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: Are Skylake CPUs tempting you to upgrade? It's been almost two weeks since Intel's Skylake enthusiast CPUs hit the market. We know how they perform, and we have a good idea... Poll Question: • Are Skylake CPUs and Z170 motherboards tempting you to upgrade? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Systems |
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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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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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Poll: To which release are you most looking forward? Between all our reviews and news, not to mention reader meetups, we've kinda been neglecting our front-page poll. Today, we're freshening things up... Poll Question: • To which release are you most looking forward? Type: News story Tags: Graphics Mobile computing Game consoles Operating systems |
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Poll: What will be the fate of Windows RT? Windows RT is a curious beast. It features the tablet-friendly Modern UI Style and is compatible with the ARM-based processors found in most modern... Poll Question: • What will happen to WinRT? Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems |
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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: 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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Poll: Do you shut down, sleep, or hibernate? For ages, I've been in the habit of never turning off my primary PC. It's a desktop, and old habits die hard. However,... Poll Question: • When not in use, my primary PC is usually: Type: News story Tags: Operating systems |
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Poll: The future of pointing input methods For a long time now, the mouse and touchpad have been the primary computer input devices for pointing and selection. True challengers have been few... Poll Question: • In 10 years, the dominant computer pointing/selection input method will be: Type: News story Tags: Input devices |
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Poll: What's the best new web browser? In the last few weeks, we've been treated to a bevvy of major browser releases: Chrome 10, Internet Explorer 9, and Firefox 4. If... Poll Question: • What's the best web browser? Type: News story Tags: Internet Software |
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Poll: How much storage is enough for a system drive? In the PC storage world, 2011 looks primed to be the year of the SSD. Drives continue to get cheaper, the latest models look... Poll Question: • How much storage is enough for a system drive? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Poll: Which tech company is the most evil? Microsoft is generally assumed to be evil, Google likes to say that it's not, and Apple is too cool to care one way or another.... Poll Question: • Who's the most evil? Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems |
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Poll: What's your pick of upcoming games? We're set for a bumper crop of top-flight games in 2011, and the toughest part of the story may simply be choosing which games to... Poll Question: • Game you're most anticipating Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming |
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Poll: What's the worst PC hardware bug? Intel's 6-series chipset bug has dominated the headlines this week, and for good reason. The flaw has been traced back to a single transistor... Poll Question: • Worst PC hardware bug? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets Storage |
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Poll: How much storage in your primary PC? Although hard drive capacities aren't growing at the rate they once were, the drives themselves are getting cheaper and cheaper. That's made it easy... Poll Question: • How much storage capacity is in your primary PC? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Poll: Your network-attached storage solution In this week's podcast, we field a question about home storage servers. Scott and I both have network-attached storage rigs cobbled together from... Poll Question: • Do you have network-attached storage in your home? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Windows 10 update has Spectre fixes for Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake | 10 |
Our storage bench has not been patched for either vulnerability, so it's not that. Like we noted, we're working with Samsung to explore what's going o... | +20 |