Introduction Intel has been utilising poor quality thermal interface material since the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture which increases the thermal values and restricts the ...
December 30, 2016 at 3:25 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Whenever Intel unveils a new generation of processors, enthusiasts tend to focus on the unlocked multiplier models because they’re widely used in high-end ...
December 26, 2016 at 2:00 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Intel’s Core i5 processors have been widely used by PC gamers because engines didn’t really take advantage of the additional threads. Therefore, it ...
December 19, 2016 at 10:16 pm by John Williamson
Introduction The Intel Core i7-6700K has become a firm favourite among PC enthusiasts despite the performance improvements being fairly slim compared to the previous ...
December 19, 2016 at 1:06 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Even though AMD is making the final preparations for their hotly-anticipated Zen architecture, there’s still many circumstances which allow existing ...
October 25, 2016 at 9:00 am by John Williamson
Introduction Intel has been dominating the HEDT market for a considerable amount of time as prosumers’ hefty multi-threaded workloads require additional cores which the ...
August 1, 2016 at 2:14 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Even though the overwhelming majority of media attention revolves around AMD’s upcoming Zen architecture and AM4 socket, it’s important to not ...
July 8, 2016 at 7:00 am by John Williamson
Introduction The overwhelming majority of hardware enthusiasts invest in third-party CPU coolers with superb thermal dissipation and a wonderful noise to performance ratio. ...
May 13, 2016 at 9:20 am by John Williamson
Introduction Skylake is finally here, after months of speculation that all leads up to a single date in the calendar. Based on the first truly successful 14nm process after ...
August 5, 2015 at 1:00 pm by Rikki Wright
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging There comes a time for every enthusiasts when someone asks them to build a computer that is quiet, efficient, small and cheap. I ...
August 1, 2015 at 9:00 am by Rikki Wright
Introduction and Specifications Integrated processors and motherboards aren’t really in the direct interest of the enthusiast, where the focus is more on; in the word of ...
July 22, 2015 at 3:55 pm by Rikki Wright
Introduction In January 2014 AMD unveiled its latest generation of accelerated processing units dubbed “Kaveri”. The range was formed of the A10-7850K flagship, ...
March 11, 2015 at 8:58 am by Rikki Wright
Introduction & What’s New? The 32nm “Vishera” processors from AMD have been around for a long-while; since October 2012 to be exact. Vishera was ...
September 22, 2014 at 7:55 am by Ryan Martin
Introduction & What’s New? The Intel Core i7 5960X, codename Haswell-E, is probably 2014’s worst kept secret. As I am writing this review the full ...
August 29, 2014 at 5:00 pm by Ryan Martin
Introduction When it comes to x86 processors of pure unadulterated power Intel’s high-end Xeon platforms are the only way to go. Intel’s “EP” ...
August 11, 2014 at 7:50 am by Ryan Martin
