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Cooler Master announced the pending arrival of a luxury edition of... yes, of what exactly? Cooler Master couldn't tell us exactly what the full package will entail, but the manufacturer at least revealed a picture of a modified Cosmos chassis and some specs and information for a "luxurious limited edition bundle". Within the package users will get a...

NVIDIA has released a new driver that adds a few new PhysX and SLI features and should improve performance in some cases. There are also recent developments in PhysX and GPU computing that we will touch on....

Want to understand why Intel went with such a small L2 cache on Nehalem? We sat down with Nehalem's chief architect and got a much better understanding of the world's fastest microprocessor. We also uncover the on-chip PCIe controller in the mainstream Nehalem derivatives due out in 2009 and talk about its 32nm successors in 2009/2010....

Are you tired of all the 1000W power supplies? If so, Thermaltake's latest TR2 QFan series might have the cure for your extreme wattage blues....

We preview EVGA's X58 based motherboard that is capable of 3X SLI as advertised but also handles CrossFire X quite well....

As of today, the Intel Core i7 processor series and X58 chipset based motherboards are "officially" on sale. With that bit of news out of the way, EVGA is officially launching their X58 SLI motherboard today.  We received a retail board on Saturday and have been running it through the benchmark gauntlet for the past 37 (and counting)...

Had you ever wondered how much money you actually spend to run your PC each day? Perhaps you want to know how much money you might save by upgrading power supplies. We tackle these topics and others in this article....

The 45nm Phenom is called the Phenom II, 8 and 12-core server parts are coming in 2011 and the first CPU/GPU fusion parts will also appear around then - all at 32nm. AMD opened up a bit and shared some details today at its Financial Analyst Day alongside its Shanghai launch....

We recently received several mini-ITX form factor boards for an upcoming HTPC guide. These boards represent a wide variety of chipsets ranging from the Intel G45 to the NVIDIA GF8200. However, none of them prepared us for the motherboard that we received from J&W Technology. Based on the AMD 780G chipset, the MINIX 780G-SP128MB is one of the most...

AMD's new 45nm Shanghai CPU launches today and we ran tests using database workloads. What changes, and what remains the same?...

We have been busily preparing an X58 motherboard roundup and overclocking guide that will be published shortly.  During the course of testing over the past few weeks we have encountered more than our fair share of problems.  Problems ranged from poor GPU driver support to BIOS releases that had difficulty booting 12GB memory configuration...

This is our first look at Maingear systems, and we like what we see. Note however that we say like, not love…...

We have been busily preparing an X58 motherboard roundup and overclocking guide that will be published shortly.  During the course of testing over the past few weeks we have encountered more than our fair share of problems.  Problems ranged from poor GPU driver support to BIOS releases that had difficulty booting 12GB...

We have been busily preparing an X58 motherboard roundup and overclocking guide that will be published shortly.  During the course of testing over the past few weeks we have encountered more than our fair share of problems.  Problems ranged from poor GPU driver support to BIOS releases that had difficulty booting 12GB...

Silverstone's new Fortress FT01 is a classy looking chassis that doesn't rely on flash to compete. Find out if this case might make a good home for your next computer build....

Here’s something for you to chew on during a Monday morning: NVIDIA’s Q3’08 financial results. NVIDIA’s quarters end a bit later than everyone else, so while AMD reported its Q3 data a couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA only posted its results a couple of days ago. Q2 as you may recall was a bust for NVIDIA, with their first loss in...

More and more of the database vendors are talking about the wonders that SSD can do for transactional (OLTP) databases. So I read Anand's latest SSD article with more than usual interest. If many of the cheaper MLC SSD's write small blocks 20 times slower than a decent harddrive, these SSD's are an absolute nightmare for OLTP...

Nehalem can be much more power efficient than Penryn and it can overclock quite well. What follows are some of the side quests that we didn't get to complete for this week's launch of Intel's Core i7....

Enermax has now officially launched their Revolution 85+ power supplies, boasting some of the highest efficiency scores in the market. We are happy to report there's some substance behind these claims....

12.3 Megapixel, Fast 11-point dual-cross Auto Focus, 2.7 inch tilt-and-swivel LCD, Art filters, and fast Live View autofocus with new high-speed imager 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II lens....