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Media Server PC How To...^ A step-by-step guide to tweaking your PC Experience TIME TO COMPLETION 04:30 HOURS MINUTES MAXIMUMPC ...

JUNE 2004 MAXIMUMPC 71 STEP 1 continued Business Server 2003. Small Business Server is more robust than Windows XP, and it inclu ...

7 MAXIMUMPC JUNE 2004 STEP 3 Create a sensible storage scheme Before you begin heedlessly ripping DVDs or recording TV shows, y ...

JUNE 2004 MAXIMUMPC 73 How-To STEP 5 Putting it together Now it’s time to pull together everything we’ve done. Connect your cabl ...

Dual Athlon FX Fantasies Is it possible to use FX-51 CPUs in a dual-proc setup? The Maximum PC Lab investigates 74 MAXIMUM PC JU ...

Reviews JUNE 2004 MAXIMUMPC 75 Best of the Best As of June, 2004 If you’re going to plunk down $400-plus for the fastest videoca ...

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Reviews MSI MEGA 865 Deluxe An attractive small formfactor marred by buggy software L ast year, MSI broke new ground in the smal ...

CMS Velocity 200GB External SATA Drive It’s like having an internal drive outside your PC! W ith Serial ATA’s blazing-fast trans ...

Nikon’s new D70 digital SLR body should have cost-conscious F-mount fans doing cartwheels. This hot new digicam puts to rest any ...

I n last month’s Maximum PC Challenge we set out to test whether today’s LCD monitors are as unsuitable for gaming as their pred ...

Samsung SyncMaster 172X The 172X is roughly the same size and shape as Planar’s PL170, but decidedly more sophisticated with its ...

Reviews T hanks to the growing avail- ability of broadband con- nections and the increasing complexity of online gaming, real-ti ...

Reviews Linksys WRT54GS Proof that not all 802.11g products are created equal O utrageous claims are commonplace in the wireless ...

Hitachi 7K400 Deskstar Four-hundred expletive deleted gigs of storage!^ H itachi’s all-new Deskstar 7K400 continues the company’ ...

Reviews MaxiVista The poor man’s multi-monitor setup lets you use an old laptop for dual-display functionality S ometimes really ...

Reviews A fter playing the surprisingly entertaining demo released a few months ago, we had a hunch Far Cry would be decent. But ...

TECH TIPS M an, we’ve been stuck in the mud cradling our authentic bolt-action rifles for so long we almost forgot how much fun ...

Battlefield Vietnam Fighting Charlie could be entertaining, but all the fun in this multiplayer game is AWOL B attlefield 1942 i ...

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