Posted 03/01/2008 at 04:44:56am

I definitely second this comment. Im not so worried about outside of my box. What about the inside? I have the CoolerMaster 830, with four 120mm fans for a sidewall, and a huge thermaltake 90mm CPU fan...thats a lot of spinning fan blades...Not to mention my 2 GeForce 9750's and my mobo putting out lots of heat...all of this can't be good for cables.

Posted 03/01/2008 at 03:47:02am

I'd have to agree with most comments, this is more of FPS101. Gaming God class should involve things such as tweaks to settings. Anyone who played CS pre-1.6 days would remember all of the tweaks you could do to game play that would effect both your play and the way other players saw you. Also simple things like binding "stopsound" or changing your gamma settings for different maps. I would rate all of the following points higher than everything in the article but "know your maps": Headphones!!(good set of headphones is more important then a "gaming keyboard), walking/crouching vs. running, and learning the spray patterns of each gun (not sure how many other fps games have different patterns) but in CS this makes a huge difference. Also know when to single fire, burst fire, and all out spray and pray. I just wanted to add my 2cents...not trying to flame the original article. I know I would have loved this type of information when I first started.

Posted 01/06/2008 at 02:25:59am

I tend to use www.mwave.com They have an excellent website and excellent service similar to newegg where they send a receipt immediately. The descriptions are exact, with part numbers, and they have an excellent customer support, where they will allow you exchange anything if you think its faulty. Ive had to exchange CPUs, and motherboards before and never had a problem!

Posted 07/16/2007 at 09:26:19am

I find it funny that people are arguing over OEM vs DIY. Basically, if someone is reading this magazine/website, then they are above the average OEM level. They either already are DIY (like myself), or people who genuinely have an interest in learning how computers work. They may not know the hardware side of things yet, but obviously they have an interest. Its nice to see that Maximum PC continues to submit articles once in a while for the new computer builders/modders out there. I know when I first started reading this mag several years ago, I was way over my head. Over the years I have learned most of the terminology, but it can be very frightening for new people. I salute Maximum PC for writing content to help new people into this exciting area. As long as there are humans on this earth, DIY will never die out because this is where innovation comes from