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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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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: November '09
November 5, 2009 – 2:00 AM
There's actually a lot to discuss in this month's column: the introduction of AMD's new Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs, Nvidia's new GeForce GT 220 ... 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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GeForce GT 220 And 210: DirectX 10.1 And 40nm Under $80
October 12, 2009 – 2:50 AM
Nvidia is introducing its first 40nm GPUs with DirectX 10.1 support. But the GeForce 210 and GT 220 GPUs aren't the flagships you might expect ... 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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Resident Evil 5: Demo Performance Analyzed
September 14, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Resident Evil is an extremely popular game series involving a small-scale zombie apocalypse. We take a look at how well Resident Evil 5 runs on a ... Read more
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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: September '09
September 10, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Welcome to the September 2009 issue of Best Graphics Cards for the Money. This month we discuss the forthcoming Radeon HD 5000-series and ... 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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Exclusive Interview: Nvidia's Ian Buck Talks GPGPU
September 3, 2009 – 2:10 AM
With Snow Leopard and Windows 7 both offering GPGPU capabilities, we wanted to talk to Nvidia's Ian Buck. Not only is he one of the fathers of ... Read more
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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: August '09
August 24, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Welcome to the August 2009 issue of Best Graphics Cards for the Money. This month we have a look at the new integrated Radeon HD 4200, part of ... Read more
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Southbridge Battle: 780a, ICH10 and SB750, Compared
August 11, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Modern southbridges support multiple RAID levels via software, but do they deliver decent performance? We used six Intel SSDs and tortured the ... Read more
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Roundup: Mainstream Graphics Cards From ATI And Nvidia
August 10, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Great graphics cards don’t always have to cost big bucks. Even for prices around $100, you can get enough performance for playable frame rates at ... Read more
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Tom's Hardware Charts: 2009 Mainstream Graphics Update
July 29, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Our graphics card charts now cover 24 more new cards. Today's update adds mainstream cards tested at more realistic settings for value-oriented ... Read more
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Graphics Overclocking: Getting The Most From Your GPU
July 27, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Overclocking your graphics card can help squeeze out precious performance in games that utilize maximum GPU horsepower. We test whether it's ... Read more
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When Will Ray Tracing Replace Rasterization?
July 22, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Ray tracing is often referred to as the ultimate 3D rendering technique that can put photorealism within reach. We look at how it works, some of ... Read more
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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: July '09
July 21, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Welcome to another installment of Best Graphics Cards for the Money. This month, we delight in plummeting card prices across the board. As a ... Read more
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Prototype Performance Analyzed
July 8, 2009 – 2:00 AM
The game Prototype lets you feel what it means to wield ultimate power. But what sort of gaming configuration does it take to enjoy this one? We ... Read more
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Mobile GeForce GTX Graphics: Model Inflation Gone Awry
July 7, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Slapping new labels on old parts to lure in under-informed buyers is a actually a fairly common practice in the mobile graphics space. But is ... Read more
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MSI Eclipse Plus: Does nForce 200 Boost 3-Way SLI?
June 23, 2009 – 2:00 AM
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 ... Read more
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Mainstream Graphics Card Roundup
June 17, 2009 – 2:00 AM
You don’t always need the fastest graphics card around. For somewhere between $135 and $235, you can game like crazy in DirectX 10 without a ... Read more
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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: June '09
June 10, 2009 – 2:00 AM
This month, ATI's new Radeon HD 4770 is missing in action, since online stores are not only unable to keep it in stock, but also de-listing it ... Read more
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Editor's Corner: Nvidia’s Ion Revisited, 7.1 Ch. LPCM Fixed
June 9, 2009 – 4:50 AM
Nvidia's Ion for the do-it-yourselfer launched last month in the form of Zotac's mini-ITX motherboard. Though sexy in principle, the platform had ... Read more
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Dead Space: Performance Analyzed
June 8, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Dead Space is an excellent sci-fi survival horror title, and one of the few games that Nvidia supports with its new driver's ambient occlusion ... Read more
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Best Of The Best: High-End Graphics Card Roundup
May 22, 2009 – 2:10 AM
Performance on its own is not enough to earn a recommendation here. The very best graphics cards also employ innovative cooling to help muscle ... Read more
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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: May '09
May 20, 2009 – 2:00 AM
The big news this month, of course, is ATI's Radeon HD 4770, which immediately secures two spots in this month's column (on its own and in a ... Read more