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If you ever plan to build your own PC, Tom's Hardware’s System Builder Marathon is a must-read. Our editorial team builds, tests, and evaluates PC systems at varying costs, using the components that we think maximize value. These components include motherboards, cooling devices, CPU platforms, chipsets, memory, cases, hard drives, networking and graphics cards and power supplies. For each build, we include performance benchmarks that include 3D games, audio and video compression, graphic design, image manipulation, and video editing. Our testing includes each configuration in its stock form and overclocked. Feel free to build along with us or watch patiently from the sidelines, because, remember—each of these systems are given away at the end of the marathon (don’t forget to enter!).

reviews - NOVEMBER 27 65

On this, the second day of our System Builder Marathon, Don turns down the price tag of his mid-range build looking for a sweet spot just above the $1,000 marker. Let's see what sort of hardware he found for...

news - NOVEMBER 26 18

German teams edge past U.S. overclockers by just a few clock cycles more.

reviews - NOVEMBER 26 88

This month's System Builder Marathon is all about your feedback to us. We've revamped our entry-level and mid-range PCs with new price points. Let's kick things off with what we think is the best value at a...

news - NOVEMBER 25 17

Tweak UI, one of the best OS tweaking tools around, is finally coming to Vista

news - NOVEMBER 24 4

A name that used to crop up when talking about elite optical products years ago has made a comeback! Plextor has come out of the woodwork, announcing a new lineup of optical drives after lying low for a while.

news - NOVEMBER 20 3

Did you hear that? Nvidia has just released its ForceWare 180.48 drivers, aka ‘Big Bang II’. The new ForceWare set is required to enable SLI on ‘some’ new and upcoming Intel X58 Express based boards. ...

news - NOVEMBER 20 7

Look ma! No wires! Well, sort of. NETGEAR introduces their Powerline Adapters for HD and Multimedia Streaming without the hassle of degraded wireless performance and most of all, wires.

news - NOVEMBER 19 1

With all the buzz surrounding the Intel Core i7 debut, memory manufacturers are delivering the goods. Mushkin is now offering up its triple channel kits to the mix, with some pretty impressive timings.

news - NOVEMBER 19 51

Planning to build your brand spanking new Intel i7 based gaming system with that fancy new Intel X58 Express board? Just make sure you toss 6GB of memory into the mix for the best possible experience, according...

news - NOVEMBER 18 5

Stealth Computer has announced a new mini-PC designed for in-vehicle, mobile and embedded applications

news - NOVEMBER 13 4

Kingston Technology brings us another line of enthusiast based memory with its new T1 heat spreaders and HTX technology. HTX technology is a new innovation design by Kingston’s engineering team dedicated to...

news - NOVEMBER 12 1

With the ever increasing demand for more storage by users that are always on-the-go, Fujitsu launches a set of hard drives at half of a terabyte.

reviews - NOVEMBER 11 40

Functionality, elegant design, and solid build quality characterize these mid-tower cases. They offer enough space for several hard drives and graphics cards, making them the ideal foundation for enthusiasts.

news - NOVEMBER 10 9

Last week Toms had covered a bit about the freezing problems with Seagate’s Barracuda 1.5TB drives. We would like to update readers with the response that Toms has gotten directly from Seagate.

news - NOVEMBER 9 5

It’s about 6:12PM PST now and the four teams are crunching away with benchmark scores. The competition overall is pacing along really nicely, and the teams are getting riled up. We saw a few competitors...

news - NOVEMBER 8 26

Things arrived smoothly the day before. Equipment, liquid nitrogen tanks — all eight of them — and the contestants. Everyone was definitely gearing up and getting prepared for the event that would occur...

news - NOVEMBER 7 13

This weekend commences the start of Tom’s Hardware’s Overdrive competition, in which teams of enthusiasts compete for the position of reigning world champion. Bestofmedia Group announced the first...

news - NOVEMBER 6 15

SanDisk explained its new file system technology for SSDs, which it calls the ExtremeFFS, that it could boost random write speeds by up to 100 times over existing systems.

news - NOVEMBER 4 5

Gigabyte has announced two new X58 motherboards designed for the Core i7 platform

reviews - OCTOBER 31 68

Three dramatically different builds face off in a show of performance, defining the real value of each. Our mainstream system is designed to meet the needs of most users. Who should spend more and who can live...

news - OCTOBER 30 6

Been looking for a good Mini-ITX solution for a project? Home Theatre PC? Zotac has packed Nvidia power onto one of its new Mini-ITX boards, along with semi-built in Wi-Fi.

reviews - OCTOBER 30 96

For the second to last day of our System Builder Marathon series, we add a $500 gaming PC to the mix. It's not going to be as quick as our other two builds, but we think Paul was able to get some serious value...

news - OCTOBER 29 30

Been eyeballing that old aquarium in the garage (the fish long since gone) for your next extreme system mod and cooling solution?

news - OCTOBER 29 6

G.Skill launched its new triple-channel DDR3 memory kits for the Intel Core i7 platform

reviews - OCTOBER 29 120

We're following up yesterday's $4,500 behemoth with a more affordable $1,500 mid-range build. Let's see what sort of performance (and overclocking headroom) you can get when you spend one third of the money.

reviews - OCTOBER 28 83

This month's System Builder Marathon spreads the system prices out even further to $4,500, $1,500, and $500. Is today’s $4,500 system really worth three times as much as an upper-mainstream performance...

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