Does Saving Power Mean Hurting Performance? By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 16 December 08
Graphics Boosted: 790GX's Side-Port Explored By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 9 December 08 AMD's 790GX and 780G support onboard memory to help improve the performance of integrated graphics. Is it worth paying a bit extra or is the feature a mere gimmick?
WD's 2nd Gen GP: More Speed, Less Power By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 3 December 08 Usually, green hardware means you're giving up performance in order to cut back on power consumption. But Western Digital's second-generation Green Power drive changes all of that.
Efficiency: Core 2 Nukes Atom On The Desktop By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 21 November 08
The Hardware Behind Overdrive By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 18 November 08 Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to supersonic speeds in a bid for a shot at $5,000.
Power-Saving Motherboards: Fact Or Fiction? By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 14 November 08
Overclocking Goes Int'l.: Overdrive In The USA By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos, Chris Angelini published 14 November 08
External Storage: Terabyte Drives Compared By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 20 October 08 These external hard drives are all designed to offer 1 TB of storage, but the bundles, performance, and power consumption reveal significant differentiators. A clear winner emerges.
Atom, Athlon, or Nano? Energy-Savers Compared By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 3 October 08 We compared Intel’s Atom 230 and VIA’s Nano L2100 processors hoping to find the best product for low-power applications. VIA is in the vanguard of performance. Is this enough to beat Atom?
Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda: Bigger And Better? By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 2 October 08 Seagate is the first hard drive vendor to offer a 1.5 TB drive in the 3.5” form factor. Meanwhile, WD sent us its RAID Edition 3 (RE3) drive. We tell you which is the best HDD choice today.
Going For 4GB: DDR2-1066 Kit Round-Up By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 22 September 08 Seven of the highest-profile memory vendors sent in their latest 2 x 2GB DDR2-1066 kits, which we poked, prodded, and of course, overclocked. We have two Recommended Buy awards for you this time!
Next-Gen 7,200 RPM Notebook Hard Drives By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 28 August 08 Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital send their latest high-performance notebook drives into battle, fighting for the ultimate balance between performance and efficiency.
14-Way SSD Hard Drive Roundup By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 18 August 08 Having found a number of SSDs that don’t deliver on their efficiency promises, we decided to put 14 different drives to the test. Here is the latest roundup - dominated by a single product.
Convenience Storage By Buffalo And Toshiba By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 11 August 08 The latest external 2.5” drives by Buffalo and Toshiba come with easy-to-use backup software, but they lack features. More interesting is their capacities of 500 GB and 320 GB.
