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Gigabyte is not a company to be left out of any market and they are certainly keeping pace in the motherboard arena. They are one of the companies that not only leads sales, but also helps to drive innovation and performance standards. We have had many Gigabyte motherboards in the lab and almost without exception they have been great performers. Gigabyte has also been able to learn from their mistakes and from feedback, whether it is from consumers or the press. So where does this leave Gigabyte in the Z87 market? Well we happen to have a Z87X-UD3H in the lab, so let’s take a look and see.

Monday, 04 November 2013 20:09

32 inch 4K monitor from Dell

Monitor brings 32 inch (31.5-inch visible) Sharp IGZO display in ultra HD resolution (3840x2160 pixels) with LED backlighting. Viewing angle is 176 degrees horizontally and vertically, with a contrast ratio of 100:1 and brightness of 350 cd/m2.

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Sunday, 03 November 2013 22:29

Asus Z87-Expert Review Part II - Performance

So now that we have covered the design and features of the Asus Z87-Expert it is time to dive into how well the board performs. Asus has always been a company that talks up the performance that their products are capable of and, from our initial look, we can understand this. Asus is one of the companies that drives the market in terms of how to build a motherboard and the components used to squeeze as much performance as possible out of them. So with that in mind let’s just how well the Z87-Expert does perform when on the bench.

With the launch of Intel’s Haswell there was the normal shift to a new chipset. This is Intel’s Z87 chipset and everyone rushed to get their version of this new chipset out onto the market. Many of the boards that reached consumers were just rehashes of boards that were already on the market with the Z77 chipset, but with the bonus of improved performance under Haswell. So with that in mind we have Asus’ Z87-Expert up on the test bench to see just how it stacks up to the older Z77 boards running Ivy Bridge. Let’s dive in.

Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:55

Samsung likes Green

According to information coming from Samsung, new Green DDR4 memory should be available by August next year. Compared to the existing DDR3 memory operating at speeds of 1866 MHz, the new DDR4 memory will maintain a speed of 2133 MHz. With the increased speed some of the main advantages of Samsung's Green DDR4 modules will include increased reliability and lower energy requirements.

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AnandTech did a research on benchmark tests for mobile phones, and when they finished with analysing data which was collected from July to September this year, confirmation came that almost every manufacturer of smart devices cheats when performing benchmark tests.

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Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:12

TRENDNet TEW-805UB 802.11ac USB 3.0 Adapter Review

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Since its introduction there has been something of an internal battle with wireless. On the one hand it is very convenient; you just connect to an access point and you have freedom as long as you are inside the network rand. On the other the speed is not always that great and, if the signal is too weak, you can end up dropping packets, files and losing data. Over the years there have been great improvements in wireless speed, but no matter what it has never been able to match the speed of a wired connection. At least it could not until 802.11ac wireless arrived on the scene. This new specification offers a theoretical limit of 1.3Gbps over a 5GHz wireless connection. We have already taken a look at a router and USB 2.0 adapter, now we are going to look at what happens when you put USB 3.0 into the mix with the TRENDNet TEW-805UB adapter.

Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:56

New wireless gaming mouse from Logitech

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Logitech has unveiled a new mouse for gamers within their offering from G product line, model G602 Wireless Gaming Mouse. As the name implies, it is a wireless mouse that offers significantly greater autonomy of the battery compared to similar competitive products.

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Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:39

New 12 core x86 processor from IBM

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IBM has released details about their new processor from Power Line 8, which should have 12 cores. New IBM processor is one of the last competitors in x86 architecture, to processors from Intel and AMD, which have already taken most of the server market. But IBM is still earning billions of dollars selling servers and supercomputers based on Power chips.

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Saturday, 03 August 2013 21:59

Prices of Ivy Bridge-E processors appeared

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The X79 platform will soon become the latest collection of Intel's ultra high-end CPU processors. The line will be launched on 6th of September this year and first processors that will occur are the Core i7-4960X, Core i7-4930K and Core i7-4820K.

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