Since acquiring VoodooPC, HP has established Omen as their gamer oriented brand. First with premium laptops and desktops, the Omen brand has now spun off several gamer accessories, hoping to earn a spot next to well-known brands such as Logitech or Razer. This will be a tough challenge for HP. So many gamers will find a peripheral that works for them and then swear by the model or brand unless they have a good reason to try something new....
If you’re thinking that the Snapdragon 801 isn’t a huge step over the Snapdragon 800, you’d be correct. The 801 expands on the foundation laid with the 800 by packing the same quad-core Krait 400 CPU, the same Adreno 330 GPU, and the same 32-bit dual-channel LPDDR3 memory controller. Clock speeds for all these items have increased, but the effects of this shouldn’t be massive. However, we are talking about an upgrade to the HTC One M7, which was announced in February 2013 and powered by the Snapdragon 600....
But the issues with the Pixel 2 XL have completely overshadowed an awesome alternative on the market right now: the Pixel 2. Yes, it’s smaller, and yes, it doesn’t have the expansive display of its larger brother. But the Pixel 2 takes all the good parts of the Pixel 2 XL and packages them into an ergonomic frame, while leaving the terrible screen behind. It’s this phone you should be buying, not the Pixel 2 XL....
The first application test didn’t deliver promising results. When running our Excel 2013 workload, the Pentium N3700 was 18% slower than the J2900 while the Celeron N3150 was 7% slower than the J1800. The PowerPoint 2013 results are even worse. Here the Pentium N3700 was 24% slower than the J2900, while the Celeron N3150 trailed the J1800 by a 15% margin. The Pentium N3700 was 9% slower than the J2900 when measuring performance with 7-zip and the Celeron N3150 was 9% slower than the J1800....
Coelacanth’s Dream posted the initial finding late last week, highlighting an earlier commit that added Meteor Lake to the virtual instruction set architecture (vISA) as well as a patch to the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC). The updates, which show the potential for on-board ray tracing capabilities, would accompany Intel’s already anticipated move from the Intel 7 architecture to the new Intel 4 node. According to an article from Tom’s Hardware, the architecture difference between the 12th- and 13th-gen CPUs and upcoming 14th-gen CPUs supports the theory that Meteor Lake will include ray tracing hardware....
Speaking to CNN’s Julia Chatterley at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Gelsinger noted that the location of oil reserves has defined geopolitics for the last 50 years. But there will be a more important factor over the next half a century: “Where the technology supply chains are, and where semiconductors are built,” the CEO explained. In addition to its fab sites in Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona (which it is expanding), Intel is building new facilities in Ohio while extending its international operations in Israel, Ireland, Malaysia, Germany, and Italy....
Phenom Test System Specs - AMD Phenom II X4 945 (AM3) - AMD Phenom II X2 550 (AM3) - AMD Athlon II X4 620 (AM3) - x2 Kingston HyperX 2GB DDR3-1333 (CAS 8-8-8-24) - Asus M4A79T Deluxe (AMD 790FX) - OCZ GameXStream (700 watt) - Seagate 500GB 7200-RPM (Serial ATA300) - Asus GeForce GTX 285 (1GB) Software - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) - Nvidia Forceware 190.38
It’s not impossible to find a laptop with a 16-core processor, but in such cases, the processor is a desktop part that’s been squished into a notebook without the proper adjustments being made. It will run too hot and be too hungry. According to a slide first leaked in mid-2021, Intel plans to bring the i9-12900 to the mobile market in a 55W TDP package. It’ll consume much more power while it turbos, but the system will have usable battery life during light workloads....
When Intel introduced the Intel 12th Gen Core/Alder Lake desktop processors to the public, the chipmaker never mentioned its products would support the AVX-512 instruction set. However, that didn’t stop users from bypassing what turned out to be a soft lock. Users could enable AVX-512 on the P-cores via BIOS by disabling the E-cores on these processors. Those running their current BIOS can still trigger the workaround, but new firmware might prevent you from using it down the line....
The Core i7 desktop processors include the Core i7 2600K ($317), i7 2600S ($306) and i7 2600 ($294). The Core i7 2600K and i7 2600 are identical in almost every way with the exception of the unlocked multiplier of the K model and the absence of Intel vPro/TXT/VT-d/SIPP technology, also in the K model. The Core i7 2600S is a member of the low power series and as such the TDP has been reduced from 95w down to 65w....
