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- TR's 10th: Grand-prize winner announced
We've been celebrating our 10-year anniversary all week with an epic series of giveaways, with prizes totaling over $8000 in value, all told. And we've chosen winners for just about everything, except for the big enchilada, the top-dawg prize: a bevy...
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Last by Forge at 6:16 PM on 11/16/09 - TR's 10th: The rise of cheap, ultraportable computing
Although I had numerous PCs growing up, my first real enthusiast's rig not solely dedicated to hardware testing was built around a pair of Pentium III 700MHz processors overclocked to 933MHz. I don't remember exactly how much memory the system had, but it surely wasn't more than 512MB. ...
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Last by UberGerbil at 2:50 PM on 11/14/09 - TR's 10th: The morphing motherboard market, more winners
Motherboards have been my beat since the very beginning here at TR. They made up most of my first reviews and the bulk of products to pass through the Benchmarking Sweatshop ever since. Decent enthusiast boards were hard to find back in the day, with few offering meaningful...
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Last by Lone at 9:10 AM on 11/17/09 - Remembering the Gotbyte incident
During this celebration of our 10th anniversary, it seems only fitting to look back on a fun episode from our long-ago past. Back when the Pentium 4 was the new hotness, only not quite the hotness it became with Prescott at 90 nm, we featured a review of...
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Last by AmishRakeFight at 6:02 PM on 11/18/09 - TR's 10th: The dawn of solid-state storage, yet more winners revealed
These days, mechanical storage has gotten so dense and so cheap that only $30-40 separates 500GB 3.5" hard drives from their 1TB brethren. Yet strangely, that's not what everybody is getting excited about. Solid-state drives have become the new...
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Last by indeego at 11:40 AM on 11/12/09 - TR's 10th: The evolution of overclocking, more winners chosen
As we look back on ten years of TR, it's fascinating to see how hallmarks of the enthusiast community have changed over the past decade. Take overclocking, for example. Back in the day, overclocking was a black...
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Last by Ransom at 1:54 PM on 11/13/09 - TR's 10th: Rise of the GPU, first winners chosen
One funny thing about our history as a site over the past ten years is that, as we've grown up, so have the chips we've covered. That's especially true in the case of the GPU. When we first started...
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Last by adam1378 at 7:59 PM on 11/10/09 - Announcing TR's 10th anniversary giveaway
On November 8, 2009, The Tech Report will be ten years old. Can you believe it? TR has grown from a part-time hobby into a in-depth resource on PC hardware producing daily news and multiple articles each week, complete with...
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Last by cocobongo_tm at 4:37 PM on 11/12/09 - Etc.
Those of you who don't visit every day will want to check the site more frequently over the next little while. We're hitting a significant milestone and celebrating it with substantial goodness. Couldn't be more vague, could I? Yet it's all true, whatever it is. You'll have to check back...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 11:14 AM on 11/05/09 - Etc.
If you don't frequent our forums, you may have missed the announcement of Asus's Xtreme Design contest. This is something a little bit different: a PC design and building contest. The first stage is design only—explain what sort of unique system you would build with the latest components. Try...
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Last by Bensam123 at 10:48 AM on 11/02/09 - Tech Share moves forward thanks to large donation
Earlier this year we shared how the students at Ebenezer Educational Center have been able to spend some time with the Eee PCs you helped us procure and ship half way around the globe. Although they've been using them on an occasional basis, daily access was not...
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Last by FireGryphon at 5:01 AM on 10/30/09 - Etc.
Morning all. You may have noticed that there are reviews of the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 around the web this morning. I've been hard at work on our review for the past week, but I just ran out of gas late last night and wasn't able to generate enough...
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Last by FireGryphon at 6:34 PM on 10/14/09 - Chance to win a Core i7 gaming PC
Intel and a couple of its system-building partners are going out of their way to make this week's launch extra special. CyberPower and iBuypower are giving away a handful of well-outfitted PCs based on the new Core i7-870 CPUs. The best news is that one of these systems...
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Last by khands at 11:10 AM on 11/06/09 - Gearing up for Lynnfield and Win7
The advent of new mainstream CPUs from Intel and a major (and promising) new release of Windows has us reworking all of our CPU test rigs in Damage Labs, in preparation for a busy period of testing. After using the same basic hardware and software on...
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Last by Clint Torres at 6:31 PM on 08/31/09 - Etc.
I will be taking suggestions for the Friday Night Topic throughout the day. Just click my name below the headline up there to email me your ideas. Remember, we are looking for a topic of discussion, properly framed as a question, designed to tease out responses of many types, not...
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Last by A_Pickle at 3:20 PM on 08/15/09 - FNT: Our Wikipedia page is pretty sad
Ok, so here's something a little off topic that might make for an interesting evening's worth of activity as the Friday Night Topic returns to action. I just noticed the other day that we have a Wikipedia page and that it's, uh, not that great. I mean, somebody went...
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Last by clone at 12:57 PM on 08/11/09 - Etc.
Our weekly off-topic discussion, the Friday Night Topic, has taken a pretty long hiatus. That's mainly because I ran out of topics. Thinking of something stimulating to discuss that won't erupt into a raging flame war while I'm enjoying my Friday evening grows increasingly difficult with time, especially since politics...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 12:33 PM on 08/09/09 - Work at TR: Sysadmin and web developer needed
We're ready to make an addition or two to the TR staff. Our long-time sysadmin and web developer has decided to move on, and we need to replace him with one or two people, depending on their skill sets. On the sysadmin front, we need someone familiar with Linux (specifically...
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Last by Trymor at 2:22 PM on 08/10/09
- Upcoming microATX MSI H57 motherboard pictured[23]
- Internet Explorer 9 to feature GPU acceleration[19]
- Deal of the week: A $550 ultraportable and a $225 home server[20]
- Name Your PC Day Shortbread[25]
- Chrome OS VMware image pops up on BitTorrent[19]
- Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server arrives next week[14]
