As we mentioned in our previous edition of The Cable Chronicles, Microsoft and CableLabs have come to an agreement to allow the installation and use of CableCARDs on unapproved and non-OEM systems, allowing for the wider proliferation of CableCARD equipped HTPCs beyond the handful of OEM systems that CableLabs had previously approved. With […]
If you’ve been keeping up with our articles for a while, you might have picked up on vApus Mark I: the virtualized stress test we created for internal use at the Sizing Servers testlab.
As detailed in Johan’s article, this bench consists of 3 separate applications, all of which we are very familiar with […]
Could this be AMD’s comeback? It sure looks bold at a high level……
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For those of you sticking with Vista, Microsoft has finally officially released DirectX 11 for Vista, after having spent the last couple of months in beta. This final release looks to be the same as the last beta released earlier this month.
The update is KB971512, which is being released as part of a […]
We have a winner! We’ve also got AnandTech offered on Amazon’s Kindle and a preview of the new AnandTech site redesign. I hint about a call to writers and a potential reader meetup in India. …
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After nearly a year of serious waiting, the next Windows is here. Its arrival puts a stake in Vista, and may finally be what Microsoft needs to put XP to bed….
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With 2 Cypress chips on 1 card, today marks the day where AMD completes their takeover of the high-end video card market. It’s the fastest single card on the planet for $599, and quite overclockable out of the box. Goodbye GTX 295….
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The HP Mini 311 is one of the first netbooks to ship with NVIDIA’s ION platform. The question everyone’s asking is: does ION improve the netbook experience? The answer is yes, but there are other questions we still need to address….
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A couple of weeks ago Marvell announced its ARMADA line of custom ARM based SoCs. We have a little more detail on one of its members: the 166E. Marvell hopes that the 166E will pave the way for affordable ebook readers in 2010….
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Looking for a laptop, netbook, or even a notebook this holiday season? We’ve put together our thoughts on the various price segments and have selected a few laptops worthy of mention for this buyers’ guide….
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In our first P55 Overclocking showdown we take a look at the top boards from ASUS, EVGA, and Gigabyte. One failed, the other three made it through our torture tests. Find out which one deserves your attention if you are into serious overclocking on the P55 platform….
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First of all, we were pretty excited to see so many comments and votes (5000!) on our last IT poll. It is good to see that professional IT is so much alive at Anandtech.com. So yes, we should have updated this blog quicker, to keep the momentum going. The reason why this update […]
Updated ATI and Intel acceleration results. Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe’s prerelease of Flash 10.1 is about to change all of that. By offloading H.264 decode onto capable GPUs, full screen, high resolution flash video is finally possible without […]
That’s right, just in time for the holidays we’ve partnered up with Intel to give away a complete Lynnfield Core i7 System….
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In our Radeon HD 5970 review, we ran in to some issues when trying to overclock the card to 5870 speeds of 850MHz/1200MHz. At the time this is something we attributed to the VRMs, meanwhile AMD suggested that it was cooling related, and that we should manually increase the fan speed.
As it turns […]
We just got off the phone with Nick Knupffer of Intel, who confirmed something that has long been speculated upon: the fate of Larrabee. As of today, the first Larrabee chip’s retail release has been canceled. This means that Intel will not be releasing a Larrabee video card or a Larrabee HPC/GPGPU compute […]
There’s not much to talk about from a CPU standpoint with AMD in 2010, so AMD is heavily focused on 2011 and what it plans to do with its first on-die GPU in Llano. Bobcat and Bulldozer also make it back into the headlines as AMD is long overdue for another microprocessor […]
Intel’s first discrete GPU has been canceled, I explain why it doesn’t really matter….
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Raja and I have been working on a Holiday Guide the past couple of weeks and hopefully we will complete it this week. Our emphasis has been on finding components that offer a great bang for the buck even though they might not be the absolute best in their class. While we […]
Updated! We clarify one of the more confusing points of AMD’s nomenclature with regards to Bulldozer. AMD is referring to integer cores whenever it mentions core count in its roadmaps….
