October 2006
The new PCFormat has landed! And it’s packed with all manner of computer wizardry!
Our desktops are Pushed To The Limit! We find the perfect combination of CPU GPU and RAM for that holy grail of performance – overclocking. Result!
Everything You Need To Know About Cooling: just about everyone goes with air cooling, but how does water cooling stack up? And thermo-electric? We tell you which heat-dispelling method to go for.
GAMES!
Take war-play into the future and go behind the scenes of Battlefield 2142. There’s plenty of gaming goodness to look forward to, like Dark Messiah’s Crusade mode, and news on the upcoming Half-Life: Episode Two and Infernal. There’s an in-depth review on Prey, as well as Pirates Of The Caribbean, Age Of Pirates, Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, Darkstar One, Flatout 2 and Civilization IV: Warlords!
WORKSHOPS!
Pay attention, students! In this issue we get you started on building an island in Oblivion. Then we move onto silencing your PC, before teaching you a few simple ways to speed up Windows. Last but not least: improve any video with Neuview. Full marks!
PLUS!
The secret life of motherboards! And fading memory: are higher latencies a worthy trade-off for faster RAM speed? We review the Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X6800. In State Of The Art we examine the comeback of early 3D champ, Power VR.
WIN
PC Format is giving away five sets of wicked Philips Sonic Vibes gaming headphones! And there’s a copy of HTML In Easy Steps to be won. Buy the October 2006 issue to find competition entry details. Don’t forget to sign up for the PCFormat newsletter, to do this click "Your Account" - "Your Info" and choose yes for the "Receive Newsletter by Email?" option.
ON THE DVD
Side 1
Full Products
Asmw PC-Optimizer Pro 6.1
Asmw PC-Optimizer Pro 7.7 (Trial)
GCH Guitar Academy SE
Neuview Media Player Professional 6.05
Demos
Caesar IV
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Joint Task Force
Maelstrom
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
LEGO Star Wars 2
General
12Ghosts 8.0
BackonTrack Home
BootIt NG 1.77
CorelDraw Graphics Suite X3 SP1
ewido Anti-Spyware 4.0.0.172
FollowUpXpert Professional 3.3.634
FontCreator 5.5
Gene6 FTP Server 3.8.0
Incredimail 5
OutDisk FTP for Outlook 1.0.15
Pegasus Mail 4.42
Spyware Doctor 4
The Dude 2.0 beta 3
Visual MP3 Splitter & Joiner 5.0
WS_FTP Pro 2007
In the Mag
Oblivion TES Construction Set
Adventure Game Studio
ArtRage
Blender
Side 2
Demos
F.E.A.R. Combat
El Matador
The Sims 2 An Introduction
Game Mods
Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion – Blunderbuss
Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion - Charok Grand Hall
Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion - City of Bartholm
Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion - PJ's Spell Compendium v2.0
Half-Life 2 - Neoforts v1.72
Half-Life 2 - Shantytown Mod
UT2004 - Chase the Chicken Mod
Drivers
ATI
NVidia
Gamers Tools
Fraps
Gamer's Internet Tunnel
GameShadow
Qtracker
Xfire
Free Software
AbiWord 2.4.5
Belarc Advisor 7.1h
Blender 2.42
Clock Tray Skins 3.4
Comodo AntiVirus 1.1
Core FTP LE 1.3c (build 1447.6)
EssentialPIM Free 1.82
Faststone Capture 4.1
FileZilla 2.2.26
Firefox Backup Extension 3.0
Free Download Manager 2
Folder Size 2.3
Fresh Download 1.60
Gizmo Project 2.0.0.178
Google Desktop 4.2006
Hamachi for Windows 1.0.0.58
K-Meleon 1.0
MediaMonkey 2.53
MemInfo 1.76.1
OpenedFilesView 1.01
PFrank 1.71
Process Explorer 10.2
RegMon 7.03
Shutter 2.80
SIW 1.62
Total Organizer 0.9
True X-Mouse Gizmo 1.4
JAlbum 6.5
SmartFTP 2.0 Build 996
Steganos LockNote 1.03
Game Patches
Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Patch v1.1
Rise & Fall Civilizations at War Patch v1.9
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown - Retail Patch v1.01
