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LGA 1156 Memory Performance: What Speed DDR3 Should You Buy? Tuesday 8 December 2009 – 07:10 – Memory
We’ve seen how faster memory scales on Phenom II, Core 2, and Core i7 for LGA 1366. Now it’s time to analyze the impact of different memory ... read more
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: December '09 Monday 7 December 2009 – 07:10 – Graphics Cards
Increasing prices on the most popular graphics card and low availability mark (or mar?) this holiday season, changing some of our ... read more
Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 2 Monday 7 December 2009 – 05:41 – Tweaking & Tuning
In Part 1, we showed you how to optimize the settings of your Cool'n'Quiet-equipped processor and what sort of power benefits you could expect as ... read more
Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 1 Monday 7 December 2009 – 05:41 – Tweaking & Tuning
Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again. We ... read more
Mini-ITX: Two Cases And Four Motherboards Compared Friday 4 December 2009 – 07:10 – Desktops
Everyone cares about power consumption, so it’s important to realize that board-level integration has enabled a new breed of extremely small, ... read more
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Ubuntu 9.10: The Karmic Koala Benchmarked And Reviewed Thursday 3 December 2009 – 07:10 – Software
Is Ubuntu's latest release, the "Karmic Koala," any good, or just a bunch of hype? We've had a solid month to check it out and are ready to ... read more
Watch Blu-ray And Burn DVDs: Three Low-Cost Solutions Wednesday 2 December 2009 – 07:10 – Optical Storage
Combo drives have a long history of bringing value to people with simple burning needs. As prices for expensive Blu-ray media drops, we review ... read more
Part 2: Building A Balanced Gaming PC Tuesday 1 December 2009 – 07:10 – Build Your Own
What does it mean to build a truly-balanced PC? How great would it be to piece together a machine bottlenecked by neither CPU or GPU? We set ... read more
CPU Charts, An ATI Update, And Zotac's Mini-ITX Board Tuesday 1 December 2009 – 06:10 – Miscellaneous
Chris checks in with an update on our 2009 CPU Charts, pricing on ATI's Radeon HD 5800/5900s graphics cards, news of official bitstreaming ... read more
Which Networking Technology Is Right For Your Home? Monday 30 November 2009 – 07:10 – Miscellaneous
Powerline, MoCA, 802.11 wireless, or conventional Ethernet--which networking technology is right for your home? Netgear sent us product based on ... read more
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Are Premium Gaming Peripherals Worth Your Money? Thursday 26 November 2009 – 07:10 – Keyboards & Mice
Will the right gaming peripherals make you a better gamer? There are a number of high-end mouse, keyboard, and headset vendors out there who'd ... read more
Tom's Hardware's 2009 Gift Guide: Part 1, For System Builders Wednesday 25 November 2009 – 07:10 – Buyers Guides
Welcome to Part One of Tom's Hardware's Holiday Gift Guide. This first episode is geared toward those system builders planning to pool some ... read more
Radeon HD 5770, Radeon HD 4890, And GeForce GTX 275 Overclocked Tuesday 24 November 2009 – 07:10 – Graphics Cards
Can you hit the performance level of the next-fastest GPU by overclocking your graphics card? What is the impact on power consumption? Can your ... read more
Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: November '09 Monday 23 November 2009 – 07:10 – CPU
Welcome to another edition of our Best Gaming CPUs for the Money. This month we have a handful of AMD-based processor introductions to factor ... read more
Asus' G51J: Affordable Core i7 Mobile Gaming? Friday 20 November 2009 – 07:10 – Notebooks
Mobility and gaming have been at odds for a long time, but Asus thinks its G51J could be the solution. With Intel Core i7 Mobile CPU technology ... read more

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