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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: February 2012 February 8, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Graphics Cards
This month's big news is AMD's Radeon HD 7950, a $450 model that matches pace with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580. We'll give you the skinny on this ... Read more
In Pictures: 14 LGA 2011 Coolers For Your Core i7-3000 CPU February 7, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Cooling
Do LGA 2011-based processors really need to be matched up to closed-loop liquid coolers? Not at all. We collected 14 different high-end heat sink ... Read more
Intel SSD 520 Review: Taking Back The High-End With SandForce February 6, 2012 – 11:00 AM – Internal Storage
If you thought that Intel had conceded the high-end SSD market to its competition, you were wrong. The company's new SSD 520 centers on ... Read more
In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic Failures February 3, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Miscellaneous
We've endured a great many annoyances in the 16 years since Tom's Hardware first appeared online. What follows is a list of 16 of them. Although ... Read more
Live From AMD's Financial Analyst Day February 2, 2012 – 12:00 PM – Graphics Cards
We've been waiting on AMD's Financial Analyst Day for more information on how the company plans to approach new and current businesses moving ... Read more
OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, Accelerated February 2, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Graphics Cards
We've been bugging AMD for years now, literally: show us what GPU-accelerated software can do. Finally, the company is ready to put us in touch ... Read more
Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s? February 1, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Internal Storage
Are you mulling the potential benefit of an SSD upgrade on a system without 6 Gb/s SATA connectivity? We run the benchmarks on several different ... Read more
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review: Up Against GeForce GTX 580 January 31, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Graphics Cards
Is the Radeon HD 7970's $550 asking price too high? AMD now has a less expensive derivative based on the same GCN architecture. At its default ... Read more
Picking A Sub-$200 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium? January 30, 2012 – 12:00 AM – CPU
We really like to hunt down great values in the processor space. Since our last round-up of affordable CPUs, AMD released its Llano-based APUs ... Read more
What Does One Petabyte Of Storage (And $500K) Look Like? January 27, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Storage Solutions
We're big fans of big technology, and with more than 1 PB of capacity, Aberdeen's Petarack is sure something to marvel at. We take a look inside ... Read more
Amazon Kindle Touch Review And Fourth-Gen Screen Quality Update January 26, 2012 – 12:10 AM – Tablets and Smartphones
Amazon Kindle Fire tablet received all of the glory. But the company also has a new e-book reader that features a touchscreen. How does the ... Read more
Install A Hard Drive Or SSD In Your Notebook's Optical Bay January 26, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Internal Storage
You want a performance-oriented SSD in your notebook, but you also need the capacity of a hard drive. Why not just remove your optical drive, ... Read more
AMD's FX-8150 After Two Windows 7 Hotfixes And UEFI Updates January 25, 2012 – 12:00 AM – CPU
Introducing a new processor architecture takes a colossal effort. AMD's modular Bulldozer design ran into its share of resistance at launch. Can ... Read more
Best SSDs For The Money: January 2012 January 24, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Internal Storage
Welcome to the year's first SSD recommendations. We updated our list to reflect recent price drops on second-gen SandForce-based hardware. There ... Read more
Radeon HD 6990M And GeForce GTX 580M: A Beautiful Lie January 23, 2012 – 12:00 AM – Notebooks
We’ve been more than outspoken about the naming AMD and Nvidia use for their mobile GPUs. Are they really trying to mislead buyers, though? We ... Read more