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Good looks can’t save a half-baked idea
Say this for the Pitstop PC-T1: It turns heads. Lian Li is known for its clean, all-aluminum chassis, which range from the budget to the exorbitant—mostly the latter. This time, it has spawned an all-aluminum M…
We put the top 890FX and X58 mobos through their paces
Gordon’s freestyle technique is decent, but next time he decides to fling mobos, we want to see him do a thumber backhand, or better yet, a skip shot.
Ready to finally build your post-recession mac…
This ultraportable business notebook gets the job done
In last year’s ultraportable notebook roundup (August 2009), HP’s EliteBook 2530p put in a strong showing, wowing us with its good looks, sturdy construction, and strong performance. Its succes…
Time flies, except when you tell it not to
The world is full of mysteries. What killed the dinosaurs? What is stored in Area 51? Why—oh dear goodness, why—does anyone think Dane Cook is funny? And now, there’s a new head-scratcher for that list: …
A mom-friendly digital entertainment system
Ripping CDs and DVDs is second nature to a Maximum PC reader. Your entire audio and video library is stored on a server, so you can access it from any of the several PCs in your home. You’ve assembled every…
Surprise! CableCARD is alive and awesome
DIY home-theater PC builders have waited a long time for a product like Ceton’s InfiniTV 4. Drop one of these cards in your machine, insert the multi-stream CableCARD you acquired from your digital cable–TV …
When building, optimizing, or troubleshooting a computer, an adept hardware monitor is an extremely useful tool. HWMonitor allows you to keep track of all of your system’s important vital stats, and because it’s created by CPUID, creators of CPU-Z…
These 29 essential PC skills define the core competency of any power user
Do you consider yourself a power user? It’s a tough question. After all, where do you draw the line? Hardware hacking? Command-line skills? Unix?
As we sat down to answer this …