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Six screens, one desk by Geoff Gasior — 6:32 PM on March 8, 2012 When I sit down at my desk in the Benchmarking Sweatshop, it feels like maybe I could tap into the Matrix. I've slowly added... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Displays	47
Clash of the Sumo Titan bean bag chair by David Morgan — 10:55 PM on May 18, 2011 Here at TR, we generally can't be bothered with things that don't raise the electricity bill or contain copious amounts of caffeine. However, over... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	31
Don't go to Vegas—tales of a journalist's first CES by Cyril Kowaliski — 7:58 PM on January 9, 2011 It's 10:35 PM on the second-to-last day of CES as I sit on the hotel bed nursing my blistered feet, throat aching from the desert... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	109
Clip surgery! by Mike Uchima — 4:28 PM on May 4, 2009 No, I'm not talking about getting your dog or cat fixed. I'm talking about the Sansa Clip MP3 player, and my recent foray into... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech	26
Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship 2009 by Geoff Gasior — 12:43 AM on May 1, 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... Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous	27
Fun with raytracing by Mike Uchima — 11:10 PM on April 20, 2009 Traditional GPUs render a scene by taking the scene geometry (expressed as 3D meshes of triangles) and "pasting" 2D bitmap images (textures) onto those meshes.... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	61
Portable audio—then and now by Mike Uchima — 3:58 PM on April 15, 2009 I recently acquired a Sansa Clip 4GB MP3 player (which, I might add, I'm quite happy with). After using it for a few weeks, I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech	67
ABS's M1 mechanical keyboard by Cyril Kowaliski — 7:00 PM on March 25, 2009 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... Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous Input devices	45
A trip down memory lane by Geoff Gasior — 9:24 AM on March 5, 2009 There are few things that I dread more than moving. Transporting a household from one location to another is miserable enough, but throw the... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	82
CES 2009: a pictorial by Matt Butrovich — 4:51 PM on January 15, 2009 Every year I get sick after CES. It's inevitable. Thankfully, I'm already starting to recover from whatever nasty bug I brought home this year, which... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	10
Metadot's Das Keyboard Professional by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:14 PM on January 12, 2009 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... Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous Input devices	95
A tour of a Gigabyte factory by Joshua Buss — 11:38 PM on October 30, 2008 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... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Miscellaneous	31
Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship 2008 by Joshua Buss — 1:08 PM on October 13, 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... Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous	47
Thermaltake's A2413 7-inch LCD by Geoff Gasior — 11:05 PM on September 29, 2008 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 Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous Displays	18
Swallowed by the SumoSac bean bag chair by Geoff Gasior — 10:51 AM on July 2, 2008 I spend most of my time reviewing chipsets, motherboards, hard drives, power supply units, and sound cards—the geeky bits inside a modern PC. ... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	50
OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:05 AM on June 27, 2008 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,... Type: Feature article Tags: Miscellaneous Input devices Gaming Personal tech	69
Totally awesome world exclusive unboxing! by Geoff Gasior — 12:07 AM on June 5, 2008 Folks apparently like to see stuff unboxed, unwrapped, or otherwise removed from its packaging. Who knew? So in a desperate attempt to remain relevant,... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	22
40-year-old toy meets modern scripting language by Mike Uchima — 12:13 PM on May 1, 2008 As a kid, one of my favorite toys was my Spirograph Set. I had the original 1960s version, as pictured in that link. I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	34

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chuckula

Remember when we all whined that Founder's Edition parts were overpriced ripoffs? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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I wonder if NVidia is using the GPP to strong-arm NVidia into only selling NVidi... +35

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