a $430 31.5-Inch QHD Monitor
June 2024HP has introduced its new display for offices that combines large dimensions and a relatively low price. The EliteDisplay E324q is a 31.
Anand Reviews the Apple iPhone 3G
June 2024Wait, wait, I know this trick. Steve Jobs gets on stage, announces a new phone, and all of the sudden I’ve got to wait in line for hours to spend money.
ASUS Eee PC 1005HA -- Specifications and Overview
June 2024ASUS Eee PC 1005HA -- Specifications and Overview As stated, little has changed in terms of specifications since the ASUS 1000HE.
Compute Performance - AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review Feat. Sapphire: The First Desktop Sea Islands
June 2024Compute Performance As always we'll start with our DirectCompute game example, Civilization V, which uses DirectCompute to decompress textures on the fly.
Diablo III Graphics Settings and Image Quality
June 2024Diablo III Graphics Settings and Image Quality This is a laptop-focused article, and for good reason. [Spoiler alert: most desktops with a discrete GPU will be fine running the game; if you have a desktop built within the past five years with a DX9 graphics card, particularly if you purchased at least a midrange (~$150) card with your PC, then it’s very likely you can run Diablo III at 1080p with moderate to high details.
Entry Level Laptops $400 to $850
June 2024Entry Level Laptops - $400 to $850 The next step up the pricing ladder opens up some additional possibilities, along with upgraded versions of the sub-$400 options.
FSP's Cannon 2000 Watt Power Supply
June 2024When you build a cannon of a system, perhaps with dual processors and four graphics cards and lots of RGB, then something needs to power it.
Futuremark Releases 3DMark Time Spy DirectX 12 Benchmark
June 2024Today Futuremark is pulling the covers off of their new Time Spy benchmark, which is being released today for all Windows editions of 3DMark.
Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 - P55 uATX Goodness for Under $105
June 2024We will finish up our P55 previews this weekend (or later) with a couple of new boards from ASUS and Biostar.
Good From the Factory? The Dell Studio XPS 7100
June 2024Dell Studio XPS 7100: Good from the Factory? The tricked-out Studio XPS 7100 desktop Dell asked us to review is an interesting beast.
Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4
June 2024It’s that time of decade again. Time for a new Xbox. It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360.
HTC Offers Vive + GeForce GTX 1070 + Fallout 4 VR Bundle for $799
June 2024HTC this week launched a new $799 bundle that includes its Vive VR headset, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition graphics card, as well as a copy of Fallout 4 VR.
Huge Memory Bandwidth, but not for every Block
June 2024One highly intriguing aspect of the M1 Max, maybe less so for the M1 Pro, is the massive memory bandwidth that is available for the SoC.
Intel Announces Thunderbolt 3 - Thunderbolt Meets USB (At Last)
June 2024A lot has been happening in the world of external communication buses over the past year. In the last 12 months the USB consortium has announced both 10Gbps “Superspeed+” USB 3.
Logitech Wireless Gaming Mouse G700
June 2024Logitech® Wireless Gaming Mouse G700 A lot about mice in gaming communities is down to personal preference. On many forums, the good old ‘wireless or wired’ debate still rages on, with the main argument of input delay or lag against ease of movement.
Meet The EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Superclocked
June 2024Meet The EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Superclocked Our first card of the day is EVGA’s entry, the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Superclocked.
Seagate Ships World's First 4TB External HDD
June 2024Just over a year ago Seagate introduced the world’s first 3TB hard drive. Although it shipped in an enclosure for external use, the Seagate GoFlex Desk was available with the very first 3.
The Meizu M3 Note vs. Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Review: Comparing Notes
June 2024As new technology finds its way into flagship phones, previously cutting-edge features trickle down to mid-range and eventually low-end devices. As an economic policy the efficacy of this approach is debatable; however, it works well enough when applied to technology.
The Truth About SSD Data Retention
June 2024In the past week, quite a few media outlets have posted articles claiming that SSDs will lose data in a matter of days if left unpowered.
UL Acquires Futuremark, Expanding into Benchmarking Services
June 2024Earlier this week, in something of an unexpected move, UL (Underwriters Laboratories) and Futuremark announced that UL had acquired the benchmarking company, signaling their expansion into the software development industry and benchmarking services.
11.6- & 14-Inch Displays, Low-Power CPUs
June 2024HP this week introduced its new family of Chromebooks designed for students and teachers. The laptops use low-power SoCs from AMD and Intel to ensure a long battery life, they are rugged enough to survive classes and their feature set is tailored for the specifics of educational environments.
Adds RSR Upscaling and More
June 2024AMD this morning is releasing the awaited spring update to their AMD Software Adrenalin Edition suite for their GPUs. First unveiled back in January as part of AMD’s keynote address, the spring update (22.
Alliance for Open Media Releases Royalty-Free AV1 1.0 Codec Spec
June 2024Eagerly awaited across the tech industry, this week the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has published the first complete version of the bitstream and decoding process specification for their royalty-free AV1 video codec.
ASUS Launches the ROG GX500, a 4K UHD 15-inch Gaming Notebook
June 2024In recent months, screen resolutions have exploded on to the scene when users started wanting something more than a cheap 1080p panel.
ASUS ROG Swift PG65UQ BFGD G-Sync HDR Monitor: Coming Later This Year
June 2024Advanced displays clearly drive sales of higher-end GPUs, so NVIDIA has multiple initiatives to make high-end gaming monitors available. One of such initiatives is the BFGD (big format gaming display) project and it is designed to bring ultra-large gaming LCDs to the market.
ASUS ROG XG Mobile, An External Graphics Dock For ROG Flow X13
June 2024Alongside ASUS's announcement of its latest ROG Flow X13 13-inch gaming notebook, it has also unveiled an interesting new external graphics dock to go with that notebook.
ASUS X99-A Conclusion - ASUS X99-A Motherboard Review
June 2024ASUS X99-A Conclusion The term 'budget build' means many different things depending on who you speak to. For a HTPC user, it will involve a small motherboard with integrated graphics.
BIOS and Overclocking - ASUS P8P67 Review
June 2024BIOS When you enter the BIOS for the very first time, you’ll be faced with the screen below. If you want to do any serious tweaking, you will have to enter the Advanced Mode, which you can do by clicking on the button located in the top right-hand corner.
Chipset Comparison and G35 Overview
June 2024Chipset Comparison The current range of performance chipsets on the market include NVIDIA's 680i SLI, Intel's P35, and the venerable 975X that is finally being retired after a two year run.
Color Space - AT 101: Understanding Laptop Displays & How We Test Them
June 2024Color Space A color space is a subset of entire visible light spectrum, and the reason that it’s a subset is that being able to reproduce the entire visible spectrum is technologically impossible at this time.
CPU and Web Benchmarks - Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 and E5-2650 v3 Review: Haswell-EP with 10 Cores
June 2024CPU Benchmarks The dynamics of CPU Turbo modes, both Intel and AMD, can cause concern during environments with a variable threaded workload.
CPU Performance: Rendering Tests - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
June 2024CPU Performance: Rendering Tests Rendering is often a key target for processor workloads, lending itself to a professional environment. It comes in different formats as well, from 3D rendering through rasterization, such as games, or by ray tracing, and invokes the ability of the software to manage meshes, textures, collisions, aliasing, physics (in animations), and discarding unnecessary work.
DVI-DL Operation and Issues - Gefen DVI DL: Dual Link DVI + USB KVM
June 2024DVI-DL Operation and IssuesOne of the most popular uses for the Gefen DVI DL is to switch between a Mac and a PC, hooked up to an Apple 30"
GALAX Shows Off Single-Slot GeForce GTX 1070 Graphics Card
June 2024GALAX has developed a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card with an ultra-slim one slot wide cooling system. The industry’s first single-slot GeForce GTX 1070 is understood to be released in China in early 2017, but it is unknown whether the video card will ever make it outside of the country.
Gaming Performance: 4K - The Intel Core i9-13900KS Review: Taking Intel's Raptor Lake to 6 GHz
June 2024Gaming Performance: 4K Last, we have our 4K gaming results. We are using DDR5 memory on the 12th and 13th Gen Core parts, as well as the Ryzen 7000 series, at the following settings:
Gaming Tests: Final Fantasy XIV
June 2024Despite being one number less than Final Fantasy 15, because FF14 is a massively-multiplayer online title, there are always yearly update packages which give the opportunity for graphical updates too.
GeForce GT 730M and GeForce 710M Partial Specs Published
June 2024As we discussed yesterday with AMD’s latest round of GPU rebadges, both AMD and NVIDIA are locked into playing the OEM rebadge game in order to fulfill their OEM partner’s calendar driven schedules.
Guillemot Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 TNT2 Ultra
June 2024Love at first sight was the case with AnandTech and Guillemot's Home Studio Pro 64 professional sound solution, unfortunately since then, Guillemot has had very little of the same caliber to show the market.
Hands On With ODG's R-7: Augmented Reality Glasses
June 2024While it's still unclear to me what the future of wearables will be, I must admit that all things considered I feel that glasses are a better idea than watches as a form factor.
How to Overclock With ASRock UEFI BIOS
June 2024The ASRock BIOS design and layout is consistent throughout the AM4 motherboard range. Everything was present on our motherboard, except the ability to change the settings of the integrated graphics.
Intel D875PBZ - 865PE/875P Motherboard Roundup June 2003
June 2024Intel D875PBZ Motherboard Specifications CPU Interface Socket-478 Chipset Intel 82875P MCH (North Bridge)
Moving to TSMC for More Speed, Lower Power
June 2024As the dark of the night rolls into China this evening, Qualcomm is hosting a mobile-focused product launch event they’re calling “Snapdragon Night”.
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR: Overclocking and Stress Testing
June 2024MSI K8T Neo2-FIR: Overclocking and Stress Testing FSB Overclocking Results Front Side Bus Overclocking Testbed Processor: Athlon 64 FX53 Socket 939 2.
New Intel Cascade Lake Xeon 'Performance' CPUs: Cutting Prices Too
June 2024While this year’s official Mobile World Congress event may have been canceled, a number of vendors are still going ahead with their previously scheduled product announcements and launches.
NVIDIAs GeForce GT 240: The Card That Doesn't Matter
June 2024Overclocking As we briefly mentioned in the introduction, the GT 240 has a 70W TDP, one we believe to be chosen specifically to get as much out of the card as possible without breaking the 75W limit of a PCIe slot.
Performance: Intel's Outgoing Calpella Platform
June 2024Performance: Intel's Outgoing Calpella Platform Okay, we've set the stage for the performance metrics, and again it's important to note that we are intentionally reviewing a bog-standard Dell Arrandale/Calpella platform.
Performance: RAID 0 - IDE RAID Comparison
June 2024Performance: RAID 0 Now that we have exhaustively gathered and analyzed the performance of RAID 0 with each card tested, it is time to put the cards together and see which one comes out on top to become the RAID 0 performance champion.
Phenom II X4 965 - Can it be Undervolted?
June 2024The Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition impressed us when it launched earlier this week. Well, just about everything but the long-winded naming scheme and a slight concern about its power consumption under load conditions impressed us.
Pipelining: 101 - Intel's Pentium 4 E: Prescott Arrives with Luggage
June 2024Pipelining: 101 It seems like every time Intel releases a new processor we have to revisit the topic of pipelining to help explain why a 3GHz P4 performs like a 2GHz Athlon 64.
Professional Performance, Windows and Linux
June 2024Professional Performance: Windows Agisoft Photoscan – 2D to 3D Image Manipulation: link Agisoft Photoscan creates 3D models from 2D images, a process which is very computationally expensive.
Quad-Core SoC, 4 GB RAM, from $279
June 2024Lenovo has announced its first 2-in-1 Chromebook designed specifically for consumers. The Flex 11 laptop is powered by an SoC with four ARM cores, features a 360° hinge, a battery that can last for 10 hours and an anti-spill keyboard, a rare feature on inexpensive PCs.
Raptor Lake Spreads Its Wings to 6.0 GHz
June 2024Initially teased by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger during their Innovation 2022 opening keynote, Intel has unveiled its highly anticipated 6 GHz out-of-the-box processor, the Core i9-13900KS.
RVZ03 With RGB Light Strip
June 2024Silverstone, a familiar face in several enthusiast markets, has announced a new Small Form Factor (SFF) case, the RVZ03. Nestled in its Raven "
Snapdragon 855 Power Consumption Demo, But
June 2024One of the interesting demos for the newly announced Snapdragon 855 SoC here at Qualcomm’s Tech Summit was to do with power.
SPEC - Single-Threaded Performance - AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review: A Peak vs Per Core Performance B
June 2024Disclaimer June 25th: The benchmark figures in this review have been superseded by our second follow-up Milan review article, where we observe improved performance figures on a production platform compared to AMD’s reference system in this piece.
Supports USB Type-C Power Delivery
June 2024Qualcomm did more than reveal the name of its next SoC, the Snapdragon 835, today at its Snapdragon Technology Summit in New York.
The 2012 MacBook Air (11 & 13-inch) Review
June 2024Things are getting very blurry. The MacBook Pro once stood for tons of power plus upgradability. Add a Retina Display and now it's just tons of power.
The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC "Rome" Launch Live Blog
June 2024Read our review of EPYC Rome here! https://www.anandtech.com/show/14724/the-amd-epyc-rome-launch-live-blog 05:05PM EDT - I'm here at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts for what may very well be AMD's most important event of the year: the 2nd generation EPYC "
The AVR: Denon X3400H - A Budget Home Theater & PC Setup: 4K, HDR, UHD Blu-ray, and More
June 2024The AVR: Denon X3400H The choice of AVRs used to be a difficult one to make when support for different HD audio formats was not widespread.
The Most Mac-Like PC Notebook Ever Made: The Envy 133
June 2024First, the most interesting one, the Voodoo Envy 133: Built on an all carbon-fiber chassis (Rahul Sood, founder of Voodoo, is a car nut) the Envy 133 is the closest thing we've seen to an Apple-designed notebook that didn't have fruit on its lid.
The Sony VAIO SE LCD: IPS++, Gamut--
June 2024The Sony VAIO SE LCD: IPS++, Gamut-- We’ve saved the best for last. Really, this is the major selling point for me, and in fact I’m more than willing to overlook other concerns just for the display on the VAIO SE.
40 Inch 4K Curved Display for $800
June 2024TPV Technology, the company that produces monitors under the Philips brand, this week began to sell one of the world’s first curved displays with a 4K resolution that was formally introduced at IFA last September.
96 MB of L3 3D V-Cache Designed For Gamers
June 2024The level of competition in the desktop CPU market has rarely been as intensive as it has been over the last couple of years.
Adding PCIe 4.0 and BiCS5 NAND
June 2024Kioxia this morning is updating their BG series of M.2 2230 SSDs for OEMs with the addition of the new BG5 family of drives.
AMD Begins Tape-Out of first Dual Core Opteron
June 2024Continuing to ride the train of success that AMD has had in 2004, AMD is announcing today the completion of design work on their first dual-core Opteron processor and the beginning of the tape-out process for that core.
Android 4.4 Factory Images Now Available for Nexus 4, 7 (2012 and 2013), and 10
June 2024Although Google started its official rollout of Android 4.4 KitKat over the air updates to Nexus devices a few days ago, it always takes days or weeks before the updates hit most phones.
ASRock B550 Steel Legend - The AMD B550 Motherboard Overview: ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, ASRock, and Other
June 2024ASRock B550 Steel Legend The Steel Legend series of motherboards has been around for a couple of generations now, focusing more on an aesthetic more towards white and greys, as if the motherboards themselves were using stainless steel on the heatsinks.
ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus & X570-Plus WIFI
June 2024The ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus and TUF Gaming X570-Plus Wi-Fi motherboards both contain the same core componentry with a 12+2 phase power delivery, actively cooled X570 chipset heatsink, a Realtek S1200A HD audio codec, and both feature the new Realtek L8200A Gigabit LAN which is exclusive to ASUS at present.
Battery Life - The Google Pixel 5: A Mini-Review
June 2024Battery Life Although the Pixel 5 is a small phone, Google still managed to with a rather large 4080mAh battery – which notable given the 151g weight of the device.
Camera Performance - Stills and Video - Nokia Lumia 710 Review
June 2024Camera - Stills and Video The 710 uses a completely new F/2.4 optical system for Nokia in conjunction with a 5 MP CMOS and rear facing single LED flash.
ClearPC, C3 and BeanTech: The Clear Chassis Comparison
June 2024Introduction Clear enclosures have stirred a following in our forums and retailers around the internet. Some of these people have legitimate uses for a clear cases; educational examples, demonstration products, etc.
Conclusion: Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should
June 2024Conclusion: Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should Joking about the Lian Li PC-A55's unfortunate nomenclature aside, this was an extremely unpleasant review to write.
Cortex-A77 Cores, Adreno 650 GPU, LPDDR5 Memory
June 2024Cortex-A77 Cores, LPDDR5, Adreno 650 GPU No More CPU Customisations For Now: Cortex-A77 Used On the CPU side, the Snapdragon 865’s improvements over the Snapdragon 855 are very straightforward in terms of specifications:
Display Analysis - The Lenovo Yoga C930 Review: Atmos Acoustics
June 2024Display Analysis Lenovo offers two displays in the Yoga C930, with the base model being a 1920x1080 IPS panel, and the upgrade is a 3840x2160 IPS version.
DVD Player - Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Review
June 2024DVD Player I ranted about Panther's DVD player quite a bit in a previous article on the mini, and just as I expected, the issues I raised in that article have not been addressed by Tiger.
Fans - Heatsink Guide - The Basics of Cooling & Heatsink Technology
June 2024Almost all CPU heatsinks require a fan, and in your computer case, there's at least one fan, usually two, even three or more.
Firefox 7.0 Released
June 2024Has it already been six weeks since Firefox 6.0 was released? Apparently so, since Firefox 7.0 has just been made available for Windows, OS X, and Linux users to download.
IBM ThinkPad T40 and T40p - Build, Appearance, Size (continued)
June 2024The front of the T40 is where the speakers are found. There are two speakers located here, one slightly to the left of the system's center and one slightly to the right.
Intel and Synopsys Ink Deal to Develop IP for Intel's 3 and 18A Nodes
June 2024Intel and Synopsys this week signed an agreement under which Synopsys will develop a portfolio of various IP offerings for Intel 3 and 18A fabrication technologies for Intel Foundry Services (IFS) customers.
Intel Launches New Pentium Silver and Celeron Atom Processors: Gemini Lake is Here
June 2024Intel on Monday introduced its next-generation Pentium Silver and Celeron platform and processors. These processors are under the codename 'Gemini Lake' and are focused on low-power platforms for inexpensive desktops and mobile computers.
Is $260 Mid-Range or High-End?
June 2024Despite the Z590 chipset being the premium option for Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake processors, and the boards starting around $200, not every model is there to decimate the wallet.
LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Type-C External HDD Capsule Review
June 2024Seagate launched a host of direct-attached storage products under the LaCie brand name at CES earlier this year. Though the LaCie Chrome USB 3.
Meet the 6970 & 6950
June 2024Meet the 6970 & 6950 Now that we’ve finally looked at what makes the 6900 series tick, let’s look at the cards themselves.
Microsoft Announces Surface Duo - An Android Dual-Screen Device
June 2024Today at Microsoft’s Surface event in New York, alongside new laptops and various other Surface devices, we saw the company announce a new kind of device; the new “Surface Duo”.
MSI Z490-A Pro - The Intel Z490 Overview: 44+ Motherboards Examined
June 2024MSI Z490-A Pro Looking at MSI's entry-level Z490 model, the MSI Z490-A Pro which is designed for more professional users and content creators, it's interesting to see that MSI has included a single Realtek 2.
MSI Z97 MPower Max AC Conclusion
June 2024When reviewing motherboards, I typically have a backlog that can vary between two and twelve units. This is so when I finish reviewing one I can pick another off the pile to start immediately.
Power Supply Quality, Software, & Conclusion
June 2024Power Supply Quality Main Output Load (Watts) 171.77 W 428.28 W 639.84 W 852.08 W Load (Percent) 20.
Power, Temperature, & Noise - NVIDIAs GeForce GTX Titan Review, Part 2: Titan's Performance Unvei
June 2024Power, Temperature, & Noise Last but certainly not least, we have our obligatory look at power, temperature, and noise. Next to price and performance of course, these are some of the most important aspects of a GPU, due in large part to the impact of noise.
Seagate Announces FireCuda 530 PCIe 4.0 SSD at SG21
June 2024The gaming segment continues to experience rapid growth in the PC market, and we have seen PC component vendors come up with launch events specifically targeting gamers.
Seagate Announces Helium-based 16 TB Exos and IronWolf Hard Drives
June 2024Seagate is launching their 16 TB CMR (conventional magnetic recording) helium drives today under two product lines - the Exos X for datacenter usage, and the IronWolf / IronWolf Pro for NAS units.
Software & Per-Key Quality Testing
June 2024Software The SteelSeries Engine software that can be used to access the advanced features of the Apex M500 is very simple, quick and well compiled.
SQL Server 2008 R2 "OLAP" Workload
June 2024SQL Server 2008 Enterprise R2 We have been using the Flemish/Dutch web 2.0 website Nieuws.be for some time. 99% of the loads on the database are selects and about 5% of them are stored procedures.
SSD 2015 Benchmarks - Compare Products on AnandTech
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System Performance Cont'd: GPU and NAND
June 2024System Performance: GPU While CPU performance characterizes one part of an SoC, GPU performance characterizes another. Tablets have long been a form factor where GPU performance can be pushed much further than in a phone due to the larger chassis of a tablet having far fewer size and thermal limitations.
T-Mobile Introduces Nokia's Lumia 710 Stateside for $50
June 2024Mango was a great update to Windows Phone 7, and brings Microsoft closer and closer to feature parity with its competition.
Testing Results - The Corsair A115 CPU Cooler Review: Massive Air Cooler Is Effective, But Expensive
June 2024Testing Results, Maximum Fan Speed To begin with, we are taking a look at the Corsair A115 with its stock 140 mm fans running at their maximum speed.
Testing Results, Maximum Fan Speed
June 2024Our maximum speed testing is performed with both the fans and the pump of the kit powered via a 12V DC source.
THD+N - Smartphone Audio Quality Testing
June 2024THD+N is a measure of the total harmonic distortion and noise compared to the signal. The lower the number, the less distortion and noise there is relative to the fundamental frequency.
The EVGA Supernova 850 G2 PSU
June 2024External Appearance EVGA clearly made a serious effort to make the Supernova 850 G2 aesthetically unique. Instead of using a typical fan guard, the company went with a modified cover that has a circular-pattern opening integrated, as well as rounded edges.
The Updated DRU-720A - Sony DRU-720A: Speed Increases All Around
June 2024The Updated DRU-720A Visually, the DRU-720A is not much different than the past few models that Sony has put out.
Windows 10 Feature Focus: .NET Native
June 2024Programming languages seem to be cyclical. Low level languages give developers the chance to have very fast code with the minimum of commands necessary, but the closer you code to hardware the more difficult it becomes, and the developer should have a good grasp of the hardware in order to get the best performance.
A Dedicated GPU Architecture for Data Centers
June 2024Over the last decade, the industry has seen a boom in demand for GPUs for the data center. Driven in large part by rapid progress in neural networking, deep learning, and all things AI, GPUs have become a critical part of some data center workloads, and their role continues to grow with every year.
A Tiny Workstation w/ Core i9 & Quadro
June 2024ASUS has introduced its first miniature workstation, the Mini PC ProArt PA90. The new system has Intel’s eight-core CPU, NVIDIA’s Quadro graphics, a high-performance storage subsystem, and has four display outputs.
AMD's Zacate APU Performance Update
June 2024It’s 12:43AM and I just got back into my hotel room. I spent the past few hours in AMD’s suite a block from IDF trying to get to the bottom of an issue we discovered in our post on AMD’s Zacate GPU performance numbers earlier this week.
An Ultimate mATX Gaming PC
June 2024Living up to its status as a high-end, botique system builder, back in early 2019 Alienware rolled out its "Legend" industrial design.
Apple's Humongous CPU Microarchitecture - Apple Announces The Apple Silicon M1: Ditching x86
June 2024Apple's Humongous CPU Microarchitecture So how does Apple plan to compete with AMD and Intel in this market? Readers who have been following Apple’s silicon endeavors over the last few years will certainly not be surprised to see the performance that Apple proclaimed during the event.
Apple's new iPad will support LTE on AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, Bell and Telus
June 2024Apple will offer two LTE versions of the new iPad in the US, one for use on AT&T and one on Verizon.
ASRock TRX40 Creator - The AMD TRX40 Motherboard Overview: 12 New Motherboards Analyzed
June 2024ASRock TRX40 Creator Going through the different vendor's product stacks alphabetically, our first TRX4 model comes via the ASRock TRX40 Creator.
ASUS Vivo V241IC 23.8-inch All-in-One PC Released
June 2024ASUS this week has introduced a new series of cheaper all-in-one desktop PCs aimed at SOHO markets. The Vivo AIO V241IC systems are based on various dual-core and quad-core Intel processors of different generations, but the main selling points are the design, a 23.
Battery Life - NVIDIA Shield Review: At the Crossroads of PC and Mobile Gaming
June 2024Battery Life NVIDIA's Shield includes a 28.8Wh battery, which is large for a device its size but small compared to what you'd find in a 10-inch tablet for example.
Board Features, Test Bed and Setup
June 2024Board Features The GIGABYTE Z590 Aorus Tachyon is an E-ATX motherboard designed primarily for enthusiasts and extreme overclockers, with plenty of functionality for regular users such as gamers and content creators.
Colorful Unveils CVN X570M Gaming Pro Micro-ATX Motherboard
June 2024With all the attention turned to AMD and its platforms for the impending Ryzen Threadripper 3000 processor launch, Colorful has announced its latest micro-ATX motherboard for the X570 chipset, the Colorful CVN X570M motherboard.
CPU ST Performance: Faster & More Efficient
June 2024Starting off with this year’s review of the A15, in order to have a deeper look at the CPU single-threaded performance and power efficiency, we’re migrating over to SPEC CPU 2017.
Duking It Out For The Single Card King
June 2024It really doesn’t seem like it’s been all that long, but it’s been nearly a year and a half since NVIDIA has had a dual-GPU card on the market.
EIZO Releases 24-inch ColorEdge CG2420 and CS2420 Professional Monitors
June 2024For anyone that loves a 16:10 screen, with resolutions such as 1920x1200 or 2560x1600, there have been relatively slim pickings in the monitor world recently.
Frequency: Going Above 5.0 GHz
June 2024One of the major highlights that AMD is promoting with the new Zen 3 core and Ryzen 5000 processors how the company has kept the same power and yet delivered both more frequency, more performance per MHz, and ultimately more performance, despite using the same TSMC N7 manufacturing process node.
Gaming: World of Tanks enCore
June 2024Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles.
GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Ultra - The AMD X570 Motherboard Overview: Over 35+ Motherboards Analyzed
June 2024GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Ultra The GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Ultra sits in between the X570 Aorus Master ($359) and the X570 Aorus Pro WIFI ($269) in its current product stack.
Grand Theft Auto V - The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midr
June 2024Grand Theft Auto V Now a truly venerable title, GTA V is a veteran of past game suites that is still graphically demanding as they come.
Hands-on With The Motorola Droid RAZR
June 2024Unlike some prior events, reps were more than happy to let us get our grubby mits on the devices.
HBM: The 4GB Question - The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Aiming For the Top
June 2024HBM: The 4GB Question Having taken a look at HBM from a technical perspective, there’s one final matter to address with Fiji’s implementation of HBM, and that is the matter of capacity.
Input Lag, Power Use, and Gamut
June 2024There isn’t a good lag tester on the market that can do 2560x1080 natively. I’m sticking to using the Leo Bodnar lag tester at 1080p because it is a well-known, reliable test that is easy to duplicate.
Intel to Launch Next-Gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon with High Bandwidth Memory
June 2024As part of today’s International Supercomputing 2021 (ISC) announcements, Intel is showcasing that it will be launching a version of its upcoming Sapphire Rapids (SPR) Xeon Scalable processor with high-bandwidth memory (HBM).
Intels 9th Generation Core Mobile Processors: 45W H-Series
June 2024The 45W range of processors from Intel fits into the high-performance / prosumer niche of portable gaming laptops and workstations. These typically populate the 15.
Linksys WRT32X Gaming Router Announced with Killer Prioritization Engine from Rivet Networks
June 2024Rivet Networks, the company behind the Killer brand, has been on a roll lately with the launch of a new Ethernet controller (E2500) back in September 2016.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Review
June 2024Spotlight The other big feature of Tiger is its system-wide, fully indexed meta-data based search engine called Spotlight. Apple best describes what now happens in Tiger to support Spotlight: "
Meet Fusion Drive - A Month with Apple's Fusion Drive
June 2024Meet Fusion Drive Available as a build-to-order option on both the new Mac mini and the new iMac is Apple’s own take on SSD caching, Fusion Drive.
Micron Announces 1300 Client SATA SSD With 96L TLC
June 2024Micron's line of client SATA SSDs for the OEM market is making the jump to 96-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory with the new Micron 1300 SSD.
Modders Equip Asus's ROG Ally with 4 TB M.2 2280 SSD
June 2024The Asus ROG Ally game console comes with a tiny M.2-2230 SSD featuring a 512 GB capacity, which can be a bit tight for modern games.
MSI MPG Z590 Gaming Force
June 2024A new addition to its MPG series, MSI has unveiled the MPG Z590 Gaming Force. As aggressive in nature, as it sounds, it is using a very unorthodox color scheme with metallic purple and gold heatsinks on a black PCB.
Multi-Threaded Integer Performance: SPEC CPU2006
June 2024Multi-Threaded Integer Performance on one core: SPEC CPU2006 Broadly speaking, the value of SPEC CPU2006's int rate test is questionable, as it puts too much emphasis on bandwidth and way too little emphasis on data synchronization.
NVIDIA Closes Above $135, Becomes Worlds Most Valuable Company
June 2024Thanks to the success of the burgeoning market for AI accelerators, NVIDIA has been on a tear this year. And the only place that’s even more apparent than the company’s rapidly growing revenues is in the company’s stock price and market capitalization.
NVIDIA Doubles-Down on Ray Tracing, GDDR6, & More
June 2024Moments ago at NVIDIA’s SIGGRAPH 2018 keynote presentation, company CEO Jensen Huang formally unveiled the company’s much awaited (and much rumored) Turing GPU architecture.
QNAP TS-451 Bay Trail NAS Performance Review
June 2024Introduction and Testbed Setup The launch of the QNAP TS-x51 series was covered in detail last month. Its introduction has revitalized the premium NAS market for SOHO and power users by providing a powerful enough alternative to the Atom D270x-based NAS units.
Silence is Golden: Silent GPU Roundup
June 2024IntroductionThe high performance market is usually the place to look for the most exciting and powerful graphics solution, but few real world gamers can afford to shop there.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
June 2024The Elder Scrolls IV: OblivionOur third and final benchmark is from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This is a fairly recent game which boasts some of the most advanced graphics of any game available to date.
The First Phones: Samsung Focus
June 2024The Focus is a launch device on AT&T. It’s a Windows Phone Galaxy S. The Samsung Focus is incredibly thin and very easy to pocket.
The Instruments: The Drums - Guitar Hero World Tour: The Best, The Worst, and Everything in Between
June 2024The Instruments: The DrumsThis was where GHWT had the most potential to succeed. The low hanging fruit. Adding an extra trigger and raised cymbals was a terrific step beyond the Rock Band 2 template.
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 15-Inch Review: Refreshing Ryzen
June 2024Over the years, Microsoft’s Surface team has become quite a driver of innovation in the PC space. While the original Surface Pro was mostly just a curio, Microsoft continued to iterate through designs, and eventually found their breakthrough product with the very popular Surface Pro 3 convertible tablet.
The Skylake Package: 100-Series Chipsets and DRAM
June 2024A small portion of this page was posted as part of our initial Skylake-K coverage. Sockets and Chipsets The new Skylake-S processors are assigned a new socket, LGA 1151, while the soldered down models use a combination of BGA 1515 (Skylake-Y), BGA 1356 (Skylake-U) and BGA 1440 (Skylake-H).
Unboxing & Setup Impressions - Dropcam Echo : Home Security Meets the Cloud
June 2024The Dropcam Echo review unit came in a spartan package. The camera itself was bubble wrapped. There were some mounting aids, a power adapter and an Ethernet cable.
User Experience & Usability - Samsung Chromebook (XE303) Review: Testing ARM's Cortex A15
June 2024User Experience & Usability Similar to our performance analysis in the Surface review, there are really two sides to the performance of a Chromebook.
A Lighter Navi To Rule 1080p Gaming
June 2024With the launch of the Radeon RX 5700 series and Radeon RX 5500 XT under their collective belt, AMD is now getting ready to fill in the divide between the card families.
AMD Quietly Introduces Ryzen 3 5100 Quad-Core Processor For AM4
June 2024Further to AMD's latest Micro Center exclusive processor, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D with 3D V-Cache, AMD has seemingly introduced a budget-focused quad-core processor based on their Zen 3 architecture.
ARM Research Summit 2016 Keynote Live Blog
June 202403:41AM EDT - ARM's first Research Summit is happening today at Churchill College, Cambridge. We have near-front row seats and are expecting some details on future HPC plans today.
ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Review - Know Your SKU
June 2024Now that Panther Point is in full swing, and perhaps Sandy Bridge processor stocks may start to dwindle in favor of Ivy Bridge, market segmentation of motherboards is all too critical.
Camera: Still Image Performance - The iPhone 6 Review
June 2024Camera In order to really understand the camera of the iPhone 6, we have to first talk about the components that make up the camera system.
Commercial NAS Operating Systems - Exploring Value-Additions
June 2024The market for network-attached storage units has expanded significantly over the last few years. The rapid growth in public cloud storage (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and the like) has tempered the expansion a bit amongst consumers who are not very tech-savvy.
Dell U2412M Color Uniformity and Color Gamut - Dell U2412M
June 2024Dell U2412M Color Uniformity and Gamut Of course if only the center of the panel looks good, it’s going to make images look bad with color shifting and other undesirable results.
eVGA's GeForce FX 5700 Personal Cinema HDTV Support - eVGA's GeForce FX 5700 Personal Cinema
June 2024eVGA's GeForce FX 5700 Personal Cinema - HDTV Support For the purpose of this review, we looked at the native HDTV resolutions on an Infocus X1 projector (pictures come out better from a projector than a HDTV set).
Final Words - nForce4 SLI Roundup: Painful and Rewarding
June 2024Final Words The SLI roundup has been an interesting journey. We had stopped a lot of places along the way - from being convinced that nForce4 SLI was not ready for prime time to being mightily impressed with stability of SLI once we worked out all the kinks.
Final Words - System Buyers Guide: $1000 to $2000
June 2024Final Words Most users that email questions about building a computer system are planning to build a midrange computer system. With a broad price range of $1000 to $2000, this covers a huge number of potential choices.
Final Words - The 27-inch Apple iMac Review (2011)
June 2024Final Words The new 27-inch iMac repeats all of the things I liked about the new MacBook Pro. It's stylish and as always Apple was pretty smart about most of its component choices.
Gaming Performance - Asus P5WDG2-WS: Intel 975X goes to Work
June 2024Gaming Performance The Intel 975X platform offers a competitive gaming platform when compared to the NVIDIA nForce 4 Intel Edition SLI.
GIGABYTE Z690 Aero D (DDR5)
June 2024GIGABYTE Z690 Aero D (DDR5) Moving away from the gaming-focused Aorus branded motherboards, and GIGABYTE has announced its content-creator-friendly Aero series will be making a return for Z690.
Google Assistant Gets Smarter, Google Home Gets Free Calling & More
June 2024More and more people are using the phrase “Ok Google” to start a conversation to find information or perform actions using the Google Assistant.
GPU Performance - The Dell XPS 15 9550 Review: Infinity Edge Lineup Expands
June 2024GPU Performance Other than the base model Core i3 powered XPS 15, all of the other models feature a 2 GB NVIDIA GTX 960M graphics card.
Half-Life 2 Performance Benchmark Preview
June 2024It's almost ironic that the one industry we deal with that is directly related to entertainment has been the least exciting for the longest time.
Hard Disk Performance: iPEAK - Western Digital WD1500ADFD: King Raptor
June 2024Hard Disk Performance: iPEAKWith the variety of disk drive benchmarks available, we needed a means of comparing the true performance of the hard drives.
HTPC Usage Notes - Network Playback
June 2024The other important aspect for HTPCs is performance with network streaming services such as YouTube and Netflix. The ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus comes with a GbE port, so one should never be found wanting in terms of bandwidth.
IBM's POWER10 Processor on Samsung 7nm (10:00am PT)
June 202401:08PM EDT - Time for Power10! Bill Starke and Brian Thompto 01:09PM EDT - Bill is chief architect of POWER10
Intel Core CPUs, SSDs, & Optane Memory Too
June 2024Good morning everyone! We’re now on day 3 of our 20 day celebration of AnandTech’s 20th anniversary. After yesterday’s HTC U Ultra giveaway, today we’re back to PC parts, courtesy of Intel.
Logitech Acquires Blue Microphones
June 2024Logitech this week continued its spree of high-profile takeovers by announcing plans to acquire Blue Microphones, a maker of microphones for professional musicians and gamers.
MSI Trident 3 Announced: A Core i7 Console
June 2024Over CES, MSI announced a new console-like PC called the Trident 3. The new unit packs the latest Intel’s Kaby Lake CPU, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU, memory, an SSD and a hard drive.
Mushkin Announces 8TB M.2 SSD: ALPHA Series
June 2024Anyone in the market for high capacity 8 TB M.2 drives has so far only had one choice on the market.
No Longer a Processor, Instead a Platform
June 2024While all eyes are on Qualcomm for the impending release of devices containing their high-end Snapdragon 835 SoC, this morning the company has a slightly different kind of announcement to make.
NV Designed, High Performance ARM Core: Updated!
June 2024NVIDIA's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang just announced Project Denver - its first CPU architecture design ever, based on ARM's ISA. This is a custom design done by NVIDIA in conjunction with ARM and targeted at the high performance computing (HPC) market.
NVIDIA Announces Jetson TK1 Dev Board; Adds Erista To Tegra Roadmap
June 2024Continuing our coverage of NVIDIA’s 2014 GPU Technology Conference, today we’re looking at NVIDIA’s Tegra-related announcements. As Tegra is primarily a consumer facing product, especially the pre-K1 parts, NVIDIA centers the bulk of their Tegra announcements around the annual Consumer Electronics Show in January.
OSD Controls and Console Gaming - ASUS MS238H Review
June 2024OSD and Gaming One of the nice things about the MS238H is that the display includes a much-needed 3.5mm headphone jack for HDMI audio pass through.
Our Hygon Systems: 8-core Dhyana and dual 32-core Dhyana Plus
June 2024Our Hygon Systems 8-core Dhyana and Dual 32-core Dhyana Plus The full range of Hygon’s known releases boils down to two platforms: one containing a single 8-core Zen 1 die, similar to the desktop range of processors (or EPYC 3000), and a set of server processors built from four dies in a similar arrangement to Naples.
OWC Ships ThunderBlade External SSDs, Touts SoftRAID Tech for 3800 MB/s Speeds
June 2024OWC this week began to ship its ThunderBlade external SSDs with a Thunderbolt 3 interface. The new DAS can deliver up to 2800 MB/s read speeds, which is beyond what even USB 3.
Performance Results - CPU Air Cooler Roundup: Six Coolers from Noctua, SilverStone, be quiet!, and C
June 2024Performance Results Given that I've been doing these cooler reviews entirely in roundups, it's probably no surprise that the amount of results I've put together have absolutely ballooned.
Phenom vs. Phenom II - Clock for Clock
June 2024Before we get to how fast this thing is, it's important to look at how much faster we are compared to the original Phenom.
Platform Analysis and vPro Capabilities
June 2024The Cubi 2 Plus is based on the H110 chipset, while the vPro model is based on the Q170 chipset. Another important difference in the motherboards is the presence of the Intel I219-LM Gigabit Ethernet Controller on the vPro model (compared to the Intel I219-V on the regular one).
Polaris Refined: Better Fab Yields & a New Memory State
June 2024One of the components of AMD’s marketing angle for the Radeon RX 500 series is that it’s Polaris Refined. These are still the same Polaris 10 GPUs as in the Radeon RX 400 series, but AMD wants to highlight the small improvements that they have made/gained in the past year.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 410 Based on 64-bit ARM Cortex A53
June 2024ARM told us to expect some of the first 64-bit ARMv8 based SoCs to ship in 2014, and it looks like we're seeing just that.
Recall of CableMods' 12VHPWR Adapters Estimates Failure Rate of 1.07%
June 2024A recall on 12VHPWR angled adapters from CableMod has reached its next stage this week, with the publication of a warning document from the U.
Seasonic Readies Fanless Prime 700 W 80Plus Titanium PSU
June 2024Seasonic demonstrated its upcoming Prime 700 W Titanium Fanless power supply at Computex. The PSU carries an 80Plus Titanium badge and will enable PC makers or enthusiasts to build whisper quite systems that still require lot of power.
Six Generations of iPhones: Performance Compared
June 2024Section by Anand Shimpi Cross platform smartphone benchmarks are interesting, but they do come with their own sets of issues. Before we get to that analysis however, let's look at how the iPhone's performance has improved over the past six generations.
The Tale of Two Motherboards
June 2024Some of the recent discussions around motherboard design are whether the motherboard manufacturers are actually adhering to the CPU vendor specifications.
ThinkPad Edge 13: LCD Analysis
June 2024LCD Analysis More bad news: the glossy screen and the standard 1366x768 WXGA resolution are mandatory in the Edge. There is no matte finish available, and while the 768p HD screen is not bad, a higher resolution option would have been appreciated, especially on a machine with business-class pretensions.
Wolfdale vs. Conroe Performance - The Penryn Preview
June 2024Wolfdale vs. Conroe Performance We had heard rumors of Intel introducing a faster, lower latency L2 cache in Wolfdale and it appears to be true:
ZOTAC Launches GeForce GTX 1070 Mini for Mini-ITX PCs
June 2024ZOTAC has added a small form-factor video card based on NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 GPU to its lineup of products. The graphics adapter is designed for Mini-ITX PCs and will be the second product of such kind on the market after GIGABYTE’s GeForce GTX 1070 Mini-ITX released earlier this year.
A Mixed Reality Headset, Ships in Mid-October
June 2024Dell has begun to take pre-orders on its Visor headset for Windows Mixed Reality applications. The company will start shipments of the device in mid-October, just in time for Microsoft’s Windows 10 Creators Update that arrives on October 17 and ahead of the holiday season.
Alienware Installs NVIDIAs GeForce RTX Cards In Aurora and Area-51 Desktops
June 2024Alienware this week announced its latest versions of Aurora and Area-51 desktops, the most notable change being that the new models will be equipped with NVIDIA’s latest GeForce RTX graphics cards.
AMD Launches Excavator Based R-Series APUs for Embedded with DDR4 Support
June 2024Despite the recent news surrounding AMDs reorganization and financials, today AMD is announcing the launch of its first DDR4 processors. But rather than aiming at the high end or the consumer platforms like their blue competitors, AMDs focus for DDR4 starts in the embedded sector which comprises of digital signage, vertical markets (medical), networking, point-of-sale, commercial and industrial applications.
AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat
June 2024Needing no introduction, AMD this afternoon is the second of the PC chip titans to announce their earnings for the quarter and for the full 2020 calendar year.
AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - The Intel SSD 710 (200GB) Review
June 2024AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 Last year we introduced our AnandTech Storage Bench, a suite of benchmarks that took traces of real OS/application usage and played them back in a repeatable manner.
ASRock B560 Pro4/ac & B560 Pro4
June 2024A lot of Intel B560 models are micro-ATX sized, which is a stark contrast compared with Z590, where there are barely any.
ASUS Crosshair V Formula Overview and Visual Inspection
June 2024ASUS Crosshair V Formula - Overview Last year was a bleak year for reviewing ROG boards at AnandTech; however we intend to change that this time around, starting with the Crosshair V Formula.
ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED With Latest AMD Barcelo APU
June 2024With a wide variety of laptops, notebooks, and gaming-focused solutions expected to be announced during CES 2022, ASUS has unveiled that it has updated its Zenbook 14 OLED series for 2022.
ATI Radeon X800 GTO Mini Roundup: Sapphire, Connect3D, and PowerColor
June 2024IntroductionMid-range graphics cards are becoming more and more abundant on today's market from both NVIDIA and ATI. The market has become a little bit congested with cards like the X800 GT, X800, X800 XL, and four flavors of the scarce X1600.
BIOS and Software - MSI X79A-GD45 Plus Review: Building Up
June 2024MSI X79A-GD45 Plus BIOS With Z87, MSI had upgraded the BIOS system on those motherboards and we rather liked the new design of fan controls in the BIOS.
Bluetooth 4.2 Core Specifications Finalized
June 2024The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has officially adopted a new version of the Bluetooth core specifications. Version 4.2 promises greater speed, greater privacy, and a soon to be ratified Bluetooth profile for IP connectivity.
Cherry Unveils Viola Mechanical Switch for Low-Cost Keyboards
June 2024Since their resurgance in the gaming market almost a decade ago, mechanical switch keyboards have become and have remained a popular item within the gaming market as well as the market for high-end keyobards in general.
Cortex A15: GPU Power Consumption
June 2024Cortex A15: GPU Power Consumption - 3D Gaming Workload ARM's Mali-T604 GPU is pretty quick, but similar to ARM's Cortex A15s it can definitely use a considerable amount of power to deliver that performance.
CPU Performance - Five Generations of Mac Pros Compared
June 2024CPU Performance I like to have large historical databases of performance so I can put new products in perspective. The Mac Pro and its funny lineage make this a little difficult.
Delta E Testing and Why Our Numbers are Different - Dell U2412M
June 2024Delta E Testing and Why Our Numbers are Different If you’ve looked at reviews of the Dell U2412M at other sites, you’re going to find that our Delta E (dE) numbers look different, as do our other display reviews.
Desktop NVIDIA GTX 980 Coming To Gaming Notebooks
June 2024For as long as NVIDIA has been putting GPUs into notebooks, they would always have a separate lineup of GPUs which were designed for the thermally constrained environment of a notebook computer.
Feature Set Comparison - WD Red Pro Review: 4 TB Drives for NAS Systems Benchmarked
June 2024Feature Set Comparison Enterprise hard drives come with features such as real time linear and rotational vibration correction, dual actuators to improve head positional accuracy, multi-axis shock sensors to detect and compensate for shock events and dynamic fly-height technology for increasing data access reliability.
Final Words & Conclusion - The 1STPlayer Steampunk 80+ Gold 750W PSU Review: A New Challenger Emerge
June 2024Conclusion The release of the new Steampunk series from 1STPlayer is interesting in several ways, perhaps most of all because it introduces a new OEM into the American and European markets.
Gaming: F1 2018 - The Intel 9th Gen Review: Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K and Core i5-9600K Tested
June 2024Gaming: F1 2018 Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1.
Hands On with the Nokia Lumia 920 & Lumia 820
June 2024I'm rushing over to the Motorola event right now, but I wanted to upload some hands on shots of the new Lumia 920 and 820 that were announced earlier today.
Installation, Part 1 - Arctic Cooling Accelero Hybrid VGA Cooler Review: Not For the Faint of Heart
June 2024Installation, Part 1 Of course, in order to actually test the Arctic Cooling Accelero Hybrid, we must first install it.
Kodak Medium Format Sensor - Photokina 2008: Full-Frame and Megapixels Rule
June 2024Kodak Medium Format Sensor Kodak was the first to produce full-frame DSLR cameras, with models based on both popular Nikon and Canon bodies of the time.
Miscellaneous Aspects and Concluding Remarks
June 2024Networking and storage are aspects that may be of vital importance in specific PC use-cases. The Supermicro SYS-E102-13R-H comes with support for a M.
More on Alan Wake & Multi-core Gaming - Fall IDF 2006
June 2024More on Alan Wake & Multi-core Gaming We had a chance to sit down with Markus Maki and Lasse Seppanen of Remedy Entertainment, Ltd.
Nintendo and Sony Announce Low-Cost Wii and PSP for Europe
June 2024Two strikingly similar announcements came out of Gamescom over the past two days. During a press conference yesterday, Sony unveiled the PSP-E1000, a discounted PlayStation Portable that can still run UMDs but lacks WiFi.
NVIDIA Announces 24GB Quadro M6000
June 2024With NVIDIA currently between GPU generations, things have been relatively quiet on the professional graphics front for the company. On the high-end NVIDIA released the Quadro M6000 back in 2015, bringing their fully enabled GM200 GPU into the professional market.
NVIDIA Provides GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Delay Update, Announces Early October Shipping for Preorders
June 2024Prior to the originally announced September 20th launch date for the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and 2080, NVIDIA quietly delayed the RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition release date by a week.
Paving The Future For AMD
June 2024There are only a handful of metrics by which 2009 didn’t end as a successful year for AMD. With the launch of the Radeon HD 5800 series in September of that year AMD got a significant and unusually long-standing jump on the competition.
Real lighting - All About Lighting
June 2024Radiosity, as close as it gets... Ok, we know Phong shading is cool, Gouraud shading is fast, etc. But how do games like Quake2 and Unreal create such realistic environments?
SK Hynix Launches Beetle X31 Portable SSD
June 2024UISK Hynix has introduced the Beetle X31, its first portable SSD. The drive promises to hit sequential transfer rates of up to 1,050 MB/sec when working with appropriate hosts.
Sony Announces the Xperia Z4
June 2024Today Sony Mobile officially announced the Xperia Z4 on their Japanese website. The Xperia Z4 will be the company's flagship smartphone for 2015, sitting alongside Sony's flagship tablet which is called the Xperia Z4 Tablet.
The Cooler Master MasterCase 5 Review
June 2024Introduction Cooler Master is a very familiar brand name amongst enthusiasts. The company started off as a manufacturer of PC cooling solutions and quickly diversified towards cases and power supply units, to which they owe much of their current reputation.
The Exterior of the Streacom F12C Desktop Aluminum Case
June 2024The Streacom F12C is clearly a minimalistic design. It highlights the simplicity of plain sandblasted aluminum, with the only aesthetic touches being the rounded corners and bottom edge of the faceplate.
The Kinesis Freestyle Edge RGB Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review: An Ergonomic Masterpiece
June 2024The KinesisGaming SmartSet App As with any really advanced keyboard, one of the primary features of the Freestyle Edge RGB is its software.
The Logitech G700s: Convertible for the MMO Player
June 2024The Logitech G700s: Convertible for the MMO Player When Logitech showed me the G700s, I was actually pretty impressed by it and disappointed that I never saw the G700 in retail.
The Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition
June 2024Introduction The Multi-GPU market is a very important one to a number of companies, yet it is presently only dominated by one: NVIDIA.
TRIM Performance - OCZ Vertex 4 Review (256GB, 512GB)
June 2024TRIM Performance I started out this review with a mention of estimated write amplification and how OCZ was able to significantly reduce it with the Vertex 4/Everest 2 compared to Octane/Everest 1.
Up to 1000 W w/ RGB
June 2024Last year FSP introduced one of the world’s first commercial liquid-cooled PSUs for PCs, the Hydro PTM+ with the maximum output of 1400 W.
Up to DDR4-4800, Mirror Design
June 2024With even "extreme" clockspeed DDR4 modules bordering on being commodity hardware these days, DRAM module manufacturers are increasingly using design as one of the primary ways to attract attention to their DIMMs.
Using a 'Phablet' - Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Review (T-Mobile)
June 2024So we’ve talked about the high level appearance and industrial design of the Galaxy Note 2, but I think the question on everyone’s minds is what it’s really like to use such a large, nearly novelty-sized phone.
We did it, so you don't have to
June 2024We have only had the phone for a few hours but we needed to get inside its casing, what follows is our dissection of the Apple iPhone.
12.3-Inch Display, Kaby Lake, 1 TB SSD, 16 GB LPDDR3, TB3
June 2024HP has announced the second generation of its Elite x2 1012 2-in-1 detachable PC designed for commercial applications. The next-gen system not only gets more powerful Kaby Lake SoCs, but has also seen improvements across the board compared to its predecessor: it now has a larger display with a higher resolution and brightness, two times more DRAM, up to a 1 TB SSD, Thunderbolt 3, a higher-capacity battery, enhanced security features, and other advancements.
900W Due Later This Year
June 2024The consumer market is not used to the idea of redundant power supplies. For the enterprise market, redundant PSUs give peace of mind by eliminating a single point of potential failure.
A Fully Custom NUC 9 Extreme
June 2024Razer, a company that styles itself as 'by gamers, for gamers', has today unveiled its latest product, a modular NUC dubbed the Tomahawk.
ABIT BX6 Revision 2.0 Slot-1 BX
June 2024A computer science professor once said that if youre going to enter into a business, regardless of the nature, your goal should be to find something that no one else has done, and do it.
Acer Aspire One Netbooks
June 2024Acer Aspire One Netbooks Acer has announced four new additions to the Aspire One netbook line. The AO521 and AO721 feature AMD Athlon Neo II processors, while the AO533 will come with an Intel Atom N475 processor and the AOD260 will round things off with an Intel Atom N450 processor.
AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.1GHz
June 2024We're getting into the battle of size again with AMD and Intel. If you remember, the last time we left off with this competition based on clock speeds, prior to AMD's Thunderbird release, AMD had just released the 900, 950 and 1GHz Athlon parts, and in response, Intel made their 1GHz Pentium III parts available in "
AMD RDNA 3 GPU Unveil "together we advance_gaming Live Blog (1pm PT/20:00 UTC)
June 2024AnandTech Live Blog: The newest updates are at the top. This page will auto-update, there's no need to manually refresh your browser.
ASUS TUF Gaming B560M-Plus WIFI & B560M-Plus
June 2024Rounding off the ASUS B560 models is a pair of micro-ATX motherboards which are targetted at gamers on a budget. Both theASUS TUF GamingB560M-PlusWIFI and B560M-Plusfollow the quintessential TUF Gaming design with black, grey, and yellow accented PCB and heatsinks.
Battery Life - Honor Launches The View20: A 48MP Camera Review
June 2024Battery Life Battery life of the View20 is something I knew would be good before I even had completed our battery suite run.
Battery Life and Charge Time - The Acer Nitro 5 Gaming Laptop Review: Absolutely AMD
June 2024Battery Life Despite being a large laptop, weighing almost six pounds and being over 1-inch thick, the Acer Nitro 5 has just a 47 Wh battery inside, which is less than many Ultrabooks.
Battery Life and Charging - The Lenovo ThinkPad P70 Review: Mobile Xeon Workstation
June 2024Battery Life If you hear the words “Mobile Workstation” then you know two things. First, it’s going to be pretty powerful.
Core i7, Quadro RTX 5000, 4K Calibrated Monitor
June 2024Acer has announced its new lineup of laptops aimed at professionals and offering appropriate performance, capabilities, and certifications from ISVs. Acer’s Concept D Pro notebooks use Intel’s processors as well as NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX professional GPUs.
Corsair Graphite 760T Interior - Corsair Graphite 760T Case Review
June 2024Corsair Graphite 760T Interior Most of the interior of the Graphite 760T is black, with the exception of the top and bottom panels, which are white on our sample (with black as an alternative).
Digital TV Broadcast to Analog Broadcast Converter - CES 2006
June 2024Digital TV Broadcast to Analog Broadcast Converter An interesting technology we saw displayed at LG's booth was the DTV converter box.
Drives In Detail, Part 2: Intel P4510, Optane P4800X, Memblaze PBlaze5
June 2024Intel SSD DC P4510 When Intel launched the DC P4510 earlier this year, our initial review focused on using it to test out Intel's Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) feature.
Final Words - AMD's 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6174 vs. Intel's 6-core Xeon
June 2024Final Words The beancounters will probably point out that AMD’s strategy of bolting two CPU dies at 346 mm² together is quite costly.
Gaming Benchmarks - Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 and E5-2650 v3 Review: Haswell-EP with 10 Cores
June 2024Gaming Benchmarks F1 2013 First up is F1 2013 by Codemasters. I am a big Formula 1 fan in my spare time, and nothing makes me happier than carving up the field in a Caterham, waving to the Red Bulls as I drive by (because I play on easy and take shortcuts).
GPU Tests: Rise of the Tomb Raider
June 2024Rise of the Tomb Raider One of the newest games in the gaming benchmark suite is Rise of the Tomb Raider (RoTR), developed by Crystal Dynamics, and the sequel to the popular Tomb Raider which was loved for its automated benchmark mode.
Graphics Performance - The MSI Prestige 14 Evo Review: Testing The Waters Of Tiger Lake
June 2024Graphics Performance Intel has made a lot of strides in terms of graphics performance in a short amount of time. After languishing with integrated graphics that were adequate for 2D but no more, Intel has put a priority on graphics.
