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10 articles tagged as watt

A Plague Tale: Innocence Review

Rats abound in medieval France in this gripping, stunningly made third-person adventure.

May 17, 2019 | 19:15

Rage 2 Review

Rage 2 is a disappointing open-world game rescued by tremendous combat.

May 15, 2019 | 15:30

Intel CPUs hit by four more security flaws

Patch, or disable HT, now.

May 15, 2019 | 10:44

Energy Efficient Hardware Investigated

How green are green products? We evaluate the benefits, or lack of them, in new "low power" and "energy efficient" hardware to see what makes the biggest difference to the power drawn from your wall socket.

February 24, 2010 | 08:46

BFG MX Series 550W PSU

Made by popular graphics card company BFG, the MX550 might provide some modular competition to the OCZ ModXStream Pro, Corsair VX550W and HX520W power supplies. We dive in to find out if it's any good.

May 21, 2009 | 09:51

First Look: Seasonic M12D 850W PSU

Seasonic breaks its own mould with the highest power unit it has ever launched. That's not what's special though - the ultra high quality fan and 80Plus Silver efficiency rating could very well raise the PSU bar again.

January 4, 2009 | 09:10

Intel Core i7 CPU and Platform Value

With everything else tested, we put our math cap on and cracked out the calculators to work out which platform is the best punt for your pound. Does the supreme Core i7 performance warrant the extra cost it demands? Read on to find out!

November 11, 2008 | 12:08

Corsair announces new products ahead of CeBIT

UPDATED: Corsair has announced new additions to its power supply, DDR2 and DDR3 product lines ahead of CeBIT next week.

February 28, 2008 | 15:12

Antec makes new cases, PSUs

COMPUTEX 2007: Antec shows us two new cases, including an new P180 with all the great features the old one had, but this one got shrunk in the wash.

June 8, 2007 | 02:03

When will we have enough Wattage?

COMPUTEX 2007: 1000W, 2000W? When will we have enough? We talked to Thermaltake, Silverstone and BeQuiet about their latest products for power hungry boxes.

June 7, 2007 | 01:23

Performance per what?

Many manufacturers have started to use the term "Performance per Watt" in an effort to draw attention away from increasing power requirements. Tim Smalley thinks it's time these manufacturers started focusing on lower power consumption before this obsession gets out of hand.

May 20, 2007 | 18:22

700W to 850W PSU Group Test

PSUs are one of the most essential but least understood components of any computer system. We thoroughly tested six 700W to 850W PSUs to discover exactly what you should let near your expensive components and the results proved somewhat surprising.

May 10, 2007 | 12:04

Staring at the sun

Technology progression, particularly for graphics cards, is getting faster and faster - and the power supply outputs needed to run them are getting higher and higher. Brett Thomas is getting a little fed up with this computerised version of the space race - how about we make earth a little prettier?

January 25, 2007 | 10:43