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The Hardware Behind Overdrive November 18, 2008 – 4:10 AM – Tweaking & Tuning
Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to ... Read more

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Team USA Emerges In Round One of Overdrive November 17, 2008 – 6:00 AM – Tweaking & Tuning
After a long weekend of intense benchmarking with nearly 1,300 liters of liquid nitrogen, one team emerged victorious. They’re on their way to ... Read more

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Tom's OC Competition: LN2 Craziness November 9, 2008 – 7:50 PM – Motherboards
We're approaching the bottom of all eight tanks of our liquid nitrogen today. Check out some of pictures from the final day of competition! Read more
Tom's OC Competition: Mid-day Pics November 9, 2008 – 6:50 PM – Power Supplies
Check out mid-day pictures from our overclocking competition! Read more
System Builder Marathon: Performance & Value October 31, 2008 – 12:40 AM – Build Your Own
Three dramatically different builds face off in a show of performance, defining the real value of each. Our mainstream system is designed to meet ... Read more
System Builder Marathon: $500 Gaming PC October 30, 2008 – 12:40 AM – Build Your Own
For the second to last day of our System Builder Marathon series, we add a $500 gaming PC to the mix. It's not going to be as quick as our other ... Read more
Tom's SBM: The $1,500 Mainstream PC October 29, 2008 – 2:20 AM – Build Your Own
We're following up yesterday's $4,500 behemoth with a more affordable $1,500 mid-range build. Let's see what sort of performance (and ... Read more
System Builder Marathon: The $4,500 Super PC October 28, 2008 – 1:40 AM – Build Your Own
This month's System Builder Marathon spreads the system prices out even further to $4,500, $1,500, and $500. Is today’s $4,500 system really ... Read more
Can Your Old Athlon 64 Still Game? October 24, 2008 – 1:40 AM – Tweaking & Tuning
We'd all love to upgrade every time a new piece of gaming hardware drops, but that's an expensive proposition. You think your Athlon 64 system is ... Read more
Interview: Bigfoot's Killer NIC, Exposed October 2, 2008 – 6:20 PM – Build Your Own
Since its release, the Killer NIC has garnered a reputation for being an extravagant and largely unnecessary add-on for the do-it-yourselfer. ... Read more
We Interview EFiX Creators: OS X on PC September 22, 2008 – 3:50 PM – Modding
The EFiX makes it possible to install Leopard, unhacked, on a PC. We find out how from the masterminds themselves. Read more
Who Says You Need Four Cores? August 19, 2008 – 3:00 AM – Build Your Own
AMD and Intel are both pushing their quad-core offerings as the key to better system performance, but do you really need to spend the money on ... Read more
MSI Overclocking Challenge: French Final August 7, 2008 – 2:50 AM – Tweaking & Tuning
When pushed to extreme limits, overclocking can become a sport in its own right, and the team that set the world overclocking record last ... Read more
The Apple Mac Cost Misconception August 4, 2008 – 11:20 AM – Build Your Own
Let's settle the myth about Macs being more expensive. Read more
Why I Went Mac But Still Keep My PC July 28, 2008 – 6:50 AM – Build Your Own
Macs have come a very long way and can pretty much do everything a Windows PC can Apple says. So why do I still have a PC right beside me? Read more

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