Intel
Across the internet, from online forums such as Reddit to various other tech media outlets, there's a lot of furor around reports of Intel's top-end 14th and 13th Gen K series of processors running into stability issues. As Intel's flagship chips, these parts come aggressively clocked in order to maximize performance through various implementations of boost and turbo, leaving them running close to their limits out of the box. But with high-end motherboards further goosing these chips to wring even more performance out of them, it would seem that the Intel desktop ecosystem has finally reached a tipping point where all of these efforts to boost performance have pushed these flagship chips to unstable conditions. To that end, Intel has released new gudiance to...
Intel Updates the NUC at CES 2015 with Broadwell-U
The big topic going in to CES was the launch of Broadwell-U, Intel’s 14 nanometer 5th generation Core products for laptops, mini-PCs and all-in-ones, with rated TDPs of 15W...
32 by Ian Cutress on 1/12/2015
Intel Announces Curie: Tiny Module for Wearables
Yesterday, Intel announced a new module targeted to wearable technology: Intel Curie. This module continues Intel's push into IoT and wearable technology started with the Intel Edison. While we...
23 by Stephen Barrett on 1/7/2015
GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion Motherboard Review: Low Cost X99 Overclocking
When we ask the motherboard manufacturers about overclocking, most of them say that it is an integral part of their hardware line-up as well as a point to distinguish...
10 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2015
Intel Shipping 14nm Cherry Trail
Also on the list of Intel announcements today is that Cherry Trail, the next generation Atom architecture, is shipping to customers. For end-users, this means a realistic time frame...
22 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2015
Intel Releases Broadwell-U: New SKUs, up to 48 EUs and Iris 6100
As part of the CES cavalcade of announcements, after launching Core-M back in September, Intel is formally releasing their next element of the 14 nanometer story: Broadwell-U. As the...
85 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2015
MSI GT80 Titan: Full Specs Revealed
Last year, MSI teased us with some images of their upcoming GT80 Titan notebook, an 18.4” gaming behemoth with support for SLI GPUs and a full Cherry MX mechanical...
23 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
MSI Announces GS30 Shadow Laptop and GPU Expansion Dock
One of the very interesting looking laptops from MSI is their upcoming GS30, which carries on the thin and light theme of the GS series but extends that down...
41 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
MSI Unveils GE62 and GE72 Apache Notebooks
After reviewing the GT72 Dominator Pro last year, I wondered how long it would take to see some of the updated industrial design elements make their way into other...
1 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
ASRock X99 OC Formula Motherboard Review: What is the Overclocking Formula?
Within each motherboard manufacturer, there is typically a design team for each market segment they are targeting, be that server, channel or gaming. Overclocking is slightly different as most...
17 by Ian Cutress on 12/30/2014
QNAP TS-853 Pro 8-bay Intel Bay Trail SMB NAS Review
QNAP has focused on Intel's Bay Trail platform for this generation of NAS units (compared to Synology's efforts with Intel Rangeley). While the choice made sense for the prosumer-targeted...
58 by Ganesh T S on 12/29/2014
GIGABYTE GA-J1800N-D2H Review: Dual Core Bay Trail-D at $69
Our recent review of the HP Stream 11 by Brett Howse, featuring a dual core Bay Trail-M, made me wonder about the utility of such a desktop system based...
39 by Ian Cutress on 12/26/2014
ASUS X99-A Motherboard Review
X99 and Haswell-E, due to the price, the performance and the feature set, ends up being very expensive compared to the mainstream. It is an odd state of affairs...
37 by Ian Cutress on 12/22/2014
HP Stream 7 Review: A $119 Windows Tablet
Late last month, we published our yearly holiday guide for people interested in buying tablets. We took a look at what we considered to be the best tablets running...
157 by Brandon Chester on 12/19/2014
GIGABYTE X99-Gaming G1 WIFI Motherboard Review
The gaming motherboard range from a manufacturer is one with a lot of focus in terms of design and function due to the increase in gaming related PC sales...
16 by Ian Cutress on 12/18/2014
ARM Challenging Intel in the Server Market: An Overview
Calxeda is no more, but many ARM licensees are preparing to storm the server market. Do they have a have fighting chance? Is the server ARMada capable of competing...
78 by Johan De Gelas on 12/16/2014
ASRock X99 WS-E/10G Motherboard Review: Dual 10GBase-T for Prosumers
For a number of months I have been wondering when 10GBase-T would be getting some prime time in the consumer market. Aside from add-in cards, there was no onboard...
45 by Ian Cutress on 12/15/2014
Intel Haswell Low Power CPU Review: Core i3-4130T, i5-4570S and i7-4790S Tested
Despite being an integral part of Intel's product stack, reviews of the lower power models are few and far between. For those of us that have no interest in...
77 by Ian Cutress on 12/11/2014
Best $1000 Laptops: Holiday 2014
Mainstream Laptop Recommendations So far we've covered the budget laptop sector as well as Chromebooks in our Holiday 2014 Guides, but if you want a good quality laptop that can...
80 by Jarred Walton on 12/5/2014
Holiday Guides 2014: CPUs
For the majority of applications, the CPU can be the most expensive and most important and most researched component of a desktop machine. In a handful of scenarios (perhaps...
26 by Ian Cutress on 12/1/2014
Asustor AS7008T 8-bay Intel Haswell SMB NAS Review
Asustor is one of the recent entrants in the NAS market. Over the last couple of years, they have tried to play in the same space as QNAP and...
29 by Ganesh T S on 11/30/2014
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