Posted 08/24/07 at 02:38:00 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

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

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Posted 07/31/07 at 05:38:33 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

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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Posted 07/31/07 at 03:42:54 PM by Michael Brown

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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Posted 07/31/07 at 01:33:39 PM by Michael Brown

Toshiba TDP-FF1AU Video Projector lights up dark rooms.

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Posted 07/26/07 at 07:31:38 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

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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Posted 07/26/07 at 06:04:17 PM by Michael Brown

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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Posted 07/26/07 at 03:28:23 PM by Michael Brown

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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Posted 07/19/07 at 05:20:44 PM by David Murphy

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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