Intel Announces 7th Gen Kaby Lake: 14nm PLUS, Six Notebook SKUs, Desktop coming in January
When Intel first announced the shift from the dual-stage ‘Tick-Tock’ methodology that had driven their core CPU design teams for over a decade into the three-way ‘Process, Architecture, Optimization&rsquo...
131 by Ganesh T S & Ian Cutress on 8/30/2016Memory Frequency Scaling on Intel's Skull Canyon NUC - An Investigation
Overclocking has generally been the domain of enthusiasts with desktop rigs. However, increasing the CPU frequency beyond the official specification is not the only way to extract more performance...
31 by Ganesh T S on 8/29/2016The Meizu PRO 6 Review
The Meizu PRO 6 features an attractive design and excellent build quality, but is not a clear upgrade over the previous generation PRO 5. Lurking inside its all-aluminum chassis...
48 by Matt Humrick on 8/26/2016Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 SFF PC Review - An Innovative VR-Ready Gaming Powerhouse
The PC market has been subject to challenges over the last several years. However, gaming systems and small form-factor (SFF) PCs have weathered the storm particularly well. Many vendors...
30 by Ganesh T S on 8/25/2016AMD Zen Microarchiture Part 2: Extracting Instruction-Level Parallelism
Hot Chips is an annual conference that allows semiconductor companies to present their latest and greatest ideas or forthcoming products in an academic-style environment, and is predominantly aimed as...
106 by Ian Cutress on 8/23/2016The Tesoro Gram Spectrum Low Profile Mechanical Keyboard Review
Today we are taking our first look at a “low-profile” mechanical keyboard, the Tesoro Gram Spectrum. The Gram Spectrum features RGB lighting and full programmability, but its highlight are...
27 by E. Fylladitakis on 8/22/2016AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cache and Memory Hierarchy Revealed
In their own side event this week, AMD invited select members of the press and analysts to come and discuss the next layer of Zen details. In this piece...
216 by Ian Cutress on 8/18/2016honor Press Event Live Blog
We're in the California Academy of Sciences in SF awaiting a press event for Honor.
9 by Ian Cutress & Joshua Ho on 8/16/2016IDF 2016: Keynote Live Blog
We're here at Intel's IDF 2016 Keynote talk!
16 by Ryan Smith & Ian Cutress on 8/16/2016The Samsung Galaxy Note7 (S820) Review
This year has been difficult for smartphones, which is a bit of a paradox when you consider just how much better things have gotten compared to last year. With...
203 by Joshua Ho on 8/16/2016NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 10-Series for Notebooks Unveiled, Launching Today
Although no two GPU launches are ever exactly alike, I think this year’s launch of the FinFET generation GPUs really drives that point home. Over the last 3 months...
46 by Ryan Smith & Brett Howse on 8/16/2016The Motorola Moto G4 and G4 Plus Review
At this point in time, I don't think the Moto G line needs any introduction. With the original Moto G in 2013 Motorola really went beyond what was thought...
94 by Brandon Chester on 8/15/2016The BitFenix Pandora ATX Case Review
BitFenix owes a lot of their recent success as a company to the Pandora. It is a case that was loved for its design and price to performance ratio...
26 by E. Fylladitakis on 8/11/2016ASRock Beebox-S 6200U Review - An Alternative to the Skylake NUC
The Skylake-U platform for mini-PCs has turned out to be an interesting one. Numerous challenges were faced by the first one in the market - the Intel Skylake NUC...
31 by Ganesh T S on 8/10/2016Netac Z5 USB 3.1 Gen 2 Portable SSD Review
The last few years have seen rapid advancements in flash technology including planar 1x nm NAND, TLC, and 3D V-NAND. External high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.x have also...
22 by Ganesh T S on 8/9/2016The Skylake Core i3 (51W) CPU Review: i3-6320, i3-6300 and i3-6100 Tested
Out of every generation of Intel processors, the headline acts are the high core count parts, the ones with a high-frequency or the most expensive models. Of course, any...
94 by Ian Cutress on 8/8/2016The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
For the mainstream video card market, a traditional NVIDIA top-to-bottom launch is both exciting and trying. Exciting because you get a sneak peek at what’s coming down the pipe...
189 by Ryan Smith on 8/5/2016The Nixeus Moda Pro Review: A Professional Mechanical Keyboard for $55
In this review we are having a look at a low-cost mechanical keyboard, the Nixeus Moda Pro. The Moda Pro is a no-frills product that is mainly targeted to...
40 by E. Fylladitakis on 8/3/2016Windows 10 Anniversary Update: The Road To Redstone
It’s already been a year since Microsoft launched Windows 10, and we have had a couple of updates since release. The biggest update yet though is the Windows 10...
196 by Brett Howse on 8/2/2016