Since 1999, we have been developing the BIOS Optimization Guide, affectionately known as the BOG. From a meager beginning of a single page, it now covers over 440 BIOS options. As old BOG readers will know, we started offering two editions of the BOG since Revision 8.0 – a simplified edition and the complete edition.

Summary: * **The final day of AFDS brought three keynotes from Cloudera, Penguin Computing and AMD. As well as showing the 2013 APU roadmap, AMD gave us a surprise look at the Tahiti XT2 in FirePro form and clandestinely showed off the upcoming dual-GPU New Zealand card! *

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DDR3-1866 and a 2x8GB set? Is this the enthusiast RAM to buy? We benchmarked a set to find out.

Rather than go with a rebranded version of an existing headset for their Battlefield 3 set Razer de cided to design a new model and that is the Blackshark. Today we have the Blackshark on our test b ench to see how it performs.

Those who have tried Adobes Photoshop CS6 beta or the recently-released final version may come across a really odd problem – very unresponsive menus.

Noctua did not venture to break any cooling records with the NH-L12 but rather to give HTPC and small form factor users a quality cooler and this goal was reached. With just a single NF-B9 92mm fan the NH-L12 stands at just 66mm and Low Noise Adapters make this an ideal package for replacing that [...]

We take the new KFA2 GTX 680 EX OC for a spin, but can it offer much more performance than a reference card?