Intel Sandy Bridge-E Review – Core i7-3960X and X79 Chipset Tested
Introduction It has been more than three years since Intel released the first Core i7 processor built around the Nehalem...
Read MorePosted by Ryan Shrout | Nov 14, 2011 | Processors | 39
Introduction It has been more than three years since Intel released the first Core i7 processor built around the Nehalem...
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 10, 2011 | General Tech | 2
Ah, the Ultrabook; Intel's attempt to meet Apple on its own territory and playing by Apple's established rules. Since there has been so much news and speculation about the new ultramobile platform…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 8, 2011 | General Tech, Storage | 2
While Western Digital is still nowhere near the point where they can think about cleaning up their factory and getting started on the road to recovery there is good news for other…
Read MorePosted by Lee Garbutt | Nov 7, 2011 | Cases and Cooling | 2
SilverStone has a well earned reputation among PC enthusiasts for providing a full line of high quality enclosures, power supplies, cooling components, and accessories. Their Strider Gold series, which…
Read MorePosted by Ryan Shrout | Nov 4, 2011 | Graphics Cards | 22
Introduction Dual-GPU graphics cards are becoming an interesting story. While both NVIDIA and AMD have introduced their own reference dual-GPU designs for quite some time, it is the custom...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 2, 2011 | General Tech, Processors | 0
Remember back in September when Ryan was all excited about seeing AMD exceed Intel with their Liquid Helium-cooled overclock? 8.429 GHz bulldozed past the 8.309 GHz record set upon Intel’s...
Read MorePosted by Ryan Shrout | Nov 2, 2011 | Graphics Cards, Mobile, Systems | 33
Mobile graphics cards are really a different beast than the desktop variants. Despite have similar names and model numbers, the specifications vary greatly as the GTX 580M isn't equivalent to…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 2, 2011 | General Tech | 3
A*STAR Data Storage Institute was in the news two weeks ago with the results of their experiment of doping hard drive storage medium with salt allows a 6 fold increase...
Read MorePosted by Allyn Malventano | Oct 31, 2011 | Mobile | 14
Introduction: While I'm mostly a PC guy, I favor iPhones. My friends always jab at me because I'm a fairly die-hard techie, and they expect me to be sporting the latest…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 28, 2011 | General Tech | 1
Everyone's current favourite kicking horse, the ultrabook, is poised to take over almost half of all consumer notebook sales by the end of 2012 ... at least according to what DigiTimes…
Read MorePosted by Steve Grever | Oct 27, 2011 | Mobile | 13
Introduction Courtesy of Samsung Samsung's Galaxy S II smartphone debuted in the U.S. with Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile in September and we finally got our hands on...
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 25, 2011 | Motherboards | 5
While we don't have much in the way of information about the capabilities of Gigabyte's new X79 boards we sure do have a lot of pictures. First off is the successor…
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