O/C Tech: Making AMD’s Socket AM1 Viable
AMD’s socket AM1 is notoriously slow and gloriously inexpensive. Contributor Joe Trott tunes his machine in an effort to answer the question: Can this low-energy [Read More…]
Month: April 2016
Dell XPS 8000 Series Upgrade FAQ/Q&A (8300/8500/8700/8900)
Welcome to my Dell XPS 8000 series upgrade/maintenance guide. I have owned an XPS 8500 since August 2012 and have since upgraded almost every component [Read More…]
Modular Motherboard? An April Fools’ Joke With Actual Promise
MSI sent out an April fools joke about a modular motherboard capable of supporting both Intel and AMD processors. Although the company doesn’t have any [Read More…]
ASRock, Biostar, Gigabyte, MSI H170 Motherboard Round-Up
Cheaper than Z170 but packed with features, the H170 motherboards try to be “high end on a budget.” Today, we compare the ASRock H170M Pro4, [Read More…]
MSI Z170A SLI Plus LGA 1151 ATX Motherboard Review
Designed to deliver full gaming performance at reduced cost, the Z170A SLI Plus arrives with MSI’s hope for a value award. Today, we put the [Read More…]
Price Check: Intel’s Unlocked Skylake Processors for Desktops Are Getting More Affordable
Due to unprecedented demand, Intel’s latest Skylake processors with unlocked multiplier were significantly overpriced late last year. However, it would seem that more units are [Read More…]
Examining Soft Machines’ Architecture: An Element of VISC to Improving IPC
Last week, Soft Machines announced that their ‘VISC’ architecture was available for licensing, following the announcement of the original concepts over a year ago. VISC, [Read More…]
AMD Expands G-Series Embedded SoCs with Excavator Microarchitecture
Back in October 2015, AMD’s embedded business unit announced the first SoCs from AMD using DDR4, combining AMD’s Excavator cores found in the Carrizo notebook [Read More…]
AMD Launches the A10-7890K and Athlon X4 880K
n what seems to be a common theme every month, AMD’s recent APU release schedule has been to introduce one or two models each news [Read More…]
Why an Overclockable Core i3 Might Not Exist: The Supermicro C7H170-M and Intel Core i3-6100TE Review
er end chipsets offering more functionality at an added cost. For Skylake, Z170 it’s the top model, with H170/H150, B150, Q150 and H110 filling the [Read More…]