MaximumPC 2007 07

HANDS ON WITH PENRYNHANDS ON WITH PENRYN Better Than an iPod? Download music direct from the net to the new Sansa! 12 Smartphone ...

I’m all a-Twitter !IHNeHNs Ed Word Please send feedback and ice cream sandwiches to [email protected]. E very once in a while, ...

MAXIMUMPC EDITORIAL EDITOR IN CHIEF Will Smith MANAGING EDITOR Tom Edwards EXECUTIVE EDITOR Michael Brown SENIOR EDITOR Gordon M ...

A MD has decided it will compete with Nvidia in the fi rst-generation DirectX 10 GPU market only at the mainstream level: Depend ...

quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL Let Your Web Browser Do the Walking Opera 9.2’s Speed Dial f ...

According to Home Media Magazine , fi rst-quarter sales of high-defi nition movie discs favored the Blu-ray format by a wide mar ...

N vidia’s new GeForce 8800 Ultra sounds pretty underwhelming: While it is faster than a stock 8800 GTX—core clock speed of 612MH ...

M aximum PC recommends that you have both a DirectX 10 graphics card and a quad-core CPU for PC nirvana, but that goal isn’t rea ...

And the Winner Is... Compatibility This is an easy category to judge. You can take an ancient Socket 939 system or even the very ...

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dog updates as they arrive. In the meantime, you should obviously avoid these applications like the plague. My Last.fM Won’t sto ...

 MAXIMUMPC july 2007 Unless you’re running your rig in a refrigerator, the fi rst law of geek life reads as follows: Computers ...

july 2007 MAXIMUMPC 19 M aster’s G uide Cooling MAINTAIN THE CPU STATUS QUO Unless you’re overclocking, your stock CPU cooler sh ...

COOLINGCOOLINGCOOLINGCOOLING Master’s Guide to Most cases include plenty of options to accommo- date suffi cient cooling—having ...

july 2007 MAXIMUMPC  TOSSING WATER ON THE PROBLEM A VERITABLE TWISTER OF COOLING THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS In our before shot, t ...

Listen, Raptor drives cost a ton of money, so we’d like to keep them as pristine as possible for as long as pos- sible. Our fi r ...

BEGONE, FOUL HEAT! ANYONE NEED TO MELT STEEL? FANS ARE YOUR FRIENDS Warm Raptors are angry Raptors—and as we learned from Jurass ...

As much as we’d love to just strap a few fans into our case and call it a day, we can’t—a media center PC should be as quiet as ...

july 2007 MAXIMUMPC  TOSSING WATER ON THE PROBLEM CHILLIN’ YOUR CHIPS They might look a little funny, but our cooling solution ...

 MAXIMUMPC july 2007 THIS MONTH (^) SOFTWARE MAXIMUMPC CHALLENGE ANOTHER Do Parental-Control Apps Really Keep Kids Safe? ...