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Best SSDs For The Money: May 2012
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We're updating this month's recommendations after the introduction of Intel's SSD 330. But the new drives don't affect the outcome of today's story because one vendor in particular is going crazy with price-cutting that earns it several mentions from us.
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Five Budget Gaming Cases Reviewed
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Mainstream cases priced between $80-120 seem to be the most popular with our readers. But there's a huge range of quality and features in that segment. Today we build up five cases from our recent picture story preview to see how well each model performs.
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Overclocking Core i7-3770K: Learning To Live With Compromise
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We recently took our first look at Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture. Then, we evaluated its efficiency. Now, we turn to overclocking. Recently, each of Intel's die shrinks has helped increase frequency headroom. This time, however, we ran into some walls.
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Act Of Valor: Bandito Brothers' Jacob Rosenberg, Interviewed
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Worldwide editor-in-chief Chris Angelini interviews Jacob Rosenberg, CTO of Bandito Brothers, the media company responsible for "Act of Valor." They talk about the marriage of technology and film-making, overcoming bottlenecks, and the future of Bandito.
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Core i5-3570K, -3550, -3550S, And -3570T: Ivy Bridge Efficiency
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After recommending Sandy Bridge last year, we weren't particularly impressed by the new Ivy Bridge-based Core i7-3770K as an upgrade. But are Intel's more mainstream third-gen Core i5 processors any more attractive? We grab four models to find out.
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: May 2012
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This month's update includes Intel's much anticipated Ivy Bridge-based processors, and how their introduction to the market affects our recommendations. In addition, AMD's new Trinity APU is discussed, and we consider its formidable graphics prowess.
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Intel SSD 330 Review: 60, 120, And 180 GB Models Benchmarked
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Intel recently introduced its SSD 330 family, positioned ahead of the SSD 320s and below the SSD 520s. Like the company's highest-end models, these drives employ SandForce's controller technology. We bought all three capacities and ran our tests on them.
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AMD A10-4600M Review: Mobile Trinity Gets Tested
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AMD steps up to the plate with an all-new processor. Armed with the updated Piledriver CPU core and VLIW4 graphics architecture, the Trinity APU represents an impressive improvement over the Llano generation. But can it stand up to Intel's best efforts?
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Core i7-3720QM: Ivy Bridge Makes Its Mark On Mobility
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We've already seen that Ivy Bridge doesn't make much of a splash in the desktop space. But we collected notebooks based on Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Arrandale, and AMD's mobile Llano, and found that the new architecture's effect on mobility is profound.
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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: May 2012
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This month we cover continued GeForce GTX 680 availability problems, compounded by a lack of GeForce GTX 690s, and other Kepler-derived products on the horizon. We also discuss some significant price drops, and call out a couple of special deals.
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GeForce GTX 670 2 GB Review: Is It Already Time To Forget GTX 680?
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Not like it was ever really widely available anyway, right? The GeForce GTX 670 offers most of GK104's on-chip resources, doesn't give up much performance, and costs £100 less. Now, let's see if Nvidia can make enough of them to satisfy demand.
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Video Teaser: Radeon HD 7800 Series Remains A Solid Value
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Two months after the Radeon HD 7800-series cards first launched, they remain strong performers at attractive prices. We recap our coverage of the Radeon HD 7870 and 7850, discuss why we still like them, and cover one caveat for multi-GPU gamers.
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