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Seven $260-$320 X79 Express Motherboards, Reviewed Thursday 12 January 2012 – 05:10 – Motherboards
With 40 lanes of PCIe 3.0 connectivity to host all of our high-bandwidth devices, LGA 2011 certainly qualifies as a premium processor interface. ... read more
Power Supply Reference: Consumption, Savings, And More Wednesday 11 January 2012 – 05:10 – Power Supplies
In this final excerpt from Scott Mueller's Upgrading And Repairing PCs, 20th Edition, we examine a number of power supply usage factors including ... read more
In Pictures: The Best Graphics Card Values In History Tuesday 10 January 2012 – 01:10 – Graphics Cards
A few months ago, we published a list of the fastest, most powerful graphics cards from their respective generations. This time around we honor ... read more
In Pictures: 2011, A Year In Review Tuesday 10 January 2012 – 01:10 – Miscellaneous
Another year has come and gone. Do you remember everything that happened in 2011? Before you toss out your old calendar, we remember major ... read more
Nokia Lumia 710 Review: Windows Phone 7 On A Budget Monday 9 January 2012 – 05:10 – Software
Nokia's Lumia 710 is designed to make Windows Phone 7 accessible to the masses. How does it fare under our test suite? You might be surprised. ... read more
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Web Browser Grand Prix VIII: Chrome 16, Firefox 9, And Mac OS X Friday 6 January 2012 – 05:10 – Software
Back in August, Mozilla took the WBGP crown with Firefox 7. Can Firefox 9 retain that title? And how are the top Web browsers doing in Mac OS X? ... read more
60/64 GB SSD Shootout: Crucial, Samsung, And SandForce Thursday 5 January 2012 – 05:10 – Internal Storage
It's easy to forget that lower-capacity SSDs are also usually slower. Today we're testing the most prolific 60/64 GB configurations to gauge ... read more
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: January 2012 Wednesday 4 January 2012 – 05:10 – Graphics Cards
The new year promises availability of AMD's new Radeon HD 7970 3 GB. Also, we see a spate of surprise price shifts that change some of our most ... read more
Eurocom Racer: Radeon HD 6990M In A Truly Mobile Form Factor Tuesday 3 January 2012 – 05:10 – Notebooks
Sporting awesome gaming performance and low power draw, the only thing missing from our previous Radeon HD 6990M benchmarks was an efficient, ... read more
Samsung Series 7 11.6" Slate: Breathing New Life Into Tablet PCs Monday 2 January 2012 – 05:10 – Notebooks
Tablet PCs are a dying breed, and Windows 8 is still at least a year away. Until we see what Microsoft's next operating system has to offer, one ... read more
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Best SSDs For The Money: December 2011 Thursday 29 December 2011 – 05:10 – Internal Storage
Welcome to the last column of 2011. We updated our recommendations to reflect the recent price drops on second-gen SandForce hardware. There are ... read more
OCZ Octane 512 GB Review: Meet Indilinx's Everest Controller Wednesday 28 December 2011 – 07:20 – Internal Storage
What? A performance SSD from OCZ not based on SandForce's tech? The new Octane SSD features an Indilinx controller. Does OCZ rectify the ... read more
Four High-End Quad-Channel DDR3 Memory Kits For X79, Reviewed Tuesday 27 December 2011 – 05:10 – Tweaking & Tuning
You just bought the fastest (and most expensive) desktop platform on the planet. Which company's memory will you use to populate Intel's ... read more
AMD's Bulldozer Architecture: Overclocking Efficiency Explored Monday 26 December 2011 – 05:10 – CPU
AMD’s FX processor line-up was supposedly designed with efficiency in mind, according to AMD. We're putting this claim to the test, assessing the ... read more
System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2011: System Value Compared Friday 23 December 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
A 20% budget boost for this quarter’s machines gave every builder room to fix former foibles, yet only the cheapest system showed big performance ... read more

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