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1. Tom’s hardwareAlready the performance leader in desktop processing, Intel is following its quad-core Bloomfield design up with Gulftown, a hexa-core design sporting 12MB of shared L3 cache. Is the lone Gulftown model, Core i7-980X Extreme, worth a $1,000 asking price? 
 Would you rather use 7-Zip, FreeArc, WinRAR, or WinZip? We put four of the most popular file archiving tools to the test, analyzing compression ratios and performance. Spoiler alert: WinZip 14, the latest version of this popular title, gets creamed.
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[+] Presented By: Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again. We show you how to tweak Cool'n'Quiet for more aggressive power savings at standard speeds using several AMD CPUs.
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[+] Presented By: With three new Radeon HD 5000-series cards launched last month, older models being put out to pasture. And an upcoming next-generation launch from Nvidia later this month sees GPU prices fluctuating quickly. Check out this month's recommendations!
 SSDs might be the fastest storage option today, but by no means is it the most popular. Magnetic media offers high throughput and proven reliability for existing ecosystems. We looked at developments in four enterprise hard drive generations.
If you're the sort of power user who's hard on technology, especially out in the field, then ruggedized mobile storage might be apropos. Today, we're looking at a pair of portable disks that can take drops and spills, while serving up 500GB of capacity.
We've put Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, and Opera through a gauntlet of speed tests and time trials to find out which Web browser is truly the fastest. How does your favorite land in our rankings?
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[+] Presented By:Intel has S-models for several Core 2 processors that offer lower power consumption and comparable performance. However, the first S-model in the Core i5 family is actually slower than its regular counterpart?and it's even less efficient, overall!
AMD?s new chipset promises big performance increases with its Radeon HD 4290 graphics core and built-in SATA 6Gb/s controller. Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI sent their latest motherboards to help us find out how well 890GX and SB850 deliver on those promises.
Say what you will about AMD, Intel, and Nvidia's product lineups as they stand today. But all three employ undeniably-different philosophies in how they approach development and execution. Alan Dang explores how the next decade might look for this trio.
 Most of our graphics card coverage centers on 3D performance. But that's not the only reason enthusiasts buy new video cards. Eyefinity, ATI's technology supporting up to six displays from a single graphics card, is changing the way people use their PCs.
Nvidia's "Fermi" GF100 GPU is just over the horizon. With it, comes new technology as well as a new host of cards all vying for your dollar. But before that happens, we take an amazing photographic look into Nvidia's GPUs, present, and past.
 Third-generation terabyte hard drives have been available for a while. Today we're taking a look at a trio of 1TB disks from Hitachi in order to gauge what benefits, if any, you'll see from adopting a drive with increased storage density.
 In the future, an increasing number of hard drives will be writing data in 4KB chunks (rather than 512 bytes) to increase storage capacities. Performance isn?t impacted, as long as you follow some rules. We put WD?s new EARS series on the test bench.
 Just as we thought ATI was done launching DirectX 11-class graphics cards (for at least a little while), we received a note that a 5830 was in-route with a seven-day lead time. We quickly broke out the test equipment for a round with ATI's latest.
Providing an HDCP-compliant audio path for its latest integrated-video CPUs, Intel?s new H55 and H57 chipsets are certain to appeal to both home theater and office system builders. We inspect nine samples to find out what else these value boards can do.
We've measured 100W+ at idle from desktop PCs running the first crop of dual-core CPUs. The latest 32nm Clarkdale-based platforms let you build powerful desktops that idle as low as 25W. Today we're looking at the efficiency of such a system.
 January gave us a large refresh of AMD's sub-$150 CPU lineup. In this month's column, we have a look at the new models and note the impact pricing changes have had on our recommendations. Gone is the Pentium G6950 from the list, as it failed to impress.
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[+] Presented By:We'll take more speed and better efficiency any day of the week! We've already looked at the 2TB Western Digital drives. Now we line up Hitachi?s Deskstar 7K2000, Samsung's Spinpoint F3 1TB, and Seagate?s Barracuda XT for the first drive battle of 2010.
