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In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic Failures

February 3, 2012 - 12:00am
We've endured a great many annoyances in the 16 years since Tom's Hardware first appeared online. What follows is a list of 16 of them. Although it's by no means all-inclusive, it represents one seasoned reviewer's worst experiences in technology.
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Live From AMD's Financial Analyst Day

February 2, 2012 - 12:00pm
We've been waiting on AMD's Financial Analyst Day for more information on how the company plans to approach new and current businesses moving forward. Ahead of the big event, AMD pre-briefed us on the news.
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OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, Accelerated

February 2, 2012 - 12:00am
We've been bugging AMD for years now, literally: show us what GPU-accelerated software can do. Finally, the company is ready to put us in touch with ISVs in nine different segments to demonstrate how its hardware can benefit optimized applications.
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Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s?

February 1, 2012 - 12:00am
Are you mulling the potential benefit of an SSD upgrade on a system without 6 Gb/s SATA connectivity? We run the benchmarks on several different solid-state storage architectures in order to determine how much performance you give up on an older machine.
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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review: Up Against GeForce GTX 580

January 31, 2012 - 12:00am
Is the Radeon HD 7970's $550 asking price too high? AMD now has a less expensive derivative based on the same GCN architecture. At its default clock rates, it's fast enough to outrun Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580 in many benchmarks. And it overclocks like mad.
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Picking A Sub-$200 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium?

January 30, 2012 - 12:00am
We really like to hunt down great values in the processor space. Since our last round-up of affordable CPUs, AMD released its Llano-based APUs and Bulldozer-based FX family. Also, Intel introduced a handful of Sandy Bridge-based Pentium chips.
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What Does One Petabyte Of Storage (And $500K) Look Like?

January 27, 2012 - 12:00am
We're big fans of big technology, and with more than 1 PB of capacity, Aberdeen's Petarack is sure something to marvel at. We take a look inside and figure out what it takes to deploy 1 000 terabytes of space in an enterprise environment, reliably.
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Amazon Kindle Touch Review And Fourth-Gen Screen Quality Update

January 26, 2012 - 12:10am
Amazon Kindle Fire tablet received all of the glory. But the company also has a new e-book reader that features a touchscreen. How does the Kindle Touch stack up, and what's the real story on the display quality of Amazon's fourth-gen Kindles?
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Install A Hard Drive Or SSD In Your Notebook's Optical Bay

January 26, 2012 - 12:00am
You want a performance-oriented SSD in your notebook, but you also need the capacity of a hard drive. Why not just remove your optical drive, drop your hard drive into its bay, and load up a brand new SSD with Windows and your apps?
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AMD's FX-8150 After Two Windows 7 Hotfixes And UEFI Updates

January 25, 2012 - 12:00am
Introducing a new processor architecture takes a colossal effort. AMD's modular Bulldozer design ran into its share of resistance at launch. Can a handful of software updates turn the company's flagship FX-8150 into the powerhouse AMD promised?
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Best SSDs For The Money: January 2012

January 24, 2012 - 12:00am
Welcome to the year's first SSD recommendations. We updated our list to reflect recent price drops on second-gen SandForce-based hardware. There are several good deals in the $150-200 range. Prices are falling, so we're letting you know!
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Radeon HD 6990M And GeForce GTX 580M: A Beautiful Lie

January 23, 2012 - 12:00am
We’ve been more than outspoken about the naming AMD and Nvidia use for their mobile GPUs. Are they really trying to mislead buyers, though? We briefly examine their methodology and frame that against the limitations of high-end mobile computing.
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In Pictures: The Girls Of CES 2012

January 20, 2012 - 12:00am
CES 2012 was packed to the brim with new tablets and 3D display technology, but somehow exhibitors found a way to include booth models as part of their showcase. Take a peek through our picture story to see some of what we saw this year in Las Vegas.
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Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Cards, Rounded-Up

January 19, 2012 - 12:00am
We were foiled in our quest to find the best vendor-provided GPU cooler for Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560. But out of the ashes sprung a round-up of cards armed with those very same solutions. Which of these five GF114-based boards is right for you?
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Mobile: Intel Will Overtake Qualcomm In Three Years

January 18, 2012 - 12:00am
We know Intel hasn't shipped any phones, while Qualcomm had over $4 billion in revenue last quarter. But when you're done reading, you'll agree with us. To do this, we'll perform a magic trick with all three acts, The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige.
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In Pictures: Dear Developers, 15 Games Worthy Of A Sequel

January 17, 2012 - 12:00am
Most of the time good games get sequels. However, there's always a select few that seem to fall through the cracks. Developers close shop or trademarks get held in limbo. Here are fifteen games that we feel deserve sequels.
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Chris Angelini On Tom's Hardware In 2012

January 16, 2012 - 1:10pm
I just got back from CES 2012. And although I’ve attended a great many Consumer Electronics Shows, Computexes, and Comdexes (never a CeBIT), this year’s show was by far the most intense. It wasn’t that there were tons of really awesome products. In fact,
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: January 2012

January 16, 2012 - 12:00am
This month, we talk about new Llano-based APUs with unlocked core and graphics clock multipliers, Intel's upcoming Atom CPU refresh, and a few notable price adjustments. Then, we bid farewell to a few favorite processors that are quickly disappearing.
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Storage Performance In Entertainment And Content Creation

January 13, 2012 - 12:00am
A number of metrics are used to quantify storage performance. If you're a content creator, you have to be wondering how such dry terminology can apply to your video projects. Rather than telling you, we're going to dissect several media-oriented tasks.
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Seven $260-$320 X79 Express Motherboards, Reviewed

January 12, 2012 - 12:00am
With 40 lanes of PCIe 3.0 connectivity to host all of our high-bandwidth devices, LGA 2011 certainly qualifies as a premium processor interface. Today we examine seven X79-based motherboards that offer high-end features at a more palatable price.
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