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Western Digital's VelociRaptor 1TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 16, 2012 Is there any hope for high-performance mechanical drives? We test WD's latest 10k-RPM VelociRaptor 1TB against a diverse array of competitors to find out. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	161
OCZ's RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 4:48 PM on March 26, 2012 Using virtualization voodoo, the RevoDrive 3 X2 combines four SandForce-based SSDs on a single PCIe card purportedly capable of transfer rates up to 1500MB/s. ... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	61
Six screens, one desk by Geoff Gasior — 6:32 PM on March 8, 2012 When I sit down at my desk in the Benchmarking Sweatshop, it feels like maybe I could tap into the Matrix. I've slowly added... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Displays	47
Clash of the Sumo Titan bean bag chair by David Morgan — 10:55 PM on May 18, 2011 Here at TR, we generally can't be bothered with things that don't raise the electricity bill or contain copious amounts of caffeine. However, over... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	31
Don't go to Vegas—tales of a journalist's first CES by Cyril Kowaliski — 7:58 PM on January 9, 2011 It's 10:35 PM on the second-to-last day of CES as I sit on the hotel bed nursing my blistered feet, throat aching from the desert... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	109
Western Digital's VelociRaptor VR200M hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 6, 2010 Every time WD has released a new Raptor, the performance bar for desktop hard drives has been raised. But the new 600GB VelociRaptor VR200M enters... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	132
Clip surgery! by Mike Uchima — 4:28 PM on May 4, 2009 No, I'm not talking about getting your dog or cat fixed. I'm talking about the Sansa Clip MP3 player, and my recent foray into... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech	26
Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship 2009 by Geoff Gasior — 12:43 AM on May 1, 2009 What happens when more than a dozen competitive overclockers converge on a mass of high-end hardware and free-flowing liquid nitrogen? We attended the North American... Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous	27
Fun with raytracing by Mike Uchima — 11:10 PM on April 20, 2009 Traditional GPUs render a scene by taking the scene geometry (expressed as 3D meshes of triangles) and "pasting" 2D bitmap images (textures) onto those meshes.... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	61
Portable audio—then and now by Mike Uchima — 3:58 PM on April 15, 2009 I recently acquired a Sansa Clip 4GB MP3 player (which, I might add, I'm quite happy with). After using it for a few weeks, I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech	67
ABS's M1 mechanical keyboard by Cyril Kowaliski — 7:00 PM on March 25, 2009 Here's an unusual concept: a mechanical gaming keyboard with non-clicky key switches. Can such a device create a smooth typing experience, and is it... Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous Input devices	45
A trip down memory lane by Geoff Gasior — 9:24 AM on March 5, 2009 There are few things that I dread more than moving. Transporting a household from one location to another is miserable enough, but throw the... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	82
ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk by Geoff Gasior — 11:08 PM on January 20, 2009 We haven't heard much about RAM disks since Gigabyte's i-RAM, but now ACard has one that supports up to 64GB of DDR2 memory, has dual... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	124
CES 2009: a pictorial by Matt Butrovich — 4:51 PM on January 15, 2009 Every year I get sick after CES. It's inevitable. Thankfully, I'm already starting to recover from whatever nasty bug I brought home this year, which... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	10
Metadot's Das Keyboard Professional by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:14 PM on January 12, 2009 Is Metadot's Das Keyboard Professional really worth the $130 price tag, and can it compete with the classic IBM Model M? Clicky keyboard purists want... Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous Input devices	95
Hitachi's Deskstar E7K1000 hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 2:13 PM on January 2, 2009 Hitachi has updated its terabyte Deskstar with a new model that packs 334GB per platter. The E7K1000 is optimized for enterprise, promising solid performance with... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	36
Intel's X25-E Extreme solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:25 PM on November 23, 2008 Intel's new X25-E Extreme SSD reads at 250MB/s, writes at 170MB/s, has near-instantaneous seek times, and may very well be the fastest drive you can... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	121
A tour of a Gigabyte factory by Joshua Buss — 11:38 PM on October 30, 2008 What better way to understand how a motherboard is created than seeing it for yourself? Read on as we tour Gigabyte's Nan-Ping production... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Miscellaneous	31

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Might as well call it the Xbox One-Eighty now.

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I dont get the tone of this article, was Nvidia never guilty of this? I thought... +31

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