Posted 07/30/09 at 10:30:00 AM by The Maximum PC Staff

Sometimes, you just have to keep things real. Last year, our Dream Machine was a paean to excess, a chrome-plated $17,000 wünder-rig. While we’re still quite fond of that machine, this year we decided to take a different tack and see if we could build a more reasonably priced, but still lust-worthy Dream Machine. Well, actually, we built three of them. While the combined cost of these three machines is about half the price of last year’s rig, we packed a lot of awesome into our relatively tight budgets. The lesson is simple: Dream Machine isn’t about spending a ludicrous amount of cash on a PC, it’s about getting the best rig you can for the money you spend. I think you’ll agree that these three machines pack a ton of power and are all great values.

Without further ado, we give you this year’s crop of Dream Machines.

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Posted 04/24/08 at 03:51:16 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

The complete PDF archive of the April 2008 edition of Maximum PC, every article included, every page posted! Download it now!

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Posted 10/26/07 at 06:25:41 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

We challenge two Maximum PC editors to shop for and build a budget PC under brutal time constraints. Which rig benchmarks best? Which machine will reign supreme?

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