Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Review
Gigabyte has released their Z68 lineup, and I am going to look at the UD3H - a $170 Z68 board aimed at the mainstream consumer market. The Z68 based...
70 by Brendan van Varik on 7/11/2011CyberpowerPC's Compal PBL21: The Shark's New Teeth
The last time we took a look at a Compal whitebook (again courtesy of CyberpowerPC), we noted to Compal that their whitebook wasn't a shark, perfect and needing no...
16 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/11/2011The Summer of Honeycomb, Part 1: Win an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
We're all out of memory, congrats to AnandTech reader raimondi1337 for winning our last giveaway of 16GB of G.Skill DDR3-2133 memory. Be sure to respond to my email to...
4181 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/8/2011Promise Pegasus R6 & Mac Thunderbolt Review
One by one the barriers to mobile computing have been falling. In the early days you could move to a notebook but you'd give up a lot of CPU...
94 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/8/2011MSI Announces WindPad 110W With New AMD Z-01
The tablet market is expanding every bit as rapidly as netbooks did when they first arrived, and then some. MSI has announced their entry into the market today, and...
37 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/7/2011AVADirect Moves to Silent Running
Recognizing that many of us would rather have our computers seen and not heard (but still awesome), boutique builder AVADirect is throwing their hat into the ring with a...
11 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/7/2011Motorola Droid X2 Review - A Droid X with Tegra 2
Almost exactly one year ago we reviewed and thoroughly explored the Motorola Droid X. At that point, its 1 GHz OMAP 3630 made it a competent performer and a...
72 by Brian Klug on 7/7/2011AnandTech Mobile Graphics Guide, Summer 2011
If desktop graphics hardware can be more than a little confusing, deciphering performance of mobile graphics parts can be (and has historically been) an absolute nightmare. Way back in...
86 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/5/2011Cooler Master's Storm Enforcer: The Not-So-Quiet Storm
It's a treat to get one of Cooler Master's enclosures in for review: they've been at it for a long time, and they have cases that cover virtually every...
20 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/5/2011TI OMAP4 First to be Awarded Netflix HD DRM Certification
Last week, TI Invited me out to their Dallas, Texas headquarters as part of an editors day. There they showed and talked about a number of exciting projects, including...
23 by Brian Klug on 7/5/2011HTC Droid Incredible 2 Review
The original Droid Incredible by HTC was the second Android phone I ever officially reviewed. The first was Google's Nexus One. A year ago I proudly proclaimed that the...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/3/2011HTC Sensation 4G Review - A Sensational Smartphone
I like what HTC has been up to lately. Rather than fighting a race to the bottom with endless soulless variants of the same piece of hardware in a...
107 by Brian Klug on 7/1/2011G.Skill Summer Memory Giveaway, Round 2: 16GB DDR3-2133 Kit
Congrats to AnandTech reader: awkward for winning G.Skill's 8GB DDR3-1600 memory kit in our last giveaway. Respond to my email to claim your prize! There's still one more chance...
1774 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2011AMD A8-3850 : An HTPC Perspective
Today is all about Lynx, the desktop version of the Llano platform from AMD. Anand is reviewing the A8-3850 from a generic PC perspective, and Ian is covering its...
107 by Ganesh T S on 6/30/2011The AMD A8-3850 Review: Llano on the Desktop
Ever since the arrival of Conroe back in 2006, we've only really recommended AMD for its (sometimes incredible) value. Recommending AMD for those looking for absolute performance pretty much...
100 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2011ASRock A75 Extreme6 Review and Desktop Llano Overclocking
Our initial tests with the ASRock A75 Extreme6 were based on a pre-release model, and shown in our preview. At that point, the board design was not finalized...
44 by Ian Cutress on 6/30/2011Sony Updates Vaio Z: Light Peak and An External GPU
Sony has announced an updated Vaio Z lineup today. Vaio Z is Sony’s premium 13” laptop series which essentially packs performance of a 15” laptop into a smaller form...
99 by Kristian Vättö on 6/28/2011OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 (480GB) Preview: 200K IOPS & 1.5GB/s for $1699?
Although consumer SSDs are far from a mature technology, PCIe SSDs are even further behind on the growth curve. The upside is huge. As SandForce has already demonstrated with...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/28/2011Apple Thunderbolt Cable & Promise Pegasus RAID System Available Now
This morning Apple finally announced availability of its first Thunderbolt cable alongside Promise's Pegasus external RAID solution. We've previewed the Pegasus in the past but today we received a...
50 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/28/2011Optimus Top to Bottom: NVIDIA Releases the GeForce GTX 570M and 580M
While our recent review of the Alienware M17x R3 proved you could have a gaming notebook that was still capable of halfway decent battery life, the hybrid solution found...
27 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/28/2011