pc components in pictures

• 

  15 crazy PC case mods

• PRODUCTS: latest from OpenText, Kaspersky, Western Digital, and Cooler Master

  By Nermin Bajric | 07 May, 2012 13:52

  News in mobility enterprise solutions, security for SharePoint, hard drives, and gaming mice.

• PRODUCTS: latest from LogMeIn, Western Digital, SolarWinds, HP, and CommVault

  By Nermin Bajric | 24 April, 2012 11:07

  Cloud and mobility service, power-wise hard drive, virtualisation management, and CRM.

• The low-down on Intel's 3D tri-gate transistor

  By Glenn Howlett | 23 May, 2011 08:49

  Intel has announced that its future processor generations will be based upon a completely new transistor design known as the 3D tri-gate transistor.

• TI buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion

  By Agam Shah | 05 April, 2011 09:10

  Texas Instruments on Monday announced it has agreed to acquire semiconductor company National Semiconductor for US$6.5 billion in an all-cash transaction.

• New tech boosts processor's "IQ"

  By Megan Geuss | 03 March, 2011 08:55

  The problem with the smartphones, laptops, and tablets of our day is that the tools are multifunctional, but the energy that powers them can’t be divided up by function. Well, until now. Harvard graduate student Wonyoung Kim has unveiled a prototype device that could change the way that processing chips receive power, and eventually lead to slimmer smart-tools, and longer lasting batteries.

• AMD puts Fusion processors into embedded systems

  By Agam Shah | 20 January, 2011 04:08

  Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced Fusion processors for embedded systems as it tries to put its chips in new devices such as set-top boxes and small form factor PCs.

• Casemod adds a projector

  By Jason Kennedy | 19 January, 2011 02:23

  When Lenovo had its recent Mod Contest, modder Boddaker submitted this gem: A Lenovo A700 IdeaCentre PC with an HD projector built in underneath. The A700 itself is an all-in-one desktop PC with a 23-inch widescreen LCD and slot-loading Blu-ray drive. The projector is attached to the bottom of the unit, so the whole thing can be used as a chalkboard projected onto a wall, among countless other things.

• Lower prices to hurt DRAM vendors this year

  By Agam Shah | 13 January, 2011 08:31

  A huge decline in memory prices could hurt DRAM vendors this year, with overall revenue projected to decline by 11.8 percent in 2011, research firm IHS iSuppli said in a study released Wednesday.

• ARM CEO: PC market not our target

  By Agam Shah | 12 January, 2011 05:41

  Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS would work on the ARM architecture. ARM processors go into most of the world's smartphones and tablets, and with Windows support, the company can now focus on the wider market for PCs, where it has virtually no presence. Nvidia also announced that it was building its first ARM-based chip, code-named Denver, for PCs and servers.

• What's new in PC components

  By James Mulroy | 11 January, 2011 02:35

  The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't just all tablet, cameras, and laptops; there's plenty of news for the PC component geek, too, ranging from tiny flash drives that pack a lot of heat to the hand-held gaming console.

• Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?

  By Robert X. Cringely | 08 January, 2011 09:25

  Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forward progress only by hip-deep mounds of tablet PCs. Everyone appears to be tapping, swiping, and gesturing on some kind of sleek black touch-sensitive device, when they're not squinting at blurry 3D screens waiting for their turn with the polarized glasses.

• AMD Radeon HD 6800 series is the new midrange graphics champ

  By Jason Cross | 04 November, 2010 11:31

  With the release of the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards, AMD delivers fantastic value for the average PC gamer.

• 15 crazy PC case mods

  By David Murphy | 02 July, 2010 16:04

  Case mods: Few may do them, but many gawk at the crazy creations coming out of enthusiasts' basements, garages, factories, and laboratories. These mad scientists of the PC world strive to find new ways to present a common computer in a unique--and often awesome--light.

• The 10 best hacks of 2010 (so far)

  By Alessondra Springmann | 26 May, 2010 03:14

  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 the gambit from phone, car, and CPU mods. Read on for some great moments in geek!

• Newegg: Get your fake Intel CPUs here

  By Robert X. Cringely | 13 March, 2010 10:30

  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 CPUs that were more like movie props than actual working electronics.

• Arm CEO: Intel far behind in smartphone market

  By Agam Shah | 13 January, 2010 08:25

  For more than a decade Arm Holdings has designed chips that have powered mobile handsets and smartphones like Apple's iPhone. The company now faces a challenger in Intel, which recently demonstrated a smartphone, LG Electronics' GW990, based on its upcoming Moorestown platform.