Habana's Approach to AI Scaling
June 202409:21PM EDT - The final talk today at Hot Chips is from Habana, who is discussing its approach to how to scale AI compute.
Intel Proposes to Use USB Type-C Digital Audio Technology
June 2024USB Type-C has a number of chances to become the standard for data and charging connector for smartphones and tablets running either Android or Windows.
Let's Talk about PhysX Baby
June 2024When AMD and NVIDIA both started talking about GPU accelerated physics the holy grail was the following scenario: You upgrade your graphics card but now instead of throwing your old one away, you simply use it for GPU accelerated physics.
NVIDIA Optimus - Truly Seamless Switchable Graphics and ASUS UL50Vf
June 2024Back in December, NVIDIA contacted me to let me know that something "really big" was coming out in the near future.
NVIDIA Shield Up for Preorder May 20 for $349, Ships in June
June 2024It has been a while since we last heard from NVIDIA about Project Shield. Today, NVIDIA is dropping "Project" from the name, making it formally just Shield, and simultaneously announcing pricing and availability information about its Tegra 4-packing handheld gaming console.
Parallel ATA Hard Drives - Price Guides, March 2005: Storage
June 2024Parallel ATA Hard Drives In each guide edition, we take special notice at the difference in price between PATA and SATA as a whole.
Performance Testing - Nokia Lumia 710 Review
June 2024Performance Unfortunately, the majority of benchmarks that usually grace our smartphone reviews don’t yet have WP7 ports or analogs, but there are a still a number of comparisons we can make.
Physical Impressions and Aesthetics - Novatel Wireless MiFi 4510L Review
June 2024Physical Comparisons The 4510L is a fair amount chunkier than the 2200 in photos as well, though it retains roughly the same credit-card outline.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 712: A Higher Bin 710
June 2024Today Qualcomm announced a new entry into its “upper mid-range” line-up of SoCs: The Snapdragon 712. The announcement is quite surprising, as it seems the chip might possibly simply be a higher bin variant of the Snapdragon 710:
Round Display, Snapdragon Wear 2100, Long Battery Life
June 2024ASUS introduced its third generation ZenWatch at the IFA trade show on Wednesday. The ZenWatch 3 wearable features a new case design with round display and uses a more energy-efficient hardware platform when compared to its predecessors.
Samsung Galaxy Round, a Curved Note 3
June 2024Just recently, news broke that the Galaxy Round is being released for sale in Korea. While Samsung can claim that they are the first to create a commercially sold curved AMOLED display, Samsung has made phones with curved displays before, although such curves were achieved through curved glass, not curved displays.
Scythe Ninja Plus Rev. B: Updated Cooling Legend
June 2024In the past the Ninja name was used to designate the top-of-the-line Scythe coolers. Then somewhere along the development road the Infinity name rose to the top of the Scythe catalog.
SilverStone FT03: Nothing Else Like It
June 2024Introducing the SilverStone FT03 Case testing is back at AnandTech with fresher, stricter, and much more thorough testing, and we're kicking it off with a doozy.
SIM2 C3X1080 - CEDIA 2007
June 2024SIM2 C3X1080 SIM2 is a smaller manufacturer of very high end projectors and it introduced its most affordable 3-chip DLP 1080p projector: the C3X1080.
Six-Core Coffee Lake, 4K Display, NVMe
June 2024HP on Monday announced new versions of its Envy AIO systems with 27-inch displays. The latest all-in-ones are upgraded across-the-board with the newest six-core Coffee Lake CPUs as well as NVIDIA’s Pascal GPUs.
The First DirectX 11 Games
June 2024The First DirectX 11 Games With any launch of a new DirectX generation of hardware, software availability becomes a concern. As the hardware needs to come before the software so that developers can tailor their games’ performance, it’s just not possible to immediately launch with games ready to go.
The Latest Multimedia Solution From ATI
June 2024Introduction We recently looked at ATI's X1800 XL version of the All-In-Wonder, which combined powerhouse graphics along with its multimedia capabilities.
The Start: The Rendering Pipeline In Detail
June 2024Before we can even discuss the concept of stuttering and other frame timing anomalies, we need to first take a look at a high-level overview of the Windows rendering pipeline.
Trace Tests: AnandTech Storage Bench and PCMark 10
June 2024AnandTech Storage Bench - The Destroyer Our AnandTech Storage Bench tests are traces (recordings) of real-world IO patterns that are replayed onto the drives under test.
TSMC Boosts CapEx by $1 Billion, Expects N5 Node to Be Major Success
June 2024TSMC is on track to begin high-volume production of chips using its 5 nm technology in the coming months, the company said in its conference call last week.
Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 6TB Review
June 2024While we await more Thunderbolt storage devices, Western Digital grabbed headlines not too long ago for the announcement of its 6TB My Book Studio Edition II Mac-ready external drive.
5 FHD, IP68+, 5000 mAh
June 2024Cat has announced its new S41 rugged smartphone designed to withstand extreme conditions that will succeed the model S40 introduced several years ago.
A Chrome OS-Based Business Desktop
June 2024Business and enterprise desktops is an interesting market recently - on the one hand, because extended support for Windows 7 nears its end early in 2020, multiple companies are eager to buy new PCs; on the other hand, margins are low and competition between suppliers is cut-throat.
About the PX-740A - Plextor PX-740A
June 2024About the PX-740A Take a look at what Nero’s InfoTool shows about the PX-740A… And here’s a snapshot of DVD Info Pro’s take on the PX-740A…
AMDs DockPort Given Virtual Overview
June 2024Flying somewhat under the radar, DockPort from AMD is designed to be a low-cost all-in-one solution for external connectivity for a PC or tablet.
ARM Announces ARMv8-M Instruction Set For Microcontrollers TrustZone Comes to Cortex-M
June 2024Kicking off today in Santa Clara, California is ARM’s annual developer conference and expo, TechCon. Although ARM announces products year-round, they always have a couple of announcements reserved for TechCon and this year is no exception.
ASUS F2A85-V Pro Software - ASUS F2A85-V Pro Review: A Look at FM2 with A85X
June 2024ASUS F2A85-V Pro Software The software package provided by ASUS is often cited by us as one of the best software packages with a motherboard, and this is still true on the FM2 socket and Trinity processors.
ASUS Transformer Pad 300 (TF300T) Review
June 2024Before the $399 iPad 2, before the $199 Kindle Fire, there was the $399 Eee Pad Transformer from ASUS. Like nearly all first attempts in the tablet space, the original Transformer wasn't perfect, but it was quite possibly the best try outside of Apple at the time.
Battery Life and Charge Time
June 2024Battery Life Obviously, battery life is one of the most important aspects of any smartphone, tablet, or other mobile device shipping today.
CES 2006 - Day 1: Dell's 30" Display, Quad SLI, WUSB and more
June 2024We'll start off our CES coverage with none other than Dell and their handful of new products and announcements. Dell Takes on Apple with 30"
CPUs, GPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
June 2024CPUs, GPUs, Motherboards, and Memory For an article like this, getting a range of CPUs, which includes the most common and popular, is very important.
Display Uniformity and Power Usage
June 2024Especially with localized dimming, the PG27UQ's panel uniformity was solid. In the default out-of-the-box configuration (FALD enabled), the maximum local difference of white levels is around 5% of the center brightness.
Done for 2009: The Holiday MacBook Pro Roundup
June 2024PerformanceBenchmarking under OS X is a bit of a pain. There aren't many good standardized real world benchmarks, and unfortunately the synthetic tests are often over used.
Feeding the Beast (2018): GDDR6 & Memory Compression
June 2024Memory bandwidth has always been a challenge for video cards, and that challenge only continues to get harder. Thanks to the mechanics of Moore’s Law, GPU transistor counts – and therefore the quantities of various cores – is growing at a rapid pace.
From There to Here, and Beyond
June 2024I’ll be the first to admit, I had no history with AnandTech before I joined. It was by sheer chance, meeting one of the writers at an overclocking event, that led me to first become a reader, then a writer, to what has become my career in journalism.
Gaming Tests: World of Tanks
June 2024Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles.
GIGABYTE Announces FM2+ A88X Series Motherboards for Kaveri
June 2024The evolution of the Bulldozer module, through Piledriver, and Steamroller on Kaveri to come has been an eventful journey. Despite recent rumors floating around the Internet reporting delays to AMD’s deployment of Kaveri (which AMD have since confirmed to the media that Kaveri will ship to customers in Q4-2013), motherboard manufacturers, like GIGABYTE, are announcing their lineup for Steamroller based APUs.
Google Develops In-House Arm 'Axion' CPU for Datacenters
June 2024Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service.
GPU Performance: Synthetic Benchmarks - ASRock DeskMeet B660 Review: An Affordable NUC Extreme?
June 2024GPU Performance: Synthetic Benchmarks Discrete GPUs are included in systems for a variety of purposes. The most common scenario is one in which the end user requires better gaming performance than what an integrated GPU can provide.
GPUs and Case Mods - The MSI Gaming Booth Tour with dGPUs in AIOs and Notebooks plus Motherboards
June 2024SLI Bridges Aesthetics are becoming in important part of the PC Gaming space, and regardless of the revenues it seems that PC component manufacturers have to make an effort on styling especially when it comes to presentation.
Hands-On: Dell Streak 7 - Tablet Hands-On Roundup
June 2024We hit up T-Mobile’s keynote, and while the biggest news was the Honeycomb-based G-Slate by LG, Big Magenta also showed off the new Dell Streak 7.
LaCie 5big Storage Server NAS Review
June 2024Back in March 2010, Intel announced an Atom based platform optimized for storage applications. Using either a D410 or the dual core D510, paired with an Intel 82801IR I/O controller, it was touted by Intel to have been picked up by various NAS vendors such as LaCie, LG, QNAP, Synology and Thecus.
MSI Z390-A PRO - Intel Z390 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Analyzed
June 2024MSI Z390-A PRO The main difference between the MSI Z390-A PRO and the rest of MSI's Z390 product stack is that this board isn't specifically targeted towards gamers.
NVIDIA Fumbles, Releases GeForce RTX 3060 Driver Without Anti-Mining Throttle
June 2024In an effort to partially mitigate the market chaos that has come from the cryptocurrency mining boom over the last 6 months, last month NVIDIA very publicly introduced a mining throttling mechanism for its then-new GeForce RTX 3060 cards.
Overclocking The Ryzen 2000 Series APUs: The Conclusion
June 2024If we go back to our Ryzen 2000 Series APU review, it is clear that the Ryzen 3 2200G ($99) and Ryzen 5 2400G ($169) are true winners when it comes to building a gaming system on a budget, without making too much of a sacrifice, especially when focusing on popular gaming titles that do not require ultimate horsepower.
OWC and SoftRAID create ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 Edition
June 2024One of the most poignant uses for Thunderbolt has always been Direct Attached Storage (DAS). Alongside supporting high resolution displays, Thunderbolt is all about the daisy chaining of both storage and displays.
Power Supply Quality & Conclusion
June 2024Power Supply Quality As part of our testing, we also check output parameters are within specifications, as well as voltage ripple and line noise.
Prosumer Picks - Digital Camera Buyers' Guide
June 2024Prosumer Picks Photo Hobbyists usually have an investment in a particular lens line and that influences their buying decision. It also seems emotions run high among photography hobbyists, so we wouldn't dare make a hard recommendation in the prosumer area or we'd be ducking rocks.
Putting It in Perspective: The Atom Takes on a Single-Core Pentium 4
June 2024When the Atom first appeared I immediately did my best to characterize its performance. Intel always referred to it as having the performance of a 90nm Pentium M but never really got as specific as I would like.
QNAP Launches Marvell-based 4-bay Rackmount NAS Units
June 2024Rackmount NAS units introduced in recent days have been mostly based on the powerful Intel processors, but there is a market demand amongst small workgroups and SMBs for low power NAS devices in that form factor.
Sharkoon Launches Quickstore One USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C Storage Device DIY Kit
June 2024Sharkoon this week introduced a new DIY kit that lets users build their own external storage device featuring a USB 3.
Testing Methodology - 120mm Radiator Fan Roundup Part 2: Fan Harder
June 2024Testing Methodology If you've been keeping up with our case reviews, our testing methodology for the fans here is going to seem relatively similar in some ways.
The Azio Retro Classic Mechanical Keyboard
June 2024A mere glance on Azio’s Retro Classic hints that the company fully intended to build a keyboard that stands out from the crowd.
The Ins and Outs of Memory Addressing
June 2024Synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) is made up of multiple arrays of single-bit storage sites arranged in a two-dimensional lattice structure formed by the intersection of individual rows (Word Lines) and columns (Bit Lines).
The Keyboard - The Nixeus Moda Pro Review: A Professional Mechanical Keyboard for $55
June 2024The Nixeus Moda Pro Mechanical Keyboard A simple glance on the Moda Pro reveals that Nixeus invested a significant portion of their efforts on the aesthetic value of the keyboard.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Review: GK106 Fills Out The Kepler Family
June 2024Synthetics As always we’ll also take a quick look at synthetic performance to see if NVIDIA’s core configuration has had any impact on basis performance metrics.
Toshiba and SanDisk Announce 48-layer 256Gbit TLC 3D NAND
June 2024This week Toshiba and SanDisk are announcing a new milestone in their joint development of flash memory. Back in March Toshiba announced a 48-layer 3D NAND technology that they were sampling in the form of a 128Gb MLC die.
Two Phase Immersion Liquid Cooling at Supercomputing 2019
June 2024It would now appear we are saturated with two phase immersion liquid cooling (2PILC) – pun intended. One common element from the annual Supercomputing trade show, as well as the odd system at Computex and Mobile World Congress, is the push from some parts of the industry towards fully immersed systems in order to drive cooling.
What is 10nm SuperFin All About?
June 2024For those within the semiconductor industry, as well as individuals with investments in the companies we cover, it has been hard to miss the recent news surrounding Intel’s manufacturing process woes.
Windows 10 May 2019 Update Feature Focus: Light Themes And Sandboxes
June 2024This week, Microsoft officially rolled out the Windows 10 May 2019 Update to the world. However, due to some recurring issues over the last couple of updates, the company is thankfully taking a very measured approach this time.
Windows 7: Release Candidate 1 Preview
June 2024Windows 7: Release Candidate 1 When we wrote our Windows Vista Performance Guide, we were left wondering about Microsoft’s ability to sell Vista to a community of users well entrenched with Windows XP
Windows Subsystem For Linux Gets More Linux
June 2024Today at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, the Redmond company announced some major changes to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, as well as some improvements to Windows 10 command line with the Windows Terminal.
WLAN Enabled Nokia N80 Phone - CES 2006
June 2024WLAN Enabled Nokia N80 Phone One feature we've been waiting to hit more smartphones is WiFi. With the high price of data plans in the US and the increasing number of 802.
A New Home - The BlackBerry PlayBook Review
June 2024A New Home Like many things, when talking about home screens there's a spectrum of options. On the simplest end we've got Apple with iOS, and for the ultimate in complexity there's a full blown desktop OS like Windows or OS X.
A Remote Play Handheld For PlayStation 5
June 2024For all of their ups and downs in the handheld game console space over the years, one of Sony's bigger successes has been their local game streaming support, better known as Remote Play.
A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD2 - First Realtek 1185 Media Streamer in the Wild!
June 2024After CES 2011, we had written about A.C.Ryan trying to get into the US market with their new product lineup. One of the products we covered in the write up was the second generation PlayOn!
ACT-LABS RS Shifter
June 2024Introduction 1st Griiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnd (woops), 2nd, 3rd…. That was the story of my first experience driving a 5-speed at age 17. What has changed?
Activation, Price and Costs - Anand Reviews the Apple iPhone 3G
June 2024Activation, Price and Costs I loved activating the old iPhone, you plugged it in, filled out your information and activated using iTunes.
AMD Kaveri Review: A8-7600 and A10-7850K Tested
June 2024The first major component launch of 2014 falls at the feet of AMD and the next iteration of its APU platform, Kaveri.
AMD Launches High-Frequency EPYC 7371 Processor
June 2024AMD has announced its new high-frequency EPYC 7371 processor designed for applications that benefit from high clocks. The CPU has 16 cores and is aimed at tasks like electronic design automation, high-frequency trading, and other.
An IPS Laptop for Under a Grand
June 2024Sony VAIO SE: IPS for Under a Grand When I saw the VAIO SE at the Sony booth at CES 2012, it was already a slightly older laptop and normally I wouldn’t have given it much time, but one thing clearly stood out from all of the other laptops I’ve reviewed in the past several years: the display.
ASUS Takes Over Intel NUC Brand, Begins the Next Era for the Next Unit of Computing
June 2024As of September 1, ASUS has officially taken over Intel's NUC brand and product range. Per the companies' previously announced agreement, ASUS has become the de facto heir to Intel's NUC business, taking on the support obligations along with a non-exclusive license to build further NUCs.
Choosing a Case - Anand's Home Theater PC
June 2024Choosing a Case The second HTPC build was far more serious than my initial attempt. I ordered an Omaura TF11 case from Dell back in March, unfortunately there have been tremendous issues with shipping and I've yet to receive the case.
Choosing the Best Sprint Phone
June 2024Sprint customers almost always get the short end of the stick. In exchange for some of the more reasonable smartphone plans in the US, Sprint customers typically enjoy a mediocre selection of phones.
DirecTV and Viiv - CES 2006
June 2024DirecTV and Viiv On our first day in Vegas we got a preview of ATI's OCUR device; as we mentioned in the article, the OCUR will be used to bring CableCard support to PCs with Windows Vista later this year.
Fallout 3 Core Scaling - Overclocking Extravaganza: Radeon HD 4890 To The Max
June 2024by Derek Wilson on April 29, 2009 12:01 AM EST 61 Comments | 61 Comments Fallout 3 Core Scaling 1680x1050 1920x1200 2560x1600Crysis Warhead Core Scaling FarCry 2 Core Scaling ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7orrAp5utnZOde6S7zGiqoaenZH94gZdobg%3D%3D
GIGABYTE Z390 UD - Intel Z390 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Analyzed
June 2024GIGABYTE Z390 UD (Ultra Durable) The GIGABYTE Z390 UD or Z390 Ultra Durable motherboard is ATX in size and drops all of the gaming branding and fluff associated with that for a cleaner and basic looking board.
Good Battery Life - The Dell Streak Review
June 2024Good Battery Life Behind the back cover is a 5.661 Whr (1530mAh @ 3.7V) removable battery. That’s 2.9% larger than the EVO 4G’s battery and 7.
GPU Performance - The iPad Air Review
June 2024GPU Performance Since the iPad Air uses the same A7 silicon as the iPhone 5s, it also uses the same on-die GPU as the 5s: IMG’s PowerVR G6430.
Grand Theft Auto V - The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB Founders Edition Review: Not Quite Mainstream
June 2024Grand Theft Auto V (DX11) Now a truly venerable title, GTA V is a veteran of past game suites that is still graphically demanding as they come.
HTC Announces Web-Based Bootloader Unlock Tool
June 2024Via its Facebook page today, HTC announced some more details about how it will unlock the bootloaders of devices that are currently selling with them locked.
Intel Briefly Shows Lunar Lake Chip; Next-Gen Mobile CPU Uses On-Package Memory
June 2024As part of the final segment of Intel’s "Intel Client Open House Keynote" at CES this afternoon, Intel EVP and GM of the Client Computing Group, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, also offered a brief update on Intel’s client chips in the work for the second half of the year.
Intel Launches Optane Memory M.2 Cache SSDs For Consumer Market
June 2024Last week, Intel officially launched their first Optane product, the SSD DC P4800X enterprise drive. This week, 3D XPoint memory comes to the client and consumer market in the form of the Intel Optane Memory product, a low-capacity M.
MSI MEG Z590 Unify-X - The Intel Z590 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Detailed
June 2024MSI MEG Z590 Unify-X At the time of writing, we have been made aware that the MSI MEG Z590 Unify-X will be announced at a later date.
My experience with the "Genius Bar"
June 2024I haven't posted about my Mac experiences in quite a while, mostly because there's very little that's new to report. I've been using Macs and PCs together for about a year and a half now with no real complaints.
New Liquid Coolers from Corsair and Swiftech
June 2024Introducing the Second Wave of Closed Loop Coolers When we visited CES 2013, it became increasingly clear that not only were closed loop liquid coolers here to stay, but that they are in fact "
NVIDIA Announces SLI LED Bridges
June 2024For those that just can't get enough bling in their cases, NVIDIA today announced the availability of SLI LED bridges, available for the time being exclusively through the NVIDIA Store.
Omni-Path Switches at SuperComputing 15: Supermicro and Dell
June 2024It was clear at SuperComputing 15 that Intel had two main things in mind to promote: Knights Landing, their new Xeon Phi product, and Omni-Path, their new 100 Gbps network fabric aimed squarely at Infiniband.
Overclocking with the Core i9-7900X
June 2024Overclocking Experience with the ASRock X299 Taichi Overclocking using ambient cooling is a breeze these days with most overclocking focused purely on the CPU multiplier.
Performance Consistency and Final Words
June 2024Performance Consistency The hour-long random write test we use to analyze performance consistency is where we expect the most severe thermal throttling.
Performance with AA Disabled - NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 (G80): GPUs Re-architected for DirectX 10
June 2024AA Disabled Performance Up to this point, most of our benchmarks have been run with 4xAA, as we feel most people considering something like the new 8800 GTX are going to be interested in image quality as well as performance.
Philips Preps 499P9H Curved 49-Inch 5K Display with USB-C Docking & Webcam
June 2024Last week at IFA, Philips demonstrated its upcoming ultra-wide curved 49-inch monitor. The new 499P9H display features a 5K resolution with a 32:9 apect ratio, and will be aimed at various B2B clients that normally use two LCDs.
Power and Overclocking - The Intel Core i3-7350K (60W) Review: Almost a Core i7-2600K
June 2024Power Consumption As with all the major processor launches in the past few years, performance is nothing without a good efficiency to go with it.
Pro, Vanilla, & Air All Get New CPUs
June 2024Today at their annual Worldwide Developer Conference, the company announced a slew of hardware updates for their entire range of laptops.
QLC NAND Arrives For Consumer SSDs
June 2024When NAND flash memory was first used for general purpose storage in the earliest ancestors of modern SSDs, the memory cells were treated as simply binary, storing a single bit of data per cell by switching cells between one of two voltage states.
Qualcomm Goes For The Mid-Range: Snapdragon 765 and 765G
June 2024The first day of Qualcomm’s annual Snapdragon Tech Summit is often the teaser day: a slow entry into the rest of the event where the technical aspects of the announcements are disclosed.
Software Setup - Compro Technologies IP540 PTZ Camera
June 2024Special attention to the camera installation process is apparent in Compro's literature and software. Installation was very easy. At first glance, the installation process appeared quite long, having over 9 steps in all.
SSD Performance in Card Form-Factor
June 2024Samsung today introduced the world’s first flash memory cards in UFS form-factor. The cards are compliant with the UFS Card 1.
Steelseries Sensei Wireless Gaming Mouse Review
June 2024Most advanced users, especially those that are interested in gaming, have almost certainly heard of SteelSeries, a reputable manufacturer of gaming-related peripherals and hardware.
System Performance - The Chuwi LapBook 14.1 Review: Redefining Affordable
June 2024System Performance With the preamble out of the way, let’s dig into just how this new Apollo Lake platform does perform.
System Performance - The ZTE Axon 30 Ultra Review
June 2024System Performance - Extremely Snappy Featuring a Snapdragon 888 as well as a 144Hz screen extremely fast touch response, we expect the Axon 30 Ultra to perform admirably, and that’s generally indeed what you should see on the phone.
The Peripherals - The 27-inch Apple iMac Review (2011)
June 2024The Peripherals I've never been a fan of wireless peripherals - I didn't want more things to charge. Last year I finally broke down and bought a wireless mouse: Microsoft's Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000.
These Are The Laptops You're Looking For
June 2024Having had the chance to check out Toshiba's and HP's impending enterprise-class notebooks, more and more I'm convinced spending up is the way to go when it comes to buying a notebook that both looks and feels like quality.
Why Intel Processors Draw More Power Than Expected: TDP and Turbo Explained
June 2024One of the recent topics permeating through the custom PC space recently has been about power draw. Intel’s latest eight-core processors are still rated at a TDP of 95W, and yet users are seeing power consumption north of 150-180W, which doesn’t make much sense.
Wireless, Audio, Thermals, and Noise
June 2024Wireless We’ve seen most devices coming with 802.11ac these days, and generally in a 2x2:2 configuration, which means it can transmit and receive on two antennas at the same time on two spatial streams.
16GB NVIDIA Tesla V100 Gets Reprieve; Remains in Production
June 2024Back in March at their annual GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA announced the long-anticipated 32GB version of their flagship Tesla V100 accelerator.
AMD's Quad-Core Barcelona: Defending New Territory
June 2024IntroductionA "Simulated 2.6GHz" AMD quad-core would beat the best Intel Xeon by 42%, or so we were told back in March at CeBIT.
Antec Sonata IV vs. Progress: Round Four
June 2024Introducing the Antec Sonata IV Reviewing the Antec Sonata IV presented an interesting opportunity for me: while the other cases we've reviewed thus far have been experiences with new hardware, the Sonata IV is the next in a line of cases I'm particularly familiar with.
Apple MacBook Pro 13 - Conclusion
June 2024Apple MacBook Pro 13—Conclusion Apple products tend to be tough to give a conclusion on. There’s the style factor, the (lack of) value factor, the fanboy factor, the OS X factor (for Macs), etc.
ASRock Z370 Pro4 - Analyzing Z370 for Intel's 8th Generation Coffee Lake: A Quick Look at 50+ Mother
June 2024ASRock Z370 Pro4 The ASRock Z370 Pro4 falls on the lower end of the Z370 lineup and with that, a few of the features we’ve seen on the other boards don’t manage to make their way here.
ASUS Republic of Gamers and X79 ROG Review Rampage IV Gene, Formula and Extreme
June 2024The Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand has been on the radar for a good five years now. Initially in the form of motherboards, the ROG brand aimed to encapsulate everything that a gamer or enthusiast would need or require in a product.
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro - Delivering as Promised
June 2024Just over a month ago we brought you a preview of ATI's most impressive GPU to date - the R300. Although ATI had previously given us every reason to be skeptical of their ability to beat NVIDIA, the R300 removed all doubt from our minds.
Benchmark Automation - Launching the #CPUOverload Project: Testing Every x86 Desktop Processor since
June 2024Automation For anyone that has ever had to do boring, repetitive tasks, there is always the wish that it could be done without any interaction at all.
Construction - Build, Appearance, Size - HP Pavilion DV1000 Entertainment Notebook PC
June 2024Construction - Build, Appearance, Size Upon opening the notebook, we were surprised to be greeted with a nice and shiny display.
Cooler Masters MasterWatt Connected Digital PSU Almost Ready
June 2024As one gets older, or designs PCs for certain users in mind, how much power is being consumed is a key metric.
CPU Performance: Encoding Tests - The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K CPU Revi
June 2024CPU Performance: Encoding Tests With the rise of streaming, vlogs, and video content as a whole, encoding and transcoding tests are becoming ever more important.
CPU Performance: System Tests - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
June 2024CPU Performance: System Tests Our System Test section focuses significantly on real-world testing, user experience, with a slight nod to throughput.
Cryorig Unveils Mac Pro-Like PC Case for Gaming PCs, Ultra-Slim Desktop Chassis
June 2024Cryorig has announced its new cylindrical PC chassis, which enables system makers and enthusiasts to build Mac Pro-styled gaming computers. The new case can house one graphics card and a mini-ITX motherboard.
Dell XPS 15 QHD+: Revisiting the LCD Results
June 2024When I posted the review of the Dell XPS 15 last week, the display was one of the highlights, though not without problems.
EVGA Z690 Classified (DDR5) - The Intel Z690 Motherboard Overview (DDR5): Over 50+ New Models
June 2024EVGA Z690 Classified (DDR5) As with the EVGA Z690 Dark K|NGP|N edition, we also have limited information on the more conventional EVGA Z690 Classified model.
eVGA's GeForce FX 5700 Personal Cinema The Software - eVGA's GeForce FX 5700 Personal Cinema
June 2024eVGA's GeForce FX 5700 Personal Cinema - The Software If you have read our NVIDIA Forceware Multimedia review, you already know the ups and downs of the software.
G.Skill Unveils Premium Trident Z5 and Z5 RGB DDR5 Memory, Up To DDR5-6400 CL36
June 2024With memory manufacturers clamoring over themselves to push out DDR5 in time for the upcoming launch of Intel's Alder Lake processors, G.
Going for Power: How to Manage 5.0 GHz Turbo
June 2024Going for Power How to Manage 5.0 GHz Turbo Intel lists the Core i9-9900KS processor as having a 127W TDP. As we’ve discussed at length [1,2] regarding what TDP means, as well as interviewing Intel Fellows about it, this means that the Core i9-9900KS is rated to require a cooling power of 127W when running at its base frequency, 4.
High-End Desktop Getting the Latest Microarchitecture
June 2024Anyone following the high-end desktop space lately will have realized that we’ve recently been tripping up over information on upcoming platforms.
How Many Cores in a Larrabee?
June 2024Initial estimates put Larrabee at somewhere in the 16 to 32-core range, we figured 32-cores would be a sweetspot (not in the least because Intel's charts and graphs showed diminishing returns over 32 cores) but 24-cores would be more likely for an initial product.
Imagination Technologies / STMicro PowerVR Series 3: KYRO
June 2024Introduction When things are going crazy in your life, taking a step back for a moment to reevaluate everything can often be the key to a revlation that solves some of those problems.
Initial Numbers on the Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400
June 2024It has been ten years since Intel introduced quad-core processors into its mainstream product range. It was expected that six-core parts would hit the segment a few years after, however due to process improvements, microarchitecture gains, cost, and a lack of competition, the top-end mainstream processor is still a quad-core a decade later.
Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns, CFO Robert Swan as Interim CEO
June 2024This morning Intel released a formal press release stating that Brian Krzanich, now former CEO, had resigned. Current CFO Robert Swan has been named the interim CEO while the company looks for a replacement.
LaCie Little Big Disk (240GB SSD) Review
June 2024A week ago we published our review of the first sub-$1000 Thunderbolt drive enclosure: LaCie's Little Big Disk. Armed with a pair of 2.
Media Playback - The Xbox Series X Review: Ushering In The Next Generation of Game Consoles
June 2024Media Playback Although Microsoft has dropped the HDMI input, the Xbox Series X is still a potent media device. Whether it is overkill or not is likely unique to your situation, but, as with previous Xbox devices, it is not a perfect media machine.
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PC, Xbox 360, PS3) Review
June 2024Graphics Now let's discuss the graphical quality of the game. As can be expected, the PC version of Mercenaries 2 outshines its console counterparts to a great degree, despite its being a console port of the Xbox 360 version.
New Samsung CXL.mem Expansion Module
June 2024In the computing industry, we’ve lived with PCIe as a standard for a long time. It is used to add any additional features to a system: graphics, storage, USB ports, more storage, networking, add-in cards, storage, sound cards, Wi-Fi, oh did I mention storage?
NVIDIA Launches Tesla K20 & K20X: GK110 Arrives At Last
June 2024Continuing our SC12 related coverage today, while AMD was the first GPU announcement of the day they are not the only one.
Power Consumption and Thermal Performance
June 2024The power consumption of the NUC6i5SYK at the wall was measured with a 1080p display being driven through the HDMI port.
QNAP Launches Mustang-200 Compute Accelerator for Network Attached Storage
June 2024QNAP has released a special-purpose accelerator based on two Intel CPUs that is designed to significantly boost the processing capabilities of NAS boxes and even PCs.
Small Balls and Touchy Sensors
June 2024Not only is the Mighty Mouse Apple's first multi-button mouse, it is also their first mouse with a scroll wheel, or to be more precise, scroll ball.
Terabyte Storage arrives on the Desktop
June 2024Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced right before CES 2007 they would be shipping a new 1TB (1000.2GB) hard disk drive in Q1 of this year at an extremely competitive price of $399 or just about 40 cents per GB of storage.
The Best TN Laptop Panel Weve Tested
June 2024The Best TN Laptop Panel We’ve Tested Back when we reviewed the Eurocom Racer (Clevo P150HM), I heaped quite a bit of praise on the AUO B156HW01 v1 LCD panel.
The First Z68 for Sale?
June 2024Yesterday Apple introduced its first Sandy Bridge based iMacs. Thanks to @siromega I was pointed at iFixit's teardown of the new 21.
The HDMI Repeater Issues - The IGP Chronicles Part 1: Intel's G45 & Motherboard Roundup
June 2024The HDMI Repeater IssuesOne day I got the silly idea to build a theater in my basement, I documented the process here.
The Heat Exchanger - Senfu Watercooler Unit
June 2024The Heat Exchanger The heat exchanger, or "water block", is the part of the watercooler the is in contact with the CPU, where the heat is transferred to the water.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review, Feat. Gigabyte, Zotac, & EVGA
June 2024"Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know." -The Grey At a pace just shy of a card a month, NVIDIA has been launching the GeForce 600 series part by part for over the last half year now.
The Platform - ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner: AMD and Dell Bring CableCARD to PCs
June 2024The Platform Given the requirements, we couldn't test the ATI TV Wonder DCT without the help of an OEM - that OEM being Dell in this case.
Unreal Tournament 3 CPU & High End GPU Analysis: Next-Gen Gaming Explored
June 2024It's been a long time coming, but we finally have Epic's first Unreal Engine 3 based game out on the PC.
Western Digital's USB 3.1 Gen 2 WD My Passport SSD Gets an NVMe Refresh
June 2024Western Digital's lineup of direct-attached storage (DAS) products targets a range of markets and form-factors. After the acquisition of HGST / G-Technology and SanDisk, the company now offers similar products under multiple brand names.
Wi-Fi 6 And Why You Want It
June 2024Over the last generation of computing, there has been an explosion of devices that no longer have or need the capability of connecting to a hard-wired Ethernet connection, and that trend shows no intention of slowing down.
A Quick Look at the White Nexus 4
June 2024We got a special care package from LG earlier today containing the elusive but recently-announced White Nexus 4. This is the same hardware we saw at Google I/O just a short week ago which I mentioned at the end of the Nexus Experience SGS4 article.
AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 Tested
June 2024Last year's launch of AMD's FX processors was honestly disappointing. The Bulldozer CPU cores that were bundled into each Zambezi chip were hardly power efficient and in many areas couldn't significantly outperform AMD's previous generation platform.
ARM Unveils Next Generation Bifrost GPU Architecture & Mali-G71: The New High-End Mali
June 2024Over the last few years the SoC GPU space has taken an interesting path, and one I admittedly wasn’t expecting. At the start of this decade the playing field for SoC-class GPUs was rather diverse, with everyone from NVIDIA to Broadcom (and everything in between) participating in it.
ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming ITX/TB3
June 2024For the launch of Intel's Comet Lake desktop processors and the LGA1200 socket, ASRock has just one mini-ITX model in its arsenal in the way of the ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming ITX/TB3.
Assembling the Antec Eleven Hundred
June 2024Assembling the Antec Eleven Hundred Though it may share the DNA of Antec's Performance series, the Eleven Hundred is thankfully far easier to assemble than many of its predecessors were.
ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact
June 2024One of the biggest surprises during Computex as far as the announcement of the X570 went was the unveiling of the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact.
ATI Radeon X800 Pro and XT Platinum Edition: R420 Arrives
June 2024Introduction Today we herald the release of the new ATI graphics solution. Though the R420 is still based on DX9's PS2.
Bigger Display, New SoC, Faster Memory, More Storage, Same Performance
June 2024In a quite unexpected turn of events, Valve has introduced a revamped version of its Steam Deck console that got a larger OLED display, a more efficient system-on-chip, a higher-performance memory subsystem, a 1 TB storage option, faster Wi-Fi 6E, and higher-capacity battery.
Board Features - The ASUS Z370-I Gaming Review: Mini-Me Mega Motherboard
June 2024Board Features Perhaps the biggest change from moving from ATX to Mini-ITX sized motherboards is the memory support: only two memory slots are available, meaning only 32GB of DDR4 can find its way into a build with this board.
Building My Home Theater: The First Post
June 2024For the past couple of years I've been building a house in Raleigh, I moved in during the Summer of 2006 and ever since then it's been like living with contractors.
Can Ivy Bridge and Kepler Make Up the Difference?
June 2024Re-Introducing the AVADirect Quiet Gaming PC The last time we reviewed AVADirect's Quiet Gaming PC was in January. I was mostly pleased with it, but it went awry in the places that boutique systems often do: a questionable choice of case and a sub-optimal overclock.
Does the NF200 hurt performance? - EVGA X58 Classified
June 2024Does the NF200 hurt performance? We are still testing SLI performance with the latest 182.06 driver release and the new BIOS we just received from EVGA.
Final Words - Zotac ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus: Redefining the Small Form Factor PC
June 2024Before proceeding to the business end of the review, let us take a look at some power consumption numbers. We measured power drawn at the wall when the unit was idle, one hour after subjecting the unit to Prime95 and Furmark simultaneously and when playing back a 1080p24 Blu-ray movie backed up as a MKV with HD audio bistreaming.
Gaming and 3D performance - Intel DP55KG and DP55SB
June 2024Gaming and 3D performance Before any of the results, I've personally got to stick my hand up and admit that a 9500GT is not really a suitable graphics card for differentiating these boards in terms of testing.
Hawk Point with Zen 4 and Ryzen AI
June 2024Although CES 2024 is happening next month in Las Vegas, AMD has lifted the lid on their latest Zen 4 mobile processors, the Ryzen Mobile 8040 series.
How Hot is too Hot? Temperatures and Thermal Results
June 2024In a normal desktop computer, the goal is to complete the set of instructions the fastest and be able to dissipate the energy.
Humble Bundle Weekly: RPG Maker
June 2024It’s Thursday again, so you know what that means: a new Humble Weekly Bundle. This week the core package is RPG Maker VX Ace, a tool which can be used to make [Drumroll…] your own RPGs.
Improved WattMan, Shader Cache, and Frame Rate Target Control
June 2024WattMan Memory Underclocking and Power State Controls In 17.7.2, WattMan now offers memory underclocking for the RX 500 series. However, this functionality does not seem to extend to the RX 580’s memory mid-power state; with the revised Polaris 10 in the RX 580, AMD introduced a new mid-power memory clock state that we tested out in our launch review.
Integer Scaling Support for Turing, Freestyle Sharpening, & More
June 2024With this year’s Gamescom event now in full swing, the German games show seems to be taking on an ever-larger presence in the worlds of gaming and hardware.
Intels Compatibility Validation Labs - Inside Intel: From Silicon to the World
June 2024Intel’s Compatibility Validation Labs After a platform makes it through the SV labs, it’s tested in the CV labs in a manner much more like what an end-user would encounter.
Launch Date & Approximate Price Revealed
June 2024When Samsung introduced its new family of flagship Galaxy S10 smartphones in February, the company disclosed prices and launch timeframes for all models except one, the Galaxy S10 5G.
Lenovo Announces New ThinkVision LT2934z Panoramic Display
June 2024Along with their new ThinkPad Ultrabooks, Lenovo also announced their new LT2934z panoramic display today in Berlin, Germany prior to the start of IFA.
Light Theme and Start Menu Changes
June 2024Windows 10 has offered both a light and dark theme for some time now. But with version 1903, the light theme gets a major overhaul.
Long Lived Haswell Chipset to be Retired
June 2024Intel has announced that it will be discontinuing some of its Lynx Point based chipsets which are most commonly associated with its Haswell processors on socket LGA 1150.
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250: A Rebadged 9800 GTX+
June 2024In the beginning there was the GeForce 8800 GT, and we were happy. Then, we then got a faster version: the 8800 GTS 512MB.
Outlook 2013 RT Coming Free to Windows RT 8.1 Tablets Later this Year
June 2024Microsoft has been pretty quiet at Computex thus far, but today we got a bit of expected news. Outlook 2013 RT will be coming with the free Windows RT 8.
Palm-Sized Minisforum EM680 Desktop PC Packs AMD's Ryzen 7 6800U and USB4
June 2024We've seen AMD's Ryzen Mobile 6000 series chips show up in several mini-PC devices thus far, and now a recently-released mini-desktop from Minisforum is the smallest yet.
Power Consumption - The Intel Ivy Bridge (Core i7 3770K) Review
June 2024Power Consumption Intel isn't really exploiting 22nm for significantly higher default or max turbo frequencies. While it does seem like you'll hit turbo frequencies more often with Ivy, most of what 22nm offers will be realized as power savings.
Socket-A Chipset Roundup - August 2001
June 2024It’s all about choices, something we haven’t had very recently. When the first 133MHz Pentium IIIs were released, our only viable chipset option was the VIA Apollo Pro 133/133A.
Software Cont'd: GameStream and GRID, Gaming Ecosystem
June 2024GameStream and GRID The final software features that Shield Tablet brings to the table are GameStream and GRID. These are effectively methods of turning the tablet into a thin client, as all of the rendering/computation is done on a computer either in the LAN or on a server in San Jose.
Spending Money Where it Counts: The Display - Apple's iPad
June 2024Spending Money Where it Counts: The Display A blast from the past is the iPad's 1024 x 768 resolution. In a world that's almost fully transitioned to 16:9 or 16:10 panels, leave it to Apple to go back to a 4:3 CRT resolution for its latest product.
Standardizing with SoundStorm - NVIDIA nForce2 Preview
June 2024Standardizing with SoundStorm Dolby Digital encoding support was one of the most talked about features of the original nForce, but interestingly enough there were some motherboard manufacturers that didn’t even take advantage of the capability of the original MCP.
Storage - Sony DSC-S70 Digital Camera
June 2024Storage In order to move Sony cameras into the 21st century it was necessary to abandon the floppy disk storage method and move to something with more space and a smaller footprint.
The Display - The 2012 MacBook Air (11 & 13-inch) Review
June 2024The Display The MacBook Air is really Apple's mass-market notebook, and as such it's not going to be the target for a Retina Display upgrade, at least not this year.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
June 2024The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Bethesda's epic sword & magic game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is our RPG of choice for benchmarking.
The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
June 2024Back at a trade show some time ago, I once had a reader ask me what the most important price tier was for our video card reviews.
Up to 2TB, Massive Heatsink
June 2024Patriot this week started sales of its top-of-the-range VPN100-series SSDs. Prototypes of these drives based on the Phison PS5012-E12 controller were demonstrated at CES 2018, but it took the company and its partner quite some time to finalize them.
Up to 5 GHz and Overclockable, 15.6-Inch OLED
June 2024Dell has introduced its new flagship XPS 15.6-inch laptop aimed at performance-demanding users such as gamers and prosumers. The new XPS 15 7590 machine can be equipped with an eight-core Intel processor, a performance mainstream discrete GPU, as a well as an optional 15.
VCE & The Test - AMD Radeon HD 7750 & Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Review: Evading The Price/Performan
June 2024VCE & The Test Although it’s not unheard of for a video card to launch without all of its features enabled in its drivers, it’s rare to see a video card go for more than a couple of weeks without support for a major feature.
Windows Explorer Gets Ribbon Interface in Windows 8
June 2024The Windows 8 details continue: Today on the Building Windows 8 blog, Alex Simons takes us through some changes to the Windows Explorer, chief among them the fact that Explorer will now be using Microsoft's Ribbon interface.
Xeon E5-2697 v2 and E5-2687W v2 Conclusions
June 2024The nearest equivalent of the Core i7-4960X in the enterprise lineup is the Xeon E5-1660 V2. In terms of my testing at AnandTech, the i7-4960X represents the standard enthusiast processor that blitzes our benchmarks, and thus an opportunity to test something potentially faster is always welcome.
Zen 3 At A Glance: Behind The +19% IPC Increase
June 2024Section by Andrei Frumusanu The New Zen 3 Core: High-Level As we dive into the Zen3 microarchitecture, AMD made a note of their journey of the last couple of years, a success-story that’s been started off in 2017 with the revolutionary Zen architecture that helped bring AMD back to the competitive landscape after several sombre years of ailing products.
10nm FPGAs with PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and CXL
June 2024Ever since Intel purchased Altera for an enormous amount of money a few years ago (ed: $16.7B), the FPGA portfolio that has been coming out has largely been a product of the pre-Intel days.
Acer Unveils Predator XB273K 4Kp144 DisplayHDR 400 Gaming LCD
June 2024Acer on Wednesday introduced its new Ultra-HD gaming monitor with an up to 144 Hz dynamic refresh rate enabled by NVIDIA’s G-Sync.
An 11.6-Inch AMD A4-Based 2-in-1
June 2024Acer has started sales of its new rugged convertible Chromebook laptop for corporate and educational markets. The Chromebook Spin 311 brings together a low price tag, sturdy design, and a 10-hour battery life.
Apple Releases Web Tool for Deactivating iMessage
June 2024Not long ago the internet was abuzz with articles and posts about Apple’s issues with iMessage. Users were concerned about not getting texts from iPhone users if they switched to another device.
Apple Updates The iMac Line With a 21.5" Retina Model
June 2024Almost exactly one year ago Apple launched their first ever iMac with Retina display at their October 2014 event. The launch had a number of surprises, with one of the biggest being the fact that it would sell for $2499 despite its 5K display matching the resolution of Dell's UP2715K which had an intended launch price of $2999.
Batman: Arkham City - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Review: GK106 Fills Out The Kepler Family
June 2024Batman: Arkham City Batman: Arkham City is loosely based on Unreal Engine 3, while the DirectX 11 functionality was apparently developed in-house.
Blu-Ray Player / Media Streamer Combo
June 2024Blu-Ray player manufacturers realized last year that the Internet Age consumers want more from their purchase than just dumb playback of optical disks.
Dynamic Power Management: A Quantitative Approach
June 2024Performance per Watt rules the datacenter, right? Wrong. Yes, you would easily be lead astray after the endless "Green ICT" conferences, the many power limited datacenters, and the flood of new technologies that all have the "
ECS X79 and Llano Motherboards
June 2024I’ve been running around the Computex show floor all morning and finally managed to build enough of a lead ahead of my meetings to sit down and write up some of what I’ve seen.
Gaming Tests: Deus Ex Mankind Divided
June 2024Deus Ex is a franchise with a wide level of popularity. Despite the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (DEMD) version being released in 2016, it has often been heralded as a game that taxes the CPU.
Gather 'round, let's watch movie trailers - Apple TV
June 2024Gather 'round, let's watch movie trailers The Apple TV is a purely passive machine; you can view all the content you want on it, but you cannot under any circumstances acquire new content.
General Performance - IBUYPOWER Gamer Paladin F860-a
June 2024CINEBENCH R10 CINEBENCH places a heavy load on the CPU during the rendering tests, and can utilize a single CPU or multiple cores.
GPU Benchmarks: Civilization V - Choosing a Gaming CPU at 1440p: Adding in Haswell
June 2024Civilization V A game that has plagued my testing over the past twelve months is Civilization V. Being on the older 12.
HP ZBook 14: Subjective Evaluation
June 2024HP ZBook 14: Subjective Evaluation These days, I tend to think that the subjective evaluation of any laptop holds more weight than any specific benchmark.
Improved IS, Double Live View, and More
June 2024Olympus has announced an upgrade to the E-510, which has been their biggest seller in the consumer DSLR space. Called the E-520, the new model adds processing improvements, more effective in-body Image Stabilization that works with any lens, and what Olympus describes as on-LCD AutoFocus combined with Face Detection.
Keynote 2: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop - Qualcomm Uplinq 2011 Day Two Keynote
June 2024After Peter, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage and gave an interesting talk about the future of both Nokia and to discuss their relationship with Qualcomm.
More Benchmark Performance Comparisons - DFI UT P35-T2R: Tweakers Rejoice!
June 20242GB 266 Strap Benchmarks3DMark01 3DMark06 Company of Heroes 1920x1200 Company of Heroes 1280x1024 Cinebench R10
NVIDIA Announces Earnings of $2.6 Billion for Q3 2018, Once Again Sets Profit Record
June 2024This afternoon, NVIDIA announced its earnings for their 2018 fiscal year’s third quarter, which spans July 31 to October 29, 2017 (and not to be confused with the 2017 calendar year third quarter).
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680M in SLI
June 2024Introducing the Alienware M18x R2 Around the launch of the Alienware M17x R3, Alienware essentially bifurcated its high end notebook offerings into single-GPU (the M17x R3) and dual-GPU (the M18x).
OLED 4K or 240 Hz Displays, New CPUs & GeForce RTX
June 2024Kicking off a torrent of new laptops hitting the streets today, Razer has introduced its next generation Blade 15 laptops for gamers and prosumers.
Quality Smartphone on an Extreme Budget
June 2024Microsoft is in a difficult place with regards to the smartphone market. After delivering a very innovative interface and overall promising platform with Windows Phone 7 in late 2010, the platform stagnated, with mediocre hardware, slow updates, and not much progress in terms of sales.
Razer Updates The Blade 14 With Ryzen 9 7940HS, Up to RTX 4070 and 32 GB DDR5-5600
June 2024Despite running late and experiencing shipping delays, AMD's latest Zen 4 mobile chips with RDNA 3 graphics and Ryzen AI, the Ryzen 7040HS mobile chips, are becoming more widely available.
RDNA 3 Comes To Workstation Cards
June 2024With their initial consumer desktop and mobile RDNA 3 graphics products now out the door, AMD today is turning their attention to the professional visualization market.
Safari RSS (aka Safari 2)
June 2024In my first encounter with a Mac, I ragged on Safari for being a major disappointment under OS X; the browser looked great and was very user friendly, but it was sluggish and had a handful of annoying incompatibilities.
Samsung Galaxy NX Camera: Hands On
June 2024When Samsung launched the Galaxy Camera, I remember Brian telling me that it might not be the best point and shoot, but it's absolutely the directions cameras need to go in.
Securifi Updates Smart Home Hub Lineup with New Almond 3 Wireless Router
June 2024Securifi is famous for bringing out the world's first commercially available touchscreen router. We have covered them a couple of times in the past.
Software: iOS 9 On a Small Tablet
June 2024Software iOS 9 released roughly one month ago. I released my review of it on the day it launched, and my impressions of the OS were mostly positive.
Soltek NV400-L64: Stress Testing - Soltek NV400-L64: Purple, Practical, AND Performance!
June 2024Soltek NV400-L64: Stress Testing We performed stress tests on the Soltek NV400-L64 in these areas and configurations:1.Chipset and motherboard stress testing, conducted by running the FSB at 215MHz.
Sony DRU-710A - Fall 2004 DVDR Roundup: Dual Layer and 16X DVD+R
June 2024Sony DRU-710A Sony has produced some very intriguing products over the last few years, particularly since the DVDR format wars started to really heat up.
Sony Launches The Xperia XZ3: First Sony OLED Smartphone
June 2024Today Sony launched the successor to this year’s not-so-old XZ2 which was released only 6 months ago at MWC. The new XZ3 is an iterative design over the XZ2, however it brings an extremely important industry development by virtue of being the first smartphone sporting a new Sony OLED display.
Testing Results - The AlphaCool Eisbaer Aurora 360 AIO Cooler Review: Improving on Expandable CPU Co
June 2024Testing Results, Maximum Fan Speed Our maximum speed testing is performed with both the fans and the pump of the kit powered via a 12V DC source.
The Apple A12 - First Commercial 7nm Silicon
June 2024Over the last few years Apple’s silicon design teams have been at the forefront of both architecture design and adopting bleeding-edge manufacturing processes.
The Chuwi LapBook 12.3 Review: Premium Feel, Budget Price
June 2024Every once in a while, we get surprised. It seems to be a rare thing in this industry these days, but it does still happen from time to time.
The Classic Mouse Goes Wireless
June 2024Logitech this week is introducing an upgraded, wireless version of its popular G502 mouse. Dubbed the Logitech G502 Lightspeed, the new wireless gaming mouse uses the company’s latest Hero 16K sensor, while its internal architecture has been significantly redesigned from the original G502 to accommodate its wireless features.
The Corsair Link Software - The Emperor of Efficiency: Corsair's AX1600i PSU Rules Alone (Review)
June 2024The Corsair Link Software The Corsair Link is a unified software that allows for the monitoring and control of multiple Corsair products.
The Cortex A73 Microarchitecture - The ARM Cortex A73
June 2024The Cortex A73’s Microarchitecture Before we go on to talk about the Cortex A73’s microarchitecture and how it differs to the A72 and improves on the A17, I created a diagram of the former’s pipeline structure to be able to better showcase the design from a higher level perspective.
The Display - Apple iPad mini with Retina Display: Reviewed
June 2024The Display The big story behind the new iPad mini is of course its 7.85-inch Retina Display. We’re talking about the same 2048 x 1536 resolution as the iPad Air, but in a much smaller form factor.
The Exterior of the Cooler Master MasterCase 5
June 2024The MasterCase 5 is a modern design, based on simple shapes and geometric patterns. It appears based on the first Cooler Master Scout case, but it is more serious and elegant.
The iPad 2 and iOS 4.3 Announcement
June 2024Today, Steve Jobs took a sabbatical from his sabbatical to hop up on stage and tell us all about the iPad 2, the next revision of Apple’s wildly popular tablet PC.
The Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) Review: Evolution
June 2024The Microsoft Surface Pro has undeniably carved out a new segment in the PC space. But what was once a powerful, but heavy, thick, and unwieldly tablet when it was first launched, has become a thin, light, and even more powerful tablet in the following years.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon Design - The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review (2015)
June 2024ThinkPad X1 Carbon Design There is no mistaking the ThinkPad X1 Carbon for what it is. It is a ThinkPad. If you have never been a fan of the look of a ThinkPad, you likely will not like this one either, but for those that prefer the understated look, they will be happy to see the traditional look and feel.
Write Performance (con't) - USB Flash Drive Roundup
June 2024256KB File Write PerformanceThe performance of the top tier drives jumps from 1 or 2MB/s up to 9.5MB/s in the case of Corsair's Flash Voyager, 10.
A 1500W 80 Plus Titanium PSU
June 2024Shopping around for a power supply on a tight budget can be a bit of an ordeal. On forums, everyone will have their own opinion of what constitutes a good power supply, and similarly to mechanical HDDs, a single bad experience can put a user off a brand forever.
A Taste of Froyo: Google Android 2.2 Explored
June 2024Since last year, the Android platform has seen a string of sugary, feature-filled updates starting with Cupcake (v1.5), followed by Donut (v1.
AMD Radeon R7 SSD (240GB) Review
June 2024In 2011 AMD took the first step in expanding the Radeon brand and partnered with Patriot and VisionTek to provide AMD branded memory.
AMDs Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go, Deal Closes At $49B
June 2024Update 02/14: AMD has sent out a brief statement this morning announcing that the Xilinx deal has formally closed. AMD has now fully acquired Xilinx.
An update on LGA-775 - Intel's Pentium 4 570J
June 2024An update on LGA-775 When Intel first launched the LGA-775 socket we were skeptical; reports of extremely high failure rates of initial sockets were pouring out of Taiwan and we had feared the worst: had Intel finally broken all ties with the enthusiast community by implementing a socket that would fail after a couple of insertions?
ASRock's Five New B365 Motherboards
June 2024ASRock unveiled five new B365 motherboards at CES 2019 with a mixture of features similar to its Z390 offerings. The B365 Pro4 and B365M Pro are targeted towards professional users while B365 and B365M Phantom Gaming 4 mark a lower cost entry point onto the Intel 8th and 9th generation processors.
ASUS ROG Huracan Desktop - ASUS ROG Spring System Updates: Gaming Big and Small
June 2024ASUS ROG Huracan (G21) Compact Gaming Desktop The final item on the ROG spring refresh is a new compact gaming desktop named the Huracan (G21).
AVIVO Video Converter Redux and ATI Stream Quick Look
June 2024A few months ago, we tested AMD's AVIVO Video Converter. AMD had just enabled video transcode acceleration on the GPU, and they wanted to position their free utility as competition to CUDA enabled (and thus NVIDIA only) Badaboom.
Best Intel Motherboards: Holiday 2022
June 2024Here is the latest update to our list of recommended Intel motherboards in our series of motherboards buyers guides. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing.
Camera - Low Light Evaluation
June 2024Night-time photography was starting with the Pixel 3 and the introduction of Night Sight, one of Google’s fortes. The new Pixel 4 is able to improve in this aspect through a few different means: A new and improved camera sensor, a larger lens aperture to capture more light, and a new Night Sight algorithm that promises to improve and iterate upon the existing implementation.
Corsair (Continued) - Closed Loop AIO Liquid Coolers: 14-way Mega Roundup Review
June 2024Corsair H90 Corsair's Hydro H90 is sort of a bigger brother to the H75. It is the only AIO cooler from Corsair in this roundup that comes in silver packaging, as for some reason the company did not use its usual black-based color theme; most likely because of the all-black color of the cooler itself.
