TeamGroup Announces Intentions for DDR5, ELITE DDR5-5200 in 2021
Earlier in the year, we learned that a lot of DDR5 manufacturing is already in the pipeline, with Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron all making announcements this year regarding...
19 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/1/2020New Second Gen EVE V 2-in-1: Tiger Lake 3840x2400 with Thunderbolt 4
Sometimes for a company to get its projects over the line, it requires the help of crowdsourcing ideas. One such company is Eve Tech, or EVE for short, and...
34 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/1/2020Launching This Week: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, A Smaller Bite of Ampere For $400
After a short holiday break, NVIDIA’s gradual rollout of their Ampere family of GeForce video cards is resuming this week with the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti...
54 by Ryan Smith on 12/1/2020QNAP Launches QHora-301W: An Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Router with Dual 10GBASE-T Ports
QNAP is a well-known manufacturer of network-attached storage (NAS) units. Recently they have been testing the waters in allied areas such as switches and Wi-Fi expansion cards. As a...
32 by Ganesh T S on 12/1/2020ASRock x Razer: New Razer Taichi Edition X570 and B550 AMD Motherboards
ASRock and Razer have today announced a product collaboration. Two of ASRock's premium models for AM4 are being updated with Razer styling and Razer Chroma connectivity: the X570 and...
31 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/30/2020AMD EPYC Rome in (Deep) Mini-ITX? ASRock Rack's New ROMED4ID-2T
ASRock Rack has unveiled its latest small form factor motherboard designed for AMD's EYPC processors, the ROMED4ID-2T. It is based on a new proprietary form factor similar to Mini-ITX...
23 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/26/2020EDSFF Form Factor Updates In 2020: New Versions, Growing Adoption
The Enterprise and Datacenter SSD Form Factor family of standards is now about three years old, and continues to evolve. The EDSFF form factor options are gaining traction in...
6 by Billy Tallis on 11/25/2020New Enterprise SSD Controllers From Silicon Motion, Phison, FADU
In the past month, three SSD controller designers have announced new enterprise NVMe SSD controllers, bringing a wave of new competition to the high-end enterprise/datacenter SSD market. FADU is...
5 by Billy Tallis on 11/25/2020Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2020
Along with our quarterly laptop guide, near the end of every year we also like to take a look at the state of the gaming laptop market. With a...
7 by Brett Howse on 11/25/2020Sponsored Post: HP OMEN Desktops with AMD Hardware Hit the Sweet Spot for Gamers
1080p and 1440p gaming will be the sweet spot for most gamers moving forward, and HP OMEN desktops outfitted with AMD’s hardware deliver excellent performance in that context for...
10 by Sponsored Post on 11/24/2020Intel’s New eASIC N5X Series: Hardened Security for 5G and AI Through Structured ASICs
The programmability of a processor is a scale is all about flexibility and performance – something highly programmable and customizable is adaptable to all sort of situations, but often...
6 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/24/2020Best SSDs: November 2020
A solid state drive is often the most important component for making a PC feel fast and responsive; any PC still using a mechanical hard drive as its primary...
22 by Billy Tallis on 11/24/2020Best Android Phones: November 2020
As winter is approaching and we’re a few days away from Thanksgiving, we haven’t seen too much news in the smartphone space in these latter months of the year...
19 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/23/2020“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm
One of the key tenets of having good security is reducing how attackable your system is. This is what we call an attack surface – a system needs as...
26 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/23/2020Best Intel Motherboards: November 2020
Moving into the holiday season for many, Intel recently unveiled details about its Rocket Lake (11th Gen) processors set to come out in Q1 2020. With it will come...
16 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/23/2020GIGABYTE’s New AMD BRIX Series: Now With AMD Ryzen 4000U Renoir!
One of the key questions when AMD launched its latest Ryzen Mobile processor family, Renoir, was when the chip would be available in the Mini-PC space. At the time...
32 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/21/2020Best Laptops: Holiday 2020
It's time for our holiday look at the laptop market, and what a year 2020 has been in the laptop space. After starting out with a large number of...
20 by Brett Howse on 11/20/2020Intel’s New NUC Laptop Kit: Whitebook Tiger Lake For All
The Next Unit of Computing branding, known as NUC (pronounced nu-ck), has long been associated with Intel’s small form factor desktop designs featuring mobile-class processors. Last year Intel broke...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/19/2020ASRock First For B450 Ryzen 5000 Support: Beta BIOSes Now Available
One of the big unknowns for the newest AMD Ryzen 5000 processors is whether or not there will be support on all 400 series chipset-based motherboards. After initially saying...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/19/2020Best Consumer Hard Drives: November 2020
Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken over the role of the primary drive in most computing systems, hard drives continue...
20 by Ganesh T S on 11/18/2020