Reviews

HP establishes a new category—detachable workstations

Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators

AMD vs Nvidia hash test

Easter morning and things were quiet, so for fun I ran a couple of tests. One machine, an Alienware Aurora with 4 GHz i7-6700K with 16 GB DDR3, and an 8 GB Radeon Vega RX ...

Alienware Ultrawide Curved Gaming Displays

If you’ve got the budget, these monitors can’t be beat I have something to admit; and I never thought this would come to pass. After a motorcycling crash UCL tear (thumb tendon injury) I temporarily ...

AMD’s New Ryzen 5 2400G, smaller, faster, cheaper

Beats the competition in 11 out of 12 tests We ran a series of tests on a new AMD 4-core, 3.6 GHz, Ryzen 5 2400G (in a custom built Cooler Master PC) and a HP ...

Boxx bets on Zen to power an AMD comeback in workstation CPUs

Boxx stands out for its attention to detail and its understanding of its customers. So do these new Zen-based workstations

I am definitely seeing more

Am I doing more?

Mobile workstation comparison

Four different machines  At Siggraph Dell announced a new Anniversary edition thin and light 5520 Precision mobile workstation in recognition of the brands 20-year contribution to the mobile space. While Dell was celebrating their 20th ...

PC monitors suck- User UN-friendly in so many ways

When installing or evaluating a PC monitor, you have to find the input connectors. They are typically put at the bottom—the least accessible place there is. Therefore, you have to have enough table space to ...

@XI Computer PowerGO mobile workstation

A powerful portable powerhouse

BenQ’s 27-inch monitor with docker

A monitor-docker for professional graphics users

Threadripper vs. i9 7900x

Our friends at @Xi Computer loaned us monster i9 machine that we used to compare against the AMD Threadripper (TR). It wasn’t a totally fair comparison in that the i9 7900x only has ten 3.3 GHz cores, and the AMD TR has 16, 3.7 GHz cores. But don’t jump to conclusions, the results are not as predictable as you might suspect.

Testing AMD’s RX580

Better than the RX480 on all tests