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100 GREATEST OF ALL TIME  MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 25 HALF-LIFE (1998) The best- selling PC shooter of all time, and for good r ...

100 GREATEST OF ALL TIME 40 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 15 MS-DOS (1980) So simplistic it was originally called QDOS (Quick and Dirt ...

100 GREATEST OF ALL TIME 4 NCSA MOSAIC (1993) If one application had a more profound impact on modern-day computing than any oth ...

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E very year, a procession of PC parts enters our Lab. Each component is tested mercilessly, but only a handful manage to win us ...

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Intel’s been on cruise control for more than a year, but that doesn’t mean the giant has been asleep ...

Asus EN8800 GTX The videocard market has been a one-horse race this year. Nvidia obliterated AMD without doing much of anything ...

BEST OF THE BEST 2007 ’s ’s Seagate FreeAgent Seagate FreeAgent Seagate Pro FreeAgent Pro FreeAgent Let’s get the messy details ...

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54 MAXIMUMPC december 2007 We’ve been talking about the arrival of Intel’s 45nm cPU for months. Now that this dynamo is in our c ...

december 2007 MAXIMUMPC 55 Q What exactly is a Penryn? A Penryn is the “family” name for Intel’s follow-up to its 65nm Core 2-li ...

tions directly support them. SSE4’s main claim to fame will be in media encoding and high-performance computing (i.e., super- co ...

58 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 Intel calls it “tick-tock,” but we call it hopscotch. First, there’s a small jump, which is followed ...

To test the 3GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9650, we used the new X38-based Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard with Corsair Dominator DDR3 RAM r ...

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One of the surest ways to test your video- card’s DirectX 9 performance is to—you guessed it—fire up a graphics-heavy game that ...

The open-source program COSBI OpenSourceMark attempts to replicate real-world benchmark scripts, similar to SysMark’s and PCMark ...

DECEMBER 2007 MAXIMUMPC 5 BEEFING UP SOCKET 939 Vista is telling me that my PC’s performance is bottlenecked at the CPU. I have ...

r & d BREAKING DOWN TECH —PRESENT AND FUTURE 68 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2007 T ouch screens may never replace our clicky-clacky Q ...

Hardware Autopsy ACOUSTIC PULSE While all the other touch-screen technolo- gies rely on transmitting a wave or current, acoustic ...