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Q&A: Tom's Hardware And Kingston On SSD Technology

Now waist-deep in the SSD game, Kingston has a lot of know-how and industry insight on all things memory-related. We sat down with two of the company's insiders for a different perspective on some of today’s biggest SSD questions. More

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Touch-Screen HTPC: Three Premium Cases Compared

With ATI's Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs and Intel's Clarkdale-based processors coming loaded with multi-media functionality, it's a great time to build an HTPC. We compare three enclosures from Moneual, Thermaltake, and Zalman, all priced very differently. More

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ATI Radeon HD 5450: Eyefinity And HTPCs For Everyone?

Spoiler alert: ATI's Radeon HD 5450 is the first DirectX 11 card we've seen with outright poor gaming performance. But with its low price tag, does this Radeon deliver solid value to the masses, or should you be setting your sights a little bit higher? More

Motherboard articles

PCIe And CrossFire Scaling: Does Nvidia's NF200 Fix P55?

The P55 chipset proved woefully inadequate for adding a third graphics card to our most recent CrossFireX configuration. Does attaching Nvidia’s nForce 200 PCIe bridge to the processor’s on-die controller fix the problem? In short, yes. Yes it does. More

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Build your own

System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2009: System Value Compared

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Our mid-priced and high-end systems are ready to challenge the notion of value supremacy for low-cost parts. Will Intel’s latest architecture provide enough performance to break the $700 machine’s value winning monopoly? How do ATI's new GPUs factor in? More

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Business Computing

High-Capacity Business Hard Drives: Biggest Of The Bunch

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The Seagate Barracuda LP, WD Caviar RAID Edition 4, Hitachi Deskstar E series, and Samsung Spinpoint F2 EcoGreen battle for the attention of business users. Who offers best performance and efficiency? We test the latest drives with up to 2 TB to find out. More

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Cases & cooler articles

Overclocking On Air: 10 LGA 1156-Compatible Performance Coolers

Intel’s latest Core i5 and Core i7 processors for the LGA 1156 interface are great overclockers, but they still have thermal limits. Today we compare nine coolers that can take clock speeds to the next level. Read on if you have 4 GHz+ ambitions. More

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Memory articles

High-Density DDR3: Five Dual-Module 8GB Kits Compared

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A high-end capacity formerly reserved for servers and DDR2-based desktops (back when memory was dirt-cheap), 4GB modules are finally available for desktop DDR3 users. We test five 8GB dual-channel kits you might want to consider if 8GB makes sense. More

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