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Send to Whom? I’ve noticed a weird prob- lem on a clean Vista 64 SP1 install. It first happened when I was using Picasa. I selec ...

REVIEWS OF THE LATEST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN THE LAB 85 SAPPHIRE RADEON 4870 X2 86 AVADIRECT CORE 2 CROSSFIRE DDR3 GAMING SYST ...

F or a long time, we’ve considered vid- eocards that sport two GPUs second- class citizens. They have all the problems of multi- ...

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P ardon us, but crowing that your integrated graphics chip is better than your competitor’s integrated graphics chip is a bit li ...

H ow big a deal is Intel’s entry into the solid-state-drive game? The announcement of the company’s new X-25M SSD, and a faster ...

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C ooler Master’s V8 CPU cooler off sets a somewhat time-consuming instal- lation process with near-record- setting performance f ...

W hen we reviewed Eye-Fi’s original wireless SD card (March 2008), our verdict was that this device, which lets you automaticall ...

S pore lets you take an extremely high- concept journey from a single-cell life form swimming through the seas to a continent-sp ...

IN THE LAB^ REVIEWS OF THE LATEST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE W e’ve played plenty of World War II shooters but have yet to fi nd one ...

LAB NOTES GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding LAB NOTES GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding LAB NOTES We take Elemental’s Badaboom H.264 e ...

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COMMENTS^ YOU WRITE, WE RESPOND 102 | MAXIMUMPC | DEC 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com Crushed by Crysis In reading your review of ...

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