Tom's Hardware

Usually, green hardware means you're giving up performance in order to cut back on power consumption. But Western Digital's second-generation Green Power drive changes all of that.

Welcome to part four of our Holiday Gift Guide coverage. This time around, the Tom's Hardware staff picks its favorite components for your wish list rounding out 2008.

With Team USA's winning scores in its sights, the German teams battled it out for the chance to compete in our world final even later this month.

Recent price drops have made 4 GB DDR2 dual-channel kits affordable for even the most cost-conscious buyers. We pushed nine models to their limits to determine best value for a broad range of users.

It's Thanksgiving, so to go along with turkey dinner leftovers are the last week's hottest news!

We tightened the budget on this month’s enthusiast-level system while loosening our belt for the low-cost gamer box by a similar percentage. Today we gauge the effect of these changes on performance and value and compare to last month's machines.

On this, the second day of our System Builder Marathon, Don turns down the price tag of his mid-range build looking for a sweet spot just above the $1,000 marker. Let's see what sort of hardware he found for it!

This month's System Builder Marathon is all about your feedback to us. We've revamped our entry-level and mid-range PCs with new price points. Let's kick things off with what we think is the best value at a $625 price point!

Where were we in 2008 and where are we heading in 2009? In his State of the Personal Computer address, Alan Dang shares his insights as a user of three different platforms: Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Flash-based drives take the performance segment by storm, but the good old hard drive still provides the best bang for the buck as capacities reach 1.5 terabytes. We scanned all the available offerings and found the best drives for winter 2008.

The week that was includes Wrath of the Lich King, Core i7 desktops, new iPhone firmware, Jerry Yang and a chance to win $50!

Atom is geared for low-cost, low-power netbooks and nettops, while the device is a poor choice for desktop PC applications. We show you why Core 2 is better, and give some guidance on how to pick the best power supply for your low-power application.

A few days ago we were lucky enough to visit Seagate's Springtown, Ireland factory, where it manufactures 80% of its read/write heads. We'll show you some of what we saw there and explain how a hard drive head comes to be.

Not only do we have four super-fast Radeon HD 4870 X2s to test, but also a list of 31 other graphics configurations including CrossFire and SLI setups. If you're in the market for AMD's fastest card available, you'll want to see this.

Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to supersonic speeds in a bid for a shot at $5,000.