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Article | 6/07/2010 A guide to Intel's Core processor family

For many of us computer users, a PC's CPU – or central processing unit – is an unseen device that we know little about. We’re bamboozled by numbers an...

Article | 2/07/2010 15 crazy PC case mods

Case mods: Few may do them, but many gawk at the crazy creations coming out of enthusiasts' basements, garages, factories, and laboratories. These mad...

Article | 11/06/2010 What's in a smartphone processor? Increasingly a lot

Whenever a hot new smartphone hits the market, one of the key specifications techies look at is its processor, which is primarily responsible for runn...

Article | 8/06/2010 The Aussies are coming! -- Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010

Australian overclocking fanatics crowded into Kingpin Bowling at Darling Harbour, Sydney, to watch master overclockers push their hardware to the limi...

Article | 26/05/2010 The 10 best hacks of 2010 (so far)

In honor of Towel Day, and the Glorious 25th of May, here are ten of our most favorite hacks featured in Geek Tech in the last five months, running th...

Article | 3/04/2010 Alienware's M11x Laptop Easy to Take With You

If you're a PC gamer sick of lugging around an oversized monster with awful battery life just to play games, Alienware's M11x is your salvation. This ...

Article | 27/03/2010 First Look: Nvidia GeForce GTX 480

Is the GeForce GTX 480 fashionably late, or just plain late? ATI has been tooting the DirectX 11 horn for quite some time now, while their competitors...

Article | 22/03/2010 Top 10 most insane PC case mods

From some very talented people come some awesome and some very weird PC case designs

Article | 19/03/2010 Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises

With chip makers continuing to increase the number of cores they include on each new generation of their processors, perhaps it's time to rethink the ...

Article | 13/03/2010 Newegg: Get your fake Intel CPUs here

This story is just too wild to ignore: It seems Newegg has quite a bit of old egg on its face this week after it shipped customers "counterfeit" Intel...

Article | 12/03/2010 Intel Core i7-980X: when four cores aren't enough

Intel has announced its latest Extreme Edition processor, the Core i7-980X. Like the recently released 2010 Clarkdale lineup, the i7-980X (previously ...

Article | 12/03/2010 Intel wins top spots in SSD storage drive ranking

Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSDs), in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pillo...

Article | 9/03/2010 Four reasons to beware fake Intel CPUs

Reports have been circulating that online retailer Newegg sold as many as 300 counterfeit Intel Core i7 processors. The inferior packaging, blatant sp...

Article | 26/02/2010 Speccy public beta gives geeky system details

Want to get the rundown on every aspect of your system hardware? Speccy (free public beta) gives so much detailed, technical information about hardwar...

Article | 20/02/2010 Meet Magic-1, the homemade CPU

Have you ever wanted to build your own minicomputer, but felt restricted by the available selection of microprocessors? You may remember Magic-1, the ...

Article | 12/02/2010 Best deals of the week: 12 February

Check out some of the great tech bargains we've rounded up.

Article | 10/02/2010 Nvidia unveils Optimus switchable graphics technology

Does your laptop have switchable graphics? You know, both an integrated graphics chip that sips energy and gives you long battery life along with a di...

Article | 2/02/2010 Intel, Micron introduce 25nm NAND flash production

2010 will go down as the year flash storage goes mainstream. Intel-Micron Flash Technologies -- a Lehi, Utah-based joint venture from the two companie...

Article | 22/01/2010 Vendors come out in force to support Intel's Core CPU launch

Intel yesterday had a fancy launch for its Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs. With over a dozen vendors on hand to showcase their latest laptops, PCs ...

Article | 13/01/2010 Mobile Snapdragon chip to hit 1.5Ghz, dual-core in 2010

Reactions to the Nexus One have been mixed now that the hardware is out, but one place that surely isn't lacking is the Snapdragon processor. With a 1...

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