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Crucial's m4 solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 3:57 PM on March 24, 2011 Crucial's long-awaited successor to the RealSSD C300 has arrived. Join us as we take a closer look at the performance of the RealSSD... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	36
An early look at OCZ's Vertex 3 solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 12:26 AM on March 23, 2011 OCZ's long-awaited Vertex 3 solid-state drive is due out in a couple of weeks. Join us for an in-depth look at the drive and... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	37
Intel's 510 Series solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 4:14 PM on March 17, 2011 Intel's latest 510 Series SSD combines custom firmware with a 6Gbps Marvell controller. We take a closer look at the drive's performance to see... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	49
Hitachi's Deskstar 7K3000 3TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:59 PM on March 13, 2011 Hard drive makers have been slow to release new models with three-terabyte capacities. Hitachi was the first to reach 3TB with a 7,200-RPM desktop... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	25
Gigabyte's Fusion-infused GA-E350N-USB3 motherboard by Geoff Gasior — 12:07 AM on March 7, 2011 We take a closer look at a Fusion-equipped Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 Mini-ITX motherboard to see if it delivers on Zacate's potential for small-form-factor desktops and home-theater... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Motherboards	37
Musing on the state of motherboards by Geoff Gasior — 11:11 PM on March 3, 2011 Manufacturers routinely ask us what we think of their current products and what we'd like to see from future ones. Sometimes, I get the... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	86
AMD's E-350 Fusion APU on the desktop by Scott Wasson — 11:45 PM on February 20, 2011 We are about to commit a terrible crime against the holy writ of product segmentation. We're about to consider the merits of AMD's Brazos... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards	103
Thermaltake's BlacX 5G USB 3.0 docking station by Matt Trinca — 9:21 PM on February 7, 2011 External docking stations are a great way to quickly swap hard drives into a system. Gather round to see if I made a connection with... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	14
A quick look at Kingston's HyperX Max USB 3.0 SSD by Geoff Gasior — 11:48 PM on January 27, 2011 USB 3.0 is the most sorely needed peripheral interface upgrade in recent memory. Cheap notebook drives can make good use of the extra bandwidth, and... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	9
Zotac's H67-ITX motherboard by Geoff Gasior — 5:04 PM on January 26, 2011 Zotac's H67-ITX is the first Mini-ITX motherboard capable of hosting Intel's new Sandy Bridge CPUs. We pit it against a stack of desktop... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	31
Western Digital's Scorpio Black 750GB notebook hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 3:16 PM on January 20, 2011 When we rounded up 7,200-RPM notebook drives last month, Western Digital's Scorpio Black 500GB was our clear favorite. Today, we explore whether a... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Mobile computing	25
A quick look at chipset PCI Express performance by Geoff Gasior — 10:23 AM on January 14, 2011 Finally, Intel has a mid-range chipset with proper PCIe 2.0 lanes. We test the P67's PCIe implementation to see how it stacks up. Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	57
Sandy Bridge motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI by Geoff Gasior — 6:05 PM on January 4, 2011 You'll need a new motherboard to run a Sandy Bridge CPU. We look at four from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI in search... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	61
Samsung's 470 Series solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 12:14 AM on December 13, 2010 Samsung's latest 470 Series SSD has a new controller, dual cache chips, and a fresh kind of flash dubbed Toggle DDR NAND. We take it... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	42
WD's TV Live Hub media box by Matt Trinca — 3:17 PM on December 9, 2010 WD's TV Live Hub media player has a terabyte of network-attached storage and works with just about any media file under the sun. We... Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia Storage Personal tech	38
Notebook hard drives square off at 7,200 RPM by Geoff Gasior — 5:22 PM on December 2, 2010 SSDs may be the new hotness, but 7,200-RPM notebook drives are a more realistic option for most laptop users. We round up four of... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Mobile computing	34
An early look at Gigabyte's P67A-UD7 motherboard by Geoff Gasior — 11:14 PM on November 28, 2010 Sandy Bridge is tantalizingly close, and motherboard makers are starting to show their wares. We take an early look at Gigabyte's P67A-UD7 to see... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards	29
Asus' Xonar DG and Xense sound cards by Geoff Gasior — 11:22 PM on November 21, 2010 Do you really need a discrete sound card? Simple question, and we've taken a look at Asus' new Xonar Xense and DG sound cards to... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Multimedia	217

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