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2/7/2012 2:03:03 AM

1 - Deals for Feb 6: Dell Core i5 Quad-core Mini Tower $449
2 - Our Top 6 Favorite Tech Ads from Super Bowl XLVI
3 - Microsoft Removes Start Button from Windows 8
4 - Nokia's Got a White Lumia 800 Headed for the UK
5 - Qooq Kitchen Tablet Bound for UK This Year
6 - Camden's Talking CCTV Cameras to Be Silenced
7 - Micron Appoints New CEO Following Death of Appleton
8 - Intel Crowned as Nation's Largest Green Energy Purchaser
9 - Wireless Emerges as Top Chip Spending Area For OEMs
10 - Valve Working on Secret TF2 Project; Fans Want HL3
11 - Sony's New CEO Sees a Tough Road Ahead
12 - EU Asks Google to Delay Policy Changes for Investigation
13 - AMD Reveals Ultrathin Prototype, Roadmaps
14 - Europe to Get Acer Iconia Tab A510 in April for €500
15 - Micron's CEO Dies in Plane Crash Friday Morning
16 - Ofcom: UK Broadband Speeds Have Risen 22% in One Year
17 - BT Talks 'Ultrafast' 300Mb Broadband by Next Spring
18 - Apple is Now World's Largest PC Company (If Tablets Are PCs)
19 - Petition Targeting Apple's Factory Conditions Reaches 163K+
20 - DRM Blues: Ubisoft PC Titles Rendered Useless Next Week
21 - Crytek Taking on Onlive, Facebook with GFACE
22 - Apple Consultant Refutes Claims From Worker Treatment Story
23 - AMD Ready To Fight in 2012, Says CEO
24 - Built-In Kinect for Mobile Devices a Battery Killer
25 - Super Wi-Fi Name Could be an Issue; Access Clarification
1 - Deals for Feb 6: Dell Core i5 Quad-core Mini Tower $449

Deals for Feb 6: Dell Core i5 Quad-core Mini Tower $449Get your top tech deals of the day.



2/7/2012 2:00:00 AM

2 - Our Top 6 Favorite Tech Ads from Super Bowl XLVI

Our Top 6 Favorite Tech Ads from Super Bowl XLVIThe Super Bowl isn't just about football and snacks.



2/7/2012 12:10:00 AM

3 - Microsoft Removes Start Button from Windows 8

Microsoft Removes Start Button from Windows 8After 17 years, the Start button is out.



2/6/2012 10:10:00 PM

4 - Nokia's Got a White Lumia 800 Headed for the UK

Nokia's Got a White Lumia 800 Headed for the UKAs white as the snow that's piling up outside.



2/6/2012 9:10:00 PM

5 - Qooq Kitchen Tablet Bound for UK This Year

Qooq Kitchen Tablet Bound for UK This YearAprons on, tablets out!



2/6/2012 8:20:00 PM

6 - Camden's Talking CCTV Cameras to Be Silenced

Camden's Talking CCTV Cameras to Be SilencedSay goodbye to those talking cameras.



2/6/2012 7:40:00 PM

7 - Micron Appoints New CEO Following Death of Appleton

Micron Appoints New CEO Following Death of AppletonCOO ditches retirement plans to fill Appleton's shoes.



2/6/2012 6:00:00 PM

8 - Intel Crowned as Nation's Largest Green Energy Purchaser

Intel Crowned as Nation's Largest Green Energy PurchaserIntel has been, once again, landed top spot on new EPA rankings



2/6/2012 3:10:00 PM

9 - Wireless Emerges as Top Chip Spending Area For OEMs

Wireless Emerges as Top Chip Spending Area For OEMsOEMs are now spending more on semiconductors for wireless devices than for computers.



2/6/2012 9:10:00 AM

10 - Valve Working on Secret TF2 Project; Fans Want HL3

Valve Working on Secret TF2 Project; Fans Want HL3The Team Fortress 2 blog is hinting at a top secret project slated to hit Steam in 2012. Meanwhile, fans are actually demanding new Half-Life 3 news, protested on Saturday as a result.



2/5/2012 8:10:00 AM

11 - Sony's New CEO Sees a Tough Road Ahead

Sony's New CEO Sees a Tough Road AheadKazuo Hirai, who takes over as President and CEO of Sony Corp. in April, believes the company needs to set aside previous tradition and focus on the new "user experience" in order to succeed.



2/4/2012 11:20:00 PM

12 - EU Asks Google to Delay Policy Changes for Investigation

EU Asks Google to Delay Policy Changes for InvestigationEU regulators have asked Google to step back while they conduct an investigation.



