12/10: New Commodore GX
The Commodore gaming extreme takes your frag count to a whole new level with this high performance beast. Driven by Intel's Core™2 quad processor Q6600 and an ASUS® P5N32-E NVIDIA® nForce® 680i SLI™ motherboard, there's not much that can match up to its sheer processing power.
Features
This is the starting point of what's inside the Commodore gx. Most parts are customisable.
*Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q6600: 2.4 GHz 8MB Cache
*ASUS® P5N32-E NVIDIA® nForce® 680i SLI™ motherboard
*2x 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Raid 0 hard drive
*2GB Corsair™ XMS2 Twin2x2048-6400C4 memory: 800MHz
*DVDRW optical drive
*750W ICE Cube power supply
*On Board Integrated Hi Definition 7.1 Channel sound
*2x NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTS 640MB graphics card
*Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate operating system
Features
This is the starting point of what's inside the Commodore gx. Most parts are customisable.
*Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q6600: 2.4 GHz 8MB Cache
*ASUS® P5N32-E NVIDIA® nForce® 680i SLI™ motherboard
*2x 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Raid 0 hard drive
*2GB Corsair™ XMS2 Twin2x2048-6400C4 memory: 800MHz
*DVDRW optical drive
*750W ICE Cube power supply
*On Board Integrated Hi Definition 7.1 Channel sound
*2x NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTS 640MB graphics card
*Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate operating system
10/10: Microsoft Surface
After years of covert development, Microsoft says it will release a computer that uses the tabletop as its high-resolution display, recognizes objects placed on the surface and skips the traditional keyboard and mouse in favor of fingers on the screen.
Whether it's gaming, digital photography, or video editing, today's high-impact entertainment demands breakthrough technology. Get the unrivaled multi-core performance of the new Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors.
Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor
When more is better—with four processing cores the Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6850 is a multitasking monster delivering significantly more performance for highly-threaded apps.
* 8 MB of L2 cache
* 1333 MHz front-side bus
Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great - that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget.
So if you don't have the time to research the benchmarks, or if you don't feel confident enough in your ability to make the right decision, fear not. We at Tom's Hardware Guide have come to your aid with a simple list of the best gaming cards offered for the money.
So if you don't have the time to research the benchmarks, or if you don't feel confident enough in your ability to make the right decision, fear not. We at Tom's Hardware Guide have come to your aid with a simple list of the best gaming cards offered for the money.
10/10: GeForce 8800
The pace at which new technologies come to market is at an all time high; if you plan on keeping up with the progress, then you cannot stay with the same gear.
10/10: Athlon X2 BE-2350
It is almost incredible to watch the recent price drops in the processor segment. You can get an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ for as little as $80, and only the 6000+ top model exceeds $200.
Disparities in the capacities of notebooks hard drives are widening. Samsung and Western Digital have both begun to offer 250 GB notebook hard drives, for example. However, although Samsung told us that its SpinPoint M5S has been shipping for a couple of weeks, it is Western Digital's 250 GB Scorpio drive that arrived at our storage test lab first. And it's one hell of a hard drive.
More and more users and small businesses store their data on external storage devices or NAS boxes, because it's more flexible when there isn't a dedicated fileserver. However, storing digital assets, project files, accounting information, user data or other important files doesn't end with copying contents onto a hard drive based storage product.
If you're looking to buy a new system or a new processor, then you've come to the right place. A lot has been going on in the market, though Core 2 Duo is still the best choice, and AMD still has no technology to fight back. Its quad-core processor called Phenom is positioned to be a show-stopper - we will see. Then again, we've seen substantial price cuts that put even high-end processors at prices below $200. It's time to have another look around.
09/10: Parallel Processing
The race for more performance in the processor segment can only be won by manufacturers who focus on a reasonable balance of clock speed and processing units, based on the existing manufacturing technology.