Posted 12/19/07 at 01:22:43 PM by Tom Edwards
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That's right! We've compiled the most bilious, noxious rants fan-favorite Gordon Mah Ung has ever produced into one great show. Listen on as Gordo tells you why pandas shouldn't exist, why Steve Jobs is the devil, and why you should never, ever, ever use the Maximum PC restrooms.
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Posted 09/10/07 at 06:44:05 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
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One thing we respect about Overdrive PC is that it’s never predictable. These guys seem to always take the path of most resistance.
In this case, Overdrive PC has constructed a rig whose sole purpose seems to be smashing our benchmarks. The company’s theory: Why go with a quad-core setup when you can push a dual core to higher speeds and guarantee stability? Since the overwhelming majority of applications aren’t multithreaded for quad core, why not push the hell out of a dual core?
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Posted 07/31/07 at 05:38:33 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
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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 07/26/07 at 07:31:38 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
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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 07/10/07 at 01:09:10 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
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If you’ve seen one Nvidia 680i reference board, you’ve seen them all. Not so with Abit’s IN9 32X-MAX board, which thumbs its nose at the me-too crowd. The IN9 32X-MAX features Nvidia’s top 680i chipset, which gets you two x16 PCI-E slots for SLI, a third full-length x8 PCI-E slot for graphics, and support for unannounced, unofficial 1,333MHz FSB processors.
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Posted 07/03/07 at 02:02:07 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
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Ain’t technology wonderful? Just a few years ago our mouths were agape at 1GB USB thumb drives that cost $500. Yet here we have Corsair pushing the 16GB mark for $140—a mere $8.75 per GB.
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Posted 06/19/07 at 04:19:32 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
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It’s no secret that we’ve had nothing but headaches with overclocked quad-core Intel systems this year. The cause of the problems—be it heat, over-overclocking, or other—doesn’t really matter. Frankly, we don’t care. These systems are being sold to consumers who don’t want to know the shape of the piston heads in their engines—they just want to be slapped back into the seat when they step on the gas.
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