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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The problem with enthusiast platforms Coupled with Radeon HD 3800 series graphics cards launched late last week, AMD's new Phenom processors and 790FX chipset fill out the... |
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Kitchen computer gets a new internet stick Back in March I built a system intended to be the new family PC. The goal was to make it small, quiet and... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Miscellaneous Networking |
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Corsair's Survivor GT: The HiLux of thumb drives You don't see us reviewing USB flash drives here at TR because, well, they tend to be pretty boring. There is little doubt that so-called... |
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