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You'll have to forgive me for the tardy timing of this blog post. What with Christmas vacation, followed by a crazy work week, topped with...

Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report Podcast

It's a short and sweet episode of vocal tech reporting this week. Highlights include listener questions, some discussion of 21st-century TV and Nvidia's new...

Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast

Gabe Newell said something that caught my eye the other day. As part of a broader interview with The Cambridge Student, Newell shared some...

Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia

In this episode, Scott rants about the Kindle Fire, we share our enthusiasm for Arkham City and Infinity Blade II, and we go over...

Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast

A week after we posted our big 100th episode of the TR Podcast, we're now ready to draw and announce our 5 lucky winners of...

Type: Blog post Tags: Podcast

Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics

This is our 100th podcast episode, and we're celebrating it with a retrospective and a special giveaway. We haven't forgotten the usual staples of...

Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast

If you want to get in on Intel's new Sandy Bridge-E CPU, you'll need an LGA2011 motherboard. We've gathered four examples from Asus, Gigabyte,...

Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets

The new Extreme version of Sandy Bridge doubles up on nearly all of the resources included in the original quad-core variants. The result? ...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

If you're a regular listener of the TR Podcast, you're probably aware of the fact that our next episode, set to be released this Sunday...

Type: Blog post Tags: Podcast

In this episode, we tackle some listener questions, share our thoughts on Battlefield 3, dissect the new system guide, and explain the intricacies of...

Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast

Is an awareness of the shared nature of AMD's Bulldozer architecture the key to unlocking its performance? We investigate.

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

We rarely review CPU coolers here at TR, but we've spent a few months working with a trio of Noctua designs that are really quite...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Cooling

Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs

AMD plans to bundle a water cooler with some models of its FX processors. We strapped one of 'em to our FX-8150 to see...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

This episode of the TR Podcast has it all: listener mail questions, gaming talk, an interview with Asus, and a lengthy expose on AMD's...

Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast

Later this week, I embark on a super-secret mission to Silicon Valley to get a sneak peek at Asus' upcoming X79 motherboards. At a...

Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards

AMD's "Bulldozer" processors are here, and we have a full and extensive review.

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs