Corsair Carbide Air 240 Case Review
With compact cases and SSFs being all the rage nowadays, today Corsair is launching the Carbide Air 240, a cubic Micro-ATX case designed to fit powerful PC hardware. As...
63 by E. Fylladitakis on 8/15/2014be quiet! Power Zone 850W CM Power Supply Review
be quiet! is a German company that specializes in low-noise computer PSUs and coolers, and they are slowly making their way into the North American market. Today we have...
20 by E. Fylladitakis on 8/14/2014ioSafe 1513+ Review: A Disaster-Resistant Synology DS1513+
The 3-2-1 data backup strategy involves keeping three copies of all essential data, spread over at least two different devices with at least one of them being off-site or...
43 by Ganesh T S on 8/13/2014Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014
It has been five years since we did a benchmark of the various web browsers and their effect on battery life, and a lot has changed. Our testing then...
112 by Stephen Barrett on 8/12/2014Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M
Typically we would see Intel unveil the bulk of the technical details of their forthcoming products at their annual Intel Developer Forum, and with the next IDF scheduled for...
158 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014AMD’s Big Bet on ARM Powered Servers: Opteron A1100 Revealed
It has been a full seven months since AMD released detailed information about its Opteron A1100 server CPU, and twenty two months since announcement. Today, at the Hot Chips...
28 by Stephen Barrett on 8/11/2014MSI A88X-G45 Gaming Review
One of AMD’s main selling points it likes to promote is towards the gamer, especially those on a tighter budget. This subsequently suggests to the motherboard manufacturers to build...
12 by Ian Cutress on 8/11/2014AMD’s 5 GHz Turbo CPU in Retail: The FX-9590 and ASRock 990FX Extreme9 Review
While AMD’s FX-9590 CPU has been in systems for over a year, it suddenly comes to market as a retail package for end-users to buy with a bundled liquid...
149 by Ian Cutress on 8/9/2014WD Red Pro Review: 4 TB Drives for NAS Systems Benchmarked
A couple of weeks back, Western Digital updated their NAS-specific drive lineup with 5 and 6 TB Red drives. In addition, 7200 RPM Red Pro models with 2 -...
62 by Ganesh T S on 8/8/2014NEC EA244UHD Review
The NEC EA244UHD is the first UltraHD (UHD) monitor from NEC. While it's not from their professional line, it has many of the features we've come to expect in...
58 by Chris Heinonen on 8/7/2014Transcend SSD340 (256GB) Review
A couple of months ago we reviewed JMicron's JMF667H reference design SSDs, which did relatively well in our tests especially when taking JMicron's older SSD controllers into account. As...
57 by Kristian Vättö on 8/4/2014ZBOX Sphere OI520 Plus: Zotac's Take on the NUC
The Intel NUC has created a very successful niche for itself in the SFF PC market. While Gigabyte has released the BRIX lineup (with more options compared to the...
40 by Ganesh T S on 8/1/2014AMD A10-7800 Review: Testing the A10 65W Kaveri
Kaveri was launched as a processor line, on desktop, back in January. At the time we were given information on three of the APUs, the A10-7850K, A10-7700K and A8-7600...
147 by Ian Cutress on 7/31/2014Life with the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro
Earlier this year I upgraded to the new Yoga 2 Pro, an Ultrabook with pretty typical specifications. The screen is one of the key differentiators with a QHD+ 3200x1800...
103 by Brett Howse on 7/30/2014Intel SSD Pro 2500 (240GB) Review
Last year Intel introduced the SSD Pro 1500, the company's first SSD for the business segment. The Pro 1500 brought support for hardware accelerated encryption in the form of...
43 by Kristian Vättö on 7/30/2014The NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Review
While I talked about this in the launch article, the SHIELD Tablet is very much the culmination of lessons learned from 2013. While the Tegra Note 7 was a...
175 by Joshua Ho on 7/29/2014QNAP TS-451 Bay Trail NAS Performance Review
The launch of the QNAP TS-x51 series was covered in detail last month. Its introduction has revitalized the premium NAS market for SOHO and power users by providing a...
57 by Ganesh T S on 7/28/2014Filling the Gap: AMOLED and LCD from 2010 to 2012
For a while now, I’ve realized that there is a massive gap in the continuity of smartphone display history. Until the last few months of 2011 and early 2012...
72 by Joshua Ho on 7/26/2014LG G Watch Giveaway
Last month's Google IO saw the official introduction of Google's Android Wear as well as the first two devices to run the new wearable OS. Among those was LG's...
1194 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/25/2014Seagate NAS 4-Bay with Marvell ARMADA 370 Review
Seagate recently rebooted their NAS offerings, completely revamping their 2013 Business Storage lineup and dropping the old software platform altogether. In its place, they adopted the Debian-based NAS OS...
20 by Ganesh T S on 7/24/2014