ioSafe N2: A Disaster-Resistant Synology DS213
The emergence of the digital economy has brought to fore the importance of safeguarding electronic data. We have discussed the 3-2-1 data backup strategy before in the piece where...
26 by Ganesh T S on 3/4/2013
Westmere-EP to Sandy Bridge-EP: The Scientist Potential Upgrade
Earlier this year I wrote a review of a dual processor Sandy Bridge-EP system from the point of view of the non-CS trained coder in a research group, and...
44 by Ian Cutress on 3/4/2013
Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 Review: OC Oriented Orange Overkill
Aside from Gigabyte’s gaming motherboards (the G1 Series) and its channel motherboards (such as the UP4 TH, MX-D3H), there exists the OC Oriented series of motherboards. The first participant...
41 by Ian Cutress on 3/1/2013
Philips Hue: Automated Home Lighting Gets Colorful
Philips sent out a review sample of their new Hue lighting system, a set of three Hue lights with the Hue Bridge that allows you to remotely control the...
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BitFenix Raider Case Review: All These Little Things
BitFenix has historically been fairly reliable at producing reasonably priced cases that have their own aesthetic flair and solid performance. They've been exactly daring enough with designs like the...
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Capsule Review: ROCCAT's Kone XTD and Kone Pure Gaming Mice
The "dirty" secret of PC peripherals is that the word "gaming" can often mean any combination of two things: robust quality and gaudy design. Most mechanical keyboards tend to...
48 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/27/2013
Live from Nokia's MWC 2013 Press Conference
We just took our seats at the Nokia MWC 2013 press conference here in the new MWC venue in Barcelona. We're not sure what to expect from Noka today...
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Rosewill Line-M Case Review: Wherefore Art Thou Micro-ATX?
Vendors are always very quick to send us their biggest, best, and brightest. Rosewill's own top-selling Blackhawk Ultra has been with us for a little while, but while we...
45 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/26/2013
NVIDIA Tegra 4 Architecture Deep Dive, Plus Tegra 4i, Icera i500 & Phoenix Hands On
Ever since NVIDIA arrived on the SoC scene, it has done a great job of introducing its ultra mobile SoCs. Tegra 2 and 3 were both introduced with a...
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Deepcool CPU Air Cooler Roundup: Playing it Too Safe?
During our visit to CES 2013, we had a chance to meet with Deepcool, a deceptively large Chinese company that has been producing heatsinks for OEMs for some time...
21 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/23/2013
Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends, A Presentation by Brian Klug
Recently I was asked to give a presentation about smartphone imaging and optics at a small industry event, and given my background I was more than willing to comply...
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Dell XPS 12 Review: A Jack of All Trades Flipscreen Ultrabook
Dell’s XPS line is for their premium consumer offerings, with some overlap between the consumer and professional users gravitating towards these systems. The XPS 12 Duo carries that “catering...
57 by Jarred Walton on 2/22/2013
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan Review, Part 2: Titan's Performance Unveiled
Earlier this week NVIDIA announced their new top-end single-GPU consumer card, the GeForce GTX Titan. Built on NVIDIA’s GK110 and named after the same supercomputer that GK110 first powered...
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Fractal Design Define XL R2 Case Review: Maybe We Can Have It All?
Amusingly and appropriately enough, the wave of silence-oriented enclosures that have been popping up recently haven't really drawn attention to themselves as a trend. Yet all of a sudden...
43 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/20/2013
The new Opteron 6300: Finally Tested!
AMD unveiled their Opteron 6300 series server processors, code name Abu Dhabi, back in November 2012. At that time, no review samples were available. The numbers that AMD presented...
54 by Johan De Gelas on 2/20/2013
Hands on and Impressions from the HTC One - Formerly M7
HTC is in an interesting position as a result of this last product cycle. While the previous HTC One series’ industrial design and performance was top notch, other OEMs...
140 by Brian Klug on 2/19/2013
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan, Part 1: Titan For Gaming, Titan For Compute
Last year's launch of the Titan supercomputer was a major win for NVIDIA, and likely the breakthrough they’ve been looking for. A fledging business merely two generations prior, NVIDIA...
153 by Ryan Smith on 2/19/2013
High-End Meets Small Form Factor: GeForce Titan in Falcon Northwest's Tiki
Today NVIDIA officially unveiled its first consumer facing GK110 graphics card: the GeForce Titan. Although GK110 launched last year, gamers didn't have access to it as it launched exclusively...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2013
HTC NYC Event: Live Blog
Join us right here at 10AM EST today as we live blog HTC's big NYC event. We'll hopefully find out what HTC's got under wraps. Afterwards stay tuned for...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/19/2013
The Tesla Model S Controversy: Understanding the Effects of Temperature on Electric Vehicle Efficiency and Range
Thus far, plenty of ink has been spilled regarding the Tesla Model S and the fallout from the New York Times article, and it even showed up in our...
99 by Vivek Gowri on 2/18/2013
