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PC hardware enthusiasm.. miniaturized? I've been into building PCs for many years now, but before that, I was never a particularly handy or mechanically inclined type of guy. ... Type: Blog post Tags: Game consoles |
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A cautionary tale Boy, Tuesday was a rough day. Walked into my office in the morning expecting to get some testing done, only to discover that my... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards |
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The great upgrade: Tales from the ancient past Our current contest challenges readers to relate their first PC upgrade experiences for a chance to win a copy... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards Storage |
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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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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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Just fix the AHCI already, AMD I've been partial to AMD for a long time. The first PC I built for myself had an Athlon Thunderbird running at a blistering 1.4GHz,... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Chipsets |
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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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MSI and OCZ overclock Since we're an enthusiast site, little explanation of overclocking is needed here. We tend to focus on the intricacies of hardware and how it performs,... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Miscellaneous The Tech Report |
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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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Trying out Windows 7's XP Mode 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 |
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The sorry state of BIOS-level fan speed control I'm constantly amazed by the pace at which technology improves. Take what's happened in, oh, the last six years, for example. We've gone... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards |
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The case for a secondary motherboard OS It seems like every year, someone thinks that Linux is on the verge of making real inroads on the desktop. And every year, the... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Operating systems |
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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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Thoughts on the Windows 7 beta I've already written at length about my (generally positive) appraisal of Windows Vista, yet I'm still eagerly looking forward to Windows 7. While I find... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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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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