The Alphacool Eisbaer 240 CPU AIO Liquid Cooler Review
Alphacool has been a known manufacturer of liquid cooling products for many years but had virtually no presence in the mainstream market until recently. In this review we are...
69 by E. Fylladitakis on 8/1/2016The SilverStone ST60F-TI Strider Titanium 600W PSU Review
SilverStone joined the 80Plus Titanium PSU bandwagon with three new units recently, all with reasonable outputs and interesting specifications. In this review we are having a look at the...
22 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/29/2016The Motorola Moto Z & Moto Z Force (Droid Editions) Review
The new Moto Z Droids’ specifications and hardware are impressive but not that much different than what’s currently available with other flagships. To make its new phones more enticing...
77 by Matt Humrick on 7/28/2016Ten Year Anniversary of Core 2 Duo and Conroe: Moore’s Law is Dead, Long Live Moore’s Law
Today marks a full 10 years since the first Core 2 processors, and hence Intel’s 64-bit Core microarchitecture, were made officially available. These included a number of popular dual-core...
158 by Ian Cutress on 7/27/2016Price Check Q3 2016: DRAM Prices Down Over 20% Since Early 2016
Slow sales in the first half of 2016 have negatively affected suppliers of virtually all of PCs, tablets and smartphone components. Producers of DRAM typically suffer more than others...
37 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2016Battle of The CPU Stock Coolers! 7x Intel vs 5x AMD, plus an EVO 212
End users need to be aware of the performance of their current cooling solutions in order to reasonably assess the upgrade that will fit their needs. In this review...
82 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/22/2016Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian
A few months ago, IBM brought the relatively cheap S812LC server to the market, making sure the IBM POWER8 is within the budget of almost every datacenter. In this...
124 by Johan De Gelas on 7/21/2016The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Founders Editions Review: Kicking Off the FinFET Generation
It has taken about 2 years longer than we’d normally see, but the next full generation of GPUs are finally upon us. Powered by FinFET based nodes at TSMC...
201 by Ryan Smith on 7/20/2016AMD Carrizo Part 2: A Generational Deep Dive into the Athlon X4 845 at $70
Prior to the announcement for AMD's 7th Generation of APUs, Bristol Ridge, the latest micro-architecture from AMD based on the x86 instruction set was given the codename Excavator, using...
131 by Ian Cutress on 7/14/2016A First Look At Apple's macOS Sierra
As with past years, Apple's WWDC 2016 keynote showcased the upcoming updates to Apple's operating systems and developer tools. It's hard to believe that iOS is now on its...
81 by Brandon Chester on 7/13/2016The Meizu M3 Note vs. Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Review: Comparing Notes
In this article, we’ll be examining the Meizu M3 note and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3. The similarities between these two phones extend beyond their “note” branding; they also...
80 by Matt Humrick on 7/12/2016The Samsung 850 EVO 4TB SSD Review
The arrival of Samsung's 256Gb 48-layer 3D NAND has allowed the 850 EVO product line to expand once more with the introduction of the first 4TB consumer SSD: a...
145 by Billy Tallis on 7/11/2016The Raidmax RX-700AT 700W 80Plus Titanium Power Supply Review
Raidmax, despite being that common a name in the west, is actually one of the oldest PC case and PSU manufacturers. Over recent years, they have focused on cost-effective...
22 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/7/2016The Evolution of HDDs in the Near Future: Speaking with Seagate CTO, Mark Re
In the recent months, Seagate has made several significant announcements regarding the future of HDD technology and unveiled a number of important products. In particular, late last year the...
91 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2016The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge Review: Part 2
With part one of our Galaxy S7 review, it was clear that the Galaxy S7 was at least a mild improvement to the Galaxy S6 in some ways, but...
266 by Joshua Ho on 7/5/2016The Corsair Gaming K70 RGB RAPIDFIRE Mechanical Keyboard Review
There already are dozens of companies offering literally hundreds of mechanical keyboards, covering nearly all shapes and sizes. Designers try to innovate and differentiate but this becomes exceedingly difficult...
36 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/1/2016The Lenovo ThinkPad P70 Review: Mobile Xeon Workstation
It’s been almost a year now since Lenovo first announced the new P50 and P70 mobile workstations, which were 15-inch and 17-inch notebooks, respectively. The part of the announcement...
30 by Brett Howse on 6/30/2016The AMD Radeon RX 480 Preview: Polaris Makes Its Mainstream Mark
Back in December of last year, AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group began slowly trickling out the plans for what would be their first GPU architecture built for the now-modern FinFET...
449 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2016The Intel Compute Stick (Core m3-6Y30) Review
Small and power-efficient computers in the form of NUCs and Compute Sticks are here to stay. The Compute Stick form factor is the x86 version of the popular ARM-based...
105 by Ganesh T S on 6/27/2016The Meizu PRO 5 Review
The dominance of the smartphone market by Apple and Samsung is being challenged by several Chinese brands that are delivering surprisingly well-featured phones for a fraction of the price...
80 by Matt Humrick on 6/24/2016