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Gigabyte Radeon 5830 Review
With dual fans and copper heatpipes, Gigabyte's Radeon 5830 board is designed for enthusiasts who value excellent cooling. See how this board performs and overclocks in today's review!
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EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Superclocked Review
If you're one of NVIDIA's board partners, how do you improve upon the GeForce GTX 460 GPU? If you're EVGA, you OC the board, add a lifetime warranty with their Trade Up program, and bundle the card with killer utilities for OC'ing and stress testing your graphics card...And don't forget a free game. See how the board fares in today's review!
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Performance Preview
Priced from $199-$229, the GeForce GTX 460 cards brings NVIDIA's Fermi architecture to new price points. And armed with 336 CUDA Cores, 7 PolyMorph Engines for tessellation, and high clocks, it doesn't disappoint when it comes to performance...and power or GPU temps. See how the board performs in comparison to cards ranging from the GeForce 8800 GTS to the Radeon 5830 in 3D gaming, PhysX, and 3D Vision in today's article!
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Crank That S#!T Up! Contest
Interested in winning a liquid-cooled, 3-Way SLI GeForce GTX 480 Maingear PC with 22" 3D display? We've partnered with NVIDIA and Maingear to bring one lucky FiringSquad reader this top-of-the-line system. Benchmarks and pictures inside!
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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Performance
Intel is no longer the only game in town if you want a 6-core desktop CPU. The Phenom II X6 1090T packs six cores in a highly overclockable package that sells for less than $300. The CPU also features AMD's Turbo Core technology, which can OC the CPU's cores by up to 400MHz. See how it fares against the similarly-priced CPUs from Intel in today's article!
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ATI Radeon 5870 3-Way Roundup
In the market for a new Radeon 5870 card? If so, you'll definitely want to check out today's article. Inside we've got three factory OC'ed 5870 cards from MSI, Gigabyte, and HIS. The Gigabyte board is OC'ed to extraordinary speeds, while MSI's Lightning card features 15-phase power and dual 8-pin power connectors. Finally, the HIS board combines custom cooling with high clock speeds. See how the boards compare to each other and the ATI reference design inside!
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Gigabyte P55/X58 Budget USB 3.0 Motherboard Roundup
If you don't want to wait until late 2011 to experience USB 3.0 today with the Intel platform, you'll have to spring for one of the new X58 or P55 motherboards with NEC's USB 3.0 controller built-in. Fortunately Gigabyte offers a wide range of boards with this feature, and even 6Gb/sec SATA also. In today's article we take a look at Gigabyte's budget offerings for both chipsets. With prices starting as low as $120 on the P55 and $210 for X58, Gigabyte's boards are quite affordable. But are compromises made in the process? See how these boards fare in today's review!
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ATI Radeon 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition First Impressions
6 display gaming is here with today's arrival of the Radeon 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition. Packing 2GB of memory and 6 mini-DP outputs, ATI says the card is capable of pushing more than 1 billion pixels/sec. But how does it fare in games? Read on for our first impressions!
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480/GTX 470 Performance Preview
NVIDIA's finally pulling the wraps off GeForce GTX 480. The final board features 480 rather than 512 cores, but still delivers blazing performance in today's latest games. See how it and the GTX 470 stack up against the Radeon 5800 and tons of other GPUs inside!
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ASUS P55 Motherboard Roundup
With motherboards that are capable of overclocking themselves -- simply press a button and walk away -- or motherboards that can be OC'ed remotely from your laptop, ASUS' P55 motherboard lineup is certainly OC friendly for enthusiasts. But there's lots to like besides OC'ing. Join us as we do our best to cover all the unique features these boards bring to the table!
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Building a Core i7-920 Gaming Rig
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Winter 2009 PC Buyer's Guide
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XBOX 360: Back to the Future
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Tritton AX Pro 5.1 Gaming Headset Review
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MSI GX630 Review
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NVIDIA's 3D Vision
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Windows 7 Beta Gaming Performance: XP vs Vista vs 7
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Windows 7 Beta: First Impressions
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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Performance
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Intel Core i7-980X Performance Preview: 6-Core Processing Arrives
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AMD's New Year CPUs: Athlon II X4 635, Athlon II X3 440, Athlon II X2 255, & Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition Tested
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Intel Core i5-661 'Clarkdale' Performance Preview
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Phenom II Gets A New Revision: 125W AMD Phenom II X4 965 Performance Preview
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AMD Athlon II X3 435/Athlon II X2 240e Performance Preview
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AMD Athlon II X4 630 and 620 'Propus' Performance Preview
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Intel's Core i7/Core i5 'Lynnfield' Processors
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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Performance Preview
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Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition/Core i7-950 Performance Preview
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Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 Quick Shot
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Review
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Gigabyte P55/X58 Budget USB 3.0 Motherboard Roundup
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ASUS P55 Motherboard Roundup
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Gigabyte's GA-890GPA-UD3H: AMD-890GX Arrives
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Gigabyte USB 3.0 Boards Compared: P55A-UD6 and X58A-UD7
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Gigabyte P55 Lynnfield-ready Motherboard Roundup
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EVGA P55 FTW Review
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ASUS Crosshair III Formula Review
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Gigabyte AM3 Motherboard Roundup
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ASUS Rampage II Gene Review
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Sapphire PURE CrossFireX 790GX Review
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Astro Gaming A40 Audio System
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ASUS Xonar Essence STX Review
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ASUS Blu-Ray BC-1205PT QuickShot
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The End of the Blu-ray/HD-DVD War
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ATI/AMD TV Wonder 650 Review
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DRM in the BitTorrent and Broadband Age
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SteelSound 5H V2 Review
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Insignia NS-B2111 6.5'' Bookshelf Speaker Review
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Build Your Own HTPC
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Improving your PC's stereo playback on a budget
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Battle of the Gaming Audio Titans: Creative Labs vs. NVIDIA
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EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Superclocked Review
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Performance Preview
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ATI Radeon 5870 3-Way Roundup
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ATI Radeon 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition First Impressions
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480/GTX 470 Performance Preview
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ATI Radeon HD 5830 Performance Preview
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Sapphire Radeon 5850 Toxic Review
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ATI Radeon HD 5570 Performance Preview
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