Published on Thursday, May 20, 2010 by admin ASUS has been making great strides in the laptop designs over the past couple of years. It used to be that an ASUS laptop meant good performance with generally poor battery life at a reasonable price, but that all started to change with the launch of the original Eee PC. With the Eee PC, ASUS managed to usher in a whole new genre of laptop, the netbook, and with the d...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin Panasonic has announced its latest rugged notebook which is known as Toughbook 31. The rugged notebook has been designed to meet the military standard 810G for protection from six-foot drops, dust, shock, vibration, salt, fog and humidity as well as temperature extremes. The casing of the notebook has been fully sealed with magnesium alloy for improving water resistan...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin For a long, long time, Thermalright’s Ultra 120 Extreme was considered the best of the best when it came to air based CPU coolers. However as time marched on, new contenders with new ideas and cutting edge designs entered the fray and literally changed the way we look at the ubiquitous air cooler. New cooler designs come and go, but very few have the staying pow...

Published on Saturday, May 15, 2010 by admin Gigabyte are currently attacking the X58 market; with no less than 10 boards, from the budget EX58-UD3R (and it's upgrade, the X58A-UD3R) to the premium EX58-EXTREME, their latest board tacks on the moniker of the X58A-UD9. In terms of board features, you get support for 6-core Gulftown processors, 4 way SLI and Crossfire X across 7 PCI-E 2.0 slots using 2 NF200 ch...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin Corsair is always testing the latest and greatest in computer hardware to ensure compatibility and performance. While testing AMD’s recently launched Phenom™ II X6 processors, we noticed we were able to reach higher frequencies than previously possible on an AMD platform. The previous Phenom II X4 processors (codenamed Deneb) would reach memory frequencies just ...

Published on Thursday, May 13, 2010 by admin There are quite a number of Android based netbooks in the market but if you are tight of budget and still would like to own one yourself, the recently announced entry level machine by Cherrypal, a Hong Kong based company may be one of your great options. Named as Cherrypal Asia, there are available in two different models with one at seven-inch while the other one a...

Published on Thursday, May 13, 2010 by admin In terms of power supplies, it can sometimes become astounding at how much a company will charge for a unit, and whether it is valid, in terms of features and warranty/support.  So when Sparkle are announcing a 1000W Gold rated unit for just over $200, we sit up and take notice. This is Sparkle's first venture into the power supply genre of computing (previously, ...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin HP 4320t Mobile Thin Client After launching many consumer and business notebooks last week, HP have announced a further addition to their growing notebook family. The HP 4320t Mobile Thin Client is aimed at the user who regularly accesses servers and other remote storage solutions, and therefore requires a thin, light and reliable notebook where onboard storage is no...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin If you wonder how tiny a PowerPC SoC (System on chip) could be, AppliedMicro has recently announced a new Power Architecture based processor that is claimed to be the world’s smallest form factor in the industry. Named as APM801xx, it consists of multiple SKUs clocking from 400MHz, 600MHz and 800MHz suitable for different applications ranging from WiFi access point,...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin The worldwide leading innovator of audio, video, communications and IT products, Sony has announced the upcoming launch of its new updated, ultra-compact Sony VAIO P Series, which the company claims as its first laptop equipped with an integrated GPS, accelerometer sensor and Digital Compass. The new VAIO P full-featured notebook computer will incorporate Intel Atom C...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin One way to speed up your Internet browsing experience is using a faster DNS server. Today we take a look at Namebench, which will compare your current DNS server against others out there, and help you find a faster one. [ad#300x250_image_ads] Namebench Download the file and run the executable (link below). Namebench starts up and will include the current D...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin Atom was designed to be a low-cost, low-power solution, but its value in the desktop space is debatable if you consider performance. We pit the cheapest Core i3 against Intel's Atom on a performance-per-dollar and a per-watt basis to see which is better. This is no apples to apples comparison here. The two products we're pitting against each other belong in differe...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin The newest product to be thrusted into Intel's server arsenal will be called Westmere-EX, and is set to directly compete with AMD's Mangy-Cours server chip which features 12 cores, and AMD's future Bulldozer architecture. In a webcast speech, Stephen Smith, vice president/director of PC client operations and enabling at Intel, announced the upcoming Nehalem-EX refr...

