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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: 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: Does your ISP cap your internet connection? The state of Internet service in the United States is a bit of a mess. Unless you're a lucky soul in a Google Fiber... Poll Question: • Does your ISP cap your internet connection? Type: News story Tags: Networking |
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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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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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Poll: What do you use to apply thermal paste? Back in the day, applying thermal compound was a fine art. I used to spend entirely too much time making sure the surface of... Poll Question: • What do you use to apply thermal paste? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Cooling |
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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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The TR Hardware Survey 2: Survey harder Just over two years have passed since we carried out our very first hardware survey, in which we asked our readers to answer 15... Poll Questions: • Processor • Number of CPU cores • Stock CPU clock speed • CPU socket type • Graphics processor • How much did your graphics card cost at the time of purchase? • Chipset • Motherboard brand • Memory size • Primary internal hard drive type: • Total internal hard drive storage capacity • Primary optical drive type • Sound card • Speaker config • Number of displays • Main display type • Main display size • Main display aspect ratio • Main display resolution • Do you have a stereoscopic 3D display and glasses? • Primary operating system • What mobile computers do you have? Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report |
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Poll: How big is your CPU fan? As CPUs have become more power efficient, the fans used to cool them have grown in size. That might seem counter-intuitive, but it speaks... Poll Question: • How big is your CPU fan? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Cooling |
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Poll: What's tops on your Christmas list? Every holiday season brings a fresh batch of new hardware, and this one will be no exception. Sandy Bridge is due early in the... Poll Question: • All I want for Christmas is... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Poll: How do you buy your music? The music industry has changed a lot over the last decade. Online services have become huge, and MP3s have slowly clawed back ground previously... Poll Question: • How do you buy most of your music? Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report |
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Poll: Enterprise IT hardware and you We tend to focus a bit more on the consumer side of the PC hardware business, but there's a whole other world out there—that of... Poll Questions: • How would you describe your level of involvement with the IT hardware in your workplace, including engineering/design, procurement, upgrades, repairs, maintenance and the like? • Have you been directly involved with the purchase or installation of a new server at your workplace in the last year? • How many PCs, workstations, or servers do you have responsibility for or control over at work? • How large is the annual IT budget at your company or organization (best guess, if not sure)? • Do you use a virtualization application in your workplace? • Which brand of server has your business or organization purchased the most in the past two years? • Which brand of workstation has your business or organization purchased the most in the past two years? • Which brand of laptop has your business or organization purchased the most in the past two years? • Do you use enterprise-class hardware to build or upgrade PCs or servers in your home? Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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