Delidding is a process with the aim being to reduce CPU core temperatures on processors with a less-than-ideal thermal interface between the silicon and headspreader. The benefits of delidding a design with such an interface lead to having a cooler…
Best processors 2018: top CPUs for your PC
Back in 2017, when Intel’s Coffee Lake and AMD’s Ryzen CPUs made it out in the wild, the long-standing stagnation in the CPU world ceased overnight. Now, the longstanding competition between these two tech behemoths has been fully reignited, and…
AMD’s Progress on Its 25×20 Goal: The Task Ahead
When intel xeon processor announced it was creating the new high-performance Zen core, they set a lofty goal. They wanted to produce products that offered 25x the relative efficiency (performance per watt) between 2014 and 2020. This was called the…
Intel at CES 2018: Brian Krzanich Keynote Live Blog (18:30 PT, 02:30 UTC)
08:26PM EST – Intel’s annual intel xeon processor keynote is upon us. This week they have already announced Intel with Radeon RX Vega M graphics and reiterated their commitment to PCs that are always connected. It will be interesting to…
Analyzing Threadripper Thermals: Big Base Cooling Wins
Ever since their launch last year, AMD’s Threadripper CPUs have been the center of many discussions and debates. Due to their unique design – both physically and architecturally – cooling requirements and efficiency are some of the major discussion topics.…
Synology Launches 8-bay Rangeley-based DS1815+
In the last week of September, Synology launched their Intel Rangeley-based DS415+. In our review, we found it resolved most of the issues encountered in the previous Atom-based SMB NAS units (such as performance with encryption enabled and latencies when…
Synology DS2015xs Review: An ARM-based 10G NAS
Introduction and Testbed Setup Synology is one of the most popular COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) NAS vendors in the SMB / SOHO market segment. The NAS models introduced by them in 2014 were mostly based on Intel Rangeley (the Atom-based SoCs…
Thecus Announces $130 and $200 Entry-Level NASes For Home Users
This month at Computex, Thecus announced two new entry level-level NASes for consumers. The new N2350 and N4350 are budget-priced NAS products designed for the basic storage tasks. The systems feature a low-power Marvell Armada dual-core CPU and 1GB of…
Iwill Slocket II Socket-370 to Slot-1 Adapter
For overclocking fans, Intel’s new Pentium III’s offer a glut of new options as explained in the FC-PGA overclocking guide part 1 and part 2. However, almost all motherboards that currently support FSB speeds of 133MHz are Slot 1 —…
The New VIA Cyrix III: The Worlds First 0.15 Micron x86 CPU
Cyrix has undergone quite a few changes since the release of their first product. Forming from a small number of former Texas Instruments employees in 1988, Cyrix originally did not produce CPUs at all, but rather math coprocessors for 286…