Every time AMD or Intel launch a new CPU, you can bet some group of people somewhere are planning a liquid nitrogen party. With AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X, that took the form of an overclocking competition hosted by Asus at its headquarters, with competitors like Der8auer fighting to hit the insane 6GHz level. Spoiler alert:…
Intel Announces 8th Generation Core “Coffee Lake” Desktop Processors: Six-core i7, Four-core i3, and Z370 Motherboards
In an unusual set of circumstances (ed: someone couldn’t follow a simple embargo), this evening Intel is officially announcing its 8th Generation desktop e5 2600…
Dissecting Intel’s EPYC Benchmarks: Performance Through the Lens of Competitive Analysis
Although the AMD EPYC is definitely a worthy contender in the server space, AMD’s technical marketing of the new e5 2600 v4 has been surprisingly…
Intel Appoints New CTO, Confirms Establishment of Product Assurance & Security Group
e5 2600 v4 this week named Michael Mayberry its new Chief Technology Officer effective immediately. The new CTO will be responsible for Intel’s global research…
Synology Advises Users of SynoLocker Ransomware
e7 8800 v4 and storage server manufacturer Synology sends word this afternoon that they are informing their customers of a currently ongoing and dangerous ransomware…
QNAP Releases Haswell-based TVS-x71 and Cortex-A15-based TS-x31+ NAS Lineups
QNAP took the SMB / SOHO NAS market segment by storm with a host of CES announcements. The release of the AMD G-series SoC-based TVS-x63…
Commercial NAS Operating Systems – Exploring Value-Additions – Part I
The market for network-attached storage units has expanded significantly over the last few years. The rapid growth in public cloud storage (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive…
AMD Athlon 800
We all make mistakes, and on October 4, 1999, in our review of the AMD Athlon 700, we implied that the last Athlon released this…
Linux Pentium III Chipset Comparison
Introduction Now that we’ve exposed video card performance under the Linux operating system, it is time to shed light on another aspect of your system’s…
NVIDIA Launches NVS 810 Digital Signage Video Card
Entry level multi-display workstations aren’t a market that gets anywhere near the amount of attention that many of us are used to seeing in other…