There was a point when Intel was the undisputed leader of CPUs and their dominance over AMD was solid. This changed when AMD released its Ryzen PCIe 4.0 CPUs just a little sooner than Intel expected and, over the past year and five months, they have controlled the Gen 4 space exclusively. That has changed most recently with Intel’s latest …
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Dell XPS 13 Gold Edition (2016) Review – Worlds Best Ultra Puts MBA In Its Place
Listing any product as the worlds best is just asking for trouble. I did just that a few years back when I made the switch from PC to the Apple MacBook Air. The MBA achieved those accolades thanks to Samsung who supplied Apple with their PCIe SSD, even before equipping their own ultrabooks. The industry has since forgotten to educate …
Read More »Zotac ZBox PI320 Mini-PC Review and Teardown – eMMC At Its Best
A few weeks back, Zotac sent us a ZBox Pico PI320 Mini PCS and, for the life of me, I could find a place to start. At 115.5mm x 66mm x 19.2 mm, this mini-PC is just about the size of two iPhones on top of one another and has to be the smallest full feature PC available. No matter …
Read More »ASRock Z68 Extreme 4 Motherboard Review – “All Inclusive” Becomes The New Standard
COMPANY: ASRock Incorporated PRODUCT: Z68 Extreme 4 PRICE: ~$200 CAD AVAILABILITY: Global WARRANTY: Two-Year INTRODUCTION While starting the year in a promising and dominant fashion, Intel veered a bit off-track with Cougar Point malfunctions and setbacks. Fast-forward seven months and things have finally begun to stabilize. Without going into a rant about the Cougar Point chip set as …
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