2/4/2012 10:10:00 AM

13 - AMD Reveals Ultrathin Prototype, Roadmaps

AMD Reveals Ultrathin Prototype, RoadmapsIn addition to revealing its 2012 and 2013 roadmaps, AMD sported an ultrathin form factor packed with its Trinity APU.



2/4/2012 4:10:00 AM

14 - Europe to Get Acer Iconia Tab A510 in April for €500

Europe to Get Acer Iconia Tab A510 in April for €500Spring is coming, as is the season for slabs of Ice Cream Sandwich.



2/4/2012 1:10:00 AM

15 - Micron's CEO Dies in Plane Crash Friday Morning

Micron's CEO Dies in Plane Crash Friday MorningMicron's CEO was killed Friday morning while trying to land his plane at the Boise airport.



2/4/2012 12:10:00 AM

16 - Ofcom: UK Broadband Speeds Have Risen 22% in One Year

Ofcom: UK Broadband Speeds Have Risen 22% in One YearBut which ISP offers the fastest?



2/3/2012 10:50:00 PM

17 - BT Talks 'Ultrafast' 300Mb Broadband by Next Spring

BT Talks 'Ultrafast' 300Mb Broadband by Next SpringFast enough for you?



2/3/2012 7:20:00 PM

18 - Apple is Now World's Largest PC Company (If Tablets Are PCs)

Apple is Now World's Largest PC Company (If Tablets Are PCs)Canalys is, as far as we know, the only major market research firm that has chosen to include tablet shipments in overall PC unit shipments.



2/3/2012 7:10:00 PM

19 - Petition Targeting Apple's Factory Conditions Reaches 163K+

Petition Targeting Apple's Factory Conditions Reaches 163K+There's a petition asking Apple to release a worker protection strategy for new product releases.



2/3/2012 3:10:00 PM

20 - DRM Blues: Ubisoft PC Titles Rendered Useless Next Week

DRM Blues: Ubisoft PC Titles Rendered Useless Next WeekSeveral PC titles from Ubisoft will go dark next week thanks to the company's strict DRM.



2/3/2012 10:40:00 AM

21 - Crytek Taking on Onlive, Facebook with GFACE

Crytek Taking on Onlive, Facebook with GFACECrytek is backing a small team of developers creating what seems to be a social platform that borrows from Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Xbox Live while adding the game streaming abilities of OnLive.



2/3/2012 7:40:00 AM

22 - Apple Consultant Refutes Claims From Worker Treatment Story

Apple Consultant Refutes Claims From Worker Treatment StoryCould the Apple and Foxconn tale have another side to it?



2/3/2012 4:40:00 AM

23 - AMD Ready To Fight in 2012, Says CEO

AMD Ready To Fight in 2012, Says CEOAMD CEO Rory Read mentioned "thin and light" in his 2012 attack speech to analysts.



2/3/2012 2:10:00 AM

24 - Built-In Kinect for Mobile Devices a Battery Killer

Built-In Kinect for Mobile Devices a Battery KillerIntegrated Kinect technology is reportedly draining the battery in mobile prototypes.



2/3/2012 12:10:00 AM

25 - Super Wi-Fi Name Could be an Issue; Access Clarification

Super Wi-Fi Name Could be an Issue; Access ClarificationAfter the launch of the nation's first "Super Wi-Fi" network, the Wi-Fi Alliance is now annoyed about the usage of its trademark. An update to last week's Super Wi-Fi network launch is also included.



2/2/2012 9:10:00 PM

Reviews Tom's Hardware UK

Reviews Tom's Hardware UK

Tom's Hardware UK

2/6/2012 6:21:49 PM

1 - Intel SSD 520 Review: Taking Back The High-End With SandForce
2 - In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic Failures
3 - Live From AMD's Financial Analyst Day
4 - OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, Accelerated
5 - Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s?
6 - AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review: Up Against GeForce GTX 580
7 - Picking A Sub-£160 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium?
8 - What Does One Petabyte Of Storage (And $500K) Look Like?
9 - Install A Hard Drive Or SSD In Your Notebook's Optical Bay
10 - AMD's FX-8150 After Two Windows 7 Hotfixes And UEFI Updates
11 - Best SSDs For The Money: January 2012
12 - Radeon HD 6990M And GeForce GTX 580M: A Beautiful Lie
13 - In Pictures: The Girls Of CES 2012
14 - Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Cards, Rounded-Up
15 - Mobile: Intel Will Overtake Qualcomm In Three Years
16 - In Pictures: Dear Developers, 15 Games Worthy Of A Sequel
17 - Chris Angelini On Tom's Hardware In 2012
18 - Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: January 2012
19 - Storage Performance In Entertainment And Content Creation
20 - Seven $260-$320 X79 Express Motherboards, Reviewed
21 - Power Supply Reference: Consumption, Savings, And More
22 - In Pictures: The Best Graphics Card Values In History
23 - In Pictures: 2011, A Year In Review
24 - Nokia Lumia 710 Review: Windows Phone 7 On A Budget
25 - Web Browser Grand Prix VIII: Chrome 16, Firefox 9, And Mac OS X
1 - Intel SSD 520 Review: Taking Back The High-End With SandForce

