Seagate is now throwing its hat into the ring with its first SSD: Pulsar. Unlike all of the SSDs we’ve...
December 7, 2009
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Intel's first discrete GPU has been canceled, I explain why it doesn't really matter....
December 6, 2009
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Looking for a laptop, netbook, or even a notebook this holiday season? We've put together our thoughts on...
December 6, 2009
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blog post by Johan De Gelas
Agner Fog, a Danish expert in software optimization is making a plea for an open and standarized procedure for x86 instruction set extensions. Af first sight, this may seem a discussion that does not concern most of us. After all, the poor souls that have to program the insanely complex x86 compilers will take care of the complete chaos called "the x86 ISA",...
December 6, 2009, 72 comments
blog post by Ryan Smith
We just got off the phone with Nick Knupffer of Intel, who confirmed something that has long been speculated upon: the fate of Larrabee. As of today, the first Larrabee chip’s retail release has been canceled. This means that Intel will not be releasing a Larrabee video card or a Larrabee HPC/GPGPU compute part.
The Larrabee project itself has not...
December 4, 2009, 61 comments
casecoolingpsus
In his first article on AnandTech, Loyd Case takes us through building his first Windows Home Server out of components he had laying around the Case House....
December 2, 2009, 87 comments
blog post by Gary Key
Raja and I have been working on a Holiday Guide the past couple of weeks and hopefully we will complete it this week. Our emphasis has been on finding components that offer a great bang for the buck even though they might not be the absolute best in their class. While we will offer our opinions on what is best in class, our focus has been on balanced performance,...
November 30, 2009, 32 comments
cpuchipsets
Updated! We clarify one of the more confusing points of AMD's nomenclature with regards to Bulldozer. AMD is referring to integer cores whenever it mentions core count in its roadmaps....
November 30, 2009, 92 comments
mb
We take a look at Biostar's top end P55 motherboard and find that it really is a heavyweight contender with a middle range price tag....
November 25, 2009, 38 comments
blog post by Ryan Smith
In our Radeon HD 5970 review, we ran in to some issues when trying to overclock the card to 5870 speeds of 850MHz/1200MHz. At the time this is something we attributed to the VRMs, meanwhile AMD suggested that it was cooling related, and that we should manually increase the fan speed.
As it turns out, we were both right, we just didn’t have the tools at...
November 25, 2009, 44 comments
IT
We tried to find out what the new AMD roadmap means for our IT readers: the professionals who actually configure and buy these servers....
November 23, 2009, 34 comments
mobile
The HP Mini 311 is one of the first netbooks to ship with NVIDIA's ION platform. The question everyone's asking is: does ION improve the netbook experience? The answer is yes, but there are other questions we still need to address....
November 22, 2009, 51 comments
video
Updated ATI and Intel acceleration results. Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe's prerelease of Flash 10.1 is about to change all of that. By offloading H.264 decode onto capable GPUs, full screen, high resolution flash video is finally possible without stuttering. Even on an Atom....
November 19, 2009, 128 comments
video
With 2 Cypress chips on 1 card, today marks the day where AMD completes their takeover of the high-end video card market. It's the fastest single card on the planet for $599, and quite overclockable out of the box. Goodbye GTX 295....
November 18, 2009, 113 comments
storage
New Update on TRIM fw.Intel and Indilinx SSDs now have TRIM support - we put it to the test. At the same time Kingston helps Intel bring SSDs to the masses with a 40GB X25-M G2 based SSD priced at $115 or $85 after rebates....
November 17, 2009, 159 comments
blog post by Liz van Dijk
If you've been keeping up with our articles for a while, you might have picked up on vApus Mark I: the virtualized stress test we created for internal use at the Sizing Servers testlab.
As detailed in Johan's article, this bench consists of 3 separate applications, all of which we are very familiar with due to extensive optimization and stress testing...
November 17, 2009, 9 comments
cpuchipsets
We have a winner! We've also got AnandTech offered on Amazon's Kindle and a preview of the new AnandTech site redesign. I hint about a call to writers and a potential reader meetup in India. ...
November 13, 2009, 98 comments
blog post by Ryan Smith
As we mentioned in our previous edition of The Cable Chronicles, Microsoft and CableLabs have come to an agreement to allow the installation and use of CableCARDs on unapproved and non-OEM systems, allowing for the wider proliferation of CableCARD equipped HTPCs beyond the handful of OEM systems that CableLabs had previously approved. With Windows 7...
November 9, 2009, 31 comments
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