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Best Motherboards For The Money: October 2014Oct 14, 2014 - in Reviews
Are you having a hard time keeping track of the best motherboards out there? Our resident motherboard expert helps you pick the right platform with this collection of award-winning boards covering today's top AMD and Intel processors.
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SYBER Launches Vapor Xtreme Console With GTX 980 GPUSep 19, 2014 - in News
This could have been a Steam Machine.
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: September 2014Sep 16, 2014 - in Reviews
This month reveals a wealth of new processors including Intel's eight-core beast, the Core i7-5960X. We also look at other Haswell-E options and consider AMD's new 95 W, eight-core FX processors, the 125 W FX-8370, and other new models and price changes.
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Your Top Picks: Tom's Hardware Forums' Q4 2013 BestConfigsDec 1, 2013 - in Reviews
Have you ever come up with your own idea for a killer rig? Don't forget to tell us about it on the Tom's Hardware forums. The following ten setups were configured by forum members and chosen as winners in the Q4 2013 BestConfigs Poll.
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AVADirect First in U.S. With Clevo's Haswell Gaming LaptopJun 6, 2013 - in News
Here's a new gaming laptop from AVDirect.
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New AMD and Intel CPUs Surface on Valid.CanardPCMay 8, 2013 - in News
CPU-Z Validator results posted on Valid.CanardPC may have revealed the AMD FX-8750, A10-5750, Intel Core i5-4200U “Haswell ULT” and i5-4850T processors
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CrossFire Versus SLI Scaling: Does AMD's FX Actually Favor GeForce?Apr 10, 2013 - in Reviews
We've heard it said before that AMD's GPUs are more platform-dependent than Nvidia's. So, what happens when you drop a Radeon and a GeForce into an FX-8350-based system? Does AMD's CPU get in the way of its GPU running as well as it possibly could?
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AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Achieves CDH4 CertificationMar 25, 2013 - in News
The company's Sea Micro SM15000 severs are the first fabric-based computing servers to receive the certification from Cloudera.
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Your Top Picks: Tom's Hardware Forums' Q1 2013 BestConfigsMar 10, 2013 - in Reviews
So you like our System Builder Marathon? Ever come up with your own idea for a killer rig? Don't forget to tell us about it on the Tom's Hardware forums. The following ten setups were configured by forum members and chosen in Q1 2013 BestConfigs Poll.
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Crysis 3 Performance, Benchmarked On 16 Graphics CardsMar 4, 2013 - in Reviews
Crysis 3 boasts amazing graphics quality, and is based on an engine that takes the strongest PCs to their knees. Is it playable on low-end hardware? Can we run this one at its highest detail levels on today's graphics cards? Our benchmarks tell the story.
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System Builder Marathon, Q1 2013: System Value ComparedFeb 28, 2013 - in Reviews
We've long claimed that the sweet spot for value was somewhere around $800. So, we narrowed this quarter's System Builder Marathon from $600 to $1,000. Which one of our three configurations gives us the most performance for our budget?
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Report: PC Graphics Shipments Down in Fourth QuarterFeb 21, 2013 - in News
Discrete GPU shipments were down 16-percent in 4Q12
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Gaming Shoot-Out: 18 CPUs And APUs Under $200, BenchmarkedFeb 11, 2013 - in Reviews
Now that Piledriver-based CPUs and APUs are widely available (and the FX-8350 is selling for less than $200), it's a great time to compare value-oriented chips in our favorite titles. We're also breaking out a test that conveys the latency between frames.
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FX Vs. Core i7: Exploring CPU Bottlenecks And AMD CrossFireJan 23, 2013 - in Reviews
AMD and Intel continue serving up increasingly faster CPUs. But graphics card performance is accelerating even faster. Is there still such a thing as processor-bound gaming? We take two Radeon HD 7970s, high-end desktop CPUs, and a few games to find out.
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PC Processor Sales Expected to Grow Just Just 1.6% in 2013Jan 21, 2013 - in News
Market researchers do not believe that the market conditions for microprocessor makers will improve anytime soon.
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CPU Charts 2012: 86 Processors From AMD And Intel, TestedDec 23, 2012 - in Reviews
Benchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside!
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AMD Slams Intel's Atom S Processor: ''Too Little, Too Late''Dec 11, 2012 - in News
AMD reacted to Intel's announcement of its Atom S microserver processor today with a rather interesting email that was sent out to media.
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Analysts, Vendors Discuss Future of Mobile Processing PowerDec 10, 2012 - in News
Vendors are said to be moving focus away from reliance on mobile processors.
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System Builder Marathon, Q4 2012: System Value ComparedDec 6, 2012 - in Reviews
This quarter is full of surprises, from a value-oriented $500 build that includes a Radeon HD 7850 to a $1,000 machine based on AMD's FX-8350 and a $2,000 box armed with a pair of Radeon HD 7970s. We mix it up by adding new benchmarks. It's anyone's game!
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Intel: We're Still Committed To SocketsDec 6, 2012 - in News
Intel has finally stepped forth to defend its position on socket-based CPUs.
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Tom's Hardware's 2012 Gift Guide, Part 1: For System BuildersNov 20, 2012 - in Picture Story
Welcome to our most-anticipated event of the year, the 2012 Holiday Gift Guide! Today, in Part 1, we have three of our most stunning models ever displaying an arousing array of components for your system config consideration. Deep breath...and enjoy.
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Intel, AMD, Nvidia Claim Greenest Supercomputer TechnologyNov 14, 2012 - in News
The world's most prestigious supercomputers are usually spotlighted in the Top500 list of the world's fastest systems.
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Intel, AMD, Lockheed, Honeywell Form Cyber Security AllianceOct 30, 2012 - in News
A few technology heavy weights have bonded to create a private research entity to address cyber security challenges.
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AMD FX-4170 Vs. Intel Core i3-3220: Which ~$125 CPU Should You Buy?Oct 14, 2012 - in Reviews
AMD has the clock rate on its side. But Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture boasts superior IPC throughput. We pit the 4.2 GHz FX-4170 against Intel's new 3.3 GHz Core i3-3220 in an effort to determine which CPU is the better buy for $125.
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Gaming At 1920x1080: AMD's Trinity Takes On Intel HD GraphicsSep 26, 2012 - in Reviews
Think you're pretty snazzy because your integrated graphics core plays mainstream games at 1280x720? We're on to bigger and better things, like modern titles at 1920x1080. Can AMD's Trinity architecture push high-enough frame rates to make this possible?
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Better With Time? The A8-3870 And Pentium G630, One Year LaterSep 9, 2012 - in Reviews
AMD's desktop APUs, which combine x86 cores and graphics resources, emerged more than a year ago. We take a Llano-based A8-3870 and compare its performance from 2011 to what you get today using new drivers, application versions, and OpenCL acceleration.
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Guild Wars 2: Your Graphics Card And CPU Performance GuideAug 26, 2012 - in Reviews
The anticipated sequel to Guild Wars is here, and we're putting this MMO through its paces to let you know what hardware you'll need in order to play it at its highest details. We also explore which processor architectures work best with Guild Wars 2.
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Ex-Intel Employee Jailed for Stealing Company SecretsAug 9, 2012 - in News
A man was finally sentenced to three years in federal prison for stealing Intel secrets back in 2008.
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Deals July 23: Dell Core i5 Quad-core PC $449Jul 24, 2012 - in News
Deals for the day, hot off the LogicBuy press!