Intel
Further to our last piece which we detailed Intel's issue to motherboard vendors to follow with stock power settings for Intel's 14th and 13th Gen Core series processors, Intel has now issued a follow-up statement to this. Over the last week or so, motherboard vendors quickly released firmware updates with a new profile called 'Intel Baseline', which motherboard vendors assumed would address the instability issues. As it turns out, Intel doesn't seem to accept this as technically, these Intel Baseline profiles are not to be confused with Intel's default specifications. This means that Intel's Baseline profiles seemingly give the impression that they are operating at default settings, hence the terminology 'baseline' used, but this still opens motherboard vendors to use their interpretations of MCE...
Budget System Builder’s Guide February 2011
With the recent launch of Sandy Bridge, we had hoped to put together some Buyers' Guides covering the changes in the market. Unfortunately, with the recall/bug of the 6-series...
58 by Zach Throckmorton on 2/14/2011
Puget Systems Serenity SPCR Edition: Blissful Silence
We've had the opportunity to look at a few custom builds from different boutiques so far. While most have generally been well-rounded builds using cherry picked off-the-shelf parts and...
139 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/10/2011
ASUS & MSI Announce 6-series Motherboard Replacement Programs
Let’s recap. Intel launched Sandy Bridge. Intel found a bug in the 6-series chipset, necessary for all Sandy Bridge systems. Intel issued a stop shipment on all 6-series parts...
58 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/8/2011
Gigabyte Announces 6-series Motherboard Replacement Program
Yesterday Intel announced the largest stop shipment/recall I can remember it ever making (excluding FDIV). The product in question? All 6-series chipsets, a necessary part of any Sandy Bridge...
86 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/1/2011
The Source of Intel's Cougar Point SATA Bug
I just got off the phone with Intel’s Steve Smith (VP and Director of Intel Client PC Operations and Enabling) and got some more detail on this morning’s 6-series...
127 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/31/2011
Intel Discovers Bug in 6-Series Chipset: Our Analysis
In our Sandy Bridge review I pointed out that Intel was unfortunately very conservative in one area of the platform: its chipset. Although the 6-series chipset finally brought native...
162 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/31/2011
AMD’s Brazos vs. Atom Thermals, Revisited
Last week we met with AMD at CES to see some of their latest and greatest offerings. We already reported on the meetings in our earlier article, but in...
154 by Jarred Walton on 1/14/2011
Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86
NVIDIA and Intel just released their respective PR announcements a bit ago, but after much rumor mongering it’s official: Intel and NVIDIA are the latest duo to bury the...
30 by Ryan Smith on 1/10/2011
Updated: The License Agreement: Intel to Pay NVIDIA $1.5 Billion
Update 2: Our full analysis of the agreement is now available here: Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86 In about 30 minutes NVIDIA will host a...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011
A Closer Look at the Sandy Bridge Die
Aside from a stack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, I snagged something else of interest at my Intel meeting at CES 2011: a shot of some exposed Sandy Bridge...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011
Intel Insider: Sandy Bridge Gets 1080p High Bitrate Streaming
In an attempt to ultimately raise its stock price, Intel is trying to shock and surprise investors by keeping details scarce on unannounced products. We saw the first example...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011
Lucid Enables Quick Sync with Discrete Graphics on Sandy Bridge
If you read our Sandy Bridge Review you’ll know that we were very excited about Intel’s Quick Sync hardware transcode engine. It easily offers at least twice the performance...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/7/2011
Ask Your 2nd Gen Intel Core Processor Questions Here, Update: Now with Answers!
ASUS and Intel are putting together a webcast that they've invited me to attend. The topic of discussion? Sandy Bridge. The webcast will air after Intel's official announcement of...
223 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011
CyberPowerPC's Gamer Xtreme 4000: Now with Sandy Bridge
Intel's Sandy Bridge processor architecture is upon us, and with it a freshly minted gaming PC courtesy of CyberPowerPC: the Gamer Xtreme 4000. If you read Anand's preview of...
42 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/4/2011
The Sandy Bridge Review: Intel Core i7-2600K, i5-2500K and Core i3-2100 Tested
Intel never quite reached 4GHz with the Pentium 4. Despite being on a dedicated quest for gigahertz the company stopped short and the best we ever got was 3.8GHz...
284 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/3/2011
Intel’s Sandy Bridge i7-2820QM: Upheaval in the Mobile Landscape
Ever since the Sandy Bridge preview, we’ve been waiting to see what Intel’s new architecture could do for mobility. No longer would quad-core notebooks require discrete graphics solutions, and...
66 by Jarred Walton on 1/3/2011
Intel's SSD 310: G2 Performance in an mSATA Form Factor
Although not quite the Intel SSD announcement we were expecting in Q4, today Intel unveiled its first mSATA SSD: the Intel SSD 310. Based on the 34nm Intel X25-M G2...
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/29/2010
DigitalStorm BlackOps: Almost Too Fast
While most of the desktops we've received so far have been fairly affordable (read: south of two large), we haven't really had a chance to take a run at...
77 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/29/2010
ASUS N53JF: Midrange 15.6” 1080p, Take Four
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a 15.6” notebook walks into the AnandTech labs, sporting NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 425M and a 1080p display…. Yes, for the fourth...
65 by Jarred Walton on 12/28/2010
CyberpowerPC's Compal NBLB2: Affordable Gaming
Periodically the Compal NBLB2 (and its predecessors) has popped up on our comments as an alternative 15.6" notebook with a 1080p screen, and people have been asking for a...
36 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/21/2010
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