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EDITORIAL

EDITOR IN CHIEF Will Smith

MANAGING EDITOR Tom Edwards

EXECUTIVE EDITOR Michael Brown

SENIOR EDITOR Gordon Mah Ung

SENIOR EDITOR Katherine Stevenson

ASSOCIATE EDITOR David Murphy

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Lauren Barnard

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Norman Chan, Gord Goble,

Tom Halfhill, Thomas McDonald, Robert Strohmeyer,

Gina Trapani

EDITOR EMERITUS Andrew Sanchez

ART

ART DIRECTOR Natalie Jeday

ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Boni Uzilevsky

PHOTO EDITOR Mark Madeo

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Samantha Berg

BUSINESS

GROUP PUBLISHER Stacey Levy

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WESTERN AD DIRECTOR Dave Lynn

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WESTERN AD MANAGER Gabe Rogol

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PRODUCTION

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PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Dan Mallory

CIRCULATION

CIRCUL ATION DIRECTOR Peter Kelly

NEWSSTAND MANAGER Elliott Kiger

NEWSSTAND COORDINATOR Alex Guzman

INTERNET SUBSCRIPTION MARKETING MANAGER Betsy Wong

PRINT ORDER COORDINATOR Mila Villaflor

Quick Start Nvidia’s Tesla promises

to rock supercomputing ........................... 8

Head2Head Two alternatives to

Microsoft Offi ce battle it out ................... 14

WatchDog Maximum PC takes

a bite out of bad gear ............................. 18

How To Keep your water-cooling

setup clean ............................................. 58

Ask the Doctor Diagnosing

and curing your PC problems ................ 62

Contents

R&D Mesh networking makes itself

useful—we explain how ...................... 64

In the Lab A/V streamers reveal

an HD content shortage ...................... 66

In/Out You write, we respond........ 110

Rig of the Month Jason

Dumbaugh’s Spider-Man 3/Venom ... 112

Departments

Reviews

Ultra-mobile PC Samsung

Q1 Ultra ..................................................... 68

Motherboards MSI P35 Platinum;

Gigabyte GA-N680 SLI-DQ6 ................... 70

Monitors DoubleSight

DS-240WB; Gateway FPD2485W;

NEC LCD2470WNX .............................. 72

Optical drive LG GGW-H10NI

Super Multi Blue ...................................... 75

Cases Antec P190; Dynapower

USA Hachiman ...................................... 76

CPU coolers Cooler Master

Aquagate SI; Thermaltake Big

Typhoon VX ............................................... 78

Home monitoring WiLife Lukwerks

Surveillance Starter Kit; IControl

Advanced Starter Kit ........................... 80

Flash drive Corsair Flash

Survivor GT .............................................. 82

SEPTEMBER 2007 MAXIMUMPC

Turntable Stanton T.

USB Turntable .......................................... 82

Media streamers Mediagate

MG-350HD; Netgear Digital Entertainer

HD EVA8000 ............................................. 84

Headphones Tritton AXPC

Headset ................................................... 86

External DAC SilverStone

Ensemble EB01 External DAC ............... 86

3D controller 3DConnexion

SpaceNavigator Personal Edition ........ 88

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Halo 2 for Vista ..................................... 88

Shadowrun ............................................ 90

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