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Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook: Acer’s Best Foot Forward
Over the years, we’ve seen many budget-oriented Acer offerings of one form or another. There have also been a few higher-end options, but for most of their products Acer...
54 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2013
NVIDIA CES 2013 Press Event: Live Blog
We just sat down for NVIDIA's Pre-CES press event. Things are running a bit late now, but we expect the event to start in the next 15 minutes. Keep...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 1/6/2013
Gigabyte GA-7PESH1 Review: A Dual Processor Motherboard through a Scientist’s Eyes
Browsing through a manufacturer’s website can offer a startling view of the product line up. Such was the case when I sprawled through Gigabyte’s range, only to find...
64 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2013
The State of Qualcomm's Modems - WTR1605 and MDM9x25
A little over a month ago, Qualcomm flew me out to San Diego to talk all about cellular modem, specifically their baseband lineup, testing, and later their RF and...
20 by Brian Klug on 1/4/2013
The ARM vs x86 Wars Have Begun: In-Depth Power Analysis of Atom, Krait & Cortex A15
Late last month, Intel dropped by my office with a power engineer for a rare demonstration of its competitive position versus NVIDIA's Tegra 3 when it came to power...
140 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/4/2013
Samsung ATIV Tab Review: Qualcomm's First Windows RT Tablet
Clover Trail was late by about a month to the Windows 8 launch. Most of the traditional PC partners were delayed either by Intel or by burdens of their...
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Fractal Design Node 605 Case Review: Is Fractal Design Ready for Primetime?
Media center enclosures can be a very tricky business. 25 years ago, horizontally-oriented cases were the norm, but the ATX standard complicates things. We're also dealing with hotter components...
52 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/1/2013
Z77 mITX Round-Up: Five of the Best – MSI, Zotac, ASRock, EVGA and ASUS
The mini-ITX motherboard market seems like a fast growing segment. It has many applications in terms of small home servers, work machines, HTPC devices, mobile gaming desktop machines...
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Arctic Cooling Accelero Hybrid VGA Cooler Review: Not For the Faint of Heart
Traditionally in the desktop space, the next step after high quality air cooling has been high quality liquid cooling, usually centered around custom designed cooling loops that cost a...
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Closing the Loop: Contained Liquid-Coolers from Corsair and NZXT Compared
While closed-loop liquid coolers seem to perform at best comparably to the highest end air coolers, there's a certain appeal in their flexibility, stress on the motherboard, and sometimes...
68 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/26/2012
The x86 Power Myth Busted: In-Depth Clover Trail Power Analysis
The untold story of Intel's desktop (and notebook) CPU dominance after 2006 has nothing to do with novel new approaches to chip design or spending billions on keeping its...
163 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/24/2012
Streacom's FC10 and Nano150: Building a Fanless Ivy Bridge HTPC
HTPC enthusiasts often place a lot of emphasis on silent systems for obvious reasons. We have looked at systems with passive thermal solutions before, but never presented the build...
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Capsule Review: Thermaltake Level 10 M Gaming Mouse
Input peripherals can be an interesting subject to tackle in these tiny bite size reviews. It's difficult to quantify strict performance, an issue ameliorated somewhat by the fact that...
32 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/21/2012
The Clover Trail (Atom Z2760) Review: Acer's W510 Tested
Microsoft’s Windows 8/RT launch has been a bit choppier than expected. I remember hearing rumors that the OS release could slip into next year, but it seems that the...
104 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/20/2012
Corsair Neutron & Neutron GTX: All Capacities Tested
Corsair surprised us all at Computex this year when they announced their Neutron and Neutron GTX SSDs based on a so-far relatively unknown Link A Media Devices (LAMD) controller...
44 by Kristian Vättö on 12/19/2012
Behind the Scenes of AnandTech's Server Tests [Video]
We've been quietly testing doing more video content on the site over the past year. I've done a few reviews over at our YouTube channel, and we also host...
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HP EliteBook 8570w Notebook Review: The Other Side of the Coin
We recently reviewed Dell's top of the line Precision M6700 mobile workstation and found that the overall design left something to be desired compared to HP's high end EliteBooks...
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Corsair Carbide 200R Case Review: How Low Can You Go
Corsair entered the enclosure business from the top with a measure of care to establish a solid brand identity. The Obsidian 800D was released as a flagship product and...
25 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/15/2012
Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4 Review – Are PowIRStages Needed with Trinity?
Since Computex back in June, Gigabyte has been pushing a new power delivery system across parts of its motherboard range. This involves an integrated circuit to combine power...
25 by Ian Cutress on 12/14/2012_carousel.jpg)
Dell Precision M6700 Notebook Review: The Enterprise Split
When you think about it, the enterprise workstation market really only has three key players. You have HP, who produce some excellent mobile workstations but have been stagnating horribly...
126 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/12/2012
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