Hardware
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GPU vs. CPU Upgrade: Extensive Tests
Thursday 15 May 2008 – 03:30
What brings better results, purchasing a faster graphics card or investing your cash in a more powerful processor? read more
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NFORCE 780a SLI Motherboards Compared
Tuesday 13 May 2008 – 11:10
Last week we took a quick look at NVidia’s newest feature, Hybrid SLI. Today we’ll see how motherboard’s using the firm’s first integrated ... read more
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Memoright SSDs: The End of Hard Drives?
Friday 9 May 2008 – 03:10
Memoright has achieved an important milestone with its flash SSD: the device’s performance is truly better than that of any competing hard drive ... read more
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35 AMD CPUs Tested for Power Consumption
Wednesday 7 May 2008 – 04:20
We look at the power consumption and cost of running 35 AMD CPUs under varying conditions.read more
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Shuttle XPC Prima SX38P2 Pro
Friday 2 May 2008 – 02:30
Powerful Portable Performance: we explore and test Shuttle’s SX38P2 Pro.read more
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New AMD Phenom X3 Vs. Phenom X4
Wednesday 23 April 2008 – 09:40
We compare three and four core AMD Phenom X CPUs, along with a large number of Athlon 64 X2 and Intel Core 2 two and four core models.read more
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Apple's 24'' iMac - All-in-One with OS Options
Friday 11 April 2008 – 12:30
The iMac has had a firm place in Apple's product line ever since its introduction in 1998. Tom's Hardware had the opportunity to take a closer ... read more
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Tom's Ultimate RAM Speed Tests
Wednesday 9 April 2008 – 06:40
We compare all popular DDR2 and DDR3 speeds on both a fast Core 2 Duo and an older Pentium 4 single core. The big question is a simple one: what ... read more
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Adaptec's Series 5 Unified Serial Controllers Dissected
Tuesday 8 April 2008 – 05:30
RAID controllers are of little interest to enthusiast users, but the entire IT industry relies on them. The new Adaptec RAID cards target all ... read more
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Intel Fires Up New Atom Processors
Wednesday 2 April 2008 – 12:20
TG Daily In-Depth - Intel officially launched its new Atom processor, previously code-named Silverthorne (for Mobile Internet Devices) and ... read more
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AMD's Athlon Stepping Improvements
Sunday 23 March 2008 – 06:00
While CPU architectures are typically available for years, AMD and Intel tend to offer improved steppings throughout a product's lifecycle. We ... read more
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AMD Phenom - A Second Try with the B3 Stepping
Friday 21 March 2008 – 07:20
Good news! AMD's revised Phenom using the B3 stepping seems to be finished. We received a first sample and took a look at it.read more
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[CeBIT 2008] – Interview with AMD
Friday 7 March 2008 – 11:40
The B3 stepping remedies Phenom's teething problems. Although its CPU division is stumbling, AMD is going strong with its HD video chips. The low ... read more
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AMD 780G Chipset- Full-HD Playback with a Sempron
Tuesday 4 March 2008 – 06:00
AMD’s new 780G chipset provides 1080p HD-Video playback without a brawny CPU. An idle power consumption of 42 Watts is also a new record among ... read more
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A First Look at AMD's Triple Core Phenom
Friday 29 February 2008 – 11:40
AMD's triple core Phenom 8000 series won't be available before the 2nd quarter of 2008. We simulate Phenom 8000 performance using a Phenom 9900 ... read more
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CeBIT 2008 - Previewing the Trends
Wednesday 27 February 2008 – 11:40
Competition breeds new concepts. Gamers go to the Games|Convention, consumers attend the IFA. With its audience being wooed away, the red-themed ... read more
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Digital Living - Linksys Media Center Extender DMA 2100
Monday 25 February 2008 – 02:20
Linksys' DMA 2100 connects to your TV and streams videos, music and images to it from a PC. It also turns your computer into a video recorder. ... read more
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Sharkoon Quickport – SATA Hard Disk Jockey
Friday 22 February 2008 – 07:10
Notorious collectors of data often call many hard drives their own - usually external ones. Sharkoon's Quickport offers a quick and simple way to ... read more
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Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT Reviewed
Thursday 21 February 2008 – 02:00
Today, Nvidia unveils its new mid-range card, the GeForce 9600 GT. How does it stack up against its rivals from ATI? Read on for our review and ... read more
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Overclocking Intel's Wolfdale E8000
Thursday 21 February 2008 – 01:20
We look at the 45-nm Core 2 Duo E8000's overclocking potential. We also focus on power consumption, simulating real-world applications with ... read more
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Fresh from Canada - ATI's Radeon HD 3450 and HD 3650
Tuesday 19 February 2008 – 09:30
ATI's 3000-series graphics chips have been slow to reach us. While the HD 3450 and HD 3650 have been supported since Catalyst 8.1, we only just ... read more
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Wolfdale Shrinks Transistors, Grows Core 2
Thursday 14 February 2008 – 11:50
Intel's new 45-nm E8000 series is more powerful and more efficient than any other dual-core processor architecture on the market today. But just ... read more
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To Leech and to Share - Fibrionic's BitTorrent Box
Thursday 14 February 2008 – 11:50
Fibrionic's standalone BitTorrent client creates connections on its own, downloading files to an attached hard drive or memory stick - no PC ... read more
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CPU Cooler Charts 2008, Part III – Are Box Coolers any Good?
Wednesday 13 February 2008 – 11:30
The higher the CPU frequency, the higher the heat dissipation. Cheap CPUs ship with simple coolers that aren't suited to overclocking. How good ... read more
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Vista Workshop – Performance Boost with 8GB of RAM
Monday 11 February 2008 – 04:20
Windows Vista with 8 gigs of RAM - does it make any sense? We test the 64 bit version of Vista with some heavyweight applications using a system ... read more