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Making a second straight appearance on our GOTY list, the six-piece Logitech Z-680 set continues to deliver the punchiest PC sou ...

Sometimes we come across a product that absolutely must be recognized in our GOTY compendium, but doesn’t quite fit a well-defin ...

36 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Code-named “Canterwood,” Intel’s 875P was the first P4 chipset to offer native Serial ATA support, an ...

We realize that not everyone has $500 to shell out for a top-shelf 3D accelerator. That’s why we’re so happy—nay, delighted —to ...

MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 External hard drives traditionally come in two flavors—oversized or underpowered. But not this season. W ...

40 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Waiting for ATA hard drives to make the leap from 7200rpm to 10,000rpm spindle speeds was a lot like ...

42 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 In fighting games, it’s not enough to merely beat your opponent unconscious. Oh no, you have to reall ...

46 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 You can call it a cosmic silicon convergence. Such is the signifi- cance of the three biggest names i ...

Reviews DECEMBER 2003 MAXIMUMPC 47 AMD* CPU: Athlon 64 FX-51 CLOCK SPEED: 2.2GHz L1 CACHE: 128K L2 CACHE: 1MB L3 CACHE: N/A TRAN ...

48 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Without further ado, we present the hardware configs that battled our battery of benchmarks. As with ...

50 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Here’s a look at the real-world, cross-platform apps that we were able to find for testing. Some of t ...

 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 THE TESTS AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 Intel P4EE Apple Dual G5 Mathematica 5.0 572 sec 639 sec 997 sec SETI@H ...

Let’s just get it out of the way: The Macintosh G5 is most certainly not the “world’s fastest PC,” as Apple so boldly asserts. I ...

the results you most want to see. So it really comes down to which benchmark- ing approach you most respect, ours or MacAddict’s ...

58 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 KATIE HOCH wins the $3,000 shopping spree from CompUSA! For more pics and info on Katie’s rig, go to ...

DECEMBER 2003 MAXIMUMPC 59 We proudly present the winner of our Coolest PC Case Modding Contest S eldom do we receive a case mod ...

60 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Push down on the fangs of Alex Wiley’s spider case to eject a disc from the optical drive. The whole ...

64 MAXIMUMPC DECEMBER 2003 Karaoke TV Star Let your inner songbird soar. That’s all karaoke asks of you. And Karaoke TV Star mak ...

Kenwood Here2Anywhere The benefits of owning a Kenwood Here2Anything radio are two-fold. First, the H2A is a receiver for Sirius ...

Gift Guide Gyration Media Center Remote No one likes the remote control that comes bundled with Windows Media Center. It’s a big ...