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Tom's Hardware Awards
ATI Radeon HD 4770 In CrossFire: Unbeatable At $220
Some things are better in pairs. We we were impressed by the Radeon HD 4770 as a standalone card priced at $109. However, you asked to see how it performed in CrossFire. Well, if we liked the card before, we love it now. More
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Suzuki Announces Free Gas For Summer on the SX4 Sedan and Crossover
Following on the heels of Hyundai's gas promotion, Suzuki has announced its own promotion that will run for three months on the 2009 SX4 sedan and crossover models. The program that runs from July 1st - Aug 31st provides...
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Diesels Account for 40 Percent of VW Jetta and 81 percent of SportWagen Sales
VW has released its sales totals for the month of June 2009 and although VW sales were down 18 percent compared to the same month in 2008, VW has announced strong sales of its diesel powered models. Diesel powered...
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Line Rider Beta 2
The new version of Line Rider! With the pencil tool make a line from the left top to the right bottom. use the hand to move the line if needed and...
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Dr. Joe
You need sound to play this game. Some of these lovely animals are sick, and as a veterinarian, it is your duty to find out what is wrong with them...
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Features
Village Tronic ViBook: Multi-Monitor For Your Netbook
Once you've used a multi-monitor setup, it's almost impossible to go back to a single screen. Notebook users likely feel this pain most sharply. However, Village Tronic's ViBook proposes a USB-based solution for the folks looking for more display space. More
Setting Up Your First 64-Bit Digital Audio Workstation
You already know how to build a PC. But do you know how to take desktop hardware components and turn them into a digital audio workstation? John Brandon discusses how he pieced together his latest musical creation, along with the accompanying software. More
Windows 7 Versus XP: Which Belongs On Your Netbook?
Windows Vista was never really an option for netbook users, but the release candidate of Windows 7 piqued our interest. Can Microsoft finally retire Windows XP in the netbook space? Even now with RC1 available, the answer seems tied to driver development. More
News
- Apple Shoots Down Obama's Hope
- Report: Windows 7 to Hit RTM on July 13
- Mac OS X, Linux May be Exempt From Green Dam
- Japan Thinking of Making Quiet Hybrids Noisy
- iPhone 3GS Jailbroken, Unlocked
- Man Shoots Up Apple Store
- DOJ Opens Official Investigation Into Google
- Epic: Shocked at id's Acquisition
- Sony: PSPgo Was Planned All Along
- Court Forces Spammers to Cough Up $3.7 Million
- AT&T: Record Sales on iPhone 3GS Launch Day
- Microsoft, RealNetworks and Yahoo! Sued
- Microsoft Adds Tweets to Bing's Search Results
- Judge Overturns MySpace Cyberbullying Verdict
- MSFT: Feedback for the Vomit Ad Was Quite Good
- Thin and Light Laptops Could Have Design Flaw
- Win 7 Home Premium Will Have Family Pack
- Rockstar Denies GTA Coming to iPhone
- Apple Pulls App Containing Child Porn
- Michael Jackson Breaks Music Download Record
Graphics
Mainstream Graphics Card Roundup
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 problem at 1920x1200. We test and compare five graphics cards from this mid-range price segment. More
Stories on Tom's Guide
Battle of the Netbooks
18 months after the original Eee PC showed up, this latest netbook roundup takes a look at offerings from brands including Asus, Dell, HP and Samsung. More
- HDTV Unveiled: Q&A With A Video Wizard
- Recession Denial: Designer Gadgets
- Roundup: 16 Headphones
- Everyday Tech Myths: Signal To Noise
- The New iPhone Effect: Winners and Losers
- PowerLine Networking Nearly Fails Our Tests
- Roundup: 9 HDTVs
- iPhone 3GS: First Look
- Review: Nokia E75 vs. Samsung Propel Pro
- iPhone OS 3.0: Spotlight Search Befuddles Me
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CPU
AMD's Phenom II X4 TWKR: We Give It The LN2 Treatment
You've seen the leaked photos of AMD's latest overclocking darling, the Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR. We got our hands on a pair of these CPUs (four, actually, but two are to give to you) and benchmarked them on a liquid nitrogen-fueled test bench. More
Motherboard articles
MSI Eclipse Plus: Does nForce 200 Boost 3-Way SLI?
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 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. More
Build your own
System Builder Marathon: Performance And Value Compared
Our builders have assembled, tested, and overclocked three reduced-size performance systems, and now we’re ready to compare their efforts. Which machine will be the ultimate winner in performance, efficiency, and value? Which would you rather win? More
Business Computing
Gigabit Ethernet: Dude, Where's My Bandwidth?
Once we make the jump to Gigabit Ethernet, the expected tenfold increase in network speed doesn't seem to materialize. We'll look at the basics of gigabit networks, what limits their performance, and how we can get the best possible speed out of them. More
Storage
A Lesson In Backup: Taking Care Of Your Data
If you aren't regularly backing up your data, now's a good time to start. In this piece we cover some of the basic backup strategies, a handful of available tools, and backup performance over USB 2.0 using Samsung's newest Story Station external drive. More
Cases & cooler articles
CoolIT Vs. Cogage: Little Water And Big Air Compared
What happens when you compare a relatively small liquid cooler (without remote-mounting capabilities) to a similarly-sized air cooler? We compare CoolIT’s Domino A.L.C. and Thermalright’s new Cogage-brand True Spirit More
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Memory articles
DDR3 Memory Scaling: Intel's Core 2 Quad Examined
This is our third RAM scaling story in a series that will conclude next week. In this piece, we're comparing a number of different DDR3 memory speeds using both tight and relaxed timings. Which memory setting is best for your Core 2 Quad setup? More
