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Product Review PC Technology and Industry / Standards Organizations
Product News E-tailers (e-commerce retailers) and Pricing Engines
"Self Help" 

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Product Reviews

 

        The majors

                Anandtech 

                hardOCP 

                PC World 

                Tom's Hardware  

 

        Others

                Bjorn3D 

                CPU (Computer Power User)

                FiringSquad  

                HotHardware 

                    Legion Hardware  

                    Legit Reviews  

                    Maximum PC 

                    Neoseeker 

                PC Perspective 

                Storage Review (hard drives) 

                 STORAGEsearch (SSDs)

                The Tech Report  

                X-bit labs  

Topp   

 

Product News

 

          AMDZone

        DailyTech (Anandtech) 

         Fudzilla (UK)

         HKEPC (Hong Kong)

         PC Watch (Japan)

        SimmTester (memory industry news) 

        TG Daily (NOT Tom's Hardware Guide)

         Tom's Hardware (News page)

         the INQUIRER (UK)

         The Register (UK)

 Topp    

 

"Self Help" (all products and services are FREE unless otherwise noted on the associated site - LOOK for the free download)

 

        Disclaimer: These links are provided as a convenience to visitors to this site. We make no representation as to the quality of any product/service or its fitness for any particular purpose. Please contact the noted web site if you have questions about or difficulties in using their product/service.  It is STRONGLY recommended that you contact the associated hardware manufacturer(s) BEFORE contacting these third parties.

 

        Benchmarks

                Benchmark HQ (various)  

                Cinebench 

                 CrystalDiskMark (hard drive)

                 CrystalMark

                Futuremark (3DMark series)

                 HD Tune (hard drive)

                 IOmeter (hard drive)

                SiSoftware Sandra 

                Viewperf (SPEC) 

 

        Diagnostics

                Benchmark HQ (various)

                Memtest86+ (memory) 

                Real Temp (CPU temp monitor, Intel Core-based CPUs only)

                SeaTools (hard drives - not just Seagate)  

                Windows Memory Diagnostic (Microsoft)

 

          Miscellaneous 

                BootDisk 

                Power Supply (requirements) Calculator (Thermaktake)

 

        Privacy

                TrueCrypt (encryption)

 

        Product identification/info

                Benchmark HQ (various)  

                Belarc Advisor  

                CPU-Z

                 CrystalCPUID

                 CrystalDiskInfo

                 GPU-Z

                Intel Processor Identification Utility

                 PC Wizard 

 

        Stress testing / burn-in

                Benchmark HQ (various)  

                Prime95 (CPU/memory)

                Stress Prime 2004 (CPU/memory - Orthos Edition recommended)  

 

        Third party "Help" 

                c|net PC hardware forum

                PCMech (tech forums)  

                protonic ("...submit your problem, get an answer for free...")  

                 Smart Computing Magazine Tech Support (see right vertical bar "Still Can't Find a Solution" for SUBSCRIBER tech support)

                Tech Support Guy (hardware forum)

Topp

 

PC Technology and Industry / Standards Organizations

 

        "PC Technology"

 

                Intel (architecture and silicon technology)

                

        Industry / standards "organizations" 

 

                    Blu-ray Disk Association 

                    DisplayPort  

                    DVD Forum 

                    HDMI 

                HomePlug Powerline Alliance  

                    HyperTransport Consortium  

                Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  

                Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC)  

                PCI-SIG  

                Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO)  

                USB Implementers Forum

                 Wi-Fi Alliance               

Topp    

 

E-tailers (e-commerce retailers) and Pricing Engines

 

        E-tailers

                 eWiz/SuperBiiz  

                 Fry's Electronics  

                       Fry's newspaper ads 

                 Mwave 

                 Newegg  

                 ZipZoomfly  

 

                 SundaySaver (links to weekly retailer/e-tailer ads)

 

        Pricing engines

                 NexTag  

                PC World  

                PriceGrabber  

                Pricewatch  

                 SearchAllDeals  

                 Shopper (c|net)

                 Shopping.com  

                 Yahoo Shopping  

Topp

 


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