Archive - The Tech Report

Most commented stories

• Which game is the new champ of PC visuals? [119]
• Otellini: Intel passed on the original iPhone [86]
• Friday Shortbread [79]
• Report: Windows 8.1 expected in late October [55]
• AMD claims fastest mobile GPU crown with Radeon HD 8970M [53]

Hot forum threads

ARCHIVE

Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:38 PM on March 13, 2012 The Starting Five WSJ reports Dell to buy SonicWall as it builds software arm Intel: Thunderbolt optical cabling coming this year VR-Zone: hp... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	32
Dual-socket Sandy Bridge-EP workstation board hits Newegg by Geoff Gasior — 11:06 AM on March 13, 2012 EVGA isn't the only one with an enthusiast-friendly, dual-socket workstation board designed for Intel's new Sandy Bridge-EP Xeons. Asus has officially lifted the... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	26
Startup to offer DIY brain overclocking kit by Geoff Gasior — 11:58 AM on March 12, 2012 Thinking a little slowly this Monday? Why not overclock your brain? MIT's Technology Review blog has the goods on GoFlow, a startup... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous	49
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:02 AM on March 12, 2012 The Pick 6 The NY Times: hp attempts to take on Amazon's cloud service Network World: Techies are spending a lot of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41
Selection Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:14 PM on March 11, 2012 Eight is Enough Ars Technica: At hacking contest, Google Chrome falls to third zero-day attack (updated) DailyTech: Microsoft Office for iPad? Microsoft Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:20 PM on March 10, 2012 Eight is Enough Leaked: Police plan to raid The Pirate Bay - TorrentFreak Gartner says PC shipments will grow 4.4% in 2012 X-bit... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	16
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:15 PM on March 9, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone's chat with Intel's David McKloskey on ultrabooks DigiTimes: Taiwan-based vendor to offer ultrabook-like PCs in 2Q12 and motherboard makers... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	31
Release roundup: Virtu on AMD, SSD cache drives, and more by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:33 PM on March 8, 2012 This week in the roundup, we bring news from ASRock, Cooler Master, Corsair, and MSI: ASRock introduces motherboard supporting Lucid Virtu... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Cases Power Storage	25
MSI shows Z77 mobo with Thunderbolt built in by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:30 PM on March 8, 2012 When we caught up with MSI at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the company showed us its upcoming Z77A-GD80 motherboard. We were told... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	43
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:40 PM on March 8, 2012 Eight is Enough Reuters: Former top Microsoft exec says world is over the PC VR-Zone reports Apple planning post-PC future Nvidia on Apple's... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	51
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:49 AM on March 7, 2012 Eight is Enough Intel exec: We never wanted to buy SeaMicro, anyway - PCMag Ars Technica: Apple wins right to Android development... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	44
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on March 6, 2012 The Pick 6 Expreview: Nvidia Kepler GK104 cards to come out on March 23rd and retail Ivy Bridge processor may feature E1... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	12
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:55 AM on March 5, 2012 Radeon HD 7870 and 7870 reviews Guru3D, Hardware Canucks, Hardware Heaven, Hexus.net, HotHardware, KitGuru, Neoseeker, PC... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	26
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:13 PM on March 4, 2012 The Pick 6 Ars Technica: Who can shut down cell phone service? FCC seeks public comment 3DCenter has Radeon HD 7800 specs... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:58 PM on March 3, 2012 7 Up DigiTimes reports Intel to release Ivy Bridge processors at the end of April Ars Technica: iPad using iOS 6, high-res... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on March 2, 2012 Eight is Enough AnandTech reports Microsoft demos Windows 8 on 82" touchscreen and Microsoft shows Windows 8 CP on Tegra 3, Krait,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	12
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:30 PM on March 1, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: AMD cuts prices by 2 to 15% across nine Phenom II CPUs and is Lucid's Virtu MVP the... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	11
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:44 AM on February 29, 2012 7 Up Dell: We're no longer a PC company - PC Pro Google's Schmidt: If Google gets it right, there will be an... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	29

Older

Don't
miss!

TR's famous Podcast and System Guide.

TOP COMMENTS

tipoo

It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

+83

lilbuddhaman

Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +26

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +26

Mourmain

Pet peeve: "would have been". +19

NEW GALLERY ITEMS

More pictures »

CHECK PRICES

120GB OCZ Vertex 3 120GB Corsair Force GT 64GB Crucial M4 3TB Caviar Green 2TB Caviar Black 2TB Caviar Green 1TB Spinpoint F3 1TB Caviar Black 500GB Scorpio Black
Core i7-3960X Core i7-3930K Core i7-2700K Core i5-2550K Core i5-2450P Core i3-2130
FX-8120 Black Phenom II X6 1090T Phenom II X4 975 Black Phenom II X2 565 Black A8-3870K A6-3500
Radeon HD 7970 Radeon HD 7950 Radeon HD 7870 Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GTX 680 GeForce GTX 580 GeForce GTX 570 GeForce GTX 560 Ti GeForce GTX 560
Corsair 600T Corsair 650D