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PERFORMANCE & GAMING
issue 184 | July 2012
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SOAP BOX‘Holy third dimension Batman, this month PCFormat is’ *Slap*. ‘We know.’That’s right readers, we went the whole hog this month and present to you a 3D E3 bonanza, 100% home-grown. Having just finished the final planning for how E3 is going to be covered, most of us have resigned ourselves to the nightmare of work still to come, getting all of this goodness to you on time. Three of our intrepid reporters will be sending about 30 pages of midnight oil back here over four days of E3, just days before print. It will be converted into something legible, laid out and sent to print for your hot-off-the-press satisfaction.It’s going to be a killer month and we hope you enjoy all the extras. If you aren’t 3D or E3 inclined, we still have a jam-packed edition filled with the usual guts and glory tech you need. NVIDIA’s latest is on trial along with a battery of gaming laptops. We took a bit of a break from motherboards and opted to look at the more peripheral bits like storage and RAM, not to mention one of the sexiest Android phones we have ever seen. There are lots more to do and see in the land of PCF. There’s a piece on supercomputers, a guide to mounting your PC on the wall, running Android, recovering lost pr0n files and so much more. And that’s before the games and our exclusive with Company of Heroes. We really hope you enjoy this special edition of PCFormat; it’s been a blast putting it together. Happy paging
Nicholas Boerma, Editor
PUBLISHER Urs Honegger
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Gerard PeterEDITOR Nicholas BoermaG3AR MANAGING EDITOR Dawid VenterSTAFF WRITER Brett VenterHARDWARE WRITER Michael Reed MANAGING EDITOR Kate KennedySENIOR SUB EDITOR Vanessa KoekemoerSUB EDITORS Brigitte Billings, Christine Clark
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PCFormat’s AMD Test Bench is kindly provided by the following brands
SpecificationsAMD FX-8150 @ 3.6GHzAsus Crosshair V Formula4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1800AMD Radeon HD 6990Seagate 160GB SATA-II HDDKingston HyperX 128GB SSD
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PERFORMANCE & GAMING
4 July 2012
Connect to the World-Wide-Web with these amazing products from Huawei Mobile:
> Huawei HG532c• WiFi ADSL2+ 3G Router• 4x10/100 Ethernet Port• 1x Standard Phone Port• 5 WiFi b/g/n users• USB port for fail over to a Huawei 3G modem
> Huawei E5832S• Wireless 3G device• E5832S: 7.2mbps• E586: 21mbps• 5 WiFi b/g/n users • SIM is physically inserted into the device• Micro SD card slot• 1500mA Li Battery: 5 working hours
> Huawei B660• Wireless 3G Router • 7.2mbps• 4x10/100 Ethernet Port• 1x Standard Phone Port• SIM is physically inserted into the device• SMA connector for external antenna• 32 WiFi b/g/n users
> Huawei B683• Wireless 3G Router • 21mbps• 4x10/100 Ethernet Port• Data only• SIM is physically inserted into the device• SMA connector for external antenna• 32 WiFi b/g/n users
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> Huawei HG532c• WiFi ADSL2+ 3G Router• 4x10/100 Ethernet Port• 1x Standard Phone Port• USB port for fail over to a Huawei 3G modem• Up to 5 users
> Huawei E586• Wireless 3G device• Speed 21mbps• 5 WiFi b/g/n users • Micro SD card slot• Creates WiFi Hotspot• 1500mA Li Battery• Up to 5 users
> Huawei B660• Wireless 3G Router • Speed 7.2mbps• 4x10/100 Ethernet Port• 1x Standard Phone Port• SIM is physically inserted into the device• SMA connector for external antenna• Up to 32 users
> Huawei B683• Wireless 3G Router • Speed 21mbps• 4x10/100 Ethernet Port• Data only• SIM is physically inserted into the device• SMA connector for external antenna• Up to 32 users
RegulaRs 04 Ed’s note08 Competition09 PCF LAN calendar10 Your letters 14 Memes62 Ask Luis87 Subscriptions96 Topics of discussion
WiRed ReVieWs24 EVGA GTX 69026 NVIDIA GTX 67028 WD Velociraptor 1TB RAID 30 Zotac GTX670 AMP! Edition32 Crucial Adrenaline Cache Drive34 Corsair Performance Pro36 ECS Z77H2-AX38 Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB40 Transcend SSD720 128GB42 HTC One X / Kingston
DataTraveler Elite 3.0 64GB
gRoup tests16 Gaming notebooksMobile monsters that promise frags
FeatuRes44 Supercomputer warfare50 Wall-mount your PC54 Android on your PC58 Recover lost files
24 Kepler doubles down Contents#184/07.12
92 I always knew a fez was cool
play pReVieWs68 Company of Heroes 272 Guild Wars 2
ReVieWs76 Tera78 The Walking Dead: Episode 1
G3AR pReVieWs 82 Crysis 3
ReVieWs 84 The Witcher 290 Silent Hill HD Collection92 Fez
68 The war ain’t over
28 Raptors go for the kill
6 July 2012