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Big Air: 14 LGA 2011-Compatible Coolers For Core i7-3000, Reviewed February 16, 2012 – 12:00 AM
Do Intel’s Core i7-3000-series CPUs really need closed-loop liquid cooling? Today we're testing fourteen different LGA 2011-compatible air ... Read more

Battlefield 3 Performance: 30+ Graphics Cards, Benchmarked Are you wondering how your PC will handle Battlefield 3... read more October 28, 2011 – 12:00 AM
The Radeon HD 6950 Sweet Spot: Five 1 GB Cards Rounded-Up AMD’s 1 GB Radeon HD 6950s are certainly cheaper than... read more October 18, 2011 – 12:00 AM
AMD Bulldozer Review: FX-8150 Gets Tested Perhaps the most hotly-anticipated launch in 2011, AMD’s... read more October 12, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Round-Up: Four Z68 Motherboards From $220 To $280 A real enthusiast chipset deserves a real enthusiast... read more September 19, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E) And X79 Platform Preview It's always interesting to get hands-on time with... read more September 12, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Seven 8 GB DDR3 Memory Kits For Your AMD A75 Motherboard Because integrated GPUs generally employ shared system... read more September 5, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Core i7-2600K Overclocked: Speed Meets Efficiency Most of Intel's Core i5 and i7 CPUs lock out overclocking... read more February 1, 2011 – 12:00 AM
System Builder Marathon, December 2010: $500 PC We've already seen results from Thomas' $2000 PC and... read more December 17, 2010 – 1:00 AM
Time To Upgrade, Part 2: Picking The Parts To Replace After looking at whether or not it makes sense to replace... read more August 31, 2010 – 8:20 PM
Time To Upgrade: Should You Dump Your 2007 PC? Intel agressively promotes its Core i3/i5/i7 series, but... read more August 23, 2010 – 3:00 PM

Comparison: Factory-Overclocked Versus Reference Graphics In order to set their products apart, third-party vendors... read more July 25, 2010 – 2:00 AM
Mainstream Or Hardcore? Two X58 Motherboards Compared You need Intel’s LGA 1366 interface and an X58-based... read more July 3, 2010 – 2:00 AM
The 5 GHz, Six-Core Project: Core i7-980X Gets Chilly Tom’s Hardware has been ringing the 5 GHz bell for years,... read more June 23, 2010 – 2:00 AM
System Builder Marathon, June 2010: System Value Compared Smaller budgets were the rule for this quarter’s System... read more June 18, 2010 – 2:00 AM
System Builder Marathon, June 2010: $1,000 Enthusiast PC This quarter, we're dropping the budgets on all of our... read more June 16, 2010 – 2:00 AM
System Builder Marathon, June 2010: $2,000 Performance PC Tom’s Hardware takes a more frugal approach this month,... read more June 15, 2010 – 2:00 AM
Efficiency: Optimizing The Clock Rate Of AMD's Phenom II X6 AMD’s six-core CPU is affordable (at least, compared to... read more June 14, 2010 – 2:00 AM
Five AMD 890FX-Based Motherboards Compared Adding SATA 6 Gb/s and two more USB 2.0 ports, AMD’s... read more June 1, 2010 – 2:00 AM
Dual-Channel DDR3: Who Makes The Best 4GB Kit Under $150? High-end RAM prices have fallen far faster than they have... read more May 25, 2010 – 2:00 AM

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Origin PC Now Also Selling Intel X79-based Gaming Laptop February 13, 2012 – 3:30 PM
This customizable laptop packs plenty of hardware to justify its $3,159 USD starting price.Read more

MSI's GT780DX Gaming Notebook Arrives in Time for Xmas This gaming notebook packs Intel's Core i7 CPU, Nvidia... read more December 21, 2011 – 11:00 PM
Gaming Systems Reaching 'Tens of Teraflops' by 2019 Nvidia says gaming systems of 2019 will be able to render... read more December 16, 2011 – 11:00 AM
Dell Introduces its Meatiest Alienware Desktop Yet The latest Alienware gaming desktop starts at $2,199 USD... read more December 14, 2011 – 10:00 AM
Meet Gordon, the World's First SSD-Based Supercomputer Gordon is now ranked as #48 on the official Top 500 list... read more December 13, 2011 – 8:00 AM
Nvidia Announces 3D Vision 2 With New Hardware Nvidia is refreshing its popular 3D entertainment... read more October 14, 2011 – 9:30 PM

Battlefield 3 Beta and Battlelog: First Impressions One of the biggest PC releases of the year is finally in... read more September 28, 2011 – 5:30 PM
Nvidia: Console Software Sales Flat, PC on the Rise PC gaming is dead? Not so fast... read more September 22, 2011 – 12:00 PM
New MSI Gaming Laptops Feature GTX 570M GPUs MSI has launched two new gaming laptops sporting Nvidia's... read more September 7, 2011 – 5:00 PM
Samsung Reveals New Line of Laptops for Gamers Samsung revealed its first gamer notebook during Gamescom... read more August 19, 2011 – 12:00 AM

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Scaling Summary: DDR3 Memory On Core 2, Core i7, And Phenom II July 24, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Today we're looking at the impact of fast DDR3 RAM versus slower RAM speeds in Core 2 Quad-, Core i7-, and Phenom II X4-based platforms. Now it’s ... Read more

AMD's Phenom II X4 TWKR: We Give It The LN2 Treatment You've seen the leaked photos of AMD's latest... Lire la suite June 30, 2009 – 10:00 AM
Phenom II On Ice: AM3 Overclocked With LN2 As the Tom's Hardware staff hammered away on our own... Lire la suite February 10, 2009 – 3:00 AM
Overdrive Finals: More Day 1 Impressions The Overdrive championship is happening between Saturday... Lire la suite December 14, 2008 – 6:10 AM
Overdrive Overclocking Finals: Day 1 The Overdrive Overclocking Championship is all about... Lire la suite December 13, 2008 – 12:10 PM
Overdrive: Germany's Team Is Chosen With Team USA's winning scores in its sights, the German... Lire la suite December 2, 2008 – 6:20 AM

Tom's OC Competition: LN2 Craziness We're approaching the bottom of all eight tanks of our... Lire la suite November 9, 2008 – 7:50 PM
Tom's OC Competition: Mid-day Pics Check out mid-day pictures from our overclocking... Lire la suite November 9, 2008 – 6:50 PM
Sneak Peek: Four Core i7 X58 Motherboards Core i7 is coming, Core i7 is coming! We got our hands on... Lire la suite October 26, 2008 – 11:30 PM
MSI's Overclocking Final: Amsterdam After writing about MSI's national overclocking... Lire la suite September 17, 2008 – 2:30 AM

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Phenom II On LN2
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Radeon HD 4830 Review - CHARTS
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Tom's Overdrive Finals: Day 1 Impressions
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Tom's Overdrive: Impressionen vom Finale, Tag 1
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Tom's Overdrive : la finale mondiale
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