Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

"There is no bottom for Phenom II that we've been able to find yet," said Simon Solotko, a senior manager in Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD's desktop division, explaining that overclockers using exotic ...

"We should start seeing [AM3 boards] in the channel around Feb. 20," said Robert Pearce, senior technical marketing specialist at Corsair Memory. AMD's Phenom II lineup now includes five ...

We'd like to cover a few final data points before bringing this article to a close. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored how much power our test systems consumed using a power ...

I recently upgraded and rebuilt my desktop PC into a HTPC case, re-using the existing CPU, motherboard, RAM, and video card. I replaced the case, power supply, hard drive, added a BD-ROM/DVDRW combo ...

But we doubt enthusiasts will be swayed by numbers until the overclocking results are in. Coaxing out extra speed by adding 10 per cent to various lines and raising the core frequency until Prime95 ...