Performance Retrospective: AMD’s Radeon HD 7970M

We recently posted our first review of a notebook equipped with NVIDIA’s latest mobile tour de force, the GeForce GTX 780M. With a theoretical computational performance increase of 30{b81fbfd19e1fca5890798868c0714c408bbd5ec471654b6f9630c0fffa6e7eb3} relative to GTX 680M and 39{b81fbfd19e1fca5890798868c0714c408bbd5ec471654b6f9630c0fffa6e7eb3} more memory bandwidth, the GTX 780M should be stomping all over the competition from AMD. What’s more, the Radeon HD 8970M doesn’t really help matters, as the only change from the 7970M is a Boost clock that’s 50MHz (6{b81fbfd19e1fca5890798868c0714c408bbd5ec471654b6f9630c0fffa6e7eb3}) higher. The other side of the story is drivers, and that’s the focus for today.

SilverStone Raven RV04 Case Review

A string of delays have kept the most radical entry in SilverStone’s already unconventional Raven series from making its debut, and even now it’s only materializing in limited quantities. Was it worth the wait?

Competitive Overclocking: The GIGABYTE OC Lab and HWBot.org

Every field has enthusiasts – the users that obsess over the smallest details to get the best, to be the best, and excel in their field. Well it turns out you can be a PC enthusiast as well, where the only thing matters is speed. This is the a…

Building a mini-ITX Haswell System with ASUS [video]

For our final installment, JJ put together a bunch of components for a mini-ITX Haswell build and took us through his build process. The motherboard itself is a Z87-I Deluxe, an upcoming mini-ITX Z87 board from ASUS. Also in the video you’ll see JJ install ASUS’ mini-ITX optimized GeForce GTX 670 DC Mini card. Finally, the chassis is pretty cool – it’s the Lian Li PC-Q30.

AMD Evolving Fast to Survive in the Server Market Jungle

There are two important trends in the server market: it is growing and it is evolving fast. It is growing fast as the number of client devices is exploding. Only one third of the world population has access to the internet, but the number of interne…

MSI GT70 Dragon Edition Notebook Review: Haswell and the GTX 780M

Coinciding with Intel’s launch of Haswell, NVIDIA updated their mobile GPUs with a bomb of a part: a fully enabled GK104. Today we have MSI’s flagship gaming notebook, the GT70 Dragon Edition, featuring three SSDs in RAID 0, a Haswell quad core, and a GeForce GTX 780M.

BenQ XL2720T Gaming Monitor Reviewed

On the very first monitor review I did for AnandTech, I skipped over the input lag tests. I didn’t have a CRT I could use for a reference, and as someone that isn’t a hard-core gamer themselves, I wasn’t certain how much overlookin…

Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8X by HTC Preview

For a long time Microsoft was in an enviable position in the smartphone space. It had almost all the pieces of the puzzle you’d expect for delivering a truly unique smartphone platform. It had the historical perspective, from the initial days of…