System Buyers Guide: $800 to $1800
We assemble four systems geared for value and performance using AMD Phenom II, Intel Core 2, and Core i7 processors. The $800 to $1800 price range covers a lot...
74 by Wesley Fink on 4/7/2009
Dell Studio XPS 16: the Eyes Have It
Dell's Studio XPS 16 is a stylish multimedia laptop with one standout feature: it has what is undoubtedly the best-looking laptop LCD we've used. But what about the rest...
79 by Jarred Walton on 4/2/2009
ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Two new GPUs at the $250 price point battle it out. Guess what? Both GPUs perform about the same. We take this opportunity to go through...
295 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 4/2/2009
Video Card Buyer's Guide - Spring 2009
It's been since the holidays that we've done a GPU buyers guide. It never seems like the right time to do a new GPU buyers guide, as NVIDIA and...
93 by Derek Wilson on 3/30/2009
The Best Server CPUs part 2: the Intel "Nehalem" Xeon X5570
Better hardware virtualization, a vastly improved server platform, and eight logical cores per CPU: it's no secret that the Xeon "Nehalem" X5570 is the Formula One car among the...
44 by Johan De Gelas on 3/30/2009
The SSD Update: Vertex Gets Faster, New Indilinx Drives and Intel/MacBook Problems Resolved
Another week, another SSD update. OCZ's Vertex drive got even faster, the first non-OCZ Indilinx drives show up and some Intel issues get resolved.
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/30/2009
Phenom II X3 720BE & CrossFire X Performance - Does it Compete?
Has the Phenom II X4 940 met its match when it comes to CrossFire X performance at resolutions that most of us use on a daily basis? Let's...
61 by Gary Key on 3/28/2009
Nintendo's Development Secrets, Cloud Gaming & new Killer NIC - GDC '09
Our first day of coverage from the Game Developer's Conference includes a rare insight into how Nintendo develops games, a new service that offloads GPU/CPU computation for games and...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 3/26/2009
SSD versus Enterprise SAS and SATA disks
We compare RAID configurations of up to 16 SATA drives, up to eight SAS drives, and up to eight Intel X25-E SLC SSDs in different situations and try to...
67 by Johan De Gelas on 3/20/2009
The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ
The SSD market appears to have changed a lot. Drives are cheaper, newer controllers are everywhere and there are more questions than answers as to how these SSDs perform...
251 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/18/2009
Lab Update - Patriot Memory Viper Series DDR3-1333
We take a first look at a very impressive DDR3-1333 (PVT36G1333ELK) 6GB memory kit from Patriot and figure out our assumptions about inexpensive DDR3 memory were misguided.
12 by Gary Key on 3/17/2009
System Buyers Guide: PCs under $800
Entry, Bargain, or HTPC - $800 can buy a lot of PC these days.
66 by Wesley Fink on 3/16/2009
Toshiba X305-Q725: Quad-Core Gaming Notebook
We put Toshiba's recently updated version of their X305 through its paces. Offering a quad-core mobile CPU, SSD+HDD, and a 9800M GTX, there's plenty of performance packed into this...
33 by Jarred Walton on 3/11/2009
PMA 2009: Panasonic GH1 & Olympus E620
All the “DSLR” action at PMA was in 4/3 as Olympus launched the E-620 and Panasonic added HD video with real auto-focus to Micro 4/3 with the new GH1.
13 by Wesley Fink on 3/9/2009
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