Dip below the conventional mainstream market and you'll find highly integrated platforms priced at about $80 dollars. We take a look at a Celeron-powered Intel board to see what sort of performance is available for less than $100.

It's very small, very cold and very hard to program; D-Wave says it's the first working quantum computer and it recognizes images.

We looked behind the curtain of SPEC, the largest benchmarking organization, and visited its 2008 Performance Workshop in Darmstadt, Germany, where server task scheduling and power efficiency benchmarking were hot topics.

Its almost time to go back to school. Don't despair; we've selected the best gear to help you both study hard and stay busy. Next up: Gear for Play.

AMD's 780G versus Nvidia's GeForce 8200. Both platforms turn integrated chipsets into hybrid graphics solutions. We look at microATX boards from ASRock to find the best all-in-one AMD platform.

What can flash SSDs do for high-end enterprise storage? To find out, we compared eight state-of-the-art Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 drives with eight MemoRight flash SSDs in RAID setups.

Remember RAIDCore? The flexible storage architecture is now available as a software package that transforms many motherboard SATA controllers into top-notch RAID solutions. And you can plug in a hardware controller to add ports later on.

A new processor, chipset, graphics core and wireless networking module help Intel justify a new generation of Centrino branding, but are the changes significant enough to warrant an upgrade?

Acknowledging that our initial article on the efficiency of Flash SSDs was based on an inaccurate test procedure for battery runtime, we looked at more SSDs and HDDs. Our conclusion, however, was not far off, as Flash SSDs can do much better.

Zalman's CNPS9700 has held the top spot in the air-cooling category of our cooler charts for the past 18 months. We tested five other big-name coolers against the incumbent and were surprised to find that it'll be forced to share the spotlight.

Intel's new mainstream chipset introduces support for PCI Express 2.0 and an ICH10 southbridge. But the added value compared to its predecessor, P35, turns out to be small.

The capacity gap between 2.5" notebook drives and 3.5" hard disk drives is closing. We look at the latest 500GB drives from Hitachi and Samsung, which unfortunately fail to impress.

Wrapping up our system builder marathon, let's analyze the price vs. performance of our sub-$1,000, sub-$2,000, and sub-$4,000 PCs.

Detailed specifications and reviews are great if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best card within a certain budget.

The performance of AMD's Radeon HD 4850 surprised everyone – including Nvidia. The 4870 continues the tradition, delivering excellent price/performance.

Our three systems have been built and tested, so now it's time to put them to the real test: will overclocking provide the performance advantages we anticipated?

Day Three of our SBM brings the least expensive of our current builds. Can a $1000 system compete with the “big boys”?

It's day two of our SBM, and our mid-range system is ready to show what a reasonable amount of money buys a PC enthusiast in today's market.

Manufacturers tout the power savings of flash-based solid state drives compared to conventional hard drives. True? Check out our notebook battery tests.

Nvidia's GeForce GTX200 focuses on brute force performance, while AMD's ATI division concentrates on features, efficiency and on performance per mm² of die. Is this enough to beat Nvidia?

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We now have a firm date for our overclocking contest. Read about it here.

Today, day one of our SBM, our highest-priced system sets the performance standard against which the less expensive configurations will be compared.

We've looked at iBuypower's budget systems in the past. This time, we scope out, test and tell you all about one of the company's big guns.

CUDA software enables GPUs to do tasks normally reserved for CPUs. We look at how it works and its real and potential performance advantages.

Finally, Nvidia has heard our pleas! GT200 is the first real reworking of the G8x architecture. How does it work and perform?

We look in detail at a diverse cross-section of cases and answer some key questions: What are the features? Which is the loudest? Which provides the best value?

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Two servers per blade enable 1000 cores without special cooling, for Web 2.0 apps and Hollywood special effects..

When purchasing a new computer these days, many wonder whether a bulky tower system unit is even necessary, given the advantages of a notebook.

With all the commotion concerning Intel's upcoming “mainstream” chipset, it's easy to forget that the X48 Express continues to be the company's top pick.

Nehalem, chipsets, motherboards, AMD, NVIDIA, booth babes, and more.