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Part 1: 20 Crazy And Unique Case Mods May 18, 2010 – 2:00 AM – Cases
Think your puny case is cool? You haven't seen anything yet. We've collected some of the weirdest and coolest cases around the Web, and believe ... Read more
Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: May 2010 May 17, 2010 – 2:00 AM – CPU
April saw the introduction of AMD's Phenom II X6. Does this new architecture offer up enough performance to make the recommended list? We're ... Read more
Overclocking: Get The Performance Of A Core i5 From Core i3 May 14, 2010 – 2:00 AM – CPU
Intel’s $115 Core i3-530 doesn't include Turbo Boost technology and it doesn't boast hardware-based AES-NI, but it overclocks like a fiend. We ... Read more
AVADirect's W860CU: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Vs. GeForce GTX 285M May 13, 2010 – 2:00 AM – Notebooks
Custom system builder AVADirect is one of the few companies to offer the flexibility of multiple graphics modules within the same notebook model. ... Read more
Part 3: Building A Balanced Gaming PC May 12, 2010 – 12:00 AM – Build Your Own
What does it mean to build a truly-balanced PC? How great would it be to piece together a machine bottlenecked by neither CPU or GPU? We set ... Read more
Meet Zosma: AMD's Quad-Core Phenom II X4 960T Gets Unlocked May 11, 2010 – 2:00 AM – CPU
In our recent Phenom II X6 1090T review, we speculated about the possibility of a quad-core CPU family based on AMD's Thuban design. Meet Zosma. ... Read more
Six New Athlon II CPUs: AMD Impresses With Switch And Bait May 11, 2010 – 12:00 AM – CPU
AMD turns the bait-and-switch tactic upside down for the second time in four months, offering faster CPUs at existing price points. We explore ... Read more
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: May 2010 May 10, 2010 – 2:00 AM – Graphics Cards
The big news this month isn't a new GPU launch, but the actual availability of the GeForce GTX 470 at retail. The GeForce GTX 480 can be found ... Read more
3.5'' Vs. 2.5'' SAS HDDs: In Storage, Size Matters May 7, 2010 – 9:40 PM – Internal Storage
Diminutive 2.5” form factors are favored in the enterprise storage world for many reasons, but how do high-end 2.5” SAS drives compare to the ... Read more
Efficiency Analysis: Core i3 Trumps Atom On The Desktop May 7, 2010 – 2:00 AM – CPU
Atom was designed to be a low-cost, low-power solution, but its value in the desktop space is debatable if you consider performance. We pit the ... Read more
Best Of Tom’s Hardware: How To Build A PC May 6, 2010 – 2:00 AM – Build Your Own
The editorial team here at Tom’s Hardware has supported new PC builders since 1997 with tips, tricks, and sage advice. Our most complete ... Read more
Meet Moorestown: Intel's Atom Platform For The Next 10 Billion Devices May 5, 2010 – 12:00 AM – Notebooks
Intel’s second-gen Atom platform, Moorestown, positions the chip giant to have a killer smartphone and MID platform in 2010. The old Atom Z5xx ... Read more
X58 In 2010: Four LGA 1366 Boards With USB 3.0 And SATA 6Gb/s May 4, 2010 – 2:00 AM – Motherboards
The March 2010 launch of Intel's hexa-core Core i7-980X gave us a good reason to revisit the LGA 1366 interface. Today, we're looking at four new ... Read more
The GeForce GTX 480 Update: 3-Way SLI, 3D Vision, And Noise May 3, 2010 – 2:00 AM – Graphics Cards
We reviewed Nvidia's GeForce GTX 480 one month ago. We're back today with three GTX 480s and two Radeon HD 5870s for SLI/CrossFire scaling ... Read more
Atom-Powered NAS: Thecus N4200 And QNAP TS-459 Pro April 30, 2010 – 2:00 AM – External Storage
Intel's most modern dual-core Pineview-based Atom processor isn't just aimed at energy-efficient netbooks. It can also be found in NAS servers ... Read more