RAID Boxes Run Riot By Patrick Schmid We looked at two RAID-based external storage appliances from easyRAID and Sans Digital. They deliver increased performance, but with annoying decibel levels.
Is nForce 650 the Mainstream Master? By Patrick Schmid How good is Nvidia's mainstream nForce chipset? The 650i SLI takes on the competition by AMD and Intel.
The Server Primer, Part 1 By Patrick Schmid Where are the differences between consumer hardware and professional server products? Tom's Hardware evaluates professional components and their characteristics.
Cheap RAID Ravages WD Raptor By Patrick Schmid A quick hard drive such as Western Digital's Raptor noticeably accelerates your PC, but is it still the best choice for enthusiasts?
Store, Swap and Organize: Storage Accessories By Patrick Schmid Storage has countless faces these days, including numerous useful accessories. We found fives products to help you flexibly install, connect, silence and manage 2.5" and 3.5" hard drives.
Dual Core Notebook CPUs Explored By Patrick Schmid AMD's Turion 64 X2 battles Intel's mobile Core 2 Duo. We X-ray both product families, and provide our test results in a new Interactive Charts category: please welcome our Mobile CPU Charts!
Can Your PC Really Handle Vista? By Patrick Schmid Our $300 PCs are powerful enough to take on everyday workloads, but can they cope with Vista's requirements? It's all in the components.
Corsair's PC10000 Super-Ober-Uber-RAM Sets Sails By Patrick Schmid What's better than fast memory? Right, even faster memory! Corsair's latest toys run 1,250 MHz to satisfy the performance hunger of the most demanding enthusiasts - if you can fork out the $600.
Windows Vista's SuperFetch and ReadyBoost Analyzed By Patrick Schmid Vista is finally here, and it is controversial. We look under the hood at Vista's performance-enhancing features SuperFetch and ReadyBoost and analyze why the new OS "feels" fast.
Windows XP vs. Vista: The Benchmark Rundown By Patrick Schmid We already know that Windows Vista offers tremendous improvements in usability, but isn't that good a choice for gaming - at least not yet. How is its application performance compared to Windows XP?
Intel or Nvidia? nForce 680i Challenges Intel P965 and 975X By Patrick Schmid Motherboards with Nvidia's nForce 680i chipset are now hitting the shelves, so we decided it was time for a chipset battle. The goal? To find out what is the best solution for your Core 2 Duo system.
The Web Is My Castle: Secure Backup Over the Internet By Patrick Schmid Hamachi is a free tool for establishing secure VPN connections between two PCs by mediating p2p connections (like Skype does). Its potential for Internet backup and data replication is huge.
PCI Express SATA RAID Controllers For SMB Servers By Patrick Schmid Fileservers require redundant storage to safeguard vital data. Here are five of the latest RAID controllers for Serial ATA hard drives that supposedly do the job.
