Futuremark Begins Delisting "Cheating" Mobile Devices from 3DMark Database
Over the summer, following a tip from @AndreiF7, we documented an interesting behavior on the Exynos 5 Octa versions of Samsung's Galaxy S 4. Upon detecting certain benchmarks the...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2013
Chipworks Confirms Xbox One SoC Has 14 CUs with 2 Disabled
In our mini-review of the Xbox One I speculated that the shipping version of Microsoft's console featured 14 AMD GCN CUs (Graphics Core Next Compute Units), with two disabled...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2013
A Post about Removable Storage, Removable Batteries and Smartphones
There's been a lot of talk lately about our position on removable storage and removable batteries in smartphones. Most of the discussion has centered around what we've said in...
376 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 11/25/2013
Best Desktop CPUs: Holiday 2013
Next up in our series of Holiday Buyer’s Guides is a look at processors. Building systems in time for a holiday season means that picking the right components...
25 by Ian Cutress on 11/25/2013
Western Digital Releases Black^2: 120GB SSD + 1TB HD Dual-Drive in 2.5" Form Factor
To date all the hybrid storage solutions we have seen have been rather limited. Seagate got the idea right with the Momentus XT but having only 8GB of NAND...
66 by Kristian Vättö on 11/25/2013
Best Mini-ITX Motherboards: Holiday 2013
As part of a stream on holiday buying guides (Black Friday and jolly Noël around the corner), here is my take on the season’s mini-ITX offerings, covering both AMD...
34 by Ian Cutress on 11/23/2013
Fall 2013 Supercomputer Rankings Released; Achieving Max Efficiency With Oil
Turning our eyes back towards SC13 and supercomputers one more time this week, we have the biannual supercomputer rankings, which are released every spring and every fall. These rankings...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/22/2013
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805: 2.5GHz, 128-bit Memory Interface, D3D11-class Graphics & More
Qualcomm has had an incredible year. It wasn’t too long ago that I was complaining about Qualcomm’s release cadence, the lull between Scorpion and Krait allowed competitors like NVIDIA...
105 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/22/2013
iPad mini with Retina Display: LTE Hotspot Battery Life
As I promised in our iPad mini with Retina Display review, I put the new mini through our LTE hotspot battery life test. As connected tablets are effectively smartphones...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/22/2013
Humble Weekly: Zen Studios' Pinball FX2
The Humble Weekly this round is for one type of gamer and one type of gamer only: those who like electronic pinball. I used to play some of the...
14 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2013
Acer Aspire R7-572: Haswell and an Active Digitizer
Earlier this year, we looked at Acer’s R7 laptop – an interesting hybrid device that moves the keyboard forward and the touchpad back, with the idea being that you’ll...
30 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2013
Qualcomm Announces Fourth Gen Cat 6 LTE Modem – MDM9x35
In addition to the IPQ8064 news this morning, Qualcomm released a host of other product announcements we're working our way through. Among them is news of its fourth generation...
16 by Brian Klug on 11/20/2013
Gaming Immersion: OverclockersUK Launch Infinity Emperor Chair and Workstation
For any of our readers that do not frequent computer forums, one of the big draws to various places on interwebs is the unique and custom builds that individuals...
38 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2013
Qualcomm Atheros Announces New Internet Processor Category - IPQ8064 and IPQ8062
Today Qualcomm Atheros is announcing two new products and an entirely new category on its roadmap, the Internet Processor, prefixed IPQ (Internet Processor Qualcomm). The two new SoCs are...
22 by Brian Klug on 11/20/2013
Humble Mobile Bundle 3: Android Only
Need more games for your mobile Android device? Humble Bundle has you covered, with their latest set of six games. And for those of you who haven’t been keeping...
11 by Jarred Walton on 11/20/2013
NVIDIA 331.82 Game Ready WHQL Drivers Available
Just in time for the release of Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag and Need for Speed: Rivals, NVIDIA has an updated driver available. The 331.82 driver builds on the...
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ASRock Launch Z87 Extreme11/AC with 22 SATA Ports and the H81 Pro BTC for Cryptocurrency Mining
This week ASRock are launching a high/low combination of motherboards for Haswell. The first one is going to be one of the wildest designs on the Z87 platform...
20 by Ian Cutress on 11/18/2013
Netgear Launches ReadyNAS 716 6-bay 10-GbE Desktop NAS
We reviewed the ReadyNAS 312 (one of the entry-level members) in Netgear's x86 NAS lineup last week. Netgear's ReadyNAS introductions this year were covered earlier in March. Today, Netgear...
10 by Ganesh T S on 11/18/2013
IBM and NVIDIA Announce Data Analytics & Supercomputer Partnership
Our other piece of significant NVIDIA news to coincide with the start of SC13 comes via a joint announcement from NVIDIA and IBM. Together the two are announcing a...
12 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2013
LSI Announces SandForce SF3700: SATA and PCIe in One Silicon
This is an announcement we have eagerly been waiting for. LSI gave us a short overview of their third generation controller at CES 2012 but it was merely a...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 11/18/2013
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