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Asus, the top motherboard maker ahead of Gigabyte, may be looking to further strengthen its position by acquiring ASRock, the third largest player in the mobo business. It’s an interesting development, not just because it would combine the world’s firs…
For those of you paying attention, it’s hard not to notice the downward trend in solid state drive pricing, which in some cases has fallen below a buck per gigabyte on high end SSDs. Be that as it may, market research firm IHS iSuppli believes mechanic…
Plextor, which largely built a name for itself with high end optical drives back before you could buy a DVD burner for less than the cost of a movie ticket and tub of popcorn, is largely focused on solid state drives (SSDs) these days, and the company’…
If you’ve been following the PC scene for awhile, you may recall Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) beating Intel to the punch (if only by a hair) in getting a 1GHz CPU (an Athlon “Thunderbird”) into the hands of consumers back in 2000. Here we are more than…
One step forward, and a giant leap back
THE DISPLAYS IN HP’s TouchSmart series top out at 23 inches. To get anything bigger, you must move over to HP’s Omni all-in-one lineup. The upper limit here is a ginormous 27 inches, but you won’t get that …
In the June issue, we debuted a new section of the magazine: Blueprints. Here’s how it works. We’ve built three rigs at three approximate price points: Baseline, Deluxe, and Ultra. Baseline gets you a powerful, no-compromises rig, suitable for gaming a…
Remember when you could purchase a high-end AMD motherboard for around $100? You have to look all the way back to the Barton glory days, when the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Abit NF7-S v2 dominated the talk of bang-for-buck ratios. But that was years ago, and inorder to get a top-of-the-line motherboard today, you’re looking [...]
Corsair is no stranger to benchmarking records, and it can now add another notch to its belt. Give the assist to both “splman” (Roger Tanner) and “Mat” (Matthias Zronek), a couple of overclockers who used Corsair’s Dominator GT memory with Intel’s Core…