Archive - The Tech Report

Most commented stories

• Now is the time to make your CPU benchmarking suggestions [260]
• Which game is the new champ of PC visuals? [109]
• Otellini: Intel passed on the original iPhone [85]
• Friday Shortbread [74]
• Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade for Win8 users [64]

Hot forum threads

ARCHIVE

Weekend Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:59 PM on May 18, 2013 The Pick 6 Reuters: New CEO vows Intel will be more responsive in mobile push Apple CEO: "We're going very deep" with... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	11
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:35 PM on May 17, 2013 Eight is Enough TechCrunch: Amidst Tumblr acquisition rumors, Yahoo! to hold product event with Marissa Mayer on Monday X-bit labs: AMD needs more... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	74
Coffee Talk with Timmy Cook by Jason Fox — 9:32 AM on May 17, 2013 It's true. I recently won the Charitybuzz auction for "coffee with... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac	21
Otellini: Intel passed on the original iPhone by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on May 17, 2013 Outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini had some interesting things to say in a... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Personal tech	85
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:00 PM on May 16, 2013 Eight is Enough PC shipments in Western Europe decline 20.5% in 1Q13, says Gartner Intel: Better tablet prospects, but ultrabooks key, says... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	23
Wednesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:43 PM on May 15, 2013 The Starting Five NPR: Google launches a streaming music service Fudzilla: Asus launches 15.6-incher with Retina-class display X-bit labs: Nvidia delays commercial... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	27
Seasonic lists Haswell-ready PSUs by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on May 15, 2013 Add Seasonic to the list of PSU makers that have clarified their support for Intel's upcoming Haswell processor. The next-gen CPU's low-power sleep states... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Power	23
Tuesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:58 PM on May 14, 2013 Eight is Enough The Official Microsoft Blog: Staying centered The Inquirer: France could drop three strikes copyright law BGR: Google's new Android boss... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Now is the time to make your CPU benchmarking suggestions by Scott Wasson — 9:38 AM on May 14, 2013 As you may have heard, there's a major CPU launch coming up soon. I've been meeting with folks, gathering new parts, and prepping my... Type: News story Tags: CPUs The Tech Report	260
Leaked slides expose Haswell's integrated voltage regulator by Geoff Gasior — 11:18 AM on May 13, 2013 Intel is slowly but surely moving more platform components onto the processor. Over the years, the graphics, PCI Express, and memory controllers traditionally found... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Power	67
Adobe lets you pay now and later and later again by Jason Fox — 9:26 AM on May 13, 2013 The time was January 1995. The smooth, Philly soul and pleated pants of... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac	70
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:06 PM on May 10, 2013 Eight is Enough Intel: Keeping up with Moore's Law is becoming a challenge - PCWorld X-bit labs: New benchmark results of Core... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	64
Release roundup: Power supplies and speedy DDR3 by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:58 PM on May 10, 2013 Each week, our release roundups gather some of the announcements and press releases that hit our inbox but didn't make it into our daily coverage.... Type: News story Tags: Power Memory	15
Passive cooling silences PowerColor's SCS3 Radeon HD 7850 by Geoff Gasior — 9:42 AM on May 9, 2013 PowerColor has developed a new spin on AMD's Radeon HD 7850 graphics card. The simply named SCS3 HD7850 has stock clock speeds and 1GB... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cooling	34
Wednesday Night Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:48 PM on May 8, 2013 The Fierce Five Toshiba: Microsoft confused tablet buyers with Windows 8 Ocaholic: Ivy Bridge at 7.2GHz X-bit labs: Alleged images of GeForce... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	13
Zbox mini PCs get Ivy Bridge Core i3, i5 upgrades by Geoff Gasior — 10:18 AM on May 8, 2013 Zotac has beefed up its Zbox lineup with two new models based on Ivy Bridge processors. Until now, the company's most powerful mini PC... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Systems	34
AMD intros 2133MHz memory kit, faster RAM disk software by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:01 PM on May 7, 2013 Yes, AMD still makes system memory. Not only that, but it's just introduced its quickest memory kit ever: the Radeon RG2133 Gamer Series, which packs... Type: News story Tags: Memory	33
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:13 PM on May 7, 2013 7 Up Reuters: EA total revenue, profit drop in fourth quarter and Nokia CEO says it remains focused on Windows Phone software C\|Net:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	31

Older

Don't
miss!

TR's famous Podcast and System Guide.

TOP COMMENTS

tipoo

It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

+79

lilbuddhaman

Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +26

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +24

Alexko

"Quark, drunk on money, power, and an estimated 90% market share, started behavi... +24

NEW GALLERY ITEMS

More pictures »

CHECK PRICES

120GB OCZ Vertex 3 120GB Corsair Force GT 64GB Crucial M4 3TB Caviar Green 2TB Caviar Black 2TB Caviar Green 1TB Spinpoint F3 1TB Caviar Black 500GB Scorpio Black
Core i7-3960X Core i7-3930K Core i7-2700K Core i5-2550K Core i5-2450P Core i3-2130
FX-8120 Black Phenom II X6 1090T Phenom II X4 975 Black Phenom II X2 565 Black A8-3870K A6-3500
Radeon HD 7970 Radeon HD 7950 Radeon HD 7870 Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GTX 680 GeForce GTX 580 GeForce GTX 570 GeForce GTX 560 Ti GeForce GTX 560
Corsair 600T Corsair 650D