Intel SSD 520 Review: Taking Back The High-End With SandForceIf you thought that Intel had conceded the high-end SSD market to its competition, you were wrong. The company's new SSD 520 centers on SandForce's SF-2281 controller, incorporates top-bin IMFT NAND, and is protected by a five-year warranty.



2/6/2012 6:10:00 PM

2 - In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic Failures

In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic FailuresWe've endured a great many annoyances in the 16 years since Tom's Hardware first appeared online. What follows is a list of 16 of them. Although it's by no means all-inclusive, it represents one seasoned reviewer's worst experiences in technology.



2/3/2012 3:10:01 PM

3 - Live From AMD's Financial Analyst Day

Live From AMD's Financial Analyst DayWe've been waiting on AMD's Financial Analyst Day for more information on how the company plans to approach new and current businesses moving forward. Ahead of the big event, AMD pre-briefed us on the news.



2/2/2012 9:10:01 PM

4 - OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, Accelerated

OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, AcceleratedWe've been bugging AMD for years now, literally: show us what GPU-accelerated software can do. Finally, the company is ready to put us in touch with ISVs in nine different segments to demonstrate how its hardware can benefit optimized applications.



2/2/2012 7:10:00 AM

5 - Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s?

Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s?Are you mulling the potential benefit of an SSD upgrade on a system without 6 Gb/s SATA connectivity? We run the benchmarks on several different solid-state storage architectures in order to determine how much performance you give up on an older machine.



2/1/2012 7:10:00 AM

6 - AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review: Up Against GeForce GTX 580

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review: Up Against GeForce GTX 580Is the Radeon HD 7970's £450 asking price too high? AMD now has a less expensive derivative based on the same GCN architecture. At its default clock rates, it's fast enough to outrun Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580 in many benchmarks. And it overclocks like mad.



1/31/2012 7:10:01 AM

7 - Picking A Sub-£160 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium?

Picking A Sub-£160 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium?We really like to hunt down great values in the processor space. Since our last round-up of affordable CPUs, AMD released its Llano-based APUs and Bulldozer-based FX family. Also, Intel introduced a handful of Sandy Bridge-based Pentium chips.



1/30/2012 8:50:00 AM

8 - What Does One Petabyte Of Storage (And $500K) Look Like?

What Does One Petabyte Of Storage (And $500K) Look Like? We're big fans of big technology, and with more than 1 PB of capacity, Aberdeen's Petarack is sure something to marvel at. We take a look inside and figure out what it takes to deploy 1 000 terabytes of space in an enterprise environment, reliably.



1/28/2012 12:40:00 AM

9 - Install A Hard Drive Or SSD In Your Notebook's Optical Bay

Install A Hard Drive Or SSD In Your Notebook's Optical BayYou want a performance-oriented SSD in your notebook, but you also need the capacity of a hard drive. Why not just remove your optical drive, drop your hard drive into its bay, and load up a brand new SSD with Windows and your apps?



1/26/2012 7:10:00 AM

10 - AMD's FX-8150 After Two Windows 7 Hotfixes And UEFI Updates

AMD's FX-8150 After Two Windows 7 Hotfixes And UEFI UpdatesIntroducing a new processor architecture takes a colossal effort. AMD's modular Bulldozer design ran into its share of resistance at launch. Can a handful of software updates turn the company's flagship FX-8150 into the powerhouse AMD promised?



1/25/2012 7:10:00 AM

11 - Best SSDs For The Money: January 2012

Best SSDs For The Money: January 2012Welcome to the year's first SSD recommendations. We updated our list to reflect recent price drops on second-gen SandForce-based hardware. There are several good deals in the budget range. Prices are falling, so we're letting you know!



1/24/2012 7:10:00 AM

12 - Radeon HD 6990M And GeForce GTX 580M: A Beautiful Lie

Radeon HD 6990M And GeForce GTX 580M: A Beautiful LieWe’ve been more than outspoken about the naming AMD and Nvidia use for their mobile GPUs. Are they really trying to mislead buyers, though? We briefly examine their methodology and frame that against the limitations of high-end mobile computing.



