The Almighty
COD: MW2
Epic Game, Epic Controversy

DIRECT X11 GAMING
M$ Hype or Hotness?

THERE'S MORE...
Windows 7 tips & tricks
Router roundup
Why full HD looks bad
Intel roadmap

Hardcore Advice
BEST VALUE GRAPHICS
Stack Your Deck With Budget GPUs

GET READY FOR WINDOWS 7
Prepare Your Rig for the Hottest OS Ever!

GAMING ADDICTION
Digital Drugs or Modern Myth?

THERE'S MORE...
Gaming keyboards mashed
ATi5 series roundup
Piracy

Holy Silicon
BEST-EVER CPU!
Intel Core i5: jaw-dropping performance and value

95% COULD THIS BE THE GAME OF YEAR?
REVIEW: Batman: Arkham Asylum

THERE'S MORE!
Get More From Your Rig
P55 Boards, RAM and Coolers
Mac versus PC
Secure your Data

AMD & INTEL SHOWDOWN
The Ultimate Test
AMD: still best for budget gameing?

TWEAK: Give Windows a Huge Boost

IT COMPANIES CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN
The biggest techno-shenanigan's ever

THERE'S MORE...
Gigabyte: behind the scenes
Core i5 specs revealed
Real Time Strategy classics!

OVERCLOCK CORE i7
Ultimate Guide: Hit 3.7GHz with
Intel's stunning new budget CPU

BOOT WINDOWS FASTER AND
RUN YOUR RIG SMOOTHER
How to optimize services in Windows

THERE'S MORE...
Upgrade your PSU
Top 5 Hackers
RAM supertest

SUPERTEST
12 DUAL-CARD WONDERS
SLI vs CrossFire
All the latest GPUs definitively rated

HOW TO: UNLOCK THE PHENOM'S FOURTH CORE AND OVERCLOCK IT
Push AMD's triple-core to the limit

THERE'S MORE...
NVIDIA ION picked apart
Phones! N97, N75 and the Androids
Viruses: How to fight back

How to master Demigod

Assassin's Creed 2
Climbing the Walls

Tweak Fallout 3
Plus: Broken Steel

INSIDE:
Acer Aspire Revo / OCZ Blade & Vertex
Samsung NC20 & MSi / GT729 Notebooks / Evetech i7 Rig

DEMOS
Overlord 2
SBK 09
Dawn of Discovery/Anno 1404

PLUS
Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 Advanced
Dead Rising 2

SUPERTEST
PANEL SHOW
6 of the BEST PC Screens

THERE'S MORE...
Phorm - Big Bro 2.0
Become a game coder
Customise your desktop

AMD BUDGET SUPERCOMPUTER
Make your own on a shoe string!

Demigod: Heaven or Hell?

Inside:
GTX 275
PHENOM 955
Company of Heroes
ATI 4770
ASUS MAX II Gene
Empire: Total War
XPS one

DEMOS:
Battlestations Pacific
The Last Remnant
Wanted: WoF

PLUS:
K/Ubuntu 64 & 32
COD5 1.4 Patch & Maps
Plus much more

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Need for Speed Undercover – Reaching new heights in his hostage negotiation prowess, Nick secures the new NFS hottie Maggie Q for our cover and also has a few brief words with her. See what she has to say on gaming in general and Need for Speed in particular

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Meet the new Lara Croft – After much negotiation we present to you our cover model, in a PCF exclusive. We also interview the lady in person at Leipzig and get a little preview of the new title, Tomb Raider Underworld

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GTX 200s vs. 4800s – Two cards each from ATI and NVIDIA’s stables are present and accounted for, butting heads for your amusement. Find out who scores the top spot in this issue.

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IN THE NEW PCFormat
August 2008

AMD Phenom X3 – A first look at AMD’s range of tri-core CPU units. We put them through their paces with some pretty surprising results