| On The...Torture Rack? LaCie's Unbreakable USB Thumb Drive |
 | Today we have a set of test lines up that are certainly not par for Tom's Hardware: we're putting LaCie's XtremKey through hell and back using an oven, ice, propane and dimethyl ether, acid, a five-story building, a blender, fire, and the Tom's Hammer. more |
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| Gaming Across Three Screens: GTX 460, GTX 480, And Quad-SLI |
 | Display spanning is quickly becoming the high-mark for serious gaming machines of all budgets, with more powerful cards allowing higher resolutions. Yet, as panel resolutions higher than 1080p become harder to find, do we really need more than two cards? more |
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| GeForce GT 430: The HTPC Crowd Gets Fermi On A Diet |
 | After addressing mainstream gamers with the GF106-based GeForce GTS 450, Nvidia is nudging a new GPU into the desktop space, built onto a card seemingly tailor-made for HTPCs. Does the new $79 GeForce GT 430 taste great, or is it just less filling? more |
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| The Game Rundown: Finding CPU/GPU Bottlenecks, Part 2 |
 | We're back with Part 2 of our bottleneck exploration in a mainstream gaming PC equipped with a Core i5 and GeForce GTX 460, ready to dive into test results from ten additional games. All of the results are summarized and analyzed in our conclusion. more |
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| The Game Rundown: Finding CPU/GPU Bottlenecks, Part 1 |
 | Wondering if your favorite game wants more CPU or GPU muscle? We tested 20 different titles using a GeForce GTX 460 and a Core i5 processor (one of our favorite configs) in order to figure out where a solid mainstream machine gets hung up. more |
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