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Tom's Hardware's 2009 Gift Guide: Part 1, For System Builders
November 25, 2009 – 2:00 AM
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
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: November '09
November 23, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Welcome to another edition of our Best Gaming CPUs for the Money. This month we have a handful of AMD-based processor introductions to factor ... Read more
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Enthusiast P55: Eight LGA 1156 Boards Between $150 And $200
November 11, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Upper-range P55 motherboards cost around $100 less than similarly-equipped X58 products, but are these still good enough for enthusiasts? We take ... Read more
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Part 1: Building A Balanced Gaming PC
November 10, 2009 – 2:00 AM
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
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Batman: Arkham Asylum: GPUs, CPUs, And PhysX Performance
November 9, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Batman: Arkham Asylum is purported to be the definitive Batman game. We're testing it on a range of mainstream graphics cards, a number of CPU ... Read more
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Overclocked On Air: Intel's Core i5-750
October 28, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Intel's new quad-core i5 and i7 CPUs for LGA 1156 deliver plenty of performance and impressive efficiency. But how far can they be overclocked? ... Read more
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Performance Zooms with New Firmware for Intel 34nm X25-M SSDs
October 26, 2009 – 12:31 PM
The new firmware provides very impressive numbers and takes SSDs to a higher level of performance well beyond HDDs as system drives in desktop ... Read more
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Does Turbo Boost Help Or Hurt Core i5/i7's Power Efficiency?
October 23, 2009 – 2:10 AM
Intel’s LGA 1156 processors serve up terrific new levels of performance to the mainstream. Now it’s time to look at how efficiency changed from ... Read more
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Next-Gen 3D Rendering Technology: Voxel Ray Casting
October 21, 2009 – 2:00 AM
A little while back, we discussed some of the benefits and disadvantages of ray tracing. Today, we're going to be talking about another potential ... Read more
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AMD Or Intel: Which $100 Gaming CPU Should You Buy?
October 15, 2009 – 2:00 AM
One hundred dollars seems like nothing for a new CPU, especially with so many new GPUs calling to us. We put the Athlon II X4 620, Phenom II X3 ... Read more
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Mobile Core i7-920XM: Power Is The Price For Better Performance
October 14, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Nehalem has finally gone mobile. But despite the advanced manufacturing that has gone into making Core i7 Mobile more efficient, it's still rated ... Read more
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P55 On A Budget: Five Core i5/i7 Motherboards For $100-$150
October 8, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Intel’s newest desktop processor series is all about value, and the P55 platform already powers some very affordable motherboards. We put five ... Read more
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: October '09
October 5, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Welcome back to another installment in our Best Gaming CPUs for the Money column. In this month's list of recommendations, a number of new CPUs ... Read more
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Intel Developer Forum, Day Three: All About Power
September 24, 2009 – 10:01 PM
As the Intel Developer Forums winds to a close, Loyd Case checks in for one more round of updates, spanning Intel Research panels, Toshiba and ... Read more
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Intel Developer Forum, Day Two: 6 Gb/s, USB 3.0, And Lucid
September 23, 2009 – 10:31 PM
Loyd Case is back from a second day of IDF 2009 with his impressions on DisplayPort, SATA 6 Gb/s, Intel's upcoming Moorestown platform, Turbo ... Read more
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Intel Developer Forum, Day One: Intel Thinks Small
September 22, 2009 – 8:01 PM
This year’s Intel Developer Forum conference seems more notable for secondary technologies and what’s absent than about what’s being announced. ... Read more
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Blu-ray Done Right: How Does Your Integrated GPU Stack Up?
September 21, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Today we're looking at Asus motherboards armed with integrated graphics processors from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia to see which core logic vendor can ... Read more
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Intel Core i5 And Core i7: Intel’s Mainstream Magnum Opus
September 8, 2009 – 12:00 AM
We set off testing Intel's Lynnfield processors with low expectations, but were surprised to find the new LGA 1156-based CPUs are capable of ... Read more
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Core i5, Core i7, CrossFire, And SLI: Gaming Paradise, Redux?
September 8, 2009 – 12:00 AM
With the launch of Core i7, we ran an insane load of gaming benchmarks to explore CrossFire and SLI performance on X58. Today's P55 launch sees ... Read more
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In Theory: How Does Lynnfield's On-Die PCI Express Affect Gaming?
September 8, 2009 – 12:00 AM
What effect does integrated PCI Express have on gaming? Is Intel's LGA 1156 interface any better or worse than LGA 1366, with its QPI interface ... Read more
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SSD Summer Slam: 12 New 2.5" And 1.8" Drives Rounded-Up
September 7, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Performance issues, excessive power consumption, and high cost previously kept many folks from buying SSDs. These 12 new drives finally give us a ... Read more
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Promise's NS4600: Intel's Tolapai Enables Better Network Performance
September 4, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Promise has revamped its NS4300N network storage device. Among the changes, its new NS4600 comes with a new engine--namely, Intel’s new x86-based ... Read more
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Is It Worth Upgrading Your Stock CPU Cooler?
September 3, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Retail processors usually come with a bundled cooler, which will serve you well—at least until you try to overclock. We replaced the heat sink ... Read more
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: August '09
September 1, 2009 – 2:00 AM
In this, our second installment of the Best Gaming CPUs For The Money, we roll out another batch of recommendations, plus add a couple of other ... Read more
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Another Record Broken: 6 Gb SAS, 16 SSDs, 3.4 GB/s!
August 26, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Our initial hardcore RAID setup (with 16 Intel X25-E SSD drives) reached 2.3 GB/s on 3 Gb/s controllers. But we wanted more speed. Intel and LSI ... Read more