Display - 720p Super AMOLED HD
June 2024Display Another huge axis of improvement lately has been the mobile display category. It’s an ironic turn of events which has led to the mobile side being where all the improvement is taking place for displays in general.
ELSA GLoria II Quadro SDR
June 2024Drivers The ELSA NT 4.0 driver used for this review has a lot of useful set up options:
Gaming Updates - The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Feature Focus
June 2024Gaming Updates Microsoft knows that gaming is still a big part of the PC experience, and also that gaming is one of the strongest markets for the PC, so they always dedicate some effort to improving gaming on the PC with each update.
GIGABYTE B450 Aorus Pro and B450 Aorus Pro WIFI
June 2024GIGABYTE B450 Aorus Pro & GIGABYTE B450 Aorus Pro WIFI Both the B450 Aorus Pro and B450 Aorus Pro WIFI models feature near identical PCBs and featuresets, with the main differences being that the WIFI model has an integrated Intel dual-band 802.
GIGABYTE TRX40 Designare - The AMD TRX40 Motherboard Overview: 12 New Motherboards Analyzed
June 2024GIGABYTE TRX40 Designare The last of GIGABYTE's four announced TRX40 models is the GIGABYTE TRX40 Designare which takes a more professional approach for content creators and workstation users.
GIGABYTE Z690I Aorus Ultra (DDR4)
June 2024GIGABYTE Z690I Aorus Ultra (DDR4) Providing options for small form factor users, there is always a large gap between the number of ATX and smaller form factors at any given chipset launch.
Gingerbread & Sense 3.0 - The HTC Flyer Review
June 2024Gingerbread & Sense 3.0 The Flyer doesn't ship with Honeycomb but instead it comes with Android 2.3.3, a solid but not-quite-tablet optimized build of Google's mobile OS.
Hot Test Results (~45C Ambient Temperature)
June 2024The Cooler Master MWE Gold V2 750W PSU exhibits significant efficiency degradation under high ambient temperatures, including notable thermal stress when operating at its peak capacity.
Innodisk Launches M.2 Graphics Card with 4K Output
June 2024Innodisk has released a graphics adapter in an M.2 form-factor. The card supports resolutions of up to 1920×1080 at 60 Hz or 3840×2160 at 30 Hz and is designed for various ultra-compact and embedded applications that require industrial temperature ranges.
Inside The MicroCell: Hardware - AT&T 3G MicroCell: A Comprehensive Exploration
June 2024Inside that white shell So we now know there's relatively little to be learned about the device on the software side.
Inside the Nexus 4 - Google Nexus 4 Review
June 2024I usually take apart smartphones I’m sampled just because I like knowing what’s inside, even if I already know the majority of component choices through other purely software means.
Kindle Paperwhite: a direct competitor to the Nook Touch Glowlight
June 2024Kindle Paperwhite It may come as a surprise, but reading in the dark is actually something plenty of people would love to do.
LCD, Temperatures, and Noise Levels
June 2024The LCD: A Poor Showing Even Among Budget Panels Once again, we have the usual caveat: the LCD. Even when we’re looking at budget laptops with low-end LCDs, this panel doesn’t impress.
March '98 4.5GB SCSI Hard Disk Comparison
June 20244.5GB Ultra SCSI Drive Comparison Article contributed by Anand Tech Affiliate: The Storage Review SCSI drives have always come to mind to those looking for the ultimate in performance and expandability.
Meet The Sapphire Radeon R7 265
June 2024Meet The Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Since the R7 265 is a variant of the existing R7 270 series, AMD isn’t creating a reference card this time around.
Motorola Droid RAZR Review - A Better Clad Bionic
June 2024Motorola Droid RAZR Review Recently Motorola unleashed a bunch of devices it was keeping up its sleeve, and the latest for Verizon is the Motorola Droid RAZR.
MSI Launches New 10th Gen Core Laptops With NVIDIA RTX Super And Mini LED
June 2024To coincide with today’s launch of both the latest 10th generation Intel Core H-Series parts, as well as NVIDIA’s launch of their new RTX Super laptop GPUs, MSI is announcing a trio of new models to cover a wide-spectrum of the market, with two gaming-focused models in the GS66 Stealth and GE66 Raider, as well as the content-creator focused Creator 17.
NAND Performance: The First UFS Phone
June 2024Storage performance is often a critical area for user performance, as applications cannot be cached in RAM at every possible moment.
Powerful 1U Rack and SFF Desktops
June 2024Today Dell has introduced new and updated lineups in their Precision entry-level workstation lineup. In this case, Dell has brought forth the Precision 3930 Rack (1U workstation), Precision 3630 (tower), as well as the Precision 3430 Small Form Factor Tower.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 675 - 11nm Mid-Range Cortex A76-Based
June 2024Today we’re seeing a very interesting announcement from Qualcomm: The new Snapdragon 675 chipset is a direct successor to the current generation Snapdragon 670 which was only announced back in August.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 & 8.9, Smaller than iPad 2, Competitively Priced
June 2024Last month at Mobile World Congress Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 10.1, a NVIDIA Tegra 2 based Honeycomb tablet. Since then, Apple's iPad 2 raised the bar for ergonomics and performance.
Setup, UI and Content - Netgear Roku XD: Streaming for the Masses
June 2024Setup, UI and Content Having established that this is a device designed primarily for video streaming, I plugged it in to my receiver via HDMI and a power outlet and was immediately greeted by the screen below.
Synthetic Tests: Basic IO Patterns
June 2024Our first batch of synthetic benchmarks exercise the four basic IO patterns: random reads, random writes, sequential reads, and sequential writes.
The High Def Format Wars Continue to Hurt
June 2024I've refrained from commenting on this for a while but it's time to talk a bit about this rediculous high definition format war.
The Vishera Review: AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 Tested
June 2024Overclocking AMD's FX architecture was designed for very high clock speeds. With Piledriver we're able to see some of that expressed in overclocking headroom.
Under The Hood: Switches, RGB Lighting, & More
June 2024Beneath the keycaps, we found Kailh’s new low-profile switches. Although they appear to be a copy of Cherry’s ML low-profile switch, neither their dimensions or their keycaps match.
Weekly Memory & Motherboard Price Guide: January 2001 2nd Edition
June 2024Introduction It's time once again for AnandTech's Memory and Motherboard price guide. The basic goal is to provide you with the best deals, and follow price trends of the listed products.
Xe-LP GPU Performance: Civilization VI
June 2024Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civilization series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer underflow.
ZOTAC Announces GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm Liquid-Cooled Graphics Card
June 2024Following what seems to be an industry pattern at the moment, ZOTAC has just announced their very own highly customized and liquid-cooled GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
1000W-1200W Roundup: Five High-End PSUs
June 20241000W-1200W Roundup: Five High-End PSUs Today we're looking at some of the most expensive ATX power supplies on the market.
13-inch Gaming Performance under Windows
June 2024Like I said earlier, this is the first Apple portable with Intel graphics in over two years. What does this mean for graphics performance?
2006 Concept Notebooks - Spring IDF 2006: Merom and Ultra Mobile PCs
June 20242006 Concept Notebooks Intel also showcased some concept mobile PC designs, some of which may find their way to the market eventually paired with a Merom processor.
37.5-inch, 38401600, FreeSync, & USB-C
June 2024Acer has announced its new ultra-wide curved display for gaming and multimedia applications. The monitor boasts with a rare combination of features, such as a curved panel, 2.
ADATA XPG SX900 (128GB) Review: Maximizing SandForce Capacity
June 2024Introduction SandForce sets aside more NAND capacity than most controllers for spare area. While Intel, Marvell, Samsung and others default to ~7% of total NAND capacity for spare area, SandForce is almost double that.
AOC Expands G90-Series Monitors: 144 Hz and FreeSync
June 2024AOC has announced a new addition to its G90-series of inexpensive gaming monitors with a new model with FreeSync capabilities and a high refresh rate.
Applied Materials Outlines Next-Gen Tools for 3nm and GAA Transistor Era
June 2024Last month Samsung Foundry quietly announced that it was set to begin producing chips using its 3GAE (3 nm-class, gate-all-around transistors, early) process technology in the second quarter.
ASRock Z87 - Haswell Z87 Motherboard Preview: 50+ Motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, MSI, ECS
June 2024ASRock Z87 We are luckily enough one of the first few (if not the first) to showcase the ASRock Z87 range in all its glory.
ASUS Unveils the ROG Matrix RTX 2080 Ti With Hybrid Cooling
June 2024ASUS has announced a brand new Turing based model to their range with the ROG Matrix RTX 2080 Ti graphics card.
Battery Life - Centrino 2 Laptop Roundup
June 2024Battery Life Gaming and application performance is all well and good, but many users looking at notebooks really care about battery life.
Battery Life - The iPhone 5 Review
June 2024Battery Life Section by Anand Shimpi At the start of our iPhone 4S battery life analysis I mentioned that I wasn't happy with the current state of our battery life benchmarks.
Blossom Smart Watering Controller Review
June 2024Introduction and Component Analysis Home automation has garnered renewed attention, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. Many vendors targeting this market look to deliver solutions for aspects appealing to a broader audience.
Conclusion & End Remarks - The Samsung Galaxy S10+ Snapdragon & Exynos Review: Almost Perfect, Yet S
June 2024Conclusion & End Remarks As we’re wrapping up one of the biggest smartphone reviews to date, it’s also the wrap-up for one of the most important devices in 2019.
Conclusion: You Will Have To Be Quick
June 2024Conclusion The Intel Core i9-9900KS is Intel’s first consumer level all-core 5.0 GHz processor. Technically Intel has launched an all 5.
CPU Benchmark Performance: E-Core - The Intel 12th Gen Core i9-12900K Review: Hybrid Performance Bri
June 2024CPU Benchmark Performance: E-Core In this batch of testing, we're focusing primarily on the E-cores. Intel claimed that the performance was around the level of its Skylake generation of processors (6th Gen to 10th Gen, depending which slide you read), and we had to put that to the test.
CPU Benchmark Performance: Power, Productivity and Web
June 2024Our previous sets of ‘office’ benchmarks have often been a mix of science and synthetics, so this time, we wanted to keep our office and productivity section purely based on real-world performance.
Dell U2713HM Brightness and Contrast - Dell U2713HM
June 2024Dell U2713HM Brightness and Contrast Last review I changed how I measured brightness and contrast to use a 5x5 ANSI grid instead of solid black and white screens in order to provide more accurate data.
Drivers - GPU Shootout with Unreal Tournament 2003
June 2024Drivers As you can expect, we didn't have any problems with NVIDIA's latest Detonator drivers (29.42) and the latest build of UT2003.
FaceTime & Photo Booth - The Apple iPad 2 Review
June 2024FaceTime by Vivek Gowri After the iPhone 4 debuted FaceTime last year, Apple has started making every new device FaceTime capable.
Gaming Performance - MDK2 - Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz & 1.5GHz
June 2024In spite of the 12% lead the 1.5GHz Pentium 4 took in the Quake III Arena benchmarks, the 1.2GHz Athlon on the AMD 760 platform manages to take a 5% lead over the 1.
Google To Acquire Fitbit for $2.1 Billion
June 2024Google on Friday announced that that it had reached an agreement to buy Fitbit, a leading maker of advanced fitness trackers.
Hands on with the Samsung S10+, S10, and S10e: Which Witch is Which?
June 2024Standing as the world’s largest smartphone retailer, Samsung’s flagship family leads the way into how the company sees the next generation of user experience and interaction.
Hisense's Google TV Box at CES
June 2024So, Google TV is still happening. Indeed, more players are getting into the game than ever. Hisense is a Chinese OEM/ODM that's seen steady growth in the television market internationally, and hopes to build a big presence in the US this year.
HomePlug and G.hn Go Head to Head
June 2024This section presents the benchmark numbers obtained for the four different test cases outlined in the previous section. The Comtrend PG-9172 numbers are graphed in red, while the ZyXEL PLA5405 (representing HomePlug AV2 with MIMO support) numbers are in blue.
Intel To Wind Down Optane Memory Business
June 2024It appears that the end may be in sight for Intel’s beleaguered Optane memory business. Tucked inside a brutal Q2’2022 earnings release for the company (more on that a bit later today) is a very curious statement in a section talking about non-GAAP adjustments: In Q2 2022, we initiated the winding down of our Intel Optane memory business.
Intels 10th Gen 45W Core-H CPUs Show Up in the Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel
June 2024For users that regularly track Intel’s laptop process lines, then you will likely be used to the nomenclature that Y-series is sub 10 W, U-series is usually 15 W but sometimes 28 W, and the H-series sits at 35 W and 45 W levels.
Lenovo Updates ThinkPad 11e Series for Education
June 2024On the other end of the education spectrum from Acer’s new Chromebooks, today at the Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC) Lenovo announced updates to their ThinkPad 11e series geared towards education.
Making Two Slow GPUs... Not So Slow
June 2024There are two types of graphics that do a horrible job at running the latest 3D games: integrated graphics, and low-end discrete GPUs.
Raising the Bar for Mainstream Gaming PCs
June 2024I've been meeting with AMD a lot these days; in fact, one day last week I actually had to reschedule two separate AMD meetings because I was playing host to a few reps from, uh, AMD.
Seagate Innov8 8TB Bus-Powered External Hard Drive Review
June 2024Bus-powered storage devices have traditionally been limited by USB 2.0's power delivery specifications. The 4.5W limit meant that only 2.5" drives (typically with a spindle speed of 5400 RPM) could be placed
SilverStone Sugo SG05: The Mini-ITX Standard Bearer
June 2024Introducing the SilverStone Sugo SG05 We've been looking at a few mini-ITX enclosures as of late, an interest sparked largely by the surprise success of the Bitfenix Prodigy and the general industry tend towards smaller, more powerful systems.
Snapdragon X Plus: Second Verse, A Bit Less Than the First
June 2024Alongside today’s announcement of the Snapdragon X chip SKUs and the Snapdragon X Plus branding, Qualcomm put together a short presentation on the Snapdragon X Plus.
Software: Corsair Link and NZXT Kraken Control
June 2024Software Impressively, this new set of contenders boast both fan control software and even, in the case of Corsair's H80i and H100i, upgradable firmware.
The Broadwell Gaming Laptop Your Desktop Envies
June 2024I was lucky enough to be on-hand when MSI launched the GT80 Titan at CES. It was a big event for them, and all of the MSI people were quite excited about the unique device they had come out with.
The Netgear XS724EM, a 24-port 2.5G/5G/10GBase-T Switch
June 2024For a special occasion, and with what looked like a pricing error, I decided to splash out on a 10GBase-T switch for my testing lab.
The Only Card That Matters
June 2024Here we are, a year after the launch of G80, and we are seeing what amounts to the first real "
The Sprint HTC EVO 4G Review
June 2024It’s really not that big. It seems like it would be based on the specs and photos, but in reality the Sprint EVO 4G by HTC just isn’t that big.
Viewing Angles - Acer AL2216W: a worthwhile compromise?
June 2024Viewing AnglesWe mentioned earlier that we would revisit some of the aspects of the other displays, and viewing angles are one of those areas that several readers wanted us to explore further.
WatchOS: Apps and Glances - The Apple Watch Review
June 2024WatchOS: Apps and Glances In general, the third party app ecosystem seems to be a bit weak at this point as I suspect most developers haven’t quite figured out the model for how apps should look like and how they should work on the watch.
Way #1 to Say Single Card SLI: Voodoo3 2000
June 2024Way #1 to Say Single Card SLI: Voodoo3 2000 The Voodoo3 2000 is the entry-level 3dfx Voodoo3 accelerator, which should shortly be hitting the store shelves.
Welcome to My World - The Witcher: a Study in Neutrality
June 2024Welcome to My World The Witcher is powered by BioWare's Aurora 2007 engine, a heavily modified version of the engine behind Neverwinter Nights — and it really is heavily modified, to the point where if the BioWare logo wasn't present on the box, you likely wouldn't make the connection.
A Look at SkyCross and their Actively Tuned VersiTune Smartphone Antenna
June 2024On the last day of CES, while still getting over some of the death curry that we foolishly ingested the night before, I had a meeting with SkyCross, who recently announced a new actively tuned multiband antenna module for smartphones.
A Month with the HTC One max
June 2024A Month with the HTC One max In October I was contacted by HTC’s PR agency here in London, and after a series of discussions they sent me a HTC One max to test for a month.
AMD Flirts with DDR3 - The Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720: AMD Gets DDR3 But Doesn't Need It
June 2024Lower TDPs, Faster un-core, DDR3 Support: The new Phenom II All of the CPUs launching today are Socket-AM3 compatible. If you remember from my original Phenom II article, a Socket-AM3 CPU can work in both AM3 and AM2+ motherboards.
Anand's Google Nexus One Review
June 2024I get inspiration to write from the strangest places. It can be a conversation, an observation or just music. I say it’s from the strangest places because the inspiration doesn’t result in a painting or a photograph, it ends up in the structure or body of a review of some piece of technology.
Application and Futuremark Performance - iBUYPOWER Erebus GT Review: Ivy Bridge and NVIDIA's GeForce
June 2024Application and Futuremark Performance What we're essentially trying to gauge here is how an Ivy Bridge processor with reduced overclocking headroom compares to a Sandy Bridge chip with lower IPC and higher clocks.
Arm Cortex X4: Fastest Arm Core Ever Built - Arm Unveils 2023 Mobile CPU Core Designs: Cortex-X4, A7
June 2024Arm Cortex-X4: Fastest Arm Core Ever Built (Again) Diving further into Arm's new CPU core microarchitectures, we'll start with the Cortex-X4, which stands out as the most substantial advancement.
ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 (DDR5)
June 2024ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 (DDR5) For the launch of Intel's Alder Lake, ASRock has prepared two mini-ITX form factor motherboards for launch, one for the premium market and one for entry-level users.
ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Extreme & Extreme Glacial
June 2024ASUS has prepared an impressive line up of Z590 models. Starting with the flagships, ASUS has two prepared two new Extreme models, the ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial and ROG Maximus XIII Extreme.
ATTO Connects SAS HDDs/SSDs/Tape Drives to Thunderbolt 3 PCs
June 2024Thunderbolt 3-enabled computers continue to gain compatibility with various exotic and special-purpose devices. ATTO this week released its ThunderLink 3128 SATA/SAS Thunderbolt 3 adapter, which can allow a Thunderbolt 3 host to connect to up to eight SAS 12 Gbps/SATA 6 Gbps drives.
Bluetake's BT460EX BlueTooth Hi-Fi Audio Station Kit: Package - Bluetake's BT460EX Bluetooth Hi-Fi A
June 2024Bluetake's BT460EX BlueTooth Hi-Fi Audio Station Kit: Package Seeing as this is a kit, and not just a product thrown into a box with a few accessories, we will be reviewing it as a kit, which means a review of a complete system.
Color Quality - Apple 27-inch LED Cinema Display Review
June 2024Color Quality We report two main quality metrics in our display reviews: color accuracy (Delta-E) and color gamut. Color gamut refers to the range of colors the display is able to represent with respect to some color space.
Compute Performance - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
June 2024Compute Performance As always we'll start with our DirectCompute game example, Civilization V, which uses DirectCompute to decompress textures on the fly.
Entry Level Buyer's Guide, October 2005
June 2024IntroductionThe school year is now in full swing, and hopefully everyone is enjoying themselves. Some of you might already be in the depths of mid-terms, for which you have our condolences.
Gaming Performance: 1080p - The Intel Core i3-12300 Review: Quad-Core Alder Lake Shines
June 2024Gaming Performance: 1080p While a quad core processor is not going to be the first choice for gaming these days (especially when consoles have had 8 cores for the past two generations), 4 Golden Cove P cores still put up enough of a fight that the CPU is never too much of a limiting factor.
Gaming Tests: Red Dead Redemption 2
June 2024It’s great to have another Rockstar benchmark in the mix, and the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) on the PC gives us a chance to do that.
GPU Benchmarks: Sleeping Dogs - Choosing a Gaming CPU: Single + Multi-GPU at 1440p, April 2013
June 2024Sleeping Dogs While not necessarily a game on everybody’s lips, Sleeping Dogs is a strenuous game with a pretty hardcore benchmark that scales well with additional GPU power.
GPU Performance vs. CPU Clock Speed
June 2024For these tests, we took a single core AMD Athlon 64 (1MB L2) and increased its clock speed from 1.8GHz all the way up to 2.
Hands-On With the Xiaomi Mi5
June 2024It’s been over 18 months since Xiaomi announced the Mi 4 back in June 2014, and today the company is finally ready to release the sucessor in the form of the Mi 5.
Honors Thin-and-Light MagicBook with AMD Ryzen Mobile Listed
June 2024A Chinese retailer has started to list Honor’s MagicBook laptop based on AMD’s Ryzen Mobile processor. The thin-and-light notebook looks similar to the Intel-based MagicBook launched in April and will be officially available only in China.
Mega Stick 1 Supercharged USB flash drive - MSI Mega Stick 1
June 2024Mega Stick 1 — Supercharged USB flash drive Mega Stick 1 is a bit larger than most USB flash drives, and this limits portability to a degree.
Microsoft Acquires Pen Technology From N-Trig Ltd
June 2024In a move that has long been rumoured, Microsoft has announced today on the Surface Blog that they have acquired the digital pen technology from N-Trig Ltd.
Microsoft Surface Hub Availability And Specifications Announced
June 2024Today Microsoft announced more news regarding the Surface Hub, which is their large-screen collaboration device. Built specifically for the business conference room, the Surface Hub packs some impressive features inside.
Miscellaneous Aspects and Final Words
June 2024In addition to the performance numbers and value additions that have already been discussed, consumers also need to look at other factors like thermal performance and power consumption for external storage devices.
Netflix Streaming - A Budget Home Theater & PC Setup: 4K, HDR, UHD Blu-ray, and More
June 2024Netflix Streaming We have been using Netflix's El Fuente test clip to evaluate the Netflix streaming capabilities of various HTPCs. Though it does have 4K streams at bitrates of up to 16 Mbps, it doesn't have a HDR version.
New P and E cores, Xe2-LPG Graphics, New NPU 4 Brings More AI Performance
June 2024Intel this morning is lifting the lid on some of the finer architectural and technical details about its upcoming Lunar Lake SoC – the chip that will be the next generation of Core Ultra mobile processors.
Number 9 & SGI - Fall Comdex '98 Coverage
June 2024Number Nine & SGI What do these two companies have in common? In browsing the suites of the Las Vegas Convention Center waiting for a meeting with AMD, I noticed an interesting combination of names, the graphics accelerator giant and the graphics manipulation monster, Number Nine and SGI, were sharing a suite.
Phison To Unveil 14.7 GB/s PCIe 5.0 SSD and Cheap USB4 Drives at CES 2024
June 2024CES 2024 is a few weeks away, so Phison shared its plans for the consumer electronics industry's biggest trade show this week.
Physical Impressions and Comparison Table - Samsung Droid Charge Review
June 2024The left side of the Charge is home to the microUSB port and volume buttons, which are adorned with a small chrome ridge.
Power Consumption - Its a Cascade of 14nm CPUs: AnandTechs Intel Core i9-10980XE Review
June 2024Power Consumption We’ve covered in detail across multiple articles the story of Intel’s turbo: about how the TDP on the box doesn’t mean a whole lot, the motherboard you’re using can ultimately determine how long your CPU does turbo for, and how the power limits of the processor are ultimately decided by the motherboard manufacturer’s settings in the BIOS unless you change them.
Power Consumption - Samsung SSD 840 EVO Review: 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB & 1TB Models Tested
June 2024Power Consumption Low power consumption has always been a staple of Samsung's SSDs, and the EVO is no different. Idle and load power are among the best here.
Power, Temperature, & Noise - The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
June 2024Power, Temperature, & Noise As always, last but not least is our look at power, temperature, and noise. Next to price and performance of course, these are some of the most important aspects of a GPU, due in large part to the impact of noise.
Pre-Show PR gives Z170 Motherboards and 4T4R Router
June 2024Next week is the annual Computex trade show and we have a substantial number of meetings booked, but as part of the regular pre-show ritual, companies are coming at us with the start of their press release mêlée.
Reads Chemical Composition of Materials
June 2024I first saw Consumer Physics’ SCiO handheld scanner a couple of years ago and was impressed by its ability to identify materials by scanning and analyzing their chemical composition.
Snapdragon 800 in a Slimmer Galaxy Note
June 2024Samsung was among the first to discover the demand for very large smartphones and quickly addressed that market with its Galaxy Note lineup.
Software: LG UX 4.0 - The LG G4 Review
June 2024Software: LG UX 4.0 Software is ultimately one of the most important aspects of a smartphone. In the case of iOS and most mobile OSes, the experience is essentially fixed for everyone.
The Corsair HX750i Power Supply
June 2024External Appearance Visually, the Corsair HX750i stands out from the crowd. It's housed in a 180mm long chassis, which is considerably longer than a standard ATX chassis.
The Facebook Open Compute Servers
June 2024The Facebook Server In the basement of the Palo Alto, California headquarters, three Facebook engineers built Facebook's custom-designed servers, power supplies, server racks, and battery backup systems.
The Intel Core i3-13100F Review: Finding Value in Intel's Cheapest Core Chip
June 2024Conclusion It feels like it's been ages since a quad-core CPU was considered an essential SKU in Intel's arsenal. Throughout many generations of Intel's architectures, including the fabled Sandy Bridge, Haswell, and Skylake, to name a few, it wasn't until the launch of its Coffee Lake family of parts (8th Gen Core) that we saw Intel going beyond four cores for its desktop platform.
The SilverStone Nightjar NJ450-SXL 450W SFX PSU Review: Passive Excellence
June 2024The recent trend of building high performance entertainment and gaming PCs for the modern living room is compelling manufacturers to reduce their systems' dimensional proportions, slowly but steadily increasing the popularity and market of small form factor (SFF) products.
TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
June 2024One of the key metrics on how well a semiconductor process is developing is looking at its quantitative chip yield – or rather, its defect density.
Virtualization Station on the TS-451
June 2024We took the Virtualization Station package for a spin on our TS-451 review unit. We have already covered the performance aspects of the unit.
Why SSDs Care About What You Write: Fragmentation & Write Combining
June 2024PC Perspective's Allyn Malventano is a smart dude, just read one of his articles to figure that out. He pieced together a big aspect of how the X25-M worked on his own, a major key to how to improve SSD performance.
12 GB of DRAM in a Smartphone
June 2024Samsung has kicked off volume production of its LPDDR5 memory devices and intends to start mass assembly of memory packages based on the new DRAMs.
1st Generation Neoverse-N1 80-Core Server SoC
June 2024For readers who are familiar with the Neoverse-N1 and our coverage of the Amazon Graviton2, won’t be too surprised at the general system architecture of the new first generation Altra “Quicksilver” design.
A New Design with Active Noise Cancellation
June 2024Apple today has introduced a new version of its AirPods wireless earbuds, which the company is calling the AirPods Pro. Designed to be an even more premium version of Apple's earbuds, the AirPods Pro features a revamped design that is equipped with a custom high dynamic range amplifier, as well as adding support for active noise cancellation.
AMD Announces FirePro R5000; PCoIP For Remote Desktops
June 2024Though most readers aren’t acutely aware of it, AMD’s FirePro lineup of graphics cards encompasses a number of more specialized fields.
AMD Launches Limited Edition Ryzen MAX CPU Bundles
June 2024AMD has started selling select Ryzen processors in special limited-edition Ryzen MAX bundles. This holiday season the company will offer its Ryzen 5 2600X MAX and Ryzen 7 2700 MAX bundles with its highest-performaning stock air coolers that enable users to take advantage of AMD’s Precision Boost 2 and XFR2 automatic overclocking technologies for longer periods, or just enjoy a higher overclocking potential.
AMD Ryzen Embedded Mini-STX Motherboard
June 2024Sapphire has announced one of the world’s first platforms based on AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000-series APUs. The motherboard is aimed at various embedded applications that can take advantage of AMD’s latest Zen and Vega architectures and their capabilities.
Analysis: Power Consumption - A New 30" Contender: HP ZR30w Review
June 2024Power Consumption The ZR30w is advertised as having an 85% efficiency power supply. I suspect HP is trying to match the certification allure of the 85 PLUS ratings for desktop power supplies.
Apple Refreshes MacBook with Skylake-based Core M and New Rose Gold Color
June 2024Today Apple has introduced its new generation of its MacBook laptops. On the specification sheets, this generation introduces Intel Skylake based Core m processors, updated integrated graphics, a faster storage solution (either controller or NAND), faster DRAM and bigger batteries.
Apple's 15-inch Core i5 MacBook Pro: The One to Get?
June 2024If you've followed our Mac coverage over the past year you know I've been telling everyone to wait until Apple brought Arrandale into its MacBook Pro lineup.
Apples A12Z Processor Confirmed to Reuse A12X Silicon
June 2024Last month Apple introduced its latest generation of iPad Pro tablets, and much to the surprise of many, the new iDevices didn’t come with a high-end variant of Apple’s newest A13 SoC.
Arm is Now an Investor
June 2024The pipeline for Arm based server products has a few companies fighting for as much of the market as they can get – the server market is a big pie to consume, and not only do these companies have to tempt customers from x86, but they also have to compete with each other to get customers.
ASUS TUF Z390 Pro Gaming
June 2024Since TUF went not so TUF with the disregard of waves of thermal armor on their more rugged The Ultimate Force models, the TUF range was remodelled with a focus on offering gamers on a budget an entry route onto the key chipsets such as last year with the Z370 chipset and now with the new Z390 chipset.
BIOS and Software - The MSI X299 Gaming M7 ACK Motherboard Review: Light up the Night
June 2024BIOS The Gaming M7 ACK's BIOS should look familiar to many who have used any MSI boards recently. The Click Bios 5 is set up exactly as we have seen the others, with an EZ Mode being the landing page.
Boys with Toys - Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Xbox 360 Review
June 2024Boys with Toys When it comes to shooters, the guns you'll use play a large part in how successful a game is.
Choosing The Right X570 Motherboard
June 2024Overall, there are more than 35 X570 motherboards available just as part of the first wave of designs. And there will be quite a few more to be announced later on, such as the ASRock X570 Taichi Ultimate, Biostar's mini-ITX X570GTN and a number of models from ASUS.
Coming Up Short At $150
June 2024The last couple of weeks after the recent GeForce GTX 550 Ti launch have been more eventful than I had initially been expecting.
CPU Performance: Intel's Own Claims
June 2024Before we get into the new AI benchmarks, let’s take a quick look at the usual CPU benchmarks and performance claims made available by Intel.
CPU Tests: SPEC ST Performance on P-Cores & E-Cores
June 2024SPEC2017 is a series of standardized tests used to probe the overall performance between different systems, different architectures, different microarchitectures, and setups.
Crysis 3 - The AMD Radeon R9 290X Review
June 2024Crysis 3 Still one of our most punishing benchmarks, Crysis 3 needs no introduction. With Crysis 3, Crytek has gone back to trying to kill computers and still holds “most punishing shooter” title in our benchmark suite.
Dell Inspiron XPS Preview - Power to Play and a bit more
June 2024Today, Dell announces a notebook that marks their entrance into the enthusiast market (particularly if you know the code name). Dubbed the Dell Inspiron XPS, it is suppose to be the mobile version of the desktop Dimension XPS system.
EIZO Unveils ColorEdge Prominence CG3146 HDR Reference Monitor with Calibration Sensor
June 2024Well known for their high-end and reference-quality monitors, EIZO has introduced their latest reference monitor, the ColorEdge Prominence CG3146, which is designed for HDR content mastering for the broadcast and film industries.
Final Words and Conclusion - MSI B360 Gaming Plus & B360 Gaming Arctic Review: Fraternal Twins On Th
June 2024Conclusion The B360 Gaming Plus and B360 Gaming Arctic offer users a wide variety of modern interfaces and features, including an M.
Gaming Performance - Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC Review: Our First Custom Cooled 290
June 2024Gaming Performance Diving into our performance benchmarks, we’ll be running light on the commentary here due to the fact that there’s really not much to say about the gaming performance of the 290 Tri-X OC.
Gaming Performance: 4K - The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 7600 Review: Zen 4 Efficien
June 2024Gaming Performance: 4K Last, we have our 4K gaming results. We are using DDR5 memory on the Ryzen 7000 series 65 W SKUs, as well as the other Ryzen 7000 processors tested, at the following settings:
GeForce 3D Vision: Stereoscopic 3D From NVIDIA
June 2024As we've seen over the past few years, NVIDIA isn't content with simply doing what has been done well. Certainly their graphics cards are good at what they do and competition in the market is great today delivering amazing value to consumers.
GIGABYTE Z490 Aorus Master Motherboard Review: Clawing at the Competition
June 2024Overclocking Experience with the GIGABYTE Z490 Aorus Master One of the regular traits we've seen over the last eight months when overclocking with Intel's Comet Lake is that it runs hot!
Google+ Traffic Declines As Novelty Wears Off?
June 2024Some of Google’s product launches distinctly remind me of this one South Park episode where Eric Cartman boosted visitor numbers at his theme park by artificially barring people from entering.
Intel 4 Heralds the Disaggregated Future of Mobile CPUs
June 2024During the opening keynote at Intel's Innovation event in San Jose, Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger unveiled a score of details about the upcoming Meteor Lake client platform.
Intel Optane SSD 905P Coming Soon
June 2024Intel hasn't officially announced it yet, but a refresh of their flagship consumer SSD is on the way. The Intel Optane SSD 905P will feature slightly improved performance and power consumption compared to the Optane SSD 900P, and will be available in higher capacities than Intel's current consumer Optane products.
Killer NIC Card - BigFoot Networks Killer NIC: Killer Marketing or Killer Product?
June 2024Killer NIC CardThe Killer NIC ships with an installation disc that includes several Linux programs, a few decals, product documentation package, and a full retail copy of F.
Lenovo and EMC Stir SMB NAS Market with LenovoEMC Joint Venture
June 2024News of the Lenovo - EMC joint venture, LenovoEMC crossed the wires last week. We met with Iomega yesterday at CES and discussed what this means for the storage market.
Logitech Launches G Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse with 16,000 DPI Sensor
June 2024Professional gamers tend to use wired mice because of their higher polling rate and lower input lag. For many years leading makers of mice have improved their wireless mice for gamers, but those of them who play professionally still use wired devices.
Market Trends: HDD Capacities Increase, Average Price Flat
June 2024Average HDD Capacities Continue to Increase Despite the drop in HDD unit shipments, both sequentially and year-over-year, total capacities shipped by the two leading makers of hard drives increased in Q1.
NVIDIA Unifies GeForce NOW Service Across PCs and SHIELD TV STBs: 200+ Games Supported
June 2024NVIDIA this month is unifying its GeForce NOW service across all platforms that it supports, extending the latest iteration of the service for PCs and Macs to include NVIDIA's SHIELD TV consoles.
Packaging and Design - Gigabyte 802.11g VPN Wireless Router
June 2024Packaging and Design The GN-BR404W comes packaged with the router itself, AC power adapter, user guide, a cross-over and straight-through CAT5 Ethernet cable, and cradle that doubles as a wall mount.
Project SPARK Mini-PC Announced with GTX 1080 and i7-8700K
June 2024LAS VEGAS, NV — This year at CES, Digital Storm, a US-based boutique custom PC maker, has unveiled Project SPARK, its smallest enthusiast-class PC to date.
RDNA 3 This Year, RDNA 4 Lands in 2024
June 2024Among the slew of announcements from AMD today around their 2022 Financial Analyst Day, the company offering an update to their client GPU (RDNA) roadmap.
The Intel Core i7-8086K Review
June 2024Intel announced it, we asked for one, we were told no press samples, so we get one for ourselves. This is Intel's 40th anniversary of the original x86 microarchitecture with the 8086 processor, and to celebrate they released the Core i7-8086K, based on Coffee Lake with a turbo up to 5.
The Metro UI Continued - Microsoft BUILD: Windows 8, A Pre-Beta Preview
June 2024The Metro UI Continued Next up is the control panel, which doesn’t entirely supplant Windows’ traditional control panel, but instead offers high level features in a Metro-friendly interface.
7nm, 8-core on both 15W and 45W, Coming Q1
June 2024At last year’s CES, AMD showcased its then Ryzen 3000 mobile processors as part of the announcements. In what is becoming a trend, at this year’s CES, the company is doing the same in announcing its next generation Ryzen 4000 mobile processors.
A 17.3-Inch DTR Notebook with Dolby Vision
June 2024Lenovo on Tuesday introduced its new 17.3-inch mobile workstation, its most powerful notebook aimed at a broad set of workloads from content creation to oil and gas exploration.
Amacrox Calmer 560: Silence is Golden
June 2024Introduction Amacrox might be not a familiar name to everyone, but the company just expanded its business over in Europe and should soon spread to the US as well.
AMD Powered Acer Chromebook 315 Announced
June 2024At CES 2019, Acer has announced the Acer Chromebook 315, interestingly powered by AMD but not Ryzen. Instead, the Chromebook 315 features the AMD A6-9220C or A4-9120C processors with Radeon graphics in this cost-conscious Chromebook.
AMD's Six-Core Phenom II X6 1090T & 1055T Reviewed
June 2024A very smart man once told me that absolute performance doesn’t matter, it’s performance at a given price point that makes a product successful.
Battery & Thermal Performance - The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023) Laptop Review: Mobile Ryzen 9 7945
June 2024ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023): Battery Performance While battery life is normally one of the key aspects of a notebook computer, gaming laptops are somewhat of an exception.
Battery Life, Wi-Fi, and Speakers
June 2024Battery Life Not everyone requires battery life in a laptop. For some, a laptop is something you move from desk to desk, and can keep power close at hand.
BIOS And Software - The ASUS Pro WS X570-Ace Review: x8x8x8 with No RGB
June 2024BIOS The ASUS Pro WS X570-Ace is using the more professional focused UEFI BIOS Utility with white and turquoise text on a black background.
Call of Juarez - Real World DirectX 10 Performance: It Ain't Pretty
June 2024Call of Juarez There has been quite a bit of controversy and drama surrounding the journey of Call of Juarez from DirectX 9 to DirectX 10.
Corsair Gaming M65 RGB & Sabre Gaming Mice
June 2024The packaging of Corsair Gaming mice is also based on the yellow/black color theme of the division. It is possible to lift the front cover of the packaging, revealing the size and shape of the mouse, which is exceptionally convenient for a more effective selection when browsing in a store.
CPU Benchmark Performance: AI and Inferencing
June 2024As technology progresses at a breakneck pace, so too do the demands of modern applications and workloads. With artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) becoming increasingly intertwined with our daily computational tasks, it's paramount that our reviews evolve in tandem.
Display Analysis - The MSI GE75 Raider Laptop Review: Core i9 and RTX 2080 Performance
June 2024Display Analysis MSI’s GE75 Raider ships with a 1920x1080 IPS panel, offering an impressive 144 Hz refresh rate. Some will lament the lack of a UHD option, although in our gaming test it really showed that even the mighty RTX 2080 will struggle with UHD gaming in laptop form, and the smoothness of gaming at 144 Hz is something to behold.
Enabling XMP with ASUS, GIGABYTE, ASRock and MSI on Z87
June 2024Enabling XMP with ASUS, GIGABYTE, ASRock and MSI on Z87 By default, memory should adhere to specifications set by JEDEC (formerly known as the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council).
Gaming with Kinect - Dance Central
June 2024Kinect Games So, now that we’ve talked about just about everything you can do with Kinect except play games, how does it actually fare as an input paradigm for console gaming?
Gigabyte 8KNXP Ultra: Tech Support and RMA
June 2024For your reference, we will repost our support evaluation procedure here: The way our Tech Support evaluation works is first we anonymously email the manufacturer's tech support address(es), obviously not using our AnandTech mail server to avoid any sort of preferential treatment.
Google Announces Android M At Google I/O 2015
June 2024Today Google formally announced the next version of their Android operating system at their Google I/O developer conference. Much like how Android Lollipop was originally previewed under the name Android L, the next major release of Android is being referred to as Android M.
Google Maps, Address Book, Music and the App Store
June 2024Google MapsAndroid based phones still get the sweetest implementation of Google Maps, but the Pre gets one that’s at least on par with what’s in the iPhone OS.
Google Releases 4.3 OTA for HTC One and Galaxy S4 Google Play Editions
June 2024It's been a busy week in the Android space, and this evening Google appears to have hit the button on the Android 4.
HP's Cruelest Cut: DreamColor in 1080p
June 2024HP's Cruelest Cut: DreamColor in 1080p I'm not usually one to complain about the difference between 1080p and 1200p in a notebook screen, but the shift to a 16:9 aspect from the HP EliteBook 8740w to the 8760w just rubs me the wrong way.
Identifying a 65nm Xbox 360
June 2024Not too long ago, a Xbox 360 owner posted about receiving a new console from Amazon.com with a pair of revised heatsinks on the CPU and GPU.
Intel Launches Wi-Fi 6 AX200 Wireless Network Adapter
June 2024Intel has quietly launched its first Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) wireless network adapter, codenamed Cyclone Peak. The new WLAN adapter will deliver up to 2.
Intel Pentium III
June 2024We all remember the platform shoes, and the tacky suits on the bodies of the dancers that dominated the dance floor, bouncing to every bump of bass in the catchy beat of the Beegee's Stayin' Alive.
Linux Gaming Performance - Linux Gaming: Are We There Yet?
June 2024Linux Gaming Performance We'll start with a look at games where we were actually able to get results from all three Wine projects.
Mainstream Standalone VR Headset Starts at $199
June 2024Previously announced back in October, Oculus VR this week has begun to sell its mainstream-focused Oculus Go standalone VR headset. With a price of just $199 for the base unit, the Oculus Go is the first in a new generation of far more affordable standalone headsets, eschewing some performance and features of other, more expensive headsets in order to bring the price down for the mass market.
Mid-Range Battle: Radeon HD 3850 vs. GeForce 8600 GTS
June 2024Until NVIDIA actually releases a 8800 GT 256MB at $179, the closest competitor to the Radeon HD 3850 is actually the GeForce 8600 GTS.
MSI TRX40 Pro 10G & TRX40 Pro WIFI
June 2024Slightly down the pecking order and below the MSI Creator TRX40 are the MSI TRX40 Pro 10G and TRX40 Pro WIFI motherboards.
Power Consumption - AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Review
June 2024Power Consumption Power consumption, like performance, isn't surprising here. I noticed I couldn't get Cool'n'Quiet to properly underclock the Phenom II X4 980 BE when idle, resulting in a constant 3.
Power Consumption and Final Thoughts
June 2024Power Consumption Another benefit of the LEDs compared to a CCFL display is the reduced cost of running them and lower heat output.
Razer Blade (late 2012) - Switchblade UI
June 2024Razer Blade (late 2012) - Switchblade UI Easily the most significant issue I had with the original Blade’s user experience while I had it was the usability of the Switchblade UI system, and other than the overall system value quotient, it was the biggest reason I could point to for not recommending a Blade purchase.
Ryujin and Ryuo Liquid Coolers Announced
June 2024Coming out of ASUS’ press event are a pair of new ASUS liquid coolers, falling under the ROG peripherals range. The Ryujin will be the flagship model available in 360mm and 240mm variants, with the focus on style and ROG branding as well as performance.
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Review (T-Mobile)
June 2024So I have a confession to make. What seems like an eternity ago, I received a Galaxy Note review unit for AT&T, but never quite finished my review.
Silicon, Glue, & NUMA Too
June 2024In the Ryzen family, AMD designed an 8 core silicon die known as a Zeppelin die. This consisted of two core complexes (CCX) of four cores each, with each CCX having access to 8 MB of L3 cache.
That Fingerprint Scanner - HTC One max Review
June 2024The One max joins a small but growing list of phones that include a fingerprint scanner for unlocking the device. I’ll leave the discussion about whether fingerprints are fundamentally usernames or passwords for another day, but fingerprint scanners seem to be in vogue right now for mobile phones.
The Acer Predator Triton 500 Laptop Review: Going Thin with GeForce RTX 2080
June 2024Design When you think of gaming laptops, you generally think big and heavy, which makes sense due to the power requirements of top-end gaming components.
The ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate Motherboard Review: Aquantia 10GbE on Ryzen
June 2024With the new X470 motherboard refresh to complement the release of the Ryzen 2000-series of processors, motherboard vendors have had the opportunity to improve upon their previous X370 models.
The Corsair STRAFE Mechanical Keyboard Review
June 2024Corsair may have diversified into the peripherals market a couple of years ago but they currently are one of the most active gaming peripheral developers.
The Google Pixel C Review
June 2024In early 2010, Google and HTC launched the Nexus One. While it was designed in a partnership between Google and HTC, it represented Google's first step into the arena of smartphone hardware design.
The SteelSeries Apex Gaming Keyboard & Engine Software
June 2024The SteelSeries Apex Gaming Keyboard With its numerous extra keys and integrated palm rest, the SteelSeries Apex is a very large keyboard, measuring 56cm (22"
UI Changes, Settings, FaceTime over Cellular, Shared Photo Stream, YouTube
June 2024Other UI Changes In each iOS release it always seems like Apple makes some subtle UI changes, similar to what it has done in OS X for years now.
Western Digital Rolls Out Updated Budget WD Blue SN5000 SSDs, Adds 4TB Model
June 2024Western Digital expanded its WD Blue NVMe family of budget SSDs this week with the introduction of the the WD Blue SN5000 series, an updated lineup of SSDs that, among other things, adds a 4 TB model.
WQHD IPS with 120Hz G-Sync
June 2024Dell this week has introduced its new top-of-the-line curved gaming display, the Alienware 34. The new AW3420DW monitor resembles its predecessor from 2017, with the same resolution and G-Sync functionality, however it builds upon that with a greater display brightness, a different design, and features an IPS panel with Nano Color technology.
2x8 GB at DDR3-2400 C11-13-13 1.65 V
June 2024Memory has an odd part to play in the desktop ecosystem. There is plenty of it from many different manufacturers at various prices, speeds and benefits.
8-core, 2 GHz, 12nm, 2025
June 2024Russian outlet Vedomosti.ru today is reporting that the conglomerate Rostec, a Russian state-backed corporation specializing in investment in technology, has penned a deal with server company Yadro and silicon design company Syntacore to develop RISC-V processors for computers, laptops, and servers.
9 HDR 4K OLED Smartphone
June 2024Being a high-tech company with multiple divisions, Sony can fetch technologies from various units to build products with unique qualities. At Mobile World Congress 2019 the company introduced its new flagship smartphone offering, the Xperia X1, that uses technologies developed by at least three divisions of Sony.
A Professional Mechanical Keyboard for $55
June 2024The high demand that the trend of upgrading to a mechanical keyboard has created during the past few years stimulated a frisky market that many companies started or diversified into.
AMD K6 Review
June 2024AMD had a knockout on their hands with the K5, unfortunately manufacturing problems and lagging delays kept them from grabbing a significant amount of the market.
Apple Announces Q3 FY 2017 Results
June 2024This afternoon, Apple announced their earnings for the third quarter of their 2017 fiscal year. Revenue grew 7% year-over-year to $45.
Assembling the Fractal Design Core 1000
June 2024Assembling the Fractal Design Core 1000 When discussing assembling a system in the Fractal Design Core 1000, it's important to make distinctions between the inherent limitations of the form factor and places where Fractal Design could've definitely improved the ease of use.
ASUS ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WIFI
June 2024ASUS's ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WIFI is another model focused on gamers building a new system on a budget but opts for a slightly different aesthetical design.
ASUS TUF Gaming VG27VH1B 27-Inch 165Hz DCI-P3 Monitor
June 2024ASUS brought its TUF Gaming sub-brand to the market a couple of years ago to address needs of mainstream gamers. But as requirements evolve, the company has added premium features to TUF Gaming-branded products every now and then.
Battery Life & The Best LTE Hotspot?
June 2024Battery Life I ran through our standard general use battery life test for tablets on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G LTE.
Build Process - Akasa Turing Fanless Case Review: Unrivalled Noiseless NUC
June 2024Build Process The Akasa Turing package consists of the main chassis, an user manual with installation instructions, SATA data and power cables along with mounting brackets for a 2.
Buyer's Guide: Mid-Range to High-End, May 2005
June 2024Graphics Recommendations If you already own a decent system and are looking to upgrade, the options available for a moderate to high performance graphics card are quite abundant.
Cadence Buys Memory and SerDes PHY Assets from Rambus
June 2024In a surprising turn of events, Cadence and Rambus entered into a definitive agreement late last week for Cadence to buy memory physical interface IP and SerDes businesses from Rambus.
Cold Test Results (Room Ambient Temperature)
June 2024Cold Test Results For PSU testing, we are using high precision electronic loads with a maximum power draw of 2700 Watts, a Rigol DS5042M 40 MHz oscilloscope, an Extech 380803 power analyzer, two high precision UNI-T UT-325 digital thermometers, an Extech HD600 SPL meter, a self-designed hotbox, and various other bits and parts.
Final Words - ASRock X79 Extreme4-M and X79 Extreme4 Review Sandy Bridge-E meets mATX
June 2024ASRock have released a range of motherboards for X79, and today we have looked at the X79 Extreme4-M, a microATX board with all the Sandy Bridge-E credentials, and its bigger brother, the X79 Extreme4.
FSP Launches FlexGuru 250W & 300W Modular FlexATX PSUs
June 2024FSP has introduced its first FlexATX power supplies, which will be available through retail channels and value added resellers. The FlexGuru PSUs are fully modular and are rated at 250 W and 300 W.
General Code Compile - Who's it For?
June 2024As I had mentioned, one big advantage of having an Arm system like this is the fact that it enables your native software development, without having to worry about cross-compiling code and all of the kerfuffle that that entrails.
Google Chromecast Review - An Awesome $35 HDMI Dongle
June 2024So I have a confession to make – I didn’t hate the Nexus Q. While I didn’t necessarily love it and use it daily like a small minority of my peers did, I also didn’t immediately declare the product an unmitigated disaster like the vast majority of people.
Google Nexus 5 Review
June 2024Each year, Google picks a silicon vendor, a hardware partner, and releases a new version of Android running on top of them.
GTX 750 Overclocking Limits Increased
June 2024Word comes this afternoon that NVIDIA has released another new set of WHQL drivers, this time version 335.23. 335.23 is another member of the R334 driver branch, so this is a straightforward update to the 334.
Haswell-E Comes, ASUS and G.Skill Take Overclocking Records
June 2024In our Haswell-E coverage we did some basic 24/7 type overclocking suitable for the system under the desk, and there will be users with custom loops willing to go a bit further.
How hard is it to hit 2.0?
June 2024The core architecture of the Pentium 4 processor has not changed since its introduction last November. Now running at 2.0GHz, the basic specifications remain the same.
Inexpensive Ultra-Portable with Premium Look & Feel
June 2024ASUS has introduced its latest mainstream VivoBook 14 laptop, with the new model in some ways bringing the series a bit closer to its premium counterparts.
Intel 11th Generation Core Tiger Lake-H Performance Review: Fast and Power Hungry
June 2024Last week Intel launched their Tiger Lake-H family of laptop processors. Aimed at the larger 14-inch and above laptops, this processor family is Intel’s newest offering for the high-performance laptop market, stepping in above Intel’s mobility-focused U and Y series of chips.
Meet the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition
June 2024When it comes to the design of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founder’s Edition, if you’ve seen a high-end NVIDIA card in the last 4 years then you know roughly what to expect.
MSI's 300 Hz Gaming Laptops, the GS66 Stealth & GE66 Raider
June 2024MSI demonstrated a revamped version of its sleek and light GS-series Stealth gaming notebook at CES 2020 this week. The GS66 Stealth laptop continues to feature a low-profile design, but now comes in a 'Core Black' aluminum chassis and features the latest internal hardware.
Newegg Opens Business to the UK and Australia
June 2024As a consumer, more competition can be a good thing. Competition in manufacturing brings innovation and might help drive core pricing down, whereas competition in selling pits retailers against each other to see who will accept the lowest profit margin.
Patriot Adds Two Dual-Channel DDR4-3733 Memory Kits into Lineup
June 2024Patriot this week unveiled two new DDR4 kits rated to run at DDR4-3733. The dual-channel kits are designed for Intel’s latest platforms and belong to Patriot’s Viper Elite and Viper 4 families.
Power Delivery Thermal Analysis - The ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming Wi-Fi Motherboard Review: Premium
June 2024Power Delivery Thermal Analysis One of the most requested elements of our motherboard reviews revolves around the power delivery and its componentry.
Quad Core Xeon-E Conclusion - The Xeon Entry Quad-Core CPU Review: Xeon E-2174G, E-2134, and E-2104G
June 2024Quad Core Xeon-E Conclusion In this review, we focused on the results from our quad core Xeon E testing. These processors form part of Intel's portfolio that caters to small and medium businesses that want managed office systems with reasonable performance, or for entry level SOHO servers or storage platforms.
Razer Blade 14 (2023): Graphics Performance
June 2024Technically speaking, the Razer Blade 14 (2023) has a high-end mobile graphics chip via the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070. Coming with 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM clocked at an effective clock rate of 2000 MHz, it's not going to entice users and brings questions about VRAM utilization, especially in the latest AAA games.
Samsung Begins to Produce Third 3nm Chip Amid Massive Losses On DRAM & NAND
June 2024Samsung this week reported their financial results for the second quarter of 2023, closing the book on an especially bleak quarter of the year with a massive $3.
SK Hynix Details DDR5-6400
June 2024SK Hynix this week revealed some additional technical details about its upcoming DDR5-6400 memory chip at the International Solid State Circuits Conference.
Standardized Connector for VR Headsets
June 2024While PC VR headsets are fun, no one has especially enjoyed the number of cables required to hook one up. With separate video, power, and data cables, the end result has been that manufacturers have used somewhat unwieldy cables or breakout boxes.
The Dell XPS 15 9550 Review: Infinity Edge Lineup Expands
June 2024It was roughly a year ago that we had a chance to review Dell’s XPS 13, which was the first laptop from Dell to feature the Infinity Edge display.
The Largest Portable HDD to Date
June 2024Seagate this week formally introduced its Backup Plus Plus Portable Drive external HDD with a 5 TB capacity that is based on the recently launched top-of-the-range BarraCuda 2.
The New Task Manager - In-Depth with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
June 2024Task manager For the first time in memory, the Windows Task Manager has gotten a significant overhaul, and that doesn’t just refer to its new Metro-esque styling—Task Manager now combines functions from the old Task Manager, the Windows Resource Monitor, and MSConfig into a new, more useful app that provides a lot of information in a clean and simple way.
Western Digital and SanDisk Announce Partnership to Produce Hybrid Drives
June 2024Yesterday Western Digital and SanDisk announced their collaboration for hybrid hard drives (or SSHDs as they are now called). The idea behind the move is that SanDisk will supply Western Digital with iSSDs (I’ll explain what these are in a bit), which WD will then integrate with their hard drives to act as a read/write cache.
Windows 8, RT and Phone 8 Devices Revealed
June 2024Samung's still midstride in their IFA presentation, but they've already gone live with their announcements, and if they wanted to move the conversation along from the current news cycle this is it.
Windows Phone 8.1 Review
June 2024I was an early fan of Windows Phone 7. I remember completely switching over to the platform for about a month back in 2010, and being relatively happy.
Windows Sandbox - Windows 10 May 2019 Update Feature Focus: Light Themes And Sandboxes
June 2024Windows Sandbox One of the more exciting feature additions to Windows 10 May 2019 Update is Windows Sandbox, which is a containerized version of Windows which runs in a lightweight virtualized environment, and allows you to open a pristine version of Windows every single time.
7200 RPM Drive For Under $260
June 2024Toshiba has started to sell a new, 8 TB version of its X300 3.5” desktop hard drive. The new X300 8 TB hard drive relies on a specially developed platform with enterprise features that promises to enable extended reliability and has two performance-optimizing technologies.
AnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy
June 2024Our Heavy storage benchmark is proportionally more write-heavy than The Destroyer, but much shorter overall. The total writes in the Heavy test aren't enough to fill the drive, so performance never drops down to steady state.
AOC Announces New AGON Gaming Monitors, 24" 240Hz TN, 27" 165Hz NanoIPS
June 2024Today AOC is announcing two new gaming monitors to their AGON line-up, adding in a 24.5” 240Hz TN model in the form of the AG251FZ2E, and a new 27” 165Hz NanoIPS model with the AG273QXP.
Automatic AMD Platform Overclocking With a Twist
June 2024AMD just released a beta version of their Fusion for Gaming tool. This application is targeted at the not-so-hardcore gamer who still wants to get the most out of his or her system.
Battery Life - Matching the iPhone 8
June 2024In terms of battery life, the iPhone SE is said to perform similarly to the iPhone 8. Apple here employs a much newer and more efficient SoC in the form of the A13, while retaining the same battery capacity and display panel as the older phone.
