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AMD’s Quad Core Tested! Lab tested & benchmarked: the crazy Quad FX CPU Stream Video Anywhere! Reviewed: Gear that makes str ...

Life After Vista !IHNeHNs Ed Word Please send feedback and plain M&Ms to [email protected].  N ow that Vista has fi nally ...

MAXIMUMPC EDITORIAL EDITOR IN CHIEF Will Smith MANAGING EDITOR Tom Edwards EXECUTIVE EDITOR Michael Brown SENIOR EDITOR Gordon M ...

A fter recently sending a handful of DRAM executives to the pokey for price-fixing, the Department of Justice is now focusing it ...

If only Saruman had focused on MIMO Wi-Fi technology instead of orcs, and Sauron’s eye had been turned toward the cellular marke ...

Altair 8800 Kit Travel back in time by building your own PC predecessor HDMI FYI What you should know about version 1.3 of the d ...

T ake out your tinfoil hats. MIT Assistant Professor Marin Soljacic’s research into wireless energy transfer bor- rows a page fr ...

N ow that the dust from the “next-gen” console launches has settled, it’s time to take a good, hard look at how these three new ...

Multiplayer We discussed this last year around the Xbox 360’s launch, and we’ll discuss it again now. There’s simply no real ana ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog BORN FREE AND STILL FREE Several readers wrote to the Dog to complain a ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog Hewlett-Packard is getting heat—and fac- ing a lawsuit—for preventing s ...

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Building a budget PC is similar to modern politics—it’s nothing but compromise. You can’t drop in a quad-core CPU and two GPUs t ...

6 MAXIMUMPC FEBRUARY 2007 $1, ULTIMATE 12 STEPS TO YOUR NEXT-GEN GAMING PC Before starting, read over the steps to make sure yo ...

FEBRUARY 2007 MAXIMUMPC  Videocard BFG GeForce 8800 GTS $450, http://www.bfgtech.com Motherboard EVGA nForce 680i SLI $250, ht ...

2 00 MAMAXIMXIMUUMMPPCC JANUARY 2007FEBRUARY 2007 $1, ULTIMATE 8 DROP IN THE GPU Graphics cards tend to be heavy and can slide ...

30 MAXIMUMPC FEBRUARY 2007 $1, ULTIMATE 11 POWER HER UP It’s time to supply power to your components. First, make sure your powe ...

3200 MAMAXIMXIMUUMMPPCC JANUARY 2007FEBRUARY 2007 $1, ULTIMATE A dual-core machine that will be able to run DirectX 10 and has a ...

XXXXXXX JANUARYFEBRUARY 2007 MAMAXIMXIMUUMMPPCC 0033 BENCHMARK IT We compared our $1,500 PC to Overdrive’s $2,500 PC (the winner ...

You’re sick of Windows XP. We are too, but Vista isn’t a panacea for your PC problems. We have some compelling arguments for wai ...