 Cryptic Studios recently released its new Star Trek Online MMO after the movie reinvigorated this history-steeped franchise. Today we're checking out the game play and analyzing its performance on a number of graphics cards to show you what to expect.
 When it comes to overclocking, the theoretical peak for your processor is probably less interesting than a balanced efficiency increase. Thus, we went on a mission to figure out the best clock rate for Intel's new dual-core Clarkdale-based Core i5-661.
Rarely do we cover driver updates. However, ATI recently showed off a handful of features that we know owners of Radeon HD 5000-series cards, CrossFire configurations, and Mobility Radeon GPUs have been asking to see. Check out what's coming in Cat. 10.3!
In Part 1, we introduced you to some of the issues today's high-end graphics cards have with 2D functionality and the benchmark we wrote to test our observations. Today, we have even more performance data and additional depth on how 2D works in Windows.
Rarely, if ever, are press outlets allowed unrestricted access to R&D facilities. We jumped at the chance to visit Western Digital and tour the company's campus with virtually free reign. Get ready to see hard drives as you've never seen them before.
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[+] Presented By:Flash-based SSDs in enterprise RAID often require serious modifications to storage subsystems already in place. Adaptec now offers a way to upgrade existing RAID solutions to deliver much-improved I/O performance in a transparent and convenient manner.
 Tom?s Hardware has supported new PC builders since 1997 with tips, tricks, and sage advice. Our most complete motherboard-selection guide was published back in 2006. Today?s updates address the latest interfaces for current PC builders. Enjoy!
 January gave us the Radeon HD 5670, and February has us looking to the horizon for the next-generation GeForce GTX 480/470 and new entry-level Radeon HD 5000-series cards. As a bonus, the Radeon HD 5850 becomes notably cheaper this month.
 AMD rounds out its DirectX 11-capable lineup with an entry-level gaming card sporting all of the Radeon HD 5000-series' value-adds. Does the Radeon HD 5570 represent the perfect combination of low-price, gaming performance, and features?
Now waist-deep in the SSD game, Kingston has a lot of know-how and industry insight on all things memory-related. We sat down with two of the company's insiders for a different perspective on some of today?s biggest SSD questions.
Five Tom's Hardware readers were chosen in a recent contest to come and visit our new office in Culver City, California to go hands-on with Eyefinity. Thanks to AMD and EA, they were able to try out a handful of games on a trio of 23" displays.
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 Bill Gates has once again been bumped out of the top spot on Forbes' rich list.
 A huge number of people disapproved of the decision to award Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize but one of the nominees this year will likely cause even more debate.
 Prison Break the video game was first announced last October and now Zootfly/SouthPeak Games' take on the popular TV series has a release date: March 30.
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[+] Presented By: The new Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor costs $167 per core or $83 per thread.
 I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Are you listening?
"Plastics."
 Details of the GeForce GTX 470 leaks out thanks to a beta driver system dialog screen.
 It's been more than 10 years since Jagged Alliance 2. Are you ready now for another?
 OCZ launched a value-priced line of SSDs, starting with the $100 32GB model.
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[+] Presented By: Want to know the correct way for using the commenting system on Tom's Hardware and Tom's Guide? Read on.
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[+] Presented By: This week at GDC, Microsoft showed off XNA games running on Windows Phone 7 and the screenshots are pretty darn impressive.
 Amazon is looking for developers to build what sounds like a brand spanking new browser for the etailer's reading device, the Kindle.
 A change in hard drive format may force Windows XP users to upgrade to Windows 7.
 There's no shortage of Intel powered netbooks packing the chip giant's Atom processor. Among them is MSI's line of Wind netbooks. Starting today MSI is shipping two AMD-powered Winds, the Wind12 U230-033 and the Wind12 U230-040.
They're both a little on
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[+] Presented By: Waiting for SP1 before jumping to Windows 7? It could still happen this year.
 Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is ready to do battle against Intel.
 The DRM servers come back just in time to greet the new North American Assassin's Creed II PC gamers.
