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…
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 primarily brings performance updates to some of the headlining tiles of…
AMD’s Hammer in Action: The most impressive demo of IDF
Intel has had a great IDF thus far; the attendance is great, the products are innovative and honestly it’s an exciting time to be involved with the tech industry. The first developer forum of 2002 is testament to the fact…