Maximum PC Magazine is the ultimate upgrade for savvy PC owners. Written for the home PC user, Maximum PC is packed with breaking news, interviews with industry leaders, tips and techniques, in-depth reviews, and more.

Maximum PC is the ultimate upgrade for savvy PC owners. Every issue is packed with breaking news, tons of tips & techniques, and the most in-depth reviews anywhere.

Designed for the rabid PC hobbyist, Maximum PC brings tons of news and reviews written in an irreverent, edgy style. Full disclosure is the modus operandi here, and there's an almost overwhelming amount of tech specs and features for each product that's discussed, tweaked, stretched, shaken, and stirred.

Whether you want to upgrade your CPU or compare the newest motherboards and graphics cards, Maximum PC is a great resource for all your PC computing needs. --Michael Lewis (Amazon.com)

Each issue of Maximum PC features:

    * Brutally honest product reviews
    * Hard-hitting editorials
    * Tips to blast your machine’s performance
    * Insightful and innovative How-To’s
    * A CD loaded with new software, utility and game demos

Visit Maximum PC Magazine, January 2009 download Page

You can download the entire magazine in PDF format.

FEATURES
25 Awesome Upgrades The best PC upgrades in every price range.
36 Protect Your PC
We put 10 of the most popular antivirus programs to the test to see which will protect you best.
52 Android Revealed
Find out how the Google-powered HTC G1 stacks up against its rivals.

It All Started with a Videocard Upgrade...

Beware the danger of upgrade creep—the single-part upgrade that starts small and gradually morphs into building a completely new system.

It can happen to you. It happened to me.

It started innocently enough. In honor of this holiday gaming season, I decided to upgrade my videocard. That videocard upgrade caused a cycle of in-game crashes that prompted further intervention, starting with a simple power-supply swap and ending when I realized my 18-month-old install of 64-bit Vista had reached the end of its road. So with a Windows reinstall looming, I figured I should take care of any other significant upgrades at the same time. ...

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