Do you own an inkjet printer? If you are concerned with the quality of your prints, you will want to read this article. We go over the technical ... read more

Thanks to its high overclocking potential the MSI GTX 460 Hawk is actually a competitive alternative to the GTX 470. AMD releasing the new Radeon ... read more

After looking at whether or not it makes sense to replace a PC built back in 2007 with a more modern machine, we decided to examine three ... read more

Intel agressively promotes its Core i3/i5/i7 series, but we wonder: Does it make sense to replace a three-year old high-end PC? In the end, ... read more

In order to their products apart, third-party vendors take reference GPUs from AMD and Nvidia, and then make their own tweaks to layout, cooling, ... read more

You need Intel’s LGA 1366 interface and an X58-based platform in order to run the latest six-core processors, but which board should you pick? ... read more

Tom’s Hardware has been ringing the 5 GHz bell for years, yet those efforts have never yielded a practical daily-use solution. Today we take a ... read more

Smaller budgets were the rule for this quarter’s System Builder Marathon, but better performance was the exception. How will this affect our ... read more

After a few months of higher-priced builds, we're reverting back to a $550 configuration that once again deserves its value designation. Is this ... read more

This quarter, we're dropping the budgets on all of our systems, the enthusiast-class build, specifically, by $500, giving us $1,000 to fight the ... read more

Tom’s Hardware takes a more frugal approach this month, with a high-end PC that fits within the budget of most folks who call themselves power ... read more

AMD’s six-core CPU is affordable (at least, compared to Intel's Core i7-980X). We're overclocking the Thuban design to see if its efficiency ... read more

Adding SATA 6 Gb/s and two more USB 2.0 ports, AMD’s flagship northbridge has evolved into the 890FX. Just as important are the evolutionary ... read more

High-end RAM prices have fallen far faster than they have in the mainstream market, enticing mid-budget builders. As 4GB mainstream kits hover ... read more

The last time we matched up Intel's Pentium G6950 against AMD's Phenom II X2 555, our overzealous overclocking efforts caused a processor ... read more

Intel’s $115 Core i3-530 doesn't include Turbo Boost technology and it doesn't boast hardware-based AES-NI, but it overclocks like a fiend. We ... read more

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

The March 2010 launch of Intel's hexa-core Core i7-980X gave us a good reason to revisit the LGA 1366 interface. Today, we're looking at four new ... read more

The new six-core Core i7-980X runs at a smokin' 3.33 GHz and has lots of overclocking headroom, thanks to Intel's 32 nm manufacturing process. We ... read more

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

Budget enhancements to this month’s SBM finally reflect last year’s price increases, allowing the return of liquid cooling at the high-end and ... read more

The last machine in this quarter's System Builder Marathon, Paul's $750 Gaming PC certainly isn't least. A triple-core Athlon II X3 didn't ... read more