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• Intel removes modest 'free' overclocking from standard Haswell CPUs [167]
• AMD reveals base clock, power rating for 5GHz CPU [139]
• Upcoming Intel desktop CPU specs possibly detailed in leak [90]
• HP sees Windows XP as PC market's potential savior [86]
• Next-gen games may not carry a premium [61]

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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
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:36 AM on March 2, 2012 Wow. Long week here in Damage Labs, and I'm pretty shattered as a result. We were working late last night, recording the podcast,... Type: News story Tags: CPUs The Tech Report	44
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
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:50 AM on February 29, 2012 Right on schedule, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Consumer Preview available earlier this morning. You can head to the official portal for more information.... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	127
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
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:29 AM on February 28, 2012 Three's Company X-bit labs: Roll-out of Intel "Ivy Bridge" micro- processors will take months to complete - source Bloomberg: Micron biggest winner as Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:06 AM on February 28, 2012 Morning, all. For what it's worth, this week is one of those strange ones where all of our editors are occupied with big projects.... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	7
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on February 27, 2012 The Starting Five Bruce Schneier: Government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals - Ars Technica AnandTech reports Orange to sell co-branded... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:08 PM on February 26, 2012 The Starting Five Bloomberg: Apple to elect board by majority after investor pressure Mac Rumors: Apple seriously considered switching to AMD in 2011... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	7
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:33 PM on February 25, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: Intel's Extreme series Z77 motherboard specs revealed AnandTech's MSI Big Bang-Xpower II X79 review - a world of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Zune, Windows Live brands said to be on the chopping block by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:42 PM on February 24, 2012 Microsoft is cleaning house, it sounds like. We found out this morning that the company might cut down on the number of OS editions with... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows	53
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:29 PM on February 24, 2012 Eight is Enough DigiTimes: Global HDD capactiy expected to be restored to 80% in 1Q12 Jon Peddie Research: Q4 graphics shipments increased... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41
Linsanity spreads to motherboard market by Geoff Gasior — 12:23 PM on February 24, 2012 Well, I suppose it was bound to happen eventually. ASRock has become the first company in the PC industry to hop on the Linsanity... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	58
A look at TR's new GPU test rigs by Scott Wasson — 12:22 PM on February 24, 2012 As I mentioned on the podcast this week, I have been working to re-fit Damage Labs with new hardware all around.... Type: Blog post Tags: Graphics Systems The Tech Report	42
Windows 8 editions listed in HP driver notes by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:28 AM on February 24, 2012 Now, this could simply be a placeholder, not a genuine list of the upcoming Windows 8 editions. Still, it's an interesting slip-up by HP. As... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	43
Release roundup: High-end gear and a neat SATA dock by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:04 PM on February 23, 2012 This week in the roundup, we bring tidings of fresh product launches from ASRock, PowerColor, Thermaltake, and Spire: ASRock and Fatal1ty... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Cooling Storage	40

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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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