Storage Accessories for Geeks and Pros By Patrick Schmid Accusys, Icydock and Wiebetech's new external hard drive boxes offer some nifty storage apps. Unfortunately, the technologies do not justify their high prices.
Tom's Hardware's 2007 CPU Charts By Patrick Schmid We Compare 91 AMD and Intel processors, including Intel's brand new Core 2 FSB1333 CPUs, under Windows Vista and across 37 individual benchmarks.
The Raid Migration Adventure By Patrick Schmid All RAID arrays aren't created equal, and as a result you may not be able to keep using your existing configuration when you update your platform.
WD's 750 GB Hard Disk Sets New Records By Patrick Schmid Can the new Western Digital Caviar WD7500 match the company's Raptor in performance? And, what technical advances does it offer?
AMD's Smart Strike: Athlon X2 BE-2350 By Patrick Schmid AMD's new sub-$100 low-power (45 W) dual core processor defines a new segment in the efficient desktop computing market. How does it compare to Intel's $100 Pentium Dual Core 2160?
Hardcore DDR2 RAM by Corsair, G.Skill, OCZ and Patriot By Patrick Schmid DDR3 will reach higher clock speeds than DDR2, but it doesn't yet outperform high-end DDR2 modules. We look at some of the best high-grade DDR2 RAM available.
WD Brings 250 GB HDDs to Notebooks By Patrick Schmid Western Digital's Scorpio is the first 250 GB notebook hard drive. We compare it to eight competing devices and rank it in our Interactive Notebook HDD Charts.
The Power Saving Guide, Part 2 By Patrick Schmid This time we analyze the impact on power consumption of RAM speed and timings, graphics card generation, hard drive type and form factor and of typical add-on cards.
The Power Saving Guide By Patrick Schmid You don't have to buy the latest energy-efficient PC hardware to save energy and reduce heat dissipation. Small steps already can make a difference.
The Spring Hard Drive Guide By Patrick Schmid We scoured our benchmark database and found the largest drives available and the best picks for budget users. The time to upgrade your hard drive is now.
Opting for RAID Level Migration By Patrick Schmid Many SATA systems allow you to upgrade to RAID. We used hard drives with Intel and Nvidia chipsets to see how well RAID level migration could work. Our goal: to make storage more reliable.
Remote PC Management with Intel's vPro By Patrick Schmid The need for remote PC management has always been an issue that only increases with the size of your business. Intel wants vPro to be your perfect, OS-independent hardware-level management solution.
Notebook HDDs Deluxe: 160 GB by Fujitsu, Seagate, Toshiba By Patrick Schmid Seagate's new Momentus 7200.2 aims to rule the 2.5" hard drive world.
Hitachi's 7K1000 Terabyte Hard Drive By Patrick Schmid The first terabyte hard drive arrives with a bang: 32 MB of cache and up to 85 MB/s sequential reads sound impressive. Where does this leave the WD Raptor?
2.5" External HDD Spring Fever By Patrick Schmid Along with spring comes new storage products. Seagate and Toshiba sent us their latest external drives while Hitachi offered an upgrade kit for notebook hard disks.
Are Cheap DVD Burners Worth the Trouble? By Patrick Schmid There are noticeable differences in performance between various low-end $40 DVD burners. Our tests of five devices from LG, Pioneer, Samsung and Sony show what you can expect.
PCI Express Scaling Analysis By Patrick Schmid What is the real importance of PCI Express for graphics? See how ATI Radeon X1900 and Nvidia GeForce 8800 high-end graphics cards perform at reduced PCIe link speeds.