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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
System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2011: $600 Gaming PC Wednesday 21 December 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
You've already seen our first two System Builder Marathon configurations, both of which are more expensive than last quarter's. Our entry-level ... read more
System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2011: $1200 Enthusiast PC Tuesday 20 December 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
We mix things up with a $1200 budget, a brutally powerful Radeon HD 6950 CrossFire combo, and AMD's new FX processor in the final mid-range ... read more
System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2011: $2400 Performance PC Monday 19 December 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
Lessons learned over the past two quarters have helped us build one of our fastest PCs yet. But is it really worth the extra $400 over the ... read more
Power Supply 101: A Reference Of Specifications Wednesday 14 December 2011 – 05:10 – Workstations
Today's article contains everything you've ever wanted to know about PC power supply specifications. Form factor dimensions, cable end pinouts, ... read more
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Building A Liquid-Cooled MicroATX Gaming Monster Wednesday 5 October 2011 – 05:10 – Desktops
You don't need a massive case to cram in tons of computing muscle. With a little help from a few manufacturers, our excessively-overclocked ... read more
System Builder Marathon, Sept. 2011: System Value Compared Monday 26 September 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
Big changes to a few components radically alter the performance profile of every machine in this quarter's competition. We’ve already seen how ... read more
System Builder Marathon, Sept. 2011: $500 Gaming PC Thursday 22 September 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
A few months ago, we built our $500 gaming PC using Intel's Sandy Bridge-based Core i3 processor, and it was a real screamer. This time around ... read more
System Builder Marathon, Sept. 2011: $1000 Enthusiast PC Wednesday 21 September 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
This quarter's $1000 enthusiast-oriented PC gets a new lease on life with a 30 GB solid-state drive and a couple of GeForce GTX 460s. Does that ... read more
System Builder Marathon, Sept. 2011: $2000 Performance PC Tuesday 20 September 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
Falling memory prices make it easier to spend our $2000 budget on the fastest available components. How much faster is a pair of GeForce GTX 580s ... read more
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System Builder Marathon, June 2011: Alternative $2000 PC Monday 27 June 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
You spoke up in the first story from this quarter's System Builder Marathon, and we listened. Today we compare that first $2000 build to an ... read more
System Builder Marathon, June 2011: Value Compared Friday 24 June 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
With so little happening in the hardware world since the beginning of this year, our second-quarter System Builder Marathon sees only minor ... read more
System Builder Marathon, June 2011: $500 Gaming PC Thursday 23 June 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
This quarter's $500 PC is sure to be a little controversial. We've built plenty of AMD-powered budget boxes in the past, but now we're testing ... read more
System Builder Marathon, June 2011: $1000 Enthusiast PC Wednesday 22 June 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
This quarter, we're keeping the Core i5-2500K processor from our previous build, but we're adding a pair of Radeon HD 6850s in CrossFire. How ... read more
System Builder Marathon, June 2011: $2000 Performance PC Tuesday 21 June 2011 – 05:10 – Buyers Guides
The launch of Intel's Z68 Express platform affects our build in a way we aren't benchmarking. But can we still put together a better ... read more

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