The Xbox One - Mini Review & Comparison to Xbox 360/PS4
Earlier this morning Microsoft lifted the embargo on press reviews of the Xbox One. I’ve been playing with final hardware and near final software for a few days now...
286 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/20/2013Patriot Viper III Review: 2x4 GB at DDR3-2400 C10-12-12 1.65 V
Perhaps I am out of the loop, but in recent CPU generations of PC building, Patriot Memory has not featured much on my radar. A quick look at...
48 by Ian Cutress on 11/18/2013Apple iPad mini with Retina Display: Reviewed
I suppose there’s only one way to start this review, and that’s by looking back at last year’s iPad mini review. In that review I had a section dedicated...
349 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2013Intel SSD 530 (240GB) Review
The consumer SSD market is currently at a turning point. SATA 6Gbps is starting to be a bit long in the tooth but SATA Express support is still very...
60 by Kristian Vättö on 11/15/2013The AMD Radeon R9 270X & R9 270 Review: Feat. Asus & HIS
Launching today is the latest member of AMD's Radeon 200 series family, the R9 270. Today we'll be looking at it alongside AMD's first 270 series card, the R9 270X.
59 by Ryan Smith on 11/13/2013NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Review
NVIDIA has been doing something interesting of late by making and releasing its own devices with Tegra SoCs inside. We first saw Shield, a handheld gaming console with Tegra...
87 by Brian Klug on 11/12/2013ADATA XPG V2 Review: 2x8 GB at DDR3-2400 C11-13-13 1.65 V
Memory 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. Most...
26 by Ian Cutress on 11/11/2013Netgear ReadyNAS 312 2-bay SMB / SOHO NAS Review
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. Almost all major NAS vendors...
18 by Ganesh T S on 11/11/2013The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review
First announced last month at an NVIDIA event, launching today is NVIDIA's newest flagship video card and the capstone to the GK110 family, GeForce GTX 780 Ti. Taking everything...
302 by Ryan Smith on 11/7/2013OCZ Vector 150 (120GB & 240GB) Review
The holiday season is one of the busiest shopping seasons of all year. As it can be the lifesaver (or destroyer) of company's financials, having a competitive product lineup...
59 by Kristian Vättö on 11/7/2013ASRock Z87E-ITX Review: Motherboard Juxtaposition
In the office I am currently running through a series of smaller sized motherboards – both micro-ATX and mini-ITX. Due to the size, there is plenty of scope...
43 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2013The AnandTech Mobile Show - 002
Yesterday we announced that we'd be doing our first (technically second) live mobile show tonight at 7PM ET. We're now just over 1.5 hours away from going live. I'll...
67 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/5/2013The AMD Radeon R9 290 Review
Launching today is AMD's Radeon R9 290, the obligatory lower-tier part for AMD’s new flagship video card lineup. Making the usual tradeoffs for a lower-tier part, AMD is cutting...
295 by Ryan Smith on 11/5/2013Samsung S27B971D Monitor Review
At the 2013 CES Samsung made a point to demonstrate the excellent accuracy of their monitors. They had an example of the automated calibration routine they go through at...
52 by Chris Heinonen on 10/31/2013The iPad Air Review
It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the 10-inch tablet market was done for, with all interest and excitement shifting to smaller, but equally capable 7 or 8-inch tablets...
444 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/29/2013The Next Generation of Micro Server SoCs: ECX-2000 vs Atom 2000
Calxeda has announced its second generation SoC, the ARM Cortex™ A15 based EnergyCore™ ECX-2000. We try to estimate how this new Server SoC compares to the latest Intel Atom...
45 by Johan De Gelas on 10/29/2013HTC One max Review - It's Huge
Big phones are all the rage right now. Although tablets promised the kind of extra screen real estate that would increase productivity while still retaining portability, there’s ultimately nothing...
197 by Brian Klug on 10/28/2013The AMD Radeon R9 290X Review
Launching today is AMD's Radeon R9 290X. The 290X is not only the fastest card in AMD’s 200 series lineup, but the 290 series in particular also contains the...
396 by Ryan Smith on 10/24/2013EVGA X79 Dark Review
Investing into the high performance Intel arena can be expensive. Alongside that $330/$580/$1050 CPU (or more for Xeons) there has to be a motherboard up to the task...
23 by Ian Cutress on 10/23/2013Apple Event (October 2013) - Live Blog
Brian and I are on the ground in San Francisco for Apple's event today. We're expecting to see new iPads introduced as well as the long-awaited Haswell rMBP refreshes...
101 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/22/2013