BIOSTAR Updates a Popular Motherboard: The X470GTN
Would it surprise you that our most popular AM4 motherboard review to date was Biostar’s mini-ITX offering, the X370GTN? At the time it was launched, it was the only...
6 by on 6/18/2018GIGABYTE’s X399 Aorus Extreme: The Threadripper 2 Halo Motherboard
Our most popular news during the week of Computex was, without a doubt, AMD’s announcement of the next generation of Threadripper. The new chips, coined Threadripper 2, are set...
17 by on 6/18/2018InWin Z-Tower: Where PCs Crossover to Art
One constant over the last few years of Computex has been InWin’s ability to amaze. Out of all the companies to show new designs completely out of left field...
8 by on 6/18/2018The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 48: Computex 2018
Wrapping up Computex 2018 with discussions about AMD's Threadripper 2 with 32 cores, Intel's new limited edition Core i7-8086K, and that really odd 28-core 5 GHz demo where Intel...
23 by on 6/15/2018AMD BIOS Limitations: Bristol Ridge Dropped From Certain Motherboards
One of the functions of a motherboard BIOS, or UEFI, is the ability to discern which CPU is installed in the socket. With each new generation of CPUs, new...
34 by on 6/15/2018G.Skill Trident Royal Crystalline DRAM: Premium Gemstone Glamour
Despite virtually everything in the consumer world being unnecessarily stuffed to the gills with RGB LEDs, they seem to sell like hotcakes. I was told earlier this year by...
32 by on 6/14/2018Tyan Tomcat EX: The First AM4 Ryzen Motherboard with Management Control
A surprise at Computex was seeing the first public AMD Ryzen-based AM4 motherboard that will implement an Aspeed AST2500 BMC chip for additional management. Tyan was showcasing its Tomcat...
12 by on 6/14/2018Behind GIGABYTE’s Fish Tank Oil System: A New Take on Liquid Cooling
One of the more interesting designs out of the computer industry recently has been GIGABYTE’s fish tank PC build. The concept is similar to a simple mineral oil or...
25 by on 6/14/2018Magnets, How Do They Work? A Maverick / Streacom Prototype
If channeling Insane Clown Posse in the title was not enough, how about a fully configurable chassis where the user can move everything to every location inside the chassis...
17 by on 6/14/2018GIGABYTE Aorus PCIe x16 M.2: For Four NVMe Drives, X399 Compatible
Everyone has spare NVMe SSDs, right? Or perhaps users want to buy four of them? Intel was on a big push recently with its newest 380 GB Intel Optane...
19 by on 6/13/2018Building for Apache Pass: Why Some Skylake Servers Already have 8 DIMMs Per Socket
If you don’t have a hand in a server day in and day out, it was perhaps not obvious why some Skylake servers when launched had eight memory slots...
16 by on 6/13/2018USB-IF and Fast Charging: New Standard Logo with Wattage Listed
When discussing industry standards, the sexy ones are involved around performance: if you can breathe PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 into a sentence, people start listening. One of the...
28 by on 6/13/2018Streacom DA2 Fanless: The All-Aluminum Silent Chassis
Before Computex we reported on Streacom’s latest creation, the DA2. This is an all-aluminium chassis aimed at small form factor systems but with a key twist – the rails...
7 by on 6/13/2018The Intel Core i7-8086K Review
Intel announced it, we asked for one, we were told no press samples, so we bought one. This is Intel's 40th anniversary of the original x86 microarchitecture with the...
115 by on 6/11/2018Intel Confirms Some Details about 28-Core 5 GHz Demonstration
When Intel demonstrated its 28-core system running at 5 GHz at the Computex 2018 keynote this week, there were many questions surrounding the hardware and what was required in...
145 by on 6/8/2018EVGA Goes Budget Part 2: H370 Stinger, with 10 PCB Layers
In light of the B360 Gaming already being shown to us at EVGA’s suite at Computex, cue another interesting surprise in the H370 Stinger. The key headline for this...
6 by on 6/6/2018AMD Reveals Threadripper 2 : Up to 32 Cores, 250W, X399 Refresh
One of the surprises from AMD’s first year of the newest x86 Zen architecture was the launch of the Threadripper platform. Despite the mainstream Ryzen processors already taking a...
205 by on 6/5/2018AMD Computex 2018 Press Event: A Live Blog (10am Taiwan, 2am UTC)
Ready to follow along for another press event? AMD is here, with all the senior faces coming on stage. Follow our live blog to hear what is being announced.
17 by on 6/5/2018We Got a Sneak Peek on Intel’s 28-Core: All You Need To Know
This week at Computex, we saw two big CPU related announcements. The first was the launch of the Intel i7-8086K, a six-core limited edition processor at 5 GHz that...
66 by on 6/5/2018EVGA X299 Micro2: A Refresh of the X299 Micro
Intel has stated that the next generation of HEDT processors is coming later this year. We fully expect these processors to be motherboard compatible with current Skylake-X processors on...
5 by on 6/5/2018