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Portege R700 sampled briefly Though he might not publicly admit it, I think I could detect some jealousy in Scott's voice when I called to say I was hanging... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Miscellaneous Mobile computing |
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Core issues Keeping your cores straight isn't easy these days. Here's a quick cheat sheet. CUDA core - Not a core Shader multiprocessor - Might be a core |
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Another perspective on CPU value As you might have already seen, the value section of our grand Athlon II vs. Core i3 showdown article includes performance-per-dollar graphs based on... |
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Taking a crack at the great CPU-GPU balance question We get some interesting questions and article suggestions via email from time to time, and we just don't have time to address them all with... |
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An upgrade tale 2: upgrade harder So, almost three years had passed since my last major system upgrade—downright shameful negligence for someone in this line of work, clearly. I won't... |
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Chance to win a Core i7 gaming PC Intel and a couple of its system-building partners are going out of their way to make this week's launch extra special. CyberPower and... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Miscellaneous The Tech Report |
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Contemplating SpeedStep and Cool'n'Quiet in performance testing Howdy all. I've been hard at work in Damage Labs setting up new test systems with Windows 7. This is a particularly agonizing chore for... |
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A tale of avarice, betrayal, and upgrading It's story time with Uncle Dusty, kids, so scoot in and I'll spin you a tale of terror sure to make spiders crawl up your... |
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On PC upgrades and diminishing returns Like many of you, I'm giddily waiting on the release of Intel's Lynnfield processors to upgrade my main desktop PC. This system is still trucking... |
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A compact, fast, and quiet PC for the kitchen If you've read our summer system guide, you might enjoy hearing the story of how our very cool Pocket Swiss Army Knife config came... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Cases Systems |
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When overclocking doesn't work out This blog entry I write because I feel it's necessary to raise a point about overclocking processors and GPUs. This is hot off another late... |
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What might Westmere mean for AMD? Now that both AMD and Intel have laid down their roadmaps for 2009 and 2010, we can have a little fun and start speculating about... |
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Dissecting the Steam Hardware Survey As a cross-platform gamer increasingly disenchanted with the PC, I absolutely love Steam and what Valve has done for the platform. Over the last five... |
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The parent trap We've all been there at one time or another: fixing a family member's computer. It's not a situation I particularly mind, since my family has... |
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The Tech Report's XML benchmark Server benchmarking is an odd domain. There are lots of very well developed, non-proprietary benchmarks available, but there are also teams of engineers with huge... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs The Tech Report |
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ESA and SideShow: A perfect match Nvidia revealed its Enthusiast System Architecture specification back in November, promising to consolidate hardware monitoring and control with a single communication protocol. The... |
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The making of the Damagebox Quad I haven't written about this yet, but I probably should before too much time passes. A couple of months ago, I finally decided that... |
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B3 Phenom arrives in Damage Labs Just arrived in Damage Labs: our first B3 Phenom, the new silicon revision with the fix for the TLB erratum. |
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