Recent content by Xaltar

IAMACOW, JASONELMORE was talking about the socket 2011 Xeons, socket 1151 does not support more than 4 core CPUs ;) As for socket 1151 Xeons, ASRock's Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC works brilliantly. I managed to clock my 6600k (may as well be locked on a non Z board) to 4.5ghz without...

Sadly Intel's SoC lineup has actually proved to be one of the more interesting product evolutions (for me at least). The fact that my little N3150 based mATX system can handle all my old games and even manage semi playable FPS in some MMOs while drawing a total of 28w from the wall is quite...

I have been a fan of DeepCool's products since I picked up a Gammax 300 a while back. While their fans leave a lot to be desired their tower coolers offer fantastic performance for the money. My Gammax 300 even cools my 6600k respectably when I am switching it in and out of review boards (simple...

I would love to see how the Athlon 5350 holds up against Intel's Celeron N3150. While the Intel is an SoC and the Athlon is socketed I don't see AMD releasing new AM1 CPUs for this platform which essentially means that if you already have the Athlon 5350 (the most powerful AM1 option) it may as...

I once swore by Seagate but after 3 failed barracuda drives in the space of 2 months, all just outside their warranty I have since switched to WD for my mechanical drives and use SSDs for non storage drives. I don't know if it was a bad batch of drives or some other factor at play but I am not...

The BIOS update also contains a CPU microcode update which was provided by intel that addresses the issue.

This is great news for a lot of more budget minded builders. Not everyone can afford to splash out for both a Z170 motherboard and a K processor, this removes the need for the more costly of the 2 and allows massive performance gains from more budget oriented CPUs. It looks like a Skylake i3...

I think a lot of people miss the point of this kind of benchmark comparison. Testing across vastly different system is actually useful for people trying to get an idea of how their own system will perform. It isn't about getting comparable results between the systems tested, it is about...