Benchmarking Performance: CPU Office Tests
June 2024The office programs we use for benchmarking aren't specific programs per-se, but industry standard tests that hold weight with professionals. The goal of these tests is to use an array of software and techniques that a typical office user might encounter, such as video conferencing, document editing, architectural modelling, and so on and so forth.
Bitspower Quietly Launches its First Ever Air CPU Cooler, The Phantom
June 2024More known for its custom water cooling components, Bitspower has released its first-ever air-based CPU cooler, the Phantom. Designed for the entry-level market, the Phantom includes a single 120 mm RGB enabled cooling fan and supports Intel's latest LGA1700 desktop socket and AMD's AM4 socket.
CoW-SoW Stacks Up the Chips
June 2024TSMC has been offering its System-on-Wafer integration technology, InFO-SoW, since 2020. For now, only Cerebras and Tesla have developed wafer scale processor designs using it, as while they have fantastic performance and power efficiency, wafer-scale processors are extremely complex to develop and produce.
Dell Updates Ultrabook Thin M3800 Mobile Workstation With 4K Display
June 2024Today Dell is taking the wraps off of an updated version of the M3800 mobile workstation which first launched in November 2013.
Empeg Mark II in-dash Car MP3 Player
June 2024It wasn’t too long ago that AnandTech dove into some MP3 coverage with reviews of Portable MP3 players from Best Data and Pine Technology.
Enthusiast-Class RDNA3 For 1440p Gaming
June 2024With the Gamescom convention taking place in Germany this week, AMD is using Europe’s largest video game trade show as the venue for their latest Radeon video card announcements.
GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Elite - The AMD B550 Motherboard Overview: ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, ASRock, and Othe
June 2024GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Elite Moving down the product stack is the GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Elite which represents the entry-level to its Aorus series of gaming-focused boards.
Hardware Changes - Microsoft's Xbox 360 goes 65nm: Falcon Dissection and Power Consumption
June 2024Hardware Changes We wanted to see the new CPU up close, so we went straight to our original Xbox 360 disassembly instructions which, surprisingly enough, still work on the new consoles.
How Many Threads? - Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PS3
June 2024How Many Threads? Earlier this year we saw the beginning of a transition from very fast, single core microprocessors to slower, multi-core designs on the PC desktop.
Ice Lake Core with Xe Graphics
June 2024During a time of increased competitor activity, Intel has decided to disclose some of the high level details surrounding its next generation consumer processor, known as Rocket Lake or Intel’s 11th Gen Core.
In and Around the Toshiba KIRAbook
June 2024In and Around the Toshiba KIRAbook I'm of two minds when it comes to the design of the Toshiba KIRAbook.
Intel Core i7, Two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/1070 GPUs in SLI, Optional 120 Hz Display Panel
June 2024Eurocom has released one of the world’s first laptops featuring two NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080/1070 GPUs, along with one of Intel’s latest Core i7 CPUs for good measure.
Kindle Fire (2012): A slight update to replace last year's model
June 2024Kindle Fire (2012) Like cars and, now, the iPad, Amazon is naming their latest Kindle Fire exactly that (just Kindle Fire), though this is definitely a second generation tablet.
Lumia 640 and 640 XL Announced, 4K 120Hz Surface Hub Demoed
June 2024Mobile World Congress is in full swing today and Microsoft woke the press up early to discuss new features coming to their smartphone and tablet space.
Microsoft Launches Thunderbolt 4 Surface Dock
June 2024Microsoft has introduced a new docking station for its latest Surface devices equipped with Thunderbolt 4 ports. The Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock has eight ports and provides a comprehensive collection of eight current USB Type-C and legacy USB Type-A connectors along with a 2.
Mobile Ryzen 9 7945HX3D with 3D V-Cache Impresses
June 2024With all the success and esteem that AMD's 3D V-Cache on their desktop CPUs has garnered over the last year, it was only a matter of time before we saw a mobile-ready version hit the retail shelves.
MSI 655 Max: Board Layout
June 2024The MSI 655 Max has a very unique layout, though that doesn't mean we didn't have any complaints. The main ATX (20-pin) connector is located in a very unique position.
MSI B550-A Pro - The AMD B550 Motherboard Overview: ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, ASRock, and Others
June 2024MSI B550-A Pro The last in an interesting B550 product stack from MSI is the brands professional-focused budget model, the B550-A Pro.
New Generation of Optane M.2 SSDs Coming Soon
June 2024Intel's Optane products so far fall into one of two categories. At the high end is the flagship P4800X enterprise SSD and its derivatives for the enthusiast market.
NVIDIA Releases Android Marshmallow Update For SHIELD Tablet K1
June 2024NVIDIA this week released over-the-air (OTA) update to Google Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system for its SHIELD Tablet K1. The new OS is expected to improve functionality of the gaming tablet as well as to prolong its battery life.
NVIDIAs GF100: Architected for Gaming
June 2024At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, NVIDIA had several things going on. In a public press conference they announced 3D Vision Surround and Tegra 2, while on the showfloor they had products o’plenty, including a GF100 setup showcasing 3D Vision Surround.
OCZ ModXStream Pro 400W - 300W to 450W: 20 Power Supplies on the Test Bench
June 2024OCZ ModXStream Pro 400W The latest addition to OCZ's power supply lineup is the ModXStream Pro series. The 400W version we are testing today is made by CWT while the other power supplies in this series are made by Sirtec.
Patriot Viper V765 Mechanical Keyboard, V370 Headset, & More
June 2024We’re back with another giveaway for the month of November, this time from Patriot memory. For this latest giveaway, the company has put together a prize pack containing several items from their Viper Gaming product family, including a mechanical keyboard and an audio headset.
Performance Over Time & TRIM
June 2024Testing TRIM functionality is important because it gives us insight into the drive's garbage collection algorithms. OCZ insists the Octane has idle time garbage collection, a remnant of the original Indilinx drives, however in my testing I could not get the idle GC to do anything once I put the drive into a highly fragmented state.
Quick Sync: The Best Way to Transcode
June 2024Currently Intel’s Quick Sync transcode is only supported by two applications: Cyberlink’s Media Espresso 6 and Arcsoft’s Media Converter 7. Both of these applications are video to go applications targeted at users who want to take high resolution/high bitrate content and transcode it to more compact formats for use on smartphones, tablets, media streamers and gaming consoles.
Revisiting Volta: How to Accelerate Deep Learning
June 2024While we’ve gone over Volta’s distinguishing characteristics several times now, the marquee addition of tensor cores somewhat overshadows all the other changes that supplement or outright support tensor core usage.
Sales of Client CPUs Soared in Q4 2023: Jon Peddie Research
June 2024Global client PC CPU shipments hit 66 million units in the fourth quarter of 2024, up both sequentially and year-over-year, a notable upturn in the PC processor market, according to the latest report from Jon Peddie Research.
Samsung Exynos 5250 Announced: Cortex-A15, 2GHz, Dual-core
June 2024All our favorite mobile System-on-Chip manufacturers have been hard at work on their Cortex-A15 designs, and Samsung is no different.
Seagate to Discontinue 7200rpm 2.5" Drives Later This Year
June 2024Earlier today X-bit Labs reported that Seagate will stop the production of their 7200RPM 2.5" drives by the end of this year and I just got a confirmation from Seagate that this is really the case.
T-Mobile Unveils Unlimited Music Streaming and unRadio
June 2024T-Mobile has been a significant disruptor in the US operator business as of late with John Legere at the helm. Previously, they’ve gotten rid of contracts, introduced free global roaming, six month upgrade plans, and now, unlimited music streaming for Simple Choice customers.
The ASRock Z590 Taichi - Multi-chip Intel Core i9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cool
June 2024The ASRock Z590 Taichi: A Quick Recap Click here for the full review. The ASRock Z590 Taichi is the brand's flagship model for Z590, and unless it releases a variant with an Aqua model with custom monoblock, such as it did for Z490 and X570, the Taichi is the main halo.
The Browser: Somewhere Between IE7 and IE8
June 2024I mentioned earlier that there were a ton of different builds of the WP7S running around on the ASUS-built phone hardware during MIX10.
The First Phones: LG Optimus 7
June 2024We will have full reviews of all of these devices in the coming days, but we didn’t want to leave you with nothing on the hardware at launch so here are some brief thoughts on the three Windows Phones we’ve been playing with.
The Razer DeathStalker Chroma Gaming Keyboard Review
June 2024Even though they are nearly 30 years old, mechanical keyboards are all the rage among computing enthusiasts nowadays. Mechanical keyboards are very popular amongst professionals, gamers and, despite their relatively high price, even casual users.
Visual Inspection - The NZXT N7 Z490 Motherboard Review: From A Different Direction
June 2024Visual Inspection If you are familiar with NZXT's previous N7 motherboards, the N7 Z490 follows a very similar aesthetic with near full-cover armor plating hiding the black PCB.
World of Warcraft - AMD's Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUs
June 2024World of Warcraft Blizzard’s genre-dominating MMO is our next benchmark. As WoW is known to be CPU limited, we can turn it up to rather silly settings and still get a playable framerate on just about anything.
ASRock Z87 OC Formula/AC Software
June 2024As mentioned in the Z87 Extreme6/AC review, one area that ASRock needs to focus on more than any other is Software.
BlackBerry Bold 9780: Not So Bold
June 2024BlackBerry Bold 9780: Minor Updates to the 9700 Honestly, there isn’t much to talk about the Bold 9780 except for the fact that it is the first non-touchscreen BlackBerry device to come with version 6.
Canonical Brings Ubuntu To Televisions
June 2024Canonical, a services and software company that backs open-source projects like Ubuntu, recently announced they would be moving to compete in the Smart TV space.
Cold Test Results - The Corsair RM1000x and RM1000i 1000W Power Supply Review
June 2024Cold Test Results For the testing of PSUs, we are using high precision electronic loads with a maximum power draw of 2700 Watts, a Rigol DS5042M 40 MHz oscilloscope, an Extech 380803 power analyzer, two high precision UNI-T UT-325 digital thermometers, an Extech HD600 SPL meter, a self-designed hotbox and various other bits and parts.
Conclusion & End Remarks - The OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro Review: Becoming The Flagship
June 2024Conclusion & End Remarks As we’re coming to and end of the review, the biggest question for both the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro is whether they’re devices worth buying.
CPU Performance & Memory Bandwidth
June 2024CPU Performance Like the A6, the 4th generation iPad's A6X integrates two custom designed Apple Swift CPU cores that implement the ARMv7 instruction set.
DVI-I vs. DVI-D - Digital Visual Interface (DVI) Explained & Improving GeForce2/3 Image Quality
June 2024DVI-I vs. DVI-D Another benefit, albeit very infrequently utilized, of the DVI specification is the ability to support both analog and digital connections on a single interface.
Easier & Lower Latency HDR Gaming
June 2024Though they don’t get quite as much ongoing attention as video cards due to their slower update cadence, one of the nicer innovations in the last few years in the gaming hardware ecosystem has been variable refresh displays.
El Capitan's Little Brother Tuolumne Can Conquer Most Top 10 Supercomputers
June 2024Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) started to install its El Capitan supercomputer that promises to achieve computational performance of over 2 FP64 ExaFLOPS for classified national security research.
F1 Challenge '99-'02 Performance - Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup
June 2024F1 Challenge '99-'02 Performance no AA/AF We've had plenty of requests to benchmark with a racing simulation. When we were designing the new testing suite this was one of the first games that came to mind.
Gaming Performance - Toshiba Tecra R850: Business Class on a Budget
June 2024Gaming Performance As I mentioned in the HP EliteBook 8460p review, 3DMark isn't often a good indicator of how well graphics hardware will perform compared to actual gaming.
Graphics and Design Decisions - Assassin's Creed PC
June 2024Graphics and Design Decisions AC has some very impressive graphics, but there are also some design decisions that have us scratching our heads (we'll get to those in a moment).
High-End Mobile Graphics with Optimus
June 2024Our collective wishes have been granted by the fine folks at NVIDIA: you can now buy a notebook with high-end graphics that supports Optimus and thus is capable of offering excellent battery life.
Lenovo ThinkStation P360 Ultra Melds Desktop Alder Lake and NVIDIA Professional Graphics
June 2024Over the last decade or so, advancements in CPU and GPU architectures have combined extremely well with the relentless march of Moore's Law on the silicon front.
Metro: Last Light - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Review: Featuring EVGA
June 2024Metro: Last Light As always, kicking off our look at performance is 4A Games’ latest entry in their Metro series of subterranean shooters, Metro: Last Light.
MinisForum Unveils Cezanne EliteMini HX90 and Tiger Lake EliteMini TL50 mini-PCs
June 2024MinisForum, a Shenzhen based manufacturer of compact computing platforms, has been steadily bringing both AMD and Intel-based systems into the market.
Motorola Announces the Moto X Style
June 2024Today, Motorola also announced their new flagship phone, the Moto X Style. Following the trend of larger screen sizes, it seems Motorola has taken this trend to its logical conclusion by cramming a 5.
Motorola Moto G4 Play: The Least Expensive G4
June 2024Today Motorola announced that they're bringing an additional member of its Moto G4 family: the Moto G4 Play, to the United States.
MSI Z87 XPower In The Box, Overclocking
June 2024MSI Z87 XPower In The Box In every review of our current Z87 (and Z77) coverage, I often use this section to talk about how some companies put almost nothing in the box to cost down the product, or for a particular price point try and bolster the package with a larger number of selling points.
Netgear Unveils Orbi 970 Wi-Fi 7 Quad-Band Mesh System
June 2024Wi-Fi has seen rapid advancements over the last decade, starting with the introduction of 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5). 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) came with significant improvements in total throughput.
NVIDIA To Give Away The Witcher 3 To GTX Titan X Owners Who Participate in Software Beta
June 2024When NVIDIA announced their most recent GeForce game bundle, notably absent was the GTX Titan X. With Titan products typically uncontested in holding the performance crown and priced as a luxury product, NVIDIA rarely has a need to offer game bundles with the flagship cards.
Open Directory: Overview and Setup
June 2024The first thing I want to walk through is Open Directory, OS X’s directory services implementation (roughly analogous to Microsoft’s Active Directory).
Quiet Air Cooling from Austria
June 2024One of the more interesting aspects of the CPU cooler market is the truly international mix of products on the market.
Raidmax X1 - Price-Point Comparing Three-Way Case Shootout
June 2024Raidmax X1While we haven't looked at that many cases from Raidmax, the X1 was certainly more classy than some of the previous models we've seen from them.
Razer Blade (late 2012) - Design Changes
June 2024Razer Blade (late 2012) - Design Changes I was a huge fan of the Blade’s design, so I’m perfectly alright with it carrying over mostly untouched.
Removing the Outer Shell - Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360
June 2024Removing the Outer Shell The first step is to remove the outer plastic shell that conceals the innards of the system.
Replacement Phone Shows Much Improved Results
June 2024Last week we published our initial review of Apple’s new iPhone SE. In the piece, I had remarked that the camera was relatively disappointing and suffered from a lack of detail in photos, with the phone’s camera seemingly suffering from optical weaknesses that manifested in partially blurred out shots.
RV570 and the Demise of the X1900 GT
June 2024RV570 and the Demise of the X1900 GT The silicon used in the X1950 Pro is based on an 8-vertex 36-pixel shader configuration.
Ryzen 3000 Overclocking - The ASUS Pro WS X570-Ace Review: x8x8x8 with No RGB
June 2024Overclocking Ryzen 3000 Experience with the ASUS Pro X570-Ace The expected overclocking potential prior to the launch of the Ryzen 3000 series hasn't lived up to all the hype that was surrounding it.
Samsung ATIV Smart PC: Display
June 2024Samsung ATIV Smart PC: Display The ATIV Smart PC uses an 11.6” 1366x768 PLS capacitive multitouch display, with a Wacom digitizer.
Single-Slot GTX 1070 GPUs Coming Soon
June 2024GALAX and KFA2 have added single-slot GeForce GTX 1070 Katana video cards to their lineups, which is usually an indicator that the graphics adapters are going to hit the market shortly.
Strix GTX 750 Ti 4GB and GTX 960 2GB DirectCU Mini Launched
June 2024When ASUS first launched their mini-ITX sized graphics cards, limited to 17cm for mini-ITX builds, my initial reaction was ‘why has no-one thought of this before?
TeamGroup Reveals 14GB/s Innogrit IG5666-Based T-Force Ge Pro PCIe 5.0 SSD
June 2024Virtually all client SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface released to date use Phison's PS5026-E26 controller. Apparently, TeamGroup decided to try something different and introduced a drive powered by a completely different platform, the Innogrit IG5666.
Testing Methodology - The Noctua NH-U12A CPU Cooler Review: Big Performance in a Small Space
June 2024Testing Methodology Although the testing of a cooler appears to be a simple task, that could not be much further from the truth.
The Android TV Experience - The NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Review: A Premium 4K Set Top Box
June 2024The Android TV Experience The focus today (coinciding with Google I/O) is obviously on Android TV. Google, having learnt from its previous Google TV initiative, brought forward the Android-based Android TV, a new Smart TV initiative, towards the end of 2014.
The Future of Autonomous Driving
June 2024It’s hard to avoid that autonomous vehicles are a key part of how we are going to be discussing the technology and machine learning of the future.
The New Apple iMac - The All-in-One Battle: Dell's XPS One 24 vs. Apple's iMac
June 2024The New Apple iMacIt would be impossible, unjust and a disservice to avoid the inevitable: the iMac comparison. I hadn't owned an iMac since the last iMac G5 and the very first Intel based iMac so it was about time that I got a look at one of the updated glass/aluminum models.
The New Tides of OCZ
June 2024At CES I had the opportunity to sit down with Ralph Schmitt, OCZ's CEO, for a good hour to discuss the state of the company.
TouchWiz and Verizon's Preloads - Samsung Fascinate Review: Verizon's Galaxy S Smartphone
June 2024Software Like the other Galaxy S phones, the Fascinate packs Samsung's TouchWiz Android skin. Right off the bat, it's pretty obvious that Samsung has changed a lot of things here.
Translating to IPC: All This for 3%?
June 2024Contrary to popular belief, increasing IPC is difficult. Attempt to ensure that each execution port is fed every cycle requires having wide decoders, large out-of-order queues, fast caches, and the right execution port configuration.
Trinity CPU Performance: The Good and the Bad
June 2024We're going to start our performance investigation a little out of order. The big question on everyone's mind is how much single threaded performance has improved over Bulldozer, and whether it's enough to actually make Trinity faster than Llano across the board.
Up to 144 Hz & FreeSync
June 2024AOC has introduced a set of new ultra-wide curved monitors aimed at the mid-range gaming market.The new CU34G2 and CU34G2X monitors are based on 34-inch VA panels that feature an aggressive 1500R curvature as well as a 21:9 aspect ratio.
20 TB & 10-Platter Drives Coming
June 2024While hard drive sales on a unit basis have continued to decline, the drop hasn't been consistent across all segments of the market.
AMDs Turbo: It Works - AMD's Six-Core Phenom II X6 1090T & 1055T Reviewed
June 2024AMD’s Turbo: It Works In the Pentium 4 days Intel quickly discovered that there was a ceiling in terms of how much heat you could realistically dissipate in a standard desktop PC without resorting to more exotic cooling methods.
Android 4.1 - Jelly Bean - Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1
June 2024Android 4.1 is the newest release of Android, and in keeping with the dessert-alphabet naming scheme, goes by the name of Jelly Bean.
App: Reddit Sync Scrolling - The Mobile CPU Core-Count Debate: Analyzing The Real World
June 2024Reddit Sync Scrolling Staying on the Sync app, we scroll through cards with their respective contents. Images and thumbnails are loaded in the background while being rendered whenever the scroll animation stops.
Apple's iPad - The AnandTech Review
June 2024Confidence is built upon credibility, something Apple really earned thanks to the first iPod. Apple gained the mainstream credibility to introduce a product, say it's going to be the best thing ever, and have customers give it the benefit of the doubt.
ASUS ROG Strix Z690-G Gaming WIFI (DDR5)
June 2024ASUS ROG Strix Z690-G Gaming WIFI (DDR5) WIth smaller micro-ATX options being notedly limited on Z690, ASUS has announced one solitary model for those looking to build a system with a smaller footprint.
BarraCuda Pro, SkyHawk, IronWolf, & IronWolf Pro
June 2024Seagate on Monday introduced a portfolio of consumer-oriented 14 TB hard drives. The new HDDs belong to the BarraCuda Pro, SkyHawk, IronWolf Pro, and IronWolf series, and rely on the same helium-filled platform that powers the datacenter-oriented Exos 14 TB HDD introduced earlier this year.
Battery Life: Impressive - The Samsung Galaxy S10+ Snapdragon & Exynos Review: Almost Perfect, Yet S
June 2024Battery Life: Impressive Battery performance of the Galaxy S10+ has been touted to be as class-leading. The introduction of a larger battery, more efficient screen as well as a new generation of SoCs are sure to bring improvements over last year’s Galaxy S9.
Board Features, In The Box
June 2024Board Features Having gone through and generated the following table for the M8E, I find it mildly amusing, especially as I’ve just put a $120 motherboard on the test bed here.
Bringing Noctua's Best To a Lower Price
June 2024While basic coolers have long been a common pack-in item with most retail CPUs, there's no getting past the fact that many of these coolers are just that: basic.
Comparison and Conclusion - 400-450W PSU Roundup
June 2024Comparison and ConclusionLet's come to the interesting part of performance. The output stability has been quite similar from the three higher-end units.
Compute & Synthetics - The AMD Radeon RX 590 Review, feat. XFX & PowerColor: Polaris Returns (Again)
June 2024Compute & Synthetics Shifting gears, we'll look at the compute and synthetic aspects of the RX 580. As this is the 3rd time we're seeing 'big' Polaris, there's nothing new to discuss, and with no other design changes we only expect to see the impact of increased clockspeeds.
Concluding Remarks - Sony Digital Paper System DPT-S1 Review
June 2024Concluding Remarks The Sony DPT-S1's feature set and pricing make it clear that business users are the primary target market. Posts on various e-reader forums indicate that the device is gaining popularity amongst academics and lawyers.
Corsair Unveils New iCUE RGB Pro XT Liquid CPU Coolers: 240, 280 & 360mm
June 2024One of the most predominant brands in cooling and peripherals market, Corsair, has unveiled its latest range of AIO CPU coolers at CES.
Final Words - SteelSeries Apex Gaming Keyboard Capsule Review
June 2024Final Words In terms of feel, key travel and comfort, the SteelSeries Apex feels just like any good membrane keyboard. Of course it lacks the travel and feeling of mechanical keys; the keys of the Apex feel mushy and need to bottom out in order to register, which is the way all membrane keyboards work.
GIGABYTEs GC-AQC107 10G Ethernet PCIe Card Launched and Listed
June 2024GIGABYTE has added the GC-AQC107 10 GbE PCIe card it demonstrated early this year at CES to the list of products on its website.
Google Announces Nexus Q - Music and Video Streamer for Google Play and YouTube
June 2024Earlier today we saw the Nexus Q leak somewhat, and now we know exactly what the Nexus Q is. It's a Google Play and YouTube companion streaming device which includes both analog and digital audio output.
Google Titan Live Blog (6pm PT, 1am UTC)
June 202408:52PM EDT - The second talk on security is on Google's Titan Root-of-Trust silicon that sits between the BIOS and the processor on its custom systems.
Hot Test Results (~45C Ambient)
June 2024The overall performance of all PC PSUs typically degrades once the ambient temperature rises, with various aspects affecting the magnitude of the drop.
Intel & Micron Announce First 20nm MLC NAND Flash for Use in SSDs
June 2024We just started testing SSDs based on IMFT 25nm NAND Flash and look at what Intel/Micron just announced? The first 8GB MLC NAND device built on a 20nm process.
Intel DX79SI Review: The Default X79?
June 2024Reviews of Intel manufactured boards are something of a rarity. They are not marketed in the same way other motherboards are – almost not at all in comparison.
Iris Pro Driving an Accurate Display
June 2024I have a confession to make. For the past year I’ve been using a 27-inch iMac as my primary workstation. I always said that if I had a less mobile lifestyle the iMac is probably the machine I’d end up with (that was prior to the announcement of the new Mac Pro of course).
Kingston HyperX Savage EXO External SSD Capsule Review
June 2024The advent of 3D TLC flash has enabled a large number of budget-friendly bus-powered solid-state storage devices. On the external front, these devices fall under three major categories:
Meet the XFX R7770 Black Edition S Double Dissipation
June 2024Meet the XFX R7770 Black Edition S Double Dissipation Our final card of the day is XFX’s R7770 Black Edition S Double Dissipation, one of a multitude of Radeon HD 7770 cards XFX will be releasing today.
MSI B85M ECO Review: Aiming Green at $73
June 2024Whenever we talk about processors and silicon, one of the key major points is efficiency and performance per watt. One issue to consider is that while that new CPU uses 10W less, it makes little difference if the motherboard or other components eats up the difference.
New USB SSD Controllers, Adds E21T For Low-End NVMe
June 2024At CES 2021, Phison gave us the usual updates on their SSD controller roadmap. The most significant new products coming this year are a pair of USB flash drive controllers for high-end portable SSDs, designed to compete against current solutions that combine a USB to NVMe bridge chip with a standard NVMe SSD controller.
Package and Appearance - Gigabyte's New Odin GT 800W Power Supply
June 2024Package and AppearanceThe power supply comes in a big, colorful box that provides protection during shipping as well as listing the most important features the Gigabyte team has come up with.
Power, Temperature, & Noise - NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
June 2024Power, Temperature, & Noise Last but not least as always is our look at the power consumption, temperatures, and acoustics of the GTX 570.
Qualcomm Announces New X50 5G Modem, First Gigabit Class LTE Network and Router
June 2024Qualcomm made three announcements about connectivity products today at its 2016 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong. The first announcement, aimed at easing the transition between the 4G LTE networks we have today and the 5G networks of the future, is a partnership with Netgear, Telstra, and Ericsson to deliver the first commercial gigabit class LTE device and network.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 710 Platform
June 2024Today Qualcomm announces a new entry to the Snapdragon lineup with the first 700-series SoC platform. The Snapdragon 710 is a direct successor to the Snapdragon 660 but comes with a new branding more worthy of the increased performance characteristics of the SoC.
Shuttle HOT-603 AMD640 Socket-7 Board
June 2024FIC seemed to hold the AMD K6 market with the release of two VIA VP2 based motherboards, however a lack of support for the 83.
Sony Has a Prototype 5G mmWave Xperia Smartphone
June 2024Numerous manufacturers of smartphones either launched or demonstrated prototypes of their 5G handsets at this year's Mobile World Congress. While many of the handsets shown off supported sub-6GHz 5G capabilities, they omitted mmWave functionality since most western carriers are not going to support the feature in 2019.
T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide - Conclusion - T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide Review
June 2024The software design, like the industrial design, is one of the most infuriating things about the Slide, not because it’s bad, but because it’s impossible to use it without thinking how it could have been better if there had been less design involved.
The Gamepad - The Razer Edge Review
June 2024The Gamepad The gamepad controller is obviously the game-changer here, since it really does redefine portable gaming usage models. That sounds like marketing hyperbole at first, but it’s actually true – you can take the Edge around with the gamepad and play real PC games on it basically anywhere, as though it’s a huge PSP or some crazy Ben Heck experiment to weld the two halves of an Xbox controller to a tablet.
The Intel Optane SSD 800p (58GB & 118GB) Review: Almost The Right Size
June 2024Conclusion The Optane SSD 800p is the closest that Intel has come to offering a 3D XPoint-based product for the mainstream consumer market.
The Mac mini as a Video Editor
June 2024The Mac mini as a Video Editor In our review of the Mac mini, we mentioned that we would take a closer look at iMovie HD in a later article, and although iMovie isn't totally related to using the mini as a HTPC, this is the best place that we could find to put our iMovie HD thoughts.
The new iTunes and App Store
June 2024App Store UI Changes Apple hasn’t made a huge deal about it, but in iOS 6 the App Store UI changes in a dramatic way.
TSMC Readies Five 3nm Process Technologies, Adds FinFlex For Design Flexibility
June 2024Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday kicked off its 2022 TSMC Technology Symposium, where the company traditionally shares it process technology roadmaps as well as its future expansion plans.
AMD Announces FirePro W9100
June 2024In what’s proving to be a busy week for GPU news, AMD has just wrapped up their webcast announcing their next flagship FirePro product.
AMD EPYC Rome in (Deep) Mini-ITX? ASRock Rack's New ROMED4ID-2T
June 2024ASRock Rack has unveiled its latest small form factor motherboard designed for AMD's EYPC processors, the ROMED4ID-2T. It is based on a new proprietary form factor similar to Mini-ITX, affectionally colloquialized as 'Deep' Mini-ITX, which is slightly larger than standard mini-ITX.
AMD Quietly Launches Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F Processors
June 2024AMD has recently expanded its Ryzen 8000 series by introducing the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F processors. Initially launched in China, these chips were added to AMD's global website, signaling they are available worldwide, apparently from April 1st.
Apple Recalls Mid-2015 15-inch "Retina" MacBook Pro Laptops For Battery Safety Issue
June 2024Apple has initiated a voluntary recall for their mid-2015 15-inch "Retina" MacBook Pros over a potential safety issue with their integrated batteries.
ASML, Carl Zeiss, and Nikon to Settle Legal Disputes Over Immersion Lithography
June 2024Embroiled for some time now in legal disputes concerning immersion lithography, ASML, Carl Zeiss, and Nikon, this week signed a memorandum of understanding relating to a plan to once again settle those disputes and give all parties full access to the technology.
ASRock B560M Steel Legend - The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
June 2024ASRock B560M Steel Legend The ASRock B560M Steel Legend is essentially a cut-down version of its ATX B560 Steel Legend, with similar features with a smaller micro-ATX footprint.
Closing Thoughts - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Review, Feat. Zotac: Fighting Brute Force With Power
June 2024Closing Thoughts Wrapping up our look at what would seem to be the last GeForce desktop video card launch for the time being, the GeForce GTX 1650 caps off the Turing launch cycle in an interesting manner.
CPU 2019 Benchmarks - Compare Products on AnandTech
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Crysis 3 - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Review: Featuring EVGA
June 2024Crysis 3 Still one of our most punishing benchmarks, Crysis 3 needs no introduction. With Crysis 3, Crytek has gone back to trying to kill computers and still holds “most punishing shooter” title in our benchmark suite.
Dell Launches AMD Ryzen-Based Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 Convertible, Starts at $700
June 2024When AMD announced its Ryzen Mobile processors last October, it had three launch customers with three laptop models. Back in early March this year Dell joined the Ryzen Mobile party with its Inspiron 17 5000 and this month the company expanded its Zen-based offerings with its convertible Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 notebook.
Dell Precision T3600 Review: Dell's New Enterprise
June 2024Introducing the Dell Precision T3600 As far as enterprise-class workstations go, we're at the point now where there are fundamentally two major competitors: an entrenched HP, and a very hungry Dell.
Final Thoughts - PC Club Enpower Sabre Extreme: E6600 Made Easy
June 2024Final ThoughtsSome people like to build their own computer systems, and it's not unusual to hear enthusiasts say that it's over half the fun of getting a new computer.
Final Words - Scythe Infinity: 5 Heatpipes and Silent 120mm Fan
June 2024Final WordsThe question we asked in the beginning of this review was whether the Scythe Infinity would live up to the legend status that many users have bestowed on that product.
HEDT Performance: Rendering Tests - The Intel Core i9-9980XE CPU Review: Refresh Until it Hertz
June 2024HEDT Performance: Rendering Tests Rendering is often a key target for processor workloads, lending itself to a professional environment. It comes in different formats as well, from 3D rendering through rasterization, such as games, or by ray tracing, and invokes the ability of the software to manage meshes, textures, collisions, aliasing, physics (in animations), and discarding unnecessary work.
I Might Buy This Case, or, Why Bother with a Chassis?
June 2024I’m a sucker for a big, powerful system. I want the CPU, the GPU, the fast storage, the lot. As a reviewer, I can change my daily system frequently and often, which means it can be hard to pull away from the most powerful bulky units.
In and Around the Antec P280
June 2024In and Around the Antec P280 Just from looking at it, you can tell an awful lot has changed from the P183 to the P280.
Inside Apple TV 3 - Single Core A5, Same Power Draw - Apple TV 3 (2012) Short Review
June 2024While most of the attention this previous week has been focused on Apple's A5X SoC inside the iPad (3rd Gen), the other Apple-SoC news is that of the S5L8942 or A5 revision 2 inside the Apple TV 3, and iPad2,4.
LTE Cat 16 Router up to 1 Gbps
June 2024Netgear this week announced the Nighthawk M1 mobile router, which is the industry’s first 4G LTE device with download speed up to 1 Gbps.
Made For Creators, ASRock X570 Creator With DDR4-4600, Two TB3, 10GbE
June 2024During Computex 2019, ASRock announced its range of X570 chipset motherboards for launch on 7/7 alongside the Ryzen 3000 series of processors.
Mass Production of 16 Gb DDR4 & LPDDR4X Chips Using 1z nm Technology
June 2024Micron announced on Thursday that it had started volume production of memory chips using its 3rd Generation 10 nm-class fabrication technology (also known as 1Z nm).
Meet the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC Black
June 2024Meet The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC Black GAMING As a pure virtual launch, the release of the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti does not bring any Founders Edition model, and so everything is in the hands of NVIDIA’s add-in board partners.
Meet The HIS Radeon R9 270 IceQ X2 & Asus Radeon R9 270 DirectCU II OC
June 2024Unlike the 270X the 270 won’t have a reference design card, with every partner releasing their own custom design right off the bat.
Memory, Platform & Overclocking - The Haswell Review: Intel Core i7-4770K & i5-4670K Tested
June 2024Memory Haswell got an updated memory controller that’s supposed to do a great job of running at very high frequencies. Corsair was kind enough to send over some of its Vengeance Pro memory with factory DDR3-2400 XMP profiles.
More Detail on the Phenom II X4 910e
June 2024I was actually surprised by the number of folks who were interested in the Phenom II X4 910e. It's a voltage binned Phenom II X4 running at 2.
Motorola Announces the Moto Hint
June 2024The Moto Hint is a new Bluetooth headset. While this is normally a bit boring, Motorola has put extra effort into this headset.
MSI Pro Z690-P (DDR4) - The Intel Z690 Motherboard Overview (DDR4): Over 30+ New Models
June 2024MSI Pro Z690-P (DDR4) As it stands, the MSI Pro Z690-P is the entry-level model for users looking to utilize Intel Alder Lake's power, but for a much lower price than some other Z690 models on the market.
OCZ Blade DDR3-2133 - Is it Fast Enough?
June 2024OCZ shipped us their DDR3-2133 Blade 6GB kit last month and asked us to review it as part of our Core i7 975 launch.
Overclocking & Power Consumption - AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 2
June 2024Overclocking With Sandy Bridge Intel killed budget overclocking by completely clock locking all CPUs without turbo boost enabled. While you used to be able to buy an entry level CPU and overclock it quite nicely, Intel moved all overclocking to its higher priced parts.
Overclocking the i3 - 4GHz with the Stock Cooler - The Intel Core i3 530 Review
June 2024Overclocking the i3 - 4GHz with the Stock CoolerI’ve become a fan of stock voltage overclocking over the past few years.
Phoenix To Fly Into Thin Notebooks
June 2024Back at CES 2023, AMD announced the first wave of Ryzen Mobile parts based on its Zen 4 architecture, the Ryzen Mobile 7040HS series.
Power Consumption and Thermal Characteristics
June 2024The power consumption at the wall was measured with a 4K display being driven through the HDMI port of the system.
Power Management - The Team Group MP34 512GB SSD Review: Refining Phison's NVMe Workhorse
June 2024Power Management Features Real-world client storage workloads leave SSDs idle most of the time, so the active power measurements presented earlier in this review only account for a small part of what determines a drive's suitability for battery-powered use.
Power, Temperature, and Noise - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Review, Feat. Zotac: Fighting Brute Forc
June 2024Power, Temperature, and Noise As always, we'll take a look at power, temperature, and noise of the GTX 1650, though the 'mini' design shouldn't hold any surprises.
Premium Performance at a Bargain Price
June 2024We reviewed a few nForce4 SLI motherboards several months ago and found that while SLI was very promising, it was a technology that still needed to mature.
SiS 645: Pentium 4 DDR
June 2024The always controversial Rambus DRAM is not as poor of a purchase today as it was a couple of years ago.
Speed Shift v2: Speed Harder
June 2024Speed Shift v2: Speed Harder As originally reported at Kaby Lake-Y/U Launch One of the new features for Skylake was Speed Shift.
State of the LTE Spectrum Union
June 2024In two deals announced late last week, Verizon Wireless has expanded its spectrum holdings through deals that will give it control over various frequencies, almost all in the AWS space.
The Beginning - Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize
June 2024The Beginning Our journey starts in receiving, this part of the process actually has nothing specifically to do with your order but what's done here makes the rest of the process infinitely easier.
The HP TouchPad Review: webOS on the Big Screen
June 2024Messaging A killer feature of the original Palm Pre was its integrated messaging client - something still not duplicated today by any first party.
The UHK Agent Software - The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard Review: A Truly Unique, Truly Expensive Keybo
June 2024The UHK Agent Software Most new keyboard releases suffer when it comes to software – it often is too simplistic, or buggy, or both.
Titanium Shines for FSP's Flagship Power Supply
June 2024Over the last year, we've been looking at increasingly intricate 1000W power supplies from prolific PSU maker FSP. These have included their 80Plus Gold-rated Hydro G Pro, as well as their 80Plus Platinum rated Hydro PTM X Pro.
Analyzing Apple's Statement on TSMC and Samsung A9 SoCs
June 2024Since we first learned that the A9 SoC in Apple’s iPhone 6s lineup is dual sourced - that is that it's being made by two different vendors with two distinct manufacturing processes - one major question has remained in the process of reviewing these two phones.
Arctis Pro Headset - The SteelSeries Arctis Pro Gaming Headset Lineup: GameDAC Or Wireless
June 2024Arctis Pro Headset If you’ve seen anything in the Arctis lineup of headsets from SteelSeries, you’ll notice right away that the Arctis Pro doesn’t go in a whole new direction in terms of styling compared to the other models in the Arctis line, and that’s not a bad thing.
Arm & TSMC Showcase 7nm Chiplet, Eight A72 at 4GHz on CoWoS Interposer
June 2024Arm and TSMC this week unveiled their jointly developed proof-of-concept chip that combines two quad-core Cortex-72-based 7 nm chiplets on TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) interposer.
ASRock Announces New AM5 BIOS Design, Promises Faster Booting Times
June 2024In preparation for AMD's Ryzen 7000 series processors, which will launch on September 27th, ASRock has announced that it has developed a new BIOS for its AM5 motherboards.
ASUSTOR, Terramaster, and QNAP Introduce New NAS Units
June 2024The network-attached storage (NAS) market had a break-out decade in the 2010s, with a large number of vendors trying to get a slice of the pie.
Battlefield 4 - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move
June 2024Battlefield 4 Our latest addition to our benchmark suite and our current major multiplayer action game of our benchmark suite is Battlefield 4, DICE’s 2013 multiplayer military shooter.
Benchmarking Half Life 2 - Half Life 2 GPU Roundup Part 1
June 2024Benchmarking Half Life 2 Unlike Doom 3, Half Life 2 has no build in benchmark demo but it has full benchmark functionality.
Bringing Gaming to the Masses
June 2024Bringing Gaming to the Masses Where I honestly believe Llano shines is in its ability to bring a usable CPU and solid if unspectacular gaming performance south of the $600 price point.
Computex 2008 Preview: Antec Skeleton Case Prototype
June 2024Antec gave us a sneak peek at an early prototype most controversial case design yet: the Skeleton. It's a totally open air case design, your motherboard is mostly exposed and sits on the upper level of the "
Counterstrike Beta Hits The Street
June 2024Introduction If anyone were asked to name the two most anticipated games of this year, no thought would be required before putting forth the inevitable reply of "
CPU Performance - Moto X Review
June 2024CPU Performance by Brian Klug & Anand Shimpi I already touched on it, but inside Moto X is Motorola’s X8 Mobile Computing System, which consists of a 1.
Curved 37.5, 38401600, USB-C, $1499
June 2024Dell this week began shipments of its curved ultra-wide 3840×1600 UltraSharp U3818DW display. The monitor is the fourth screen of this size and with this resolution on the market, and one of a few displays with a USB Type-C input (via DP 1.
Display - The iPhone 6 Review
June 2024Display As the primary mode of interaction with the phone, the display is one of the most important areas of evaluation.
Fastest Memory Race Heats Up
June 2024The whole 'fastest memory' halo product race is a bit of a farce. In terms of DDR3, Corsair started the race back in 2007 with their first set of Dominator modules, running at 1600Mhz, 10-8-8-24.
Final Words and Conclusion - The ASRock Z370 Taichi Motherboard Review: Competitive at $220, Aggress
June 2024Conclusion The ASRock Z370 Taichi motherboard is designed to wear any number of hats in regards to what it can do.
Gaming Performance - AMD's Sempron 3300+: 90nm Budget Computing
June 2024Gaming Performance The Semprons are much stronger gaming performers than the Celeron D, showing their might in newer games like Doom 3, but the gap closes as we move to older games like UT2004 and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
Gaming: GRID Autosport - The Intel Core i3-7350K (60W) Review: Almost a Core i7-2600K
June 2024GRID Autosport No graphics tests are complete without some input from Codemasters and the EGO engine, which means for this round of testing we point towards GRID: Autosport, the next iteration in the GRID and racing genre.
HQV 2.0 Benchmarking - Discrete HTPC GPU Shootout
June 2024HTPC enthusiasts are often concerned about the quality of pictures output by the system. While this is a very subjective metric, we have decided to take as much of an objective approach as possible.
In The Box, Test Setup and Overclocking
June 2024GIGABYTE X99-Gaming G1 WIFI In The Box Gaming motherboards, as we have mentioned repeatedly over the years, have a tough task on their hands.
Intel Z490 Motherboards Available For Pre-Order: From $150 to $1299
June 2024In preparation for the launch of Intel's Z490 chipset and Intel's 10th generation Comet Lake desktop processors, Z490 motherboards are now available to pre-order from various retailers.
iSCSI Performance - Synology DS211+ SMB NAS Review
June 2024Many SMB / SOHO users also run NAS systems with iSCSI targets. The iSCSI target option is one of the hyped features of the Windows Storage Server OS.
Iwill XA100 Aladdin V Super7 Board
June 2024Cheetah - The swiftest animal on land. Their living is threatened by demolition of the environment. As Intel demolishes the Socket-7 environment with their Celeron/EX on the low end and their Deschutes/BX combos on the high end, a manufacturer needs to stay swift in order to outrun the competition in this industry.
Just How Much Can $39 Buy?
June 2024Introducing the BitFenix Merc Alpha While we've had a chance to check out a few cases in the $200+ club and the majority of the enclosures we've tested have floated around the $99 price range, we haven't really put the screws (so to speak) to a truly budget case.
LCD Quality - IPS still rules
June 2024The Display The Droid 2 uses the same 3.7” 240 PPI IPS screen as the original Droid. In fact, the front of the device seems almost unchanged.
LRDIMM Performance - LRDIMMs, RDIMMs, and Supermicro's Latest Twin
June 2024Low Level Measurements Before we start with the rather complex virtualization benchmarks, it is good to perform a few low level benchmarks.
Microns 96-Layer 3D TLC NAND Demonstrated, Qualified by Maxio, SMI
June 2024Micron yet has to formally introduce its 3rd generation 96-layer 3D TLC NAND flash. But as we've spotted on the Computex showfloor, SSDs based on the new type of memory are already being demonstrated by two developers of SSD controllers — Maxio Technology and Silicon Motion.
New Patriot Viper RGB Memory: Up to DDR4-4133
June 2024Customizable RGB LED lighting has become ‘a new black’ for enthusiast-class PCs: virtually all manufacturers of nearly all components for advanced computers have already introduced various devices with customizable RGB lights.
Razer Blade - Gaming Performance (Enthusiast)
June 2024Our Enthusiast tests, which run at 1080p with maximum settings and 4xAA enabled, makes the GT 555M look pretty bad—Portal is the only result over 30fps, though overall the results weren’t too much worse than the GTX 560.
Realtek Previews Platform for Sub-$100 5GbE Network Switches
June 2024One of the more subtle trends at this year's Computex was that the majority of high-end motherboards now come equipped with a 5GbE network controller.
Samsung Galaxy Beam 2 Revealed on Samsung China Website
June 2024Back in 2010 Samsung launched the original Samsung Galaxy Beam i8520. The phone ran Android 2.1 which was a bit outdated at the time as Android 2.
Synthetic Benchmarks - ATTO and CrystalDiskMark
June 2024Benchmarks such as ATTO and CrystalDiskMark help provide a quick look at the performance of the direct-attached storage device. The results translate to the instantaneous performance numbers that consumers can expect for specific workloads, but do not account for changes in behavior when the unit is subject to long-term conditioning and/or thermal throttling.
The First Encounter - AMD Athlon
June 2024The First Encounter We first took a look at the upcoming AMD K7 slightly before this year's E3 Expo, as fate would have it, around the same time as the release of the K6, just two years ago.
The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 Review
June 2024Conclusion Having spent plenty of time with the Mate 7 I think I've build quite a good opinion of the device.
the Intel "Nehalem" Xeon X5570
June 2024Challenging. That is the least you can say about the economic climate for the launch of Intel's newest "Nehalem EP Xeon"
The Net Benefits of HBM & Closing Thoughts - AMD Dives Deep On High Bandwidth Memory
June 2024The Net Benefits of HBM Now that we’ve had a chance to talk about how HBM is constructed and the technical hurdles in building it, we can finally get to the subject of the performance and design benefits of HBM.
Touch and Type Covers - Microsoft Surface Pro Review
June 2024Touch and Type Covers Surface Pro features the same magnetic dock connector that Surface RT does. Unlike similar hybrid or convertible designs that came before it, Microsoft didn’t make the mistake of requiring a different set of docks for the Pro.
Western Digital Updates Red Pro Line with 16 and 18TB Capacity Points
June 2024Western Digital recently unveiled their first energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) HDDs for the retail channel. Today, the company is taking advantage of the same hardware platform with some tweaks in the firmware features to introduce the 16TB and 18TB WD Red Pro for SMB network-attached storage (NAS) units.
Xe-LP Graphics for Server Video Acceleration and Streaming
June 2024For the last few years, Intel has had a product line known as the Visual Computing Accelerator (VCA). With the VCA2 product being put on EOL earlier this year, without a replacement, we wondered where this market of Intel’s was going to go.
A 14.5 GBps Consumer Flagship with 2400 MT/s 232L NAND
June 2024Crucial is unveiling the latest addition to its Gen5 consumer NVMe SSD lineup today - the T705 PCIe 5.0 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD.
AnandTech Mobile Show at CES 2014 Video Live Now
June 2024Earlier this week, Brian and I sat down at recapped some of the recent mobile announcements at CES, as well as other things we'd been working on over the holidays.
Apple Introduces iCloud Drive Lower Cost Storage
June 2024At WWDC this year, Apple announced iCloud Drive to compete with the cloud storage offerings of other companies. Previous to this, iCloud did not offer the file and folder sync capabilities of other cloud storage competitors, and Apple is hoping iCloud Drive will be the answer.
Art Lebedev Studios Expands Optimus Line
June 2024Art Lebedev Studios premiered its Optimus Maximus keyboard in 2007; the device featured individual OLED displays for each key and provided a range of customizability never before seen in the PC input space.
Battery Life - Mediocre - The ZTE Axon 30 Ultra Review
June 2024Battery Life In terms of battery life, the Axon 30 Ultra features a 4600mAh battery. Combined with the lower resolution 1080p screen, in theory we should be seeing quite good results out of the phone, but there’s also the fact that it has a more power hungry Snapdragon 888 powering it, so results could end up anywhere.
Benchmarking Performance: CPU Rendering Tests
June 2024CPU Rendering Tests Rendering tests are a long-time favorite of reviewers and benchmarkers, as the code used by rendering packages is usually highly optimized to squeeze every little bit of performance out.
Camera - Stills - Samsung Galaxy S III Review
June 2024Samsung didn’t emphasize camera performance very much during its launch event, which surprised me since HTC and Apple have both made steady improvements on the camera experience this generation.
Cost Analysis - Samsung SyncMaster 915N: 8ms Response Times
June 2024Cost Analysis Cost has been an interesting battle for LCDs since the beginning of 2005. We mentioned some details about the general LCD market in our last review, and prices seem to have fallen even more since then (although the lowest priced monitors bumped up a couple of dollars).
Creative Labs' Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB
June 2024We are slowly chipping away at the available MP3 players on the market, and this time we have Creative Labs' Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB in house.
Environmental Constraints of using Kinect
June 2024Kinect - Environmental Constraints There are a lot of environmental constrains that the Kinect imposes, but the system actually works extremely well.
Final Words - The AMD Radeon R7 265 & R7 260 Review: Feat Sapphire & Asus
June 2024Final Words Bringing this review to a close, we have an admittedly straightforward scenario to look at. As AMD has already shown their cards by launching all of their GPUs for this generation, these lower tier mainstream parts don’t pack any great surprises.
Gateway NV58 (Intel) - OS Benchmarks
June 2024Gateway NV58 (Intel) - OS Benchmarks Wrapping up our look at OS performance on the NV58, we have our OS boot/shut down, hibernate/resume, and sleep/wake test results.
Going from 'somewhat different' to 'drastic change' - AMD's Hammer Architecture
June 2024Going from 'somewhat different' to 'drastic change' Extending the pipeline by 2 stages will give AMD some additional frequency headroom but at the start of this article we mentioned an increase in IPC, not in clock speed, that would carry the Hammer.
Home Convergence using Hybrid STBs
June 2024Smartphones are fast becoming the personal convergence device, replacing the digital cameras and camcorders as well as the portable PMPs (personal media players).
HP EliteBook 8460p: Everything But The Screen
June 2024Introducing the HP EliteBook 8460p Ever since getting to visit with HP back in February, we've been anxious to get one of their refreshed enterprise-class notebooks in house.
Image Quality & AA - NVIDIAs GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait?
June 2024Image Quality & AA When it comes to image quality, the big news from NVIDIA for Fermi is what NVIDIA has done in terms of anti-aliasing of fake geometry such as billboards.
Infineon Set to Acquire Cypress for $10 Billion
June 2024Infineon on Monday said that it had signed an agreement to take over Cypress Semiconductor, strengthening its portfolio of physical interface technologies.
Intel Moving to Chiplets: Client 2.0 for 7nm
June 2024One of the more esoteric elements of Intel’s Architecture Day 2020 came very near the end, where Intel spent a few minutes discussing what it believes is the future of some of its products.
Intel's 90nm Pentium M 755: Dothan Investigated
June 2024Sixteen months ago, Intel released a confusing little thing called Centrino; it wasn't a new processor or chipset, but rather a "
Looking at Server Platforms - Fall IDF 2005
June 2024Looking at Server Platforms Pat dove into a bit of platform discussion, looking at both current and future server platforms.
Making the Case for Bling
June 2024Making the Case for Bling Despite every fiber of my being arguing to the contrary, I was unfortunately wholly won over by Alienware's aesthetic with the M17x R3.
MediaTek MT8125 Inside - ASUS MeMO Pad HD7 Review: $149 Nexus 7.1 Successor & Our First Look at Medi
June 2024MediaTek MT8125 Inside To hit its $129/$149 price point, ASUS outfitted the MeMO Pad HD7 with a quad-core Cortex A7 based SoC from MediaTek: the MT8125.
Performance Analysis - Motorola Droid X2 Review
June 2024Performance The X2 is powered by a 1.0 GHz Tegra 2 SoC which consists of two Cortex-A9 CPUs and NVIDIA’s ULP GeForce GPU.
PlayStation Plus August 2014 Games Preview
June 2024August will soon be here, with one of the perks being a new list of games available to PlayStation Plus members.
Portable Media Center Support - Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005: Feature and Performa
June 2024Portable Media Center Support As we alluded to in our review of the new Portable Media Center devices, MCE 2005 is a much better OS for Portable Media Center owners.
Power Consumption - Samsung SSD 840 EVO mSATA (120GB, 250GB, 500GB & 1TB) Review
June 2024Power Consumption One problem we have with testing mSATA SSDs is the fact that they require an mSATA to 2.5" adapter with a voltage regulator since 2.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 855 Plus: A Higher Bin SKU
June 2024Today Qualcomm is announcing a new small refresh of the Snapdragon 855 SoC: the new Snapdragon 855+. In the past Qualcomm had the habit of sometimes refreshing their flagship SoCs in the middle of their product life and give them a small performance boost, probably the most known chip fitting this pattern was the Snapdragon 821 from a few years ago.
RAID 0 and RAID 1
June 2024RAID 0RAID 0 takes two or more disk drives and writes data in a "stripe" across each disk. Data is accessed by requesting the stripe from the array, resulting in the disks more or less simultaneously feeding their portion of the data back to the controller.
S61 Smartphone with FLIR Cam, Laser Distance Measurer, Air Quality Sensor
June 2024BARCELONA, ESP — Bullitt Group has announced its new flagship Cat-branded rugged smartphone, which is listed with improved performance and new features over its predecessor.
Samsung PM853T - Samsung SSD 845DC EVO/PRO Performance Preview & Exploring IOPS Consistency
June 2024Samsung PM853T Samsung PM853T Capacity 240GB 480GB 960GB Controller Samsung MEX NAND Samsung 19nm 128Gbit TLC Sequential Read Up to 530MB/s Sequential Write Up to 410MB/s 4KB Random Read Up to 87K IOPS 4KB Random Write Up to 15K IOPS Endurance (DWPD) 0.
Samsung Updates the Firmware of SSD 830 Series, Fixes BSOD Issue
June 2024This seems to be a month of SSD firmware updates. Less than two weeks ago,Crucial released a firmware update to fix the issue that caused BSODs after 5184 hours of operation.
Single Client Performance - CIFS & NFS on Linux
June 2024A CentOS 6.2 virtual machine was used to evaluate NFS and CIFS performance of the NAS when accessed from a Linux client.
SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro - X-Fi and the Elite Pro: SoundBlaster's Return to Greatness
June 2024SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro The major aspect of the SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro that separates it in price from the cheaper cards in the X-Fi series is sound quality.
Speaker Evaluation - The Google Pixel 3a XL Review: Does Mid-Range Make Sense?
June 2024Speaker Evaluation The speaker situation on the Pixel 3a and 3a XL is quite different from that of previous Pixel iterations.
Synthetic Benchmarks - Samsung Portable SSD T5 Review: 64-Layer V-NAND Debuts in Retail
June 2024Synthetic Benchmarks Various synthetic benchmarks are available to quickly evaluate the performance of direct-attached storage devices. Real-world performance testing often has to be a customized test.
The Be Quiet! Straight Power 11 750W PSU
June 2024The Be Quiet! Straight Power 11 750W PSU External Appearance The Straight Power 11 750W PSU sports a relatively subtle all-black appearance but with several distinct features that distinguish it from a common ATX PSU.
The Graphics of the Travelmate 8100
June 2024Introduction We recently looked at NVIDIA’s new high end graphics solution, and this week, we will take a peek under the hood of the new Travelmate 8100 notebook from Acer with the Mobility Radeon X700.
Topgro's $499 Fanless PC Packs Core i7-1255U 'Alder Lake' CPU
June 2024One of the perks of modern mobile CPUs is that, being designed for laptops and their very limited cooling capacity, they can be placed in a NUC-sized (or smaller) miniature desktop PC with little difficulty.
US Cellular Announces Initial 4G LTE Markets, Devices
June 2024Not to be left in the dust by their big national counterparts, regional carriers are also moving onward to 4G LTE, and US Cellular today announced its initial 4G LTE markets and two devices.
A Look at Storage Executive - Crucial's SSD Toolbox
June 2024One of the areas where Crucial has been lacking is the software. Nearly every SSD vendor provides some sort of software/toolbox for its SSDs nowadays, but until January Crucial had been the exception to the rule.
A Quick Look at 55+ New Products
June 2024Along with the launch of the two Skylake-K processors today, we also have a raft of new motherboards to go with them.
Analog Devices To Buy Maxim Integrated
June 2024Today Analog Devices has announced that it will be acquiring Maxim Integrated in a transaction estimated at $21bn. The combined company value is said to end up being valued at $68bn, creating a significant player in the analog IC market.
Assembling the SilverStone GD07 - SilverStone Grandia GD07 Review: Centering and Serving Your Media
June 2024Assembling the SilverStone GD07 Given the relatively logical internal layout of the GD07, assembly was for the most part fairly simple and straightforward.
Battery Life and Concluding Thoughts - HTC Sensation 4G Review
June 2024Battery Life I generally end up putting battery life details at the end, but to be honest it’s probably one of the most important things on a smartphone, and one of the more important points to explore when talking about the Sensation.
