OCZ Vertex 2 – put that SSD in 6th gear OCZ is back to attack with a new SSD in that slowly saturating SSD storage market. Yes, the Vertex 2 is finally here. OCZ has been on a winning streak with their SSD drives ever since that started selling Indilinx controller based products. Armed with [...]
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 [...]
Before You Read the List The big news in March was the introduction of the worlds first hexa-core CPU for the desktop, Intel’s Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor. With six physical CPU cores and capable of running 12 threads thanks to Hyper-Threading, the 32nm Gulftown core is the most powerful desktop CPU on the planet, [...]
Consumer video cameras tend to fall into two camps: barrel-shaped ones with advanced features and high prices, and mobile phone-shaped ones with basic features and low prices. The TG7 is a hybrid, with a flat, compact design but a proper zoom lens, advanced features and a high price to match. It’s bulkier than the likes [...]
Alan Wake has a pretty good life, all things considered. He’s a successful author, he has a beautiful wife, and his agent is just waiting for the next book. The problem is that for two years, Wake hasn’t been able to write. The words simply aren’t coming. So his wife has an idea: take a [...]
As if the launch of two six-core processors was not enough, AMD today also has updates on their motherboard chipset line-up of products, and quite interesting ones as well. This review will entail the AMD 890FX chipset, initially to be paired solely with Thuban based processors but obviously intended for the entire AMD Phenom II [...]
ASUS Rampage III Extreme motherboard test You know, I have a soft spot for the X58 platform and the Core i7 processors that go along with it. And you know what, it is hard to believe that the first Core i7 processors and this chipset were released ages ago. I mean, the Core i7 965 Extreme [...]
The Mionix NAOS 5000 game mouse tested mionix.net Purchasing a gaming mouse these days seems more complicated than ever. Gaming peripherals have become a huge market and as such there is just so much choice out there as everybody wants a slice of the pie. There are plenty of mice with ergonomic design and all [...]
Introduction You know, the release of Clarkdale Core i3 and i5 processors was partially successful really… many people feel that an IGP (integrated graphics) does not belong on a processor and the concept of it being only a dual-core processor feels a bit weird. That does not mean though that these processors are incapable, to [...]
Since June 2005 and the publication of our NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX test, in addition to performance of course, we have systematically measured the power consumption of new graphics cards coming onto the market. In 2005, as now, this is a relatively simple reading to take as, instead of measuring the power consumption of the [...]
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