In our first P55 Overclocking showdown we take a look at the top boards from ASUS, EVGA, and Gigabyte. One...
November 6, 2009
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That's right, just in time for the holidays we've partnered up with Intel to give away a complete Lynnfield...
November 4, 2009
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A couple of weeks ago Marvell announced its ARMADA line of custom ARM based SoCs. We have a little more...
November 3, 2009
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blog post by Ryan Smith
It’s not often we write about prices going up.
Last week there was a rumor going around that AMD intended to raise prices on the 5800 series. At the time we wrote this off as yet another highly-speculative rumor based on shaky evidence. Official price hikes are virtually unprecedented, after all.
Then things changed.
We’ve talked...
November 5, 2009, 81 comments
blog post by Johan De Gelas
First of all, we were pretty excited to see so many comments and votes (5000!) on our last IT poll. It is good to see that professional IT is so much alive at Anandtech.com. So yes, we should have updated this blog quicker, to keep the momentum going. The reason why this update comes rather late is -once again - that we are working on the much delayed hypervisor...
November 3, 2009, 28 comments
storage
We take Seagate's latest drive technology for a quick spin and wonder if SATA 6Gb/s technology will ever benefit desktop based hard drives....
October 29, 2009, 54 comments
blog post by Ryan Smith
For those of you sticking with Vista, Microsoft has finally officially released DirectX 11 for Vista, after having spent the last couple of months in beta. This final release looks to be the same as the last beta released earlier this month.
The update is KB971512, which is being released as part of a larger Platform Update for Vista that includes a few...
October 28, 2009, 39 comments
blog post by Jarred Walton
Acer recently launched some updated laptops with Windows 7. For that matter, just about every laptop manufacturer out there has new laptops sporting Windows 7, but we're going to start our coverage of mobile press releases with Acer since they were kind enough to send us the pertinent details. (Ed: This blog may be a bit long, but we'll try to do them more...
October 28, 2009, 32 comments
storage
Intel and Indilinx SSDs now have TRIM support - we put it to the test. At the same time Kingston helps Intel bring SSDs to the masses with a 40GB X25-M G2 based SSD priced at $115 or $85 after rebates....
October 26, 2009, 128 comments
systems
After nearly a year of serious waiting, the next Windows is here. Its arrival puts a stake in Vista, and may finally be what Microsoft needs to put XP to bed....
October 26, 2009, 202 comments
mobile
We give our initial impressions of the ASUS UL80Vt, the first in what promises to be a long line of Windows 7 laptops. The bar has just been set....
October 24, 2009, 84 comments
mobile
One of the most popular mobile form factors, thin and light laptops need to carefully balance features, performance, and design. The Dell Studio 14z is one of the better thin and light offerings we've seen, albeit with a few blemishes....
October 20, 2009, 53 comments
cpuchipsets
Hot on the heels of last months' $99 quad-core, AMD is back with a higher performance alternative to Intel's Pentium E6xxx series. It's the return of the triple core with the Athlon II X3 435 and 425. Both priced under $90 and both delivering better than Intel dual-core performance. For the first time in a while, AMD's biggest competition is itself....
October 20, 2009, 127 comments
cpuchipsets
Anyone can license ARM's microprocessor architectures, Marvell chooses to license only the instruction set and build its own designs. We look at Marvell's architecture to see if it's what you may want in your next smartphone....
October 19, 2009, 28 comments
mb
If you plan on overclocking your P55 past current 4.3GHz limits on air or water, you need to be aware of potential problems with current socket designs....
October 15, 2009, 259 comments
mobile
Unlike desktops, it's not currently possible to get a notebook that wins every benchmark, but we have three of the fastest currently available notebooks and we'll show you where each excels. Leave your wallet at the door…....
October 14, 2009, 51 comments
blog post by Johan De Gelas
If you read our last article, it is clear that when your applications are virtualized, you have a lot more options to choose from in order to build your server infrastructure . Let us know how you would build up your "dynamic datacenter" and why!
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October 7, 2009, 46 comments
blog post by Ryan Smith
Last week NVIDIA released their first set of end-user OpenCL drivers. Previously OpenCL drivers had only been available for developers on the NVIDIA side of things, and this continues to be the case on the AMD side of things. With NVIDIA’s driver release, the launch of AMD’s 5800 series, and some recent developments with OpenCL, this is a good...
October 6, 2009, 64 comments
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