video
Going in depth on an often misunderstood and disregarded setting to show gamers why they should enable triple buffering....
Microsoft has released the retail prices for Windows 7, so let's dive right in.
For full retail versions:
Home Premium Full: $199
Professional Full: $299
Ultimate Full: $319
For retail upgrades:
Home Premium Upgrade: $119
Professional Upgrade: $199
Ultimate Upgrade: $219
This doesn't include OEM pricing....
gadgets
I provide some brief looks into what's going on in my lab this week and next....
memory
We take an in-depth look at memory scaling on the Core i7 platform to determine if there is any value in using memory faster than DDR3-1066....
video
It's a great time to buy a GPU, especially if you're in the market for an AMD part. Prices are low and performance is high....
gadgets
When I first met Apple's iPhone, I was very impressed. Meet the first smartphone to impress me since....
gadgets
What's the first thing I did with my new iPhone 3GS? Benchmarked it....
displays
A while back, BenQ sent us their FP241VW LCD, an expensive high-end offering with some interesting features. Can this A-MVA panel best the competition, and does it even matter?...
cpuchipsets
Intel quietly announced the Core i5 and i3 branding for future Nehalem CPUs. I hope to add some additional light to the announcement. ...
IT
Want to gain the upper hand on your colleagues by getting the very best performance out of ESX? AnandTech IT shares its best practices uncovered in the development of their vApus Mark I benchmark....
I got up early, went down to very sketchy Sprint store and bought a Palm Pre on Saturday. I've been playing with it and testing it ever since and before I finish the full review I thought I'd share some data with you all.First, battery life: Phone Web Browsing (Cell Network) Web Browsing (WiFi) Talk Time Apple iPhone 3G 218 minutes 400 minutes 289 minutes Palm...
A few weeks back I introduced you all to a tool I’d been working on for a while called Bench.Bench, in its current form, is a database of CPU performance data allowing you to compare virtually any modern day desktop CPUs. With the recent launch of the Core i7 975 and the Athlon II X2 processors there are now 78 individual CPUs represented in Bench.In my...
To review or not to review: that is the question. As you might imagine, we get a lot of press releases sent our way, along with review opportunities. As the notebook reviewer, one product category I hear about on a regular basis -- from the vendors at least -- is ruggedized notebooks. For example, Getac and GammaTech both sent me press releases during the past...
Computex 2009
Gigabyte had a slew of new product introductions at Computex this year. In fact, the sheer number of new or revised products on display was a bit dizzying at times. While we love seeing new product introductions, the most important aspect of Gigabyte's impressive wall of boards is the number of current products being revised or...
Computex 2009
ASRock is formally introducing both new products and product lines at Computex this year. ASRock has always been one of our favorite motherboard companies over the past few years. The reason, they tend to innovate and take chances in what has become a commoditized market while still being a value leader. Now, at times these risks have paid...
Microsoft has released the retail prices for Windows 7, so let's dive right in.
For full retail versions:
Home Premium Full: $199
Professional Full: $299
Ultimate Full: $319
For retail upgrades:
Home Premium Upgrade: $119
Professional Upgrade: $199
Ultimate Upgrade: $219
This doesn't include OEM pricing....
I got up early, went down to very sketchy Sprint store and bought a Palm Pre on Saturday. I've been playing with it and testing it ever since and before I finish the full review I thought I'd share some data with you all.First, battery life: Phone Web Browsing (Cell Network) Web Browsing (WiFi) Talk Time Apple iPhone 3G 218 minutes 400 minutes 289 minutes Palm...
A few weeks back I introduced you all to a tool I’d been working on for a while called Bench.Bench, in its current form, is a database of CPU performance data allowing you to compare virtually any modern day desktop CPUs. With the recent launch of the Core i7 975 and the Athlon II X2 processors there are now 78 individual CPUs represented in Bench.In my...
To review or not to review: that is the question. As you might imagine, we get a lot of press releases sent our way, along with review opportunities. As the notebook reviewer, one product category I hear about on a regular basis -- from the vendors at least -- is ruggedized notebooks. For example, Getac and GammaTech both sent me press releases during the past...
Computex 2009
Gigabyte had a slew of new product introductions at Computex this year. In fact, the sheer number of new or revised products on display was a bit dizzying at times. While we love seeing new product introductions, the most important aspect of Gigabyte's impressive wall of boards is the number of current products being revised or...
Computex 2009
ASRock is formally introducing both new products and product lines at Computex this year. ASRock has always been one of our favorite motherboard companies over the past few years. The reason, they tend to innovate and take chances in what has become a commoditized market while still being a value leader. Now, at times these risks have paid...
Intel is introducing new Ultra-Low Voltage (ULV) processors, Core 2 Duo processors, a speed bumped Standard Voltage (SV) processor, and finally a value
based chipset (Mobile Intel GS40 Express) not based on the 945 chipset technology. These products join the recently
released Intel ULV Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Solo processors based
on...
Take two Nehalem dies, turn them 90 degrees, add a lot of system interface logic and 8 MB extra of L3-cache and you get - very oversimplified - the impressive Nehalem EX, alias "Beckton". The new Xeon MP is an impressive monster, just like it's predecessor Dunnington. Dunnington consisted of 1.9 Billion transistors, the Xeon MP based on the "Nehalem"...
I had an epiphany the other day. Long time AnandTech readers will know that I used to do a far better job of keeping you guys apprised of what it was that I was working on. Somewhere along the way that got lost so today I’m going to try something...old, I guess. Here’s an update of what’s been going on.The WePC UpdateI've been working on a side...
It must be because this thing is so darn tiny that I don’t mind testing it all the time, but today’s short update marks the third follow up to our original Zotac Ion review. The original article crowned the Zotac Ion as the best Atom based mini-ITX board I’d ever encountered. It wasn’t a hard feat to accomplish, after all, there are...
In response to our first article on the first mini-ITX motherboard based on NVIDIA's Ion platform, many of you asked enough questions that warranted a follow up. In said follow up I mentioned that wake-on-USB did not seem to work reliably on Zotac's Ion motherboard. Today I've got confirmation, said feature does not work.
Zotac says that...