Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2015
Welcome to part two of our best laptop guide for 2015. The first part was traditional notebooks, this installment will focus on gaming notebooks, and our final piece will...
31 by Brett Howse on 11/25/2015
Supermicro with Greenlow Motherboards at SuperComputing 15
One of the bigger shakeups of the Xeon ecosystem of late is the recent discovery that Intel will be severing the few ties that the Xeon family of processors...
14 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015
Omni-Path Switches at SuperComputing 15: Supermicro and Dell
It was clear at SuperComputing 15 that Intel had two main things in mind to promote: Knights Landing, their new Xeon Phi product, and Omni-Path, their new 100 Gbps...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015
AMD Moves Radeon HD 5000 & 6000 Series to Legacy Status - All Pre-Graphics Core Next GPUs Now Retired
Alongside today’s release of the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver set, AMD has published a new page on their driver site announcing that video cards based on the...
68 by Ryan Smith on 11/24/2015
ARM on AMD: The A1100 Seattle Silicon at SuperComputing 15
Anyone loosely following AMD’s efforts with ARM intellectual property would have had on their periphery the noise of the A1100 product aimed at servers, codenamed Seattle. The idea was...
18 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015
Broadwell E3 v4 Xeons: Cirrascale at SuperComputing 15
The hubbub about the Broadwell Xeon family was relatively interesting. We managed to get hold of the models that came in a socketed form for testing, the E3-1285 v4...
6 by Ian Cutress on 11/23/2015
Intel Introduces New Braswell Stepping with J3060, J3160 and J3710
When a processor is manufactured, it has a series of designations to identify it, such as the name. But alongside this, as with almost every manufactured product ever, each...
24 by Ian Cutress on 11/23/2015
Volvo Partners With Microsoft To Bring HoloLens To Automotive Design And Showcasing
When I first got a chance to use Hololens earlier this year, the immediate and obvious use case that came to mind was going to be in the world...
10 by Brett Howse on 11/20/2015
NVIDIA Releases 359.00 WHQL Game Ready Driver
The season's flurry of games has brought along a blizzard of updates. Bad pun tie-ins aside, there is little that tarnishes a shiny new game like musty old drivers...
26 by Daniel Williams on 11/19/2015
SuperComputing 15: Intel’s Knights Landing / Xeon Phi Silicon on Display
There are lots of stories to tell from the SuperComputing 15 conference here in Austin, but a clear overriding theme – in order to reach ‘Exascale’ (the fancy name...
26 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2015
AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X: Full-Featured Tonga at $229 for the Holidays
Back in September of 2014 AMD released their first Graphics Core Next 1.2 GPU, Tonga, which was the GPU at the heart of the Radeon R9 285. For all...
52 by Ryan Smith on 11/19/2015
AMD Launches Star Wars Battlefront Game Bundle For Radeon R9 Fury
Buying new graphics cards is always fun. Finding game deals while shopping for new graphics cards is even better. This time around AMD is bundling the newly released Star...
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ASUS Launches The Chromebit CS10 HDMI Stick
Earlier this year ASUS launched a pair of Chromebooks, and they also teased another product that would be launching later in the year. It was the Chromebit HDMI stick...
22 by Brandon Chester on 11/17/2015
NVIDIA Re-launches the SHIELD Tablet as the SHIELD Tablet K1
The life of the NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet has had some ups and downs. Josh reviewed it last year, and at the time he found that NVIDIA's tech for game...
34 by Brandon Chester on 11/17/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Drivers
With AMD continuing to deliver beta driver updates left and right lately, today they come to us with another update. Another one of AMD’s point driver updates, Catalyst 15.11.1...
19 by Daniel Williams on 11/17/2015
A Few Notes on Intel’s Knights Landing and MCDRAM Modes from SC15
When learning about new hardware, there are always different angles to look at it. For the most part, manufacturers talking to the media will focus on the hardware aspects...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/16/2015
ASUS Launches Maximus VIII Extreme/Assembly for Skylake, includes 10G Ethernet Card
We covered the launch of ASUS’ most expensive Z170 motherboard when the announcement was made (we also have it in for review), but late last week another announcement landed...
21 by Ian Cutress on 11/16/2015
Intel @ SC15: Launching Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” & Omni-Path Architecture
The fourth and final of the major SC15 conference announcements/briefings for today comes Intel. As Intel is in the middle of executing on their previously announced roadmap, they aren’t...
7 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2015
NVIDIA @ SC15: US NOAA to Build Tesla Weather Research Cluster
Continuing with our coverage of today’s spate of SC15 announcements, we have NVIDIA. Having already launched their Tesla M40 and M4 server cards last week to get ahead of...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2015
Netgear Expands Smart Home Lineup with Arlo Q IP Camera
Netgear's push into the consumer IP camera / smart home space began with the Arlo Wire-Free cameras launched last year. The first generation Arlo cameras aimed at addressing the...
6 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2015
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