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Halo: Reach PC Review

Halo Reach is a solid PC port and remains a decent shooter, although it has dated more than we expected.

December 6, 2019 | 21:00

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Super Gaming OC Review

Triple-fan cooler, mild overclock, basic RGB - worth it over Founders?

December 4, 2019 | 12:00

bit-tech Mod of the Year 2019 in Association with Corsair - Nominate your Favourite Mods!

Who do you think deserves the crown for 2019?

December 4, 2019 | 09:00

A-Data launches SATA 6Gb/sec SSDs

A-Data has launched its latest SSD range, featuring a Marvell-based SATA 6Gb/sec controller.

December 20, 2010 | 10:07

Intel updates SSD toolkit

Intel has released a new version of its SSD Toolkit with performance-enhancing features.

September 13, 2010 | 10:39

Mac SSD performance and TRIM in OSX

TRIM is vital to ensuring SSDs maintain performance over time - but does OS X support it?

July 1, 2010 | 08:23

Kingston claims Intel kept TRIM to itself

Kingston explains its SSD naming and why it offered no TRIM on its 40GB SSDs.

June 10, 2010 | 15:53

Intel release TRIM for RAID

Intel has released the latest version of its Rapid Storage Driver, which brings TRIM support to SSDs in a RAID array - although not, for some reason, RAID 5.

March 23, 2010 | 14:34

Kingston won't provide firmware updates for recent SSDs

March 16, 2010 | 10:21

G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB SSD Review

G.Skill has taken a new version of the Indilinx Barefoot drive controller and paired it with Intel 32nm NAND flash to make the Falcon 2. Boasting claimed speeds of 220/110MB/s read/write, we've found its performance is surprising!

March 15, 2010 | 10:43

Hardware Podcast 10 - All Praise the Capital of Hardwareland

March 1, 2010 | 12:20

Why You Need TRIM For Your SSD

SSDs promise blazing fast access times and data transfer speeds - but many SSDs suffer from horrendous performance degradation over time. The answer is TRIM: we take a look at SSD performance to find out why the latest, TRIM-enabled drive firmwares are crucial updates.

February 4, 2010 | 08:29

When three storms collide

August 17, 2009 | 15:53

G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD Review

The SSD market has been really hotting up lately, and today we're looking at another contender in the form of the G.Skill Falcon. Sporting the same drive architecture as the OCZ Vertex while costing a lot less, is this the SSD you're upgrade's been waiting for?

June 24, 2009 | 11:38