Into a new era
Sixteen years ago, we fired up a modest web server session and began posting news items about the latest in PC tech and gaming. Over time, that little fly-by-night endeavor grew to become something bigger and better than anything we could anticipate—a full-time job for a number of very sharp people and a publication that produced some of the finest in-depth articles and reviews in the PC hardware space. We were able to build something unique, something that hadn't existed yet in print magazines or elsewhere, a place where community interaction fed our own ambitions to provide smarter testing, imaginative writing, and instant accountability. I'm very proud of what The Tech Report has become, and I'm happy to to have cataloged the incredible progress of an industry that has improbably made dreams come true for a generation of early PC enthusiasts. I'm especially pleased that we've been able to track that progress with an empirical approach to testing that attempts to capture a sense of the user experience.
Some months ago, I got a phone call from Raja Koduri, who heads up the
newly formed Radeon Technologies Group at AMD. Raja asked me if I'd be
interested in coming to work at AMD, to help implement the
frame-time-based testing methods for game performance that I've
championed here at TR. In talking with Raja, I came to see that he has a
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FirePro W4300 puts four Mini DisplayPorts in tiny workstations
AMD has announced the FirePro W4300, a low-profile workstation graphics card aimed at small-form-factor professional PCs. Outside of the low-profile form factor, this card has a lot in common with the W5100. Both cards have GPUs with 768 stream processors good for 1.4 teraflops, backed with 4GB of GDDR5 memory that can provide 96 GB/s of bandwidth.
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Phanteks' Dual System case kit can house a two-headed monster
Phanteks' Power Splitter accessory already lets modders power two systems from one PSU, but the company is making it even easier for the average builder to put two PCs in one case. The Enthoo Mini XL Dual System kit includes a slightly modified Enthoo Mini XL case, the Power Splitter, and parts that allow builders to put a Mini-ITX mobo alongside a microATX board in the case's main chamber.
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Vulnerable Dell utility could let attackers learn all about a target PC
Looks like Dell is on a roll, and not the good kind. After the company's recent Superfishy root CA problem, security researchers are now finding holes in Dell's Foundation Services support software. According to the company, this software "provides a core set of foundational services facilitating customer serviceability, messaging, and support functions."
Last week, the LizardHQ security research team disclosed a vulnerability in Foundation Services version 2.3.3800.0A00, which allowed a remote attacker to determine a device's Service Tag . That tag could ...
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Thinkpad P40 Yoga lets 3D and graphics pros get flexible
Lenovo is taking its Yoga classes very seriously. The company has just released a new convertible workstation targeted at graphic and CAD designers. Take a look at the company's latest asana, the Thinkpad P40.
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HGST's helium-filled 10TB hard drive floats into datacenters
Ten freakin' terrabytes—that's what HGST is packing in a single hard drive now. The Western Digital subsidiary has announced that it's started shipping the Ultrastar He10, a helium-filled hard drive that uses perpendicular magnetic recording to pack that 10TB of storage into a single 3.5" chassis.
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