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- AVADirect Nano Cube
- AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game
- Product reviews 2009-11-04
- Intel debuts Core i7 960
- Why?LGA1366 is effectively dead.RE: Intel debuts Core i7 960I think I was happier when Intel had competition at the high end and had to price their chips accordingly.Whether or not I use AMD, I need them to compete better to keep Intel's prices down.Why would you say that?Where are you...
- Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Intel Corp., socket, chipset, LGA1366, Bloomfield, LGA1156
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Velocity Micro Edge Z30 (Intel Core i7)
- We've written about Falcon Northwest's new Core i7-based gaming PC, and now Velocity Micro gets a turn to showcase Intel's new mainstream-priced desktop chip. Our Velocity Micro Edge Z30 review unit comes in at $1,349 and features an overclocked Intel Core i7 860 chip. It also outperforms a pricier Dell...
- Tags: Desktops, PCI, Velocity Micro, Velocity, Edge Z30, Velocity Micro Edge Z30, desktop, Intel Core Microarchitecture
- Product reviews 2009-09-10
- Intel shakes up mid-range CPUs with Lynnfield Core i5 750, Core i7 860 and Core i7 870
- Business Class PCs to get Core i5Last winter when the Core i7 was released, it was pretty much placed in high level consumer gaming PCs. Even the lower end Core i7 did not find its way into business class PCs.I would certainly like to see Lenovo and HP get working...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Processors, CPU, Virtualization Technology, Core i7, virtualization, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., socket, processor
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Falcon Northwest Talon (Intel Core i7)
- Falcon Northwest was first to ship us a PC with Intel's new mainstream Core i7 CPUs, and based on this $2,495 Talon configuration, we can say that Intel has met its goal of enabling system builders to sell fast PCs at lower prices than they could previously. Falcon Northwest has...
- Tags: Intel Core Microarchitecture, TALON, Falcon Northwest
- Product reviews 2009-09-08
- Dell Studio XPS 435 (Intel Core i7 920, 500GB HDD, 3GB)
- Despite our preference for a more purpose-built computer, we actually have a fair opinion of this $1,579 Dell Studio XPS 435 build. It's fast, attractive, and comes with a Blu-ray drive and a reasonably capable graphics card. You could plunk this system in a dorm room or a home office...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Intel Core Microarchitecture, hard drive, Dell Studio XPS 435, Dell Studio XPS, Dell Computer Corp., Studio XPS 435, Studio XPS
- Product reviews 2009-08-10
- Asus Essentio CG5290-BP007
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores.The $1,199 Asus Essentio CG5290-BP007 stands out from the rest of our back-to-school PCs because of both its price and its intentions....
- Tags: Blu-ray, Desktops, Games, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Network technology, Asus Essentio CG5290-BP007, Asus Essentio, ASUS
- Product reviews 2009-08-04
- Digital Storm 950Si (Intel Core i7)
- The $3,636 950Si is the first PC we've reviewed from Digital Storm, and for the most part we've come away impressed. The system itself came with an overclocked, but more importantly stable Intel CPU, and but for a minor design flaw it seems competently built. Digital Storm could have pushed...
- Tags: Storm 950Si, Intel Core Microarchitecture
- Product reviews 2009-07-02
- Shuttle XPC H7 5800
- You can find plenty of small form factor gaming systems out there, notably from Falcon Northwest and Maingear, but the Shuttle XPC H7 5800 might be the smallest chassis we know of that still supports multiple graphics cards. As much as we credit Shuttle for loading up its small H7...
- Tags: Video cards, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, Shuttle, XPC H7 5800, Shuttle XPC H7 5800, Shuttle XPC, Maingear X-Cube
- Product reviews 2009-06-23
- AVADirect Clevo D900F Core i7
- AVADirect isn't hiding the fact that the Clevo D900F Core i7 desktop replacement laptop isn't its design. Actually, the system builder goes out of its way to let you know it's a white-box PC by leaving Clevo--the name of the OEM/ODM company responsible for making the laptop--in the model's name....
