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An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda

Oct 21st, 2008 · More than a year and a half after the first terabyte hard drives became widely available, Seagate has reached the next storage capacity milestone. With 1.5 terabytes, the latest Barracuda 7200.11 serves up 50% more capacity than its peers, and at a surprisingly …
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S3 Jumps On GPGPU Bandwagon

Oct 18th, 2008 · It's sometimes easy to forget that the PC graphics market isn't owned by ATI and Nvidia, and the company that first gave us 3D acceleration, S3, is very much still around. So much so, in fact, that it's now even developed its own GPGPU technology. S3 …
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Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card

Sep 26th, 2008 · High-end graphics cards get all the glory, but most folks have a difficult time justifying $300 or more for a single PC component. But what if you could get reasonable performance in all the latest games from a budget card costing as little as $70? With …
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Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card

Sep 26th, 2008 · High-end graphics cards get all the glory, but most folks have a difficult time justifying $300 or more for a single PC component. But what if you could get reasonable performance in all the latest games from a budget card costing as little as $70? With …
see also: Hardware · PC · console · graphics · consumption · Tech Report · playback

Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition

Sep 8th, 2008 · Intel is entering the storage market with an ambitious X25-M solid-state drive capable of 250MB/s sustained reads and 70MB/s writes. The drive is so fast that it employs Native Command Queuing (originally designed to hide mechanical hard drive latency) …
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Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition

Sep 8th, 2008 · Intel is entering the storage market with an ambitious X25-M solid-state drive capable of 250MB/s sustained reads and 70MB/s writes. The drive is so fast that it employs Native Command Queuing (originally designed to hide mechanical hard drive latency) …
see also: world · desktop · mobile · Intel · Storage · competitions · mechanisms

Notebook Storage SSDs and HDs Compared

Jul 15th, 2008 · The Raindog sends us a particularly timely showdown article comparing seven 2.5" mobile hard drives, four of them HDs and three SSDs, across a wide range of application, file-copy, power-consumption, and noise-level tests. Tom's Hardware was recently …
see also: Hardware · mobile · HD · Storage · Tom · consumption · mechanisms

OCZ's Brain Wave Interface Headband Reviewed

Jun 27th, 2008 · Could you control a game using your jaw muscles, eye movements, and brain waves? OCZ designed its futuristic Neural Impulse Actuator controller for that very purpose, and it claims the device lets players shorten their response times and interact with …
see also: advertising · player · interface · movement · discoveries · Tech Report · Verdict

Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards

Oct 29th, 2007 · What would you say to a video card that performs like a $400 GeForce 8800 GTS for $200-250? Say hello to the GeForce 8800 GT. The Tech Report has tested the new mid-range wonder in Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, Team Fortress 2, and BioShock. It found that …
see also: video · gt · Tech Report · Geforce · Hello · Fortress · Bioshock

Terabyte Hard Drive Put To The Test

Aug 13th, 2007 · As a technical milestone, Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive is undeniably impressive. The drive is the first to pack a trillion bytes into a standard 3.5" form factor, and while some may argue the merits of tebi versus tera, that's still an astounding …
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Intel vs. AMD - Today's Generation Compared

Mar 23rd, 2007 · The Tech Report compares 15 Core 2 and Athlon 64 processors from Intel and AMD — from sub-$200 to a cool grand, from slower dual cores to fast quad cores — in 32 & 64-bit apps in Windows Vista, including the new, multithreaded RTS game …
see also: Linux · Intel · app · lab · energy · Vista · Windows Vista

Xeons, Opterons Compared in Power Efficiency

Dec 15th, 2006 · The Tech Report has put Intel's 'Woodcrest' and quad-core 'Clovertown' Xeons up against AMD's Socket F Opterons in a range of applications, including widely multithreaded tests from academic fields like computational fluid dynamics and proteomics. They've …
see also: computer · Intel · energy · AMD · dynamic · consumption · executive

AMD Reveals Plans to Move Beyond the Core Race

Dec 14th, 2006 · The Tech Report has caught wind of AMD's plans for processors over the coming years. Intel may be counting on cramming 'tens to hundreds' of cores in future CPUs, but AMD thinks the core race is just a repeat of the megahertz race that took place a few …
see also: desktop · mobile · Intel · graphics · AMD · processors · money

NVIDIA's 680i SLI Chipset Ready for Primetime

Nov 8th, 2006 · AnInkle writes, "The Tech Report conducts their usual exhaustive evaluation of NVIDIA's other big launch today, the nForce 680i SLI. The new chipset pairs an already proven south bridge chip with a new north bridge that has impressive overclocking potential …
see also: software · products · platform · memory · overclockers · motherboard · enthusiasts

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Reviews

Nov 2nd, 2006 · An anonymous reader writes, "The first reviews of Intel's new quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 have emerged this morning and opinion is mixed. TrustedReviews were blunt: "There is nothing new on display here. Very few people will need quad cores..." while …
see also: Tech · Intel · beasts · overclockers · killer · Tech Report · Quad

17 Serial ATA Hard Drives Compared

Sep 28th, 2006 · The Tech Report has an in-depth look at Maxtor's DiamondMax 11 hard drive that provides some interesting insight on how Seagate's recent acquisition can improve deficiencies in its own drives. More valuable, however, is the fact that the review offers …
see also: desktop · Samsung · acquisition · consumption · Tech Report · Hitachi · Seagate

Core 2-Compatible Chipsets Compared

Sep 21st, 2006 · Intel's Core 2 Duo is clearly the most attractive processor on the market, but which motherboard chipset is it best paired with? The Tech Report has rounded up four of the most common Core 2-compatible chipsets on the market to find out. The chipsets' …
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Core 2 Reviews All Around the Web

Jul 17th, 2006 · NDA for Intel Core 2 CPUs was lifted on the night from yesterday to today and all major hardware reviewing websites are posting Core 2 Duo E6700 and Core 2 Xtreme X6800 reviews. Here is a collection of several reviews so you can check for yourself whether …
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Review of Seagate's 750Gb Hard Drive

May 30th, 2006 · The Tech Report have a comprehensive review of Seagate's Barracuda-7200.10 'perpendicular' drive, including a primer on the technology. They ran performance tests against 10 other drives, checking the noise and power consumption levels. The Seagate fared …
see also: technology · consumption · Tech Report · primer · Seagate · perpendicular · Gigabytes

Seven Mobile ATA Hard Drives Compared

Apr 28th, 2006 · Though hard drives are allegedly the fastest advancing high-tech product, most laptop manufacturers persist in saving a buck by outfitting their units with a low-end, low-cache, low-capacity, low-spindle-speed HDD. The Tech Report takes a different angle …
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