The recent discussions at AnandTech have been about the latest updates in desktop computing. We recently went live with our Ryzen 2000-series review of all four processors, and our subsequent follow up with regards how operating systems like Windows rely
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AMD has unleashed its Ryzen 2nd Generation processors to much acclaim, and overclockers have already been pushing the new flagship model, with the 6GHz barrier now having been broken (following a 5.884GHz overclock earlier this week). Expert overclockers Der8auer and
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The final piece of AMD’s return to high-performance computing is in laptops. While Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC have used the 8-core Zeppelin building block for their products, the laptop side of the equation will combine the new high-performance Zen core
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e3 1200 v2 was by many measures a breakout year for AMD and some of the first news out at the beginning of 2018 is its plans to update ‘suggested etailer pricing’ across most of its Ryzen processor SKUs. This
Through the advent of Meltdown and Spectre, there is a heightened element of nervousness around potential security flaws in modern high-performance processors, especially those that deal with the core and critical components of company business and international infrastructure. Today, CTS-Labs,
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Introduction and Testbed Setup Synology launched the DS415+ last month. It is their first product based on the Intel Rangeley platform. One must note that Synology is not the first COTS NAS vendor to bring out a product based on
Western Digital is no stranger to the NAS market. Their Sentinel series units (based on Windows Storage Server) have targeted business users for quite some time now. The My Cloud consumer series (1- and 2-bay NAS units based on a
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Toshiba has announced a new family of 3.5″ hard drives for home and SOHO NAS devices. The new MN-series HDDs have up to 8 TB of capacity and support some of the features found in Toshiba’s enterprise-class hard drives. The
Intel’s Celeron has quickly become one of the most popular chips in Intel’s entire lineup, simply because of its incredible price point. Upon hitting the market, a Celeron rarely retails for much over $100 and even the next fastest chip
The Intel Celeron has been with us for over two years now, and throughout that time, it hasn’t changed much at all. First introduced in 1998, based off of what was known as the Covington core, the original Celeron had