In the new PCFormat
January 2011
The Ultimate PSU Supertest – Fourteen PSUs get rated, from the humble 500W Silverstone Strider to the monstrous 1500W Thermaltake Toughpower. This month’s feature includes a load of background into what PSU is, what it does and an explanation on how to calculate how much grunt your beast needs.
Chassis Case Study – Six cases, studied, examined, rated and revealed. Antec, Corsair, Coolermaster, Lian-Li, Thermaltake and Akasa units are picked apart so that you can choose which is most worthy of housing your precious PC.
Come get some! – Duke Nukem Forever has taken forever to come out (twelve years and counting) but Gearbox’s acquisition of the title means that release is closer than ever. We have got a preview for you of what has been seen and played so far.
Games!
A fair chunk of the most-waited-for titles across the gaming spectrum have made it into January’s issue. Call of Duty: Black Ops get shot at, Fallout: New Vegas is explored and F1 2011 winds up with a little time on the track. Deathspank, Lost Planet 2 and the weird-but-awesome take on Lara Croft, amongst others, make up the rest of the line-up for starting the New Year
Wired!
NVidia and AMD go head-to-head again as Mike pits the GTX 580 against the Radeon HD 6970. A Philips monitor blows us away in the price and quality stakes and we have tried to cram in as much other quality stuff as possible to fill up the first issue of the year. Motherboards, laptops, headsets, GPUs and coolers get the Treatment. Oh, and we show you how to make an iPod dock adaptor.
The Usual Suspects
Memes are up for a little payback this month and the LAN calendar for Jan is already packed. Liberty, FRAG Arena, Organised Chaos, Proximity, Forge and FRAG (again) will be happening, hopefully near you. Someone gave Luis permission to make his pages pink for some reason and let us not forget the Letters from the folks who read the mag (that’s YOU, and if it isn’t then it should be).
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