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Maximum PC's Gear Of The Year 2003
Graphics Card
***ATI Radeon 9800XT $500
CPU
***AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 $800
Game Controller
***Saitek P3000 Wireless Gamepad $40
Small FormFactor Bare-Bones PC
***Shuttle XPC SB61G2 $350
DVD Burner
***Plextor PX-708A $280
Soundcard
***Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum $200
Case
***Cooler Master Wave Master Tac-T01 $158
PDA
*** Hewlett Packard iPaq 5555 $650
Athlon XP Chipset
***nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400
Speakers
***Logitech Z-680 $400
Notebook HDD
***Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 $265
CD Burner
***Plextor PlexWriter Premium $116
Pentium 4 Chipset
***Intel 875P
Budget Videocard
***ATI Radeon 9600Pro $200
Mouse
***Logitech MX700 $80
External Storage
***Mercury On-The-Go 60GB $400
MP3 Player
***Apple iPod $500
Harddrive
***Western Digital 360GD Raptor $190
Monitor
***Sony F520 CRT $1600
Notebook
***Voodoo Envy M460 $3515
These prices are a little high, but that it just what they have in the magazine.
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CPU Showdown
Athlon 64 FX-51 vs. Apple G5 vs. Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
The Test/Winner
Mathematics 5.0/ Athlon 64
SETI@Home/ Athlon 64
UT2003/ Intel P4EE
Jedi Outcast/ Intel P4EE
Quake III/ Intel P4EE
InDesign 2.0 Export to PDF/ Intel P4EE
Photoshop 7.0.1 All Filters/ Intel P4EE
Photoshop 7.0.1 Mac Addict Filters/ Apple G5
Bibble/MacBibble/ Apple G5
QuickTime 6.3 Export to MOV/ Apple G5
Compressor "Fast" vs. Procoder "High-Speed"/ Athlon & P4EE
Compressor "High-Quality" vs. Procoder 1.5 "Mastering"/ Apple G5
Overall Winner....Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition!
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These computers were talked about in one of their issues. It looks really awesome and is obviously for gaming. The red and yellow ones are gorgeous
HyperSonic PCs
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