GlobalFoundries gears up
Last week, we traveled to the offices of GlobalFoundries to meet with the firm's executives and to understand their plans for the newly minted chip foundry created by the spin-off of AMD's manufacturing division. Read more...
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Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship 2009
What happens when more than a dozen competitive overclockers converge on a mass of high-end hardware and free-flowing liquid nitrogen? We attended the North American finals for Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship to find out. Read more...
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ABS's M1 mechanical keyboard
Here's an unusual concept: a mechanical gaming keyboard with non-clicky key switches. Can such a device create a smooth typing experience, and is it still better than vulgar rubber-membrane keyboards? Read more...
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Enermax's Aurora Premium keyboard
What's this? A laptop-style keyboard on the desk of a TR editor, a heavy-duty typist and ostensible keyboard purist? Surely there must be some mistake. Read more...
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Nvidia goes stereoscopic with GeForce 3D Vision
Would you put on funny glasses in order to play games if they added depth to the display? This question may be the litmus test of a true geek. Read more...
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Metadot's Das Keyboard Professional
Is Metadot's Das Keyboard Professional really worth the $130 price tag, and can it compete with the classic IBM Model M? Clicky keyboard purists want to know. Read on to find out. Read more...
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Exploring the impact of memory speed on Core i7 performance
The Core i7's triple-channel DDR3 memory controller offers mind-boggling peak theoretical bandwidth, but does the CPU need fancy DIMMs to excel? Join us as we explore the performance impact of memory bus speed, latencies, and even the number of channels on a couple of Core i7 processors. Read more...
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A tour of a Gigabyte factory
What better way to understand how a motherboard is created than seeing it for yourself? Read on as we tour Gigabyte's Nan-Ping production facility and watch a motherboard being made. Read more...
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Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship 2008
23 teams representing 20 countries duked it out for glory at Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship. Liquid nitrogen flowed freely and world records were broken during an exciting day of extreme benchmarking. Read on for our coverage of the event. Read more...
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Thermaltake's A2413 7-inch LCD
Thermaltake's A2413 7" LCD display packs a touch-sensitive screen into a motorized drive bay that looks perfect for car PCs and enterprising modders. We take the screen for a spin to see whether there's utility behind the novelty. Read more...
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OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator
Like flying cars, thought-based control schemes have been a staple of sci-fi movies for decades. OCZ has embraced the concept with its Neural Impulse Actuator, a headband that reads brain waves along with eye and facial muscles. We've taken this innovative device for a spin. Read more...
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AMD refines its approach to Stream Computing
Just like Nvidia, AMD provides developers with tools to use its GPUs for non-graphics applications, but AMD doesn't make as much noise about it. Curious, we got on the phone with AMD Stream Computing Director Patti Harrell and asked her to shed some light on AMD's Stream Computing initiative. Read more...
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1: A performance check
How does Service Pack 1 affect Windows Vista's day-to-day performance in common desktop applications and games? We've run a host of benchmarks in order to find out. Read on to see what we discovered. Read more...
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DisplayLink's USB-to-DVI adapter
Last year, Samsung released a 19" LCD monitor capable of being hooked up via a simple USB connection. That's neat, but is there a cheaper alternative to paying $300 for a USB display? Yep. We see how DisplayLink's USB-to-DVI adapter handles in both Windows XP and Vista. Read more...
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