Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor, the UP2414Q
Currently there are several 4K options on the market – models using the higher end IGZO displays such as the Dell Ultrasharp 32” 4K (UP3214Q, $3500) or the ASUS...
60 by Ian Cutress on 12/1/2013Best Gaming Laptops and Notebooks - Holiday 2013
We're in the midst of updating all of our "best of" guides for the holiday season, and we've already covered what is likely the most popular category: Budget Laptops...
67 by Jarred Walton on 11/29/2013Best Budget Laptops - Holiday 2013
Introduction Over the past decade, we've seen a dramatic slowing in the rate of performance increases on PCs and laptops. Where it was typical to see a doubling in performance...
30 by Jarred Walton on 11/28/2013Synology Updates Surveillance Station NVR Package
We have covered Synology's Surveillance Station in a qualitative manner before, and one of our main complaints was the fact that the interface was reliant on Java. On lower-end...
2 by Ganesh T S on 11/28/2013OCZ Files for Bankruptcy - Toshiba Offers to Buy the Assets
OCZ has just issued a press release announcing their filing for bankruptcy, which was expected since Nasdaq had halted the trading of OCZ stock earlier today. OCZ has had...
68 by Kristian Vättö on 11/27/2013Best SSDs: Holiday 2013
Since the holiday shopping season is going at full speed and Black Friday is only a few days away, we are doing a bunch of product recommendation posts to...
54 by Kristian Vättö on 11/27/2013Gaming Motherboards under $175: Holiday 2013
Glad tidings we bring, and this time it comes in the form of gaming oriented motherboards. As an ex-semi-serious gamer (local clan matches, LANs), the motherboard in my...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/27/2013Futuremark Begins Delisting "Cheating" Mobile Devices from 3DMark Database
Over the summer, following a tip from @AndreiF7, we documented an interesting behavior on the Exynos 5 Octa versions of Samsung's Galaxy S 4. Upon detecting certain benchmarks the...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2013Chipworks Confirms Xbox One SoC Has 14 CUs with 2 Disabled
In our mini-review of the Xbox One I speculated that the shipping version of Microsoft's console featured 14 AMD GCN CUs (Graphics Core Next Compute Units), with two disabled...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2013A Post about Removable Storage, Removable Batteries and Smartphones
There's been a lot of talk lately about our position on removable storage and removable batteries in smartphones. Most of the discussion has centered around what we've said in...
376 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 11/25/2013Best Desktop CPUs: Holiday 2013
Next up in our series of Holiday Buyer’s Guides is a look at processors. Building systems in time for a holiday season means that picking the right components...
25 by Ian Cutress on 11/25/2013Western Digital Releases Black^2: 120GB SSD + 1TB HD Dual-Drive in 2.5" Form Factor
To date all the hybrid storage solutions we have seen have been rather limited. Seagate got the idea right with the Momentus XT but having only 8GB of NAND...
66 by Kristian Vättö on 11/25/2013Best Mini-ITX Motherboards: Holiday 2013
As part of a stream on holiday buying guides (Black Friday and jolly Noël around the corner), here is my take on the season’s mini-ITX offerings, covering both AMD...
34 by Ian Cutress on 11/23/2013Fall 2013 Supercomputer Rankings Released; Achieving Max Efficiency With Oil
Turning our eyes back towards SC13 and supercomputers one more time this week, we have the biannual supercomputer rankings, which are released every spring and every fall. These rankings...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/22/2013Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805: 2.5GHz, 128-bit Memory Interface, D3D11-class Graphics & More
Qualcomm has had an incredible year. It wasn’t too long ago that I was complaining about Qualcomm’s release cadence, the lull between Scorpion and Krait allowed competitors like NVIDIA...
105 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/22/2013iPad mini with Retina Display: LTE Hotspot Battery Life
As I promised in our iPad mini with Retina Display review, I put the new mini through our LTE hotspot battery life test. As connected tablets are effectively smartphones...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/22/2013Humble Weekly: Zen Studios' Pinball FX2
The Humble Weekly this round is for one type of gamer and one type of gamer only: those who like electronic pinball. I used to play some of the...
14 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2013Acer Aspire R7-572: Haswell and an Active Digitizer
Earlier this year, we looked at Acer’s R7 laptop – an interesting hybrid device that moves the keyboard forward and the touchpad back, with the idea being that you’ll...
30 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2013Qualcomm Announces Fourth Gen Cat 6 LTE Modem – MDM9x35
In addition to the IPQ8064 news this morning, Qualcomm released a host of other product announcements we're working our way through. Among them is news of its fourth generation...
16 by Brian Klug on 11/20/2013Gaming Immersion: OverclockersUK Launch Infinity Emperor Chair and Workstation
For any of our readers that do not frequent computer forums, one of the big draws to various places on interwebs is the unique and custom builds that individuals...
38 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2013