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1. Supermicro man gets probed

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 31 May 2009

     Hardware Roundup 3D Professor has a most interesting piece of editorial about Charles Liang, CEO and co-founder of server motherboard company Supermicro. Mr Liang is something of an enigma rapped ...

2. Rethinking benchmarks for a new consumer

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Sunday, 19 April 2009

   Analyst Opinion - We have all seen the excellent work various web site and analysts like us have done over the years in comparing the latest graphics AIBs, and, more recently, the new graphics-enabled motherboards. ...

3. CES 2009: AMD releases Phenom II X4 and Dragon desktop platform

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 08 January 2009

     AMD took the opportunity to use the CES 2009 forum to officially release its latest update to its 64-bit line of 45nm microprocessors. Phenom II X4 and Dragon platform for desktop PCs represent an "elite-level" ...

4. It's time to dump soft limitations

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Friday, 02 January 2009

   ... components. How much computing power does one need to check email, surf web pages and write some computer code? One of Intel's dual-core Atoms would be more than powerful enough. Why shouldn't I, ...

5. VIA's Trinity platform to compete with Atom-based systems

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 22 December 2008

   ... seen VIA's Nano reviewed and we've seen its performance notably better than Atoms. On most benchmarks, Nano exceeded Atom by 5% or more (sometimes 30%). And with the Trinity package now being offered this ...

6. UPDATE: AMD Shanghai versus Intel Nehalem at 45nm

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Monday, 01 December 2008

   Anandtech.com posted an article last week comparing Intel's Nehalem to AMD's Shanghai on the Linpack 9.1 benchmark. While running the same binary on both systems, the Core i7 2.66 GHz with HyperThreading ...

7. Nehalem - Intel's new Core i7 gives them a big new lead

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 03 November 2008

   Today, Intel took the embargo off its latest Core architecture revision, Nehalem (pronounced Nuh hay lem). The reviews are in and Core i7 is a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps Bert Toepelt of Tom's ...

8. VIDEO – Hands-on with the Fusion-io SSD, 13 World of Warcraft windows in 36 seconds

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 03 October 2008

     We finally got some hands on time with the Fusion-io solid state drive and it definitely doesn’t disappoint.  This PCI Express card contains 160 gigabytes and up of insanely fast flash memory ...

9. Nvidia rolls out 236 watt graphics card design

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 June 2008

     Nvidia today unveiled its GT200 graphics chip, now integrated into the GTX260 and GTX280 graphics cards. The graphics processor has more of everything: More transistors, cores, bandwidth, GFlops, ...

10. The year 2020 according to Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 12 June 2008

    ... show, an alert shows up on the screen indicating that my mother’s Parkinson’s symptoms seem to be worsening and suggesting that this is likely because she is building tolerance to her medication.  ...

11. Motherboard wars: Asus threatens to sue Gigabyte, websites

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 16 May 2008

      There is a new battle brewing in Taiwan and this time it is Asus that is bringing out the big guns against its rival Gigabyte: Gigabyte claimed in a recent presentation in front of journalists ...

12. Tom's Hardware to hold overclocking competition

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    We received word this morning that Tom's Hardware will challenge individual overclockers and overclocking teams to achieve extreme clock rates or demonstrate extreme methods to push processors to their ...

13. The story of the missing journalist

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 13 May 2008

      Opinion – Last Friday, we tripped over some information that we felt could be used as great material either for the next James Bond movie or a cheesy TV soap: An American tech journalist tangled ...

14. Internet exposes Psystar’s shenanigans

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

      I never expected to use shenanigans in a tech headline, but it seems to be the best word to describe what’s happening with Florida-based (err supposedly Florida-based) Psystar.  The company ...

15. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... Atom+SCH system, the same Atom platform for Windows will cost $160. And not only is it more expensive, it also has a 20% higher TDP (2.4 watts instead of 2 watts) than the “Linux” Atoms. The only Windows ...

16. Super Smash Bros Brawl hits all the right notes

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 11 March 2008

    Game Review - If you own a Wii, you need to run out and buy a copy of Super Smash Bros Brawl.  It is one of the greatest Nintendo games of all time.  When Super Smash Bros was released on ...

17. Palit’s 9600GT – a different kind of review

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 27 February 2008

    Hardware review sites have typically plastered up charts, numbers and flashy pictures with every new graphics card release, but we’re going to do something a little different today with our review ...

18. “A LAN party by gamers, for gamers” – PDXLAN 11

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 26 February 2008

    Getting smacked in the head with a ball usually is a bad thing, but for hundreds of PDXLAN attendees over President’s Day Weekend it was a chance to have fun and win gigabytes of RAM sticks.  For ...