12 Free Security Tools from PC Magazine

Here is a nice article that starts with an overview of some free anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, firewall, and password manager software and then follows up with reviews of each.

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The $800 Killer Gaming PC

Over at extremetech.com, they have put together another great gaming PC at a great price. Even if you are not a gamer, but just want to put together your own PC, this is a great starting place: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2347620,00.asp

Best Bang for the Buck PC with a Core i7

If you didn't know, the latest Intel CPU is call the i7. It is the successor to the very popular Core 2 chips. The guys at Extreme Tech tried to make a best bang-for-the-buck PC with the i7 CPU for under $1,200. They almost succeeded.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2341244,00.asp

Steps to Re-install and Restore Your Windows PC

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/155995-1/reinstall_and_restore_your_windows_pc_in_eight_easy_steps.html

Build a sub-$250 computer

For the do-it-yourselfers, PCmag.com has a nice article on how to build your own sub-$250 desktop PC. To save money, it does run Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows, but you'll find that it provides just about all the functionality you need to surf the web, listen to music, burn CDs, write email, etc. Take a look and see what it takes to build an inexpensive PC.

Vista Performance Roundtable

There was a recent webcast about Vista performance hosted by Mark Russinovich, author of the many SysInternals utilities. Check it out at https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard/portal.asp.

Best Bang-for-Buck PC

For you DIY'ers out there looking to spec out a new PC, here's a recent artcle from ExtremeTech.com that shows their current list of components that give you the best bang for the buck.

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Build a $800 gaming PC

I'm getting the itch to get an updated computer, and I noticed this artcle at Extreme Tech. They put together a pretty decent system for only $800. What do you think?