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  • High Power For Power Users: 13 Power Supplies In The Spotlight
    June 9, 2003 – 1:01 PM
    The latest CPUs and graphics cards require robust power supplies. But watch out: the test candidates rarely delivered on their power claims. Efficiency, voltage and noise levels are a few of the important factors you need to consider before you make a purchase.
  • Getting the Right Power: 15 PC Power Supply Units
    January 22, 2004 – 12:03 PM
    Many users are unaware of the role power supply units play in the stable operation of a PC. But how do you judge one over the other before learning the hard way after buying a faulty unit? THG has tested 15 PC power supply units and details the must buys and the must not buys. We also explain and clarify how to interpret manufacturers' power unit specifications.
  • Twice The Power: SiS655 With Dual DDR333
    March 12, 2003 – 12:01 PM
    The Taiwanese manufacturer SIS follows Intel's footsteps with a Pentium 4 chipset that supports two DDR channels. The SiS655 has been developed from the Sis648, and it now has APG 8X. Unlike the Intel E7205, it not only supports DDR 266 but DDR 333 as well, finally. This gives the newcomer an edge, at least on paper. Can it live up to expectations?
  • Microsoft driver bug saps Core Duo power
    January 27, 2006 – 10:26 PM
    Microsoft driver bug saps Core Duo power Connect any USB 2.0 device to your notebook and lose more than one hour of battery time: Tom's Hardware Guide's tests of a Windows-based Intel Core Duo mobile processor platform revealed a serious power consumption issue that, according to Intel, is caused by a Microsoft driver bug - a bug that has been known by Microsoft for some time, but kept from the public eye until today.
  • 35 AMD CPUs Tested for Power Consumption
    May 7, 2008 – 10:10 AM in AMD/ATI
    35 AMD CPUs Tested for Power Consumption We look at the power consumption and cost of running 35 AMD CPUs under varying conditions.
  • PC Power Supplies: More Important than You Think
    August 9, 2007 – 12:04 PM
    PC Power Supplies: More Important than You Think Despite their importance and the sometimes demanding requirements they must satisfy, power supplies just don't get enough attention. We illuminate everything worth knowing about power supplies here, using Gigabyte's new Odin GT series as an illustration. The Odin family brings software monitoring and configuration into an already very interesting picture.
  • How much Graphics Power Does a PC Really Need?
    March 2, 2005 – 12:03 PM in Buyer's Guides
    Almost every PC sold today features a 3D graphics card. But other than powering games, there's not much use for advanced 3D features. Certainly you don't need a 3D graphics card for office work, surfing the Internet and other common tasks. Are the graphics manufacturers on the wrong track?
  • Workstation Power: ATi's FireGL X1 under Linux
    December 31, 2002 – 12:00 PM in AMD/ATI
    The new OpenGL workstation graphics board from ATi is put to the test under Linux. THG will compare ATi's FireGL X1 with NVidia's Quadro4 980XGL under Windows shortly.
  • Full Power: NVIDIA Attacks With nForce2
    July 16, 2002 – 1:08 PM in NVIDIA
    The launch of the nForce chipset a year ago did not bring about the success that NVIDIA had hoped for. It should be better this time, though, because its sucessor, the nForce2, contains technology of the highest level: dual-channel DDR400 and AGP 8x should give a bigger performance boost for PCs with AMD Athlon XP. Valuable features, such as a FireWire interface and two network controllers, are optional. Integrated graphics based on GeForce4 MX is also optional, so that the success of the chipset is not endangered by a high price tag. NVIDIA has done its homework - let's see if that's enough for top scores.
  • 24 Pipelines of Power! NVIDIA 7800 GTX
    June 22, 2005 – 1:04 PM in NVIDIA
    Ready for a serious shot of pure horsepower? The graphics industry is a never ending chess match that always has one competitor on top and the other falling to the wayside. It is NVIDIA's turn to be king of the hill, and we will show you why you will cheer, "Hail to the Chief!"
  • OpenGL Workstation Power - Graphics Cards for the Professional User
    June 15, 2001 – 1:05 PM
    Whether in the design department of a multinational company or in a small engineering firm - no designer can make do without a workstation equipped with a powerful OpenGL graphics card. Among the non plus ultra of graphics cards - the Elsa Gloria III, based on NVIDIA's Quadro2 Pro chip, ATI's Fire GL4 and 3Dlabs3Dlabs's Wildcat II 5110 - competition to attract customers is stiff.
  • Intel Power Consumption Then and Now
    December 28, 2007 – 9:09 AM
    Intel Power Consumption Then and Now We compare the Pentium 4, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme/Quad and track their power consumption at a given application workload. Core 2 is more efficient, but why this is so might surprise you.
  • The Truth About PC Power Consumption
    October 19, 2007 – 3:47 AM
    The Truth About PC Power Consumption AMD and Intel stress idle and max power use by their processors and platforms. To tell the whole story, we look at how much power typical systems consume over time, under different workloads.
  • The Power Saving Guide, Part 2
    June 1, 2007 – 7:36 AM
    The Power Saving Guide, Part 2 This time we analyze the impact on power consumption of RAM speed and timings, graphics card generation, hard drive type and form factor and of typical add-on cards.
  • AMD: Intel's Conroe power advantage claim based on skewed metric
    July 14, 2006 – 6:19 PM
    AMD: Intel's Conroe power advantage claim based on skewed metric With Intel's upcoming Core 2 Extreme processor boasting a thermal design point (TDP) of as low as 75 watts, it would appear Intel has regained the advantage over AMD's Athlon 64 FX-62 at 125 watts. But TDP measures power dissipation , not consumption, AMD claims, as part of its campaign to re-educate Intel's would-be customers on the eve of that company's most critical product launch ever.

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