- Tags: Performance management, AVADirect Clevo D900F Core i7
- Product reviews 2009-06-23
- Sager NP9280 has Core i7, triple SSDs; world's most powerful laptop
- Good grief, how much tech can you pack into a laptop? The superlative-laden Sager NP9280 is the world's first Core i7 laptop to ship and the world's most powerful laptop, apparently. Engadget details the sleeper system, which looks like a...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- AVADirect Custom Gaming PC
- A dirty secret of gaming PC reviews is that vendors frequently try to submit systems with aggressive overclocking that they won't actually sell because of poor reliability, but that will last long enough to score well on our benchmarks. Imagine our skepticism when this $2,900 AVADirect Custom Gaming PC showed...
- Tags: Network technology, PC, AVADirect Custom Gaming PC, gaming PC
- Product reviews 2009-04-23
- Core i5 details leaked
- Core i5 details leakedYes, certainly expensive for a crippled i7 derivativeIt makes the 920 seem like a bargain at $290.RE: Core i5 details leakedMost people use there computers for basic office applications, email and facebook. This is why netbooks are becoming so popular. ...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Core i7, Core i5
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Falcon Northwest FragBox 2 (Intel Core i7)
- When we last left the FragBox 2, Falcon Northwest swore up and down that its small-form-factor gaming PC wouldn't use Intel's Core i7 chips due to a lack of compatible, appropriately sized motherboards. Based on this new, $3,261 version of the FragBox 2, which does indeed come equipped with a...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, FragBox 2, Falcon Northwest, Intel Core Microarchitecture
- Product reviews 2009-04-03
- Parallels Workstation Extreme
- Until very recently, some graphics intensive applications were not good candidates for encapsulation in a virtual machine. Even though using virtual machine technology could offer the administrators and users a number of benefits, the performance would simply not past muster with the "power users" needing those applications. ...
- Tags: Performance, NVidia Corp., Virtual Machine, Graphics, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Parallels, NIVIDIA, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Workstations, Performance Management, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Processors, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- HP Pavilion Elite m9515y
- HP's Pavilion Elite m9515y is the kind of PC for which we're surprised there's still a market. We say that because we've officially soured on the idea of a standard mid-tower in the living room, and if you want a computer to serve as a dedicated small-scale home entertainment system...
- Tags: Desktops, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co., Pavilion Elite, HP Pavilion Elite
- Product reviews 2009-03-04
- Maingear X-Cube (AMD Phenom II X4 940)
- Rather than simply reissue the same case with updated specs, Maingear has redesigned its small form factor X-Cube gaming desktop wholesale. The result is a new, larger case that maintains the compact nature of PCs in this niche, but also lends this system a surprising degree of internal space. Our...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Phenom, Maingear X-Cube, small form factor, FragBox 2
- Product reviews 2009-02-26
- Dell XPS 625 Desktop Computer (AMD Phenom X4 940, 500GB HDD, 4GB)
- Normally we criticize gaming PCs from large vendors like Dell for failing to keep their specs as aggressively up to date as their boutique competition. But after looking for systems to compare with Dell's new $1,499 XPS 625, it seems as of this writing that the entire desktop market is...
- Tags: Chipsets, Desktops, Semiconductors, hard drive, computer, Maingear, AMD Phenom, desktop computer, Dell Computer Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., motherboard, XPS 625, Dell XPS 625, PC
- Product reviews 2009-02-12
- Building an Intel Core i7 system just got cheaper
- Building an Intel Core i7 system just got cheaperI've been building PCs for 20 yearsand the problem I see is that, no matter how great the reviews MSI gets, in the field, their products are problematic. I can speak as someone who has built (and had to replace, when I...
- Tags: Corporate governance, MSI, Intel Core Microarchitecture, board
- Discussion threads 2009-02-03
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