1/23/2012 7:10:00 AM

13 - In Pictures: The Girls Of CES 2012

In Pictures: The Girls Of CES 2012CES 2012 was packed to the brim with new tablets and 3D display technology, but somehow exhibitors found a way to include booth models as part of their showcase. Take a peek through our picture story to see some of what we saw this year in Las Vegas.



1/20/2012 5:50:00 PM

14 - Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Cards, Rounded-Up

Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Cards, Rounded-UpWe were foiled in our quest to find the best vendor-provided GPU cooler for Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560. But out of the ashes sprung a round-up of cards armed with those very same solutions. Which of these five GF114-based boards is right for you?



1/19/2012 7:10:00 AM

15 - Mobile: Intel Will Overtake Qualcomm In Three Years

Mobile: Intel Will Overtake Qualcomm In Three YearsWe know Intel hasn't shipped any phones, while Qualcomm had over $4 billion in revenue last quarter. But when you're done reading, you'll agree with us. To do this, we'll perform a magic trick with all three acts, The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige.



1/18/2012 9:50:00 AM

16 - In Pictures: Dear Developers, 15 Games Worthy Of A Sequel

In Pictures: Dear Developers, 15 Games Worthy Of A SequelMost of the time good games get sequels. However, there's always a select few that seem to fall through the cracks. Developers close shop or trademarks get held in limbo. Here are fifteen games that we feel deserve sequels.



1/17/2012 3:20:00 PM

17 - Chris Angelini On Tom's Hardware In 2012

Chris Angelini On Tom's Hardware In 2012I just got back from CES 2012. And although I’ve attended a great many Consumer Electronics Shows, Computexes, and Comdexes (never a CeBIT), this year’s show was by far the most intense. It wasn’t that there were tons of really awesome products...



1/16/2012 8:20:01 PM

18 - Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: January 2012

Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: January 2012This month, we talk about new Llano-based APUs with unlocked core and graphics clock multipliers, Intel's upcoming Atom CPU refresh, and a few notable price adjustments. Then, we bid farewell to a few favorite processors that are quickly disappearing.



1/16/2012 7:10:00 AM

19 - Storage Performance In Entertainment And Content Creation

Storage Performance In Entertainment And Content CreationA number of metrics are used to quantify storage performance. If you're a content creator, you have to be wondering how such dry terminology can apply to your video projects. Rather than telling you, we're going to dissect several media-oriented tasks.



1/13/2012 7:10:00 AM

20 - Seven $260-$320 X79 Express Motherboards, Reviewed

Seven $260-$320 X79 Express Motherboards, Reviewed With 40 lanes of PCIe 3.0 connectivity to host all of our high-bandwidth devices, LGA 2011 certainly qualifies as a premium processor interface. Today we examine seven X79-based motherboards that offer high-end features at a more palatable price.



1/12/2012 7:10:00 AM

21 - Power Supply Reference: Consumption, Savings, And More

Power Supply Reference: Consumption, Savings, And MoreIn this final excerpt from Scott Mueller's Upgrading And Repairing PCs, 20th Edition, we examine a number of power supply usage factors including power consumption calculations, power savings, power protection systems, and troubleshooting.



1/11/2012 7:10:00 AM

22 - In Pictures: The Best Graphics Card Values In History

In Pictures: The Best Graphics Card Values In HistoryA few months ago, we published a list of the fastest, most powerful graphics cards from their respective generations. This time around we honor the sub-$200 boards that brought great gaming performance to the folks on limited budgets.



1/10/2012 3:10:02 PM

23 - In Pictures: 2011, A Year In Review

In Pictures: 2011, A Year In ReviewAnother year has come and gone. Do you remember everything that happened in 2011? Before you toss out your old calendar, we remember major events, the passing of several technology greats, and a few memorable products that made their way through our lab.



1/10/2012 3:10:01 PM

24 - Nokia Lumia 710 Review: Windows Phone 7 On A Budget

Nokia Lumia 710 Review: Windows Phone 7 On A BudgetNokia's Lumia 710 is designed to make Windows Phone 7 accessible to the masses. How does it fare under our test suite? You might be surprised. We're starting down the path of smartphone testing with a different take and a few exclusive benchmarks as well.



1/9/2012 7:10:01 AM

25 - Web Browser Grand Prix VIII: Chrome 16, Firefox 9, And Mac OS X

Web Browser Grand Prix VIII: Chrome 16, Firefox 9, And Mac OS XBack in August, Mozilla took the WBGP crown with Firefox 7. Can Firefox 9 retain that title? And how are the top Web browsers doing in Mac OS X? We used a Hackintosh last time. This time, we're testing on the world's first Ultrabook, the MacBook Air.



1/6/2012 7:10:00 AM

 


 

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