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The Maximum PC Staff — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:38:00 -0500

The complete PDF archive of the July 2007 edition of Maximum PC, every article included, every page posted! Download it now!

Digital Storm Twister Ultra 4

Gordon Mah Ung — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:38:33 -0500

Maximum PC’s mandate has always been that performance rules all else.
But recently we’ve been harping about nothing but stability. It’s not
that we previously ignored this area, but lately we’ve been inundated
with rigs that have been overclocked so aggressively they make our
standard benchmarks blow up within minutes. Because of this, our new
message has been stability, stability, stability.

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Accolade Duet Projection Screen

Michael Brown — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:42:54 -0500

Your current video projector has a 4:3 aspect ratio, but you’re planning to move up to a high-def model with a 16:9 aspect ratio next year. In the meantime, you need to replace your projection screen, which your two-year-old recently mistook for an artist’s canvas. Quite the pickle, eh?

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Toshiba TDP-FF1AU Video Projector

Michael Brown — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:33:39 -0500

Toshiba TDP-FF1AU Video Projector lights up dark rooms.

CyberLink PowerDirector 6

Gordon Mah Ung — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:31:38 -0500

PowerDirector 6’s powerful features are handcuffed by a mildly frustrating interface. Unfortunately, the app just won’t let you easily tweak things, which is strange because the product seems aimed at pleasing the button-mashers.

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Genius HS-04U

Michael Brown — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:04:17 -0500

The Genius HS-04U plugs into your PC’s USB port, instead of your soundcard’s analog speaker output and mic input, so it bypasses any EAX or OpenAL audio effects that game developers might have painstakingly programmed into the software. What you get instead—after installing a driver—is what Genius calls “Virtual Dolby.”

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Tritton Audio Xtreme 360

Michael Brown — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:28:23 -0500

Tritton’s headset delivers true surround sound, just like the Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA2 we recommended in June. It also offers a feature that the HPA2 doesn’t: a powered Dolby Digital decoder module with optical and coaxial digital inputs, plus a port for plugging in a second set of Tritton headphones. Cool!

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Ableton Live 6

David Murphy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:44 -0500

You can do so much with Live 6, it’s hard to know exactly where to begin describing this masterful software sequencer. So we’ll start at the top. With just a few clicks of an in-application help system, we were up and running with the program’s Operator add-on, creating notes and beats that sound as though they were pulled straight from a Keith Schofield music video. Awesome.

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