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No BS Podcast #40: The Wow, Two Podcasts in One Week! Edition
This week, Tom, Will, Dave, and Jeremy celebrate the creativity of our listenership by showering prizes and praise upon the winners of our Where in the World is Will? and Podcast Mashup contests....
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In the Lab: Gordon Mah Ung Mulls Overclocking
One clear lesson that came from all the overclocking I did for this month’s cover story is that bargain processors kick butt over their pricier brethren when it comes to increased clock output. The...
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In the Lab: Michael Brown Re-examines 802.11n Draft 2.0 Routers
I believe in real-world testing, but since I was living in an apartment when I wrote our router roundup in the November issue, I tested the products in our corporate office. I suspected that this...
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In the Lab: David Murphy Explains Case Reviews
The art of testing cases at Maximum PC is a lot like the sword ceremony scene in Kill Bill. There’s a lot of razzmatazz and showmanship at first, but in the end, a worthy case is treated with honor and...
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In the Lab: Nathan Edwards Flies the Friendly Skies
In my review of the Hypersonic Sonic Boom OCX on page 68, I focused on the PC’s performance and stability—crucial qualities in any gaming rig. But I’d be doing this machine a disservice if I didn’t...
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In the Lab: Gordon Mah Ung Thinks ESA Is Long Overdue
PC geeks like dials and gauges and greater hands-on involvement, so Nvidia’s Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) should come as a welcome gift to us all. In a nutshell, ESA is an open standard for...
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In the Lab: Gordon Mah Ung Wants to Kill ATX
Would you use a ball mouse? A VL-Bus graphics card? A Socket 7 board? Then why the hell are enthusiasts still embracing the 13-year-old ATX formfactor? It’s time we started thinking about moving beyond...
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In the Lab: Gordon Mah Ung Re-Examines RealTek Audo
In December 2006, I took RealTek to the woodshed for its cheating drivers, which made many EAX-enabled games sound simply awful.For months, we’ve been rattling motherboard makers, including Nvidia...
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In the Lab: David Murphy Doesn't Like Microsoft Mucking with Standards
What do you do with a media-streaming device that doesn’t connect to anything? That’s the question posed by the HP Media Vault NAS, which I reviewed this month (page 79). I found that I was unable to...
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In the Lab: Will Smith Gets Burned by the Apple TV
As part of my testing for this month’s cover feature, I spent a few quality days watching movies from the iTunes Store on my PC and in my living room. By necessity, I had to integrate a newly updated...
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Everything You Need to Know About GDDR Memory
We invariably refer to the video memory in modern videocards as GDDR, differentiating it only by version (GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, and now GDDR5), but the technology’s full acronym is actually GDDR SDRAM,...
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