AMD AM3+ Test System Specs - AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (3.30GHz) - AMD Phenom II X4 980 (3.70GHz) - AMD FX-8150 (3.60GHz) - AMD FX-8120 (3.10GHz) - AMD FX-6100 (3.30GHz) - AMD FX-4170 (4.20GHz) - x2 4GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-14900 (CAS 8-9-8-24) - Asrock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional (AMD 990FX) - OCZ ZX Series 1250w - Crucial m4 256GB (SATA 6Gb/s) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 SOC (1536MB) Software - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit - Nvidia Forceware 285....
With that out of the way, it wasn’t all roses… The performance of the SSD 750 Series 1.2TB ranged from blistering fast to downright slow depending on the test. For example, the SSD 750 killed it in our file copy benchmarks, and it comfortably handled the pack of consumer-grade SSDs in most others (Samsung SSD 850 Pro, SanDisk Extreme Pro and Plextor M6e). However, the synthetic benchmarks were mixed, with CrystalDiskMark showing weaker than expected sequential read performance and random 4K-QD32 performance, while AS SSD provided strong sequential and 4K-64 thread performance....
If you followed that drama you’ll know we spent quite a bit of time and energy fighting AMD on that one and eventually helped get them to walk back that decision. By the time that was resolved we were moving on to Intel 10th-gen Core testing, then we had the Z490 motherboards which morphed into B550 testing, though that’s largely on hold now until stock arrives. The plan was always to go back for some detailed Ryzen 3 testing and we began to lay the groundwork for this GPU scaling content many weeks ago....
Silicon in modern electronics is cheap, abundant and a good conductor of electricity. It isn’t a good conductor of heat, however, and that is a bit of a problem considering excess heat is a natural enemy of electronics. The issue only gets amplified in tiny microchips packing billions of transistors. As Berkeley Lab explains, natural silicon is comprised of three main isotopes. Roughly 92 percent consists of the isotope silicon-28 while the remaining five percent and three percent is silicon-29 and silicon-30, respectively....
Lenovo ThinkPad T410 The latest revision of the popular T-series ThinkPad brings new dedicated and integrated graphics options, along with Intel’s latest Core processors, to the same sturdy and well-built package that Lenovo fans have come to know and love. As expected from a business machine, the ThinkPad T410 has a full set of ports and plenty of enterprise-oriented features, including an optional fingerprint reader and Smart Card. The internal roll cage design helps protect the notebook from damage, while an accelerometer sensor will shutdown the hard drive in the event of a drop....
The real downfall of Android 3.0 Honeycomb so far is application support. There are, quite simply, far too few Android 3.0 Honeycomb specific applications available. The Android market features a couple of dozen, but many of those don’t take full advantage of the Honeycomb user interface. The platform’s compatibility with older titles is somewhat spotty, too. While most of the over 150,000 applications found in the Android market will work in full screen mode, some do not, and those that do are often less than optimal, offering small on-screen controls and fonts, and overly large text input boxes....
In general, the V30 performs well with above average results in most tests. Key benchmarks like web browsing reveal solid performance, particularly in our LTE test where the V30 topped the charts. Video playback was another strong suit for the V30, both in the extremely low intensity 1080p playback test and when streaming a 4K HEVC file over Wi-Fi. It seems that LG’s decision to less aggressively clock the CPU has its benefits too, performing surprisingly well in the high-power GFXBench and Basemark Web battery tests....
It’s still hard to believe Lian-Li found success with a $200 case almost a decade ago, even more so considering that competitors at the time also included a power supply unit for the price while the PC-60 simply did not. Fast forward to the present, it’s not uncommon to find enthusiast-oriented cases (including those from Lian-Li) selling for well above the $200 mark. If you can recall, the last case we reviewed from this manufacturer had a steep $700 price tag attached to it....
In case you missed it, we did an extensive day-one review of the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and Threadripper 2950X processors. The latter is the drop-in replacement for the previous flagship Threadripper and an overall great performer for the price. The 2990WX however is a different kind of beast, more expensive and offering more cores, but with mixed results. That’s why we followed up with the mega-tasking test, a separate multi-tasking focused benchmark in an attempt to explore workstation performance of these high-end CPUs more closely....
The Mars Express mission was launched way back on June 2, 2003—that’s 19 years ago. It means that the Mars Express and its MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) water probe run software that was developed using Windows 98. The new software, designed by Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) and Carlo Nenna, MARSIS on-board software engineer at Enginium, includes upgrades intended to improve signal reception and on-board data processing, which should increase the amount and quality of data sent back to Earth, according to the ESA post....
