Kaby Lake
MinisForum has been making some interesting moves in the last few months with their computing platforms, ranging from the DMAF5 based on the Ryzen 3000H-series SoCs to the Ice Lake-based DeskMini X35G. In early August, they reached out to us to pitch their first mini-PC sporting a discrete GPU - the EliteMini H31G. Intrigued by their claims of being able to cram a 65W CPU and a 75W GPU in a chassis measuring approximately 15cm x 15cm x 6cm, we accepted their offer of a review unit to put through our standard mini-PC benchmarking process. The sample arrived last week, but we have a few thoughts to share. The EliteMini H31G is a compact mini-PC smaller than other dGPU-equipped mini-PCs we have reviewed before like...
Launching the #CPUOverload Project: Testing Every x86 Desktop Processor since 2010
One of the most visited parts of the AnandTech website is our benchmark database, Bench. Over the last decade we've placed as much benchmark data as we can in...
110 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/20/2020
Intel to Discontinue Nearly All Desktop Kaby Lake CPUs
Intel has announced End-of-Life plan for most of its desktop Kaby Lake and remaining Skylake processors. The boxed and tray versions of the chips will be available for interested...
55 by Anton Shilov on 10/10/2019
Intel Releases New Graphics Control Panel: The Intel Graphics Command Center
Making their own contribution to this busy week of GPU and gaming news, this evening Intel took the wraps off of their previously teased new graphics control panel. Dubbed...
50 by Ryan Smith & Billy Tallis on 3/20/2019
Dynabook Shows Off New G-Series Laptops: Under 2 Pound Ultrabook With 19 Hour Battery Life
Dynabook, a maker of laptops from Japan, has unveiled its new 13-inch G-series ultra-portable laptops. Based around Intel's 15W dual and quad-core Whiskey Lake-U processors, the G-series aims to...
24 by Anton Shilov on 1/23/2019
CES 2019: ASRock's Five New B365 Motherboards
ASRock unveiled five new B365 motherboards at CES 2019 with a mixture of features similar to its Z390 offerings. The B365 Pro4 and B365M Pro are targeted towards professional...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/15/2019
Intel Adds B365 Chipset to Lineup: The Return of 22nm
Intel has quietly added a new chipset that is made using the company’s 22 nm fabrication process to its 300-series lineup. As the name suggests, the Intel B365 PCH...
12 by Anton Shilov on 12/13/2018
ASUS Releases VivoBook 14 (X420UA): Inexpensive Ultra-Portable with Premium Look & Feel
ASUS has introduced its latest mainstream VivoBook 14 laptop, with the new model in some ways bringing the series a bit closer to its premium counterparts. The new VivoBook...
18 by Anton Shilov on 11/28/2018
QNAP Launches Mustang-200 Compute Accelerator for Network Attached Storage
QNAP has released a special-purpose accelerator based on two Intel CPUs that is designed to significantly boost the processing capabilities of NAS boxes and even PCs. QNAP’s Mustang-200 can...
28 by Anton Shilov on 11/21/2018
Best CPUs for Gaming: Holiday 2018
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
0 by Ian Cutress on 10/24/2018
Lenovo Reveals Yoga C930 Convertible: 13.9-Inch LCD with Dolby Vision, 8th Gen Core i7
Lenovo has introduced its new Yoga C930 convertible notebook. Just like last year’s Yoga 920 PC, the new generation Yoga laptop is based on Intel’s 8th Gen Core i-series...
21 by Anton Shilov on 9/5/2018
Best CPUs for Gaming: Q3 2018
In our series of Best CPU guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended Gaming CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the...
1 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018
A Thought on Silicon Design: Intel’s LCC on HEDT Should Be Dead
In the past couple of weeks, we have been re-testing and re-analysing our second generation Ryzen 2000-series review. The extra time and writing, looking at the results and the...
31 by Ian Cutress on 6/1/2018
HP 13-inch Elite x2 1013 2-in-1 PC: Quad-Core, Thunderbolt 3
HP has announced its third-generation Elite x2 2-in-1 hybrid PCs for enterprise and government clients. The new Elite x2 1013 systems received faster quad-core processors along with a larger...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/17/2018
Intel Expands 8th Gen Core: Core i9 on Mobile, Iris Plus, Desktop, Chipsets, and vPro
The march from Intel for everything to be under the ‘8th Gen Intel Core’ branding is now at its climax: today is the official launch of several new 8th...
124 by Ian Cutress on 4/3/2018
Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS EK71080 Compact Gaming PC Review
Gaming systems and small form-factor (SFF) PCs have turned out to be growth segments in a desktop PC market that has been subject to severe challenges recently. Many vendors...
18 by Ganesh T S on 3/28/2018
Compulab Passively-Cooled Airtop2 Inferno with GeForce GTX 1080
Compulab has announced its first passively-cooled gaming desktop computer developed using the company’s expertise in fanless SFF systems. The Airtop2 Inferno uses an enhanced version of the Compulab’s proprietary...
14 by Anton Shilov on 2/24/2018
Passive Compulab Airtop2 SFF Workstation Launched, with Xeon E3 and Quadro
Compulab this week has introduced a new generation of its passively-cooled Airtop workstations. The new updated models, called Airtop 2, use Intel's latest Xeon E3 v6 processors, featuring the...
8 by Anton Shilov on 2/20/2018
Intel Adds Mobile Core i3-8130U to Lineup: Increased Cache and Turbo
Intel on Tuesday introduced the Core i3-8130U, its first mobile 8th Generation Core i3 processor. The new chip features two cores operating at a high frequency and supports Turbo...
11 by Anton Shilov on 2/14/2018
HP at CES 2018: HP Spectre x360 using Intel with Radeon RX Vega M, $1370
LAS VEGAS, NV — On the back of Intel's announcement for its new product line, Intel with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics, two OEMs have come forward as launch...
8 by Joe Shields on 1/8/2018
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