Bumpless Build-Up Layer: The Future of Packaging
June 2024While AMD has taken the performance crown from Intel on numerous occasions, AMD cannot compete with Intel's manufacturing capabilities. Intel actually has a branch whose sole purpose is to deal with packaging and the needs of tomorrow's processors.
CPU Performance: Short Form - iBuyPower Element Gaming PC Review: i7-8086K and GTX 1080 Ti Inside
June 2024CPU Performance, Short Form As with our motherboard reviews, for our first desktop review in quite a while, we use our short form testing method.
Digging Deeper: Galloping Horses Example
June 2024Rather than pull out a bunch of math and traditional timing diagrams, we've decided to put together a more straight forward presentation.
GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Pro & Aorus Pro AC
June 2024Moving down the product stack and onto a pair of more affordable, albeit it still impressive models is the B550 Aorus Pro AC and non-Wi-Fi variant.
GPU 2012 Benchmarks - Compare Products on AnandTech
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GPU Tests: Rocket League DX9 (1080p, 4K)
June 2024GPU Tests: Rise of the Tomb Raider DX12 (1080p, 4K) GPU Tests: Grand Theft Auto DX11 (1080p, 4K) ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7orrAp5utnZOde6S7zGiKoaenZJavsMSxZmppYmmBgK%2Bvmp6edWFmc6K4y3Z9mqSjmnO0u9GtdGleoJa0pomQbV2spKWcirW0xGaYppxdp8a7sc1mbGZpZmV9uXnVrGScp6KaeqqBjKucr6GVrHq1w8SlrZ5lpJ2%2Fpq3DrGSvq12bvLa%2B
High Detail Gaming and Asymmetrical CrossFire
June 2024High Detail Gaming and Asymmetrical CrossFire Misfire Update, 8/10/2011: Just to let you know, AMD managed to get me a new BIOS to address some of the rendering issues I experienced with CrossFire.
HP Boosts ZBooks with Core i9, Quadro P2000/P5200, & Up to 128 GB DRAM
June 2024HP on Monday introduced improved versions of the ZBook mobile workstations it launched earlier this year. The new “Boosted” flavours of HP ZBook Studio, HP ZBook Studio x360, HP ZBook 15a, and HP ZBook 17 feature up to six-core Core i9 or Xeon processors, NVIDIA Quadro P2000/P5200 graphics adapters, RAID storage, and up to 128 GB of DRAM.
Improved GPU, NPU and ISP on 7nm - A SoC To Look Forward To
June 2024New Mali G76MP10: Actually 20 "rendering pipelines" Moving on, the Kirin 980 is also the first SoC to employ Arm’s new generation Mali G76 GPU.
Intel and Fibocom to Co-Develop a 5G M.2 Module for System Integration
June 2024Fibocom Wireless is a company that has won investment from Intel Capital and develops wireless modules as well as communication solutions.
Intel Considers $11 Billion Fab in Israel
June 2024Late last year Intel announced massive plans to increase its global chip production capacities by upgrading, expanding, and equipping four of its fabs.
JOLED Starts Trial Production of Printed OLED Sheets at 5.5G Plant
June 2024JOLED has started trial production of printed OLED substrates at its 5.5G plant at its Nomi Site, which was officially completed on Monday, November 25.
Live Blog (9am PT, 4pm UTC)
June 202411:29AM EDT - Welcome to our live blog of the opening keynote of Intel's Innovation 2022. Things should be kicking off very soon
Metro Exodus - The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrange M
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Micron Abandons 3D XPoint Memory Technology
June 2024In a sudden but perhaps not too surprising announcement, Micron has stated that they are ceasing all R&D of 3D XPoint memory technology.
Miscellaneous Aspects & Final Words
June 2024The Asustor AS-304T is a 4-bay NAS, and most users are going to use it in a RAID-5 configuration for optimal balance of redundancy and capacity.
MSI Preparing Creator 17 Laptop with Mini LED Monitor
June 2024Mini LED-based Full Array Local Dimming (FALD) backlighting significantly improves brightness and contrasts of contemporary LCD monitors particularly when it comes to HDR games and videos.
NVIDIA Releases DirectX Raytracing Driver for GTX Cards; Posts Trio of DXR Demos
June 2024Last month at GDC 2019, NVIDIA revealed that they would finally be enabling public support for DirectX Raytracing on non-RTX cards.
Panel Technology - AT 101: Understanding Laptop Displays & How We Test Them
June 2024Panel Technology - TN, IPS, VA, & OLED Liquid crystal displays more or less fall into three categories based on their manufacturer and the driving force behind the liquid crystal.
Power, Temperature, & Noise - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review
June 2024Power, Temperature, & Noise As always, last but not least is our look at power, temperature, and noise. Next to price and performance of course, these are some of the most important aspects of a GPU, due in large part to the impact of noise.
Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA: A CPU Magnitude Shift
June 2024Today Qualcomm has announced they will be acquiring NUVIA for $1.4bn – acquiring the start-up company consisting of industry veterans which originally were behind the creation of Apple’s high-performance CPU cores.
Renoir And Turing On A Budget
June 2024Acer has had a big year in 2020, thanks to their close relationship with AMD. Acer has long been a strong partner of AMD, through the good times, and the bad, and right now is about as good a time to be an AMD partner as it can be.
Samsung & SK Hynix Graphics Memory Prices Increase Over 30% In August
June 2024In the midst of a global DRAM shortage, Digitimes reports that the market prices for graphics memory from Samsung and SK Hynix have increased by over 30% for August.
Samsung Announces The 2018 Galaxy A9 With Four Rear Cameras
June 2024We’re all very familiar with Samsung’s Galaxy S flagships, but there’s also a myriad of mid-range devices that the Korean firm also offers – trying to cover all consumer price ranges.
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB HDD Review: Massive Storage for Desktops
June 2024The exponential increase in data storage requirements over the last decade or so has been handled by regular increases in hard drive capacities.
Seagate Releases Game Drive PCIe 4.0 SSDs for PlayStation 5
June 2024Western Digital's WD_Black SN850P was the first officially PlayStation 5-licensed SSD to hit the market. Seagate wants a piece of that and has hopped on the PlayStation 5 train with the new Game Drive PCIe 4.
Sony Ericsson Releases Ice Cream Sandwich Alpha Build For Select Xperia Models
June 2024It's not even beta, but this is one of the first official releases of an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM from a manufacturer to arrive.
The SteelSeries Apex M750 Mechanical Keyboard
June 2024SteelSeries is a company known for their discreet designs and the Apex M750 is no exception to that rule. The keyboard sports soothingly simple design, with smooth curves and clean flat surfaces.
The TV in Beyond TV Recording & Program Guide - SnapStream's Beyond TV 3
June 2024The TV in Beyond TV - Recording & Program Guide Recording can be done with either timeshifting or live TV, but there is a bit of difference in the way about it between the two.
Up to 4.7 GHz, 105W, Coming September
June 2024One of the questions that was left over from AMD’s Computex reveal of the new Ryzen 3000 family was why a 16-core version of the dual-chiplet Matisse design was not announced.
VIA To Offload Parts of x86 Subsidiary Centaur to Intel For $125 Million
June 2024As part of their third quarter earnings release, VIA Technologies has announced this morning that the company is entering into an unusual agreement with Intel to offload parts of VIA’s x86 R&D subsidiary, Centaur Technology.
Western Digital Introduces WD Black D30 Game Drive External SSDs
June 2024Western Digital is adding a new external SSD to their WD_BLACK product line: the WD Black D30 Game Drive SSD. The D30 is a bus-powered USB SSD offering up to 900MB/s read speeds, with capacities from 500GB to 2TB.
WiFi Testing with Ixia IoT
June 2024As previously discussed, RF testing has always been a major unknown to some extent because environmental factors make it extremely difficult to tell exactly what is going on with the system.
Yearly Feature Update for Radeon Gamers and Professionals
June 2024This time last year we saw the launch of Radeon Crimson. This was AMD’s big attempt to state that a yearly cadence for software features was a good thing, and helped streamline the process for the number of initiatives that AMD participates in when it comes to GPUs.
Zalman's SLC NAND Equipped USB 3.0 Flash Drive & Computex Suite Tour
June 2024I just ran across this interesting gem at Zalman's suite in the Hyatt at this year's Computex - it's a SLC NAND equipped USB 3.
6.2-Inch IP68 with 5000 mAh
June 2024Ulefone this week introduced its new high-end shockproof and waterproof smartphone. Dubbed the Rugger Armor 6, the ruggized phone combines an IP68-rated chassis, a large display, multiple special-purpose sensors, and a high-performance SoC.
A Level 4 Self-Driving System In A Single SoC
June 2024While CES may have started out as the Consumer Electronics Show, the global event has over the years expanded to include everything from enterprise technologies to automobiles.
An SFF Ryzen Pro Desktop
June 2024Over the past few months we have seen increasing adoption of AMD Ryzen processors by makers of ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) desktops.
APEX M800 QS1 Mechanical Switch and Sentry Eye Tracker
June 2024SteelSeries is best known for their keyboards, with MSI using SteelSeries designed keyboards in their gaming laptops for quite a few years now.
ASUS ROG Strix X399-E Gaming
June 2024With the advent of eSports and the ability to stream and even broadcast your own gaming sessions, PC gaming has gained a significant amount of momentum the past few years.
ASUS ROG Strix Z590-E Gaming WIFI
June 2024The ASUS ROG Strix Z590-E Gaming WIFI represents the mid-range and includes an advertised 14+2 phase power delivery, with four PCIe M.
ASUS' Atom Based Thin-and-Light with 512GB SSD - CES 2009
June 2024ASUS showed off the S121 notebook. Based on Intel’s Atom, the S121 isn’t exactly fast but it is portable. The S121 carries a much more conventional notebook form factor, measuring 11.
BlackBerry Key2 LE: A Competitive Android Offering
June 2024As a person who works on my phone during my commutes to write news and stories, I have always batted around the idea of picking up a BlackBerry with a keyboard.
BlackBerry Torch Camera - Part 1
June 2024Camera - Still The Torch is the first BlackBerry with a 5 megapixel AF camera with LED flash. There’s also some added software functionality as well, including GPS geotagging and facial recognition for autofocus.
Capsule Review: Rosewill's RK-9000 Mechanical Keyboard
June 2024Introducing Rosewill's RK-9000 Mechanical Keyboard As enthusiasts and professionals we spend a lot of time checking out what's under the hood of the computers and devices we use, but thankfully more and more we're paying attention to how we actually interact with hardware, what the user experience is like.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts - Nokia N8 Review: Nokia's New Flagship
June 2024Conclusion Now is not a good time to be Nokia. Once the king of the (smartphone) hill with an overwhelming majority of the smartphone market share, the lack of evolving to changing consumer demands in a fast enough manner has seen its smartphone share plummet.
CPU Gaming Performance: Ashes of the Singularity Escalation (1080p, 4K)
June 2024Ashes of the Singularity Escalation Seen as the holy child of DirectX12, Ashes of the Singularity (AoTS, or just Ashes) has been the first title to actively go explore as many of DirectX12s features as it possibly can.
CPU Gaming Performance: Civilization 6 (1080p, 4K, 8K, 16K)
June 2024Civilization 6 First up in our CPU gaming tests is Civilization 6. Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civ series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer overflow.
CPU Performance - 21.5-inch iMac (Late 2013) Review: Iris Pro Driving an Accurate Display
June 2024CPU Performance I ran the entry level iMac through our normal OS X CPU test suite. I don't have a ton of Mac desktops in the database but I do have results for last year's 27-inch iMac that'll help put things in perspective.
CPU Performance: Rendering Tests - The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: 16 Cores on 7nm with PCIe 4.0
June 2024CPU Performance: Rendering Tests Rendering is often a key target for processor workloads, lending itself to a professional environment. It comes in different formats as well, from 3D rendering through rasterization, such as games, or by ray tracing, and invokes the ability of the software to manage meshes, textures, collisions, aliasing, physics (in animations), and discarding unnecessary work.
Dell Leaks Details of a 24 UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor, the UP2414Q
June 2024Currently there are several 4K options on the market – models using the higher end IGZO displays such as the Dell Ultrasharp 32” 4K (UP3214Q, $3500) or the ASUS PQ321Q ($3500, our review) are currently attracting the most attention.
Design and Accessories - The Amazon Kindle Oasis (2017) Review: A Premium Take On The E-Reader
June 2024Design Amazon has taken an unorthodox approach to the design of the Kindle Oasis for 2017. It’s asymmetrical, with thin bezels on three sides, and a much larger bezel on one side.
DirectX 10 Games and Initial Performance Estimates
June 2024DirectX 10 Games and Initial Performance EstimatesUp until recently, the need for DirectX 10 hardware has been debatable - only a few titles have even supported DirectX 10, and performance has often been too slow to warrant consideration.
Disk strategies - SSD versus Enterprise SAS and SATA disks
June 2024Disk strategies With magnetic disks, there are two strategies to get good OLTP or mail server performance. The "traditional way" is to combine a number of 15000RPM SAS "
End of Line - Falcon Northwest FragBox SLI: Dare to Dream
June 2024Final ThoughtsHow does the Falcon Northwest FragBox SLI stack up against the competition? If the overall purpose is to match full ATX desktop performance using a micro ATX motherboard and case, I have to conclude that they've succeeded in that goal.
Fall IDF 2005 - Day 2: Intel Introduces their VIIV Brand
June 2024The second part of today's keynote focused on Intel's Digital Home initiatives. Below you'll find Intel's Digital Home platform roadmap:
Final Words & Conclusion - The Be Quiet! SFX-L Power 500W PSU Review: Powerful, Small, & Still Quiet
June 2024Conclusion With their latest SFX/SFX-L units, Be Quiet! is trying to balance themselves somewhere inside the boundaries of the mainstream market by designing a reliable product that performs well but, at the same time, is antagonistically priced.
Gaming: Far Cry 5 - Upgrading from an Intel Core i7-2600K: Testing Sandy Bridge in 2019
June 2024Gaming: Far Cry 5 The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States.
How DCI-P3 & True Tone Work
June 2024Earlier this month Apple launched a smaller version of the iPad Pro. At 9.7" it essentially takes the place of the iPad Air 2 as Apple's flagship standard sized tablet.
Intel HD 4000 Performance: Crysis Warhead
June 2024Our first graphics test is Crysis: Warhead, which in spite of its relatively high system requirements is the oldest game in our test suite.
Jasper Dissection - Jasper Is Here: A Look at the New Xbox 360
June 2024Jasper Dissection Taking apart a Jasper is no different than taking apart any other Xbox 360 console, despite the internal changes our original guide still rings true.
Meet The MSI R6850 OC
June 2024Meet The MSI R6850 OC The final card in today’s roundup is MSI’s R6850 OC. The R6850 OC is one of the first 6850s being released with a significant overclock, with MSI releasing it at 820MHz core and 1100MHz (4400MHz effective) memory, a 45MHz (5.
Microsoft Surface Review
June 2024A Different Perspective A week ago, I sat in an auditorium and listened to Steve Sinofsky talk about the tablet market. He talked about how the iPad was a great device, and a logical extension of the iPhone.
MSI Goes Compact with New GeForce RTX 40-Series Gaming Slim Cards
June 2024Modern graphics cards are notorious for their massive cooling systems and dimensions that are hard to fit into mainstream PC chassis and almost impossible to fit into compact PC cases that are rather popular among gamers.
New Razer Taichi Edition X570 and B550 AMD Motherboards
June 2024ASRock and Razer have today announced a product collaboration. Two of ASRock's premium models for AM4 are being updated with Razer styling and Razer Chroma connectivity: the X570 and B550 Taichi Razer Edition.
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined
June 2024The GTX 480… it’s hotter, it’s noisier, and it’s more power hungry, all for 10-15% more performance. If you need the fastest thing you can get then the choice is clear, otherwise you’ll have some thinking to decide what you want and what you’re willing to live with in return.
Random IO Performance - The Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSD Review: A Spirit of Hope
June 2024Note: All our previous testing has been on an Intel test bed. Because of the move to PCIe 4.0, we have upgraded to Ryzen.
Sequential Read/Write Speed - The Intel SSD DC S3700 (200GB) Review
June 2024Sequential Read/Write Speed Similar to our other Enterprise Iometer tests, queue depths are much higher in our sequential benchmarks. To measure sequential performance I ran a 1 minute long 128KB sequential test over the entire span of the drive at a queue depth of 32.
Surface Pro vs. Android Devices in 3DMark
June 2024While we're still waiting for Windows RT and iOS versions of the latest 3DMark, there is one cross-platform comparison we can make: Ivy Bridge/Clover Trail to the Android devices we just tested in 3DMark.
System Performance - The ASUS ROG Strix G15 (G513QY) Review: Embracing AMD's Advantage
June 2024System Performance The ASUS ROG Strix G513QY features the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, which is near the top of the Ryzen 5000 range.
The Acer 5551G Experience - Acer's Aspire 5551G: AMD's Budget Gaming Laptop
June 2024The Acer 5551G Experience So before we get to the benchmarks, let's take a moment to discuss the Acer experience.
The Design: Sony DSC-L1 - DSC-L1: Sony's Latest Ultra-Compact Digicam
June 2024The Design: Sony DSC-L1 Click images to enlarge. The front of the DSC-L1 features its 3x Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar optical zoom lens.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge Review, Part 1
June 2024Display As always, the display of any mobile device is a critical part of the overall user experience. A poor display in any way is often going to sour the entire experience.
Toshiba Excite and Encore Tablets, Click and Z10t Hybrids
June 2024The tablet and hybrid side of Toshiba was similarly diversified, with and ultra-budget device sitting right next to a very high-end tablet.
When an update is not worthy of a new name
June 2024We have always enjoyed Logitech mice and can count on them providing interesting product refreshes every couple of years. Their last major product refresh for the gaming community consisted of the G5 corded and the G7 wireless mice back in the fall of 2005.
Xeon E-2174G, E-2134, and E-2104G Tested
June 2024A couple of months ago we reviewed a few of the newest six-core Intel commercial CPUs that are also used in low-end servers.
Zen 4 at 65 W
June 2024During its keynote at CES 2023, Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's CEO, announced three new desktop processors based on its Zen 4 microarchitecture, the Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 7600.
A Look at Ubuntu 8.04
June 2024Back in the early part of 2008 we decided that we wanted to take a fresh look at Linux on the desktop.
Amacrox Freestyle 750W - Power Supply Roundup: 730W to 900W
June 2024Amacrox Freestyle - 750W Amacrox is well known in the European market, providing good quality at an affordable price. The ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) is FSP, also known as Fotron Source - one of the five largest power supply manufacturers in the world.
Amazon Launches New Kindle Paperwhite
June 2024With all the advances in tablet technology, the experience of reading a physical book is still preferred by many people – or if not a book, then an e-book with electronic ink instead of an LCD or OLED display.
AOpen AX4B Pro-533 - Intel 845E Motherboard Roundup
June 2024AOpen AX4B Pro-533 Motherboard Specifications CPU Interface Socket-478 Chipset Intel 82845E MCH Intel 82801DB ICH4
Apple iPhone 5: Announced
June 2024Apple announced its 6th generation iPhone, the iPhone 5, at a special event in San Francisco this morning. The iPhone 5 brings a huge list of improvements.
ASUS Details HC102 Mixed Reality Headset for Windows
June 2024ASUS has revealed new details about its upcoming Windows Mixed Reality headset, including specifications and price--essentially everything except for timing.
ASUS GPU Tweak - The AnandTech Guide to Video Card Overclocking Software
June 2024ASUS GPU Tweak Next up is the ASUS GPU Tweak utility. Developed in-house by ASUS, the GPU Tweak Utility is designed to work with both NVIDIA and AMD based video cards.
ASUS Publishes List of Upcoming Intel Z390-Based Motherboards
June 2024ASUS has published a list of its upcoming motherboards powered by Intel’s yet-not-announced Z390 chipset. As expected, the company will offer several families of platforms featuring over a dozen of models aimed at different market segments and supporting different features.
ASUS Z87-Pro BIOS - Intel Z87 Motherboard Review with Haswell: Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock and ASUS
June 2024ASUS Z87-Pro BIOS As ASUS likes to put a fine polish on everything that gets released to the public, the BIOS is no exception.
Build, Noise, and Power Consumption
June 2024I've already aired my grievances earlier regarding DigitalStorm's choice of components for the Slade Pro. The mishmash of a consumer level motherboard and memory with a Xeon that accounts for nearly half the system's price tag rubs me the wrong way and feels like a bit of a waste; if you're going to spend that much on a CPU, it should be bolstered not by a high end consumer board or high end consumer memory, but by a full on workstation board and ECC memory.
Core-to-Core Latency - AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X Review: Retaking The High-End
June 2024Core-to-Core Latency As the core count of modern CPUs is growing, we are reaching a time when the time to access each core from a different core is no longer a constant.
Corsair Dominator Series - Corsair Dominator DDR2-1111: Dual-Path Cooling Pushes Performance
June 2024Corsair Dominator SeriesCorsair has a long and illustrious history as an innovator in the memory market. For many years the only recognizable brand of enthusiast memory was Corsair.
Corsair Flash Voyager GTX USB 3.0 256GB Flash Drive Capsule Review
June 2024The rise of USB 3.0 as a high speed interface for PCs and the increasing affordability of flash memory has led to some very interesting products.
CPU Architecture Improvements: Background - Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC
June 2024CPU Architecture Improvements: Background Despite all of this platform discussion, we must not forget that Haswell is the fourth tock since Intel instituted its tick-tock cadence.
E5-2650L V3 and E5-2690 V3
June 2024As part of our Haswell-EP coverage, the next two processors on our test beds are both 12 core variants. The E5-2650L V3 is a surprising monster, giving 12 Haswell cores at 1.
Energy Consumption - Investigating Cavium's ThunderX: The First ARM Server SoC With Ambition
June 2024Energy Consumption A large part of the server market is very sensitive to performance-per-watt. That includes the cloud vendors. For a smaller part of the market, top performance is more important than the performance/watt ratio.
Environmental Audio Extensions - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
June 2024Environmental Audio Extensions Why doesn't Creative Labs have an A3D card like Diamond Multimedia or the rest of the "3D" sound card manufacturers?
F1 Challenge 99-02 Performance - NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra: The Next Step Forward
June 2024F1 Challenge '99-'02 Performance Anisotropic filtering really helps in this game because since you are at such a steep angle to the ground it makes it look a lot more crisp.
FreeSync & High Refresh Rates
June 2024Hot on the heels of the Swift PG35VQ announcement, ASUS has unveiled three new Strix-branded gaming monitors that will feature AMD’s FreeSync technology.
Hardware Design and Software Interface
June 2024The internal layout of all USB-PD sniffers is quite similar. A microcontroller acts as the control center (interfacing with the data monitoring host and tapping into the CC lines).
In-Depth with Mac OS X Lion Server
June 2024Like the client version of Lion, Lion Server is now a download from the Mac App Store, and as with Lion client this means that there are some changes in the installation process.
Inside the 600T - Corsair Graphite Series 600T: Cool and Quiet
June 2024Inside the 600T When you pop those side panels off of Corsair's 600T, you find an extremely well thought out internal design that's almost entirely tool-less and extremely spacious.
Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake and Core i3-8121U Deep Dive Review
June 2024Anyone interested in leading edge semiconductors knows that Intel is late with its newest manufacturing process. The '10nm' node was first announced in 2014, to be released in 2016.
LinkBoost and FirstPacket - nForce 500: nForce4 on Steroids?
June 2024New Feature: LinkBoost One of the feature sets unique to the nForce 590 SLI MCP - and highly touted by NVIDIA - is called LinkBoost.
MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk - The AMD B550 Motherboard Overview: ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, ASRock, and Others
June 2024MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk Perhaps one of MSI’s most important models on any B series chipset is its MAG Tomahawk series.
Multiplayer and Graphics - PURE (PC, Xbox 360) Review
June 2024Multiplayer and Graphics Multiplayer in PURE is as straightforward as the events you'll experience in the campaign, offering players a choice between the three available types of events.
New $17 Billion Fab in the USA by Late 2023
June 2024Samsung Foundry has filed documents with authorities in Arizona, New York, and Texas seeking to build a leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing facility in the USA.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Settlement Claims Website Now Open
June 2024Update 09/12: Bringing this back up, over the weekend the website to submit settlement claims went up. Owners of GTX 970s who purchased the card between its launch and August 24th of this year can participate in the settlement in order to receive $30 per card.
NVIDIA Shield Delayed, Now Ships In July
June 2024After a steady stream of positive Shield updates, NVIDIA just dropped a bit of unfortunate news by regarding an issue which has resulted in a delay to the Tegra 4-based handheld portable gaming console.
OWC Previews DEC Add-On For MacBook Pro
June 2024At CES, Mac accessory and upgrade supplier Other World Computing (OWC) showcased prototypes of an upcoming add-on for Apple's latest MacBook Pro models.
Power, Temperature, and Noise - The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB Founders Edition Review: Not Quite M
June 2024Power, Temperature, and Noise As always, we'll take a look at power, temperature, and noise of the RTX 2060 Founders Edition, though most of the highlights and trends we've seen twice before with the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, and RTX 2070 Founders Edition launches.
Raspberry Pi 2 Available: ARMv7 and Windows 10
June 2024The original Raspberry Pi, launched three year ago this month, has been very successful. Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton noted recently that over 4.
Sequential Performance - The Samsung 860 PRO (512GB And 4TB) SSD Review: Replacing A Legend
June 2024Sequential Read Performance Our first test of sequential read performance uses short bursts of 128MB, issued as 128kB operations with no queuing.
Setting up the Media Center Remote
June 2024Microsoft has made the setup and configuration process of MCE extremely simple; everything is done through wizards that are traversed linearly and can all be done using nothing more than your Media Center remote.
Setup and Startup - IBUYPOWER Gamer Paladin F860-a
June 2024Setup and Startup Next, let's have a look at the BIOS. There's nothing unusual here, with all settings at Auto. The first boot is pretty normal.
Taking Samsung TCCD to New Heights
June 2024In June of 2004, Corsair 3200XL appeared on the market. It was the first time since the death of Winbond BH5 that we had seen a memory with 2-2-2 timings at DDR400.
The Corsair SF450 450W SFX PSU
June 2024External Appearance Corsair’s latest upgrade of the SF series perfectly matches the size requirements of the SFX standards, measuring 125 × 63.
The Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum Mechanical Keyboard Review
June 2024Logitech hardly needs an introduction as a company. For decades, the company is omnipresent in the peripherals market. From low-cost office keyboards to advanced gaming mice and from headsets to console gamepads, the company offers numerous products for nearly every kind of system.
Unifying AVX-512 For Hybrid Architectures
June 2024Intel has announced two new x86-64 instruction sets designed to bolster and offer more performance in AVX-based workloads with their hybrid architecture of performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores.
Vega 20: Under The Hood
June 2024Vega 20 Under The Hood: GCN on 7nm Though we’ve known of Vega 20 for some time with the launch of server-class Radeon Instinct MI50 and MI60, its arrival to the consumer space does mark the first 7nm gaming card.
10th Gen Core For Road Warriors
June 2024Capping off Dell's spate of laptop updates, today the company also announced an updated Vostro 13 laptop for small business. The relatively inexpensive Vostro 13 5391-series feature a solid build quality along with numerous enhancements that will be appreciated by business users, road warriors, and even consumers.
34 Inches, USB-C, Webcam, Ethernet, KVM, DCI-P3
June 2024Philips has unveiled a new curved display aimed primarily at business users, while also offering some capabilities for entertainment as well. The Philips 346P1CRH monitor supports USB-C docking, an integrated KVM switch, a webcam, and an Ethernet port.
400FSB BIOS Settings - The Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6
June 2024400FSB BIOS Settings We have decided to provide users with both 400 and 450FSB starting points for quad-core processors. These settings are geared towards a performance oriented setup for 24/7 usage.
Absolutely Insane Battery Life - The 2013 MacBook Air Review (13-inch)
June 2024Absolutely Insane Battery Life With Haswell ULT, Intel aggressively focused on driving down total platform power consumption. It turns out that although Intel did a wonderful job of driving down CPU power consumption over the years, it did nothing to make the rest of the platform keep up.
An Incredibly Tiny Phone - HP Veer 4G Review
June 2024So I think it’s time to finally talk about the Veer’s small size and about how that actually works in practice.
An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3-Inch Display
June 2024Due to their size and lack of portability, 17-inch notebooks are not exactly popular among road warriors. Instead this is largely the domain of desktop replacement-class machines, which in turn has caused 17-inch laptops to be built bigger still in order to maximize their performance and emphasize the replacement aspect.
AnandTech/Intel S3700 Roundtable Discussion & Webcast Videos Live
June 2024Intel invited me to attend SC12 and participate in a webcast for the launch of its new DC S3700 SSD. I joined Roger Peene from Intel's SSD Solutions and we talked about the S3700 as well as answered your questions live.
Antec Aria - Exterior - Micro-ATX Cases
June 2024Antec Aria - ExteriorWe've had requests to look at the Aria for well over a year now, but only recently were we able to get enough micro-ATX cases to compare against each other for a full-fledged review.
ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Conclusion - The ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Motherboard Review: From Naples to Rome
June 2024ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Conclusion Professional grade motherboards are a completely different playing field when it comes to the consumer-focused models. The main differences aside from featuring much plainer and archaic aesthetics, come via the onboard controller set.
Asus ROG Strix Z270G Gaming Conclusion
June 2024The Asus ROG Strix Z270G Gaming is mainly designed for gamers that want to build an SLI/Crossfire system but want something slightly smaller than a full-size ATX motherboard.
Build, Heat, and Power Consumption
June 2024Build, Heat, and Power Consumption Where I think Alienware has benefitted the most from their relationship with Dell is actually in these areas, and the X51 makes a strong case for buying a prebuilt instead of going the DIY route for Mini-ITX.
Closing the Boutique and Opening the Store
June 2024Introducing the iBuyPower Revolt At CES 2013, the PC boutique iBuyPower announced a product that's in many ways much more than the sum of its parts.
Closing Thoughts - The Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ G-SYNC HDR Monitor Review: Gaming With All The Bells an
June 2024Closing Thoughts Bringing this review to a close, the ROG Swift PG27UQ has some subtleties as it is just as much a ‘G-Sync HDR’ monitor as it is an ROG Swift 4Kp144 HDR monitor.
Conclusion & End Remarks - The Huawei Mate 8 Review
June 2024Conclusion & End Remarks As we come to the end of the review I’m rather pleased with what Huawei was able to do with the Mate 8.
Construction Upgrading and Maintenance - HP Pavilion DV1000 Entertainment Notebook PC
June 2024Construction - Upgrading and Maintenance In the past, HP has used hex screws, which in essence, was to prevent users from accessing the various parts of their notebook.
CPU Benchmarks - AMD FX-8370E CPU Review: Vishera Down to 95W, Price Cuts for FX
June 2024CPU Benchmarks The dynamics of CPU Turbo modes, with both Intel and AMD, can cause concern during environments with a variable threaded workload.
Dells G5 15 SE Gaming Laptop Gets 8-Core Ryzen 4000 & Radeon RX 5600M dGPU
June 2024AMD has just introduced its new Ryzen 7 4000H-series mobile APUs as well as the Radeon RX 5600M GPUs and Dell is among the first companies to use both it its new high-performance gaming notebook.
Final Words - Pogo Linux: 1GHz for under $1000
June 2024Final Thoughts on the Linux Installation What you're getting here is Red Hat 7.0 with a few modifications and everything works right out of the box.
GPU Performance & Power - The Huawei P8 Review
June 2024GPU Performance On the GPU side, HiSilicon continues to rely on what is by now a quite old IP in the form of the ARM Mali T628.
High-End 7nm Vega Video Card Arrives February 7th for $699
June 2024As it turns out, the video card wars are going to charge into 2019 quite a bit hotter than any of us were expecting.
HP Announces Windows 10 Devices And Services
June 2024With Windows 10 coming in about two weeks, the amount of news from OEMs is ramping up as they prepare for the Windows 10 rollout.
HTC EVO 3D vs. Motorola Photon 4G: Choosing the Best Sprint Phone
June 2024Software Both the Photon 4G and EVO 3D run Gingerbread, although the Photon sports a slightly newer version (2.3.4 vs 2.
HTC One X Cushnie et Ochs Edition Shown off at HTC Frequencies
June 2024While Anand is covering today's other big NYC events for Nokia and Motorola, I'm over at HTC's second ever Frequencies, and just recently got to play with a special edition of HTC's One X (MSM8960).
Huawei Hits 200 Million Smartphone Sales in 2018
June 2024Huawei has announced today that shipments of its smartphones in 2018 have exceeded 200 million units. In recent months the company became the No.
In and Around the MSI GX60
June 2024In and Around the MSI GX60 I'll say this for MSI: they've kept a pretty uniform aesthetic for their gaming notebooks.
Integrated Graphics Tests: Finding 60 FPS
June 2024Integrated Graphics Tests Finding 60+ FPS Never mind 30 frames per second, if we want gaming to be smooth, we look for true 60 FPS gaming.
Intel Partner Discloses Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable Launch Window
June 2024This week at Supercomputing, everyone is getting excited about next generation hardware, not only on x86 but also GPUs, POWER, Arm, FPGAs, and accelerators.
Intel Wins Appeal on VLSI Case, $2.18B Judgement Reversed
June 2024A U.S. appeals court on Monday overturned a 2021 patent infringement ruling against Intel that awarded patent holding company VLSI $2.
iPod App Changes - Apple's iOS 4 Explored
June 2024iPod App Changes The majority of the iPod functionality of iOS remains unchanged. In fact, superficially the application’s appearance is the same as it was in iOS 3.
Meteor Lake Marks A Fresh Start To Mobile CPUs
June 2024One of the most significant events of last six months in mobile computing has been Intel and the launch of their disaggregated Meteor Lake SoC architecture.
NVIDIA Formally Announces PCIe Tesla V100: Available Later This Year
June 2024Similar to last year, at this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) NVIDIA has announced and detailed a PCI Express version of their latest Tesla GPU accelerator, the Volta-based V100.
NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80, GK210 GPU
June 2024Kicking off today is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known as SC. For NVIDIA, next to their annual GPU Technology Conference, SC is their second biggest GPU compute conference, and is typically the venue for NVIDIA’s summer/fall announcements.
NVIDIA's GeForce GT 430: The Next HTPC King?
June 2024HAWX Ubisoft’s aerial action game is one of the less demanding games in our benchmark suite, particularly for the latest generation of cards.
NVMe 1.3 Specification Published With New Features For Client And Enterprise SSDs
June 2024The first major update to the NVMe storage interface specification in almost two and a half years has been published, standardizing many new features and helping set the course for the SSD market.
One of My Favorite Tablet Keyboards
June 2024The virtual keyboard on the TouchPad is a five row design, including a dedicated row for numbers and punctuation. Given that the TouchPad is a more productivity oriented tablet than many of its competitors, this move makes a lot of sense.
OWC Introduces SSD Upgrade for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air PCIe SSDs
June 2024Apple's Retina MacBook Pro and all but the earliest MacBook Air models have relied solely on SSDs for internal storage, as Apple slimmed down the designs to the point that even a 1.
Power Consumption & Overclocking - The Intel Core i7 860 Review
June 2024Power ConsumptionThe Core i7 860's power consumption at idle is nice and low, as expected thanks to power gating and low TDP of Lynnfield.
RGB LED Backlit Keyboards and More
June 2024Corsair had plenty to show at their suite, but I’ll be honest: the RGB LED backlit Cherry MX switch mechanical keyboard was by far the coolest looking thing I saw.
The First TXAA Game & The Test
June 2024The First TXAA Game & The Test With the release of the NVIDIA’s 304.xx drivers a couple of months ago, NVIDIA finally enabled driver support on Kepler for their new temporal anti-aliasing technology.
The Nehalem EX Xeon 7500 and Dell R810
June 2024The stellar performance of the Xeons based on the Nehalem and Westmere architectures had a dark side for Intel: it cast a big shadow on Intel's top of the line Xeon 7400 series.
The Slowest Level in the Game - Half Life 2 GPU Roundup Part 1
June 2024The Slowest Level in the Game For our fifth and final demo we turn to one of the last levels in the game – d3_c17_12.
When the "n" in 802.11n really means "not yet"
June 2024It has been over two and half years since the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) formed a task group to develop and implement a new 802.
128 Cores Mesh Setup & Memory Subsystem
June 2024Starting off the testing, one thing that is extremely intriguing about Ampere’s implementation of their Altra designs is the fact that they’re achieving more than 64 cores whilst still using Arm’s CMN-600 mesh network IP.
13-inch with Ryzen, 15-inch with Ryzen or Core 8th Gen
June 2024In another announcement today out of the HP camp, the company has shared with us some updates to the Envy x360 line of convertibles.
A 200,000 mAh Battery for 108hrs of Switch Gaming
June 2024Suoaki, a Japanese company, has released a semi-portable battery pack rated at 200,000 mAh or 720 Wh. With this battery, it should be capable of charging a laptop for 11 times or a Nintendo Switch for 36 times.
Addtronics W8500 WTX Workstation/Server Tower Case
June 2024Quick Look Addtronics W8500 WTX Tower Case The Good http://www.addtronics.com + Lots of room inside to work with
Antec Three Hundred Two: Stay Cool, Budget Enthusiasts
June 2024Introducing the Antec Three Hundred Two While flagship enclosures are certainly pretty interesting and there are some great deals to be had even just north of $100, competition south of that border is mighty fierce and only becomes more so as manufacturers refresh their lineups with the latest trends and advances in chassis design.
ASRock Z590M Pro4 - The Intel Z590 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Detailed
June 2024ASRock Z590M Pro4 The ASRock Z590M Pro 4 is the micro-ATX version of the ATX Z590 Pro 4, with a very similar feature set and aesthetic.
Assembling the NZXT Phantom 820
June 2024Assembling the NZXT Phantom 820 Apart from just how heavy the NZXT Phantom 820 is, assembly actually goes fairly smoothly.
ASUS P8Z77-V Pro - In The Box, Overclocking - Intel Z77 Motherboard Review with Ivy Bridge
June 2024ASUS P8Z77-V Pro - In The Box The ASUS P8Z77-V Pro retails at $225-$235, essentially $100 more than the ASRock Z77 Extreme4, so I would expect a good amount in the box to help sweeten the price point.
ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex (DDR5)
June 2024ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex (DDR5) More aimed at extreme overclockers than other boards in the Republic of Gamers series, the Apex is back for Z690.
Atom C3000 Silicon On Display
June 2024There are a few news items from Computex we didn’t cover at the time that I want to visit. The first is Denverton, and how one manufacturer had a relevant beta motherboard on display during the show.
Battery Life - The 2011 MacBook Air (11 & 13-inch): Thoroughly Reviewed
June 2024Battery Life We've already established that the new MacBook Air lineup is significantly faster than its predecessor, but what does that do to battery life?
Can You Get POWER Inside 1U?
June 2024Back in April 2016, Tyan has introduced its IBM POWER8-based 1U servers at the OpenPOWER Summit in San Jose, California. The server market is dominated by five OEMs: HPE, Dell, IBM, Lenovo, and Cisco, with ODM Quanta and HPC specialist Supermicro being the challengers.
Cellular, WiFi, GNSS, Speakerphone and Call Quality
June 2024Cellular I stated before that AT&T’s HTC One X is really a One XL, and that the L connotes LTE inside.
Closing Thoughts - The Intel Xeon E5 v4 Review: Testing Broadwell-EP With Demanding Server Workloads
June 2024Closing Thoughts With the limited amount of time we had to spend with the new Broadwell-EP Xeons ahead of today's embargo, we spent most of our time on our new benchmarks.
Concluding Thoughts - Motorola Droid 3 Review
June 2024Concluding Thoughts So here we are, one year after the Droid 2, and now we have the Droid 3. Dual core smartphones are now pretty much the norm, and overall smartphone adoption shows little to no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
Cortex A57 - Performance and Power - ARM A53/A57/T760 investigated
June 2024Cortex A57 - Synthetic Performance We once again turn to SPECint2000 for an estimated performance score of the architecture - again, keeping in mind that this a deprecated and retired benchmark on the PC space.
CPU Benchmark Performance: Legacy Tests
June 2024In order to gather data to compare with older benchmarks, we are still keeping a number of tests under our ‘legacy’ section.
Double Capacity 2x32GB DDR4 from G.Skill and ZADAK
June 2024One of the interesting things to come out of the news in recent weeks is the march to double capacity memory.
F Stop: The Speed of the Lens
June 2024F Stop: The Speed of the LensMost buyers today are used to the idea of zoom lenses, and they aren't even aware of how many compromises the common "
Final Thoughts - AMD's Radeon HD 6970 & Radeon HD 6950: Paving The Future For AMD
June 2024Final Thoughts Often it’s not until the last moment that we have all the information in hand to completely analyze a new video card.
GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Master Conclusion
June 2024The $250 to $300 motherboard competition stack is highly contested for Z390, with GIGABYTE, ASRock, MSI, and ASUS all having at least two models each in this segment.
GPU Benchmarks: Civilization V - Choosing a Gaming CPU: Single + Multi-GPU at 1440p, April 2013
June 2024Civilization V A game that has plagued my testing over the past twelve months is Civilization V. Being on the older 12.
How the Retina Display MacBook Pro Handles Scaling
June 2024Earlier this morning Apple introduced its next-generation MacBook Pro equipped with a Retina Display. The 15.4-inch panel features a native resolution of 2880 x 1800, or exactly four times the standard 1440 x 900 resolution of a regular 15-inch MacBook Pro.
How To Remove Multi-Monitor Bezels, Safely
June 2024LAS VEGAS, NV –Do you ever buy more than one monitor, and then the brain adjusts such that instead of focusing on the next headshot you end up looking directly into a bezel?
HP Announces EliteBook Laptops with On/Off Sure View Privacy Screens
June 2024On Thursday, HP introduced adjustable privacy screens for the EliteBook 840 as well as the EliteBook 1040 notebooks. These are aimed at business users concerned about visual hacking and disclosing sensitive information to onlookers (something a number of journalists have to consider when working on NDA information when flying back from a press event).
Kioxia Releases First PCIe 4.0 SSDs: CD6 & CM6
June 2024Following through on their roadmap for transitioning to PCIe 4.0, Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) has announced the availability of their first two PCIe 4.
Linux Performance (NFS and SMB)
June 2024Any shared folder on the NAS can be set up for NFS sharing. It is just a small matter of setting up the NFS privileges for the shared folder.
Low Cost Thunderbolt Alternative for USB 3.0/DP
June 2024One of the things I love the most about AMD is the balance it provides to Intel. While I've spent much of CES looking for Thunderbolt products and lamenting the cost of controllers and devices, AMD put together a concept it calls Lightning Bolt.
MACOM Sells AppliedMicros X-Gene CPU Business
June 2024MACOM last week announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell the microprocessor-related assets it bought from AppliedMicro to Project Denver Holdings, a new company backed by The Carlyle Group asset management company.
Monitoring Performance and Adjusting Policy Accordingly
June 2024First, consider a 4-bit counter with two adjustable thresholds (Figure 12). When Count is greater than High Threshold, Algorithm A is deemed appropriate; the same is true concerning Algorithm B and Count less than Low Threshold.
Noise and Thermal Testing, Stock
June 2024Noise and Thermal Testing, Stock Dealing with cases that are engineered specifically for silence as opposed to excelling in every metric (as larger, more expensive cases often are) means accepting potential trade-offs.
Olympus Stylus Verve: Fashion vs Performance
June 2024Index Product Samples provided by Newegg.comThe Olympus Stylus Verve (known as the µ-mini in Europe) is sure to turn a few heads with its strangely-shaped ultra-compact metal body.
Performance Claims: +18% IPC vs. SKL, +47% Perf vs. BDW
June 2024Performance Claims: +18% IPC vs. Skylake, +47% Performance vs. Broadwell With every new product generation, the company releasing the product has to put some level of expectations on performance.
Power Management, Conclusions - How We Test PCIe 4.0 Storage: The AnandTech 2021 SSD Benchmark Suite
June 2024Power Management Idle power management for SSDs can be surprisingly complicated, especially for NVMe drives. But it is also vitally important for any battery-powered system.
Razer Announces Mechanical Switch Keyboard For The Apple iPad Pro
June 2024When Apple announced the iPad Pro, they also announced a new accessory which was meant to be paired with the large form factor tablet in the Smart Keyboard.
RGB Mouse Pad Plus Qi Wireless Charging
June 2024In another of ASUS’ Computex announcements, they have shared the impending release of their ROG Balteus Qi RGB mouse pad. The mouse pad combines a surface for the mouse to track clean as well as the ability to use Qi wireless charging on the desktop.
The MacBook Pro Review (13 & 15-inch): 2011 Brings Sandy Bridge
June 2024Last year at the iPad introduction Steve Jobs announced that Apple is a mobile device company. Just last week Steve returned to introduce the iPad 2 and point out that the majority of Apple's revenue now comes from products that run iOS.
The New HP TouchSmart - HP Takes on Apple with the New Voodoo
June 2024The New HP TouchSmart Last year saw the introduction of all-in-one machines similar to Apple's very successful iMac, this year those all-in-ones are getting a bit more sophisticated.
The Picker - Inside Newegg NJ: A New Warehouse and Another Contest
June 2024The Picker Your tote makes its way around the Newegg warehouse via conveyor belt and since the system knows the location of every last product in the warehouse, it can drop off your tote whenever it's near product that you've ordered.
Thin Laptop w/ Core i7, GeForce GTX 1650, PowerGem
June 2024Numerous mobile gamers nowadays demand not only performance, but also portability. In an attempt to bring together gaming-grade performance and compactness of mainstream laptops, Acer developed its all-new Predator Triton 300 which packs performance of a gaming PC into a chassis that is thinner than 2 cm.
TSMC Forms 3DFabric Alliance to Accelerate Development of 2.5D & 3D Chiplet Products
June 2024Currently the majority of high-end processors are monolithic, but design methodologies are slowly but surely shifting to multi-chiplet modules as leading-edge fabrication technologies get more expensive to use.
31.5-inch VA, 4K, HDR10, FreeSync, Around $500
May 2024Acer has released its new display designed primarily for console gaming and HTPCs. The ET322 combines a fairly large diagonal size, a 4K resolution, and HDR10 capability with a relatively low price.
A Comment on PC Gaming Battery Life
May 2024During the process of writing the Razer Edge review, I spent a lot of my time gaming on battery. The Edge is marketed as being a mobile PC gaming console, and is pretty well suited in that role with one caveat - battery life.
Ambarella Announces CV5 5nm 8K AI Vision Processor
May 2024At this year’s virtual CES 2021, Ambarella is launching its new flagship vision SoC – the CV5. Dubbed as a 8K AI vision processor, the new SoC addresses Ambarella’s more traditional core market which includes sports cameras, drones, and the increasing important automotive business of the company.
AMD + ITX + TB3? It's the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 Motherboard Review
May 2024When it comes to small form factor systems, options are few and far between. For AMD's X570, out of the 35+ motherboards currently available, just four of them are smaller than mATX.
AMD's DTX Form Factor: Smaller PCs for Everyone?
May 2024At the beginning of 2007 AMD unexpectedly announced the intention to develop a new, open motherboard and chassis form factor, entitled DTX (because CTX was a monitor company?
Apple Announces the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus
May 2024Today, Apple announced their refresh of the iPhone 6 lineup, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. For those that are unfamiliar with Apple’s “s” refreshes, these are years in which the iPhone doesn’t receive a visual design update but a number of internal aspects are significantly revised and updated.
ASUS Details The ZenWatch 2: Coming In October
May 2024At this year's Computex Taipei ASUS released some teaser information about the upcoming ZenWatch 2. At the time we knew what the ZenWatch 2 would look like, but there weren't any details about the display size, case size, battery, display, or any other aspects of the hardware.
ASUS G73Jh Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder
May 2024ASUS G73Jh – Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder Depending on your viewpoint, either the G73Jh is an awe-inspiring stealthy (i.
BlackBerry Bold Touch and BlackBerry 7 OS Headline BlackBerry World Day 1
May 2024There’s no getting around it, RIM hasn’t had the best year ever. It's been steadily losing market share to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7, there's been lackluster response to BlackBerry 6 OS and the Blackberry Torch, and at best tepid reviews and sales of their first tablet, the PlayBook, have not left the company on rock solid footing.
Camera and Video Capture - Understanding the iPhone 3GS
May 2024Camera and Video CaptureVideos and photos are both tossed into the same place on the 3GS, and they both sync with iTunes.
Camera Performance - The 9.7" iPad Pro Review
May 2024Still Image Quality With the iPhone SE we saw Apple bring the 12MP camera from the iPhone 6s to a $399 phone.
CPU Benchmarks - The Desktop Kabini Review Part 1: AMD Athlon 5350 (AM1) Tested
May 2024CPU Benchmarks Console Emulation – Dolphin Benchmark: link At the start of 2014 I was emailed with a link to a new emulation benchmark based on the Dolphin Emulator.
Crysis: Warhead - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Review: Featuring EVGA
May 2024Crysis: Warhead Up next is our legacy title for 2014, Crysis: Warhead. The stand-alone expansion to 2007’s Crysis, at over 5 years old Crysis: Warhead can still beat most systems down.
Defining Alt Mode for USB4
May 2024As the tech industry gears up for the launch of the new USB4 standard, a few more parts first need to fall into place.
Dragon Age: Inquisition - The AMD Radeon R9 Fury Review, Feat. Sapphire & ASUS
May 2024Dragon Age: Inquisition Our RPG of choice for 2015 is Dragon Age: Inquisition, the latest game in the Dragon Age series of ARPGs.
Final Words - Pine D'Music MP3 Player
May 2024Conclusion The overall performance of the D’Music is above average because of its ease of use and great audio playback quality as noted in the audio testing.
From a Gamer to Gamers
May 2024We have a long wait until Ivy Bridge-E hits the shelves, and until that point the dichotomy between the features and price of both Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge will continue to weigh on the minds of performance enthusiasts.
Gaming Tests - AMD and Linux: Reaching for the 64-bit Trophy
May 2024Gaming Performance Unfortunately in Linux, we are restricted to only a few native games. Utilities such as WineX are bringing more and more games closer to the mainstream adoption that Windows already cherishes.
GeiL Unveils 64 GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM Kit, 2 x 32 GB
May 2024Memory manufacturer Golden Emporer International Limited, or known generally as GeiL, has announced its new memory line with support for Intel 10th Gen and AMD Ryzen 4000 series processors.
GlobalFoundries Adds 12LP Process for Mainstream and Automotive Chips; AMD Planning 12LP CPUs & GPUs
May 2024GlobalFoundries on Wednesday announced its new 12LP (leading performance) fabrication process. The new manufacturing technology was designed to increase transistor density and improve frequency potential compared to GlobalFoundries’ current-gen 14LPP tech.
Huawei Press Conference Live Blog 2PM CET
May 202408:48AM EST - Time for some hands on I think! 08:48AM EST - Prices! 08:47AM EST - So not wireless
Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell-U Iris NUC Review
May 2024Introduction and Setup Impressions Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market.
Killer NIC Technology - BigFoot Networks Killer NIC: Killer Marketing or Killer Product?
May 2024Killer NIC TechnologyHopefully you are still with us after the previous segment as writing it was better than taking a dose of Lunesta.
Mac Benchmarks: QuickBench, AJA & Photoshop Installation
May 2024Since the XP941 is currently only bootable in Macs, I decided to run some benchmarks with the XP941 inside a Mac Pro.
Made by Google Event Live Blog (Starts at 11am ET/15:00 UTC)
May 202410:54AM EDT - Continuing my whirlwind trip of New York City, today I'm here at Google's annual "Made by Google" event.
Microsoft Introduces A 128GB Version Of The Core i7 Surface Pro 3
May 2024This weekend Microsoft introduced a new model of the Surface Pro 3. Like the existing two Core i7 models, this new version uses Intel's Core i7-4650U CPU.
Mid Range GPU Performance w/ HDR Enabled
May 2024Mid Range GPU Performance w/ HDR Enabled Next we looked at mainstream GPU performance, targeting graphics cards that were priced at or below $300; for reference we've tossed in a few pairs of cards running in SLI or CrossFire.
NVIDIA Announces 3D Vision 2 Glasses And 3D LightBoost Technology
May 2024We’re here on the USS Hornet attending NVIDIA’s GeForce LAN 6 event, where NVIDIA has just finished a kick-off keynote and product announcement between rounds of gaming.
On the Surface: Just Another Pentium 4
May 2024Taking a look at the new 3.06GHz Pentium 4 you can see that the chip is no different than its 2.
Online Spotlight - Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005: Feature and Performance Investiga
May 2024Online Spotlight Originally introduced in MCE 2004, the Onlight Spotlight section of Media Center is a way to offer third party content to MCE PCs without breaking the Media Center interface.
Programming The Remote - The Logitech Harmony Elite Experience: Ultimate Control
May 2024Programming The Remote Whether you use the smartphone app, or the PC application, the basic process of setting up a Harmony is practically the same.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 888+ 5G Speed Bin at 3GHz
May 2024Today for the first day of Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm is announcing its usual yearly mini-refresh of its flagship Snapdragon SoC in the form of the new Snapdragon 888+.
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (Snapdragon 865) Quick Performance Preview: Impressive
May 2024Samsung's Galaxy S20 series phones have been available since last Friday in markets such as the US. And earlier this week we also finally received a unit, in the form of a North American, Snapdragon 865-based Galaxy S20 Ultra.
Samsung Surface SUR40 Available for Preorder
May 2024First demoed at CES in 2008, Microsoft's Surface started as an idea for making it easier to interact with information, pictures, video, and other content.
Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Play, Neo, and Pro
May 2024Sony Ericsson’s big news from Barcelona is obviously the Xperia Play, the mysterious and oft-rumoured PSP-phone. But they’ve also announced two new additions to the Xperia line - the Pro and the Neo.
Sony SDM-S94 - A Guide to Choosing the Right 19" LCD Monitor
May 2024Sony SDM-S94 The SDM-S94 just screams retro. Albeit the SDM model line is somewhere between entry level and enthusiast, our experience with the SDM-S94 felt a little more toward a high end component.
Targeting 210W Next-Gen Xeons and Extreme Performance
May 2024The Frontera supercomputer is the next generation high performance machine set to debut at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in 2019.
The LTE Experience: Ridiculously Fast
May 2024The WiFi Galaxy Tab 10.1's model number is GT-P7100. The 4G version is the SCH-I905. Both run Android 3.1 however the most recent update to the GT-P7100 that enabled TouchWiz isn't available for the SCH-I905 yet.
The Metro UI - Microsoft BUILD: Windows 8, A Pre-Beta Preview
May 2024The Metro UI The best way to describe Windows 8 is a cross between the Metro UI from Window Phone 7 and the desktop architecture of Windows 7.
The Ryzen Mobile 4000 Series 7nm APU Uncovered
May 2024The notebook market has not been kind to AMD over the last decade – for a long, long time the company was only ever seen as the discount option for those on a strict budget.
User Experience, Power Consumption, and Heat
May 2024User Experience, Heat, and Noise If absolutely nothing else, the user experience of the CompuLab Intense PC is a sound one.
Western Digital's Raptor X - CES 2006
May 2024Western Digital's Raptor X Earlier this week Western Digital announced the availability of their latest Raptor drive, with a capacity of 150GB thanks to its two 74GB platters.
299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K NVIDIA GPUs
May 2024Introduction Earlier this month I drove out to Oak Ridge, Tennessee to pay a visit to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
A Look at LG G Flex and its Deformable Plastic OLED DIsplay
May 2024Today we had a chance to get hands on with LG's very hyped flexible, curved smartphone, the aptly named LG G Flex.
A Quick Look at Qualcomms 5G Smartphone Reference Design
May 2024One of the exciting things on display at Qualcomm's Snapdragon tech summit was their 5G reference smartphone design – the one that gets handed around to the smartphone vendors so they can initiate their own designs.
Acer Iconia Tab A501 Coming To AT&T's HSPA+ Network
May 2024Acer made a value play with their Acer Iconia A500, and the results left something to be desired. How much of that was Honeycomb growing pains is hard to say, but they've added another model to their stable with the Acer Iconia A501.
Ageia has big plans for PhysX in '07
May 2024Ageia has big plans for PhysX in '07 We met with Ageia at the show to go over plans for its PhysX accelerator and if there’s a future for the technology given the rocky start.
Apple Announces iOS 15 and iPadOS 15: The Highlights
May 2024Today at Apple’s 2021 WWDC event, the company unveiled the new iOS 15, iPadOS 15 operating systems. This year, Apple presented a large number of new features and improvements across both the main OS components as well as Apple’s core ecosystem apps.
ASRock Z390 Pro4 & Z390M Pro4
May 2024ASRock Z390 Pro4 & Z390M Pro4 The ASRock Z390 Pro 4 and Z390M Pro 4 are so similar in terms specification, design and aesthetic, the only real core differences between both models are the form factor, PCIe layout including M.
