IDF Fall 2006 - Day 2: Opteron vs. Xeon, SSE4 & Intel's Torrenza competitor Announced

Pat Gelsinger announced Intel's new SSE4 instructions and a competitor to AMD's Torrenza platform.

18 by Anand Shimpi & Virginia Lee on 9/27/2006

Fall IDF 2006 - Day 1: Laser FSBs, more Alan Wake, Flash in Vista & DDR3

We're rounding out our first day's coverage with an update from the Intel labs on Silicon Photonics, more information on multi-threaded gaming in Remedy's upcoming thriller: Alan Wake, Intel's...

16 by Anand Shimpi & Cara Hamm on 9/27/2006

Fall IDF 2006 - Day 1: 45/65nm, UMPC Update and Quad-Core

Intel's Paul Otellini kicked off this year's Fall IDF with the first keynote of the show and as always, we've got coverage of the event

12 by Anand Shimpi & Larry Barber on 9/26/2006

Midrange Buyer's Guide - September 2006

A lot of things have changed in the past few months, and we've got top to bottom new recommendations for our latest midrange buyer's guide.

49 by Jarred Walton on 9/26/2006

Digital Photography from 20,000 Feet

A guide to Digital SLR Photography for the uninitiated.

81 by Wesley Fink on 9/25/2006

ASUS P5B Deluxe: ATI CrossFire and Intel P965 Tango

We preview the performance potential of the Intel P965 with ATI CrossFire. Is it all it can be?

22 by Gary Key on 9/22/2006

D-Link DIR-625: Another Draft N Router comes up short

Our review of the D-Link DIR-625 RANGEBOOSTER N router reveals a solid design that is dogged by the current performance of Draft N chipsets.

15 by Gary Key on 9/20/2006

The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS: A Closer Look

Today we're taking a closer look at NVIDIA's 7900 GS with a mini-roundup from five manufacturers: Albatron, BFG, EVGA, Leadtek and XFX.

42 by Josh Venning on 9/19/2006

Dell XPS 410: Core 2 Duo for the Masses

The largest computer OEM in the world has sent their XPS 410 for review. We'll see how it stacks up against the competition, and whether or not it's...

50 by Jarred Walton on 9/18/2006

Fall '06 NVIDIA GPU Refresh - Part II: GeForce 7950 GT and SLI

NVIDIA's recently launched overclocked 7900 GT replacement has arrived. Will the 7950 GT have what it takes to compete with the X1900 XT in value?

31 by Derek Wilson on 9/14/2006

Apple's Mac Pro - Upgrading CPUs, Memory & Running XP

In our final part of our Mac Pro coverage we look at its upgradability and performance under Windows XP.

72 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2006

EPoX EP-5P945 PRO: Budget 945P Performance

We take a quick look at EPoX's 945P based motherboard and discover very good budget performance from a standard design.

23 by Gary Key on 9/11/2006

Abit AW9D-MAX: When "Beta" MAX is a good thing

Our preview of the AW9D-MAX shows great performance potential in an unusual package.

56 by Gary Key on 9/8/2006

PhysX Performance Update: City of Villains

With the City Of Villains Issue 7 update, PhysX support has now moved out of beta and into full production. What has changed, what remains the same, and...

33 by Ryan Smith on 9/7/2006

Fall '06 NVIDIA GPU Refresh - Part I: GeForce 7900 GS

NVIDIA is announcing two new cards here and hard launching one of them, meet the X1900 GT competitor: NV's GeForce 7900 GS.

29 by Derek Wilson on 9/6/2006

ASRock ConRoe945G-DVI: Core 2 Duo goes mATX

Our first look at ASRock's 945G based motherboard reveals that very good budget performance can come in a small package.

33 by Gary Key on 9/1/2006

Silence is Golden: Silent GPU Roundup

Today we have a massive roundup of 20 silent graphics cards from seven different card manufacturers. We'll put them all in order and see what kind of performance these...

49 by Josh Venning on 8/31/2006

Draft N Router Coverage: When the "n" in 802.11n really means "not yet"

Our first look at Draft N routers from NETGEAR, Belkin, and Linksys shows promising speeds yet disappointing overall results.

22 by Gary Key on 8/30/2006

PC Club Enpower Sabre Extreme: E6600 Made Easy

Not everyone needs a top-of-the-line system (with the accompanying price). PC Club sent us a nicely equipped midrange system sporting a Core 2 Duo E6600, and those of...

30 by Jarred Walton on 8/29/2006

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