Archive - The Tech Report

Most commented stories

• Refuted: BF4, other Frostbite 3 games to be 'optimized exclusively for AMD' [177]
• AMD's A10-6800K and A10-6700 'Richland' APUs reviewed [95]
• Upcoming Intel desktop CPU specs possibly detailed in leak [90]
• FX-9000 processors listed at U.S. e-tailer [81]
• Next-gen games may not carry a premium [65]

Hot forum threads

ARCHIVE

Windows 8 and the marginalization of geeks by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:23 AM on September 16, 2011 On Tuesday, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Developer Preview available publicly without demanding so much as a Windows Live login name and password in return.... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows	108
Developers receive Windows 8 tablets; Windows 8 DP build coming by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:39 PM on September 13, 2011 As the Intel Developer Forum chugs along in San Francisco, Microsoft is hosting the Build developer conference in Anaheim, a few hundred miles south. The... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows	22
Exploring the impact of memory speed on Sandy Bridge performance by Geoff Gasior — 10:09 AM on February 9, 2011 K-Series Sandy Bridge CPUs have unlocked memory multipliers that make it easy to take advantage of faster memory modules. We explore performance with... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Memory	124
The pool wants you! by Mike Uchima — 9:52 AM on November 25, 2009 As Chicago said back in 1970, does anybody really know what time it is?... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Linux-Unix Networking	39
Google pulls the curtain off Chrome OS, releases source by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:55 PM on November 19, 2009 As planned, Google showed Chrome OS to the world for the first time earlier today. The unveiling came hand-in-hand with the release of the... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Linux-Unix	113
Toshiba preps touch-screen Win7 notebooks by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:48 PM on October 14, 2009 With Windows 7 just over a week away from release, Toshiba is sparing no opportunity to tease its future notebooks based on the operating system.... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Windows	19
Trying out Windows 7's XP Mode by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:04 PM on May 11, 2009 Late last month, Microsoft revealed plans to offer a free Windows XP virtualization solution to users of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate. In a... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows	90
New triple-channel Corsair DDR3 kits run at up to 2GHz by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:02 PM on February 5, 2009 Corsair isn't joking around with its latest batch of DDR3 kits for Core i7 systems. The memory firm has launched three kits as part... Type: News story Tags: Memory	26
OCZ cooks up new SSDs and a beefier Silencer by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 AM on January 12, 2009 CES — OCZ will be expanding its SSD lineup in 2009 with a focus on multi-level cell flash. Rather than rebranding units from other... Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory	14

Don't
miss!

TR's famous Podcast and System Guide.

TOP COMMENTS

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...

+141

codedivine

Well, the 200W barrier has been broken. Now onto 500W! +35

ULYXX

I dont get the tone of this article, was Nvidia never guilty of this? I thought... +29

Chrispy_

Mirror's Edge 2008: Widely-considered a great game by consumers and reviewers al... +24

NEW GALLERY ITEMS

More pictures »