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...
54 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/18/2012Corsair 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 12/15/2012Gigabyte 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 12/14/2012Dell 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 12/12/2012Holiday 2012 Ultrabook and Ultraportable Guide
We’ve provided some buyer’s guides for system builders so far, but today we’re going to ditch the DIY sector and instead look at pre-built laptop options, with a focus...
78 by Jarred Walton on 12/12/2012MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 Review: Know Your Platform
The A85X chipset and FM2 socket is supposedly here to stay for Trinity plus one more generation. As a result, AMD needs to make sure that the platform is...
11 by Ian Cutress on 12/11/2012LG 29EA93 Ultrawide Display - Rev. 1.09
When migrating away from 4:3 screens for home video, the 16:9 aspect ratio was chosen as a compromise between all the common formats at the time. For many film...
91 by Chris Heinonen on 12/11/2012Plextor Updates The Firmware on M5 Pro: Promises Increased Performance, We Test It
Plextor released their M5 Pro SSD in August, which we reviewed shortly after the release. Now nearly four months later, Plextor has released an updated firmware (v1.02) for the...
46 by Kristian Vättö on 12/10/2012Holiday 2012 Workstation Buyer's Guide
Though mobile devices continue to consume more computing marketshare at the expense of traditional desktop PCs, phones and tablets, and to an extent even laptops, simply cannot compete with...
49 by Zach Throckmorton on 12/10/2012iPad 4 (Late 2012) Review
For years, almost a decade in fact, we've been asking for higher quality displays in notebooks. With most of our pleas left ignored for the value notebook segment, smartphone...
113 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/6/2012Holiday 2012 Small Form Factor Buyer's Guide
There have been many interesting developments in the small form factor market segment since our last SFF buyer's guide. Specifically, current-generation Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs and AMD Trinity APUs...
74 by Zach Throckmorton on 12/5/2012Aleutia Relia Industrial PC Review: Ivy Bridge & Q77 in a Fanless Chassis
Industrial PCs come with stringent requirements that are not satisfied by generic PCs. It is customary for builders to use active cooling in order to ensure that the components...
47 by Ganesh T S on 12/4/2012Exploring the Relationship Between Spare Area and Performance Consistency in Modern SSDs
When we reviewed Intel's SSD DC S3700 I started looking at consistency of IO latency, an area that Intel's latest controller specifically targeted for significant improvement. In our review...
134 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/4/2012ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 Review
The answer to the question ‘What makes a good motherboard?’ can generate an alarming number of responses. When a manufacturer starts with a new chipset, the idealized view...
19 by Ian Cutress on 12/3/2012HP EliteBook 2170p Ultraportable Review: Business Class, But Business Savvy?
We recently reviewed Acer's Aspire V5-171, a notebook that proves that there's a life (and a market) after netbooks but before ultrabooks. The essential gap that's materialized has been...
46 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/30/2012Updating the 2012 AnandTech SMB / SOHO NAS Testbed
In early September, we published a piece detailing our SMB / SOHO NAS testbed. Subsequently, we received extensive feedback from readers regarding the testbed as well as the proposed...
24 by Ganesh T S on 11/29/2012Holiday 2012 AMD Trinity Buyer's Guide
While AMD's second generation "Trinity" APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) have been available in pre-built desktops and laptops for many months now, the chips and accompanying motherboards themselves have only...
72 by Zach Throckmorton on 11/29/2012TRIM & RAID-0 SSD Arrays Work With Intel 6-Series Motherboards Too
A few months ago, Intel brought TRIM support to RAID-0 SSD arrays but limited it to its latest 7-series chipsets. As 7 and 6-series chipsets are very similar, there...
36 by Kristian Vättö on 11/28/2012OCZ Vector (256GB) Review
Times are changing at OCZ. There's a new CEO at the helm, and the company is now focused on releasing fewer products but that have gone through more validation...
151 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/27/2012Iomega EZ Media & Backup Center Network Attached Hard Disk Review
The rise of powerful home networking solutions have led to the shift in consumer focus from DAS (Direct Attached Storage) units to NAS (Network Attached Storage) units in the...
20 by Ganesh T S on 11/27/2012