Category: Reviews

Hot on the heels of Intel’s Haswell launch, Gigabyte was kind enough to share two of its flagship 8-series motherboards to give away to some lucky AnandTech readers. Today’s giveaway includes one Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5 and one Z87X-OC. 

In the first part of our review of the AMD A10-5750M, we revealed the chip had a predisposition for better CPU performance. Does that carry over and help MSI’s budget oriented gaming notebook, the GX60?

While AMD’s Richland update has been of modest benefit on the desktop, improved power consumption and turbo features tend to go over much better in mobile. Is the AMD A10-5750M a worthy jump over the outgoing A10-4600M?

We’ve had well over a decade of Intel sharing its beliefs with us, but this is ARM’s first attempt at doing the same. What will follow over the next few posts are a bunch of disclosures, some related some not, attempting to bring everyon…

Talk about Haswell and Z87 has circulated the internet for many quarters – today we reap the benefits of the wait and get our chance to review both the CPU and several examples of the Z87 chipset.  Today we have in the Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H,…

Back at Google I/O, the search giant announced the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with Nexus User Experience, a device which combined Samsung’s SGS4 hardware and the stock Android experience atop it. Later on, HTC made an announcement of its own about an upcoming HTC device with the same exact promise – unadulterated HTC One hardware running unadulterated Android. Both devices originally didn’t have formal names, they’re now the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Google Play edition and HTC One Google Play edition, respectively (henceforth SGS4 GPe or HTC One GPe).

Google I/O went on to be a not so subtle breakdown of Google’s strategy to de-couple more of the platform from the primary point releases of Android to get more consistent user experiences and APIs across the ecosystem. While many expected new hardware and a new version of Android, although both were teased, the real big news was primarily Google solidifying more of the experience consistency for developers and users alike. If you look at that theme from a higher level, you can see how Google also clearly wants to extend this to hardware through an ambitious new Google Play edition initiative which starts with the HTC One and Galaxy S 4 Google Play editions. The hardware is already a known entity – we’ve reviewed both the HTC One and the Snapdragon 600-based Galaxy S 4 – the question is how that experience works with stock Android. Read on for the full review. 

A little less than a month has transpired since the launch of the GeForce GTX 770, and we’re back again with another new NVIDIA card. Launching today at $250 is the GeForce GTX 760, the successor to the GTX 660 Ti and GTX 670, and NVIDIA’s new enthusiast class Kpeler card. Designed to go up against the Radeon HD 7950, as we’ll see the GTX 760 can both beat it on performance and undercut it on price, making for a very welcome shakeup in the enthusiast market segment.

Strontium is probably a new acquaintance for many of our readers, but their story may be familiar. Founded in 2002 in Singapore, Strontium is one of the many memory manufacturers who have turned to SSDs to expand their product portfolio and increas…

Apple launched its Haswell ULT based MacBook Air into the wild earlier this month. With lofty battery life claims, an increased focus on lower power, 802.11ac and a PCIe SSD, read on as we figure out just how well the new 13-inch MacBook Air measure…

While NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 780 has proven to be a solid update to the venerable 680, Intel’s Haswell architecture has left enthusiasts underwhelmed. Can a good GPU and overclock make up the difference?