ASUS ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming
May 2024Moving down the ASUS product stack from the Maximus XII series to the more affordable Strix range, the ASUS ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming is the most equipped from its mid-range gaming-centric options.
Battery Life - The Google Pixel XL Review: Life After Nexus
May 2024Battery Life Section by Brandon Chester When a phone comes in two sizes, battery life is always one of the big questions on a potential buyer's mind.
Best Mac Laptops - June 2013
May 2024In reviewing the 2013 MacBook Air, I spent a lot of time thinking about how I'd recommend the various notebooks in Apple's lineup.
CPU Benchmarks - Overclockable Pentium Anniversary Edition Review: The Intel Pentium G3258
May 2024CPU Benchmarks The dynamics of CPU Turbo modes, both Intel and AMD, can cause concern during environments with a variable threaded workload.
Cypress and Zhaoxin Have USB 3.1 Gen 2 USB Controllers
May 2024The market of USB 3.1 controllers is largely commanded by ASMedia and VIA Labs, who sell the lion’s share of USB 3.
Dell Announces Latitude Rugged Extreme 12 and 14 Laptops
May 2024We don’t really give much coverage to the rugged device category, but it’s at least somewhat cool see what companies can do when they want something that can withstand all sorts of extreme environments.
ECS A85F2-A Golden Software - ECS A85F2-A Golden Review: All That Glitters
May 2024ECS A85F2-A Golden Software With the BIOS, being a lower tier manufacturer can cause concern for users in terms of aesthetics and usability.
Far Cry 2 - NVIDIAs GeForce GT 220: 40nm and DX10.1 for the Low-End
May 2024Far Cry 2 Far Cry 2 is another foliage-heavy game. Low-end cards can still do decently here, so long as the texture quality isn’t cranked up to the point where it saturates the 512MB and lesser cards.
Final Words & Conclusion - The Be Quiet! Silent Base 600 ATX Case Review
May 2024Conclusion Be Quiet! designed the Silent Base 600 to be a high quality, cost-effective case focused on low-noise operation. In terms of quality, the materials used are very good and the overall build is durable enough for a typical ATX tower case.
Gaming Performance using Oblivion - Apple's Mac Pro
May 2024Gaming Performance using Oblivion Will close out our gaming performing analysis with Oblivion. We ran at a setting that more or less corresponds to "
GlobalFoundries to Receive $1.5 Billion In Funding from U.S. CHIPS Act
May 2024The United States Department of Commerce and GlobalFoundires announced on Monday that the US will be awarding GlobalFoundries with $1.5 billion in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act.
GPU Performance - Cincoze DS-1300 Industrial PC Review: Xeon-Powered Do-it-All
May 2024GPU Performance GPUs in industrial PCs are more likely to be used for machine-learning tasks. GPU performance evaluation typically involves gaming workloads, which we will present in this section.
GPU Performance - The ASUS ROG Strix G15 (G513QY) Review: Embracing AMD's Advantage
May 2024GPU Performance The heart of any gaming laptop is the GPU, and with the AMD Radeon RX 6800M, the ASUS Strix G513QY offers one of the fastest GPUs in a notebook computer.
Grand Theft Auto V - The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright
May 2024Grand Theft Auto V The other veteran from our 2016 GPU game suite, GTA V is still graphically demanding as they come.
HP to Introduce AMOLED Envy and Spectre Laptops in April
May 2024HP is on track to start sales of laptops featuring a 15.6-inch AMOLED display in April, the company said recently. The first systems to get the innovative screens will be the company’s Envy and Spectre convertible notebooks that will first be available in Europe and the US.
Installation and Resource Usage - Windows Thin PC: Windows, Slimmed Down
May 2024At First Glance To test out Windows Thin PC, I used a Dell Inspiron 640m. This rather dated laptop features a 2.
Intel's Core i7-6700K CPU In Short Supply
May 2024Demand for Intel’s Skylake CPUs has been very high since the introduction of the company’s latest processors in August. Even though the manufacturer has ramped up the supply of its Skylake CPUs since its launch, not all users can get these new CPUs.
Khronos Group Releases Neural Network Exchange Format 1.0, Showcases First Public OpenXR Demo
May 2024Today at SIGGRAPH the Khronos Group, the industry consortium behind OpenGL and Vulkan, announced the ratification and public release of their Neural Network Exchange Format (NNEF), now finalized as the official 1.
KM003C in Action - PSSD Power Consumption Profiling
May 2024Prior to the adoption of the KM003C as a replacement for the tried and tested Plugable USBC-TKEY (Google Twinkie), we wanted to perform a few checks.
Memory Scaling with Overclocking - Sandy Bridge Memory Scaling: Choosing the Best DDR3
May 2024Memory Scaling with Overclocking What happens when we increase the CPU clock speed on our Core i7-2600K from the default 3.
Outdoor Glare - To Matte or Not to Matte
May 2024You’re going to think something is wrong with me, but I actually prefer the glossy display of the MacBook Pro to the optional matte display.
PCIe 2 vs. PCIe 3
May 2024Back when I had Origin’s tri-Titan equipped Genesis in house, I received a few requests for benchmarks with PCIe 3 enabled.
Pioneer DVR-108D - Crowning a new Champion
May 2024Introduction When we first heard the announcement that the Pioneer DVR-108 was on sale, but only at a few retail merchants, we jumped.
Pushing a System to its Limit
May 2024Sometimes it’s the little quirks in life that sneak up on you and change the way you look at the world.
QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, and HSPA+ - HP Veer 4G Review
May 2024I suppose now is as good a time as any to go into the cellular connectivity situation on the Veer. There was some confusion initially about whether the Veer “4G” truly had HSPA+ or not, and a number of incorrect assertions came up surrounding whether HSDPA 21.
Taking Aim at the Top for 7nm
May 2024Another year, another TechDay from Arm. Over the last several years Arm’s event has come as clockwork in the May timeframe and has every time unveiled the newest flagship CPU and GPU IPs.
Taller Screens and Slimmer Bezels
May 2024Samsung officially unveiled the latest Galaxy devices at its Unpacked event in New York today. Previous Galaxy phones were part Porsche 911 Carrera, with an easily recognizable curvaceous style, and part Swiss Army knife, bristling with technology and features.
The AMD Radeon R9 270X & R9 270 Review: Feat. Asus & HIS
May 2024The Radeon 200 series was a different kind of launch from AMD than anything we’ve seen from them before. The slow development of the next generation of manufacturing processes from fab partner TSMC has required both AMD and NVIDIA to get a bit creative in how they want to roll out products, along with how they want to promote and position those products.
The Design: Casio Exilim Ex-Z40
May 2024The Design: Casio Exilim Ex-Z40 Click to enlarge. The front of the Casio Ex-Z40 features a lens with a 35mm equivalent 3x zoom of 35 - 108mm.
The March of More Silicon: Connectivity Matters
May 2024To date, all of Intel’s leading-edge Xeon Scalable processors have been monolithic, i.e. one piece of silicon. Having a single piece of silicon has its advantages, namely a fast in-silicon interconnect between cores but also a singular power interface to manage.
Toshiba Memory To Rebrand As Kioxia
May 2024In 2017, Toshiba was forced to sell off its flash memory business to stave off bankruptcy. The memory business was spun off as Toshiba Memory Corporation and sold for $18 billion to a consortium led by Bain Capital after a high-stakes bidding war.
Western Digital Releases WD_Black SN770M: M.2-2230 SSD for Consoles
May 2024Western Digital has unveiled a compact version of its WD_Black SN770 SSD, tailored mainly for handheld gaming consoles such as the Asus ROG Ally and Valve Steam Deck.
WoW CPU Performance - World of Warcraft Performance Guide
May 2024WoW CPU Performance A fast CPU is just as important to WoW as a fast GPU, which is generally the case in any modern day 3D game.
A Thin and Light Gaming Notebook
May 2024Over the course of a year, we look at a lot of devices and hardware; while it may require a lot of effort to publish a full review on our part, the good news is that there are many products where you don’t need to invest that much time before you can decide whether or not you’re interested in reading more.
AMD's E-350 Supplants ION for mini-ITX
May 2024AMD has been curiously absent from the value netbook and nettop segments since Atom’s arrival nearly three years ago. These markets are highly profitable only for component vendors, as the OEMs that sell netbooks and nettops must survive on very slim margins in order to hit aggressive price points.
Apple Opens The macOS Sierra Public Beta
May 2024macOS Sierra was announced at this year's WWDC, and by this point it's now on its second beta release for developers.
ASUS Reports Disappointing VivoTab RT Sales, Stops Making RT Tablets
May 2024In a move that’s likely to surprise…well, just about no one, the Wall Street Journal reports that ASUS will cease making Windows RT tablets.
ASUS Updates Chromebook Flip Series With Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake
May 2024With the vast majority of vendors updating its notebook portfolios with Intel 10th generation processors, ASUS has added a new model its Chromebook lineup, the Chromebook Flip C436.
ATSC Releases ATSC 3.0 Digital TV Standards Suite: Over-The-Air Meets Over-The-Top
May 2024LAS VEGAS, NV — At a formal commemoration at CES 2018, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), industry standards consortium for digital television, announced the release of ATSC 3.
Bringing NG-ION to the 1201
May 2024(Re-) Introducing ASUS EeePC 1215N It’s been a while since I last reviewed a netbook. Even though the netbook market is pretty huge right now, there’s a couple of pretty good reasons for this.
Camera Usability - Apple's iPhone 4: Thoroughly Reviewed
May 2024Camera Usability It still takes almost two seconds to activate the camera on the 4, which is enough time to miss whatever it is you’re trying to grab a photo of.
Closing Remarks: Pushing Forward on 3 nm For 2024
May 2024Closing Remarks: Pushing Forward on 3 nm For 2024 Having attended Arm's Client Technology Day, my initial impressions were that Arm has opted to refine and hone its IP for 2024 instead of completely redefining and making groundbreaking changes.
Corsair Acquires Origin PC
May 2024Corsair on Wednesday said that it had acquired Origin PC, a well-known boutique PC maker from the USA. Origin PC will remain a separate brand from Corsair and will continue to offer custom gaming and workstation machines.
Corsair unleashes the Bulldog DIY 4K Gaming PC
May 2024Corsair certainly is a company that is not afraid of diversification and has proved that multiple times in the past. They started as a memory products manufacturer, diversified into the power, case and cooling market segments and today they even have their own gaming division.
Crysis 3 - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Review
May 2024Crysis 3 Still one of our most punishing benchmarks, Crysis 3 needs no introduction. With Crysis 3, Crytek has gone back to trying to kill computers and still holds “most punishing shooter” title in our benchmark suite.
CUDA Goes LLVM and Open Source (Kind Of)
May 2024Since starting their GPU Technology Conference in 2010, NVIDIA has expanded into several events so that they can hold events in Europe and Asia.
DDR5 to Double Bandwidth Over DDR4, NVDIMM-P Specification Due Next Year
May 2024JEDEC made two important announcements about the future of DRAM and non-volatile DIMMs for servers last week. Development of both is proceeding as planned and JEDEC intends to preview them in the middle of this year and publish the final specifications sometimes in 2018.
Driver Performance & The Test
May 2024Alongside the launch of the GTX 1080 Ti, NVIDIA is also touting the performance of their drivers. For most users who have been regularly updating their drivers to begin with, I don’t think there’s anything too surprising here.
EVE: The Second Genesis Performance, 4xAA/8xAF
May 2024by Derek Wilson on December 15, 2003 11:14 AM EST 22 Comments | 22 Comments EVE: The Second Genesis Performance, 4xAA/8xAF All the cards here take a large performance hit, with the 9600SE gaining the lead.
FIC AN11 Stealth - VIA KT266A Motherboard Roundup
May 2024FIC AN11 Stealth Click to Enlarge FIC AN11 CPU Interface Socket-A Chipset VT8366A North Bridge
Final Words and Conclusion - The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard Review: A Truly Unique, Truly Expensive K
May 2024Conclusion Unlike the vast majority of mechanical keyboards nowadays, the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard truly is a unique product - a wholly unique design that is being marketed almost exclusively towards IT professionals.
Gaming Performance: 1440p - The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 7600 Review: Zen 4 Effic
May 2024Gaming Performance: 1440p In our Ryzen 7000 series review, we saw users commenting about testing games for CPU reviews at 1440p, so we have duly obliged here.
GIGABYTE B550M DS3H - The AMD B550 Motherboard Overview: ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, ASRock, and Others
May 2024GIGABYTE B550M DS3H Sitting at the bottom of GIGABYTE's B550 product stack is the B550M DS3H, which is one of just a handful of micro-ATX sized models to choose from.
GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC Force Review
May 2024Overclocking motherboards are here to stay. The $200 overclocking motherboard market seems to be growing, even when overclocking is limited to specific processor SKUs.
HTC Cuts Price of Vive Pro VR Headset to $599
May 2024HTC this month has reduced the price of its Vive Pro VR headset by $200, bringing the pricetag of the HMD down to $599.
Intel Previews M.2 Optane SSD 905P 380GB
May 2024During Intel's keynote at Computex 2018, Intel Client Computing Group manager Gregory Bryant offered a brief preview of the upcoming M.
Intel Releases SSD DC S3510
May 2024In February Intel refreshed its enterprise SATA SSD lineup with the DC S3610 and S3710 SSDs, but left the entry-level S35xx series untouched.
Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Back
May 2024Overclocking You have already seen that the Core 2 Extreme X6800 outperforms AMD's fastest processor, the FX-62, by a wide margin.
It's a Bug, Not a Feature
May 2024Our inbox quickly lit up this morning when we received notice about this NGOHQ article, discussing how NVIDIA had removed the heterogeneous GPU restriction on PhysX in their latest beta drivers.
Lenovo Refreshes the Yoga Lineup With Ryzen and Next-Gen Intel Core Processors
May 2024There are several iconic designs in the PC space that have spawned many competing clones, and Lenovo is the proud parent of one such design in the Lenovo Yoga.
Letting Titan Spread Its Wings, Cont
May 2024Moving on, let’s take a look at 3 of our most intensive games: Battlefield 3, Far Cry 3, and Crysis 3.
MAINGEAR Rolls-Out 34 All-in-One PC with 18-Core Xeon, GeForce GTX Titan X
May 2024The concept of the all-in-one desktop personal computer was created to save space and simplify design of PCs. While there have been a number of traditional AIO desktops available over the years, leading PC makers only began to address performance-demanding market segments with specially-designed models several years ago.
Multi-chip Intel Core i9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
May 2024Overclocking With Rocket Lake: The Conclusion In our launch day review of Intel's Rocket Lake processors back in March, we dived into the defining factors of Intel backporting its 10nm into a working and usable 14nm desktop product.
Netgear's Marvell Based ReadyNAS NV+ v2 Review
May 2024Netgear's ReadyNAS lineup is very well respected in the industry. This lineup owes its existence to the acquisition of Infrant in 2007.
NVIDIA To Bring DXR Ray Tracing Support to GeForce 10 & 16 Series In April
May 2024During this week, both GDC (the Game Developers’ Conference) and GTC (the Game Technology Conference) are happing in California, and NVIDIA is out in force.
Our Settings - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion GPU Performance
May 2024Our Settings We tested at two major settings, one we defined as High Quality and the other we called Medium Quality.
RAID 5 - IDE RAID Comparison
May 2024RAID 5 For the final popular RAID configuration, we jump to the number 5 for RAID 5. This setup is typically found in higher-end RAID cards only because it requires extra hardware to work properly.
Samsung Announces The Notebook Odyssey
May 2024At the Samsung press conference today, Samsung announced its updated gaming laptop, the Samsung Notebook Odyssey. With the announcements by NVIDIA this week, it shouldn’t be a surprise to see a lot of updated gaming laptops, and Samsung’s 15.
Starts 2pm CEST (8am ET)
May 202407:51AM EDT - I'm here in Berlin, waiting to see Huawei's Matebook launch 07:51AM EDT - Actually using my MateBook 2016 for this event, because I left my main laptop charger at home.
System Performance - HP Folio 13 Review: Deviating From the Norm
May 2024System Performance By opting to employ an Intel Core i5 instead of Core i7 (ULV, of course), and then only operating the DDR3 in single-channel mode, HP puts the Folio 13 at a bit of a disadvantage compared to the competition.
System Performance - The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review (2015)
May 2024System Performance The review unit that I received should be no slouch for performance, since it has the Intel Core i7-5600U processor.
The Exterior of the NZXT S340
May 2024In terms of design, the S340 is just about as minimalistic as it gets. It literally is just a rectangular metallic box, with an entirely flat faceplate and side panels.
Trials of an Intel Quad Processor System: 4x E5-4650L from SuperMicro
May 2024Trials of an Intel Quad Processor System: 4x E5-4650L from SuperMicro In recent months at AnandTech we have tackled a few issues of dual processor systems for regular use, and whether having a dual processor system as a theoretical scientist may help or hinder various benchmark scenarios.
What's Inside - Lenovo ThinkStation P620 Review: A Vehicle for Threadripper Pro
May 2024Visual Inspection As with most workstations designed for under-the-desk operation, due to the need to power a big CPU and a big GPU (or two), the ThinkStation P620 is a sizeable machine, but smaller than you might think.
Windows Tablets - Best Tablets: Holiday 2014
May 2024Windows Tablets In the early days of Windows 8 tablets, users had to decide between ARM based devices running Windows RT or x86 devices running the standard version of Windows 8 that you would get on a desktop computer.
ABIT NI8 SLI: Memory Overclocking
May 2024ABIT NI8 SLI: Memory OverclockingEach generation of boards and chipset technology often comes with even greater opportunities to increase a board's bandwidth and performance through overclocking of the memory.
Accessories and Charging - The BlackBerry PlayBook Review
May 2024Accessories and Charging RIM sent along some of the PlayBook's accessories: the BlackBerry Convertible Case, BlackBerry Rapid Charging Pod, Neoprene Sleeve, and BlackBerry Skin.
AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 C-Series For High-End Chromebooks
May 2024In September 2020, AMD released its Ryzen 3000 C-series for Chromebooks, a line up of budget-priced chips based on the 12nm Picasso (Ryzen+) architecture that featured up to 4 cores and 8 threads and up to 11 Radeon Vega compute units.
AMD Rolls Out Radeon RX 7900 XT Promo Pricing Opposite GeForce RTX 40 Super Launch
May 2024In response to the launch of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 40 Super video cards, AMD has announced that they are instituting new promotional pricing on a handful of their high-end video cards in order to keep pace with NVIDIA's new pricing.
An Ultra-Compact Tiger Lake Desktop
May 2024Intel introduced the Willow Cove micro-architecture with their Tiger Lake processors in the second half of 2020. These were designed to span a wide range of performance levels and applications, with TDPs ranging from as low as 7W up to 65W.
Battery Life: Unimpressive - Anand's Google Nexus One Review
May 2024Battery Life: Unimpressive The iPhone doesn't have a very long lasting battery. Before my iPhone I was a Blackberry user; my battery lasted for days.
Build-A-Rig R1: Interview with Dustin Sklavos (Corsair Memory)
May 2024Position: Technical Marketing Specialist and Product Manager for Bulldog at Corsair Memory Name of Rig: ‘The Accelerator’ IC: How long have you been at Corsair?
Compute and Synthetics - Zotac GeForce GT 640 DDR3 Review: Glacial Gaming & Heavenly HTPC
May 2024Compute and Synthetics Moving on from our look at gaming performance, we have our customary look at compute performance. Kepler’s compute performance has been hit and miss as we’ve seen on GK104 cards, so it will be interesting to see how GK107 fares.
Dark Mode, iPadOS & Files
May 2024At today’s WWDC event in San Jose, California, Apple unveiled the newest update to its iOS operating system, iOS 13, as well as its forking of iOS for tablet devices into a new dedicated OS: iPadOS.
Delidding The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G: Delidding The APU
May 2024Delidding The AMD Ryzen 5 2400: Delidding The APU To show if delidding the Ryzen 2000 series APUs yielded much benefit in terms of thermal performance and overclocking headroom, I selected the best overclocking chip for delidding from a CPU core frequency standpoint out of a pool of four APUs.
DirectStorage 1.1 with GPU Decompression Finally on Its Way
May 2024As part of this week’s Microsoft Ignite developers conference, Microsoft’s DirectX team has published a few blog posts offering updates on the state of various game development-related projects.
Everything Changes - Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
May 2024Everything Changes Like PCMark Vantage, the user interface has undergone an update. The changes here tend to be a bit more far-reaching, however.
Final Fantasy IX Performance - Exploring Locations
May 2024Final Fantasy IX Performance - Exploring Locations The scene used to benchmark walking around. This benchmark tests limited 3D rendered over a 2D background that is the town, city or dungeon.
FinFET & High Bandwidth Memory
May 2024Along with updating their x86 and CPU roadmaps, AMD has also offered a brief update on their GPU roadmap. Unfortunately unlike 2012 we’re not going to get anything quite like the HSA feature roadmap, which projected features out for the next few years, but AMD is opening up on what is in store for 2016.
First DTR Laptop with Coffee Lake-S
May 2024Clevo, a large OEM/ODM exclusively producing laptop computers, has announced three new laptops powered by the recently released Coffee Lake-S (desktop) CPUs.
Gaming Performance (continued) - AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.33GHz/1.30GHz
May 2024Having recently gone into production, Serious Sam is a brand new game and although we are still using the public beta, the performance should be representative of the final game.
Gaming Tests: Civilization 6 - Intel Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-10700K Review: Is 65W Comet Lake an Op
May 2024Gaming Tests: Civilization 6 Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civilization series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer underflow.
Gaming: F1 2018 - Intel Xeon E Six-Core Review: E-2186G, E-2176G, E-2146G, and E-2136 Tested
May 2024Gaming: F1 2018 Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1.
HDMI Mirroring & Charging - The Apple iPad 2 Review
May 2024HDMI Mirroring With the iPad we complained that the A4 didn't seem to include any form of digital video output, only analog outputs were supported.
High-End Buyer's Guide - October 2006
May 2024IntroductionWe have made an effort to better address our buyer's guides with more frequent updates to all of the price segments.
HyperZ Explained - ATI Radeon 32MB SDR
May 2024The first part of the HyperZ technology is the Hierarchical Z feature. This feature basically allows for the pixel being rendered to be checked against the z-buffer before the pixel actually hits the rendering pipelines.
I'M Intelligent Memory to release 16GB Unregistered DDR3 Modules
May 2024After talking about Avoton and Bay Trail on Twitter, I was approached by the company heading up the marketing and PR for I’M Intelligent Memory regarding a few new products in the pipeline different to what we had seen in the market previously.
LCD Display Analysis - The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Review: OLED and LCD Tested
May 2024LCD Display Analysis Lenovo actively send us both the OLED version of the X1 Yoga (many thanks to Lenovo for helping us cover both aspects), as well as the LCD version.
Multitasking Scenario 3: Web Browsing
May 2024For our final benchmark, we decided to switch things up a bit and keep Firefox as our foreground application while background tasks ran.
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 Technology
May 2024NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 Technology As with the ATI FireGL X3-256, NVIDIA's workstation core is based around its most recent consumer GPU.
PCMark 8 Home Results - Analyzing Intel Core M Performance: How 5Y10 can beat 5Y71 & the OEMs' Dilem
May 2024PCMark 8 Home Results PCMark 8 Home is a much different workload than Cinebench. Cinebench thrives on sustained performance over the duration of the workload, with the CPU utilization staying around 100% for the duration.
Performance and Deployments - Intel Launches Cooper Lake: 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable for 4P/8P Ser
May 2024Performance and Deployments As part of the discussion points, Intel stated that it has integrated its BF16 support into its usual array of supported frameworks and utilities that it normally defines as ‘Intel DL Boost’.
Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 Subjective Analysis
May 2024When I first started using tablets a few years back, I was generally in the “bigger is better” crowd – within limits of course.
SFF-8639 Connector Renamed as U.2
May 2024As SATA Express never took off because of the two-lane limitation, the SSD and motherboard industries have been looking for an alternative connector for connecting 2.
System & ML Performance - The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro & 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, & C
May 2024System & ML Performance Having investigated the new A13’s CPU performance, it’s time to look at how it performs in some system-level tests.
System Performance - The LG V60 and VELVET Review: A Classic & A Design Restart
May 2024System Performance System performance of the two LG devices are interesting as they’re one of the first times we’re able to contrast Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 versus the Snapdragon 865 from the same vendor, using the same software optimisations and design.
The Fnatic Gear Rush G1 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
May 2024At first sight, the Fnatic Gear Rush G1 appears to be a basic model with a plastic body that can be easily mistaken for a much cheaper membrane keyboard.
The Home Bar - Anand's Google Nexus One Review
May 2024The Home Bar The Nexus One has three physical buttons: a power/lock button at the top, volume rocker on the left side and a trackball/button on the face.
The LGA-1156 Socket - Intel's Core i7 870 & i5 750, Lynnfield: Harder, Better, Faster Stronger
May 2024The LGA-1156 Socket: Size and Installation The first Core i7, Bloomfield, went into a 1366-pin LGA socket: A year later we have Lynnfield, and it fits in a much tighter space:
The MSI MPG Z690 Carbon WIFI (DDR5) Motherboard Review: A Decent Mid-Ranged Z690
May 2024As we near the end of Intel's 12th Gen (Alder Lake) life cycle, its 13th Gen Core series is expected to be due by the end of the year; we're looking at a premium model from the Z690 chipset.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move
May 2024As the GPU company who’s arguably more transparent about their long-term product plans, NVIDIA still manages to surprise us time and time again.
The SSD: Not Half Bad
May 2024Apple advertises the new MacBook Air as being instant on as a result of the internal SSD. That’s mostly untrue. From a completely powered off state the MacBook Air still takes time to boot.
TSMC Readies 8x Reticle Super Carrier Interposer For Next-Gen Chips Twice as Large As Today's
May 2024TSMC is no stranger to building big chips. Besides the ~800mm2 reticle limit of their normal logic processes, the company already produces even larger chips by fitting multiple dies on to a single silicon interposer, using their chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) technology.
Xbox One To Get TV DVR Capabilities
May 2024Those that never got to experience Windows Media Center as the hub of a home entertainment system likely wonder why there is such a vocal group of people who cherish it and what it brought to the living room.
Zotac FUSION350-A-E: BIOS and Overclocking
May 2024BIOS The first thing you notice when you turn on the motherboard is that it beeps at you - a few low pitched beeps for all the USB devices connected, and a final high pitch to confirm it's booted.
165 Hz QHD With FreeSync 2
May 2024GIGABYTE has introduced a new display aimed at hardcore gamers, incorporating a multitude of capabilities aimed at the target audience. Dubbed the ‘Tactical Monitor’, the Aorus CV27Q is a QHD curved LCD that's able to run at up to 165Hz, and includes support for AMD’s FreeSync 2 refresh rate technology.
21-Inch Curved Screen Gaming Notebook
May 2024Today Acer is announcing a beast of a gaming notebook in the Predator 21 X. This is the world’s first curved screen notebook, and it should be enough to satisfy almost any gamer’s needs.
A Tiny Graphics Card for All PCs
May 2024Asus this week has become the latest PC video card manufacturer to announce a sub-75W video card based on NVIDIA's recently-released low-power GeForce RTX 3050 6GB design.
AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
May 2024If you examine the CPU industry and ask where the big money is, you have to look at the server and datacenter market.
AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer Resigns
May 2024I don’t usually pay much attention to corporate executives and the hirings, firings and resignations thereof. It’s not that executives are unimportant, it’s that they’re not exactly what I’m passionate about.
Apple TV - Part 1: Unboxed and Dissected
May 2024Although the less exciting of Apple's major announcements this year, Apple TV is finally upon us. As the world waits for the iPhone, it's time to look at Apple's latest entry into the convergence market.
ASUS Launches Maximus VIII Extreme/Assembly for Skylake, includes 10G Ethernet Card
May 2024We covered the launch of ASUS’ most expensive Z170 motherboard when the announcement was made (we also have it in for review), but late last week another announcement landed on my radar – a second version of the Maximus VIII Extreme, this time using a ‘Plasma Copper’ color scheme requested by system builders but also linking in to the DirectCU graphics card line and the new color scheme for their latest Matrix GTX 980 Ti.
Compute Performance - Intel Iris Pro 5200 Graphics Review: Core i7-4950HQ Tested
May 2024Compute Performance With Haswell, Intel enables full OpenCL 1.2 support in addition to DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 4.0. Given the ALU-heavy GPU architecture, I was eager to find out how well Iris Pro did in our compute suite.
CPU Tests: SPEC MT Performance - DDR5 Advantage
May 2024Multi-threaded performance is where things become very interesting for Alder Lake, where the chip can now combine its 8 P-cores with its 8 E-cores.
Direct-Attached Storage Benchmarks - WD My Passport 5TB DAS Review: Compact and Consistent Capacity
May 2024Direct-Attached Storage Benchmarks Our evaluation routine for hard-drive based direct-attached storage devices involves running CrystalDiskMark for a quick performance overview. Real-world performance testing is done with our custom test suite involving robocopy bencharks and PCMark 8's storage bench.
Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G Modem
May 2024For the last 3 years, Huawei has announced its next generation SoC at the IFA technology show here in Berlin. In every occasion, the company promotes its hardware, using the latest process technologies, the latest core designs, and its latest connectivity options.
Final Thoughts - NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti w/448 Cores: GTX 570 On A Budget
May 2024Final Thoughts When we were first informed about the GeForce GTX 560 Ti With 448 Cores, I approached the matter with a great deal of skepticism.
Gaming Performance with Quake 4 and Oblivion
May 2024Quake 4 doesn't show a huge deficit when looking at Quad FX performance vs. a single socket dual core AMD setup; there's a slight drop but nothing huge.
Gaming Performance: 4K - The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Review: A Simpler Slice of V-Cache For Gaming
May 2024Gaming Performance: 4K Last, we have our 4K gaming results. We are using DDR5 memory on the Ryzen 7 78000X3D and the other Ryzen 7000 series we've tested.
GIGABYTE Z370 HD3P - Analyzing Z370 for Intel's 8th Generation Coffee Lake: A Quick Look at 50+ Moth
May 2024GIGABYTE Z370 HD3P Continuing in the Ultra Durable line, we slide further down the stack and run into the Z370 HD3P.
Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 Performance Preview
May 2024Earlier this week Google announced two new flagship Nexus devices: the Nexus 4 smartphone and the Nexus 10 tablet. We received review samples of both earlier this week, and while we're hard at work at full reviews of the devices we couldn't help but share all of the test data we've been able to amass at this point.
Haswell GT3/GT3e Gets a Brand
May 2024We’ve known for a while that Intel’s Haswell processor would continue to drive GPU performance in a significant way. With Haswell, Intel will offer a higher end graphics configuration with more execution resources than before (GT3) as well as an even higher end offering that pairs this GPU with 128MB of embedded DRAM on the CPU package (GT3e).
HTPC Credentials - GEEKOM AS 6 (ASUS PN53) Review: Ryzen 9 6900HX Packs Punches in a Petite Package
May 2024HTPC Credentials The 2022 Q4 update to our system reviews brings an updated HTPC evaluation suite for systems. After doing away with the evaluation of display refresh rate stability and Netflix streaming evaluation, the local media playback configurations have also seen a revamp.
Ice Lake and Milan, A100 and Altra
May 2024When the name “Oracle” is thrown around, hardware isn’t typically the first thing that comes to mind for most people. But, like other large tech companies that originally made their mark in the world with software, the market for Oracle has grown beyond just companies needing software and SPARC boxes.
Intel Disabled AVX-512, but Not Really
May 2024One of the more interesting disclosures about Alder Lake earlier this year is that the processor would not have Intel’s latest 512-bit vector extensions, AVX-512, despite the company making a big song and dance about how it was working with software developers to optimize for it, why it was in their laptop chips, and how no transistor should be left behind.
Lenovo Launches ThinkPad 10 Tablet Refresh And Lenovo Cast Accessory
May 2024Today at Lenovo Tech World, the company has taken the wraps off of an updated version of their ThinkPad 10 tablet, and they are launching their first screen sharing device (apparently it's not their first despite them saying it is) the Lenovo Cast.
New Accessories: Type Cover, Surface Pen, Surface Dock
May 2024The Surface Pro lineup is defined not just by the kickstand, or an Ultrabook packed into a tablet, but also by things like the Type Cover and Surface Pen.
NVIDIA Announces GAME24 - 24 Hour Live Gaming Celebration
May 2024It seems company sponsored live events are becoming more popular. Not long after AMD hosted their own gaming celebration, NVIDIA is upping the ante with a 24 hour live streamed event with several physical locations around the world, which they're calling GAME24.
Power Improvements - The Haswell Review: Intel Core i7-4770K & i5-4670K Tested
May 2024Power Improvements Although Haswell’s platform power is expected to drop considerably in mobile, particularly with Haswell U and Y SKUs (Ultrabooks and ultrathins/tablets), there are benefits to desktop Haswell parts as well.
Power Management - QLC Goes To 8TB: Samsung 870 QVO and Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB SSDs Reviewed
May 2024Power Management Features Real-world client storage workloads leave SSDs idle most of the time, so the active power measurements presented earlier in this review only account for a small part of what determines a drive's suitability for battery-powered use.
Puget Systems Genesis II Quiet Workstation Review
May 2024Introducing the Puget Systems Genesis II Quiet Over the past two years, we've seen boutiques start to really stratify and carve out their own territory and turf.
Random & Sequential Read/Write Speed
May 2024Random Read/Write Speed The four corners of SSD performance are as follows: random read, random write, sequential read and sequential write speed.
S3's 90nm Chrome: The S20 Series
May 2024With a focus on the low-cost and integrated video setups, it is not too often that we hear from S3 Graphics, VIA's video-based partner in crime.
Sensei Mouse Relaunched For Its Tenth Anniversary
May 2024Today SteelSeries is bringing back one of their classic peripherals, outfitted with the latest tech. SteelSeries launched the Sensei Mouse back in 2009 and it quickly became one of their most popular mice, especially in e-sports, and the company has been fielding requests to re-release this model.
Storage Devices - Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PS3
May 2024Storage Devices Both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 feature removable 2.5” HDDs as an option for storage; the difference being that the PS3 won’t ship with a hard drive, while the Xbox 360 will.
The AMD Radeon R9 290X Review
May 2024Compute Jumping into pure compute performance, we’re going to have several new factors influencing the 290X as compared to the 280X.
The Intel SSD 330 Review (60GB, 120GB, 180GB)
May 2024Earlier this year Intel introduced its second SandForce based SSD: the Intel SSD 330. While Intel had previously reserved the 5xx line for 3rd party controllers, the 330 marks the first time Intel has used something other than its own branded controller in a mainstream or 3-series drive.
The Kingston DC500 Series Enterprise SATA SSDs Review: Making a Name In a Commodity Market
May 2024Conclusion The SATA SSD market is fairly mature, and in many respects our performance testing boils down to confirming that the bottleneck for a particular workload is the SATA link itself rather than the drive.
The New Voodoo Omen - HP Takes on Apple with the New Voodoo
May 2024The New Voodoo Omen An all aluminum chassis, integrated 7" LCD display (800 x 480), slot loading optical drives and liquid cooling: it's the new Omen.
The OnePlus One Review
May 2024The OnePlus One has been one of the most hyped smartphones of 2014. There's really not much else to be said, as OnePlus' marketing has been quite noticeable amongst Android enthusiasts.
The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2019 Live Blog (Starts at 2pm ET/19:00 UTC)
May 202401:38PM EST - I'm here at the London venue for Samsung's global Galaxy Unpacked event. Samsung's annual gathering for flagship smartphone news, we'll be seeing the eagerly awaited (and widely leaked) Samsung Galaxy S10 series of phones.
The Upgrade - Upgrading the SSD in Chromebook & MyDigitalSSD Super Boot Drive M.2 2242 SSD Review
May 2024The Upgrade Upgrading the storage in the Acer C720 Chromebook is surprisingly easy. While Chrome OS does not give the user full system access, there is an integrated (albeit hidden) tool for creating recovery media that can be used to clone the old drive.
Three Generations, 700 mm, HVM in 2018
May 2024Keeping an eye on the ever-evolving world of silicon lithography, GlobalFoundries has recently disclosed additional details about its 7 nm generation of process technologies.
Tiny Computer with Big Integrated Video
May 2024Shuttle created what has become the SFF market with their first shipment of the SV24 in 2001. The current Shuttle SFF line has grown to some 16 models from those beginnings.
Xe-LP Feature Set: DirectX FL 12_1 with Variable Rate Shading
May 2024Kicking off the proper part of our architectural deep dive, let’s start with a quick summary of Xe-LP’s graphics feature set.
Xe-LP GPU Performance: F1 2019
May 2024The F1 racing games from Codemasters have been popular benchmarks in the tech community, mostly for ease-of-use and that they seem to take advantage of any area of a machine that might be better than another.
A900 Complaints - Sony A900 Full-Frame: Hands-On Preview
May 2024A900 Complaints Let's get the disappointments out of the way first, since there is much more to like about the new A900 than to dislike.
Apple Updates Cinema Display, It's a Thunderbolt Display Now
May 2024Along with today’s MacBook Air and Mac mini updates, Apple has also updated their 27” Cinema Display. The display now goes by a new name: the Apple Thunderbolt Display (ATD).
Applications: Office Suite - Revisiting Linux Part 1: A Look at Ubuntu 8.04
May 2024Applications: Office Suite Windows Default: None What I use: Office 2007 Ubuntu Default: OpenOffice Another thing that sets Ubuntu apart from Windows and Mac OS X is that the default install (and again, it fits on a CD) includes an office suite in the form of OpenOffice 2.
Arm Announces Cortex-A78AE, Mali-G78AE and Mali-C71AE Autonomous System IPs
May 2024Functional safety is an area of computing that is becoming ever more important as we see more and more embedded technologies integrated into our daily lives.
Back to the Mac: OS X 10.7 Lion Review
May 2024FileVault isn’t new to OS X, but the thing called FileVault in Lion is pretty drastically different from the FileVault that was first introduced in 10.
Battery Life - Microsoft Surface Review
May 2024Battery Life Surface features an integrated 31 Wh battery, which is larger than what’s in the iPad 2 but smaller than what Apple used for the iPad 3.
Be Quiet! Introduces New Flagship Dark Base 900 Chassis
May 2024Be Quiet! has introduced its new flagship PC chassis, which combines the company’s expertise in building quiet PC components with extensive modularity and customization features.
Compute Performance - The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023) Laptop Review: Mobile Ryzen 9 7945HX3D with
May 2024ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023): Compute Performance Typically in previous notebook reviews, we lump basic compute and general performance in with our system performance summary.
Compute Tile: New P and E-Cores on Intel 4
May 2024Compute Tile: New P (Redwood Cove) and E-cores (Crestmont) The compute tile is the first client-focused tile to be built on the Intel 4 process technology.
CPU Real World - ADATA XPG V2 Review: 2x8 GB at DDR3-2400 C11-13-13 1.65 V
May 2024CPU Real World Real world testing is where users should feel the benefits of spending more on memory. A synthetic test exacerbates a specific type of loading to get peak results in terms of memory read/write and latency timings, most of which are not indicative of the pseudo random nature of real-world workloads (opening email, applying logic).
Early Exynos 8890 Impressions And Full Specifications
May 2024It's been an interesting day here in Barcelona as I've had the pleasure to get a hands-on with both LG's new flagship, the G5, as well as Samsung's new Galaxy S7.
Gaming Performance - The MSI B350 Tomahawk Motherboard Review: Gaming On a Budget
May 2024Gaming Performance Ashes of the Singularity Seen as the holy child of DirectX12, Ashes of the Singularity (AoTS, or just Ashes) has been the first title to actively go explore as many of DirectX12s features as it possibly can.
Gaming: Far Cry 5 - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
May 2024Gaming: Far Cry 5 The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States.
Gigabyte GA-MG400 Matrox G400 AGP
May 2024Environment Mapped Bump Mapping Taken from our G400 & G400MAX Review While Matrox can't claim exclusive rights to the technology behind VCQ2, they can claim that they are the only desktop accelerator in this scope that supports a technology known as Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping.
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H In The Box, Voltage Readings
May 2024Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H In The Box Gigabyte boxes are typically a bit bare, to cater with Gigabyte's philosophy of trying to reach the price point below the one the board should be placed.
HIS & EVGA - Silence is Golden: Silent GPU Roundup
May 2024HISHIS is a company that's well known for its IceQ line of graphics parts, but they also offer silent solutions, and for this review we have two of these.
HP's Gaming Desktop Round Two with Tahiti and Ivy Bridge
May 2024Re-Introducing the HP Phoenix Less than four months ago we had in for review HP's entry to the gaming desktop market, the Phoenix.
Humbles Weekly Sale: Kalypso Media
May 2024So let me first start this post with a question: who out there feels stuff like this is worthy of our/my coverage, and who thinks I should give it a rest?
Impedance, S/N Ratio & Output Power
May 2024· Impedance: Technically, impedance is the opposition to current flow in an alternating current circuit. Its significance in audio is a way to ensure that components work together correctly; the audio input needs to use up the current from an output circuit.
Intel 915 Graphics: Graphics Media Accelerator 900
May 2024Introduction Intel, the largest supplier of desktop computer GPUs on the face of the earth, introduced the next generation of its graphics technology with the new 915G chipset earlier this summer.
Intels Generation 9 Graphics - The Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Launch, with Architecture Ana
May 2024Intel’s Generation 9 Graphics On the graphics side of the equation, the information comes in two loaded barrels. For the media capabilities, including information regarding Multi Plane Overlay, Intel’s Quick Sync and HEVC decode, head on over to Ganesh’s great one page summary.
Karacters - Mario Kart Wii
May 2024Karacters As far as Mario and his friends go, players will see many familiar faces in the driver's seats of Mario Kart Wii.
Latency vs. Bandwidth: What to Look for in a SSD
May 2024It took me months to get my head wrapped around it, but I think I finally get it. We often talk about the concepts of bandwidth and latency but rarely are they as tangible as they are here today.
Mid-Range Device - Best Windows Phones: Holiday 2014
May 2024Mid-Range Device: Nokia Lumia 830 The Lumia 830, which we just reviewed, is at the top end of the Nokia mid-range smartphone lineup.
More Screen, Less Bezel, New Color Option
May 2024Ever since Razer entered the Ultrabook market, they have offered a solid laptop in the ultra-portable category. The initial version launched back in 2016, and although it had some concerns, mainly battery life, Razer has updated it several times to help correct that.
MSI A88X-G45 Gaming In The Box, Overclocking
May 2024MSI A88X-G45 Gaming In The Box Intel platforms offset the increased cost of the motherboard (mostly due to the chipset) with the potential to bundle in a series of extras.
Netgear FS-105, FS-108 - Network Switch Roundup
May 2024The FS-105 and FS-108 are basically the same switch, except that the 105 has 5 ports and the 108 has, you guessed it, 8 ports.
NVIDIA and ATI HDCP Compatible Graphics Cards Roundup
May 2024Sparkle Calibre 7950 GTSparkle is the next contributor on our list, and for this review they provided us with an interesting looking HDCP card, the Sparkle Calibre 7950 GT.
Overclocking GTX 770 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
May 2024Although GTX 770 is already a very high clocked part for GK104, we still wanted to put it through its paces when it comes to overclocking.
Performance Analysis - Nokia Lumia 900 Review
May 2024Performance Performance on Windows Phone 7.5 at the moment tops out at almost the same place for virtually every handset. As I touched on before, the platform is still a Qualcomm-only party, and the name of the game is single core 45nm Snapdragon with Adreno 205 at the high end in the form of either MSM8x55, or for the Lumia 900 APQ8055 at 1.
Physical Impressions: Continued - HTC Thunderbolt Review: The First Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone
May 2024The rear of the Thunderbolt is divided in two. The top battery cover area is coated with HTC’s favorite black soft touch material, and down below is a beefy kickstand that seems at least twice as wide as the EVO’s.
QNAP Announces TS-332X Three-Bay NAS with 10 GbE
May 2024QNAP has announced its new three-bay NAS designed for SOHO market. The TS-332X also happens to be one of the industry’s first three-bay NASes that integrates a 10 GbE controller, so it should be able to offer rather high network performance for this market segment.
Rock Band 2 Rocks The House
May 2024It all started with rhythm games. I remember my first: PaRappa the Rapper. A quaint little PlayStation game in which you matched button pressing patterns as they moved across the screen.
Supermicro Lists Intel Data Center GPU Max 'Ponte Vecchio' Based Machines
May 2024Supermicro this week began to list the industry's first commercial servers based on Intel's Data Center GPU Max 'Ponte Vecchio' compute GPUs.
Testing Results, Maximum Fan Speed (12 Volts)
May 2024We'll start off our testing with our fans running at their maximum fan speed and normal operating voltage (12V). Core Temperature, Constant Thermal Load (Max Fan Speed) The Corsair H100i GTX is having a field day when the fans and the pump are running at their maximum rated speeds.
The Apple 2017 iPhone Event Live Blog
May 202412:43PM EDT - Hey all, we're live here at Apple's Steve Jobs theater, inside their new campus 12:45PM EDT - The big announcement today is of course the new iPhone
The Enermax PlatiGemini 1200W ATX 3.1 + ATX12VO PSU Review: The Swiss Army Knife
May 2024In the retail PC PSU space, most of the focus on new standards and their capabilities in the past couple of years has been on ATX 3.
The Pixel Pipe Performance Picture
May 2024The ultimate goal of graphics hardware is to determine the color of every visible pixel. From this unassuming end extend a vast array of operations that need to be performed to get the job done.
Toshiba Portege R700: A Truly Ultraportable 13.3"
May 2024Toshiba Portege R700—Introduction Toshiba Computer released Japan’s first notebook computer in 1985, instantly cementing Toshiba as one of the pioneers of mobile computing.
Toshiba X305-Q725: Quad-Core Gaming Notebook
May 2024Introduction We recently received Toshiba's latest X305-Q725 laptop, which targets the mobile gaming sector. We have our own thoughts on what is best in this sort of market, and we know plenty of people that think this sector is a joke, to put it bluntly.
TP-Link Announces Archer AX6000 and AX11000 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Routers
May 2024TP-Link has announced pre-orders for their first 802.11ax router - the 8-stream Archer AX6000, along with technical details, pricing, and other information.
Wi-Fi Alliance Begins to Certify 802.11ad WiGig Devices
May 2024The Wi-Fi Alliance this week began to certify products featuring wireless modules compatible with the 802.11ad standard (aka WiGig). The certification will help to ensure that all WiGig-branded devices, which have been around for some time, can flawlessly operate with each other and deliver expected multi-gigabit performance over 60 GHz spectrum.
20,000 DPI & Low Lag
May 2024Razer has announced its new flagship Basilisk Ultimate wireless gaming mouse aimed at esports and FPS gamers. The Basilisk Ultimate uses Razer’s latest sensor, latest optical switches, and features a HyperSpeed wireless connectivity technology that promises an ultra-low lag.
3D Rendering Performance using 3dsmax 7 & CineBench 9.5 - Apple's Mac Pro
May 20243D Rendering Performance using 3dsmax 7 & CineBench 9.5 We're looking at 3D rendering performance using two different applications: 3D Studio Max and Cinebench 9.
Acer Aspire Unveils Switch 12 S 2-in-1 Notebook
May 2024Acer on Monday introduced its new 2-in-1 hybrid notebook at the Consumer Electronics Show. The Aspire Switch 12 S is designed for those, who need a decent level of performance and features along with a high-resolution display in a sleek form-factor.
Aiwa CDC-MP3 Car MP3-CD Player
May 2024Installation The installation of the CDC-MP3 is just like any other head unit, so any car audio shop will be able to handle it without a problem.
AM2 in Detail - AMD Socket-AM2: Same Performance, Faster Memory, Lower Power
May 2024AM2 in Detail Of course the most prominent feature of AMD's Socket-AM2 platform is the new socket and its support for DDR2 memory.
Apple's iPhone 4: Thoroughly Reviewed
May 2024FaceTime Meet Manveer. I’ve known him since I was in the 6th grade. Somewhere around the 8th grade we started a ritual of calling each other every day after school and talking about video games, computers and dumb things that happened at school.
BIOS and Software - The ASRock B360M-ITX/ac Motherboard Review: Tiny Take on B360, Sub $100
May 2024BIOS When users first boot their system the first thing they are greeted by is the BIOS screen. In this case, an EZ Mode is what users will see first.
Build, Noise, Heat, and Power Consumption
May 2024Build Quality The build of the CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme 5200 is generally excellent. The Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 is a fine enclosure, and CyberPowerPC is able to keep cabling well organized and neat as you'd expect from an SI.
Cables and Connectors - Cooler Master UCP 900W
May 2024Cables and Connectors The large mass of cables is nicely bundled up during shipping, and all are sleeved with a black mesh, including sleeving in between connectors.
Crucial Ballistix PC3200 - =F-A-S-T= DDR Memory: 2-2-2 Roars on the Scene
May 2024Crucial Ballistix PC3200 Crucial recently introduced their Ballistix line of memory, a name they will use for memory aimed at the Enthusiast market.
DRAM Prices Down Over 20% Since Early 2016
May 2024Slow sales in the first half of 2016 have negatively affected suppliers of virtually all of PCs, tablets and smartphone components.
Features and Delivery Contents - Cooler Master Silent Pro M1000 1000W
May 2024Features and Delivery Contents The delivery content is very generous and includes the modular connectors in a separate bag.
Final Words - Micron M600 (128GB, 256GB & 1TB) SSD Review
May 2024Final Words My thoughts about the M600 are mixed. On the one hand I am happy to see that Micron is showing its commitment to the client market by investing on features like Dynamic Write Acceleration because to be honest, Micron has not really introduced anything new to its client SSDs since the M500.
Fractal Design Unveils Focus G Series Cases
May 2024Fractal Design has just launched two new cases under the banner of the new Focus G series. The Focus G is a standard ATX mid-tower, while the Focus G Mini features a more compact footprint and is intended for Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX builds.
Funny Name, Dual-core Android on a USB Stick
May 2024Occasionally a product presents itself that seems to be so logical you're left stunned that no one thought of this before.
Gameplay Analysis: Gears Tactics - The Xbox Series X Review: Ushering In The Next Generation of Game
May 2024Gameplay Analysis: Gears Tactics Although already released on PC (and even part of Ian’s CPU benchmarking suite) Gears Tactics will be available on Console on November 10th, making this a console launch title for the Series X|S.
Gaming: Integrated Graphics - The Xeon Entry Quad-Core CPU Review: Xeon E-2174G, E-2134, and E-2104G
May 2024Gaming: Integrated Graphics Despite being the ultimate joke at any bring-your-own-computer event, gaming on integrated graphics can ultimately be as rewarding as the latest mega-rig that costs the same as a car.
GPU 2016 Benchmarks - Compare Products on AnandTech
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GPU Performance - The Microsoft Surface Book 3 (15-Inch) Review: A Refreshing Dip Into Ice Lake
May 2024GPU Performance The original Surface Book shipped with a relatively meager GPU in the keyboard base, but Microsoft added the Performance Base as a mid-cycle refresh which redefined the Surface Book category.
Holiday Guides 2014: Z97 Motherboards for Haswell
May 2024Writing one guide for all of the Z97 motherboard range seems a little odd. It is possible to consider each market segment and price range to come up with a motherboard from the 112 LGA 1150 available on Newegg for each segment, but then we would end up offering a guide covering a couple of dozen models.
HP Completes HyperX Acquisition For $425 Million
May 2024Back in February, we revealed that HP was set to acquire the HyperX brand, the gaming subsidiary of Kingston Technology. HyperX has been the gaming branding for Kingston Technology over the years, with memory, flash, SSDs and peripherals all marketed under the HyperX banner.
Input Lag and Power Use - HP ZR2740w
May 2024Input Lag and Power Use Since the HP automatically scales the image if it is not sent at 2560x1440 and I don’t have a CRT that can produce that resolution, the HP had to run at 1920x1080 resolution for the lag tests.
Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz: The clock strikes two
May 2024In the nine months since its introduction, the Pentium 4 has increased in clock speed over 40%. Today Intel is making a tremendous step forward in the eyes of the public as the first microprocessor manufacturer to offer an x86 CPU clocked at 2.
Intel to Invest $3.5 Billion USD into Foveros and EMIB Production in Rio Rancho
May 2024At a news conference today, Intel has announced that its Rio Rancho campus in New Mexico will be getting an investment of $3.
Intels Core i7-975 & 950: Preparing for Lynnfield
May 2024Seven months have passed since Intel officially launched its Core i7 processors, and for seven months they have remained at the top of our performance charts.
Legacy CPU Benchmarks - Compare Products on AnandTech
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Micron Cancels Ballistix TX3 NVMe SSD
May 2024At Computex in June, Micron announced that Crucial's Ballistix brand was being promoted to a standalone brand for gaming-oriented products. Their exhibit included three tiers of Ballistix DRAM products and one SSD: the Ballistix TX3 M.
More Boot Camp - Apple's MacBook Pro: Using it as a Mac and a PC
May 2024I had to enter my CD key and deal with activation just like you would on a PC, and then I was placed at the Windows desktop.
MSI MEG Z690 Ace (DDR5)
May 2024MSI MEG Z690 Ace (DDR5) As it stands at the time of writing, the MSI MEG Z690 Ace is the brand's premier flagship model, until the Godlike hits the shelves, which is likely to be after Alder Lake's launch.
OCZ Tries Again with the Vertex
May 2024This is Ryan Petersen: He’s the CEO of OCZ Technology. He wasn’t too happy after my Intel X25-M SSD review.
Patriot's Wildfire - OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS & Patriot Wildfire SSDs Reviewed
May 2024Patriot's Wildfire OCZ isn't the only company experimenting with SF-2281 drives and 32nm NAND. Patriot sent me the Wildfire, its first SF-2281 SSD.
Performance Upgraded - Acer C7 Chromebook Review
May 2024As mentioned earlier, if this was a $329 Windows 8 notebook, it would be considered severely compromised, especially compared to notebooks priced closer to $500.
Rapidus to Get $3.9 Billion in Government Aid for 2nm, Multi-Chiplet Technologies
May 2024Rapidus, a Japan-based company developing 2nm process technology and aiming to commercialize it in 2027, will receive a huge government grant for its ongoing projects.
SanDisk Launches SD and microSD for Industrial and Automotive: Extreme Temps, Upped Reliability
May 2024Western Digital has introduced its new SanDisk Automotive and SanDisk Industrial memory cards for specialized applications. The new cards can work in extreme temperatures for prolonged amounts of time, integrate health status monitor capability, special data retention mechanisms, and some are compliant with the AEC-Q100 Grade 3 standard.
Silverstone Launches TOB03 ODD: 9.5-mm CD/DVD/BD/BDXL Burner
May 2024SilverStone has introduced its first ultra-slim ODD that can read and record CD, DVD, Blu-ray and BDXL media. The drive is not a technological breakthrough, but it is going to be one of a few 9.
Skinning Google TV - LG Google TV Review
May 2024LG has a line of Smart TVs that exists in parallel to their Google TV efforts, and it has its own distinctive UI.
The SteelSeries Apex M750 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review: Set Apart by Software
May 2024Conclusion The Apex M750 currently represents the best mechanical keyboard that SteelSeries has to offer. As a flagship product, this keyboard is designed to characterize the company's vision, embodying their most advanced technologies and features with little regard for the retail cost.
ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 Super
May 2024Meet The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 Super Since this latest GTX 1650 series card launch is a virtual launch like the others, the board partners are once again stepping up to the plate to provide samples.
16-bit vs 32-bit Performance - ATI Radeon 32MB SDR
May 202416-bit vs 32-bit Performance We recently switched our testing methodology to a 32-bit only test suite for card performance, however it is important to investigate 16-bit performance as well, and thus we have put together a section on the card's 16-bit performance in comparison to its 32-bit performance.
3nm Chips for Smartphones and HPCs Coming This Year
May 2024While TSMC formally started mass production of chips on its N3 (3nm-class) process technology late last year, the company is set to finally ship the first revenue wafers in the current quarter.
A 32 MP Selfie Camera on ZTE's Blade V10: Because You Love Yourself
May 2024The imaging capabilities of mobile phones’ primary cameras have come a long way since the early 2000s, when the first camera phones hit the market.
A Small High Performance Gaming PC
May 2024ZOTAC this week launched its small form-factor (SFF) Mek Mini desktop computer, aimed at gaming in a small volume. The system will be initially available in only one configuration but is designed to deliver good performance for gamers who prefer compact PCs.
A8s GPU: Imagination Technologies PowerVR GX6450
May 2024Last but not least on our tour of the A8 SoC is Apple’s GPU of choice, Imagination’s PowerVR GX6450. When Apple first announced the A8 SoC as part of their iPhone keynote, they told us to expect a nearly 50% increase in graphics performance.
