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Anyone can buy a PC.  Most of you astute Maximum PC readers can build a PC.  And an elite cadre of you can even build a tricked-out PC with lights, and tubes of fluid flying everywhere, and a beautiful side panel that shows off your system’s tricked-out insides.

But the last thing that you’ll want to see through your pretty plexiglass is a PC that’s covered in dust.  In fact, you don’t want to have a dirty PC regardless of your level of desktop sophistication: It can lead to system overheating, it’s gross, and it only gets worse the longer … [Read More...]

Toshiba has finally updated their high-end gaming laptop line with the new X770 model. This is a hefty desktop replacement unit, but it has slimmed down compared to the last generation. Still, it doesn’t compromise on the specs. The X770 can blow a lot of desktops out of the water.

The X770 has a 17-3-inch 1920×1080 screen (the old X505 had a 18.4-inch display). At its heart lay the Intel Core i7-2630QM processor, 8GB of RAM, and 1.25TB of storage space in the form of two hard drives. Of course, it wouldn’t be much of a gaming laptop without a … [Read More...]

The Asus GTX 590 takes on the AMD Radeon HD 6990 in a battle of the dual GPU cards. Win, lose or dead heat? We put them to the test.

Hot on the heels of AMD’s Radeon HD 6990 dual-GPU monster, Nvidia is putting the pedal to the metal with its own dual GPU video card. The GTX 590 implements a pair of full GF110 CPUs, each with its own 1.5GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory, all 1,024 shader units and a custom cooler. There are, however, some compromises. The core clocks are set to 607MHz—substantially down from the 772MHz of … [Read More...]

In this guest post, James Ricketts explores the basics of computer drivers. Find out more about James at the end of this post.

Device Drivers – An Introduction

Computer operating systems, such as Windows, Linux and Mac, and hardware components, such as sound cards, memory cards, and video cards do not speak the same language. To communicate effectively, hardware devices and operating systems require an interface. This interface is provided by device drivers. These drivers enable the computer operating system and installed software to communicate with the hardware devices.

In this article, you will learn:

• Why it is necessary to use

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Are you confused by the barrage of video cables available today?  Let’s take a look at the most important video cables today, HDMI and DVI, and see what’s the differences between the two.

A decade ago, it was much easier to figure out how to get your TV connected to your devices, especially since most people only had a VCR.  Our screens were smaller, the quality was worse, but the world was simpler.  Today you can hardly walk in an electronics store without getting pressured to buy a several hundred dollar HDMI cable just … [Read More...]