Hard Drive Optimization Tips and Tricks : Intro. Slideshow: Intel Processors Over the Years - 1971: 4004. Moore’s Law In Pictures: An Illustrated History of the Microprocessor - Paving The Way To Sandy Bridge. A Visual History of Cryptography and Encryption - Introduction. Part 1: 20 Crazy And Unique Case Mods - Leela From Futurama. 70 Amazing Futuristic & Crazy Computer Cases [PICS]
In Pictures: The Art Of Video Games @ The Smithsonian - Welcome To The Art Of Video Games. Gold Powder! - In Pictures: Tom's Hardware Recovers Gold And Silver From CPUs. Experiment: Can You Mine Gold From Old Motherboards? - A Real Gold Mine? Principally used in jewelry, gold (chemical symbol Au) is also used generally in manufacturing (and by the electronics and computer industries in particular) due to its excellent thermal and electrical conductivity, resistance to oxidation, and inalterability.
The computer industry uses several hundred tons (318 tons in 2003, for example) of the element every year. The precious metal is found in almost all computer components--processors, motherboards, extension cards, memory DIMMs, and so on. Of course, the amounts used in each part are infinitesimal. But with the price of gold skyrocketing in recent years, it’s becoming more and more economically-viable to recover gold from old electronic and computer components than to mine it. That’s why specialized companies have sprung up to do just that.
GeForce 9600 GT/GSO - In Pictures: The Best Graphics Card Values In History. The Radeon HD 3870 didn't go uncontested under Nvidia's GeForce 8800 GT for very long.
Early 2008 saw the introduction of a GeForce 9600 GT. Armed with a 65 nm G94 GPU, 64 shader processors, a 256-bit memory bus, and 650 core/900 MHz memory clocks, this product performed on par with AMD's Radeon HD 3870. Over time, both boards battled it out down to a $100 price point. As for the GeForce 9600 GSO, it wasn't derived from the same G94 processor. Rather, it was a re-badged GeForce 8800 GS, which in turn was a handicapped GeForce 8800 GT based on G92, sporting 96 of its 128 available shaders.
To make the market even more confusing, Nvidia later changed its 9600 GSO by using the 9600 GT's G94 GPU, stripping it down to 48 shader processors, and leaving its 256-bit memory bus intact. In Pictures: A History Of Computer RPGs - 30+ Years Of Computer RPGs. Computer role-playing games have been with us for almost as long as computers themselves.
Today, we take a look at their history to see how they have progressed from the very first examples more than thirty years ago to the modern games we play today. On the left, we find ourselves in the exact same situation in 1981 (Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord) and 2011 (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim): being attacked by an Orc! We have tried to include games that made a big contribution to the development of the genre. Sadly, our original list included more than 30 games, so we had to make some hard choices, and not everybody's favorite will be on the list. This should not keep you from reminiscing about all the games you have spent many hours of your life on in the comments, though! Pictures courtesy of MobyGames.com and Bethesda Softworks. In Pictures: External Data Storage Through The Ages - The Evolution Of External Data Storage.
In Pictures: The Best Graphics Card Values In History - You Don't Have To Be The Fastest To Be Great. In August, we published a list of the 23 Greatest Graphics Cards Of All Time.
While our readers generally enjoyed the trip down memory lane, some folks took offense at the title. The term "greatest" can mean a lot of things, and not everyone links it to the fastest hardware. While the flagships are always fun to look back on, more of us actually owned the budget-oriented options. Aren't the lower-priced cards that made great performance available to the masses just as deserving of honor and respect? Indeed they are! Now, let us pay our respects to these reasonably-priced trench fighters, arranged chronologically, of course.
Meet The Tiki: Core i7-3770K And GeForce GTX 680 In A Mini-ITX Box? - Falcon Northwest Gets Tom's Hardware's Attention. This is What Happens After You Hit 'Send' On a Gmail Email. The majority of us don't think twice before or after hitting send on an email.
We trust our email provider, whichever company that might be, to deliver our messages in a timely fashion. But how, exactly, do they do it? Google is this week looking to educate people on the process of delivering an email the 'The Story of Send.' The site explains what happens to your email between your click of the 'send' button and the recipient opening the message. It covers everything from data centers to spam filters to ISPs and videos and photos are there to make the learning experience a little bit more visual. Check out The Story of Send here, or watch the video below for a quick introduction: