Our initial 980X overclocking results were bad, so we put in more time and managed to push the chip past...
March 11, 2010
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It's got 6 cores, 12 threads and it's good. Meet Intel's Core i7 980X, the first Gulftown CPU. If you've got...
March 11, 2010
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We're giving away a brand new ThinkPad X100e! Enter to win!...
March 1, 2010
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With less than a week of public release mileage under its belt, how close have ASUS come to hitting a home run with the M4A89GTD Pro? ...
March 10, 2010, 38 comments
blog post by Balraj Sandhu
AVADirect, the custom computer manufacturer, has announced their "most powerful notebook for gamers." The powerhouse notebook is an update of the older Clevo M980NU, replacing the Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GTX 280M SLI with a Core i7 and a GTX 285M SLI to provide a sizable bump in performance. The new model, NBK-CLV-X8100, uses the Clevo X8100...
March 9, 2010, 11 comments
mobile
The Dell Precision M6500 is what we expect from a mobile workstation: high on quality and low on fluff. It’s also very expensive, but the cost of the hardware likely pales in comparison to the software it’s designed to run....
March 9, 2010, 34 comments
IT
More cores (32 to 48) in medium-range servers results in 20 to 50 VMs on one virtualized server. We investigate if 10Gbit Ethernet is finally ready to solve the NIC I/O bottleneck. Is 10Gbit Ethernet still a technology for the happy few?...
March 8, 2010, 45 comments
blog post by Ryan Smith
As many of you are aware, NVIDIA has hit some snags with their latest round of WHQL drivers. The drivers have been interfering with the fan operation on certain NVIDIA video cards, resulting in the GPU overheating. NVIDIA has taken down the drivers in question, and has asked that we pass along the following message:
We are aware that some customers...
March 7, 2010, 34 comments
gadgets
THX is well known for its audio standards. But when you see THX on an HDTV panel, what does that mean? Loyd digs in to find out....
March 6, 2010, 32 comments
mobile
Dell's 15-inch Inspiron line has evolved over the years; gone are the bulky grey-and-white monstrosities, replaced by sleeker, more colorful designs. The latest Inspiron 1564 also sports an i3/i5 CPU, providing a powerful platform that's not as heavy as the size would suggest....
March 3, 2010, 37 comments
storage
Late last year Seagate announced its first SSD, and today Western Digital is introducing its first SSD for the mainstream consumer market. We find out who makes the controller and how well it performs....
March 3, 2010, 64 comments
cpuchipsets
AMD's 8-series chipsets are upon us and despite the name, all of the innovation is in the south bridge. Graphics performance and feature set are unchanged but are the new South Bridge and SATA controller enough to make this interesting?...
March 2, 2010, 67 comments
mobile
Next generation products are always better... just look at Star Trek! At least, that's the theory behind the new NVIDIA ION platform, and it looks like the best thing for your netbook woes starting later this month....
March 2, 2010, 36 comments
blog post by Balraj Sandhu
MSI, best known for their PC components, have launched their latest Intel Arrandale equipped notebook offerings. We discussed some of the initial products in our CES coverage, and these are now shipping and available at retailers like Newegg and Amazon.
The four latest models are part of their “Classic Series”, and they’re...
February 24, 2010, 18 comments
blog post by Ryan Smith
On the heels of a rather unusual (and poorly received) announcement this morning that they'd be showing off the GTX 400 series at PAX East this year, NVIDIA has made a second and much more to-the-point announcement today.
The GTX 400 series will be launching March 26th.
And at this point that's all we know. Specifications,...
February 22, 2010, 110 comments
blog post by Johan De Gelas
In our last article, I showed that the current power management does not seem to work well with the Windows Scheduler. We got tons of interesting suggestions and superb feedback. Also several excellent academic papers from two universities in Germany which confirm our findings and offer a lot of new insights. More about that later.The thing that is really...
February 17, 2010, 26 comments
blog post by Ryan Smith
Since we published our reviews of the Radeon HD 5450 and the Radeon HD 5570, we have been going back and forth with AMD over the results of our video quality tests using the Cheese Slices test. Our initial results showed that neither the 5570 nor the 5450 had enough compute power to handle the full suite of post-processing abilities on 1080i video, the most...
February 12, 2010, 51 comments
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