Posted 11/16/09 at 07:00:00 PM by Norman Chan

It's that time again! This month, we've priced out an amazing $1500 gaming PC. If you recall from our Dream Machine feature, the $1500 "Budget Surplus" of mid-2009 was powered by a Core i7-920 and Radeon 4870 X2. Today -- a few months later -- we're able to make a few adjustments to upgrade to a Radeon 5870-based machine. The introduction of Intel's Lynnfield processor, increasing RAM prices, and the final retail release of Windows 7 also forced us to reevaluate our spending priorities, but we're very pleased with the outcome. As gamers, this is a system we'd be proud to build ourselves, and will play any game released in the foreseeable future. 

Read on for our parts picks, and let us know what you think!

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Posted 07/24/09 at 08:31:31 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Fujitsu is said to be working on the “fastest rig on the planet.” While it is very common for car ads to heap praise on German engineering, the same is not true when it comes to PCs. But a slide (see below) related to the upcoming “fastest rig on the planet” is a laconic ode to German engineering.

The slide credits “German ultra clocking” for making Fujitsu’s mysterious gaming rig the fastest in the world. It also mentions that the rig features the very best “hand selected components”. Fujitsu posted a link to a teaser video - which miraculously doesn’t make even a thickly veiled reference to the gaming rig – on Twitter.

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Posted 09/09/08 at 07:00:03 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Games like Crysis prove to be an acid test for game hardware because of their insatiable hunger for computer resources. Although these hi-fi games are a visual treat, they are at times blamed for hastening the demise of PC gaming by making it an expensive hobby.

But Crytek, EA, Nvidia and UltraPC have joined hands to build a Crysis Warhead-ready PC – capable of running the upcoming game in high spec at a smooth 30 frames per second, which will help them debunk the notion that one needs to spend thousands of bucks on a gaming PC.

The Warhead PC will feature an Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 @2.66GHz, Nvidia GeForce 9800GT 512MB graphics card, G31 mATX, 2GB memory and 250GB hard drive. The price of the machine has been revealed to be a very reasonable $699. All said, the aesthetics are bland and might not appeal to eclectic gamers.

Interested parties can sign-up for updates, and subsequently, pounce on the rig when it appears along with the game on September 16th, 2008.

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Posted 10/22/07 at 08:00:55 PM by Michael Brown

Label us Luddites for resisting Windows Vista, but there’s no arguing the point that the new OS currently offers very little you can’t get faster with Windows XP. That goes double for games, which is why we’re baffled by HP’s decision to run Vista Ultimate on the groundbreaking Blackbird 002 gaming rig it sent us.

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Posted 10/19/07 at 01:26:55 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Sometimes you go to war with the hardware you have, not the hardware you’d like to have, and that’s what newcomer Project War Machine does with its M1 Elite, making controversial trade-offs in the name of stability.

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Posted 10/01/05 at 12:00:00 AM by The Maximum PC Staff

The complete PDF archive of the October 2005 edition of Maximum PC, every article included, every page posted! Download it now!

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Posted 06/01/05 at 12:00:00 AM by The Maximum PC Staff

In the PDF archive of the June 2005 issue, you can find:

• Dual-Core Processors First Benchmarks
• Which micro-size MP3 player reigns supreme?
• Next-Gen Wi-Fi Reviewed
• How To: Build the Ultimate Entertainment PC
• Flash Storage Tech Guide
• Ask the Doctor
• Rig of the Month
• The Watchdog
• And a whole lot more!

Click the big giant cover image to the right to download the PDF archive today!

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