Intel
Intel's Meteor Lake series of processors was launched in September 2023 with a focus on mobile platforms. Multiple mini-PC vendors have utilized these processors to market offerings in the SFF / UCFF desktop market. ACEMAGIC is an Asian manufacturer with products in multiple categories including micro-PCs, UCFF (ultra-compact form-factor) and SFF (small form-factor) PCs, and notebooks. They were one of the first to market with Meteor Lake-based desktop systems. The ACEMAGIC F2A 125H is the entry-level version of the F2A line, equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor. It is a bit larger than the traditional NUCs, slotting it in the SFF category. However, that allows for the processor to be operated at 65W (compared to the 28 - 40W adopted in the...
Price Check: Intel's Core i7-6700K CPU In Short Supply
Demand for Intel’s Skylake CPUs has been very high since the introduction of the company’s latest processors in August. Even though the manufacturer has ramped up the supply of...
104 by Anton Shilov on 12/30/2015
The ASUS Maximus VIII Impact Z170 ROG Mini-ITX Motherboard Review
For the Z170 platform, ASUS is slowly increasing the number of Republic of Gamers motherboards available. Alongside the seniors Gene/Formula/Extreme, we have the Impact as a junior, sophomore models...
42 by Ian Cutress on 12/29/2015
ASUS and ASRock Prep Gaming Motherboards for Intel Xeon E3 v5 Processors
ASUS and ASRock, two major makers of computer motherboards, are rolling out their platforms for Intel Xeon CPUs designed for gamers. While typically Xeon chips are more expensive than...
50 by Anton Shilov on 12/29/2015
Workstation Love at SuperComputing 15
One of the interesting angles at Supercomputing 15 was workstations. In a show where high performance computing is paramount, most situations involve an offload of software onto a small...
36 by Ian Cutress on 12/14/2015
BCLK Overclocking Intel’s non-K Skylake Processors: Coming Soon
Anyone who has kept tabs on the extreme overclocking community recently would have noticed that the overclocker Dhenzjhen recently took a Core i3-6320 up to 127 MHz on increasing...
51 by Ian Cutress on 12/11/2015
The GIGABYTE Z170X-Gaming G1 Review: Quad-SLI on Skylake, and now with Thunderbolt 3
This is a review of a $500 motherboard for Skylake processors. For some readers, there’s going to an instant reaction of a series of question marks, confused emoji and...
67 by Ian Cutress on 12/1/2015
Supermicro with Greenlow Motherboards at SuperComputing 15
One of the bigger shakeups of the Xeon ecosystem of late is the recent discovery that Intel will be severing the few ties that the Xeon family of processors...
14 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015
Omni-Path Switches at SuperComputing 15: Supermicro and Dell
It was clear at SuperComputing 15 that Intel had two main things in mind to promote: Knights Landing, their new Xeon Phi product, and Omni-Path, their new 100 Gbps...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015
Broadwell E3 v4 Xeons: Cirrascale at SuperComputing 15
The hubbub about the Broadwell Xeon family was relatively interesting. We managed to get hold of the models that came in a socketed form for testing, the E3-1285 v4...
6 by Ian Cutress on 11/23/2015
SuperComputing 15: Intel’s Knights Landing / Xeon Phi Silicon on Display
There are lots of stories to tell from the SuperComputing 15 conference here in Austin, but a clear overriding theme – in order to reach ‘Exascale’ (the fancy name...
26 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2015
A Few Notes on Intel’s Knights Landing and MCDRAM Modes from SC15
When learning about new hardware, there are always different angles to look at it. For the most part, manufacturers talking to the media will focus on the hardware aspects...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/16/2015
Intel's Xeon D Product Family Updated with Storage and Networking-Specific SKUs
Intel's Xeon D has been one of the most exciting platforms to come out of Intel this year. Xeon D has created more excitement in the micro-server / edge...
17 by Ganesh T S on 11/9/2015
Examining Intel's New Speed Shift Tech on Skylake: More Responsive Processors
Modern computer processors are constantly changing their operating frequency (and voltage) depending on workload. For Intel processors, this is often handled by the operating system which will request a...
54 by Brett Howse on 11/6/2015
Asustor AS6204T Braswell 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 11/5/2015
ASRock Rack Launches Xeon D Motherboards
Intel's Xeon D SiP (System-in-package) has turned out to be one of the exciting launches this year in the server CPU space. We have already analyzed Xeon D in...
37 by Ganesh T S on 10/30/2015
QNAP TS-451+ SOHO NAS Review
QNAP is one of the leading vendors in the COTS NAS (commercial off-the-shelf network attached storage) space. They have a wide variety of hardware platforms to choose from, ranging...
34 by Ganesh T S on 10/29/2015
Intel Launches ‘Greenlow’: C236 Chipset and Skylake E3-1200 v5 Xeons
One of the recent notable aspects about the Xeon E3 family was the lack of a significant presence with Intel’s Broadwell architecture. A handful of them were released under...
31 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015
Intel Announces FY 2015 Q3 Results: Strong Earnings Despite Client Computing Drop
Intel released their third quarter earnings for fiscal year 2015 today, and it was certainly a rocky quarter. Their revenue for the quarter was $14.5 billion, which was in-line...
23 by Brett Howse on 10/13/2015
Software Guard Extensions on Specific Skylake CPUs Only
Through the staggered release of Intel’s 6th Generation Core processors, known as Skylake, we reported in our architecture deep dive that Intel would be introducing a raft of known...
19 by Ian Cutress on 10/5/2015
Intel Announces SSD DC P3608 Series
Intel is introducing a new family of enterprise PCIe SSDs with the aim of outperforming their existing DC P3600 series and even beating the DC P3700 series in many...
28 by Billy Tallis on 9/23/2015
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