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Articles by: Thomas Soderstrom and Shelton Romhanyi

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Three High-End Gaming Systems Compared

By Thomas Soderstrom and Shelton Romhanyi published

Gaming enthusiasts always look for an edge, but that edge usually comes at a cost--time or money. We compare three systems from HP, Falcon NW, and Vigor aimed at gamers with more money than time.

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System Builder Marathon: Overclocking

By Thomas Soderstrom and Shelton Romhanyi, Don Woligroski published

Our three systems have been built and tested, so now it’s time to put them to the real test: will overclocking provide the performance advantages we anticipated?

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$500 Gaming PC: Day 2, Testing & Analysis

By Thomas Soderstrom and Shelton Romhanyi published

Yesterday we chose our components, today we’ll test them. Does our $500 gamer make the grade?

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$500 Gaming PC: Day 1, Component Selection

By Thomas Soderstrom and Shelton Romhanyi published

How much performance can $500 buy? We set out to find the answer. Today we show you our choice of components. Tomorrow we present test results.

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SBM 2: Mid Cost System

By Thomas Soderstrom and Shelton Romhanyi published

With prices of just about everything except computer components increasing, we stretched our budgets out a little...

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Overclocking Marathon Day 2 - A Home Brew

By Thomas Soderstrom and Shelton Romhanyi published

The "High-End" build from our first System Builder Marathon is ready to show its overclocking stuff. We show you the results and present our overclocking recipe.

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Overclocking Marathon Day 1 - A Screamin' Dell

By Thomas Soderstrom and Shelton Romhanyi published

Over the next 3 days we overclock Dell's factory-overclocked XPS 720 H2C, our high-end System Builder Marathon PC and a new budget build. We pull it all together on Friday.