Tom's Hardware's 2012 Gift Guide, Part 1: For System Builders
Tom's Hardware's 2012 Gift Guide, Part 1: For System Builders
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Our Favorite Parts Inside Your PC
Ah, 2012. It was quite the roller coaster, wasn't it? We could think of no better way to send off the year than with a Tom's Hardware tradition: the holiday gift guide featuring some of our favorite components, modeled by a stunning trio of California dreamies.
Gone are the ornaments and elf outfits of years past, though. We strip right down to the essentials, gear and girls, and have 23 items lined up for you in this first of three gift guide installments. Our focus is on the components you'd use to build up your next box, regardless of budget.
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Spend four years in a typical engineering school.
A lot of girls will look attractive to you.
GTX 690 (pic #23)
You mean RAM your HARD drive into her BOX ? Using your favorite PARTS to hit her SPOT.
Oh boy, this getting far from PC.
Damn I can't get away from it
But Intel mobo has the pins sticking out
Spend four years in a typical engineering school.
A lot of girls will look attractive to you.
Special request: if you feel compelled to post something negative, simply navigate away. We completely understand if you don't want to see hardware and models in the same place. We'll be back with something more technical on Friday, in that case.
Have a happy Thanksgiving, all of you in the U.S.!
Best,
Chris
But really, that side note was amusing.
@Jane
When will you start your modelling career? I mean, you are already writing for TH, so why not? Haha...
In Picture 13, I have heard that generally, Sandy and Ivy Bridges don't really need that much memory bandwidth for some workloads at least. Also I don't think the 9-9-9-24 1600MHz RAM modules have better latency than the 9-10-9-27 1866MHz modules, just lower a lower clock. In fact (well, unless I'm mistaken), for the latter to have about the same latency as the formerr, it would need timings of 10-10-10-28, and even then, it has a slightly lower latency, so at 9-10-9-27, it beats it in terms of latency.
In Picture 14, the model's blocking the way! Haha!
15 made me have some...not so pleasant thoughts about the water cooler. For a moment, it kinda gave me the vague image of an "indecent contraption" if you catch my drift. Hehe... Sorry.
Pictue 18...Oh no! Woman! What do you think you're doing!?
Just kidding around. And I guess the spirit of the article is a pretty playful one anyway, so I think it's appropriate.
@boyabuda
I have a feeling you're Filipino.