Are you an overclocker? Does the sound of unlocked multipliers make your mouth water? If so, is the AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition processor might be one of the processors you are thinking about getting. With a clock frequency of 2.3GHz and unlocked multiplier the AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition processor should fit the bill. With a random retail AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition processor we find out what it can do with some water cooling.
Read more »Today we bring you a round up of a few of the recently reviewed coolers. From inexpensive to high end, light to heavy, short to tall, all are compared to Intel’s stock cooler. In the process of updating the LR test bench we had to re-benchmark all the coolers, so why not do a round up with the collected data? So, today we will show you how the LR stable of coolers stack up to one another. Read on to see how they stack up.
Read more »Login password remains in RAM long after it's typed in, where attackers with physical access to the system may be able to obtain it.Read More...
Read more »Intel gave us a few morsels of information on its future microprocessor plans, including details on the architectural enhancements to its first desktop CPU with an integrated memory controller: Nehalem.
Read more »Spring is finally upon us, so it's time for a new System Guide. In this edition, we roll out the awe-inspiring God Box, the sweet spot that is the Hot Rod, and the wallet-friendly Budget box.Read More...
Read more »The Silencer 750 Quad power supply series gives you legendary PC Power and Cooling performance and reliability along with a unique ultra-quiet cooling design and a price that seals the deal. The brilliant red exterior of this special edition Silencer 750 PSU will look amazing in your high-performance graphics system or gaming rig, but does it perform well? Read on as figure that out with two power hungry ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT video cards running in CrossFire.
Read more »Assassin's Creed has made its way to the PC, and we have a review and performance analysis plus a dash of DX10.1 controversy thrown into the mix. Controversy aside, should PC gamers take time out for this console port?...
Read more »Xigmatek brings out their high-end power supplies rated at 1000W and 1200W for testing.
Read more »A recently surfaced diagram may provide evidence that AMD will soon hop on the netbook bandwagon—or it could be the work of a Photoshopper with some time on his hands. Ars investigates. Read More...
Read more »A new research paper takes a look at how a common high-performance computing benchmark performs on a number of multicore, multisocket platforms, including Intel's Clovertown, AMD's Opteron, Sun's Niagara2, and IBM's Cell. Here's a sneak peek: bandwidth-starved systems don't do very well.Read More...
Read more »The iLiad ebook reader comes as close to paper as anything we've ever seen, including the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle, but just how useful is it to write directly on the screen?Read More...
Read more »If you're in need of a meatier, stronger, more impressive hard drive, Seagate has your back. The storage manufacturer launched a trio of new drives today for both desktop and mobile systems, featuring capacities of up to 1.5TB (desktop), and 500GB (mobile).Read More...
Read more »Sun challenges market leaders IBM and HP by claiming that the Sun Fire X4450 can deliver the performance and the functionality of their best 16-core 4U servers in a 2U chassis. Does Sun succeed? We try to quantify if you really save costs and how much.
Read more »Comcast and Nortel have announced the successful trial of new 100Gbps optical gear. The cable giant plans to start installing Nortel's new tech by the end of 2009 to increase its network capacity, one that is needed due to the advent of DOCSIS 3.0 and Project Infinity.Read More...
Read more »Market analysts and LCD panel manufacturers both expect demand for new flat panels to stay strong through the end of 2008, but several companies are trimming production in what may be a bid to control potential economic instability.Read More...
Read more »The South Korean Fair Trade Commission announced its decision today to fine Intel around $26 million. The fine comes some eight months after the Korean FTC first found Intel guilty of abusing its monopoly position; Intel has noted it may appeal the ruling.Read More...
Read more »We provide a preview of the new VelociRaptor and a drive hampered by early firmware that still manages to set new performance standards.
Read more »The Toshiba Qosmio x305 notebook will be released in mid-July and is already making ripples in the industry ever since it was announced and posted on the Toshiba website. The graphics on the Qismio x305 will be powered by the yet to be announced NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX graphics card, which has 1GB of video memory. NVIDIA hasn't said much about this un-released graphics card, but they did have the Toshiba Qosmio x305 notebook on display at a Microsoft event this week called the Games for Windows Presents: The Big Picture.
Read more »Insipred by the Corsair Performance Analysis of 4GB versus 2GB of memory we figured it would be fun to see for ourselves how gaming performance is impacted by adding more system memory. We got our hands on a 2GB and a 4GB set of Corsiar DOMINATOR PC2-9136C5 memory modules and set off to see what happens to the average framerate in nine games at 1920x1200.
Read more »Golly goose (beat that for first words to a hardware review)! If i think back, a lot has changed since I last reviewed a CPU cooler - AMD no longer has the enthusiast in the palm of it's hand (though this may soon change with Agena), and we are entering the age of multi-core goodness. Another significant change to this area includes the introduction of programs like Core Temp, which allow the temperature monitoring of each individual CPU core with great accuracy.
Does Arctic Cooling still hold the top spot for price/performance?
