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Intel's USB 3.0 controller is faster than AMD's, too by Geoff Gasior — 4:57 PM on April 10, 2012 Producing our Z77 motherboard round-up took more consecutive 12+ hour days than I'd care to admit. There simply wasn't enough time to squeeze... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	154
Zotac reveals Mini-ITX Ivy Bridge boards by Geoff Gasior — 11:52 AM on April 10, 2012 You didn't think Zotac was going to let Intel's 7-series platform launch pass without announcing a few small-form-factor motherboards, did you? The Mini-ITX... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	66
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 10, 2012 Eight is Enough Bloomberg: Facebook agrees to buy Instagram photo app for $1 billion Ars Technica: Two years left of Windows XP... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	57
John Romero to return to PC gaming with old-school shooter by Geoff Gasior — 12:27 PM on April 9, 2012 Oh dear. John Romero is making another PC game. You might remember Romero's work at id Software, where he served as a designer for classics... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	24
Epic Games planning PC-only title by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on April 9, 2012 Looks like we're in for a rare treat: a PC exclusive from a major game studio. And not just any major game studio. Details are... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	43
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 9, 2012 Eight is Enough Bloomberg reports ex-Intel worker pleads guilty to stealing design documents Intel: "Knights Corner" MIC supercomputer chip in great shape... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	24
Easter Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 8, 2012 Eight is Enough AT&T's Wi-Fi experiment: Watch ads, get access - GigaOM The Verge: First Google tablet now expected in July due... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	57
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:59 PM on April 7, 2012 The Starting Five THQ: Take-Two CEO's perception is 'outdated' - Joystiq AppleInsider: Apple's Ivy Bridge-powered iMacs rumored to debut in June VR-Zone: Intel... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	9
Friday night topic: A strange new cultural avenue by Scott Wasson — 4:53 PM on April 6, 2012 Although I've been here watching and helping document it the whole time, I am still vaguely amazed that we have gotten to the point where... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet	186
Deal of the week: Newegg cracks for Easter by Scott Wasson — 4:52 PM on April 6, 2012 We'll keep it simple this week: go here to visit Newegg's weekend DIY PC sale page, which offers promo codes for discounts of 10-15%... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards Power Storage Software	10
Good Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:10 AM on April 6, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: MSI shows off its Super RAID in the GT70 gaming notebook AnandTech's 990FX motherboards roundup with Thuban and Bulldozer... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	79
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:21 AM on April 5, 2012 The Pick 6 Bloomberg: Rambus appeals California antitrust trial loss to Hynix, Micron Ars Technica: Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	56
Far Cry 3 multiplayer caught on video by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:25 PM on April 4, 2012 We've caught a few glimpses of Ubisoft's upcoming Far Cry 3 sequel, but most of the footage shown so far has revolved around the... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	21
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:11 PM on April 4, 2012 The Starting Five VR-Zone: Intel's move to DDR4 to start with high-end server CPUs in early 2014? TweakTown's Indilinx Everest 2 SSD controller platform... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	39
Assassin's Creed III to have more present-day gameplay by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on April 4, 2012 The Assassin's Creed series has been in kind of a rut lately, but it looks like Assassin's Creed III will finally mix up the formula.... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	20
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 3, 2012 7 Up IDC forecasts hard disk drive industry will return to growth after a difficult 2011 Fudzilla: Intel Z77 chipset LGA 1155... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 2, 2012 The Pick 6 C\|Net reports MPAA wants more criminal cases brought against 'rogue' sites PCWorld: Qualcomm's quad-core chips to counter Intel's ultrabooks techPowerUp!:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
April Fool's Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on April 1, 2012 The Starting Five Fudzilla reports AMD corp VP and GM of server products leaves Electronista: IDC sees Android past Windows by 2016,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	56

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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...

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chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +27

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

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I'm sorry but if there's enough market demand for 13.3" 3200x1800 screens, there... +25

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