Zotac ZBOX CI662 nano Fanless mini-PC Review: Second Stab at Silencing Succeeds
Zotac is one of the major players in the SFF PC space, having marketed ultra-compact form-factor machines even before the NUCs took off. The growth in that segment has...
16 by Ganesh T S on 1/5/2021Intel Core i9-10850K Review: The Real Intel Flagship
When a company like Intel creates a CPU design, the process of manufacturing brings about variation on the quality of the product. Some cores will only reach a certain...
125 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/4/2021AnandTech Year In Review 2020: Solid State Drives
Solid state storage might not have been the most exciting tech sector to follow in 2020, but it certainly had its fair share of new technologies arriving, consumer-friendly price...
85 by Billy Tallis on 12/30/2020ASRock DeskMini H470 Review: A No-Frills LGA 1200 mini-PC Platform
The mini-STX form-factor was introduced by Intel in 2015 to provide additional options in the burgeoning small form-factor (SFF) PC space. Since then, vendors such as ASRock, ECS, and...
24 by Ganesh T S on 12/29/2020AnandTech Year In Review 2020: Flagship Mobile
We’re a few days away from completing the 2020 calendar year, and it’s been a quite a hectic year for everybody. In times of troubles, the smartphone industry had...
56 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/28/2020Installing Windows on an Xbox One APU: The Chuwi Aerobox Review
Ever since consoles moved to the same underlying architecture as modern desktop computers, there has always been an underlying question as to whether those same processors could run regular...
100 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/24/2020ECS LIVA Z3 Plus Review: Compact Comet Lake NUC Clone Cuts Corners
ECS is a well-known OEM in computing circles, known for building motherboards, computers, and industrial / embedded systems for other vendors. Some of their motherboards and small form-factor PCs...
17 by Ganesh T S on 12/22/2020Supermicro C9Z490-PGW Motherboard Review: Comet Lake with 32 CPU PCIe Lanes
More widely known for its server-grade models, Supermicro always launches a small number of consumer motherboards, sometimes with some extra flair and hardware we don't see from the regular...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/21/2020Qualcomm Discloses Snapdragon 888 Benchmarks: Promising Performance
Today Qualcomm is disclosing a set of benchmark results for their new Snapdragon 888 SoC that’s set to power next year’s flagship Android devices. Usually, as in years past...
74 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/18/2020The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster
Earlier in the year we have a good look at the first ever Arm Neoverse-N1 CPU in the form s of the Graviton2 from Amazon. Whilst that chip was...
149 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/18/2020The MSI Prestige 14 Evo Review: Testing The Waters Of Tiger Lake
MSI is very well-known for their gaming products for the PC market, from motherboards, accessories, and right up to gaming laptops and desktops. The company was one of the...
64 by Brett Howse on 12/17/2020Testing The World’s Best APUs: Desktop AMD Ryzen 4750G, 4650G and 4350G
There are two very important levels of graphics performance in modern systems to consider – one is if the graphics system is sufficient for seamless use, and the second...
102 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/16/2020Sabrent Rocket XTRM-Q USB / Thunderbolt 3 Dual Mode External SSD Review: Yin and Yang
The external storage market has shown renewed vigor in recent years, thanks in part to growth fueled by bus-powered flash-based storage solutions. The introduction of 3D NAND, coupled with...
14 by Ganesh T S on 12/14/2020The Corsair MP400 1TB QLC NVMe SSD: A Quick Review
Following up from our recent look at 8TB QLC SSDs, today we're taking a look at the 1TB Corsair MP400. This is a QLC NVMe SSD using the Phison...
75 by Billy Tallis on 12/11/2020Supermicro X12SAE W480 Motherboard Review: For Xeon W-1200 Workstations
We have seen numerous Intel Z490 motherboards over the months since Intel's platform for Comet Lake was announced back in April. While the Z490 is designed for regular consumers...
57 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/11/2020The GIGABYTE B550I Aorus Pro AX Motherboard Review: All The Small Things
Sometimes less is more, and when it comes to motherboards the mini-ITX form factor has some of the most enthusiastic fan club members. Small form factor systems are becoming...
71 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/7/2020QLC Goes To 8TB: Samsung 870 QVO and Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB SSDs Reviewed
Flash memory prices have been on a downward trajectory for years. A decade ago, this trend was helping SSDs establish a foothold in the consumer market—largely for enthusiasts. Now...
148 by Billy Tallis on 12/4/2020Investigating Performance of Multi-Threading on Zen 3 and AMD Ryzen 5000
One of the stories around AMD’s initial generations of Zen processors was the effect of Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) on performance. By running with this mode enabled, as is default...
120 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/3/2020Qualcomm Tech Summit 2020: Interview with Alex Katouzian
Within today’s Qualcomm Tech Summit 2020, we’ve seen the announcement of the new Snapdragon 888 which we’ve detailed extensively in our dedicated coverage article. As part of the show, we’ve...
8 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/2/2020Qualcomm Details The Snapdragon 888: 3rd Gen 5G & Cortex-X1 on 5nm
This year although we’re not reporting from Hawaii, Qualcomm’s Tech Summit is still happening in digital form, representing the company’s most important launch event of the year as it...
120 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/2/2020