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Poll: What component is standing in the way of your next PC build? There are no two ways about it right now: it is a dismal time to be a PC builder. Between cryptomining-related shortages of graphics cards... Poll Question: • What component is standing in the way of your next PC build? Type: News story Tags: Systems Miscellaneous |
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Poll: What product category are you most excited about for 2018? The almost-past year of 2017 was a big one for CPU technology announcements. We got AMD's Ryzen and Threadripper units plus Intel's... Poll Question: • What product category are you most excited about for 2018? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Miscellaneous |
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Poll: What's the resolution and refresh rate of your gaming monitor? One of the hottest topics in the wake of AMD's Ryzen CPU launch has been the appropriate monitor resolution at which to test CPU... Poll Question: • What's the resolution and refresh rate of your gaming monitor? Type: News story Tags: Displays |
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Poll: Did you buy into the world of VR this year? 2016 is the year that VR took off, at least if you listen to the companies making VR headsets. The Oculus Rift rolled in on... Poll Question: • Did you buy into the world of VR this year? Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Poll: How do you feel about your PC's noise levels? In our component testing, we put a lot of emphasis not only on how fast a given graphics card can run, for example, but also... Poll Question: • How do you feel about the noise level of your PC? Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Poll: What form factor did you choose for your last PC? We were having a lively discussion about the popularity of various PC form factors in TR's staff chat today, and it occurred to me that... Poll Question: • What form factor did you choose for your last PC? Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Poll: Did you take Microsoft up on a free Windows 10 upgrade? Microsoft's free update offer for Windows 10 expired this past Friday. Most of the TR staff took that offer almost as soon as it became... Poll Question: • Did you take Microsoft up on a free Windows 10 upgrade? Type: News story Tags: Windows |
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Poll: Where are you on the VR adopter curve? VR may be the most-hyped tech trend of 2016, and there are already a range of ways to jack into the Matrix with head-mounted devices.... Poll Question: • Where are you on the VR adopter curve? Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Poll: What's your favorite computer these days? In our last poll, we asked gerbils what they thought of upgrading to systems with Intel's Skylake CPUs inside. Today, we have something... Poll Question: • If you were forced to choose, what would your favorite computer be these days? Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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What are your Windows 10 upgrade plans? Windows 10 arrives about a month from now, and many of you have no doubt seen the little "reserve your copy of Windows 10"... Poll Question: • What are your Windows 10 upgrade plans? Type: News story Tags: Software Windows |
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What do you trust more: mechanical or solid-state storage? SSDs are slowly taking over the PC storage industry. They've become the default in slim mobile systems and are increasingly working their way into desktops.... Poll Question: • What do you trust more? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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The TR Hardware Survey 2014: What's inside your main desktop PC? If you've been on TR for long enough, you probably remember our hardware surveys. Our first one went up way back in 2008, and... Poll Questions: • Processor series • If you have an Intel Core processor, is it a • Number of processor cores • Graphics card(s) • Number of graphics cards • Price of each (or only) graphics card at time of purchase • What's overclocked? • Motherboard manufacturer • System memory capacity • Solid-state drive capacity • Mechanical storage capacity (total) • Do you have an optical drive? • Do you have a sound card? • Do you have any expansion cards beside a graphics card and sound card? • PSU wattage • System form factor • Type of CPU cooler • Number of displays • Resolution of largest display • Panel type of largest display • Mouse type • Type of keyboard • Primary operating system • Home network Wi-Fi speed • Internet connection speed (down) • Internet connection speed (up) Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous The Tech Report |
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What's your biggest PC bottleneck? Modern PCs are incredibly powerful. They have multi-core CPUs, massively parallel graphics processors, gobs of memory, and... Poll Question: • What's your biggest PC bottleneck? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Storage Memory |
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How do you prefer to read books? It's way past time for a new poll, and I have an honest question about how folks like to consume books. Have you made... Poll Question: • How do you prefer to read books? Type: News story Tags: Personal tech |
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Jury finds Samsung violated Apple patents The jury in Apple's patent infringement case against Samsung has found that Samsung violated a great many of the patents Apple sought to enforce, and... Poll Question: • Your reaction to the Apple-Samsung verdict? Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Personal tech |
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Poll: What will happen first? It's time to peer into our crystal balls and predict the future. There are a number of things in the tech industry that should—or at... Poll Question: • What will happen first? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Storage Operating systems |
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Poll: Where do you most want a high-DPI display? High-DPI screens are all the rage these days. Apple deserves credit for starting the trend with the Retina display on the iPhone 4, and... Poll Question: • I most want a high-DPI display on my: Type: News story Tags: Graphics Displays |
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Poll: What's the best premium upgrade? When upgrading their PCs, most enthusiasts seem to focus on swapping in faster CPUs and graphics cards. The CPU has the biggest impact on... Poll Question: • Best premium upgrade: Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Cooling Displays Input devices |
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