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Issue 24 'BUILD US YOUR FASTEST PC!' January 03
CONTENTS
Section Article Page
editorial Off the shelf hot boxes 6
news RAMBUSted 8
   COMD-ex? 8
  Perpendicular gigabytes 8
  GeStrap Quadro4 10
  Atomican 10
  What's HOT, What's NOT 10
technica
obscura		 A different point of view 12
z-access Red arse fury 14
ground zero LCDs, CRTs and geese 16
hot box atomic's Hot Boxes page:
Chris' Sk8er bOx
silhouette's night box		 18
  Stinky Dave's Brown Box
Coldfish's Arcade-a-tron		 19
gearbox     bit grast mouse
GlobalWin Crystal Fan
Tri-Colour Cold Cathode Kit
Cooler Master RAM sinks
EL Glowire Sound Sensitive Kit
ABIT Serillel adaptor
Cooler Master faceplates
Transparent, rounded IDE cable		 20

scanner    For PC

 Black And White 2 22
For Xbox Racing Evoluzione 22
For XboxFor PlayStation 2

Starcraft: Ghost

 23

For PC

Praetorians

 24
For PC

Rainbow Six: Raven Shield

 25
x-ray

FX rising

26
head to head RADEON 9500 vs GeForce4 Ti4200 30
feature

Hail SATA!

 34
feature

Flying off the shelf: Ten pre-built hot boxes:
  Glacier 9114
  Apollo Ipower 2X
  Blue Thing
  Nforcer Pro 2800
  Legend 2700 XP
  X-Gamer-Pro
  The Stingray
  Atomic 625
  Vitesse R4 3000
  AIT T5

 38
reviews Excellence in eloquence 48
  Atomic Benchmarks
  BAPCo
  MadOnion.com
  SiSoftware		 50

 

 Framerate: New graphics cards and CPUs
  HIS Excalibur RADEON 9700 PRO
  Sapphire RADEON 9500 PRO
  Albatron Ti4280PV
   MSI Ti4200-VTD8x
  Albatron GF4 MX 440 AGP 8x		 52
  Jaton Video-158PCI-64Twin 54
  Jaron Deluxe watercooling kit 54

Hot product

 Gigabyte GA-8INXP motherboard 56
  Auriga CAS2002P4 m-ATX case 58

 

 Protac AIO all-in-one slimline PC 58

 Hot product

 Logitech MX series mice 60

Hot product

 Logitech Logitech Freedom 2.4 60
   Sigma RealMagic XCard 62
  Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop for Bluetooth 62
  Neovo S-19 19" LCD screen 64

 

 Swann wireless Pencam 64

Hot product

 VL System Lost in Space LCD Indicator 66

Hot product

 Sony DRU500A DVD burner 66
games The sound of gaming 68
Hot productFor PlayStation 2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 70
Hot productFor Xbox Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 71
Hot productFor PlayStationFor PlayStation 2For Xbox
For Game CubeFor Game Boy AdvanceFor PC		 Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 72
Hot productFor PC Age of Mythology 73
Hot productFor PC Hitman 2: Silent Assassin 74
Hot productFor Game Cube Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem 76

For PlayStation 2

 Auto Modellista 78

For Xbox

 AFL Live 2003 80
i/o i/o, i/o, it's broken, dear god no!
  Recovering Windows XP using administrator's account private key
  The GNU Image Manipulation Program (The GIMP)		 82
Phr33x
tw33x		 Getting Windows XP services working better for you 85
subscription Get It Inta Ya: Win an nVidia GeForce FX! 86
tutorial Search for a super model: 3D tutorial v1.0
  3ds max5		 88
competition Xmasty: Funkalicious Xmas booty 94
post
apocalypse		 Let us
  POTM: How to post technical questions to forums		 96
fallout Keeping abreast 98
Cover of Issue 24 Short Circuits
AMD hits hard times and diversifies.
P2P networks under review at US colleges.
'Clawhammer' becomes 'Athlon 64'.
Black holes suck.
 

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