The Next Generation of Micro Server SoCs: ECX-2000 vs Atom 2000
Calxeda has announced its second generation SoC, the ARM Cortex™ A15 based EnergyCore™ ECX-2000. We try to estimate how this new Server SoC compares to the latest Intel Atom...
45 by Johan De Gelas on 10/29/2013
HTC One max Review - It's Huge
Big phones are all the rage right now. Although tablets promised the kind of extra screen real estate that would increase productivity while still retaining portability, there’s ultimately nothing...
197 by Brian Klug on 10/28/2013
The AMD Radeon R9 290X Review
Launching today is AMD's Radeon R9 290X. The 290X is not only the fastest card in AMD’s 200 series lineup, but the 290 series in particular also contains the...
396 by Ryan Smith on 10/24/2013
EVGA X79 Dark Review
Investing into the high performance Intel arena can be expensive. Alongside that $330/$580/$1050 CPU (or more for Xeons) there has to be a motherboard up to the task...
23 by Ian Cutress on 10/23/2013
Apple Event (October 2013) - Live Blog
Brian and I are on the ground in San Francisco for Apple's event today. We're expecting to see new iPads introduced as well as the long-awaited Haswell rMBP refreshes...
101 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/22/2013
Monoprice IPS-Glass Panel Pro 27" LCD Monitor
The first Monoprice display I looked at didn’t fare well. While very affordable, it only offered a DVI input and very little in the way of controls. The worst...
41 by Chris Heinonen on 10/22/2013
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Review
When Microsoft introduced its first Surface devices last year, it did so in a staggered fashion. Surface RT showed up first, then four months later Surface Pro went on...
277 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/21/2013
Microsoft Surface 2 Review
A year ago Microsoft first threw its hat into the tablet race with a new brand, a new OS and a completely new strategy. To make a challenging situation...
139 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/21/2013
Tim Sweeney, Johan Andersson & John Carmack @ NV Montreal - Live Blog
NVIDIA managed to bring Tim Sweeney (Founder, Epic), Johan Andersson (Frostbite Technical Director, Dice) and John Carmack (Founder, id Software) all up to Montreal to share their thoughts on...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/18/2013
NVIDIA Montreal Event - Live Blog
NVIDIA invited us up to Montreal for a big, gaming-related announcement. We're here live blogging the event!
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/18/2013
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Review: Redefining the Entry-Level Windows Notebook
I started out our Chromebook 11 review with a reminder that we are in the midst of a netbook renaissance. Armed with better hardware, a better sense of materials/industrial...
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Sony VAIO Pro 13: Exceptionally Portable
As our first non-Apple Haswell Ultrabook, the Sony VAIO Pro 13 has a high bar to clear. We’ve seen a few Haswell systems that have delivered on the promise...
106 by Jarred Walton on 10/16/2013
HP Chromebook 11 Review
We’re in the midst of a netbook renaissance. Armed with lighter weight OSes, faster hardware and a better appreciation for what matters in a consumer device, OEMs are giving...
90 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/15/2013
GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Review: Overclocking Oriented Orange at $200
Last generation saw a new type of product in motherboards: the cheap OC oriented SKU. At $200-240 we had a single option specifically designed for OC, with other...
23 by Ian Cutress on 10/11/2013
The Sapphire R9 280X Toxic Review
Today we're taking a look at Sapphire's Radeon R9 280X Toxic, the latest of the custom 280X cards to come rolling through our labs. With the Toxic series of...
85 by Ryan Smith on 10/10/2013
A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs
FPGAs offer the promise of reconfigurable computing: Reconfiguring the hardware to match your application needs. This reconfigurable approach is often more efficient than general purpose processors such as CPUs...
56 by Rahul Garg on 10/9/2013
The Radeon R9 280X Review: Feat. Asus & XFX - Meet The Radeon 200 Series
After being announced back at AMD's 2014 GPU Product Showcase, today AMD is finally launching the Radeon 200 series. Today we’ll be looking at the new series in detail...
151 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2013
The GeForce GTX 760 Roundup: Gigabyte and EVGA Compared
Today we’re taking a look at our first customized GTX 760 cards, the GTX 760 OC Windforce 3X and GTX 760 Superclocked ACX from Gigabyte and EVGA respectively. Based...
22 by Ryan Smith on 10/7/2013
21.5-inch iMac (Late 2013) Review: Iris Pro Driving an Accurate Display
I have a confession to make. For the past year I’ve been using a 27-inch iMac as my primary workstation. I always said that if I had a less...
127 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/7/2013
The GeForce GTX 770 Roundup: EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI Compared
Today we’re taking a look at our first customized GTX 770 cards, coming from from EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI. All of these are semi-custom and fully custom cards pairing...
55 by Ryan Smith on 10/4/2013
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