Most of our testing happens on open-air racks, so fully-configured PCs are somewhat of a novelty around here. Well though-out water-cooled ... Read more

Rarely does an issue divide the gaming community like PhysX has. We go deep into explaining CPU- and GPU-based PhysX processing, run PhysX with a ... Read more

Today we're testing three of the largest graphics card coolers available: Arctic Cooling's Accelero XTREME Plus, DeepCool's V6000, and Zalman's ... Read more

Two years ago, Intel's Core i7-920 was the best value available to overclockers. Since then, the company has launched scalable 32 nm desktop CPUs ... Read more

We're back with Part 2 of our bottleneck exploration in a mainstream gaming PC equipped with a Core i5 and GeForce GTX 460, ready to dive into ... Read more

Each quarter, our System Builder Marathons include parts picked by three Tom's Hardware editors aided by comments from our readers. This quarter, ... Read more

Gigabyte's GO OC finals came to a conclusion over the weekend. Europe's dominance of the overclocking scene was retained, while a Hong Kong ... Read more

After looking at whether or not it makes sense to replace a PC built back in 2007 with a more modern machine, we decided to examine three ... Read more

Intel agressively promotes its Core i3/i5/i7 series, but we wonder: Does it make sense to replace a three-year old high-end PC? In the end, ... Read more

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

PC Tools’ Registry Mechanic for Windows is essential to improving system performance and keeping your PC healthy. Run a free system scan. Read more

Windows 7 is fairly similar to Windows Vista, but the operating system includes several enhancements. In this piece, we have a handful of tips ... Read more

The latest PlayStation 3 Slim offers up to 250 GB of storage on its built-in hard drive. But enthusiasts are better off paying Sony less for a ... Read more

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

Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again. We ... Read more