Published on Monday, May 10, 2010 by admin Xigmatek has announced they will launch their latest Midgard chassis in the comming months, aptly named White Knight. Unmistakable to anyone who views it this case is finished inside and out in pure white paint. Lending credibility to its unique name in the world of computer cases. [ad#300x250_image_ads] The White Knight is a full steel chassis that is base...

Published on Monday, May 10, 2010 by admin Announcing high end products and 'Halo' type hardware is relatively easy for manufacturers - slap some snazzy artwork next to a few pictures, wring a few industry related endorsements, put the major selling points in big letters, write a website page for it, and maybe run a competition to let a couple of people win one.    For entry level boards, it's a different ma...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin The nForce 2 was one of the best chipsets to come out of NVIDIA. It was NVIDIA’s second attempt at a desktop chipset yet it cemented NVIDIA’s position as a leading provider of core logic in the market. Oh how much has changed since then. Most of what made a chipset worthwhile is now integrated into the CPU. It used to be memory controller optimizations that k...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin So far we’ve looked at three different mini-ITX motherboards here at Anandtech over the past 6 months. While each of the products we’ve reviewed have ticked a certain number of boxes, when you look at the feature sets of similarly priced m-ATX boards one of the irksome common denominators (among other things) with the mini-ITX offerings is that you essentiall...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin The first generation of HP ENVY notebooks were unfortunately let down by comparisons to the superior Apple MacBook Pro laptops which they shared a large amount of styling with and unfortunately shared the rather steep pricing. This coupled to some glaring omissions, like the lack of an internal optical drive and feeble connectivity of the 13” model, led to an uni...

Published on Friday, May 7, 2010 by admin Supermicro have launched today their second generation of GPU computing servers, using NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs. This product line is an upgrade from their first generation servers, and features a 1U server with 2x M2050 Tesla cards; a 4U tower that supports four C2050 Tesla GPUs, three other PCI-E cards, and support for eight hot-swappable 3.5" SAS/SATA drive...

Published on Friday, May 7, 2010 by admin Intel’s second-gen Atom platform, Moorestown, positions the chip giant to have a killer smartphone and MID platform in 2010. The old Atom Z5xx drawbacks seem fixed. Why does Moorestown rock, and will it be enough to let Intel advance in this market? Imagine you’re running a 3DMark graphics demo at perfectly fluid frame rates. Then imagine you’re watching 72...

Published on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by admin Okay, I lied a little. Biostar announce their new tech as ‘BIO-unlocKING’, a feature on their latest 8xx series motherboard to unlock the quad core Thuban based processors (such as the Phenom II X4 960T) to their hexacore variants. Biostar cover themselves by noting that not all quad core Thubans will unlock. This feature will also help with unlockable dual c...

Published on Monday, May 3, 2010 by admin Macs will become an alternative and viable game platform... and there is nothing you can do about it. Boy, was there an outrage over Valve’s decision to port its popular games and offer its Steam distribution for the Mac. Since Steam is estimated to account for 70% of online game purchases, this is one major announcement. But if you think about it, such news wa...

Published on Sunday, May 2, 2010 by admin A very smart man once told me that absolute performance doesn’t matter, it’s performance at a given price point that makes a product successful. While AMD hasn’t held the absolute performance crown for several years now, that doesn’t mean the company’s products haven’t been successful. During the days of the original Phenom, AMD started the trend of o...

Published on Sunday, May 2, 2010 by admin Popular motherboard manufacturer MSI has announced the next weapon in their motherboard arsenal - the MSI Big Bang-XPower. Like other second generation X58 motherboards, the XPower will feature SATA 6G and USB 3.0 teamed up with a slew of overclocking features in order to captivate the enthusiast market. MSI are keen to promote their new 16-phase CPU VRM and libe...