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[+] Presented By: Forget just regular OLED, Samsung has SUPER AMOLED to show you.
 If Blizzard is to make an MMO for a console, it won't be World of Warcraft.
 Dell's Japan-only Dell Inspiron One 19 has been spotted at a Walmart branch here in the U.S.
 Opened up and photographed in cold, harsh lighting. Just how we like it!
 The sequel will require less while providing more. Sounds like a good woman.
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[+] Presented By: More drivers have popped up with the mysterious overheating bug, this time affecting Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems.
 Dell's Vostro line is getting some Core i3, i5, and i7 love.
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[+] Presented By: At Mobile World Congress, Freescale showed off a rather nifty little tablet running Chromium OS. It's the same device we saw running Android at CES, the i.MX51.
 AMD said that a Nvidia marketing scheme pays game developers to implement PhysX whether they want it or not.
 Newegg quickly follows up with its customers after initially down-playing the situation as a wrong shipment of "demo" CPUs.
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2. XbitslabsAMD Unleashes New Tools As Part of Open Physics Program OpenGL 4.0 Specification Gets Released We Do Not Force Game Designers to Implement PhysX - Nvidia »
[+] Imagination Technologies: You Will Have the Power of PlayStation 3 in Your Pocket in Three YearsImgTec Predicts Dramatic Performance Improvements of Mobile Graphics Chips Sony Presents PS Move Motion Sensing Controller IEEE Celebrates Thirty Years Anniversary OCZ Intros Onyx Family of SSDs ARM Foresees Dramatic Increase in Slate-Type PCs' Popularity Samsung Launches E6 eReader Electronic Book Reader BD4C Licensing Group Begins Operation Intel Preps Atom N500 Microprocessor One of the most anticipated game titles - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - has just hit the market. X-bit labs decided to take a closer look at this game in order to help you pick up the right graphics card for the ultimate gaming experience. Dell Denies Plans to Discontinue Adamo XPS Microsoft Promises Different Xbox 360 Form-Factors Costs of Blu-Ray ODDs Still Much Higher Compared to DVD [+ desc][+ titles]
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[+] OpenGL 4.0 Spec UnveiledThe new spec helps OpenGL close the feature gap with Microsoft's Direct3D 11.
Razer has announced that all its upcoming products will support both PC and Mac drivers.
They're not cheap, but two new desktops using Intel's just-released Core i7-980X "Gulftown" processor are powerful performers.
Intel's powerful new Core i7-980X ("Gulftown") is the first consumer CPU on the market with six processing cores.
Apple hype about Flash being a "CPU hog" isn't necessarily true.
Jim Lynch ends his mourning period and starts over with a new 27-inch iMac.
If you're still using Windows XP, you may be in for trouble in 2011, when all hard drives must move from 512-byte to 4KB sectors.
Opera 10.5 trounces the competition when it comes to JavaScript rendering. But is that enough?
Corsair's new A70 and A50 coolers are designed for enthusiast and more casual users.
A problem with fan control in Nvidia's latest video driver may be putting video cards—and full systems—at risk.
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5. Materiel.beAmateurs de benchmarks en général, et de 3DMark en particulier, voici de quoi vous faire patienter avant la sortie de la nouvelle mouture du célèbre benchmark 3D de Futuremark. En effet, la société éditrice vient de publ... »
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Un bug dans le SP3 de Windows XP ?
Plusieurs utilisateurs de Windows XP ont rencontré des problèmes après l'installation du Service Pack 3 dans sa version Beta.
