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Winner of Ballistics PC Core i7 System Giveaway : Let the good times roll.

Our Most Powerful Build Yet? System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2009: $2,500 Performance PC : System Builder Marathon, December 2009: The Articles Here are links to each of the four articles in this month’s System Builder Marathon (we’ll update them...

Winners From Our 4GB DDR3 Memory Kit Contest : Congrats to our winners!

Introduction Intel’s Atom D510 And NM10 Express: Down The Pine Trail With D510MO : When I buy something new, I want it to be bigger, better, faster, and stronger than what I had before. That’s why the idea of small form factor boxes, while visually...

Introduction Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: December '09 : If you don’t have the time to research the benchmarks, or if you don’t feel confident enough in your ability to pick the right processor for your next gaming machine, fear not. We at Tom’s...

Is Fusion-io Ready To Go Mainstream? ioXtreme PCI Express SSDs Anticipate SATA 6 Gb/s Performance : We looked at Fusion-io’s ioDrive in early 2009. The device plugs into a PCI Express slot and offers 80, 160, or 320GB of storage at formidable...

Intel Hexacore Gulftown to be Core i7 980X EE : The mighty Gulftown will be one of the Core i7 boys.

LCD Display: Dell U2410 24" Tom's Hardware's 2009 Gift Guide: Part 2, System Add-Ons : www.dell.com $599 By: Ed Tittel With 30" monitors still priced at $1,400 and up (in some cases, way up), PC aficionados in need of lots of screen real...

How Much Better Is Windows 7? Windows 7 And Windows Vista: Performance Compared : Despite lots of innovation with SuperFetch and ReadyBoost , Windows Vista wasn’t popular. In fact, many users avoided upgrading from Windows XP to Vista altogether....

Reviews Nokia N900 Maemo Compared to the N97, the most recent Nokia N-series phone we tested, the N900 doesn’t look so particularly special. But under the hood, Nokia’s latest tablet-phone device represents a momentous change. The N900 combines...

Introduction PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 LCS: The GHz Limit, Broken : Back in 1923, mountaineer George Mallory was interviewed by the New York Times about his planned climb of the yet-unconquered Mount Everest. When Mallory was asked why he...

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Which Memory Speed Do You Want? LGA 1156 Memory Performance: What Speed DDR3 Should You Buy? : Intel’s mainstream LGA 1156 interface hosts the Core i5 and Core i7-800 series, plus the Core i3 soon expected to cover lower price points. It’s possible...