Quite a bit happened this week, from interviews with Intel’s CEO, to a tour of GlobalFoundries Fab 8, the tech world has been moving quickly.
Read more ▶
This week was packed with hardware reviews, yet more slide leaks, and an a couple of odd ball product launches. Things will probably start to quiet down in the next couple weeks as everyone gets ready to release their quarterly results. But whatever the case, the unicorns at S|A are acting mighty feisty.
Read more ▶
*If any of this offended and/or annoyed you, feel free to fight it out in the comments below. Thank you.
Read more ▶
I want to take a moment to thank our dear readers, and leaders, for the extremely helpful feedback and name suggestions I received after last weeks roundup, thanks! The marketing battle between AMD and Nvidia continues this week with AMD firing the …
Read more ▶
The launch of Intel’s new Sandy Bridge platform lost its momentum thanks to Intel’s chipset bug, but with that behind us, it’s time to take a look at what Intel’s new mobile platform has to offer.
Read more ▶
WE’D ALMOST FORGOTTEN about this one, but we scored some pictures of Gigabyte’s final revision of the GA-H67N-USB3 mini-ITX board which have been fitted with the same style heatsink as its other H67 and P67 boards. It’s also the first H67 board we’ve seen that sports twin HDMI ports, making for some interesting usage scenarios.
Read more ▶
SO FAR WE’VE looked a range of motherboards for Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors and the last of the boards this time around is the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 which is at least for the time being, Gigabyte’s top of the line model. It packs just about every feature you could possibly want and then some, although it has a price to match these features.
Read more ▶
ASUS’ WS SERIES of motherboards are meant to be appeal to the entry level workstation market and the latest addition is the P8P67 WS Revolution based on Intel’s P67 chipset. As such this board doesn’t quite fall in the consumer category of motherboards from Asus and as a matter of fact, it’s been designed by the server and workstation motherboard team at Asus, rather than the consumer motherboard team.
Read more ▶
TO CONTINUE ON our current theme of Sandy Bridge motherboard reviews, today we have three upper mid-range boards going head to head that should leave most users not wanting for anything much more in the way of features. The boards in question are the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4, the Intel DP67BG and the MSI P67A-GD55, all having similar features and price point.
Read more ▶
TODAY WE’RE TAKING a look at two mATX H67 chipset motherboards in the $100 price range, namely the Gigabyte H67M-UD2H and the Intel DH67BL. We tested both boards with the Core i5 2500K processor as that is what we had at hand, but there’s no reason to buy a K series processor for an H67 board, as you can’t overclock the CPU when paired with the H67 chipset.
Read more ▶
Victorinox had an impressive spread of pocket knives on display, nearly all of them containing one or more flash memory sticks of some sort. The Belle of the Ball however had to be the unreleased “Presentation Master” knife/biometric protected flash drive/Bluetooth Power Point slide advancer/laser pointer/nail file/screw driver/scissors/owner of my heart.
Read more ▶
YESTERDAY WE TOOK a look at Intel’s Core i5 2500K and today we’re going to take a closer look at the Core i7 2600K which is currently Intel’s flagship processor based on Sandy Bridge. The big feature difference is Hyper Threading support, although the Core i7’s also feature an additional 2MB L3 cache, slightly higher clock speed and a higher turbo frequency for the integrated graphics to set them apart from the Core i5 models.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Benchmarks, Linux, Disappointment
Read more ▶
IN RECENT TIMES Intel’s biggest jump in performance was when the company moved from the Netburst architecture to the Core 2 architecture, a move that wasn’t repeated when the company moved to Nehalem. Today we’ll take a closer look at Sandy Bridge and without giving away too much; we can tell that it offers an impressive performance boost, although not in every single category.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Disappointment, Linux
Read more ▶
SANDY BRIDGE WAS shaping up to be the killer CPU of the year, a huge step forward in the ‘uncore’, decent graphics and big gains in the core as well. Instead, we got broken graphics, non-working feature sets, and a showstopper bug. What a shattering disappointment.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Benchmarks, Linux
Read more ▶
AMD LAUNCHED IT’S first new GPU architecture in four years last week, Cayman aka the HD6900 series. Lets take a look at the cards themselves, and how they perform, with a lot of emphasis on the new PowerTune feature.
Read more ▶