Un premier com... La future GeForce 9800 GT ne devrait pas sortir avant le moins de juillet. Si l'attente sera longue, elle devrait être bénéfique puisque cette nouvelle carte graphique devrait être équipée d'un processeur graphiq... Nos confrères de Puissance PC et d'Overclex ont testé la carte-mère Intel DX48BT2 qui embarque le chipset Intel X48. Ce modèle est compatible avec les derniers Core 2 dont le Core 2 Extreme QX9770 et son FSB 1 600 MH... »
[+] Un LCD 30 pouces chez LGAlors que DELL connaît quelques soucis avec son 3008WFP, le fabricant LG lance son moniteur LCD de 30 pouces en France. Aperçu à l'IT Partners (cf. cette actualité ), le LG W3000H-BN dispose d'une dalle IPS affic... Le concepteur de puces graphiques NVIDIA a changé de fournisseur de mémoire-vive pour ses dernières GeForce 9800 GTX. Ces modèles étaient jusqu'ici équipés de puces-mémoires GDDR3 0.8 ns fabriquées par Samsung (K4J52... Nos confrères de Tom's Hardware viennent de publier un artcile sur les 15 processeurs les plus marquants de l'histoire d'Intel, du 8086 à l'Atom en passant par le 80486 DX2, le Pentium MMX, les Pentium II... »
[+] XFX voit la vie en noirLe constructeur de cartes graphiques XFX taquine un peu AMD en sortant une série de GeForce baptisée Back Edition qui n'est pas sans rappeler les processeurs Black Edition d'AMD. XFX propose donc une GeForce 9800... Le constructeur OCZ vient d'envoyer les premiers exemplaires de tests de son système de refroidissement Cryo-Z. Ce dernier est un système de refroidissement à changement de phase prêt à l'emploi. Le tout est mont... Nos confrères de 59 Hardware viennent de publier un comparatif de 13 alimentations dont la puissance est comprise entre 500 et 800 Watts. Trois modèles sortent du lot : l'Enermax Modu 82+ 625 Watts pour ses performan... Le constructeur DELL vient de suspendre la vente du moniteur LCD de 30 pouces vendu sous la référence DELL 3008WFP. Le produit a été retiré du site du fabricant jusqu'à l'arrivée d'une nouvelle version corrig... »
[+] Le 780G chez MSILe constructeur MSI vient de dévoiler sa carte-mère K9A2GM-FIH équipée du chipset AMD 780G. Elle supporte les processeurs AMD sur Socket AM2/AM2+ dont les derniers Phenom et embarque un contrôleur graphique Radeon HD 320... Après notre news « souvenir » à propos du système de refroidissement Taisol Aqua 690, nous vous proposons de vous rappeler d’un autre produit qui à défaut d’avoir connu un succès commercial s’est démarq... »
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Gartner prédit la chute de Windows
Le Gartner jette un pavé dans la mare en prédisant la fin de l’empire de Windows. Parmi les raisons invoquées, l’absence de modularité et un co... Si les premiers Phenom ont été décevants sur le plan des performances (voir notre article), ils le furent aussi du côté de l’overclocking. A l’époque notre Phenom 9600 n’avait pas pu monter plus haut qu... Lors d'une conférence de presse sur les cartes graphiques professionnelles Quadro, Jeff Brown, responsable du secteur professionnel chez NVIDIA, a confirmé l'arrivée d'un nouveau processeur graphique. Baptisé... Selon les dernières informations reçus par les fabricants, les prochaines cartes graphiques ATI Radeon d'AMD équipées des nouveaux processeurs graphiques sortiront au début du mois de juin. Elles devraient être dévoi... Le constructeur Super Talent vient de présenter son nouveau kit Dual Channel de 2 x 1 Go de DDR3. Vendus sous la référence W2000UX2GP, ces modules tiennent des timings de 9-9-9-28 à 2 000 MHz sous une tension de 1,9V. Po... Nos confrères des Numériques ont testé le téléviseur Sony XEL-1, le premier modèle au monde à disposer d'une dalle OLED. Ce modèle est très impressionnant et relègue les technologies LCD et Plasma loin derrière. Les ... Les sociétés VIA et NVIDIA viennent de signer un accord de partenariat en vue de proposer une plateforme complète MID (Mobile Internet Device) qui concurrencera directement le Centrino Atom d'Intel. VIA apportera son... [+ desc][+ titles]
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Razer hops on the recent "Games for Mac" craze started by Valve's plans for Steam and Source on Apple computers.
Cylon or human -- which would you pick?
I am rubber, you are glue.
But there's still no word on launch or pricing.