AMD Dual Core/High-End CPUs - Price Guide, June 2006: Processors
May 2024AMD Dual Core/High-End CPUsWe'll start with the high-end AMD parts, which for purposes of this Price Guide means all of their Athlon X2 chips for sockets 939 and AM2, as well as the socket 939 Opteron chips.
AMD Live Blog Keynote (2am ET/06:00 UTC)
May 202401:58AM EDT - It's Computex time once again! 01:58AM EDT - Welcome to another AnandTech live blog, and the first of this year's Computex trade show
ASRock X79 Fatal1ty Software - ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion and X79 Professional Review: From a Game
May 2024ASRock X79 Fatal1ty Software The big feature ASRock always wants to promote is its XFast platform – XFast USB, XFast LAN and XFast RAM.
ASUS P8Z77-V Premium Software - ASUS P8Z77-V Premium Review: A Bentley Among Motherboards
May 2024ASUS P8Z77-V Premium Software The software ASUS produces, much like their BIOS, is some of the best available in the motherboard arena today.
BTX Cases and Power Supplies - Balanced Technology eXtended (BTX) Form Factor
May 2024BTX Cases and Power Supplies As we mentioned at the start of this article, the BTX standard specifies the same motherboard connectors as we saw with ATX - meaning that ATX power supplies could be used in BTX cases and with BTX motherboards.
Camera Software & Hands On Video
May 2024Software - Camera Samsung spent comparatively little time talking about the Galaxy S 4 hardware and instead chose to focus mostly on software.
Compute Performance - NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560: The Top To Bottom Factory Overclock
May 2024Compute Performance Moving on from our look at gaming performance, we have our customary look at compute performance. Since compute performance is by definition shader bound, the GTX 560 is at a bit of a disadvantage here.
Conclusions: A Great Alternative to Regular Ryzen
May 2024A Great Alternative to Regular Ryzen I’m a big fan of a cheap and efficient solution for a PC that performs well and just works.
Display Measurement - The Google Pixel 3a XL Review: Does Mid-Range Make Sense?
May 2024Display Measurement The display on the Pixel 3a XL is well specced for its range and price; the fact that Google opted to still employ an OLED panel rather than adopting a cheaper LCD does very well for the value of the new phone and does manage to differentiate itself from a lot of other devices from the competition, although we have seen more widespread adoption of OLED even in this tier.
EVGA Cards - Q1 2004 Vendor Graphics Card Roundup
May 2024EVGA Cards EVGA GeForce FX 5900 SE This is our offering from EVGA. Our motivation for including such a card was to find out if the not-too-expensive 5900 SE cards can keep up with their much higher-priced siblings.
Final Words - Promise Pegasus2 M4 (4x1TB) Thunderbolt 2 DAS Review
May 2024Final Words It is clear that the Pegasus2 M4 is a niche product. Any user that does not require portability will be better served by the R4, which is a similar 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 device but with 3.
Final Words - The MSI GE75 Raider Laptop Review: Core i9 and RTX 2080 Performance
May 2024Final Words MSI has been laser focused on the gaming market for several years, and have been one of the manufacturers to see the growth potential that the gaming market provided.
Gaming Performance: 720p And Lower
May 2024The reason we test games in CPU reviews at lower resolutions such as 720p and below is simple; titles are more likely to be CPU bound than they are GPU bound at lower resolutions.
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H - In The Box, Overclocking - Intel Z77 Motherboard Review with Ivy Bridge
May 2024Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H - In The Box Over the past several motherboard generations, I have not been that impressed with Gigabyte's offering in terms of extras - this is because in order to hit a price point, sometimes the extras in the box are not the focus of the product.
HDR Gaming Impressions - The Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ G-SYNC HDR Monitor Review: Gaming With All The Be
May 2024HDR Gaming Impressions In the end, a monitor like the PG27UQ is really destined for one purpose: gaming. And not just any gaming, but the type of quality experience that does not compromise between resolution and refresh rate, let alone HDR and VRR.
Intel Trims Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable Lineup
May 2024Intel this week initiated end-of-life plan for two of its 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors, possibly in a bid to reduce the number of SKUs in the new family.
Introducing ATI's OCUR - ATI's OCUR Brings CableCard and HDTV Support to Windows Vista
May 2024Introducing ATI's OCUR Although their GPU teams have gone through their ups and downs, the one group at ATI that has consistently done well is their multimedia team.
Launching Late February For $329
May 2024Alongside today’s CES-centric announcement of their new GeForce RTX 30 series parts for laptops, NVIDIA also offered an in-depth reveal of their next desktop graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3060.
Microsoft Releases The First Xbox Play Anywhere Title: Recore
May 2024At E3, Microsoft announced a new feature to bring together their Xbox ecosystem with the much larger, and more diverse, Windows 10 user base.
MSI B450M PRO-M2 and B450M PRO-VDH
May 2024Last up from MSI is a pair of microATX motherboards from the Pro series of motherboards, the B450M Pro-M2 and B450M Pro-VDH.
MSI Cubi 2 Plus vPro Skylake mini-STX PC Review
May 2024The desktop PC market has been subject to many challenges over the last few years. However, the miniaturization trend (including the introduction of the ultra-compact form factor - UCFF - NUCs) has provided some bright spots.
Netgear Launches Orbi Pro Wi-Fi System Kit for SMBs
May 2024Netgear's Orbi Wi-Fi system has emerged as one of the leading mesh / Wi-Fi systems in the market in terms of performance.
New Type-A Thumb Drive Retains NVMe Performance
May 2024Kingston's new products in the portable flash-based external storage space have met with good market reception over the last year or so.
Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB Interface (cont.) - Creative Labs' Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB
May 2024Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB - Interface (cont.) The Selected Music and Now Playing are also a bit different than the ported OS that we saw with the Dell DJ.
NPU Performance & Huawei's Use-cases - HiSilicon Kirin 970
May 2024NPU Performance Tested To test the performance of the NPU we need a benchmark which currently targets all of the various vendor APIs.
Performance Retrospective: AMDs Radeon HD 7970M
May 2024Performance Retrospective: AMD’s Radeon HD 7970M Dustin recently posted our first review of a notebook equipped with NVIDIA’s latest mobile tour de force, the GeForce GTX 780M.
Power Supply Roundup: 650W-680W
May 2024Introduction Previously, we've reviewed many power supplies rated at 800W - more than even many high-end setups require. Today we want to look at a selection of more reasonable power supplies rated at ~650W, and our next roundup will have six power supplies in the 600W power range today.
Quad-Core i7, Gigabit LTE, 22.5 Hr Battery Life
May 2024Originally launched as stylish high-performance ultra-portables, HP’s Spectre-series laptops have quickly gained popularity among multiple user segments. As a result of this, HP’s Spectre laptops and convertibles also began to gain features usually found in business laptops to gain further popularity, but did not lose their flashy looks.
ReadyNAS 100, 300 and 500 Series Reboots Netgear's SMB NAS Lineup
May 2024Netgear got into the SMB / SOHO / consumer NAS market with the purchase of Infrant Technologies in May 2007. The first generation ReadyNAS NV products were based on Infrant's own chips (using a SPARC core).
Still Image Performance - The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review
May 2024Still Image Performance Now that we’ve discussed the user experience and still image quality we can start to compare the end result after taking photos.
Swiftech and Steiger Dynamics: German Engineering Comes Home
May 2024I don't know about you, but for me, the word "engineering" gets a lot more enticing when it's preceded by the word "
Synology at CES 2017 - RT2600ac Wi-Fi Router, DSM Value Additions, and New Business NAS Units
May 2024As part of my usual CES vendor visits, I caught up with Synology and took a look at the new products and DSM features that had been announced around the show's timeframe.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Review: Maxwell Mark 2
May 2024Compute On the other hand compared to our Kepler cards GTX 980 introduces a bunch of benefits. Higher CUDA core occupancy is going to be extremely useful in compute benchmarks.
The Pavilion Goes Beyond Thunderdome
May 2024Introducing the HP Phoenix h9se Outside of the Envy series and the bygone era of Voodoo (anyone remember the Blackbird?
The Sound - Cambridge SoundWorks DTT 3500 Digital 5.1 Surround Speaker System *UPDATED*
May 2024Before You Listen First impressions can work for or against a product. With an amplified speaker system, a really amazing system would be unnoticeable until the first note is reproduced.
The Test - ATI Rage Mobility 128
May 2024Preparing "The Test" It was a bit tricky choosing the test bed for this review since the Mobility 128 will eventually be integrated into a complete notebook system.
TRIM Enabler 2.0 for OS X Lion Released
May 2024People are often concerned with the performance of their SSD; is it running as fast as advertised. TRIM is an essential part of keeping your SSD performance up (see this article for details) and it has been very beneficial for Windows 7 users.
A Curved 49-Inch Monitor with FreeSync 2
May 2024Being one of the leading suppliers of monitors for gamers, Acer has not had a single ultra-large, ultra-wide display for gamers.
AMD FX-8320E CPU Review: The Other 95W Vishera
May 2024Back in September we reviewed the FX-8370E, a new AMD CPU based on the older Vishera/Piledriver architecture but at a lower power – 95W rather than 125W.
AMD Trinity Gaming Performance - The AMD Trinity Review (A10-4600M): A New Hope
May 2024AMD Trinity Gaming Performance After the 3DMark results, you might be wondering if Intel has finally caught up to AMD in terms of integrated graphics performance.
ASRock Z690 Aqua & Aqua OC (DDR5)
May 2024ASRock Z690 Aqua and Aqua OC (DDR5) In 2019, ASRock debuted its highly premium yet expensive Aqua series through the ASRock X570 Aqua, which we reviewed.
ASUS Adds Entry-Level VP28UQG to Gaming LCD Lineup: 28, 4K, FreeSync, 1ms
May 2024Without making any formal announcements, Asus has quietly added a new gaming display to their product lineup. The VP28UQG features a 4K resolution, a 1 ms response time, as well as AMD’s FreeSync dynamic refresh rate technology.
ASUS P5K & P5K3 Deluxe Features
May 2024ASUS P5K Deluxe and P5K3 Deluxe Market Segment: Enthusiast - $229.99~$249.99 CPU Interface: Socket T (Socket 775) CPU Support: LGA775-based Pentium 4, Celeron D, Pentium D, Pentium EE, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme Chipset: Intel P35 MCH and Intel ICH9R Bus Speeds: Auto, 200 ~ 800 in 1MHz increments Memory Speed: DDR2 Auto, 200 FSB - 667/800, 266 FSB - 667/800/889/1067
Auzentech HomeTheater HD Preview: Bitstreaming True HD/DTS-HD MA
May 2024Last year ASUS released the Xonar HDAV; it’s a sound card. The Xonar HDAV’s claim to fame was its ability to bitstream Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA over HDMI.
BIOS And Software - The GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Xtreme Motherboard Review: Fanless AM4
May 2024BIOS The GIGABYTE Aorus firmware has two different modes for users to sink their teeth into. The clean looking Easy Mode sets the stage, while for more experienced users, an advanced mode which allows users to tweak CPU, memory, storage, networking and PCIe related settings.
BIOS, Software and Board Features: ASRock Z97E-ITX/AC
May 2024ASRock Z97E-ITX/AC BIOS The Z97 BIOS from ASRock is reskinned from a black and starry background to a blue outlook coupled with a crystalline figure in the background.
Colorful Releases the iGame Z370 Vulcan X V20 Motherboard: South Korea First
May 2024Colorful, not a widely known brand in the States, has released a motherboard for the Z370 platform with an exotic name: the iGame Z370 Vulcan X V20.
Company Configured PC Contest, Readers Win PCs
May 2024A while back Newegg approached us with an interesting offer. They wanted to regularly give away complete PCs to our readers, and they wanted our help in doing so.
Dell To Add Off-Host BIOS Verification To Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise
May 2024At CES this year, Dell kind of broke from tradition and focused more on their business products. When I had a chance to talk to them, they were very enthusiastic about the fact that Dell is one of the few companies that does complete end to end solutions for the enterprise.
Dual Sandy Bridge for Servers
May 2024Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture was introduced to desktop users more than a year ago. Server parts however have been much slower to arrive, as it has taken Intel that long to transpose this new engine into a Xeon processor.
G2G Response Times, MediaSync, & Closing Thoughts
May 2024AdaptiveSync Cont: G2G, Ghosting, & Pixel Response Times Last, but not least – and certainly the most interesting – AdaptiveSync compliance also requires passing a battery of tests for pixel response times and overdrive overshoot/undershoot (i.
GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming Board Features, Visual Inspection
May 2024GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming Board Features The core selling features of the GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming are its Thunderbolt 3 support and U.2 port. Thunderbolt 3 supports up to 40 Gbps data rates (over an active cable), USB 3.
General Image Quality - Sony DSC-M1: Good Video, Disappointing Pictures
May 2024General Image Quality For these pictures, the camera was reset to its factory default setting. Then, it was set to its highest quality recording setting.
Get Diablo III Free with Annual WoW Subscription
May 2024In an effort to hold on to players whose interest in their seven-year-old MMO might finally be waning, Blizzard’s promising a free digital copy of Diablo III to anyone who signs up for the World of Warcraft Annual Pass.
Getting Inside - It's that Easy? - Apple TV
May 2024Getting Inside - It's that Easy? The bottom of the unit is made of the familiar rubber that we've seen on so many Apple products, including the Mac mini.
Google Android 3.0 - Honeycomb Preview
May 2024Note to Readers: Saumitra is one of the newest members of our smartphone team. He has contributed to articles in the past but we'd like to formally welcome him to the AnandTech team.
HQV Benchmarks and Colorbar Test
May 2024HQV Benchmarks The HQV Benchmark DVD is made by Silicon Optix and has become a standard for testing the quality of DVD decoders.
Intel Previews Sierra Forest with 288 E-Cores, Announces Granite Rapids-D for 2025 Launch at MWC 202
May 2024At MWC 2024, Intel confirmed that Granite Rapids-D, the successor to Ice Lake-D processors, will come to market sometime in 2025. Furthermore, Intel also provided an update on the 6th Gen Xeon Family, codenamed Sierra Forest, which is set to launch later this year and will feature up to 288 cores designed for vRAN network operators to improve performance in boost per rack for 5G workloads.
Lexar's New Security Software - Lexar JumpDrive Secure II USB Flash Drive
May 2024Lexar's New Security Software As its name implies, the major focus of the JumpDrive Secure II is its security software. To be honest though, there is no more security that the JumpDrive Secure II offers over the JumpDrive Lightning; they both use the same general 256-bit AES encryption software.
LG Announces The G7 ThinQ
May 2024LG has been one of the major players in the mobile smartphone market ever since the early days. Today’s launch follows an unusual longer waiting time for the Korean company as it opted to skip on the usual MWC timeframe for the spring product launches, preferring to reveal the new flagship 2 months later.
Monitor - High End Buyer's Guide
May 2024Monitor Recommendation: Dell 2001FP Price: $809 shippedWhile there is no doubt that CRT monitors still represent the best value and best performance for gaming, things continue to improve rapidly in flat panel technology.
Oculus VR Reveals Retail Price of Its Virtual Reality Headset: $599
May 2024Oculus VR on Wednesday revealed the price of its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset as well as its launch date. The price of the VR hardware appears to be considerably higher than expected by gamers and industry analyst.
OPPO Find 5 - Software Experience
May 2024The next part of the user experience to touch on is the software. The software side of the Find 5 is probably what I’d consider its biggest issue, and the reason this review has taken so long is that it took a few updates for the device to really feel finished.
Random & Sequential Performance - SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD Review (256GB)
May 2024Random Read/Write Speed The four corners of SSD performance are as follows: random read, random write, sequential read and sequential write speed.
SoC Analysis: On x86 vs ARMv8
May 2024Before we get to the benchmarks, I want to spend a bit of time talking about the impact of CPU architectures at a middle degree of technical depth.
System Performance - The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review
May 2024System Performance One of the more popular and pervasive beliefs in this industry is that specs increasingly don’t matter. In a lot of ways, this review isn’t really the right place to address whether or not this matters, but the short answer is that things like SoC performance matter quite a bit.
System Performance - The ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Motherboard Review
May 2024System Performance Not all motherboards are created equal. On the face of it, they should all perform the same and differ only in the functionality they provide - however, this is not the case.
Test Setup and Power Consumption
May 2024Test Bed and Setup As per our processor testing policy, we take a premium category motherboard suitable for the socket, and equip the system with a suitable amount of memory running at the manufacturer's maximum supported frequency.
Testing Methodology - Zalman Reserator 3 Max Dual CPU Cooler Review
May 2024Testing Methodology Although the testing of a cooler appears to be a simple task, there are many factors that need to be considered.
The 16GB Nexus 7: Storage Performance
May 2024For the first time, in our Nexus 7 review, I started seriously looking at integrated storage performance of tablets and smartphones.
The AnandTech Linux XBOX PC Experiment
May 2024Introduction A few weeks ago, we started investigating the possibility of putting Linux on an XBOX. We played with some ideas in our heads, a render farm, a cheap office computer or a distributed crypto platform, just to start.
The MSI GX60 Gaming Notebook
May 2024Introducing the MSI GX60 Gaming notebooks are increasing in popularity, but getting affordable gaming hardware can still be a challenging task.
The Silicon - Meet the A4 - Apple's iPad
May 2024The Silicon - Meet the A4 Before the first iPad was ever unboxed, photos had already leaked of its dissection. Admittedly, I was relieved as it meant I didn’t have to risk destroying mine to figure out how to get inside the chassis.
The Vertiv Edge Lithium-Ion 1500 VA UPS Review: Impeccable Power, Imposing Price
May 2024Continuing our initial forray into the world of UPSes, today we're taking a look at our second UPS – and our first lithium-ion based unit – Vertiv's Edge Lithium-Ion.
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness - Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup
May 2024Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness So, as I'm writing this, the phrase "be careful what you wish for" comes to mind.
Visual Inspection - The MSI MEG X570 Ace Motherboard Review: Ace in the Hole at $369
May 2024Visual Inspection As it currently stands, the X570 Ace is the part of MSI's MEG branded enthusiast gaming range. The MSI MEG X570 Ace also follows a different design path to almost all of its launch day X570 competition, with an all-black PCB with gold and black designs on all of the heatsinks.
Workstation Performance - Dell Precision T3600 Review: Dell's New Enterprise
May 2024Workstation Performance I've tried to stress this before but it really does bear repeating: workstation-class graphics cards, whether or not they share silicon with desktop parts a quarter of the price, pay for themselves in performance.
Xenon vs. Cell - Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PS3
May 2024Xenon vs. Cell The first public game demo on the PlayStation 3 was Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 at Sony’s PS3 press conference.
100% IHS Coverage, 500 W TDP
May 2024Enermax on Thursday introduced its new family of closed-loop liquid coolers designed specifically for AMD’s new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. The new custom-made LiqTech TR4 AIO LCS feature waterblocks cover 100% of the CPU IHS (integrated heat spreader), a notable improvement over preexisting designs, which designed for smaller chips only partly cover TR4 chips.
128 Threads at 4.0 GHz, Sustained!
May 2024Blitzing around a race track in a fast car only ever convinces you of one thing: I need to go around the track even faster.
2x8 GB at DDR3-2400 10-12-12 1.65 V
May 2024Corsair is a well-known manufacturer of PC components, including DRAM, chassis, power supplies, USB storage, fans, SSDs, gaming peripherals (keyboards, mice, headsets) and cooling, among others.
32GB of Kaby Lake Caching
May 2024Last week, we took a look at Intel's first product based on their 3D XPoint non-volatile memory technology: the Optane SSD DC P4800X, a record-breaking flagship enterprise SSD.
A Deep Dive into Qualcomms Centriq 2400 for Windows Server and Linux
May 2024Developing a custom microarchitecture is difficult. Even with all the standards in place and licensing an instruction set such as ARM, the actual development takes time and the right people to put together, then the infrastructure to deploy at scale.
A Mechanical Keyboard with Per-Key Full RGB, aka the MX RGB Project
May 2024In a small CES preview, Corsair have emailed us about one of their internal design projects they will be showcasing this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Acer R7 Review: Something Different
May 2024Several months ago, Acer released the Aspire R7, a new and interesting take on touchscreen laptops. We didn’t have an opportunity to review it at the time of launch, but Acer did ship one out a bit later and it’s an interesting enough laptop that we wanted to discuss some of what might make this laptop appealing to a subset of our readers.
AMD Duron 750
May 2024When we were first introduced to AMD's Duron, it renewed our faith in the recent axiom: value doesn't have to mean slow.
AMD's New Duron: Now at 1GHz
May 2024When the Celeron (Mendocino core) processor was first introduced its performance was outstanding and the value it offered was incredible. As time moved on, the Celeron’s architecture remained the same and its features grew stale.
An Ultimate Case for An Ultimate Price
May 2024EKWB and InWin this week started sales of their jointly developed EK-Quantum InWin 909EK limited edition chassis. The case is designed to offer ultimate liquid cooling performance required by extreme workstations with a high-performance CPU and multiple GPUs.
Aspire X-Cruiser - Mid-Tower Mega Roundup
May 2024Aspire X-CruiserFirst up is a relatively mid-range priced semi-gaming themed case from Aspire. While a lot of Aspire's cases are almost too gaudy for us to consider in an article like this, the front door of the X-Cruiser is a little cleaner looking.
Assembling the Cooler Master Storm Scout II Advanced
May 2024Assembling the Cooler Master Storm Scout II Advanced The one nice thing about a standard case design is familiarity. Since Cooler Master didn't mess with the program with the Storm Scout II Advanced, the whole case is easy enough to assemble.
AT&T Flips the LTE Switch in 11 Markets, Sprint Announces its First 4 LTE Markets
May 2024Today has been a busy day for wireless carriers in the USA, with both AT&T and Sprint making 4G LTE related announcements.
Best Desktop Video Cards - Holiday 2013
May 2024Continuing our series of Holiday Buyer’s Guides, today we’ll be taking a look at desktop video cards. Cyber Monday kicks off today, and while video cards neither have the margins to allow deep discount sales nor the popularity to be doorbusters, that doesn’t mean there won’t be some good offers out there for gamers gearing up for 2014.
Cellular, WiFi, Speakerphone and Call Quality, GPS - Nokia Lumia 800 Review
May 2024Cellular Cellular on the Lumia 800 is supplied courtesy the MSM8255’s onboard baseband. Like all the Qualcomm S2 parts, this means GSM/EDGE/WCDMA with HSPA+.
DSM 5.0: Evaluating iSCSI Performance
May 2024We have already taken a look at the various iSCSI options available in DSM 5.0 for virtualization-ready NAS units. This section presents the benchmarks for various types of iSCSI LUNs on the ioSafe 1513+.
GIGABYTE Server GA-7PESH3 Motherboard Review
May 2024A dual processor system sounds awesome to the home user but in reality it is almost entirely a professional market. The prosumer has to use Xeons at JEDEC memory speeds and then ensure that the software is NUMA aware, especially if it decides searching for data in the other processor's L3 cache.
Half Life 2 Episode 2, Still Slower than Windows
May 2024Vacations are tough for me to come by. Planning around tradeshows is easy, but planning around unannounced product launches, new driver releases, bugs and unexpected discoveries is impossible.
Hands on With NVIDIA's Project Shield
May 2024Anand and I just spent some time playing with NVIDIA's recently announced Project Shield, which is NVIDIA's portable handheld gaming device home to the also just-announced Tegra 4 SoC (4x ARM Cortex A15).
I/O Virtualization - Hardware Virtualization: the Nuts and Bolts
May 2024I/O Virtualization I/O is a big issue for any form of virtualization. If your virtualized server lacks CPU power, you can just add more CPUs or cores (i.
Image Quality: Still Foggy - Mac OS X Steam Performance: Half Life 2 Episode 2, Still Slower than Wi
May 2024Image Quality: Still Foggy As Ryan pointed out in his more timely piece, image quality under OS X is noticeably worse than under Windows.
iPhone vs. Blackjack vs. Blackberry Curve
May 2024The two competitors we'll be comparing the iPhone to are the Samsung Blackjack and the Blackberry Curve, both of which are pictured with it below:
MSI K7N2-L: Tech Support and RMA - nForce2 6-way Motherboard Roundup
May 2024MSI K7N2-L: Tech Support and RMA For your reference, we will repost our tech support evaluation procedure here: The way our Tech Support evaluation works is first we anonymously email the manufacturer's tech support address(es), obviously not using our AnandTech mail server to avoid any sort of preferential treatment.
Netgear Nighthawk X6S EX8000 Brings Orbi Tri-band Wi-Fi to Range Extenders
May 2024Netgear's Orbi system has proved to be one of the most popular kits in the emerging mesh / Wi-Fi system market.
NVIDIA's cuLitho to Speed Up Computational Lithography for 2nm and Beyond
May 2024Production of chips using leading-edge process technologies requires more compute power than ever. To address requirements of 2nm nodes and beyond, NVIDIA is rolling out its cuLitho software library that uses the company's DGX H100 systems based on H100 GPUs and promises to increase performance available to mask shops within a reasonable amount of consumed power by 40 times.
Performance - Humming right along with Hummingbird
May 2024Performance Anand declared the Epic 4G the fastest Android phone. I think it's safe to say that right now the Galaxy S is the undisputed performance champ for 3D, at least until we start seeing SoCs built around A9 MPCore with even more powerful GPUs.
Physical Impressions of the Nokia Lumia 610, 900, and Nokia 808 PureView
May 2024We just stopped by Nokia for our meeting and finally got a chance to play with the new Lumia 610, the Europe-bound Lumia 900, and the Nokia 808 PureView.
Power, Digital "Film", and a Bag
May 2024Power, Digital "Film", and a Bag Battery life for the SD14 is on the low side at 200 to 300 shots per charge, which tempts us to take a battery grip.
Razer Announces The Lancehead Gaming Mice
May 2024Today Razer is launching a pair of gaming mice into their lineup. The Razer Lancehead Wireless Gaming Mouse, and the Razer Lancehead Tournament Edition are the two new models, and perhaps just as interesting is that they are also announcing a new version of their configuration software, dubbed Razer Synapse Pro, which is currently in beta.
Razer Blade (late 2012) - Final Thoughts
May 2024Razer Blade (late 2012) - Final Thoughts Though they are unwilling to release sales figures, Razer claims that the original Blade was an unqualified sales hit, with demand far outstripping supply in the first number of weeks after it went on sale.
Serious Power in Cramped Quarters
May 2024Introducing the HP Z210 SFF Workstation We're taking our second excursion into enterprise-class desktop territory with the kind of machine that should be of interest both to IT management and enthusiasts alike: HP's Z210 SFF (small form factor) workstation.
Spotify Introduces a Major Cross Platform UI Overhaul
May 2024Spotify has been quite a busy outfit in 2014, first with their unlimited ad-supported streaming for iOS and Android tablets, followed by discounted student subscriptions in the United States last week; but it seems they were saving the best for last with today's cross platform UI overhaul.
System Performance - The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Review: Iterating on a Flagship
May 2024System Performance Section by Brandon Chester At the heart of a smartphone lies the SoC. While there's now an increasingly common belief that specifications don't matter, the truth of the matter is that almost all of the software features that users now take for granted in a smartphone have only been made possible by the continued improvements in hardware performance.
Test Setup - Enterprise NVMe Round-Up 2: SK Hynix, Samsung, DapuStor and DERA
May 2024Test Setup For this year's enterprise SSD reviews, we've overhauled our test suite. The overall structure of our tests is the same, but a lot has changed under the hood.
Testing 10x Hybrid Zoom in Dublin with the Huawei P30 Pro and Oppo Reno 10x Zoom
May 2024One of the main issues facing the smartphone industry is stagnation. From generation to generation, we see the main smartphone manufacturers gunning for differentiation, and we’ve seen features such as multiple cameras, all-screen displays, and in-screen fingerprint readers become widespread among the high-end devices in the past couple of years.
The ASUS ZenPad S (Z580CA) Review
May 2024When I think of ASUS and Android, the first thing that comes to mind is their past portfolio of Android tablets.
The Comparison Points - Intel Iris Pro 5200 Graphics Review: Core i7-4950HQ Tested
May 2024The Comparison Points Intel sort of dropped this CRB off without anything to compare it to, so I scrambled over the past week looking for things to put Iris Pro’s performance in perspective.
The Vision and The Test
May 2024The Vision I spoke with OCZ’s CEO Ryan Petersen and he outlined his vision for me. He wants HSDL and associated controllers to be present on motherboards.
USB4 Products Coming in Late 2020
May 2024The USB Promoter Group is hard at work developing the USB4 specification. We met with them at Computex this year, and the good news is that the spec is in its 0.
Wireless, Audio, Thermals, and Software
May 2024Wireless MSI, like many of the gaming focused companies, leverages Killer wireless components, with the Killer Wireless AC 1535 NIC, and it is coupled with the Killer E2500 Gigabit ethernet as well, which unlocks the Killer Doubleshot Pro capability where you can use one NIC for some tasks and the other NIC for others.
350-450W Roundup: 11 Cheap PSUs
May 2024350-450W Roundup: 11 Cheap PSUs Some of you have suggested to review a few PSUs with 350W to 450W. Therefore we picked a collection of such units from well known and unknown manufacturers and tortured them with our overload tests.
AGP Pro - i820 Motherboard Roundup
May 2024AGP Pro A newcomer to the expansion slot field is the AGP Pro slot. The AGP Pro specification is an extension of the AGP 4X specification that features a connector with 48 more power and ground pins, 20 of them on one end of the regular AGP 4X connector and the remaining 28 pins on the other end.
AMD Radeon Pro WX Series
May 2024Back in July AMD announced the Radeon Pro WX series. Part of a broader rebranding effort for AMD’s professional grade graphics cards – moving away from the FirePro brand and making everything part of the Radeon family – the WX series would also mark the first use of AMD’s latest-generation Polaris architecture in their pro cards.
AnandTech Storage Bench - Light
May 2024Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall.
ASRock Rack Goes AMD: EPYCD8 Workstation Motherboard
May 2024One of the lesser known companies to play in the server space is ASRock Rack, a subsidiary of the consumer focused ASRock.
ASUS P9X79 Pro - Overview and Visual Inspection
May 2024In the pursuit of sheer performance, a user should aim to combine the ultimate CPU with the ultimate everything else – motherboard, memory, and so on.
Availability and Medfield - Intel Unveils Moorestown and the Atom Z600, The Fastest Smartphone Platf
May 2024Availability and Medfield We got Menlow in 2008. Intel promised Moorestown in 2009/2010. The chips are done, but you won’t see products until the second half of this year.
C&C Generals: Zero Hour Performance - Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup
May 2024C&C Generals: Zero Hour Performance no AA/AF The recently released expansion to the very popular Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game Command & Conquer Generals seems to do a good job of living up to the standards set by its prestigious ancestry.
Camera - Nokia Lumia 630 Review
May 2024Camera Budget phones often have budget cameras, and the Lumia 630 is no exception. The camera module is a 5 MP 1/4” design.
Consumer Tips: Getting the Best Out of Your Blu-rays
May 2024Many consumers tend to prefer instantly accessible versions of movies (such as those on Netflix / Vudu / iTunes / local copies / etc.
CPU Benchmark Performance: Power, Office, And Science
May 2024Our previous set of ‘office’ benchmarks have often been a mix of science and synthetics, so this time we wanted to keep our office section purely on real-world performance.
Display Quality - The 2013 MacBook Air Review (11-inch)
May 2024The 11.6” Samsung display panel in my Air evaluation unit is actually the same one I had on my last MacBook Air, though the one before that had an LG panel.
Evaluating Futuremark's Servermark VDI on the Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T
May 2024Standardized benchmarks with industry-wide acceptance are a must for evaluating computing systems. These benchmarks may evaluate the system as a whole, or target specific aspects.
Final Words - The 2013 MacBook Air: Core i5-4250U vs. Core i7-4650U
May 2024Final Words Simplicity permeates Apple from design and software all the way down to the purchasing experience. The 2013 MacBook Air offers only two choices of CPUs, and honestly for the vast majority of the population, that's all you really need.
Gigabyte's New Odin GT 800W Power Supply
May 2024IntroductionGigabyte is more commonly known for their mainboards and graphics cards. That they also offer power supplies is a new development worth investigating.
GPU Performance: 2-4x For Productivity, Mixed Gaming
May 2024Section by Ryan Smith GPU Performance: 2-4x For Productivity, Mixed Gaming Arguably the star of the show for Apple’s latest Mac SoCs is the GPU, as well as the significant resources that go into feeding it.
How to Overclock With ASUS UEFI BIOS
May 2024Depending on which ASUS motherboard that is being used, whether that’s one such as the ASUS Prime X370-Pro (featured here) or a more gaming focused Republic of Gamers branded option, the only real differences come through the GUI and theme.
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650
May 2024We've never seen Intel with such a strong roadmap before, the company is truly firing on all cylinders and executing with amazing precision.
Intel HD 4000 Performance: Compute & Synthetics
May 2024While compute functionality could technically be shoehorned into DirectX 10 GPUs such as Sandy Bridge through DirectCompute 4.x, neither Intel nor AMD's DX10 GPUs were really meant for the task, and even NVIDIA's DX10 GPUs paled in comparison to what they've achieved with their DX11 generation GPUs.
LG 29EA93 Monitor Review - Rev. 1.25
May 2024Last year I reviewed the LG 29EA93 monitor before its scheduled US release date. As someone that thinks there is a good market for ultrawide displays, the 21:9 aspect ratio was very interesting to me, and something I wanted to take a look at personally.
Microsoft Details Windows 10 Editions
May 2024In a blog post on the Windows Blog today, Tony Prophet outlined the various editions of Windows 10 that will be available this summer.
Microsoft's Cloud - KIN Studio
May 2024The user interaction paradigm that I found the most impressive with the KIN - if you're going to choose something to read into which the platform executed flawlessly - is how photos are handled.
Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX, Droid 4, and Lapdock 500 Pro Impressions
May 2024Anand and I stopped by Motorola this afternoon and got to spend some time with a number of the handset-maker's newly announced products, including the RAZR MAXX, Droid 4, and Lapdock 500 Pro.
New Motoblur, Software, and Locked Bootloaders - Motorola Droid 3 Review
May 2024Motoblur that isn't The Droid 3 also comes by default with the newest version of Motoblur, or, well, some unnamed UI skin that sort of looks like Motoblur, but isn't officially called Motoblur in any of the user-facing parts of the software or website.
NVIDIA Announces Retail GeForce GT 640 DDR3
May 2024Though NVIDIA primarily likes to announce products on their own schedule and own time they have also been known to announce more budget oriented parts at trade shows, and with Computex Taiwan in full swing this week that’s exactly what’s happening.
NVIDIA Single Card, Multi-GPU: GeForce 7950 GX2
May 2024Introduction Today marks the launch of the first GPU maker sanctioned single card / multi-GPU solution for the consumer market in quite some time.
Observations & Closing Thoughts - A Second Shot: Windows Vista SP1
May 2024Observations and Closing Thoughts As far as the Vista user experience is concerned, users shouldn’t expect any significant changes with SP1.
Perpsectives on Optimizing - Behind the Mask with Optimization and Catalyst AI
May 2024Perpsectives on Optimizing For a while now, NVIDIA has been focusing very hard on compiler technology to optimize shader code for their architecture.
Samsung Laptops Bricked by Booting Linux Using UEFI
May 2024Ryan passed this along early this morning (really early for Ryan, seeing that we’re not even in the double digits of the morning hours!
Setup Notes and Platform Analysis
May 2024Prior to setting up the OS on the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-N97, we took some time to look into the BIOS interface.
Software, Audio, Thermals - The 2016 Razer Blade Pro Review
May 2024Software Razer makes a point of advertising that the Blade Pro doesn't come with the bloatware that ships on other Windows laptops.
System Performance - The Dell XPS 13 (9300) Review: Return of the King
May 2024System Performance When we reviewed the XPS 13 2-in-1 back in November, it was the first device we had tested which featured the new 10 nm Intel Ice Lake platform.
Temperatures, Noise, and LCD Analysis
May 2024System Temperatures and Noise Levels One area where I’ve praised the ASUS G73 in the past is their thermals and noise levels.
The Dell Latitude 13 7390 2-in-1 Review
May 2024Design Although Dell offers some of the most forward-thinking designs in the industry with the XPS lineup, with the Latitude series they play it a bit safe.
The Intel Xeon 5670: Six Improved Cores
May 2024The new Xeon “Westmere” 5600 series, has arrived. Basically an improved 32nm version of the impressive Xeon 5500 series “Nehalem” CPU.
The Skylake CPU Architecture - The Intel 6th Gen Skylake Review: Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K Tested
May 2024The Skylake CPU Architecture As with any new Intel architecture, the devil is in the details. Previously at AnandTech we have been able to provide deep dives into what exactly is going on in the belly of the beast, although the launch of Skylake has posed a fair share of problems.
Thermaltake Unveils Its WaterRAM RGB Liquid Cooled DDR4-3200 Memory
May 2024At CES 2019 Thermaltake officially entered the memory market with two new kits of DDR4 3200 RAM which not only include integrated water blocks but also includes 16.
Three New Professional X299 Offerings
May 2024On the back of Intel's upcoming launch of its HEDT Cascade Lake-X processors in November, MSI has unveiled three new X299 motherboards for content creators, and professional users.
Western Digital to Acquire Skyera
May 2024Western Digital, or its enterprise arm HGST to be exact, has today announced that it will be acquiring all-flash array provider Skyera.
133MHz FSB & 33MHz PCI on the ASUS P2B
May 2024All you P2B users out there, or for those of you considering running at the 133MHz FSB on a BX Motherboard may be interested in the discovery of one hardcore tweaker by the name of Mark Booth: Trying to explain some of the anomolies in behaviour of a system using 133MHz Front Side Bus, I decided to test out a hypothesis.
18 cores for Under $1000
May 2024With someone in the press having broken their embargo earlier today, Intel is lifting the lid earlier than planned on their upcoming Cascade Lake-X family of processors for the high-end desktop (HEDT) market.
An External Intel 905P SSD in Exclusive Red
May 2024AKiTiO and Intel this week announced plans to release a special product bundle consisting of AKiTiO’s Node Lite Thunderbolt 3 box and Intel’s Optane 905P SSD.
Assembling the NZXT Phantom 410
May 2024Assembling the NZXT Phantom 410 Remember how I said the NZXT Phantom 410 is more style than substance? This is where things start to fall apart.
ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Formula
May 2024The ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Formula represents its flagship X570 entry onto the market with some very notable features, including a revamped design with a strong focus on performance, and ROG themed aesthetics.
Benchmark Configuration and Methodology - Intel Xeon E5 Version 3: Up to 18 Haswell EP Cores
May 2024Benchmark Configuration and Methodology This review - due to time constraints and a failing RAID controller inside our iSCSI storage - concentrates mostly on the performance and performance/watt of server applications running on top of Ubuntu Server 14.
Camera - The iPhone SE Review
May 2024Still Image Quality Like the iPhone 6s, the iPhone SE has a 12MP 1/3" camera sensor, and a lens with an f/2.
Camera Video Recording - The Mate 20 & Mate 20 Pro Review: Kirin 980 Powering Two Contrasting Device
May 2024Camera Video Recording Video recording have traditionally been a great weakness for Huawei, and the Mate 20’s feature the same type of issue that also plagued past Mate and P-series phones: the lack of OIS on the main camera modules.
Conclusion: When Competitive Isn't Competitive
May 2024Conclusion: When Competitive Isn't Competitive Let me be clear: the In-Win GRone is by no means a bad case. On the contrary, the performance potential is there and the features are there.
Corsair Carbide 300R Case Review: Corsair For the Masses
May 2024Introducing the Corsair Carbide 300R Ostensibly, Corsair's Carbide line of enclosures are their budget cases; the Obsidian and Graphite lines both start where the beefy Carbide 500R leaves off.
Corsair Debuts the Hydro H110i GT AIO Cooler and HG10 N780 Edition GPU Cooling Bracket
May 2024Corsair decided to up the stakes in the AIO liquid cooler market and is releasing the Hydro Series H110i GT cooler, an upgraded version of the H110 that we tested a year ago.
CPU Benchmark Performance: Science - Intel Core i9-13900K and i5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Brings M
May 2024CPU Benchmark Performance: Science Our Science section covers all the tests that typically resemble more scientific-based workloads and instruction sets. For our 2023 CPU suite, we've also added SciMark 2.
Die Size and Transistor Count
May 2024At IDF last year we got word of Ivy Bridge's transistor count (1.4 billion), however today we know its die size: 160mm2.
Expansion: More than a MacBook Air
May 2024Even today, whenever I pull out my MacBook Air I still get people amazed at how small it is, but it's the thinness that gets them - the footprint of the notebook is no different than your standard MacBook.
Giant New Arm SoCs with All-Out Performance
May 2024Today’s Apple Mac keynote has been very eventful, with the company announcing a new line-up of MacBook Pro devices, powered by two different new SoCs in Apple’s Silicon line-up: the new M1 Pro and the M1 Max.
GIGABYTE Server to Offer a 1P LGA2011 Motherboard with 10GbE SFP+
May 2024While home networking is moving slowly forward in the march towards 10GBase-T, having high speed access in the enterprise arena can be a specific requirement for a mission critical application.
GIGABYTE Z690 Gaming X (DDR5)
May 2024GIGABYTE Z690 Gaming X (DDR5) Out of all of GIGABYTE's gaming-centric Z690 options, the GIGABYTE Z690 Gaming X is perhaps the most basic from the brand in terms of features, but it looks very stylish for an 'entry-level' gaming model.
High Level Overview of Cell
May 2024High Level Overview of Cell Cell is just as much of a multi-core processor as the upcoming multi-core CPUs from AMD and Intel, the only difference being that Cell's architecture doesn't have an entirely homogeneous set of cores.
Maxwells Feature Set: Kepler Refined
May 2024To start our look at the Maxwell architecture, we’ll start with a look at the feature set, as this will be the shorter and easier subject to begin with.
More Mainstream Gaming For $329
May 2024AMD this morning is once again expanding its Radeon RX 6000 family of video cards, this time with the addition of a second, cheaper mainstream offering: the Radeon RX 6600.
MSI MEG X570 Unify - The AMD X570 Motherboard Overview: Over 35+ Motherboards Analyzed
May 2024MSI MEG X570 Unify The MSI MEG X570 Unify combines sleek and uniformed all-black aesthetics without the swathes of RGB LEDs which some users find garish.
MSI MPG Z690 Edge WIFI (DDR4)
May 2024MSI MPG Z690 Edge WIFI (DDR4) The MSI MPG Z690 Edge WIFI DDR4 motherboard is very similar to the DDR5 supported MSI MPG Z690 Carbon WIFI in both some of the specifications and aesthetics.
NVIDIA Quietly Releases GeForce MX250 & MX230: Entry-Level Laptop GeForce
May 2024With the launch of their GeForce 20 Series parts already well underway, it was only a matter of time until NVIDIA updated their low-end parts as well, and that time has finally arrived.
NVIDIA Releases 381.89 WHQL Driver
May 2024I wouldn’t claim NVIDIA is keeping up the pressure with their driver releases, but they are keeping a good pace releasing their second driver update this month.
Power, Temperature, & Noise - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Review
May 2024Power, Temperature, & Noise As always, last but not least is our look at power, temperature, and noise. Next to price and performance of course, these are some of the most important aspects of a GPU, due in large part to the impact of noise.
S835, 7300mAh Battery, Samsung DeX
May 2024Samsung this week introduced its new 10.5-inch Google Android-based tablet. The new Galaxy Tab S4 uses Qualcomm’s high-performance mobile SoC, is outfitted with a premium sAMOLED display, and an advanced audio subsystem with the Dolby Atmos badge to satisfy users looking forward mobile entertainment.
Samsung Introduces New 8" and 9.7" Galaxy Tab A Tablets
May 2024Today Samsung Electronics America announced two new tablets that are coming to market in the United States. Samsung's new Galaxy Tab A tablets come in 8.
Software, Per-Key Quality Testing, Hands-on, & Conclusion
May 2024Software The Redragon Devarajas K556 is a fully programmable mechanical keyboard, which is exciting for a keyboard at this price range – until one finally gets to trying out the software.
The Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5 CPU Cooler Review: When Less Is More
May 2024Last month we took a look at Be Quiet's Dark Rock Elite, the company's flagship CPU tower air cooler. The RGB LED-equipped cooler proved flashy in more ways than one, but true to its nature as a flagship product, it also carried a $115 price tag to match.
The Cougar 600K Mechanical Keyboard & 600M Gaming Mouse Review
May 2024Our first contact with Cougar, the German manufacturer of PC cases and peripherals, was with the extravagant Challenger case back in 2012.
The Huawei Mate S Review
May 2024Huawei has been a company which over the past few years has visibly increased its presence in western markets. The Chinese vendor has in particular executed a big push into European markets over the last year as devices have become increasingly available in the usual electronics shops.
The Impact of SSD on Battery Life
May 2024One advantage of solid state storage is lower power consumption thanks to not having any motors or moving heads to drive; spinning anything 4200 times a minute is going to be more power hungry than a solid state solution.
The Intel Core i3-7350K (60W) Review: Almost a Core i7-2600K
May 2024For some intrepid enthusiasts, this is the chip from Intel we’ve been waiting for. I foolishly predicted that Intel would never create an overclockable Core i3, because it had the potential to drive sales away from high-margin products.
The True Shortest AM4 Motherboard: Thin-ITX Comes to AMD
May 2024There seems to be a bit of a rush on small motherboards lately for AMD systems. We saw the mini-STX platform that ASRock announced back at CES, which is a standard height motherboard in a 5-inch by 5-inch form factor.
ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gets Thinner Aluminum Body, 4K HDR LCD
May 2024Lenovo has announced its fourth generation ThinkPad X1 Yoga convertible laptop. The new notebook will come in thinner all-aluminum chassis and will also get lighter than ever when it hits the market several months down the road.
Using the ASUS Ion in Windows 7 and Linux/XBMC
May 2024Quick Usage Notes: Ion in Windows 7 and SSDsMost of my Atom experience has happened under Windows XP, Vista and Linux in that order.
Way #2 & 3 - 3dfx Voodoo3
May 2024Way #2: Voodoo3 3000 The Voodoo3 3000, offered in only an AGP solution (although it still doesn't take advantage of AGP texturing), bumps the clock speed up to 166MHz, and therefore begins to distance itself from the Voodoo2 SLI and the Voodoo3 2000, although not by a tremendous margin.
Who would want a Celeron?
May 2024Regardless of how much cache is on the cartridge of a Pentium II, the Pentium II core is still the Pentium II core.
WiFi, GNSS - The Moto E (2015) Review
May 2024WiFi When building devices to meet a low price, WiFi always seems to be one of the first things on the chopping block.
Zune 80 - iPod vs. Zune: January 2008 High End MP3 Player Roundup
May 2024Zune 80 Last but certainly not least we have Microsoft's second-generation Zune, the Zune 80. If the iPod Classic is the old guard and the iPod Touch the new guard, then the Zune is the missing link, as its feature set includes items from both generations of products, with interesting results.
A Second Look At Silicon Motion's SM2256 Controller
May 2024Silicon Motion's SM2246EN SSD controller was a highly successful solution for SSDs using MLC NAND flash. It offered a great combination of power efficiency, solid performance, and low cost.
ADATA Shows XPG Z1 DDR4 At 3200MHz
May 2024I spent quite a bit of time at ADATA's booth this year as I had a meeting with their president along with the directors of their SSD and memory marketing teams.
Apples 2019 Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR Will Be Available in December
May 2024Alongside today's 16-inch MacBook Pro announcement, Apple has also confirmed that their long-awaited redesign of the Mac Pro, which has been due this fall, will be launching next month.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts - HTC Thunderbolt Review: The First Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone
May 2024Conclusion The Thunderbolt reminds me of the EVO, and otherwise shares design language with all of HTC’s 4.3” form factor smartphones.
Dell at CES 2018: Updates XPS 15 2-in-1
May 2024LAS VEGAS, NV — Dell’s XPS 15 2-in-1 model 9575 will use the 8th Generation Intel Core processor along with Radeon RX Vega M graphics using the Kaby Lake- G series CPUs.
Display Measurement - A Great Screen
May 2024Display Measurement The screen of the OnePlus 7 Pro is definitely the key feature of the phone. The 6.67” 3120 x 1440 resolution panel not only represents OnePlus’ highest resolution display to date, but the 90Hz display mode also makes it stand out above any other smartphone currently available.
Final Words - Guitar Hero World Tour: The Best, The Worst, and Everything in Between
May 2024Final Words So what do we have? Something better, something worse. Something good and something bad. Guitar Hero World Tour is not perfect.
First 24G SAS SSD, up to 30.72 TB
May 2024Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) has launched their sixth generation enterprise SAS SSD, the PM6 series. This is the first SSD available to support the latest 24G SAS interface, doubling performance over the existing 12Gb/s SAS standard.
Functionality & Conclusion - Klipsch ProMedia v.2
May 2024Functionality I have received quite a few emails regarding the subject of a head phone jack being nice to have on the satellites.
Gains IP, R&D, Manufacturing Ops
May 2024Toshiba Memory, which is set to rebrand as Kioxia Holdings this October, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SSD business of Lite-On Technology Corp.
GIGABYTE B550 Vision D - The AMD B550 Motherboard Overview: ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, ASRock, and Others
May 2024GIGABYTE B550 Vision D Aiming more towards content creators and resembling its Designaire models, the GIGABYTE B550 Vision D includes a mid-range set of features.
HTC Unveils Final Specs & Availability Date of Cosmos VR Headset for PCs
May 2024HTC this week announced final specifications as well as availability date of the Vive Cosmos, its next-generation tethered VR headset, which promises numerous improvements along with modularity for further upgrades.
I hate programming
May 2024So what have I been up to this weekend? Let's see, working on a project for my data structures class...and more of working on a project for my data structures class.
Imagination Launches New Low Power Wireless IP: Ensigma Whisper
May 2024Today Imagination is launching a new set of licensable wireless intellectual property (IP) called 'Ensigma Whisper' to complement its portfolio of other SoC IPs.
In and Around the Razer Blade 14-Inch
May 2024In and Around the Razer Blade 14-Inch As I mentioned previously, it's hard not to compare the Razer Blade 14-inch to Apple's MacBook Pro.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550S: A New 65W Quad-Core
May 2024In one breath Intel dramatically cut pricing on its Core 2 Quads. Intel’s swift response was even faster than NVIDIA’s after the RV770 launch.
Let The Good Times Roll
May 2024This week NVIDIA announced their earnings for the first quarter of their 2021 fiscal year. The current fiscal year is an especially important one for NVIDIA on both a business level and a product level, as the company is enjoying closing the Mellanox deal, all the while opening up shipments of their new datacenter-class A100 accelerators.
Let's Talk about Hard Drive Benchmarks
May 2024If you ask how fast a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 will make your PC, all it takes are a few benchmarks to give you an indication of the performance boost; ask the same question about upgrading to the IBM Deskstar 180GXP and the question becomes much more difficult to answer.
Main Cameras & HDR Processing Evaluation
May 2024We’ll be going through the various aspects of the cameras topic by topic, and a good start would be talking about the HDR implementations of the various phones and looking at how much dynamic range they’re able to squeeze out of their hardware.
Motorola Announces One Vision with Exynos 9609
May 2024Last week Motorola announces a new addition to its product line-up: The One Vision. The “One” series is a higher mid-tier value series by the company targeting a better value proposition for users.
Multi-Gig Cable Modems and Armor Cybersecurity Service Updates
May 2024Netgear has a couple of interesting consumer products-related announcements at CES 2019 - one related to their cable modem lineup, and the other related to the Armor cybersecurity service offering.
NVIDIA Announces Quadro Pascal Family: Quadro P6000 & P5000
May 2024If there was one word to describe the launch of NVIDIA’s Pascal generation products, it’s “expedient.” On the consumer side of the business the company has launched 3 different GeForce cards and announced a fourth (Titan X), while on the HPC side the company has already launched their Tesla P100 accelerator, with the PCIe version due next quarter.
NVIDIAs Einstein Architecture Was A Real Project
May 2024While it was never an official NVIDIA codename as far as roadmaps go, the name “Einstein” came up in rumors a few times earlier this decade.
P55 Chipset - Quick Primer
May 2024It Slices, It Dices. But Wait, There’s More! Actually, there is not more. A couple of years ago rumors were floating around that Intel’s first Platform Controller Hub (PCH) would contain the latest in features like 6Gb/s SATA ports, USB 3.
Performance & Power Projections: Best of Both Worlds
May 2024We quickly looked at some projected figures at the start of the article, but now that we've had a chance to dig through the new CPUs, let's more precisely define the expected performance, power and area gains that the new Cortex-A78 and X1 cores are supposed to achieve.
Powering the ZenBook 3: Quad-Core Kaby Lake Refresh
May 2024We can be a bit spoiled for entertainment in the technology industry, with new products being launched all the time that offer newer and better features.
Return of the DirectX vs. OpenGL Debates
May 2024With the announcement of DirectX 12 features like low-level programming, it appears we're having a revival of the DirectX vs. OpenGL debates—and we can toss AMD's Mantle into the mix in place of Glide (RIP 3dfx).
Samsung Announces 3nm GAA MBCFET PDK, Version 0.1
May 2024So what comes after 7nm, after 6nm, after 5nm, and after 4nm? That's right: 3nm! At Samsung's Foundry Forum event today, Samsung has announced that the first alpha version of its Product Design Kit for its first 3nm process is now ready for customers.
Samsung Galaxy S III Review
May 2024Before we dive into the review of Samsung’s Galaxy S 3 variants for the USA (henceforth SGS3), it’s worth it to quickly talk about how much the SGS3 launch in the US differs from that of SGS2.
Setup and Startup - CyberPower Core i7-920
May 2024Setup and Startup As usual, we'll start with a look at the BIOS. BLCK has been raised, resulting in a 3.
SoC Tile, Part 2: Neural Processing Unit (NPU) Adds AI Inferencing on Chip
May 2024SoC Tile, Part 2: NPU Adds a Physical AI Engine The last major block on the SoC tile is a full-featured Neural Processing Unit (NPU), a first for Intel's client-focused processors.
Sound Quality - VideoLogic Sirocco CrossFire
May 2024Sound Quality The most important part of a speaker is, of course, the quality of its output (i.e. how well it sounds).
Swift Playgrounds: Looking to the Future
May 2024Swift Playgrounds The iPad Pro has become a big part of my daily life. When I'm working, the 9.7" iPad Pro goes everywhere with me as a device for development and taking down information using either Apple Pencil or typed notes.
System Performance - The Motorola Moto G4 and G4 Plus Review
May 2024System Performance The Moto G has had an interesting history regarding performance improvements. The original model launched with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 400 SoC, which was very good for its time with four Cortex A7 cores.
The Exynos 990 SoC: Last of Custom CPUs
May 2024While we've received a lot of information on the Snapdragon 865 over the last few months due to Qualcomm’s openness and willingness to share details with the public, until now we’ve known almost nothing about the new Exynos 990.
The Lenovo ThinkPad P70 Review: Mobile Xeon Workstation
May 2024Display It’s taken a while, but display resolution on larger laptops has finally caught up with the smaller devices around. Lenovo offers both a 1920x1080 panel, as well as a UHD 3840x2160 IPS panel, which is what happens to be equipped in this review unit.
The new Opteron 6300: Finally Tested!
May 2024AMD unveiled their Opteron 6300 series server processors, code name Abu Dhabi, back in November 2012. At that time, no review samples were available.
Thing aka Touch Cover - Microsoft Surface Review
May 2024Thing aka Touch Cover Microsoft’s Touch Cover is an integral part of Surface’s design. Although it is physically separate, and even sold separately by default, Touch Cover is really a necessary part of Surface.
ViewSonic Joins Big Format Game w/ 55-Inch 4K 120 Hz OLED Gaming Display
May 2024Demand for larger gaming displays is growing these days, so it is not surprising that more and more manufacturers have introduced 37.
3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper, Up to 32 Cores
May 20243rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper, Up to 32-Cores It’s the product a lot of users have been waiting for. Ever since AMD introduced the world to its Rome processors, with up to 64 cores based on 7nm chiplets and the Zen 2 microarchitecture, rumors have been swirling about what exactly the corresponding Threadripper platform will bring.
6.3-Inch PureDisplay, 48MP Camera, Snapdragon 660
May 2024HMD Global has announced its new ‘performance mainstream’ smartphone, the Nokia 7.2. It is aimed at the mass market, yet features premium capabilities, like a large HDR10-capable display with PurePlay enhancements, and a triple-module camera with a 48 MP sensor.
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 & Inaugural Ryzen Desktop APU WHQL Drivers
May 2024This week, AMD released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2, a smaller patch bringing support for the just-launched Kingdom Come: Deliverance, as well as performance optimizations for Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG).
Apple Announces iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus; Available September 19th
May 2024Today, Apple is launching the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. One of first changes is that the new iPhone 6 has a 4.
