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TR's March 2012 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 4:16 PM on February 22, 2012 Not much new hardware has come out since we published our last guide in December, but this edition is still choc-full of small, incremental... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	217
AMD's Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:01 PM on February 14, 2012 At long last, the venerable Radeon HD 5770 has a successor. Is it a worthy one? Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	205
A closer look at the new AMD by Scott Wasson — 4:08 PM on February 9, 2012 AMD has a new management team and a new direction. They recently shared their vision for the company's future, and we were there, listening... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers	78
AMD's Radeon HD 7950 graphics processor by Scott Wasson — 1:37 AM on January 31, 2012 AMD has slightly hobbled the Radeon HD 7950 compared to its elder brother, but the price of entry is 100 bucks lower. Sound like... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	147
PC gaming in 3D stereo: 3D Vision 2 vs. HD3D by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:47 AM on January 25, 2012 We've pitted 3D Vision 2 and HD3D gaming rigs against each other in order to get a feel for the current state of stereo... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Displays	61
AMD's Radeon HD 7970 graphics processor by Scott Wasson — 11:47 PM on January 2, 2012 We've spent the holidays on the Southern Islands. Come see what we found. Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	461
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 graphics card by Scott Wasson — 5:01 PM on December 14, 2011 We go inside the second with Nvidia's new limited-edition graphics card. Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	106
TR's Christmas 2011 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 8:06 PM on December 6, 2011 With our latest system guide, we've attempted to weather the surge in hard-drive prices while taking advantage of some of the latest hardware releases.... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	82
Today's mid-range GPUs in Skyrim by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:07 PM on November 22, 2011 We've followed up our look at Battlefield 3 performance with a similar comparison of mid-range graphics cards in The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim. Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming	119
Sandy Bridge-E motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI by Geoff Gasior — 2:02 AM on November 14, 2011 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	31
Intel's Core i7-3960X processor by Scott Wasson — 2:01 AM on November 14, 2011 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	182
Today's mid-range GPUs in Battlefield 3 by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:52 PM on November 10, 2011 Join us as we test three pairs of competing mid-range cards and see how well they handle EA DICE's latest blockbuster, Battlefield 3. Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming	70
A quick look at Bulldozer thread scheduling by Scott Wasson — 5:32 PM on October 27, 2011 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	106
Life in the lab with Noctua's CPU coolers by Geoff Gasior — 10:51 PM on October 26, 2011 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	64
TR's fall 2011 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 3:43 PM on October 24, 2011 Join us as we reveal the latest updates and additions we've made to our four classic builds: the $600 Econobox, $900 Utility Player, $1,500 Sweeter... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	167
Battle of the Radeon HD 6950s by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:25 AM on October 20, 2011 We've gathered three souped-up Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards from Gigabyte, MSI, and XFX. Which one delivers the most bang for your buck? Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics	42
AMD's FX-8150 further overclocked by Scott Wasson — 9:07 AM on October 19, 2011 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	147
AMD's FX-8150 'Bulldozer' processor by Scott Wasson — 12:21 AM on October 12, 2011 AMD's "Bulldozer" processors are here, and we have a full and extensive review. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	585

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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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Well, the 200W barrier has been broken. Now onto 500W! +35

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