Spring 2010 Solid State Drive Roundup, Part 2 |
| In part one of our SSD roundup, we looked at drives from Crucial, OCZ, Intel, Solidata, and Toshiba. To those results, we're adding Crucial's first 6 Gb/s SSD, WD's first SSD, and Kingston's 128GB SSDNow V-series, along with 'fresh' and 'used' scores. more |
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Thermaltake Level 10 And SilverStone Fortress 2: Contemporary Cases? |
| Designed with artful inspiration to support workstation-class hardware, the Fortress 2 and Level 10 could be the perfect compliments to an executive office. We look beyond the gamer market to find out how each model suits power users and their decor. more |
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Core i7-980X: Dialing In Efficiency With The Right Overclock |
| The new six-core Core i7-980X runs at a smokin' 3.33 GHz and has lots of overclocking headroom, thanks to Intel's 32 nm manufacturing process. We dialed in multiple overclocked settings (up to 4.4 GHz) on our quest for the most efficient frequency. more |
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: April 2010 |
| March saw the introduction of the world's first hexa-core desktop CPU, Intel's Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor. We talk about the monolithic juggernaut and some of the CPU world's latest pricing developments in this month's column. more |
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Intel’s Xeon 7500-Series CPUs Target Enterprise Computing |
| Intel's x86 architecture has done well in the mid-range of the server market, but it's still not considered the proper solution for mission-critical systems. That'll change with Xeon 7500 (formerly Nehalem-EX), which could very well displace Itanium. more |
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