Battery Life and Charging - Nokia Lumia 830 Review
May 2024Battery Life Battery life, like the display, is one of the most important aspects to any smartphone. The Lumia 830 comes with a removable BV-L4A battery, which is a 2200 mAh, with 3.
Best High End Z77 Motherboards, April 2013
May 2024As part of our ‘Best X’ range of pipeline posts, our focus turns on to the motherboard segment. At this point of the year, we really are between a rock and a hard place, with new Z77 motherboards still being released, like the MSI Z77 Gaming range, and Haswell just around the corner.
Blu-ray Disc Association Completes Ultra HD Blu-ray Specification
May 2024Yesterday the Blu-ray Disc Association formally completed the Ultra HD Blu-ray specification. The specification has been under development for some time, with the first information about it being released in September of last year.
California Graphics 3D Emotion PCI Video Card
May 2024California Graphics 3D Emotion PCI Video Card A truly excellent salesman can sell a pair of glasses to a person with perfect vision, making you think you need something while you didn't need it 5 minutes ago.
Conclusion - The Chromebook Pixel Review
May 2024Conclusion Something magical happened during the course of this review. I know many of you have been waiting for it, and we apologize for the delay.
Core i9 on Mobile, Iris Plus, Desktop, Chipsets, and vPro
May 2024The march from Intel for everything to be under the ‘8th Gen Intel Core’ branding is now at its climax: today is the official launch of several new 8th Gen products spread across four of five new categories.
FCC Docs - Increased Power - Airport Extreme (5th Gen) and Time Capsule (4th Gen) Review
May 2024Apple sent us both a Time Capsule and Airport Extreme which I used for testing, but I also purchased a copy of each to tear down and get to the bottom of the changes internally.
Final Words & Conclusion - The Corsair STRAFE Mechanical Keyboard Review
May 2024Conclusion In terms of quality, the Corsair Gaming STRAFE Mechanical Gaming keyboard rates much better than most similarly priced keyboards that I have used.
Gateway P-6831 FX Overview - Gateway P-6831 FX: Best Midrange Gaming Notebook Ever
May 2024Gateway P-6831 FX Overview Okay, so Gateway cut down the graphics card a bit and they went with one of the cheapest Core 2 Duo processors available.
GIGABYTE X99-Gaming G1 WIFI Motherboard Review
May 2024The gaming motherboard range from a manufacturer is one with a lot of focus in terms of design and function due to the increase in gaming related PC sales.
GIGABYTE Z390 Gaming X - Intel Z390 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Analyzed
May 2024GIGABYTE Z390 Gaming X The GIGABYTE Z390 Gaming X looks to share a very similar PCB and design as the Z390 Gaming SLI with a black and silver design (red accents) but looks to enter the market at a lower price point.
GPU Analysis/Performance - The iPhone 5 Review
May 2024GPU Analysis/Performance Section by Anand Shimpi Understanding the A6's GPU architecture is a walk in the park compared to what we had to do to get a high level understanding of Swift.
Hands On with the OnePlus 6
May 2024The latest device to come from OnePlus is the new OnePlus 6, heralded as ‘their greatest smartphone’. OP smash in some high profile specifications, such as a 6.
High-End GPUs - Holiday 2006 Shopping Guide: GPUs
May 2024High-End GPUsLike we said with the Midrange GPUs, SLI and CrossFire probably aren't necessary even in the High-End GPU market these days.
HP EliteBook 8760w: Color, So Dreamy
May 2024Introducing the HP EliteBook 8760w Just over ten months ago, we had a chance to take a look at a very big, reasonably impressive mobile workstation: HP's EliteBook 8740w.
iPeak Business Application Tests - Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000: Terabyte Storage arrives on the Desktop
May 2024iPeak Business Application TestsOur iPeak Winstone benchmarks offer a glimpse into how well our hard disk drives will handle general office applications, media encoding, and graphics manipulation.
Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 GTS- Card Specs - NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS Roundup
May 2024Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 GTS- Card Specs WinFast GeForce 2 GTS Specifications Memory 32 MB Infineon DDR SGRAM 6 Ns
Megabytes of Memory - Holiday Buyers Guide, Part I: CPUs, GPUs, Mobos, and RAM
May 2024Megabytes of Memory Windows Vista has significantly changed the requirements for memory since its release last January. While this operating system will run on 1GB of memory, we firmly believe that anyone not wanting to experience some agonizing delays should run a minimum of 2GB.
Metro Exodus, Strange Brigade, & Total War
May 2024by Ryan Smith on December 12, 2019 9:00 AM EST 97 Comments | 97 Comments Metro Exodus, Strange Brigade, & Total War Tomb Raider, F1 2019, & Assassin’s Creed The Division 2, Grant Theft Auto V, & Forza Horizon 4 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7orrAp5utnZOde6S7zGiqoaenZH52fo9vZq2glWKurrCMq5idnZ%2BjerPEjG5saWhdrcFuvsSvoJ6vX2o%3D
More Than a Big Pipe
May 2024I/O Consolidation In our previous article, we showed that thanks to multi-queue technology, 10G Ethernet can deliver about 9 Gbit/s per second.
Nokia Lumia 830 Review
May 2024The Lumia 830 was launched by Microsoft at the IFA trade show in September. As seems to be the norm for most Nokia phones, it has taken a short while for announced phones to be generally available, but the Lumia 830 can now be found in many markets.
Nutanix: No More SAN - The Impact of Disruptive Technologies on the Professional Storage Market
May 2024Nutanix: No More SAN It is not a secret that even though a SAN comes with all the virtues of centralized data, network storage comes with a network bandwidth and latency penalty.
NVIDIA Raises GeForce NOW Paid Subscription Plans to $10 Per Month, $100 Per Year
May 2024Just over a year ago, NVIDIA finally brought GeForce NOW, its PC game streaming service, out of beta. The commercial launch of the service saw the introduction of two tiers: a feature and time-limited free tier, and a paid Founders tier that offered a full set of features (including RTX) and priority access.
Power Consumption, Test Setup - The Intel Haswell-E CPU Review: Core i7-5960X, i7-5930K and i7-5820K
May 2024Load Delta Power Consumption Power consumption was tested on the system while in a single MSI GTX 770 Lightning GPU configuration with a wall meter connected to the OCZ 1250W power supply.
Samsung Starts Mass Production of 9th Generation V-NAND: 1Tb 3D TLC NAND
May 2024Samsung Electronics has started mass production of its 9th generation of V-NAND memory. The first dies based on their latest NAND tech come in a 1 Tb capacity using a triple-level cell (TLC) architecture, with data transfer rates as high as 3.
SMB NAS Roundup
May 2024NAS RoundupNetwork attached storage (NAS) is a hot market these days, not only for the SMB (Small to Medium Business) market, but also for the home user.
Socket 939 - Processor Obfuscation and You: An Update on AMD and Intel CPUs
May 2024Socket 939 The best alternative is all that remains, and that's Socket 939. With dual core Athlon 64 X2 chips planned at least through the 4800+ (2.
Software: TouchWiz UX - The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review
May 2024Software While it’s fully possible to focus purely on hardware and ignore software in some cases, the smartphone in general is proving that such a focus tends to be a bit short-sighted as even when there is a vibrant custom ROM community AOSP-based ROMs aren’t quite as polished as what the OEM produces.
The Corsair Strafe RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review with MX Silent (Red) Switches
May 2024Cherry's MX Silent switches are making their debut on the Corsair Strafe RGB gaming mechanical keyboard. Corsair has the exclusive on the MX Silent for the first year, and in this review we are examining the quality and features of the Strafe RGB keyboard as well as the performance of the new switches.
The EVGA Z590 Dark Motherboard Review: For Extreme Enthusiasts
May 2024Getting the most out of Intel's Core i9-11900K primarily relies on two main factors: premium cooling for the chip itself, and a solid motherboard acting as the foundation.
The Microsoft Surface Pro 6 Review: More Than A Color
May 2024Microsoft is in a bit of a unique place in the PC space compared to other manufacturers. Other than Apple, Microsoft is the only company that controls both the hardware and software sides, and when the Surface lineup launched way back in 2012, Microsoft’s goal was to showcase the advantages of their platform with a premium hardware lineup.
The Nehalem Preview: Intel Does It Again
May 2024Two years ago in Taiwan at Computex 2006 Gary Key and I stayed up all night benchmarking the Core 2 Extreme X6800, the first Core micro-architecture (Conroe core) CPU we had laid our hands on.
The Next Generation Open Compute Hardware: Tried and Tested
May 2024Four years ago we reviewed Facebook's self-designed and open source server, Freedom. Coinciding with releasing their datacenter design, they founded the Open Compute Foundation, creating a home for the design documents, licenses and bringing vendors together under one roof.
The NVIDIA GeForce Special Event 2020 Live Blog (Starts at 9:00 PT/16:00 UTC)
May 202411:55AM EDT - With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, today is NVIDIA's 2020 GeForce Special event. We're expecting the announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series of cards, based on their Ampere architecture, and with it a generational improvement in performance
Thermal Throttling Revisited - Samsung SM951-NVMe (256GB) PCIe SSD Review
May 2024Thermal Throttling Revisited When we first tested the SM951-AHCI in February, I noted that the drive seems to be suffering from thermal throttling when subjected to sustained workloads, especially sequential writes.
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme: Is More Better?
May 2024As testing on the Thermalright Ultra 120 was nearing completion, Thermalright contacted us and asked if we would like to take a look at a new Thermalright cooler that was "
Think Big, That's Only HALF as Large
May 2024An enclosure built from the ground up for custom liquid cooling loops is actually a fairly rarefied thing. Why wouldn't it be?
3nm CPU for the Masses
May 2024Apple on Monday introduced its new generation MacBook Air laptops based on the company's most-recent M3 system-on-chip (SoC). The new MacBook Air notebooks come in the same sizes as the previous models – 13.
9 Display with 2560 1080 Resolution, 144 Hz Refresh Rate for $700
May 2024LG was one of the first suppliers to bring displays with 21:9 aspect ratio to consumers a couple of years ago, and at IFA 2016 the company introduced its new ultra-wide monitor for demanding gamers, the LG 34UC79G.
Acer Aspires To Ryzen 5000
May 2024As part of Acer’s CES launch, the company is announcing updates to both the Acer Aspire 5 and Acer Aspire 7, bumping both models to the latest AMD Ryzen 5000 series of processors.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Performance - The Intel Core i7 860 Review
May 2024Adobe Photoshop CS4 PerformanceTo measure performance under Photoshop CS4 we turn to the Retouch Artists’ Speed Test. The test does basic photo editing; there are a couple of color space conversions, many layer creations, color curve adjustment, image and canvas size adjustment, unsharp mask, and finally a gaussian blur performed on the entire image.
Adobe RGB Test Data - Dell UP3214Q Review
May 2024Changing the color gamut to AdobeRGB instead of sRGB produces similar pre-calibration results. The grayscale is pushing red and this leads to dE2000 errors that are visible.
AMD vs. Intel: Battery Life Investigated
May 2024Laptops: Comparing Apples to Apples Anyone looking to go out and purchase a new laptop is almost certainly interested in a couple things: how much does it cost, and what sort of battery life can you expect?
Ampere For Gaming, Starting With RTX 3080 & RTX 3090
May 2024With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the next generation of video cards, the GeForce RTX 30 series.
ASRock B550 Taichi: This or X570?
May 2024ASRock B550 Taichi Conundrum When it comes to quantifying the price to performance ratio of AMD's B550 chipset, one must appreciate what vendors have tried to do with the opportunity B550 has presented.
Benchmarking Performance: CPU Encoding Tests
May 2024One of the interesting elements on modern processors is encoding performance. This includes encryption/decryption, as well as video transcoding from one video format to another.
BenQ Unveils PD3220U Professional Monitor with AQColor, TB3, HDR10, & KVM
May 2024BenQ has introduced a new professional-grade display aimed at designers. The BenQ DesignVue PD3220U monitor supports virtually all color gamuts currently used by professionals, and can even display images in two different color spaces at the same time in BenQ’s DualView mode.
Compute Performance - AMD's Radeon HD 6990: The New Single Card King
May 2024Compute Performance Moving on from our look at gaming performance, we have our customary look at compute performance. With AMD’s architectural changes from the 5000 series to the 6000 series, focusing particularly on compute performance, this can help define the 6990 compared to the 5970.
Display Analysis - The OnePlus 3 Review
May 2024Display Update: OnePlus has since addressed the issues with calibration. Click here for my follow-up article. One of the most disappointing aspects of the OnePlus 2 was its display.
Encryption Done Right & Drive Configurations
May 2024Encryption Done Right? Arguably one of the most interesting features of the M500 is its hardware encryption engine. Like many modern drives, the M500 features 256-bit AES encryption engine - all data written to the drive is stored encrypted.
EVGA Torq X10 Gaming Mouse Review
May 2024Conclusion We feel that the strongest positive points of the Torq X10 are its great performance and solid software. There is a reason the Avago 9800 laser sensor is widely used by gaming mice designers and manufacturers.
Final Words & Conclusion - The Corsair H80i GT and H100i GTX AIO Coolers Review
May 2024Conclusion Corsair's Hydro coolers may already be very popular but the company is not resting on their laurels, continuously improving their products.
FLIR ONE Pro Thermal Camera Review
May 2024We had written about the launch of the third-generation FLIR ONE along with the FLIR ONE Pro (and other professional thermal imagers) as part of our 2017 CES coverage.
Forget Price - I want the Best!
May 2024$400-$800 High-End LCDs As we move into the high-end LCDs, generally speaking we are looking at 24" and larger displays. One offering that you might want to jump on his the Dell 2408WFP, currently on sale for just $482 (though we're not sure how long that sale will last).
G-SYNC Gaming Experience at 4Kp60
May 2024A Brief Overview of G-SYNC While the other performance characteristics of a monitor are usually going to be the primary concern, with a G-SYNC display the raison d'etre is gaming.
Gaming Driver Support for Radeon Pro
May 2024AMD this week has released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q2 WHQL, bringing support for the Windows 10 May 2019 Update due later this month, as well as Windows Server 2019.
Gaming Performance - AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance Preview
May 2024Gaming Performance Gaming performance is, currently, highly based on single-threaded performance and thus, we see no benefit from dual core. The thing to keep in mind here is that AMD's dual core solutions are closer to their fastest single core offerings in clock speed, so they end up performing more like their Athlon 64 counterparts in games - which has always been quite strong.
Generational Tests on the i7-6700K: Gaming Benchmarks on Mid-Range GPUs
May 2024Alien: Isolation If first person survival mixed with horror is your sort of thing, then Alien: Isolation, based off of the Alien franchise, should be an interesting title.
GIGABYTE Launches CMT4030-Series PCIe 3.0 x8 and PCIe 3.0 x16 SSD Risers
May 2024GIGABYTE B2B has launched two PCIe riser cards for M.2 SSDs designed to build ultra-fast storage sub-systems consisting of multiple M.
Input Lag, Gaming and Gamut
May 2024Input Lag is still measured using the Leo Bodnar lag tester at 1080p. The LG supports 1:1 scaling modes as well as aspect and wide.
iOS 4.1 Speed Boost on the iPhone 3G
May 2024Introduction Before I dive into the numbers, let’s talk briefly about what makes the iPhone 3G (and 2G) fundamentally different from the 3GS.
Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Gaming Performance
May 2024Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Gaming Performance Okay, enough of the theoretical 3DMarks results. Let’s see how well ULV Ivy Bridge and HD 4000 can do in our gaming suite.
RAIDar Device detection software
May 2024RAIDar – Device detection software Infrant has designed their own proprietary operating system, which allows complete control over the configuration of the ReadyNAS devices.
Random Performance - Crucial MX200 (250GB, 500GB & 1TB) SSD Review
May 2024Random Read Performance For full details of how we conduct our Iometer tests, please refer to this article. Random read performance is typical to Crucial's Marvell based drives a bit better than the BX100.
Razer Announces Chroma Keyboard, Mouse, and Headset
May 2024Today in Cologne, Germany at Gamescom 2014, Razer revealed their latest updates for their line of peripherals. Launching with a new feature dubbed Chroma, Razer announced three updated devices for the 2015/2016 timeframe: the BlackWidow Ultimate keyboard, DeathAdder gaming mouse, and Kraken 7.
Samsung Foundry: 2nm Silicon in 2025
May 2024One of the key semiconductor technologies beyond 3D FinFET transistors are Gate-All-Around transistors, which show promise to help extend the ability to drive processors and components to higher performance and lower power.
SanDisk Ultra II (240GB) SSD Review
May 2024Two years ago Samsung dropped the bomb by releasing the first TLC NAND based SSD. I still vividly remember Anand's reaction when I told him about the SSD 840.
System Performance - The Microsoft Surface Pro 6 Review: More Than A Color
May 2024System Performance As of late, Microsoft’s launch schedule for Surface doesn’t seem to coincide with the industry norms, and that continues with the Surface Pro 6.
The Apple iPad Mini 4 Review
May 2024Camera When it was unveiled, Apple described the iPad Mini 4 as a small iPad Air 2. Although that isn't quite true for the performance, we've seen over the course of the review that it has held true for every other aspect of the device.
The ASUS TUF VG328H1B, A 31.5-Inch Gaming Display
May 2024ASUS has unleashed a new TUF Gaming display, the 31.5-inch VG328H1B. The mainstream-segment monitor is aimed at gamers who are after a combination of a large screen size, a curved panel, as well as a high variable refresh rate, all without breaking the bank in terms of pricing.
The Samsung 970 EVO Plus (250GB, 1TB) NVMe SSD Review: 92-Layer 3D NAND
May 2024The first retail consumer SSDs to be updated with new 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory are the Samsung 970 EVO Plus. The 970 EVO Plus will be replacing the 970 EVO as Samsung's mainstream consumer NVMe SSD.
The ThunderX SoCs - Investigating Cavium's ThunderX: The First ARM Server SoC With Ambition
May 2024The ThunderX SoCs Below you can see all the building blocks that Cavium has used to build the ThunderX.
Western Digital Announces Red Plus HDDs, Cleans Up Red SMR Mess with Plus Branding
May 2024Western Digital originally launched their Red lineup of hard disk drives for network-attached storage devices back in 2012. The product stack later expanded to service professional NAS units with the Red Pro.
Win98SE - Adaptec Threadmark - IBM Deskstar 75GXP Ultra ATA 100 Hard Drive
May 2024Although the Adaptec Threadmark 2.0 is getting quite old, it is still an useful measure of performance when comparing similar drives on the same platform.
Wireless K63 Mechanical Keyboard with Accompanying Lap Board
May 2024LAS VEGAS, NV — Corsair has announced a companion to the K63 Mechanical keyboard with a wireless K63 version and a new lapboard accessory.
WWDC 2005 - Apple to Move to Intel Processors in 2006
May 2024This is the first year that we have covered Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote, but it will definitely not be the last.
Zen 2 + RDNA 2, 12 TFLOPs GPU, HDMI 2.1, & a Custom SSD
May 2024For the past several months both Microsoft and Sony have been slowly but steadily trickling out additional details about their forthcoming gaming consoles.
170W TDP and 230W PPT
May 2024At Computex 2022, the CEO of AMD, Dr. Lisa Sui, unveiled its Ryzen 7000 series of processors, as well as the associated AM5 platform.
a Liquid-Cooled PSU with RGB LEDs
May 2024FSP has demonstrated an ATX power supply unit with liquid cooling at Computex. The manufacturer claims that liquid cooling ensures that the PSU stays quiet even under high loads, while its customizable RGB lighting adds style to PCs.
A New Quality Budget Card From NVIDIA
May 2024Introduction Cards like the GeForce 7800 GTX and Radeon X1900 XT-X may be getting a lot of press lately, and while these cards are impressive to say the least, they don't represent what the majority of users are buying for their PC gaming systems.
A Peak vs Per Core Performance Balance
May 2024Disclaimer June 25th: The benchmark figures in this review have been superseded by our second follow-up Milan review article, where we observe improved performance figures on a production platform compared to AMD’s reference system in this piece.
Acer Announces Two Gaming Monitors At CES 2015
May 2024CES is set to get started right away, but already some news is starting to trickle out of Las Vegas. Acer has taken the wraps off of two new monitors aimed at gamers.
Acer Chromebook 13: Subjective Evaluation
May 2024Acer Chromebook 13: Subjective Evaluation I’ve said for a while now that arguably the most important aspects of any laptop are things that are more subjective rather than objective.
AnandTech Storage Bench - The Destroyer
May 2024The Destroyer is an extremely long test replicating the access patterns of very IO-intensive desktop usage. A detailed breakdown can be found in this article.
Antec Performance One
May 2024Introduction It has been over two years since we have looked at an Antec product. In January of 2003, we included Antec's True430, their mid-range power supply at the time, in the TruePower series.
Arm Announces Neoverse Infrastructure IP Branding & Future Roadmap
May 2024Among of the first announcements coming out of Arm’s TechCon convention in San Jose, is the unveiling of Arm’s new infrastructure branding and a sneak peek at the product roadmap for the next 3 years.
Assembling the Antec Three Hundred Two
May 2024Assembling the Antec Three Hundred Two Given that the Antec Three Hundred Two is a fairly simple and staid affair to begin with, it stands to reason assembly would be just as simple and staid.
ATIs Answer to SLI: CrossFire (The Motherboard)
May 2024ATI's Answer to SLI: CrossFire (The Motherboard) As with NVIDIA's multi-card graphics solution launch, ATI is bringing to market their Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire-Edition chipset.
Battery Life and Conclusions - Samsung Galaxy S 2 (International) Review
May 2024Battery Even though it’s almost at the end of our review, battery life is hugely important, and measuring up how SGS2 does compared to the competition is a large part of what makes things pretty positive for the device.
Choosing The Right Z690 (DDR4) Motherboard
May 2024Choosing The Right Z690 (DDR4) Motherboard Looking at selecting the right Z690 motherboard, there are55+ models with support for DDR5 memory, and currently over 30+ with support for DDR4 to choose from.
CIFS Performance, Expansion and Rebuild
May 2024The ReadyNAS NV+ v2 shipped with 2 x 1TB Hitachi 7200rpm drives. We mapped one of the default shares on our Windows testbed.
Corsairs Elgato Launches 4K60 Pro MK.2 Capture Card with 4K & HDR10 Support
May 2024Corsair’s Elgato has introduced its new capture card aimed at professional gamers and streamers who need to record either HDR10 or 240 Hz content.
Desktop Kaby Lake-S i7/i5 Lineup and 200-Series Chipsets Leaked
May 2024Intel has already started to sell low-power dual-core Core i5/i7 Kaby Lake microprocessors for notebooks, but desktop parts with four cores and high frequencies are due in early 2017, as Intel announced back at IDF and the Kaby Lake-Y/U launch.
Digital Storm Core i7-965
May 2024Introduction Digital Storm was a new name to us when they first called to offer a gaming system for review. They carry a number of different systems, and pride themselves on "
Excellent Quality, But Not Quiet
May 2024Be Quiet! is a German manufacturer that mainly produces PC cases, power supply units (PSUs), and cooling-related products. As the company's name suggests, their products are designed with quiet operation primarily in mind.
Forza Horizon 4 - The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrang
May 2024by Ryan Smith on July 7, 2019 12:00 PM EST 135 Comments | 135 Comments Forza Horizon 4 Grand Theft Auto V Compute ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7orrAp5utnZOde6S7zGiqoaenZH51gpBxZq2glWKurrCMq5idnZ%2BjerPEjG5uaWhdrcFuvtdmbHBoYGK%2FpsLInq5oaWI%3D
Gaming Benchmarks - OpenGL and x64
May 2024Gaming Performance - OpenGLMoving on to OpenGL and Quake 4, we'll be able to see how well NVIDIA and AMD have done in building their own OpenGL ICD (installable client driver) for the API.
Gaming Performance - Honor Magicbook 14 Notebook Review: Where Style Paints a Picasso
May 2024Gaming Performance For the gaming tests, mine are a little different to Brett’s, namely because we have access to different systems.
Generic Colorfire & Custom iGame DIMMs
May 2024Colorful has introduced its first memory modules, officially adding a new product category that will complement its graphics cards, motherboards, and SSDs.
Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon
May 2024Known for its core design IP that ends up in everything from IoT to smartphones to servers, Arm is now presenting that it has enabled one of its key microcontrollers in a new form factor: rather than using silicon as a base, the company has enabled a processor core in plastic.
GIGABYTE Server Shows 46x Avoton C2750 Microserver in 2U
May 2024For the few server-oriented business units I visited during Computex, a number of them were showing new Avoton oriented rackmount microservers.
Intel NUC13 Extreme Raptor Canyon Review: Sizzling SFF Performance Powerhouse
May 2024The Intel NUCs started off in the early 2010s as ultra-compact form-factor boards / systems. The systems were meant to replace bulky tower desktops in applications where the physical footprint and system capabilities were significantly more than the actual requirements.
Introspect Intros GDDR7 Test System For Fast GDDR7 GPU Design Bring Up
May 2024Introspect this week introduced its M5512 GDDR7 memory test system, which is designed for testing GDDR7 memory controllers, physical interface, and GDDR7 SGRAM chips.
Lenovo Launches 12.5-Inch ThinkPad A285 with AMD Ryzen PRO APUs
May 2024Lenovo Japan on Thursday said that it would begin selling its ThinkPad A285 laptop on September 21. The mobile PC is one of the thinnest and lightest notebooks based on AMD’s Ryzen PRO introduced thus far.
Lenovo, SuperFish and Security
May 2024For the many of us that have purchased a laptop, we are somewhat used to the amount of bloatware that comes pre-installed.
Mobile Core i7 920XM, Clarksfield: Nehalem on-the-go
May 2024Good morning and welcome to Fall 2009 IDF week! As usual, Intel has a ton of stuff to discuss at the Intel Developers' Forum (IDF).
MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon and Pro Carbon AC
May 2024Sliding down the MSI product stack, the next board is the Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon (offered with and without Wi-Fi depending on the region).
Netgear ReadyNAS 312 2-bay SMB / SOHO NAS Review
May 2024Introduction x86-based NAS units targeting SMB consumers are usually of the 4-bay or more variety. However, there is a growing market for 2-bay high-performance units.
OSS Unveils 5-Way PCIe 4.0 Backplane, Demonstrates PCIe 4.0 HPC Platform
May 2024One Stop Systems this week introduced the industry’s first 5-way PCIe 4.0 backplane at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference. The OSS 5 Slot Gen 4 Backplane is designed primarily for high-performance computing applications and enables the company to offer infrastructure building blocks necessary to build a PCIe 4.
PAM4 Signaling For Higher Rates, Coming to NVIDIAs RTX 3090
May 2024It would seem that Micron this morning has accidentally spilled the beans on the future of graphics card memory technologies – and outed one of NVIDIA’s next-generation RTX video cards in the process.
Paving the Way to the Future
May 2024Introducing the Fractal Design Node 304 We've said it before but it bears repeating: desktop systems are getting smaller. ATX is becoming less and less necessary, and mini-ITX-based machines more and more offer the same performance and features that their bigger brothers do.
Silicon & Software - ASUS Transformer Book T100 Review: Redefining the Entry-Level Windows Notebook
May 2024The Silicon: Bay Trail Inside Obviously a big part of the Transformer Book T100 story is the inclusion of Intel's Bay Trail silicon.
The Cards - NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: It's Here, but is it Good?
May 2024The Cards In NVIDIA's usual style, there will be two flavors of the GeForce FX available in February - the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra and the regular 5800.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
May 2024The Good the Bad and the Ugly What was supposed to be a few weeks project on reviewing Linux and gaming turned into an intense month long affair.
The Instruments: The Premium Drum Kit
May 2024The bottom line is that the ION Drum Rocker (the premium Rock Band 2 kit) is better than the standard kit for gamers who are really into drumming with Rock Band.
Verizon Will Be Absent From Galaxy S II Reveal
May 2024In just a few days we'll be covering the Samsung Galaxy S II event in New York City, and expect to have some hands-on time with Samsung's latest and greatest as specced for AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint.
8th Gen Core, Dolby Vision HDR
May 2024LAS VEGAS, NV — Lenovo today announced its 2018 models of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and the ThinkPad X1 Yoga notebooks.
A PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD
May 2024ADATA has introduced its first PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSD, which is aimed at the latest AMD Ryzen-based PCs using the AMD X570 platform.
A Professional Graphics Card for Sub-$200
May 2024AMD on Tuesday introduced one of the industry’s most affordable professional graphics cards with drivers certified by leading vendors of CAD/CAM software.
AMVA & 200Hz Refresh w/FreeSync
May 2024JapanNext this month has introduced its new 35-inch ultrawide curved gaming display. The tounge-twistingly named JN-35VCG200UWHD features a 2560x1080 "UWHD" resolution, a very low response time, as well as a FreeSync-enabled dynamic refresh rate of up to 200 Hz.
Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air (Core i7 1.8GHz) Review Update
May 2024Last week we published our review of the new 2011 MacBook Air. Both the 11 and 13-inch models ship with ultra low-voltage (ULV) dual-core Sandy Bridge CPUs, a first for the lineup.
Aquantia Launches New 2.5G/5G Multi-Gigabit Network Controllers for PCs
May 2024Frequent readers of AnandTech will have recognized that our coverage of higher speed network interfaces over copper, particularly 10G, for the home and business has increased recently.
ASUS P5E3 Deluxe Express Gate Features
May 2024ASUS P5E3 Deluxe Express Gate FeaturesOne of the new features that ASUS is launching with this board is their Express Gate application that is based on Splashtop technology.
ASUS ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WIFI (DDR5)
May 2024ASUS ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WIFI (DDR5) For Intel's 12th generation of Alder Lake desktop processors, ASUS has only made one mini-ITX board available for the launch of its LGA1700 offerings, the ASUS ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WIFI.
ASUS Unveils ROG Z11 Mini ITX Chassis For Gamers
May 2024In addition to its new notebook, Chromebook, and system announced during CES 2020, ASUS has unveiled a new gaming chassis designed for mini-ITX motherboards.
Board Features - The MSI Z370-A Pro Motherboard Review: Entry Level Business (And Pleasure)
May 2024Board Features The MSI Z370-A Pro is an inexpensive motherboard designed for 'Pro' use and does away with some of the extra bells and whistles many associate with the Z370 platform (such as the fact there are no USB 3.
Bug Fixes & Issues in 17.12.1
May 2024Bug Fixes & Issues in Radeon Software Adrenalin 17.12.1 As a quick note, AMD has had two (quite verbosely-named) Windows 10 Fall Creators Update beta drivers that coexisted with other driver branches.
Camera - Daylight Evaluation: Triple Camera For Scenic Shots
May 2024Daylight Evaluation: Triple Camera For Scenic Shots Besides the display of the Galaxy S10, the biggest new features of this year’s flagship is the camera setup.
CES 2017: NVIDIA Keynote Live Blog
May 202409:18PM EST - NVIDIA has one of the major keynotes for the CES show 09:18PM EST - Set to start in just over 10 minutes
CPU Benchmark Performance: Power, Web, And Science
May 2024Our previous set of ‘office’ benchmarks has often been a mix of science and synthetics, so this time we wanted to keep our office section purely on real-world performance.
CPU Performance: Web and Legacy Tests
May 2024While more the focus of low-end and small form factor systems, web-based benchmarks are notoriously difficult to standardize. Modern web browsers are frequently updated, with no recourse to disable those updates, and as such there is difficulty in keeping a common platform.
D-Link Announces New EasyMesh-Compatible Wi-Fi 6 Gateways and Extenders
May 2024The Wi-Fi system / mesh market has turned out to be very attractive for gateway vendors, enabling them to have higher ASPs and more revenue per user.
Display Analysis - The Apple iPad 2 Review
May 2024Display The iPad 2 continues to use what boils down to the same 9.7 inch 1024x768 (XGA) LCD as the iPad 1.
Display Uniformity - Monoprice Zero-G Slim 27" IPS Monitor Review
May 2024Display Uniformity is measured using CalMAN 5.1.2 at 25 locations on screen. Every measurement is compared to the center reading, which is the reference point.
Does 8-Channel Memory Matter? - 64 Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Revie
May 2024CPU Tests: Microbenchmarks A y-Cruncher Sprint The y-cruncher website has a large amount of benchmark data showing how different CPUs perform when calculating pi up to a given number of digits.
Features and Specifications - HP w2408: A "New" Twist on 24" LCDs
May 2024Features and Specifications Those who are unfamiliar with display technology may wish to consult our short glossary of terms that we use in our display reviews before continuing.
Final Words - Creative Lab's Nomad Muvo TX
May 2024Final Words The Muvo TX is definitely unique among the flash-based MP3 players. The fact that it has USB 2.
Gaming: Integrated Graphics - The Intel 9th Gen Review: Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K and Core i5-960
May 2024Gaming: Integrated Graphics Despite being the ultimate joke at any bring-your-own-computer event, gaming on integrated graphics can ultimately be as rewarding as the latest mega-rig that costs the same as a car.
Hardware Virtualization: the Nuts and Bolts
May 2024Paravirtualization Paravirtualization is not that different from Binary Translation. BT changes "critical" or "dangerous" code into harmless code on the fly; paravirtualization does the same thing, but in the source code.
iMovie & Garage Band - The Apple iPad 2 Review
May 2024iMovie by Vivek Gowri Apple launched two new content-editing apps along with the iPad 2 - GarageBand and iMovie. iMovie is a $4.
LG G Pro 2 - Mini Review
May 2024At MWC, LG announced their new G Pro 2, which was written up for an early hands-on and some analysis based upon the information given out by LG’s press release on the device.
Movies and Games on the Rockus 3D
May 2024Movies and Games on the Rockus 3D The 3D mode on the Rockus 3D seems to exist more for these two purposes: producing—or at least simulating—a surround sound environment in video games and in movies.
Nvidia Announces New Drive Platforms With Orin and Ampere
May 2024Nvidia’s Orin SoC chipset had been on Nvidia’s roadmaps for over 2 years now, and last December we got the first new details of the new automotive oriented silicon chip, revealing characteristics such as it containing 12 core cores of Arm’s newest “Hercules” microarchitecture (A77 successor).
NVIDIA Releases the GeForce GTX 570M and 580M
May 2024While our recent review of the Alienware M17x R3 proved you could have a gaming notebook that was still capable of halfway decent battery life, the hybrid solution found in that machine was more the exception than the rule.
Overclocked: EVGA GeForce GTX 280 FTW
May 2024EVGA was kind enough to send us a card so that we could test SLI and take a look at overclocked performance of the GTX 280.
Routers, Repeaters, and Adapters (Oh My!)
May 2024Introducing Amped Wireless The world is full of technology companies, with plenty of long time players as well as smaller newcomers.
Ruckus Brings Cloud-based Management to Public Wi-Fi Networks
May 2024We have been expanding our coverage of wireless networking recently. In particular, there has been plenty of recent action in the enterprise Wi-Fi domain.
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Review
May 2024I still remember the first time I held the original Galaxy Note. At that point in time it wasn’t really obvious just how critical larger-display smartphones were going to be in the future, nor just how close the smartphone market was to becoming a mature one.
Samsung to Use SiFive RISC-V Cores for SoCs, Automotive, 5G Applications
May 2024At the annual RISC-V Summit this week, Samsung disclosed the use SiFive’s RISC-V cores for upcoming chips for a variety of applications.
Taking Notes With iPad Pro
May 2024For the past week, I’ve been working on a review of the iPad Pro. For better or worse it has been a very quick week and I’ve been working on the review right up to the embargo time.
Thermaltake Releases New Smart RGB Power Supply Series
May 2024The Thermaltake Smart lines of power supplies have been in the market for a few years now. Since its inception, the line expanded and updated with the introduction of the Pro and White lines, all suitable for a wide range of opreations.
Two PCIe 4.0 M.2, Wi-Fi 6
May 2024MSI revealed its X570 chipset plans with a number of new boards split into three different market segments. The MSI MPG X570 Gaming Pro Carbon WIFI represents its top tier gaming focused model, and comes equipped with two PCIe 4.
Virtually Powerful Improvements - Barcelona Architecture: AMD on the Counterattack
May 2024AMD Virtualization ImprovementsThe performance-related improvement to Barcelona comes in the way of speeding up virtualized address translation. In a virtualized software stack where you have multiple guest OSes running on a hypervisor there's a new form of memory address translation that must be dealt with: guest OS to hypervisor address translation, as each guest OS has its own independent memory management.
12.1-Inch, Quad-Core CPU, TB3, ODD, 21 Hrs, 2.4 Lbs
May 2024Panasonic has upgraded its 12.1-inch series laptops with Intel’s quad-core 8th Generation Core i5/i7 CPUs. The new Panasonic Let’s Note CF-SV7-series notebooks are the only ultra-compact PCs to feature Intel’s latest mobile processors, a Thunderbolt 3 interconnection, an optical drive and an optional LTE modem in a package that weighs from 999 grams to 1.
Action Center & Cortana - Windows Phone 8.1 Review
May 2024Action Center With Windows Phone 8.1, all three of the major smartphone platforms now have some form of a unified notification hub, all accessed by pulling a shade down from the top of the screen.
Albatron LWX-30-AMS: Albatron's Convergence LCD TV
May 2024Construction The LWX-30-AMS does not come with any particularly fancy construction options. In essence, it is just a very large LCD panel with speakers attached to each side.
Amazon Releases HTML 5 Kindle Web App
May 2024Well, this could be interesting. Amazon yesterday announced the availability of its new Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML 5 web app designed to let you read your Kindle books on devices without necessarily having to install the standalone Kindle app.
AMDs Enduro Switchable Graphics Levels Up
May 2024Introduction A couple weeks back, I contacted AMD to let them know I was working on a notebook review—a Clevo P170EM from AVADirect with HD 7970M graphics.
Android Camera2 and Support For External ISPs
May 2024While we've written about Android's Camera2 API before, there was one notable aspect of the discussion that was missing. The missing piece was a discussion of the physical link needed to enable all of the controls that were previously discussed.
Application and Futuremark Performance - Dell Precision T1600: Workstation Class
May 2024Application and Futuremark Performance Given that the Intel Xeon E3-1270 beating at the heart of our T1600 review unit is essentially a Core i7-2600 with the IGP completely disabled, it's reasonable to expect excellent performance in processor-intensive tasks.
ASRock Z270 Killer SLI BIOS & Software
May 2024BIOS The ASRock Z270 Killer SLI features a graphical UEFI BIOS, much like every modern motherboard these days. The BIOS defaults to a simple, single page mode, called the “EZ Mode”.
ASUS Unveils N5105I-IM-A, Intel Jasper Lake in Mini-ITX Form
May 2024Back in January, Intel launched its Jasper Lake platform with a range of dual-core and quad-core Tremont Atom-based processors.. Primarily aimed at the notebook and Chromebook market, Intel's Jasper Lake Celeron and Pentium Silver chips are using 10nm Tremont Atom cores as low as 6 W.
ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
May 2024I'm not really sure why we have NDAs on these products anymore. Before we even got our Radeon HD 4890, before we were even briefed on it, NVIDIA contacted us and told us that if we were working on a review to wait.
Corsair Announces Voyager Air 2 Wireless Drive
May 2024If you need access to tons of movies, music, etc. on your iOS or Android device – or perhaps a PC or Mac as well – Corsair’s latest Voyager Air 2 wireless drive might prove useful.
CPU Performance: Synthetic, Web and Legacy Tests
May 2024While more the focus of low-end and small form factor systems, web-based benchmarks are notoriously difficult to standardize. Modern web browsers are frequently updated, with no recourse to disable those updates, and as such there is difficulty in keeping a common platform.
Drum Hardware Way Ups and Way Downs
May 2024Downs first: physical problems. Yes we have them. First and foremost: the kick pedal sucks. And beyond that it sucks worse than the RB kick pedal.
DXVA Benchmarking - AMD A8-3850 : An HTPC Perspective
May 2024DXVA Checker indicates the various capabilities of the AMD6550D, as exposed by the drivers. The only puzzling aspect is the missing ModeH264MVC_VLD_Avivo entry which is present in the AMD 6xxx cards with UVD3.
eMMC and FSTRIM - The Nexus 7 (2013) Review
May 2024eMMC and FSTRIM The new Nexus 7 obviously ships with the latest version of Android (4.3), which happens to add a major feature for keeping storage performance high: fstrim.
Eurocom P5 Pro / Clevo P750ZM Review: True DTR
May 2024Eurocom P5 Pro / Clevo P750ZM Introduction Some people look at notebooks as a way to cut the cord and go mobile for long periods of time, but others view the portability as a mere convenience while they move from one power socket to another (e.
Final Words - Sandy Bridge-E and X79 The ASUS P9X79 PRO Review
May 2024Final Words With a new enthusiast platform, it is easy to get caught in the hype of just how well a processor is when analyzing a motherboard.
Final Words - Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD
May 2024Final Words Seagate's Momentus XT should become the standard hard drive in any notebook shipped. The biggest problem I have with using any brand new machine, regardless of how fast it is, is that it never feels fast because it usually has a HDD and not an SSD.
Gaming: Final Fantasy XV - The AMD Threadripper 2 CPU Review: The 24-Core 2970WX and 12-Core 2920X T
May 2024Gaming: Final Fantasy XV Upon arriving to PC earlier this, Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was given a graphical overhaul as it was ported over from console, fruits of their successful partnership with NVIDIA, with hardly any hint of the troubles during Final Fantasy XV's original production and development.
Hot Chips 2016: Exynos M1 Architecture Disclosed
May 2024While we can always do black-box testing to try and get a handle for what a CPU core looks like, there’s really only so much you can do given limited time and resources.
Huawei Announces New MatePad Pro 5G High-End Tablet
May 2024Today Huawei is announcing the launch of its newest high-end tablet: The MatePad Pro 5G. The device isn’t exactly a new product as the company had launched the 4G version in China back in November, but it is now also launching in the western markets as 5G variant and we’ve had some hands-on experience with the new unit.
Meet the GTX 570 - NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
May 2024Meet the GTX 570 As we quickly touched upon in our introduction, the GTX 570 is a complete reuse of the GTX 580 design.
MSI Giveaway: GT680R Sandy Bridge Notebook
May 2024I've been working with MSI for nearly as long as AnandTech has been around. So when MSI came to us with a giveaway opportunity we jumped on it.
Multitasking Performance - AMD's Quad FX: Technically Quad Core
May 2024Multitasking Performance When we were trying to think up new multitasking benchmarks to truly stress Kentsfield and Quad FX platforms we kept running into these interesting but fairly out-there scenarios that did a great job of stressing our test beds, but a terrible job and making a case for how you could use quad-core today.
Olympus E-520 vs. Nikon D60
May 2024Olympus E-520 vs. Nikon D60 It is widely known that the Nikon D60 utilizes the same Sony 10.2MP CCD sensor found in the Sony A200/A300 and the Pentax k200D.
Platform Analysis - Synology DS415+ Review: DSM on Intel Rangeley
May 2024Platform Analysis The higher end segment of the SOHO / SMB NAS market uses Intel's Core-series and Xeon CPUs to deliver the required performance while supporting a large number of drive bays (typically more than 8, in a rackmount form-factor).
Puget Systems Serenity SPCR Edition: Blissful Silence
May 2024Introducing the Puget Systems Serenity SPCR Edition This is our second review unit from the Washington-based Puget Systems (our first was several years ago when they were first starting out), and it's a doozy.
PURE (PC, Xbox 360) Review
May 2024When it comes to games, the line between realism and fantasy slices nearly every genre into two parts. While each while each section is rarely the other's equivalent, gamers often tend to gravitate toward one or the other.
Rome and PCIe 4.0 - AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
May 2024PCIe 4.0 As the first commerical x86 server CPU supporting PCIe 4.0, the I/O capabilities of second generation EPYC servers are top of the class.
Samsung Introduces LPCAMM Memory Modules
May 2024Although Low Power DDR(LPDDR) memory has played a pivotal role in reducing PC laptop power usage, the drawback to the mobile-focused memory has always been its tight signaling and power delivery requirements.
Seagate Confirms 30TB+ HAMR HDDs in Q3, Envisions 50TB Drives in a Few Years
May 2024Seagate this week confirmed plans to launch the industry's first 30+ TB hard drive that uses its heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, as well as reaffirming its commitment to release HDDs with capacities of 50 TB and higher in a few years.
Software: DirectStylus 2, Console Mode, ShadowPlay
May 2024Software In the UI department, there’s not too much to talk about. Much like Motorola, NVIDIA has stuck to using the AOSP UI design.
Supports 8Kp60, Dynamic HDR, New Color Spaces, New 48G Cable
May 2024Update 1/6: HDMI Forum has notified us that the HDMI 2.1 uses DSC 1.2 compression for everything higher than 8K with 4:2:0 chroma sub sampling.
T-Mobile CES 2014 Uncarrier 4.0 Event Live Blog
May 202404:45PM EST - We're wrapping up, stay tuned, lots more CES coverage to come 04:42PM EST - Speeds are pretty fast in here on T-Mobile still: http://www.
The Division 2 - The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrange
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The Game/Test setup - F.E.A.R. GPU Performance Tests: Setting a New Standard
May 2024The Game/Test setupThere was a lot of hype about FEAR before it was released, which is common for ground-breaking games of this sort.
The GPU: Intel HD 5000 (Haswell GT3)
May 2024Hire enough ex-ATIers and you’ll end up really caring about GPU performance apparently. It’s good to see that Apple still views increasing GPU performance as non-negotiable, even at the MacBook Air level.
The X as Media Hub: HDMI Out and Gallery
May 2024Micro HDMI Out So what about that micro HDMI port on the device? The X joins a small number of smartphones packing an HDMI port of the micro variety.
Thermal Comparisons and XFR2: Remember to Remove the CPU Cooler Plastic!
May 2024Every machine build has some targets: performance, power, noise, thermal performance, or cost. It is certainly hard to get all of them, so going after two or three is usually a good target.
Windows Phone Cloud Integration - The Windows Phone 7 Review
May 2024Windows Phone Cloud Integration One of the redeeming features of the failed KIN was its cloud integration. The entirety of your phone, everything from your contacts to your photos were synced with the cloud.
x16 Slots to Reach 64GB/sec
May 2024Following the long gap after the release of PCI Express 3.0 in 2010, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) set about a plan to speed up the development and release of successive PCIe standards.
XPG GAMMIX S70 PCIe 4.0 SSD Now Available
May 2024A year ago at CES 2020, ADATA previewed three upcoming PCIe 4.0 consumer SSDs planned for release in 2020. As with many things last year, that didn't go exactly as planned, but two of those drives have now hit the market—albeit with different model names than ADATA was using a year ago.
A Cheap Compact PC with Ryzen 7 7735HS
May 2024Minisforum has quietly started selling its Venus Series UM773 Lite, a compact system that packs AMD's eight-core Ryzen 7 7735HS processor.
AMD Announces "AMD Rewards" Program for the Gaming Evolved Application
May 2024We normally don’t cover contests and giveaways, but this one is just a bit different than the others and sheds some light on the inner workings of AMD, so we’ll take a quick look at it.
AMD Announces Ryzen Mobile 7045 HX-Series CPUs, Up to 16-Cores and 5.4 GHz for Laptops
May 2024While many companies such as Razer offer 'desktop' replacements in the form of very high-end and powerful gaming laptops, the silicon that goes into them not only needs to deliver similar levels of performance but it's got to be efficient too.
AnandTech Storage Bench 2013 - Samsung SSD 850 EVO (120GB, 250GB, 500GB & 1TB) Review
May 2024AnandTech Storage Bench 2013 Our Storage Bench 2013 focuses on worst-case multitasking and IO consistency. Similar to our earlier Storage Benches, the test is still application trace based – we record all IO requests made to a test system and play them back on the drive we are testing and run statistical analysis on the drive's responses.
Apple's DVD Problems Continue - The Mac mini as a Media Computer
May 2024Apple’s DVD Problems Continue As you can see from the screenshots below, Apple's DVD decoder is clearly not of the same quality as ATI's DVD decoder on the PC - despite the fact that the hardware is the same across the two platforms.
ASRock Gives AMD Ryzen Mini-ITX Treatment, Launches X370 Gaming ITX/ac
May 2024ASRock has introduced a miniature motherboard for AMD Ryzen microprocessors, one of a few such motherboards in the industry. Despite being very small, the X370 Gaming ITX/ac offers everything that a fairly powerful gaming system might require and its price is not too high.
Asus Eee PC 1001P: Our Favorite Netbook
May 2024In May 2009, Asus took the wraps off its new Eee PC 1005HA, the latest and greatest netbook model from the company that pioneered the segment.
ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405MA: Power, System & Storage Performance
May 2024As we did in our review of the Razer Blade 14 (2023) gaming notebook, we're also including a pair of desktop chips in our comparison.
Battlefield 4 - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founder's Edition Review: Bigger Pascal for Better Pe
May 2024Battlefield 4 One of the older games in our benchmark suite, DICE’s Battlefield 4 remains a staple of MP gaming. Even at its age, Battlefield 4 remained a challenging game in its own right, as very few mass market MP shooters push the envelope on graphics quality right now.
BFV, Anthem, & Metro Exodus
May 2024With the change in seasons comes a change in game bundles for NVIDIA. This morning the company announced that they’re launching a new GeForce RTX-focused bundle – the aptly named “RTX Triple Threat” bundle – which will see the company bundle a selection of Battlefield V, Anthem, and Metro Exodus with their RTX video cards.
Core i5-4250U vs. Core i7-4650U
May 2024Apple typically offers three different CPU upgrades in its portable Macs: the base CPU, one that comes with the upgraded SKU and a third BTO option that's even faster.
CPU & Memory Performance - Samsung Galaxy S8 Showdown: Exynos 8895 vs. Snapdragon 835, Performance &
May 2024CPU Performance Before we evaluate the Galaxy S8’s system-level performance and battery life, we’ll run some lower-level tests to examine CPU integer and floating-point IPC and memory system throughput and latency.
CPU Benchmark Performance: Encoding - AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G Review: Zen 4 APUs with RD
May 2024CPU Benchmark Performance: Encoding Another of the interesting elements of modern processors is encoding performance. This covers two main areas: encryption/decryption for secure data transfer and video transcoding from one video format to another.
Crysis: Warhead - AMD Radeon R9 285 Review: Feat. Sapphire R9 285 Dual-X OC
May 2024Crysis: Warhead Up next is our legacy title for 2014, Crysis: Warhead. The stand-alone expansion to 2007’s Crysis, at over 5 years old Crysis: Warhead can still beat most systems down.
Display Analysis - The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 OLED Review: For The Creator In All Of Us
May 2024Display Analysis OLED is right in the name of the product, and it is certainly one of the key differentiators with the Vivobook Pro 15 notebook.
Double Height, Double Capacity Memory
May 2024G.Skill has announced its new 32 GB “Double Capacity” memory modules. The Trident Z RGB DC DIMMs are compatible only with select Z390 motherboards from ASUS, and while they do not feature extreme data transfer rates, those who need a lot of memory this is hardly a limitation.
Final Words - Intel's Core i7 870 & i5 750, Lynnfield: Harder, Better, Faster Stronger
May 2024Final WordsI'll start this conclusion with what AMD must do in response to Lynnfield. The Core i5 750 is a great processor at $196, in fact, it's the best quad-core CPU you can buy at that price today.
Final Words - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move
May 2024Final Words Bringing this review to a close, NVIDIA’s latest product launch has given us quite a bit to digest. Not only are we looking at NVIDIA’s latest products for the high volume mainstream desktop video card market, but we’re doing so through the glasses of a new generation of GPUs.
GNSS, Misc. - The Apple iPad Air 2 Review
May 2024GNSS While it's tough to tell what GPS solution is in the iPad Air 2, it's likely that the cellular version leverages the Qualcomm modem.
Google Updates Gmail With Material Design and Support for IMAP and Exchange
May 2024Google's applications like Gmail, Camera, and Chrome are likely applications that came on your Android phone when you first purchased it.
Hands On With The HTC 10: A Fresh Start
May 2024At this point it’s probably not a secret that HTC has been struggling for the past few years. While the One M8 was a solid upgrade to the One M7, it was unfortunate in the sense that it did not resolve the problems that the M7 had.
High Resolution, Matte Display: Tested
May 2024For creative professionals and digital photography or videography enthusiasts alike, LCD quality of the MacBook Pro is a huge consideration. Luckily, Apple delivers in this department.
In and Around the BitFenix Ronin
May 2024In and Around the BitFenix Ronin Where BitFenix has been consistently successful in my opinion is their ability to produce cases that are aesthetically pleasing and look more expensive than they are.
Jumperless CPU & Voltage Configuration - i820 Motherboard Roundup
May 2024Jumperless CPU & Voltage Configuration Ever since ABIT and QDI produced the first ever motherboards with a fully jumperless CPU and voltage setup, the goal of many manufacturers has been to bring that level of ease of use and operation down to their products as well.
LG G Watch & Samsung Gear Live Teardown
May 2024Last week at IO, Google gave attendees a choice of one of two Android Wear devices to take home and get experience with the platform.
Merging CPUs and GPUs - AMD
May 2024Merging CPUs and GPUsAMD has already outlined the beginning of its CPU/GPU merger strategy in a little product called Fusion. While quite bullish on Fusion, AMD hasn't done a tremendous job of truly explaining the importance of Fusion.
Microsoft Announces The Surface Hub 2
May 2024Three years ago Microsoft announced the Surface Hub, which was their new device for reinventing the conference room. It was a beast of a machine, at up to 280 lbs for the 84” model, but it was announced way back in 2015, and that’s an eternity for a computing device.
Netgear Expands Wi-Fi 6E Portfolio with Affordable Nighthawk RAXE300 Router
May 2024Netgear introduced their first Wi-Fi 6E routers last year with the launch of the Nighthawk RAXE500 and the Orbi RBKE960. The addition of 6 GHz support makes it necessary to include more antennae and add more RF components to the board.
Nightblade Mi and Mini-PCs - The MSI Gaming Booth Tour with dGPUs in AIOs and Notebooks plus Motherb
May 2024Another vector in the PC space that has been gaining attention and growth recently is the concept of small form factor devices, either to be used as office machines, portals to the web or as gaming devices.
NVIDIA Announces Quadro K6000
May 2024As SIGGRAPH 2013 continues to roll on, today’s major announcements include those from NVIDIA. SIGGRAPH is NVIDIA’s favored show for professional graphics and Quadro product announcements, with NVIDIA using last year’s SIGGRAPH to announce their first Kepler based Quadro part, the Quadro K5000.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Review: Retaking The Performance Crown
May 2024Theoreticals As with any new architecture, we want to take a few moments to look at theoretical performance. These numbers shouldn’t be taken too seriously for cross-vendor comparison, but these numbers often tell us more about interesting architectural improvements that occur from one generation to the next.
Once More, with a DVI Detective
May 2024Once More, with a DVI DetectiveAs we mentioned before, Gefen's DVI Detective is a programmable box that will record your monitors EDID information and, once recorded, will continually transmit it to the host machine to trick it into thinking that the monitor is still present.
Power and Overclocking - The Intel Core i5-7600K (91W) Review: The More Amenable Mainstream Performe
May 2024Power Consumption As with all the major processor launches in the past few years, performance is nothing without a good efficiency to go with it.
Storage Devices - Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360
May 2024Storage Devices The Xbox 360 ships with a standard dual layer DVD-ROM drive, our unit had a drive manufactured by Hitachi-LG.
System Performance Revisited - The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge Review: Part 2
May 2024System Performance Revisited Now that we’ve covered battery life we can revisit another topic where our testing has changed dramatically for 2016, which is our system performance benchmarks.
The Inside, Cont'd - Seasonic S12II: 330W to 500W of Silence
May 2024The Inside, Cont'dThe secondary side looks a little disarrayed since the cables are all just hanging around. In the 330W version pictured here, there simply aren't enough cables to cover the components below; airflow should not be an issue and all of the components should remain quite cool.
The Test - ATI Rage Fury Pro (Rage 128 Pro)
May 2024The Test The benchmarks we conducted on the Rage 128 Pro for this review were limited to two CPUs however you will see a more comprehensive test of the Rage 128 Pro and competing graphics adapters in an upcoming fall video comparison guide on AnandTech.
The Watercooling Kit, Part 2 and Tools You'll Need
May 2024So we've seen all the stuff that connects together, but fat lot of good it'll do us if we don't actually have waterblocks.
Unified Memory for CPU/GPU in 2013, HSA GPUs in 2014
May 2024AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster just put up this slide that shows its HSA (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture) roadmap through 2014. This year we got Graphics Core Next, but next year we'll see a unified address space that both AMD CPUs and GPUs can access (today CPUs and GPUs mostly store separate copies of data in separate memory spaces).
Wanted: Exterminator - Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PC, Xbox 360, PS3) Review
May 2024Wanted: Exterminator Mercenaries 2 is not without its faults regardless of how you play it - not by a long shot.