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AMD CTO reveals first Steamroller details by Scott Wasson — 3:30 PM on August 28, 2012 AMD is slowly but surely revising its next-gen CPU microarchitecture in order to realize its potential. The upcoming core code-named Steamroller looks to... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	185
Inside the second: Gaming performance with today's CPUs by Scott Wasson — 4:16 PM on August 23, 2012 We bring our signature latency-focused game testing methods to bear on the latest crop of desktop CPUs. In the process, we learn a some... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Gaming	357
Hands-on with Synaptics' next-generation mobile input devices by Geoff Gasior — 8:00 AM on August 20, 2012 Synaptics' next-gen mobile input devices include a pressure-sensitive touchpad, a lower-latency touchscreen, and an ultra-thin keyboard with secret switch technology. We go hands-on to... Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices	24
Rosewill's RK-9000-series mechanical keyboards reviewed by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:45 PM on August 13, 2012 Rosewill, Newegg's innocuous house brand, caters to mechanical keyboard enthusiasts with four nearly identical specimens priced in the $100-110 range. Each one has a different... Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices	142
A look at hardware video transcoding on the PC by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:50 PM on July 30, 2012 The market is rife with hardware video transcoders and software that can take advantage of them. However, making sense of that jungle of disparate offerings... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Multimedia	46
A couple of months with Corsair's Vengeance M60 mouse by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:09 PM on July 19, 2012 It all started with a failing microswitch. It was the spring of 2011, and I was a perfectly contented MX1100 user. Logitech's latest high-end mouse had... Type: Blog post Tags: Input devices	66
Intel's ultrabook-bound Core i5-3427U processor by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:01 PM on May 30, 2012 The 17W, dual-core version of Ivy Bridge for ultrabooks is finally here. We've compared it to the last generation in our new benchmark suite,... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Mobile computing	74
AMD's A10-4600M 'Trinity' APU reviewed by Scott Wasson and Cyril Kowaliski — 1:55 AM on May 16, 2012 AMD has pulled the curtains back on Trinity, its next-generation APU, which features new Piledriver CPU cores and Northern Islands-derived integrated graphics. Join us... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Mobile computing	294
Ivy Bridge on air: The Core i7-3770K overclocked on four motherboards by Geoff Gasior — 11:24 AM on April 23, 2012 Ivy bridge is here, and she appears to have plenty of clock speed headroom. We overclock the Core i7-3770K on motherboards from Asus,... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Motherboards	55
Review: Intel's Core i7-3770K 'Ivy Bridge' processor by Scott Wasson — 11:18 AM on April 23, 2012 We've deployed some innovative testing methods to go inside the second with Intel's latest desktop processor, the Ivy Bridge-based Core i7-3770K. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	213
Western Digital's VelociRaptor 1TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 16, 2012 Is there any hope for high-performance mechanical drives? We test WD's latest 10k-RPM VelociRaptor 1TB against a diverse array of competitors to find out. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	161
Corsair's Vengeance K60 and K90 mechanical keyboards by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:49 PM on April 4, 2012 Join us as we rattle away on the lovely mechanical keyswitches of Corsair's aluminum-clad K60 and K90 keyboards. Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices	40
OCZ's RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 4:48 PM on March 26, 2012 Using virtualization voodoo, the RevoDrive 3 X2 combines four SandForce-based SSDs on a single PCIe card purportedly capable of transfer rates up to 1500MB/s. ... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	61
Thermaltake's Meka G1 and G-Unit keyboards by Geoff Gasior — 10:21 PM on February 28, 2012 Cherry MX switches and extra perks dominate Thermaltake's mechanical keyboards. We take a closer look at the Meka G1 and G-Unit to see... Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices	24
A closer look at the new AMD by Scott Wasson — 4:08 PM on February 9, 2012 AMD has a new management team and a new direction. They recently shared their vision for the company's future, and we were there, listening... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers	78
Execution by Fred Silver — 10:09 AM on November 15, 2011 Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics	89
Intel's Core i7-3960X processor by Scott Wasson — 2:01 AM on November 14, 2011 The new Extreme version of Sandy Bridge doubles up on nearly all of the resources included in the original quad-core variants. The result? ... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	182
A quick look at Bulldozer thread scheduling by Scott Wasson — 5:32 PM on October 27, 2011 Is an awareness of the shared nature of AMD's Bulldozer architecture the key to unlocking its performance? We investigate. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	106

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ronch

So it seems PC shipments have been.. er.. Ryzen??

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spiketheaardvark

Now Macs have a reliable but still crappy keyboard. +7

bhappy

I wonder if this is going to set a new record for the most expensive app ever on... +5

jihadjoe

The E-2176G on the list is has exactly the same specs as an 8700k (3.7GHz base,... +4

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