Microsoft Surface 2 Review
A year ago Microsoft first threw its hat into the tablet race with a new brand, a new OS and a completely new strategy. To make a challenging situation...
139 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/21/2013
Tim Sweeney, Johan Andersson & John Carmack @ NV Montreal - Live Blog
NVIDIA managed to bring Tim Sweeney (Founder, Epic), Johan Andersson (Frostbite Technical Director, Dice) and John Carmack (Founder, id Software) all up to Montreal to share their thoughts on...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/18/2013
NVIDIA Montreal Event - Live Blog
NVIDIA invited us up to Montreal for a big, gaming-related announcement. We're here live blogging the event!
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/18/2013
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Review: Redefining the Entry-Level Windows Notebook
I started out our Chromebook 11 review with a reminder that we are in the midst of a netbook renaissance. Armed with better hardware, a better sense of materials/industrial...
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Sony VAIO Pro 13: Exceptionally Portable
As our first non-Apple Haswell Ultrabook, the Sony VAIO Pro 13 has a high bar to clear. We’ve seen a few Haswell systems that have delivered on the promise...
106 by Jarred Walton on 10/16/2013
HP Chromebook 11 Review
We’re in the midst of a netbook renaissance. Armed with lighter weight OSes, faster hardware and a better appreciation for what matters in a consumer device, OEMs are giving...
90 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/15/2013
GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Review: Overclocking Oriented Orange at $200
Last generation saw a new type of product in motherboards: the cheap OC oriented SKU. At $200-240 we had a single option specifically designed for OC, with other...
23 by Ian Cutress on 10/11/2013
The Sapphire R9 280X Toxic Review
Today we're taking a look at Sapphire's Radeon R9 280X Toxic, the latest of the custom 280X cards to come rolling through our labs. With the Toxic series of...
85 by Ryan Smith on 10/10/2013
A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs
FPGAs offer the promise of reconfigurable computing: Reconfiguring the hardware to match your application needs. This reconfigurable approach is often more efficient than general purpose processors such as CPUs...
56 by Rahul Garg on 10/9/2013
The Radeon R9 280X Review: Feat. Asus & XFX - Meet The Radeon 200 Series
After being announced back at AMD's 2014 GPU Product Showcase, today AMD is finally launching the Radeon 200 series. Today we’ll be looking at the new series in detail...
151 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2013
The GeForce GTX 760 Roundup: Gigabyte and EVGA Compared
Today we’re taking a look at our first customized GTX 760 cards, the GTX 760 OC Windforce 3X and GTX 760 Superclocked ACX from Gigabyte and EVGA respectively. Based...
22 by Ryan Smith on 10/7/2013
21.5-inch iMac (Late 2013) Review: Iris Pro Driving an Accurate Display
I have a confession to make. For the past year I’ve been using a 27-inch iMac as my primary workstation. I always said that if I had a less...
127 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/7/2013
The GeForce GTX 770 Roundup: EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI Compared
Today we’re taking a look at our first customized GTX 770 cards, coming from from EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI. All of these are semi-custom and fully custom cards pairing...
55 by Ryan Smith on 10/4/2013
Choosing a Gaming CPU October 2013: i7-4960X, i5-4670K, Nehalem and Intel Update
Back in April we launched our first set of benchmarks relating to which CPU we should choose for gaming. To that list we now add results from several...
137 by Ian Cutress on 10/3/2013
They're (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks
Thanks to AndreiF7's excellent work on discovering it, we kicked off our investigations into Samsung’s CPU/GPU optimizations around the international Galaxy S 4 in July and came away...
375 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/2/2013
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Review
I still remember the first time I held the original Galaxy Note. At that point in time it wasn’t really obvious just how critical larger-display smartphones were going to...
305 by Brian Klug on 10/1/2013
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Review
Ever since the arrival of the Nexus 10, it’s been hard recommending other, lower resolution 10-inch Android tablets. Although not the knock out success that the Nexus 7 became...
100 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/1/2013
Samsung Galaxy Gear Review
Galaxy Gear is Samsung’s new entry into the smartwatch arena, a market with a growing number of new attempts to deliver the ideal wrist-wearable smartphone accessory. How does it...
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The Neophyte's Custom Liquid Cooling Guide: How To, Why To, What To Expect
When Swiftech offered to provide us with the materials to build a full custom loop, we couldn't resist.
108 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/30/2013
NEC PA242W Monitor Review
What separates a professional grade monitor, like the NEC PA242W, from a similarly designed consumer display? You can easily go to Dell and find a 24”, 1920x1200 resolution display...
77 by Chris Heinonen on 9/27/2013
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