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TR's Windows 8 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:56 PM on October 30, 2012 We've refreshed our famous system guide to account for AMD's new A- and FX-series processors, the latest GPU releases, and of course, the arrival of... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems	129
Intel's 335 Series SSD reviewed by Geoff Gasior — 10:30 AM on October 29, 2012 The next generation of NAND has arrived. Intel's new 335 Series sports 20-nm flash, and we've run it through our test suite to... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	64
Review: Corsair's Neutron and Neutron GTX solid-state drives by Geoff Gasior — 11:03 AM on October 11, 2012 Corsair's Neutron SSDs are the first ones to use a new controller from Link_A_Media Devices. We test the standard and GTX versions of... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	37
SSD prices continue tumbling in Q3 by Geoff Gasior — 1:25 PM on October 4, 2012 SSD prices continued their downward trajectory in the third quarter. We've crunched the numbers for nearly 40 drives to see how far the... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	78
TR's back-to-school 2012 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 6:23 PM on August 16, 2012 We've updated our famous system guide to account for some of the latest hardware releases, including Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 660 Ti. In the... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems	88
Hands on with Intel's open all-in-one platform by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:56 AM on August 7, 2012 Today, we're going to be spending some quality time with an all-in-one PC based on Intel's Thin Mini-ITX standard. The individual parts are all available... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems	59
TR's Summer 2012 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 5:26 PM on July 2, 2012 We've freshened up our four usual configs for the summer, and we've added a whole new build, as well: the Next-Gen Console, a Mini-ITX rig... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems	154
The post-flood decline of hard drive prices is slowing by Geoff Gasior — 12:19 PM on June 28, 2012 Last year's flooding in Thailand sent the price of mechanical hard drives skyward. We take an in-depth look at how much prices have... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	71
SSD prices in steady, substantial decline by Geoff Gasior — 12:52 PM on June 21, 2012 SSD prices have fallen dramatically over the past year. We take a closer look at the current generation to track the decline. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	100
A quick look at Thunderbolt on the PC by Geoff Gasior — 3:10 PM on June 4, 2012 Thunderbolt has finally arrived on the PC. Motherboards with Thunderbolt ports are selling online and Ivy Bridge notebooks are primed to feature the technology.... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Displays Mobile computing	83
Silverstone's Temjin TJ08-E Evolution enclosure by David Morgan — 12:26 PM on May 29, 2012 With an 180-mm intake fan and room for high-end video cards, Silverstone's Temjin TJ08-E Evolution looks well-equipped to take on mid-tower cases. Except it's... Type: Feature article Tags: Cases	45
TR's Memorial Day 2012 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 6:24 PM on May 22, 2012 We've freshened up our system guide with new-and-improved builds featuring Ivy Bridge CPUs, 28-nm graphics processors, and cheaper-than-ever solid-state drives. Come and see what... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems	189
Western Digital's VelociRaptor 1TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 16, 2012 Is there any hope for high-performance mechanical drives? We test WD's latest 10k-RPM VelociRaptor 1TB against a diverse array of competitors to find out. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	161
OCZ's Vertex 4 solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 8:00 AM on April 4, 2012 Just a few months after its Indilinx Everest controller debuted in the OCZ Octane, a second-generation Everest chip has taken root in the Vertex 4... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	61
OCZ's RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 4:48 PM on March 26, 2012 Using virtualization voodoo, the RevoDrive 3 X2 combines four SandForce-based SSDs on a single PCIe card purportedly capable of transfer rates up to 1500MB/s. ... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	61
TR's March 2012 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 4:16 PM on February 22, 2012 Not much new hardware has come out since we published our last guide in December, but this edition is still choc-full of small, incremental... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	217
OCZ's Octane 128GB solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:19 AM on February 16, 2012 We were impressed by OCZ's Indilinx-powered Octane SSD when we reviewed the 512GB version last year. Now, we have the 128GB model in-house to... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	42
Intel's 520 Series solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:00 AM on February 6, 2012 Intel's newest solid-state drive pairs a SandForce controller with custom firmware and 25-nm NAND. We've tested the 60 and 240GB models to see... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	83

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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...

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