| LGA 1156 Memory Performance: What Speed DDR3 Should You Buy? |
 | We’ve seen how faster memory scales on Phenom II, Core 2, and Core i7 for LGA 1366. Now it’s time to analyze the impact of different memory speeds on a Core i7-870-based LGA 1156 platform. We test from DDR3-800 to -1600 at tight and loose latencies. more |
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| Best Graphics Cards For The Money: December '09 |
 | Increasing prices on the most popular graphics card and low availability mark (or mar?) this holiday season, changing some of our recommendations. Also, we're affected by the introduction of a new king of the hill: ATI's new Radeon HD 5970 2GB. more |
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| Mini-ITX: Two Cases And Four Motherboards Compared |
 | Everyone cares about power consumption, so it’s important to realize that board-level integration has enabled a new breed of extremely small, power-friendly computers. Today we look at two mini-ITX cases and four motherboards for small form factor PCs. more |
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| Ubuntu 9.10: The Karmic Koala Benchmarked And Reviewed |
 | Is Ubuntu's latest release, the "Karmic Koala," any good, or just a bunch of hype? We've had a solid month to check it out and are ready to publish our review. We're even debuting our brand new cross-platform benchmark suite to compare 9.10 to 9.04. more |
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| Watch Blu-ray And Burn DVDs: Three Low-Cost Solutions |
 | Combo drives have a long history of bringing value to people with simple burning needs. As prices for expensive Blu-ray media drops, we review three low-cost drives that can read high-priced content and write to the most value-oriented formats. more |
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