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Who's Who In Power Supplies: Brands, Labels, And OEMs

By Igor Wallossek, Tom's Hardware Community published 12 November 10

Did you think all power supplies were manufactured by the brand selling them? We show you what makes a good PSU and reveal who actually builds PSUs. You can actually find lots of quality, instead of just scrap metal, behind some of the budget labels.

Bang For Your Buck: Four 500 W Power Supplies Reviewed

By TG Publishing Team, Patrick Afschar published 8 July 10

Enthusiasts often say that you can never have too much performance. However, a 500W power supply is perfectly ample for a majority of mid-range PCs. This is one of those cases where a solid ratio of performance to price is preferable to gross excess.

Core 2 Quad Gets Efficient: Enter The Q8200S And Q9550S

By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 9 March 09

Tom's Overdrive Competition: Finals Recap

By Pierre Dandumont published 25 December 08

With the Overdrive overclocking competition two weeks behind us and Team USA victorious, we wanted to check in with a quick recap of our final contest held in Paris, France.

Overdrive: U.S. Team IRONMODS Wins!

By Patrick Schmid published 14 December 08

Our Overdrive Overclocking Championship just finished, and we have a winner: The US team IronMods dominated, but Italy was close behind, followed by Germany.

Overdrive Finals: More Day 1 Impressions

By Patrick Schmid published 14 December 08

The Overdrive championship is happening between Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday we brought you the first set of photos from the event. Here are more impressions and emotions from Day 1!

Overdrive Finals: Results After 8 Hours of Overclocking

By Patrick Schmid published 13 December 08

Overdrive Overclocking Finals: Day 1

By Patrick Schmid published 13 December 08

Overdrive: Italy's Team Is Chosen

By Bestofmedia Team published 13 December 08

Our international Overdrive overclocking competition finals are underway in Paris. But before we start streaming the goings-on in France, we want to present the results of our Italian trials.

Overdrive Finals: First Results Posted

By Patrick Schmid published 13 December 08

Overdrive Finals Preparation: Status After Two Hours

By Patrick Schmid published 13 December 08

They all overclock, but they all have a different approach. We talked to the teams and looked at how they start working. Just installing the operating system and getting started is not sufficient.

Overdrive: Overclocking Finals Kick Off

By Patrick Schmid published 13 December 08

Tom's Hardware is hosting the world's best overclockers at our new Paris HQ today and tomorrow. Five teams try their luck in getting Core i7 Extreme systems to expected 5+ GHz clock speed.

Overdrive: Germany's Team Is Chosen

By THG Team published 2 December 08

With Team USA's winning scores in its sights, the German teams battled it out for the chance to compete in our world final even later this month.

The Hardware Behind Overdrive

By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 18 November 08

Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to supersonic speeds in a bid for a shot at $5,000.