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Our new system guide includes a series of firsts: a Phenom II X3 has landed in one of our primary builds, our cheapest Core...

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Intel has often been criticized for pairing its Atom CPU with anemic 945G-series chipsets, but now there's an alternative in Nvidia's Ion platform. Read...

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We cleverly side-stepped Intel's Core i7 offensive in our previous guide by focusing on cheaper systems. Now that the Core i7 is out, we've

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In preparation for the holiday season, we've completely reworked our system guide with more affordable systems at new price points. Come check out the...

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In our latest system guide, we've jacked the Grand Experiment with a quad-core processor and high-end graphics, put an 8800 GT into the Econobox,...

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Asus's Eee Box B202 is the tiniest, quietest desktop computer this side of the Mac Mini. But can the B202 do for desktops what the...

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AMD and Nvidia spat out new GPU generations within days of each other in the past two weeks, and the landscape has changed on the...

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The time has come again for a new system guide. Thanks to falling prices and major hardware makers engaged in furious competition, we've managed...

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PC hardware has gotten crazy cheap in recent months. You can take advantage by using our latest system guide to select components for a...

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Intel's P35 Express has reigned as the enthusiast chipset of choice since its introduction. Now you can get it in a pint-sized form factor with...

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Nvidia announced its Enthusiast System Architecture back in November, promising to consolidate system and hardware monitoring under a single communication protocol. ESA-certified hardware is now...

Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Software

Being able to build your own PC is one of the perks of being an enthusiast, but it's a daunting task if you've never tackled...

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Recent weeks have brought a deluge of new components that offer solid value for the average enthusiast PC—affordable hardware with next-generation performance. The time...

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Nvidia has announced an Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) specification that it hopes will standardize a hardware monitoring protocol for PC components. Read on...

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With so many pricing changes having hit the processor market over the past couple of months, a new system guide is overdue. As we...

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OVER THE YEARS, Shuttle's XPC lineup has been whittled down from a vast array...

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WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW mid-range and high-end DirectX 10 graphics cards from both...

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THE POPULARITY OF small form factor barebones systems has faded of late, and that's...

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