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TR's Christmas 2011 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 8:06 PM on December 6, 2011 With our latest system guide, we've attempted to weather the surge in hard-drive prices while taking advantage of some of the latest hardware releases.... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	82
Execution by Fred Silver — 10:09 AM on November 15, 2011 Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics	89
Sandy Bridge-E motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI by Geoff Gasior — 2:02 AM on November 14, 2011 If you want to get in on Intel's new Sandy Bridge-E CPU, you'll need an LGA2011 motherboard. We've gathered four examples from Asus, Gigabyte,... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	31
Intel's Core i7-3960X processor by Scott Wasson — 2:01 AM on November 14, 2011 The new Extreme version of Sandy Bridge doubles up on nearly all of the resources included in the original quad-core variants. The result? ... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	182
A quick look at Bulldozer thread scheduling by Scott Wasson — 5:32 PM on October 27, 2011 Is an awareness of the shared nature of AMD's Bulldozer architecture the key to unlocking its performance? We investigate. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	106
Life in the lab with Noctua's CPU coolers by Geoff Gasior — 10:51 PM on October 26, 2011 We rarely review CPU coolers here at TR, but we've spent a few months working with a trio of Noctua designs that are really quite... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Cooling	64
Ready, set, go! by Fred Silver — 4:02 PM on October 24, 2011 Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs	93
TR's fall 2011 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 3:43 PM on October 24, 2011 Join us as we reveal the latest updates and additions we've made to our four classic builds: the $600 Econobox, $900 Utility Player, $1,500 Sweeter... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	167
AMD's FX-8150 further overclocked by Scott Wasson — 9:07 AM on October 19, 2011 AMD plans to bundle a water cooler with some models of its FX processors. We strapped one of 'em to our FX-8150 to see... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	147
AMD's FX-8150 'Bulldozer' processor by Scott Wasson — 12:21 AM on October 12, 2011 AMD's "Bulldozer" processors are here, and we have a full and extensive review. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	585
AMD's A8-3800 Fusion APU by Scott Wasson — 10:28 PM on October 2, 2011 We weren't terribly impressed with AMD's A8-3850 APU, in part because its 100W power envelope seemed rather large for a chip whose integrated graphics are... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	57
Live blog: IDF 2011 Justin Rattner keynote by Scott Wasson — 11:05 AM on September 15, 2011 Time for one last live blog from the Intel Developer Forum in San Franscisco. Today Justin Rattner gives an update on the future:... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs	4
Live blog: IDF 2011 Mooly Eden keynote by Scott Wasson — 11:04 AM on September 14, 2011 Join us as we offer a live account of Mooly Eden's day-opening keynote from the Intel Developer Forum 2011 in San Francisco. Reload... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Systems	24
Live blog: IDF 2011 Paul Otellini keynote by Scott Wasson — 11:01 AM on September 13, 2011 Ok, we're going to attempt a live blog from the opening keynote of the Fall 2011 Intel Developer Forum. Keep reloading this page... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs	18
Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking by Scott Wasson — 6:08 PM on September 8, 2011 We set out to introduce some new game benchmarking methods, and those new tools promptly helped us uncover an intriguing problem: multi-GPU micro-stuttering. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Gaming	162
Keep your G6; I'm in it for the P6 by David Morgan — 5:20 PM on August 18, 2011 Honestly, I tried to fight the urge to reminisce today, but August 18th marks the day the youngest member of the Pentium Pro family... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs	101
TR's back-to-school system guide by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:23 PM on August 15, 2011 In this edition of the guide, we've freshened up our base builds and added a $700 dorm PC for folks heading to college this fall. Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	43
The many seasons of better benchmarks by Fred Silver — 10:04 AM on August 15, 2011 Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics	60

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