Essential Hardware for the Coming VR Explosion [SPONSORED] By William Van Winkle published 28 February 18
How Seagate Tests Its Hard Drives By William Van Winkle published 9 February 16 3DTested gets a rare and in-depth look at how Seagate designs and tests its hard drives. Join us for a tour through the company's Longmont, Colorado R&D center.
TorGuard VPN Service Review By William Van Winkle published 28 May 15 Torguard is one of the more popular VPN services. We’ll provide the 3DTested reader assessment of Torguard along with our hands-on testing results.
Private Internet Access VPN Service Review By William Van Winkle published 27 May 15 PIA is one of the leading VPN services, and perhaps the most popular. Here's our reader-based assessment of PIA, and results of our own hands-on testing.
IPVanish VPN Service Review By William Van Winkle published 26 May 15 In addition to our own test results and experiences, we're also providing a reader-based assessment of leading VPN service IPVanish.
Hide My Ass! VPN Service Review By William Van Winkle published 25 May 15 Our readers have weighed in with their own assessments of popular VPN Service HMA!, to which we’ve added our own hands-on test results.
802.11ac Wi-Fi Router Testing: Interference And Workloads By William Van Winkle published 13 May 15 We've explored the performance of 802.11ac routers before, but ended up with more questions than before we started. Today's piece revisits some of your feedback with real data from our lab.
Google Nexus 6 Review By William Van Winkle, Matt Humrick published 17 April 15 Not yet rated Is the Nexus 6 worth its premium price, or are there better options to get your Lollipop fix?
The Pros And Cons Of Using A VPN Or Proxy Service By William Van Winkle published 28 March 15 Here's a guide to using a virtual private network or proxy service to remain anonymous online, and the pros and cons of each solution.
Disaster Strikes: How Is Data Recovered From A Dead Hard Drive? By William Van Winkle published 8 November 13
Ultrabook: Behind How Intel is Remaking Mobile Computing By William Van Winkle published 2 August 13 We recently had the opportunity to sit down with some of Intel's high-level execs responsible for the Ultrabook initiative to talk about its inception, to track its progress over a few generations, and to get an idea of where Ultrabooks are going.
Gigabit Wireless? Five 802.11ac Routers, Benchmarked By William Van Winkle published 14 January 13 Five years ago, we didn't have homes with a dozen wireless nodes and the need to run HD video to multiple screens. Today we do. Our 802.11n networks, especially on the 2.4 GHz band, are swamped. Can 802.11ac save the day? We test six routers to find out.
Gaming At 1920x1080: AMD's Trinity Takes On Intel HD Graphics By William Van Winkle published 27 September 12 Think you're pretty snazzy because your integrated graphics core plays mainstream games at 1280x720? We're on to bigger and better things, like modern titles at 1920x1080. Can AMD's Trinity architecture push high-enough frame rates to make this possible?
AMD Fusion: How It Started, Where It’s Going, And What It Means By William Van Winkle published 14 August 12 You've already read about APUs, and maybe you're even using them now. But the road to creating APUs was paved with a number of struggles and unsung breakthroughs. This is the story of how hybrid chips came to be at AMD and where they’re going.
Can OpenGL And OpenCL Overhaul Your Photo Editing Experience? By William Van Winkle published 11 June 12 In our continuing look at the heterogeneous computing ecosystem, it's time to turn our attention to the photo editing apps currently able to exploit OpenCL- and OpenGL-capable hardware. We interview experts, run benchmarks, and draw some conclusions.
Killer Wireless-N 1103 Review: Can Qualcomm Take On Centrino? By William Van Winkle published 5 April 12
What Does DirectCompute Really Mean For Gamers? By William Van Winkle published 12 March 12 We've been bugging AMD for years now, literally, to show us what GPU-accelerated software can do. Finally, the company is ready to put us in touch with ISVs in nine different segments to demonstrate how its hardware can benefit optimized applications.
OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, Accelerated By William Van Winkle published 2 February 12 We've been bugging AMD for years now, literally: show us what GPU-accelerated software can do. Finally, the company is ready to put us in touch with ISVs in nine different segments to demonstrate how its hardware can benefit optimized applications.
3DTested's 2011 Gift Guide: Part 2, Last-Minute Extras By William Van Winkle, Anthony Celeste published 16 December 11 Welcome to Part 2 of 3DTested's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide. This second installment is geared toward the folks who want to buy components that stand alone as respectable gifts--call them the add-ons to go with the complete machines we built last week.
3DTested's 2011 Gift Guide: Part 1, For System Builders By William Van Winkle published 13 December 11 Welcome to Part 1 of 3DTested's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide. This first installment is geared toward system builders planning to pool some Christmas cash to build a new performance- or value-oriented system. We have something for everyone this year.
In Pictures: Getting Connected To Next-Gen Home Security By William Van Winkle published 12 December 11
Do Antivirus Suites Impact Your PC's Performance? By William Van Winkle published 11 October 11 Most of us are now fairly confident that our antivirus scanners are doing their main job of protecting our systems from malicious pests. But what are those scanners doing to system performance behind the scenes? Are some scanners better than others?
Why Your Wi-Fi Sucks And How It Can Be Helped, Part 2 By William Van Winkle published 14 July 11 In Part 1, we explained what can go wrong with Wi-Fi signals and how access points can work to improve your wireless performance. It's time for a reality check. We throw six contenders against 65 clients and some hellish interference. Who's left standing?
