The Intel Core i7 platform has reigned the high-end performance sector since launch, however most recently due to cuts in DDR3 memory pricing it has also become a viable option for system builders on a tighter budget. Besides the very...
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Month: August 2009
Microsoft is lining up nine updates for next Tuesday as part of its monthly patch cycle – five of them are deemed critical and the remaining four marked as important. Affected software includes various Windows and Microsoft Office versions as...
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In a set of comprehensive Windows Web browser performance tests conducted by Betanews on August 7 — our first test of browsers running on the final Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 distributed by Microsoft yesterday — the five major families...
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A few months ago, we looked into the effectiveness of using different numbers of CPU cores with various types of software. We received a lot of good feedback from that article, and there were some interesting suggestions from the community...
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Originally ASRock was to help in the entry to mainstream market while ASUS would concentrate on the high-end and enthusiast market. This worked very well at first, but it is becoming more and more a standard to integrate high-performance features...
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Apple’s OS X 10.6 may be just around the corner, but that isn’t stopping the folks from Cupertino from updating its current Leopard operating system to version 10.5.8. In what may be the last major update until Snow Leopard comes...
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The Cooler Master HAF 922 is the second chassis in the High Airflow Flow range and it aims to offer the performance associated with the larger HAF 932 in a smaller mid-tower frame. Armed with a cooling system consisting of...
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NVIDIA launched their GTX 280 video cards in the middle of last year. Facing stiff competition from ATI they lowered the prices of their products to compete. Early this year at CES 2009, NVIDIA released the updated GeForce GTX 285...
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Who hasn’t screamed at the monitor when a faltering internet connection disrupted an otherwise good online match? No matter how powerful and gaming-oriented a PC is, sometimes lag is inevitable. To try and minimize these problems, BigFoot Networks released the...
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Aerocool brings us their latest in PC Case accessories with the Touch-2000. The Touch-2000 is a touch screen fan and temperature control panel. Featuring a brushed aluminum front bezel, a large “Touch” LCD and 4 sets of temperature and fan...
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Their motherboards range from basic no frills designs for the OEM market to more expensive and high end solutions for today’s latest and greatest processors which are obviously targeted toward the computing enthusiast. Today we are looking at the MSI...
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Oh man again a new week, again a new SSD review :) These puppies just keep entering the premises of the Guru3D test lab, it feels like receiving candy really. SSD development is fast, constantly evolving and improving each and...
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A few months ago, with motherboards such as MSI’s X58 Pro hitting the shelves, it seemed as though we were on the brink of a Core i7 Price revelation. Just as we were hoping that LGA1366-based rigs were to become...
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