Maximum PC - Systems

Falcon Northwest FragBox II

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:28:37 -0500

Falcon's small formfactor rig surprises in more ways than one.

Hypersonic Sonic Boom OCX

Nathan Edwards — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:44:12 -0600

Little red Corvette, baby you're much too fast.

AVADirect Core 2 Duo SLI Gaming System

Nathan Edwards — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:33:49 -0600

Blood and Thunder!

Dell XPS 720 H2C

Nathan Edwards — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:09:51 -0600

The desktop giant's latest giant desktop proves it can run with the specialty shops

HP Blackbird 002

Michael Brown — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:00:55 -0500

Despite a phenomenal case design and solid performance, this bird's wings are clipped by Vista.

Project War Machine M1 Elite

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:26:55 -0500

This rig isn't quite ready for special-ops duty

Overdrive PC Core2.SLI

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:44:05 -0500

Dual core rocks for now, but in the quad-core future, two cores might not be enough.

Vigor Gaming Force Recon QXN

David Murphy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:15:39 -0500

The Force Recon QXN system is about as useful as Sideshow Bob in a field of rakes.

HP TouchSmart IQ770

Michael Brown — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:22:41 -0500

Pull up recipies, frag n00bs, and rock out with your colandar out -- all at once, mind you, using HP's TouchSmart IQ770 "kitchen PC." Bam!

Polywell Poly i680SLI-QX

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:08:23 -0500

Overclocked quad-core systems make us leery, but Polywell's speedy rig leaves us speechless; it actually works!

ABS Ultimate X8 III

David Murphy — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:38:44 -0600

ABS drops their Ultimate X8 III onto our laps, but does it withstand our tests?

Maingear F131

David Murphy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:21:28 -0600

Don't get us wrong, we're always excited to get a new desktop rig into the lab but just how much excitement is this juggernaut worth?

HP dv9096xx

Robert Strohmeyer — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:30:41 -0600

HP delivers a portable, notebook gaming rig with a sizeable screen, but can it stand toe-to-toe with the rest?

iBuyPower Gamer's Fire

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:45:48 -0500

The iBuypower machine boasts the power of a Core 2 Duo processor, but does the ATI love equate poorer performance?

Digital Storm Twister Ultra 4

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:35:55 -0500

When we looked at Digital Storm's Twister Ultra 4, we thought of it as Every Dude's Machine. Turns out it wasn't.

Falcon Northwest Mach V

Gordon Mah Ung — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:08:37 -0500

There's an annual event here at the magazine: We set performance records every September with the Dream Machine and before we can finish guzzling the celebratory beer, Falcon Northwest shows up to pee on our parade.

Monarch Computer Systems Nemesis 2

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:36:56 -0500

Get your green on with Monarch's newest showing, Nemesis 2. The big green giant will be pleased.

Overdrive Gemini GX2

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:16:11 -0500

With stock overclocking options and top shelf hardware, the folks at Overdrive PC serve up a contender.

Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600

Gordon Mah Ung — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:38:35 -0500

This is one media center monster you won't want to fight off with a broken hockey stick.

Velocity Micro Gamer's Edge DualX

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:52:18 -0500

The velocity certainly isn't micro in this PC, sporting some sexy speeds in gaming and beyond.

Alienware Aurora M7700

Gordon Mah Ung — Thu, 25 May 2006 14:10:39 -0500

For the gamer on the go, Alienware delivers a portable system that resounds 'desktop replacement.'

HP nc6320 Notebook

Michele Foley — Mon, 22 May 2006 11:31:52 -0500

HP crashes the big boys' party with a notebook system that makes mince-meat of media applications.

Lian Li PC-777 Memorial Edition

Josh Norem — Fri, 05 May 2006 17:12:03 -0500

The mollusk-modeled styles of Lian-Li PC's houses a not-so-squishy interior and a propensity to speed.

Kingwin SK-523BKW

Josh Norem — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:45:23 -0500

The stately name wasn't just carelessly picked. The Kingwin is a true king among PC's and is a definite win in our books.

Voodoo Omen a:121 CrossFire

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 05 May 2006 13:59:02 -0500

Bring out your inner witchdocter with the suprisingly sexy Voodoo Omen.

MGE Dragon

Claude McIver — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:03:00 -0600

Despite a valliant attempt, the MGE Dragon falls into the "guy with tribal armband" category of coolness.

Dell Inspiron E1705

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:33:43 -0600

A gamer's machine it is not, Dell delivers a solid showing in the working man's notebook arena.

AeonCraft Lexa

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:36:17 -0600

Slapping the best components into a snazzy case only gets you so many points. They award points for style, too, you know.