a scary place. No, we’re not afraid of our gear, but we’re terrified of the grime! The very fi rst ...

Cleaning your CPU cooler is a little trickier. We firmly subscribe to the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” school of thought, s ...

how (^2) ImprovIng your pc experIence, one step at a tIme CLEAN YOUR KEYBOARD Most avid computer users are intimately familiar w ...

USB-ORKED I cannot figure out what is going on with my front-panel USB ports! Every now and then, when I plug in a device, my co ...

Continued from page 51 Ask the Doctor 52 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2007 how 2 IMPROVING YOUR PC EXPERIENCE, ONE STEP AT A TIME having to r ...

r & d BREAKING DOWN TECH —PRESENT AND FUTURE 54 MAXIMUMPC APRIL 2007 M any of us got our fi rst taste of hologra- phy when p ...

Hardware Autopsy from it, but holographic drives promise speed, too. With each fl ash of laser light, an SLM is capable of produ ...

I believe that Nvidia, ATI (err, AMD), and the power supply manu- facturers are playing with our emotions. In the space of three ...

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