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74470 81182 0 1> 01> 0474470 81182 ® January 2007 • Vol 7 Issue 01 Frontside 6 What’s Happening 14 Digital Economy 15 The Saint Happy Vista New Year! The Experts Alex St. John The Saint Page 15 Alex “Sharky” Ross The Shark Tank Spotlight Page 32 Anand Lal Shimpi Anand’s Corner Time For A Review Page 30 50 The Best Power User Technology In 2006 (& Beyond) Components We Crave 52 Prime Parts For Your PC’s Fix Cool Inputs & Outputs Peripherals That Shined In 2006 Barry Brenesal 58 The Cutting Edge Page 95 Exceptional Executables Rob “CmdrTaco” 62 Applications That Sang Malda Mike Magee The Department Shavings From Of Stuff Who’s Got Next The Rumour Mill Page 87 66 PC Parts To Look Forward To Page 100 Rahul Sood Wagging The Dog Copyright 2007 by Sandhills Publishing Company. Computer Power User is a trademark of Sandhills Publishing Page 101 Company. All rights reserved. Reproduction of material appearing in Computer Power User is strictly prohibited without written permission. Printed in the U.S.A. GST # 123482788RT0001 (ISSN 1536-7568) CPU Computer Pete Loshin Power User USPS 020-801 is published monthly for $29 per year by Sandhills Publishing Company, 131 West Chris Pirillo Open Sauce Grand Drive, P.O. Box 82667, Lincoln, NE 68501. Subscriber Services: (800) 424-7900. Periodicals postage paid at Dialogue Box Page 82 Lincoln, NE. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Computer Power User, P.O. Box 82667, Lincoln, NE 68501. Page 81 Did you find the hidden CPU logo on our cover? Turn the page for the answer. Hard Hat Area Page 18 PC Modder 33 Tips & Tutorials 34 Blistering Broadband Modding A Cable Connection For Gears of War Heavy Gear Maximum Performance Tips & Tricks Page 91 38 Mad Reader Mod 96 Software Tips & Projects 16 Dream Hardware HP-Resurrection Server IE7: New Dog, New Tricks 40 Advanced Q&A Corner 98 Warm Up To Penguins 18 GeForce Of Nature 44 X-Ray Vision: Laser Nanoantenna Evolve To Encrypted Email Five 8800 GTXs Show Us Their Wares Bringing Terabytes To Optical Discs 46 White Paper: GDDR4 22 GeForce 8800 GTS Mini-Roundup What’s Cooking Graphics Memory That Delivers A Trio Of GTS Cards Go 100 Shavings From The Rumour Mill Processing Punch Without Sucking Power Head-To-Head-To-Head Hail Caesar! Is It Snowing Outside? 101 Wagging The Dog 24 Pioneer BDR-101A Loading Zone What, Me Manipulate You? Asus EN7950GT/HTDP/512M 70 The Bleeding Edge Of Software 103 Technically Speaking Inside The World Of Betas An Interview With Joe Wilcox, Senior 25 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 72 Up To Speed Analyst For JupiterResearch Upgrades That’ll Keep You 106 Under Development 26 ATI Radeon X1650 XT Humming Along A Peek At What’s Brewing Plextor PlexEraser 74 Protect Yourself From Phishy Web Sites In The Laboratory A Roundup Of Antiphishing Software 28 Maingear F131 CrossFire 79 Arts PDF Nitro PDF Professional Back Door PCMesh Anonymous Web Surfing 5.0 108 Q&A With Ted Hoff 29 Logitech diNovo Edge 80 Steganos Safe 2007 Chip Pioneer On The Evolution Of CPUs, Village Tronic VTBook PictureRetitle 1.0.0.1 His Collection & More 81 Dialogue Box 30 Anand’s Corner Software Will Never Know Everything CORRECTIONS: Yet Another AMD-Intel Update, 82 Open Sauce On page 30 of the December issue, we incorrectly This Time For ’07 Competing With An 800-Pound Gorilla printed in the text of our Cyberpower Gamer Infinity SLI KO that the system produced a 32 The Shark Tank 3DMark06 score of 1551. 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