Buyer's Guides

Feast your eyes on Part 4 of 6 parts in this latest Tom's Holiday Buyer's Guide, where our focus turns to interesting peripherals from Bluetooth headsets, to hard disks, graphics cards and more.

Dive right into Part 3 of 6 for the latest Tom's Holiday Buyer's Guide. This time our focus is on games and gaming gear, including gaming stations and accessories.

Intel introduced it's 45 nm Penryn technology 3 weeks ago. Today, on the same day AMD launched it's Phenom 9700 quad-core processor series, Intel announced the QX9770 (due Q1 2008). What's up?

In Part 2 of our 6 part holiday gift guide our focus is on home and portable audio and video equipment, networking gear and prosumer monitors.

When overclocking, are there significant advantages to using quad-core instead of dual-core CPUs? We do extensive testing using Intel's E6750 and Q6600 processors.

ABS shipped us its latest CrossFire system and it came to play! It clearly provided all of the performance of the big guns but at less than half the cost.

We look at a dozen of the most popular black-and-white laser printers, discussing a wide range of options, as well as printer and toner cartridge pricing.

We offer a buyer's guide for some of the most-popular MFC inkjet printers from the biggest manufacturers.

Detailed information on some of the most-popular color inkjet printers from the largest firms in the market.

Intel's P35 Express chipset represents next-generation processor and memory compatibility. While other media outlets consider the "DDR2 v DDR3" debate...

The 650i SLI chipset is Nvidia's solution for buyers who want SLI on the cheap. We benchmark a bunch of 650i boards against the high-priced 680i SLI reference mobo.

We've built and tested them, now let's compare the results from the low-, mid- and high-cost PCs. How closely are price and performance related? And, we introduce a powerful Budget Gamer's System.

Yesterday we built and tested a low cost PC system for $525. Today we focus on a mid-range system that costs around $1,255.

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.