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External Hard Drive Charts
This page is updated on a regular basis and provides a unique resource for everybody who is looking for a desktop hard drive - whether it is for home or for business use. Our service allows for interactive performance comparison, real-time price/performance and costs per Gigabyte analysis.
2.5" Hard Drive Charts
Tom's Interactive 2.5" Hard Drive Charts compare notebook hard drives. Here you will find 2.5" UltraATA and Serial ATA hard drives manufactured by Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital. The charts include all popular capacities starting at 40 GB as well as listing hard drives running at 4,200, 5,400 or 7,200 RPM. 15 benchmarks help to determine application perforrmance and low-level performance, giving you all the throughput, access time, interface and I/O performance results. The 2.5" HDD Charts also include the Cost per Gigabyte calculation and our Price/Performance Index, which helps you to find the best bang for the buck. In addition, we measured power consumption of most the notebook hard drives, so you can see which models are energy efficient and which ones aren't.
Dual & Quad VGA Charts 2008
For users who want the highest graphics performance a system can provide they need to add more cards in dual and quad configurations. In these charts we test the best configurations of AMD's CrossFire and Nvidia's SLI. We wanted to take all the guesswork out of who is best in what game. This is the ultimate graphics resource tool for hardcore gamers and power users. Each configuration is run them through a battery of eight intensive tests including 7 real world gaming applications and one synthetic benchmark. * Battlefield 2142 * Dark Messiah of Might and Magic * Doom 3 * Microsoft Flight Simulator X * Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion * Prey * Warhammer: Mark of Chaos * 3DMark06 Our charts are interactive and regularly updated to enable you to make informed buying decisions. By clicking on a particular graphics card's performance bar you will see the test configuration. These charts are the answer to what a user needs: the best multi-video card configuration available for a particular price and application!

News

Power restored in Dublin Airport after brief power cut
Monday 3 December 2007 – 11:12 in Business
The power in Dublin Airport has been restored following a short outage this morning at around 8am.
Power-train makers turn to software firms
Friday 27 October 2000 – 07:38
Makers of automotive power-trains have traditionally written their own real time operating system (RTOS) software.
Intel touts direct DC power supplies for power savings
Thursday 28 September 2006 – 04:32
It should come as no surprise that server computers use a lot of electricity, but Intel's CTO Justin Rattner says much of that power is wasted. Speaking at IDF, Rattner said direct current power supply units - the ones that do not need AC power - could save an extra 14% over existing high-efficiency PSUs. A prototype DC PSU shown at the event achieved more than 90% efficiency.
Power-saving notebooks coming soon
Friday 17 March 2000 – 01:08
AMD is close to releasing a notebook computer feature aimed at extending battery life by throttling back clock speed and voltage on its forthcoming K6-2+ and K6-III+ mobile chips.
The World's First Wind-power Wristwatch: Yours For $143,000
Tuesday 6 May 2008 – 10:40 in Consumer Electronics
A wind powered watch? Sure, why not...

Articles & reviews

High Power For Power Users: 13 Power Supplies In The Spotlight*
Monday 9 June 2003 – 07:00
The latest CPUs and graphics cards require robust power supplies. But watch out: the test candidates rarely delivered on their power claims. Efficiency, voltage and noise levels are a few of the important factors you need to consider before you make a purchase.
Microsoft driver bug saps Core Duo power*
Saturday 28 January 2006 – 03:44
Connect any USB 2.0 device to your notebook and lose more than one hour of battery time: Tom's Hardware Guide's tests of a Windows-based Intel Core Duo mobile processor platform revealed a serious power consumption issue that, according to Intel, is caused by a Microsoft driver bug - a bug that has been known by Microsoft for some time, but kept from the public eye until today.
AMD Vs. Intel Power Consumption: Who Is The Real Winner?*
Friday 19 October 2007 – 10:12 in Hardware
AMD and Intel stress idle and max power use by their processors and platforms. To tell the whole story, we look at how much power typical systems consume over time, under different workloads.
Uninterruptible Power Supplies To The Rescue*
Thursday 16 August 2007 – 03:18 in Hardware
Most of us spend a lot of time selecting system components. The processor, motherboard, memory, graphics card and the hard drive are scrutinized carefully. Coolers and power supplies have also become almost as important. Users want the best bang for the
Workstation Power: ATi's FireGL X1 under Linux*
Tuesday 31 December 2002 – 06:00
The new OpenGL workstation graphics board from ATi is put to the test under Linux. THG will compare ATi's FireGL X1 with NVidia's Quadro4 980XGL under Windows shortly.