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Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage Gaming

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Type: News story Tags: Cooling Memory

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Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

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Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

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Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage Mobile computing

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

Nothing like some consolidation in the memory market to start the week. Earlier this morning, Micron announced that it's entered a "sponsor agreement" to...

Type: News story Tags: Memory

We're taking a break from our usual deal hunting this week to bring you a handful of nifty coupon codes. Newegg happens to have a...

Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory

Windows 8's retail release is fast approaching. Unless the new Metro user interface gives you a rash, you might be thinking of upgrading—and an in-place...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

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Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Although Seagate has a line of Pulsar solid-state drives designed for enterprise markets and a small collection of hybrids for notebooks, it's thus far shied...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

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Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets Servers Workstations

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Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers

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Type: News story Tags: Cooling Servers

The folks at PC Mag claim to have a leaked 56-page document that lays out in some detail Microsoft's plans for its next-gen game...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Game consoles

The Intel project code-named Larrabee was intended to produce a discrete graphics processor to compete with chips from Nvidia and AMD. When that...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers

AFDS — At the closing keynote of the Fusion Developer Summit in Bellevue, Washington today, AMD Executive VP and CTO Mark Papermaster gave us a...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs