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32 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|NOV 08 |www.maximumpc.com C rimeReports.com lets you check out how safe a neighborhood is befo ...

U sing a data-logging device velcroed to your dashboard, you can quickly learn what your car is capable of: quarter-mile times, ...

R arely does a room’s arrangement come to- gether perfectly on the first try. You can risk bodily injury lugging your furnish- i ...

IN THE LAB^ REVIEWS OF THE LATEST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE http://www.maximumpc.com|XXX 08 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|xx IN THE ...

S olid-state drives are new to the PC storage front, and they’re making waves by off ering blistering speeds and greater reliabi ...

42 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|NOV 08 |www.maximumpc.com Breaking It Down Before you make the move from a hard disk drive to ...

44 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|NOV 08 |www.maximumpc.com RiData’s 64GB SSD uses an MLC design to pack more data onto its fl a ...

46 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|NOV 08 |www.maximumpc.com While Memoright’s spec pages attribute this 64GB SSD with a SATA int ...

48 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|NOV 08 |www.maximumpc.com Mtron’s SSD Pro 7500 is the first 3.5-inch SSD we’ve tested, and it’ ...

Judging by the Numbers There’s a huge difference between cheap and pricey SSD drives, but the fastest may not be right for every ...

Your BIOS may be a decades-old relic of an earlier era, but it can still keep up with the expanded features of today’s performan ...

W hen man first booted the PC, he saw the BIOS screen: a jumble of monochromatic numbers that made about as much sense as the bi ...

54 | MAXIMUMPC | NOV 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com Tweaking Your Memory The days of just selecting your RAM speed are gone. A mo ...

56 | MAXIMUMPC | NOV 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com tRAS is basically how much time the overall op- eration takes to climb the la ...

58 | MAXIMUMPC | NOV 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com will gradually tick up as you increase the front-side bus of your system. It’ ...

60 | MAXIMUMPC | NOV 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com CPU Tweaks There’s more to prepping a rig for a new CPU than just setting the ...

62 | MAXIMUMPC | NOV 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com Voltage Tweaks They say no pain, no gain. But it’s really no voltage tweaks, ...

64 | MAXIMUMPC | NOV 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com Odds and Ends Before you POST your new system to install the OS, you should d ...

66 |MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC|NOV 08 |www.maximumpc.com WHITE PAPER R&D^ EXAMINING TECHNOLOGY AND PUTTING IT TO USE I n ...

Each satellite’s flight path is monitored by a network of six U.S. Air Force stations located around the world, which record any ...