Posted 12/31/08 at 02:00:00 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

We checked our Maximum PC zodiac chart, and realized that 2008 was the Year of the Rant. Gordon's capacity for rage never ceases to amaze, so this week, we present to you 2 hours and 40 minutes of non-stop ranting. Culled from this past year's podcasts, this all-rant episode includes anger toward interoffice spam emails, indignant hippies shopping for organic food, and shirts sticking out of sweaters. A certain Cuppertino-based tech company doesn't get off easy, either. 

Do you have a tech question? A comment? A tale of technological triumph? Just need to get something off your chest? A secret to share? Email us at maximumpcpodcast@gmail.com or call our 24-hour No BS Podcast hotline at 877.404.1337 x1337--operators are standing by.

Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/maximumpc/1337

Read More

Posted 04/29/08 at 03:35:28 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

I’ve been skeptical of multi multi-GPU support since the days of Nvidia’s original Quad SLI. Back then, bad drivers, a lack of game support, and 30-inch panels that cost a month’s pay made the prospect unpalatable.

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Posted 04/22/08 at 11:03:44 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Is AMD’s new tri-core too little too late? We take a microscope to AMD’s latest and wonder aloud if it even makes sense at all.

Read More

Posted 04/04/08 at 04:32:24 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

RealTek's cheating drivers might finally be fixed, maybe.

Read More

Posted 03/03/08 at 02:44:01 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Why do we stick with a legacy formfactor and kill the forward-thinking ones?

Read More

Posted 02/26/08 at 01:25:52 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

What's worse than the F-word? The P-word. Dell decides to join the crowd by just saying no to proprietary parts.

Read More

Posted 02/08/08 at 02:35:25 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

We knew something was up when Nvidia officials were light on details concerning its 780i chipset during a recent press briefing. Normally quite happy to toot its hardware horn, Nvidia practically skipped the PowerPoint slide on the chipset.
Why? Like Intel’s x48, the 780i isn’t really that new. In fact, those familiar with the 680i are well acquainted with the 780i, which is pretty much a 680i with an extra chip (interestingly named the Nforce 200) thrown in to add PCI-E 2.0 support and a full x16 tri-SLI mode.

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Posted 11/30/07 at 06:18:12 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

We’ll be the first to admit that we were unimpressed by DDR3 when we first tested it last year, but there’s finally a glimmer of hope.

What changed our minds? Asus’s spanking-fast P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP@n mobo, which uses the enthusiast-oriented X38 chipset. The X38’s main highlights are apparently useful DDR3 support and PCI Express 2.0 support. We say “apparently” in reference to DDR3 because we didn’t have a DDR2 version of the board for a direct comparison, but from our tests, the X38 with DDR3 is a winning combination. Also good to have but not a proven performance boost yet is PCI-E 2.0, which doubles the bandwidth of PCI-E 1.0 from 8GB/s to 16GB/s. But does PCI-E 2.0 matter?

Click Read More for more. 

Read More