James Schell

NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti and 1050 Announced

The long-awaited 75W Pascal cards are almost here, with today’s announcement of the NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050. These new cards fill out the previously missing entry-level of NVIDIA’s Pascal-series product stack. AnandTech has a great overview of the new cards but unfortunately there are no actual reviews yet. The retail release date is next week …

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ASRock Z170M-PIO2 Motherboard Announced

The PIO (Parts-In-One, basically a DIY All-In-One) motherboard form factor is still fairly rare, but over the last year or so several models from various manufacturers have popped up, at least in pictures and product pages. All the PIO boards so far (that I’m aware of) have used the lower-end Intel chipsets, but ASRock now has an …

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Samsung’s SSD predictions 2016

At the recent Samsung Global SSD Summit 2016 in Seoul Korea, Samsung showed off new products like the 960 PRO/EVO but they also made some predictions about the future of the solid state market over the next few years. Tom’s Hardware has a great overview of the presentation. Most of it is the typical talk about how …

Samsung Announces the 960 PRO and 960 EVO

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Samsung Announces the 960 PRO and 960 EVO

The Global SSD Summit is currently in progress and Samsung has kicked it off with a bang, announcing the 960 PRO and 960 EVO M.2 drives. AnandTech has a great overview of the new drives, but basically they’re both smoking fast PCIe NVME drives, with the 960 PRO clocking in at 3500MB/s sequential read and 2100MB/s …

Power Supplies Reviews

Lian Li PE-550 Review

Welcome to another SFX-L power supply review! Today, we’re looking at the Lian Li PE-550, the second SFX-L unit in Lian Li’s SFX-L portfolio after the PE-750 I reviewed earlier this year. It is a 550W unit, Gold-rated, fully-modular, and features a slim 120mm cooling fan. And can I just say how awesome it is that this …

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SilverStone SX700-LPT fan controller revision

I noticed during extra testing of the SX700-LPT SFX-L power supply from SilverStone that I could trigger the Over Temp Protection with a heatgun before the fan kicked on. After asking SilverStone about it, I learned that the fan controller was set to only turn the fan on above 150W load to ensure that the …

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AMD Debuts 7th Generation Desktop APUs

Press Release*: AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that the first OEM systems to feature 7th Generation AMD A-Series desktop processors are now shipping, paired with the new AMD AM4 platform supporting DDR4 memory and next-gen I/O and standards. Designs, initially from HP and Lenovo, with other global OEMs designs to follow, deliver high-speed processing, smooth eSports …

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HP Unveils Two New SFF Designs

HP is showing off two interesting SFF computer designs today, the PC-in-a-speaker Pavilion Wave and the stackable-computer Elite Slice. AnandTech has details on the both of them. The Pavilion Wave is a triangular, fabric-covered unit with a Bang & Olufsen speaker core and then the parts of the computer are arranged around it, Mac Pro …

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NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti and 1050 Announced

ASRock Z170M-PIO2 Motherboard Announced

Samsung’s SSD predictions 2016

Samsung Announces the 960 PRO and 960 EVO

Lian Li PE-550 Review

SilverStone SX700-LPT fan controller revision

AMD Debuts 7th Generation Desktop APUs

HP Unveils Two New SFF Designs