Systems
One of the perks of modern mobile CPUs is that, being designed for laptops and their very limited cooling capacity, they can be placed in a NUC-sized (or smaller) miniature desktop PC with little difficulty. Better still, with desktops providing room for proper heatsinks (i.e. fins), even passively cooled mini-PCs using laptop-grade silicon are more than viable. The only real drawback to these mini-PCs has largely been the niche nature of the market – leading to high prices and limited choices for higher-performing systems – which is why Topgro has been turning heads as of late with the release of their aggressively priced Intel 12th Gen Core-based K3 Mini PC. Topgro is not a household name, but it sells a collection of compact desktop PCs...
Memory Frequency Scaling in SFF Systems: An Investigation with SO-DIMMs and Coffee Lake
High-performance SFF and UCFF desktops as well as gaming notebooks are becoming big market segments. Makers of PC components have also started to offer high-end parts designed for such...
27 by Ganesh T S on 11/28/2018
Supermicro To Offer Reduced Memory Xeon Scalable
With big chips come big responsibility. One of the key elements of a big chip is its capability and connectivity, and there is always a big expectation that all...
7 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2018
ASUS Launches Zen AiO 27 Z272SD: New Design, 4K, Six-Core CPU, dGPU, 32 GB RAM
ASUS has quietly added a new premium Zen AiO desktop to its lineup of all-in-one PCs. The latest high-end Zen AiO significantly improves in performance over the predecessor in...
13 by Anton Shilov on 11/16/2018
ZOTAC Unveils VR GO 2.0 Wearable PC: Core i7-8700T Meets GeForce GTX 1070
ZOTAC this week officially launched its second-generation VR GO wearable backpack PC for VR gaming. The new VR GO 2.0 system is somewhat smaller and marginally lighter than the...
5 by Anton Shilov on 11/9/2018
HP Launches Ultra-Thin HP Spectre 13 x360: Quad-Core i7, Gigabit LTE, 22.5 Hr Battery Life
Originally launched as stylish high-performance ultra-portables, HP’s Spectre-series laptops have quickly gained popularity among multiple user segments. As a result of this, HP’s Spectre laptops and convertibles also began...
17 by Anton Shilov on 10/24/2018
HP Launches EliteBook x360 1040 G5: Now with 14-Inch Display and 32 GB of RAM
HP on Tuesday announced its first EliteBook-branded convertible, the EliteBook x360 1040 G5. Walking a fine line between an ultraportable laptop, a convertible, and a high-end laptop, HP has...
15 by Anton Shilov on 10/23/2018
Dell Launches Three Rugged Latitude Laptops with up to 1000-nit Displays
Dell today introduced its new generation of ruggedized Latitude laptops designed to operate in rough locations. The new family consists of three base models that offer different levels of...
7 by Anton Shilov on 10/23/2018
Samsung Unveils Galaxy Book2: 12-Inch, Snapdragon 850 with X20 LTE, 20 Hrs
Samsung today has introduced the Galaxy Book2, its newest attempt to create an always on, always connected convertible PC. For the new 2-in-1 notebook, Samsung opted to use Qualcomm’s...
48 by Anton Shilov on 10/18/2018
Lenovo Launches 12.5-Inch ThinkPad A285 with AMD Ryzen PRO APUs
Lenovo Japan on Thursday said that it would begin selling its ThinkPad A285 laptop on September 21. The mobile PC is one of the thinnest and lightest notebooks based...
44 by Anton Shilov on 9/21/2018
Origin PC Announces NT-15 Quadro Workstation: Core i7 and Max-Q
Origin PC on Wednesday introduced its first mobile workstation featuring a professional NVIDIA Quadro P5000 GPU. The NT-15 Quadro uses Intel’s 7th Generation Core i7 CPU and comes with...
6 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2018
Origin PC Launches EVO17-S ‘Thin-and-Light’ 17-Inch Laptop with Intel Core i9
In addition to a relatively modest EON15-S gaming laptop introduced on Wednesday, Origin PC also rolls out its EVO17-S, a much more powerful machine running Intel’s Core i9 CPU...
14 by Anton Shilov on 8/1/2018
Origin PC Unveils EON15-S Laptop: Core i9, GTX 1060, Two PCIe SSDs
Origin PC on Wednesday introduced its new gaming laptop aimed at customers looking at mid-range designs. The new EON15-S notebook comes in a sub-1-inch thick chassis and is equipped...
15 by Anton Shilov on 8/1/2018
Intel Officially Launches Bean Canyon NUCs with Coffee Lake-U Processors
Intel's Bean Canyon NUCs have been subject to a number of leaks, notably from FanlessTech. However Intel has finally made things official with a detailed technical product manual for...
38 by Ganesh T S on 7/25/2018
HP Unveils Z2 Mini G4 SFF Workstations: Up to Six-Core Xeons, Pro GPUs
HP this week upgraded its miniature Z2 Mini workstation with the latest Intel’s Core and Xeon E processors with up to six cores as well as professional-grade graphics cards...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/20/2018
Lenovo’s Miix 630 Snapdragon 835-Based 2-in-1 Now Available
Lenovo has started to sell its Miix 630 always-connected PC based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 SoC and Microsoft’s Windows 10 S. The system weighs around 1.4 kilograms yet promises...
34 by Anton Shilov on 7/10/2018
iBuyPower Element Gaming PC Review: i7-8086K and GTX 1080 Ti Inside
It has been a long while since AnandTech has reviewed full-sized systems, as most of our readers tend to build PCs for themselves. There is however quite a large...
52 by Joe Shields on 7/6/2018
An EpicGear Turnkey PC Gaming Café: Beam Me Up Scotty
One of the phrases I no longer hear in this industry is ‘Cyber Café’. A remnant of the past, at least here in the west, a gaming or cyber...
12 by Ian Cutress on 6/25/2018
ECS with Intel Compute Card: What Happened to Intel’s Compute Card?
One of the more interesting and innovative platforms that Intel has introduced over the past few years was the Compute Card: a small credit-card like platform that contained a...
26 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
USB-IF and Fast Charging: New Standard Logo with Wattage Listed
When discussing industry standards, the sexy ones are involved around performance: if you can breathe PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 into a sentence, people start listening. One of the...
28 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2018
ASRock DeskMini Z370 GTX1060 Review: A Compact Coffee Lake Gaming PC
Small form-factor machines have emerged as a very significant chunk of the PC market. Building on the success of the UCFF NUCs, Intel introduced the mini-STX platform in 2015...
24 by Ganesh T S on 6/12/2018
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