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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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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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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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RAID 1 for the time-challenged It happens to the best of us. We spend hours putting together a new PC, mounting a nice aftermarket heatsink, making sure all the cables... |
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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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How do you back up your gigs of goodies? In the wake of my post about data recovery services, an old buddy of mine from college, Dave Kirby, wrote me with a question about... |
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Seeking a good hard drive recovery service A friend of mine emailed me recently with a question that I can't answer. He has a friend whose hard drive has croaked, possibly... |
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Epilogue on three 75GXP failures Years ago I sought advice from a trusted and knowledgeable friend about what components to use in my first home-built PC. Everything worked... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Miscellaneous |
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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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A correction on the ThinkPad X300: SSD only!? In our recent first podcast episode, we were engaging in a bit of techno-lust over the ThinkPad X300, which we've dubbed the MacBook Air... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Mobile computing |
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Even more CPU stuff I thought I ought to give you guys a quick update on what's cooking in Damage Labs. You've probably seen my Skulltrail review by... |
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Skulltrail overclocking results are in When I posted my Skulltrail review, I didn't have time to include overclocking results, so I promised to add those later. Those results are |
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Talkin' CES on the OCF Podcast I've made an appearance on the latest episode of the OCF Podcast. This time, we talk at some length about the developments in PC... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics Displays Input devices |
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Behold Thumper: Sun's SunFire X4500 storage server In July of 2006, Sun added an interesting new machine to their lineup of Opteron-based x86 servers. It was codenamed 'Thumper' during... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Systems Linux-Unix Servers |
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A correction to our AMD TLB erratum coverage I was closing some windows on my laptop and came across an unsaved document in an unselected tab in my text editor that had some... |
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Lessons from the difficult birth of the Spider platform We try not to get too much into behind-the-scenes drama here at TR, "inside baseball" stuff like how we deal with public relations types, because... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics Chipsets The Tech Report |
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So where's the Phenom review, man? I expect many of you came to TR this morning hoping to see a review of AMD's Phenom processor, since AMD has just launched the... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs The Tech Report |
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