An Update to Our Hardware Comparison Charts

CPU Cooler Charts 2010

  • beQuiet Dark Rock Pro C1
  • Prolimatech Armageddon
  • Prolimatech Genesis
  • Prolimatech SuperMega
  • Xilence M612
  • Zalman CNPS11x Extreme

2009 3.5” Desktop Hard Drive Charts

  • Samsung Spinpoint F3R HE103SJ , 1000 GB, 7200rpm, 32 MB Cache

Enterprise Hard Drive Charts 2010

  • Seagate Constellation.2 7.2k 2.5" 1000GB
  • Seagate Savvio 10K.5 10k 2.5" 900GB

Multi-Bay NAS Charts 2011

  • Thecus N5200XXX RAID 5 ext4 (5 HDD)
  • Thecus N4200Pro RAID 5 ext4 (5 HDD)

PSU Charts:

120V

230V

  • Silverstone Strider Gold 750W
  • Seasonic X-760
  • FSP AU-700
  • Antec HCP-850

2011 SD Cards:

  • Kingston UltimateXX 233x (8GB, UHS-I)
  • Kingston UltimateXX 233x (16GB, UHS-I)
  • Kingston UltimateXX 233x (32GB, UHS-I)
  • Lexar Professional 133x (8GB, Class 6)
  • Lexar Professional 133x (16GB, Class 10)
  • Lexar Professional 133x (32GB, Class 10)
  • Patriot Class 6 (16GB, Class 6)
  • Patriot LX (8GB, Class 10)
  • PNY Optima (32GB, Class 4)
  • SDXC C10 (64GB ,Class 10, SDXC)
  • Pretec SDHC 233X (16GB, Class 10)
  • Pretec SDHC Class16 (32GB, Class16)
  • Samsung Plus (8GB, Class 6)
  • SanDisk Ultra II (4GB, Class 4)
  • SanDisk Extreme (16GB, Class 10)
  • SanDisk Extreme III (4GB, Class 6)
  • SanDisk Extreme Pro (16GB, UHS-I)
  • Silicon Power Class 6 (16GB, Class 6)
  • Silicon Power Class 10 (16GB, Class 10)
  • Adata Turbo (8GB, Class 6)
  • PNY Optima (8GB, Class 4)
  • OCZ SDHC (4GB, Class 6)
  • OCZ SDHC (8GB, Class 6)
  • Transcend Class 6 (8GB, Class 6)
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.