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Over the summer we discovered that Apple’s newly redesigned MacBook Pro offered battery life to die for. Approaching 8 hours of battery life on a single charge we were curious to see how the rest of the lineup fared. We won’t see any new MacBook Pros until 2010, so if you’re […]
In his first article on AnandTech, Loyd Case takes us through building his first Windows Home Server out of components he had laying around the Case House….
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We take a look at Biostar’s top end P55 motherboard and find that it really is a heavyweight contender with a middle range price tag….
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We take Seagate’s latest drive technology for a quick spin and wonder if SATA 6Gb/s technology will ever benefit desktop based hard drives….
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It’s not often we write about prices going up.
Last week there was a rumor going around that AMD intended to raise prices on the 5800 series. At the time we wrote this off as yet another highly-speculative rumor based on shaky evidence. Official price hikes are virtually unprecedented, after all.
Then things changed.
We’ve talked…
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New Update on TRIM fw.Intel and Indilinx SSDs now have TRIM support - we put it to the test. At the same time Kingston helps Intel bring SSDs to the masses with a 40GB X25-M G2 based SSD priced at $115 or $85 after rebates….
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Acer recently launched some updated laptops with Windows 7. For that matter, just about every laptop manufacturer out there has new laptops sporting Windows 7, but we’re going to start our coverage of mobile press releases with Acer since they were kind enough to send us the pertinent details. (Ed: This blog may […]
Today marks a monumental day in the CPU world, as AMD and Intel have settled their differences and dropped all suits against each other. The ramifications are monumental: AMD will officially go fabless…
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Agner Fog, a Danish expert in software optimization is making a plea for an open and standarized procedure for x86 instruction set extensions. Af first sight, this may seem a discussion that does not concern most of us. After all, the poor souls that have to program the insanely complex x86 compilers will […]
We tried to find out what the new AMD roadmap means for our IT readers: the professionals who actually configure and buy these servers….
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Two applications, both running parts of their code on the GPU are now available for end users to transcode video. As of Catalyst 8.12, all AMD Radeon HD 4800 and 4600 owners get access to a free GPU accelerated video transcoder designed to compete with Elemental’s Badaboom, the world’s first video transcoder […]
Looking to build or upgrade systems during the holiday season? We’ve got motherboard recommendations for any and all price points….
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Velocity Micro is a prominent PC supplier with products available both online and in brick-and-mortar stores across the U.S. Has their popularity hurt their performance, or do they have what it takes to compete with the boutique vendors? We look at the bottom line in our review of the Core i7 equipped Edge […]
After our first receipt of Core i7 processors and boards, we realized quickly that 24/7 stable overclocks past 4GHz were going to require excellent air cooling products, but more than likely liquid cooling or TEC systems. Considering the upper end boards are capable of 3x SLI or Crossfire and have at least 8 […]
We’ve finally got a Jasper in house, meaning we’ve also got die measurements, power consumption and more hardware details than we should have to provide about a closed box game console. Let’s hope the RRoD is finally fixed….
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A little while back, NVIDIA brought us the news that Mirror’s Edge for the PC would feature PhysX support and include some neat effects physics. Effects physics, as you may recall, is the physical simulation of things that don’t impact gameplay but simply enhance the visual impact of a game. This can […]
It was the biggest launch for ATI since the memorable R300 (Radeon 9700 Pro), yet we failed to get the full story on how RV770 (Radeon HD 4800) came to be until now. It’s one of the best tales I’ve ever heard since the 12 years I’ve been running AnandTech, it’s the […]
High ISO performance and noise compared to Canon 5D, Nikon D700/D3, and Sony A900….
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We take a look at the mid-range X58 motherboards from ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI….
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Ever thought of making the move to digital audio on a PC for all your listening needs? Prices may not be for the faint of heart, but the end results are a different matter….
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