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Articles & How-to's

• Raspberry Pi Review & Initial How-To Setup Guide
• Biggest Tech Failures of The Last 10+ Years
• Intel Z77 'Panther Point' Chipset Overview
• Crucial Adrenaline SSD Review: Solid State Cache for Your Hard Drive
• Tablets of 2012: The New iPad, Current and Upcoming Alternatives
• Intel Ivy Bridge: everything you need to know
• HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods
• Graphics Card Overclocking: Is It Really Worth It?
• Xerox PARC: A Brief Nod to the Minds Behind Laser Printing, Ethernet, the GUI and More
• Editorial: Building the perfect ultrabook – and where PC makers are wrong
• Apple iPod: 10 Years of the Ubiquitous Media Player
• Custom Firmware Alternatives For Your Wireless Router
• The Best Budget & Enthusiast-Level SSDs
• Budget Graphics Card Comparison: 13 Sub-$150 Boards Tested
• The Best Budget & Mainstream Processors
• Triple Monitor Gaming: GeForce GTX 590 vs. Radeon HD 6990
• Everything You Need to Know About NFC (Near Field Communication)
• Top Budget to Mainstream Graphics Cards
• USB 3.0 64GB Flash Drive Round-up
• Tablets of 2011: What to Look For
• Fun Facts: Intel's Sandy Bridge Processors
• Budget Sub-$150 Solid State Drive Round-up
• A Quick Look at the Self-Installing HP LaserJet P1606dn
• Top Mainstream and High-end Graphics Cards
• Buying a Budget PC: DIY vs. OEM
• Latest in Smartphones: Third Quarter 2010
• Mouse Round-up: 12 Options, Every Budget Covered
• A List of Common Default Router IP Addresses
• Buying an Enthusiast PC: DIY vs. OEM
• Everything You Need To Know About 4G: WiMAX and LTE
• Tablets of 2010: Apple's iPad and Other Alternatives
• Fun Facts: How Small is 32 Nanometers?
• Top Budget to Mid-Range Graphics Cards
• USB 3.0: What You Need To Know
• Maximize SSD Performance with the SSD Tweak Utility
• An editorial on LCD panel quality and what to look for on your next purchase
• Turn a small home UPS into a giant UPS (video)
• Building a Core 2 Duo gaming system for under $1000
• The Hard Drive Factor
• Interview with Hitachi GST's Shiv Shivaji
• Building an affordable AM2 Gaming System
• AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket AM2) Overclocking
• Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: The Format Wars
• Memory Tweak Guide for Windows XP
• How to Volt-Mod your ATI Radeon videocard
• Networking 101: Served Right
• ATI Radeon Tweak Guide v1.5
• How to Volt-Mod your GeForce4 Titanium
• NVIDIA GeForce (2/3/4) videocard tweaking
• Overclocking the Athlon XP
• PowerVR Kyro II tweak guide
• NVIDIA Detonator Drivers Comparison
• Mouse tweak guide
• 3dfx Voodoo 4/5 tweak guide
• Hidden Surface Removal - How to, Fixes & Benchmarks
• BIOS/Overclocking tweak guide
• 3dfx Voodoo 3 tweak guide
• NVIDIA TNT/GeForce (original) tweak guide
• Soundcard & speakers tweak guide
• CD/DVD drive & DVD player tweak guide

Graphics and CPU performance

• Mass Effect 3 GPU & CPU Performance Test
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Performance Test
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Performance Test
• Battlefield 3 GPU & CPU Performance
• Battlefield 3 Beta Performance Test
• Hard Reset GPU & CPU Performance Test
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution GPU & CPU Performance Test
• Duke Nukem Forever Performance Test
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings GPU & CPU Performance
• DiRT 3 GPU & CPU Performance Test
• Brink GPU & CPU Performance Test
• Crysis 2 GPU & CPU Performance Test
• Bulletstorm GPU & CPU Performance In-depth
• Crysis 2 Performance Preview
• Call of Duty: Black Ops GPU & CPU Performance In-depth
• Medal of Honor Single Player Graphics & CPU Performance
• Civilization V GPU & CPU Performance In-depth
• Mafia II GPU & CPU Performance: PhysX In-depth
• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty GPU & CPU Performance
• Singularity GPU & CPU Performance In-depth
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 SLI vs. ATI Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470 vs. ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850
• Splinter Cell: Conviction Performance In-depth
• CPU Round-up: Sub-$100 Intel and AMD Processors Tested
• CPU Round-up: $100 - $200 Intel and AMD Processors Tested
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 GPU Performance In-depth
• BioShock 2 Graphics Performance In-depth
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Graphics Performance
• Mainstream Quad-Core CPU Performance Comparison
• Wolfenstein Graphics Performance In-Depth
• AMD Phenom II X4 940 Overclocking Performance
• Call of Duty: World at War performance in-depth
• Fallout 3 graphics performance in-depth
• Far Cry 2 performance in-depth
• Crysis Warhead performance in-depth
• Crysis 1.1 patch performance with Multi-GPU testing
• Crysis demo videocard performance in-depth
• Enemy Territory : Quake Wars performance in-depth
• Bioshock videocard performance
• Company of Heroes videocard performance

Events

• TechSpot's CES 2010 in Pictures
• CES 2007 in Pictures, Part two
• CES 2007 in Pictures, Part one
• CES 2007 TechSpot Coverage

Other legacy guides

• Optimize your ISDN connection
• Tweaking your system memory - RAM guide
• Modem tweak guide (WinME Edition)
• Modem tweak guide (Windows 9x Edition)
• LAN tweak guide