MaximumPC 2004 06

Scoop! Alienware’s 3D Secret We reveal Alienware’s plan to achieve a 70% increase in 3D performance!! Hard-Hitting Reviews! FFla ...

Release Notes JUNE 2004 MAXIMUMPC 3 Contents 06. I can think of few better examples of the human ability to adapt and evolve tha ...

��������������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������� ...

POWER SUPPLY TOMFOOLERY? In the May 2004 issue you ran an article on three new Lean Machines. I want to know where the hell you ...

8 MAXIMUMPC JUNE 2004 product on their web sites without having stock. At the point of sale, they tell customers, ‘Oops, we ran ...

Broadcatching: the Savior of Independent Entertainment! In the near future, two popular Internet technologies will work together ...

Got huge files to distribute, but little money for bandwidth? No problem. JUNE 2004 MAXIMUMPC 13 It’s Official: Gigahertz is DEA ...

We discovered that the company’s high-end ALX line of PCs may boost performance by as much as 70 percent! W as it found among th ...

We crossed razor-wire and miles of desert to learn the truth about ALX, and all we got was this damn logo. 1UicK Start JUNE 2004 ...

1 MAXIMUMPC JUNE 2004 Quick Start TechnoFile (^) Quick takes on technology trends Zalman Takes Water-Cooling to New Heights wit ...

T H I S M O N T H : Office Suites! P DAs were once nothing but electronic organizers, but they ultimately grew into do-everythin ...

Despite the speed and convenience of Nextel’s i85s, we prefer the Ericsson R380, with just one reservation—the Ericsson’s steep ...

THIS MONTH: The WatchDog goes after... Pirates Screw Everybody This month, the Dog sifted through the pile of mail and noticed a ...

Between the time Johnny wrote the Dog and when TDV’s web site went under, monitor company Advueu has sprung up offering support. ...

 MAXIMUMPC JUNE 2004 SPEED SPEEDSPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEEDSPEED SPEED SPEED SPEEDSPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED ...

We perform extensive Lab tests on a variety of components with one goal in mind: helping you accelerate your PC to all-new perfo ...

Are Two CPUs Better Than One? The test : Two CPUs are better than one, right? That’s what most people believe. To test this hypo ...

JUNE 2004 MAXIMUMPC 31 proc PC. Photoshop 7.0 offers pretty much the same story: Only in certain filters does the application wa ...

32 MAXIMUM PC JUNE 2004  EEXPERIMENTS WITHXPERIMENTS WITH    Which is Faster—Intel’s P4EE or AMD’s FX-53? The ...

34 MAXIMUM PC JUNE 2004  EEXPERIMENTS WITHXPERIMENTS WITH Is It Worth It To Spend the Extra Money on a Highfalutin’ USB Cab ...