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A look at Lucid's Virtu MVP Mobile by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:44 PM on October 18, 2012 Origin's Eon laptops are the first to offer Lucid's Virtu MVP Mobile virtualization scheme. We've taken the 11.6" representative of that lineup for a spin... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Mobile computing	15
Review: Corsair's Neutron and Neutron GTX solid-state drives by Geoff Gasior — 11:03 AM on October 11, 2012 Corsair's Neutron SSDs are the first ones to use a new controller from Link_A_Media Devices. We test the standard and GTX versions of... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	37
Review: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card by Cyril Kowaliski — 8:00 AM on October 9, 2012 Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 650 Ti fills the last great gap in the 600-series lineup, offering Kepler goodness between $149 and 179 or so.... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	98
SSD prices continue tumbling in Q3 by Geoff Gasior — 1:25 PM on October 4, 2012 SSD prices continued their downward trajectory in the third quarter. We've crunched the numbers for nearly 40 drives to see how far the... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	78
AMD attempts to shape review content with staged release of info by Scott Wasson — 11:01 PM on September 26, 2012 Review sites like TR are a tricky business, let me say up front. We work constantly with the largest makers of PC hardware in order... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics The Tech Report	289
Oh, Sublime Text, how do I love thee? by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:48 AM on September 21, 2012 Let me count the ways... Okay, so I never dreamed I'd ever spend $59 on a text editor. I mean, there are perfectly good ones out... Type: Blog post Tags: Software	63
Review: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 660 graphics card by Scott Wasson — 8:00 AM on September 13, 2012 The new GK106 GPU makes its debut in Nvidia's $230 GeForce GTX 660 graphics card. We see how it stacks up against mid-range... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	89
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card reviewed by Scott Wasson — 8:00 AM on August 16, 2012 Nvidia has taken the GeForce GTX 680, shaved off a couple of Xbox 360s worth of performance, and slashed the price to $299. Don't worry,... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	144
A quick look at Corsair's Professional Series AX1200i digital power supply by Geoff Gasior — 11:50 AM on August 6, 2012 Corsair's new Professional Series AX1200i uses digital circuitry to convert AC to DC power. We take a quick look at the PSU and the... Type: Feature article Tags: Power Software	44
A look at hardware video transcoding on the PC by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:50 PM on July 30, 2012 The market is rife with hardware video transcoders and software that can take advantage of them. However, making sense of that jungle of disparate offerings... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Multimedia	46
Triple-screen gaming on today's graphics cards by Geoff Gasior — 3:43 PM on July 10, 2012 Thanks to falling LCD prices, multi-monitor gaming is more attainable than ever before. We take a closer look at AMD Eyefinity and Nvidia... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Displays Gaming	110
The post-flood decline of hard drive prices is slowing by Geoff Gasior — 12:19 PM on June 28, 2012 Last year's flooding in Thailand sent the price of mechanical hard drives skyward. We take an in-depth look at how much prices have... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	71
Review: Nvidia's GeForce GT 640 graphics card by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:20 PM on June 27, 2012 With the GeForce GT 640, Nvidia has slimmed down its Kepler architecture into a budget graphics card with a $100 price tag. Join us... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	92
AMD's Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition by Scott Wasson — 1:41 AM on June 22, 2012 AMD has added higher clock speeds and a PowerTune "boost" feature to the Radeon HD 7970 in a bid to reclaim the single-GPU performance crown.... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	246
SSD prices in steady, substantial decline by Geoff Gasior — 12:52 PM on June 21, 2012 SSD prices have fallen dramatically over the past year. We take a closer look at the current generation to track the decline. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	100
A quick look at Thunderbolt on the PC by Geoff Gasior — 3:10 PM on June 4, 2012 Thunderbolt has finally arrived on the PC. Motherboards with Thunderbolt ports are selling online and Ivy Bridge notebooks are primed to feature the technology.... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Displays Mobile computing	83
A brief look at Nvidia's GK110 graphics chip by Scott Wasson — 2:02 PM on May 24, 2012 At its 2012 GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia revealed plenty of details about the biggest GPU of its Kepler generation. Here's what you need... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	82
If data can be lost, it will by Geoff Gasior — 3:03 AM on May 11, 2012 Murphy was right. If something can go wrong, it will... eventually. Earlier this week, the water main connected to our house burst, submerging... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Internet	43

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NeelyCam

Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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moose17145

Yea i would say sony has likely already won for this round of consoles. More pow... +40

mcnabney

I'm getting less and less thrilled by Haswell every day now. And AMD would likel... +38

willmore

You're right, dell paid the SEC $100 Million in fines (but admitted no wrong doi... +36

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