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Part 2: Building A Balanced Gaming PC December 1, 2009 – 2:00 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
Tom's Hardware's 2009 Gift Guide: Part 1, For System Builders November 25, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Buyers Guides
Welcome to Part One of Tom's Hardware's Holiday Gift Guide. This first episode is geared toward those system builders planning to pool some ... Read more
Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 2 November 19, 2009 – 2:00 AM – CPU
In Part 1, we showed you how to optimize the settings of your Cool'n'Quiet-equipped processor and what sort of power benefits you could expect as ... Read more
Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 1 November 16, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Tweaking & Tuning
Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again. We ... Read more
Part 1: Building A Balanced Gaming PC November 10, 2009 – 2:00 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
How To: Upgrade Windows Vista To DirectX 11 October 22, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Tweaking & Tuning
Although DirectX 11 will be released with Windows 7, Microsoft wants to delay deployment for Vista until Service Pack 3 and is artificially ... Read more
System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: AMD System Value Compared September 29, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Build Your Own
Our response to reader-demand for AMD systems focuses on the company’s penchant for gaming value across three budget classes. How do these ... Read more
System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $2,500 Performance PC September 28, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Build Your Own
Reader suggestions and previous test results defined most of this month’s highest-priced build. Will the extra planning and testing pay off in ... Read more
System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $1,250 Enthusiast Build September 25, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Desktops
With a limited budget and high-resolution gaming in our sights, we spice up this quarter's $1,250 build with as many graphics cards as we can fit ... Read more
System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $650 Gaming PC September 24, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Desktops
We kick off our third-quarter System Builder Marathon series with Paul's $650 gaming PC. Last time you asked for an all-AMD set of builds, and ... Read more
Undervolting Your Phenom II And Core 2 Processors July 14, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Tweaking & Tuning
Did you know that PC power consumption can be reduced by as much as 35 W just by cutting back on CPU voltage? We looked for the best stable ... Read more
The HTPC / Windows 7 Chronicles: You Asked, We Answer! July 6, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Build Your Own
It's a good time to be building your own HTPC. AMD has it's innovative Maui platform and Asus is offering the first (and currently only) sound ... Read more
System Builder Marathon: Performance And Value Compared May 28, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Build Your Own
Our builders have assembled, tested, and overclocked three reduced-size performance systems, and now we’re ready to compare their efforts. Which ... Read more
System Builder Marathon, May '09: $600 Gaming PC May 27, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Build Your Own
You've already seen our $2,500 and $1,300 Core i7-based builds. Now we're going to try to put together a miniaturized gaming system on a $600 ... Read more
System Builder Marathon, May '09: $1,300 Enthusiast PC May 26, 2009 – 2:00 AM – Build Your Own
As you know, we’ve changed things up for this System Builder Marathon, squeezing the best components we can into portable Micro-ATX cases. Sure, ... Read more

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