There aren’t many Micro-ATX X570 motherboards to choose from, so when I decided it was time for a new workstation, I opted for the one with an Intel network adapter. This turned out to be a mistake, as the network card has terrible SMB performance with my file server. ASROCK’s poor support experience tops off the experience, making the TLDR […]
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I recently purchased an ASROCK X570M PRO4 mostly because it has an Intel I211 network adapter (NIC). Unfortunately, the network performance of the integrated NIC is very slow. I’ve contacted ASROCK about the problem several days ago, but haven’t heard anything back from their support.
Read moreOur coverage of Intel from CES 2018 has been delayed because I was trying to run down an important question for the home theater PC (HTPC) use case of their new Hades Canyon NUC. In a departure from the previous generation Skull Canyon, high-end NUC, there will be two SKUs of Hades Canyon: NUC8i7HVK ($999) & NUC8i7HNK ($799). The only […]
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AMD IS BACK! With so much positive buzz about Ryzen, it’s worth covering the company again (sorry AMD…). With that it’s great to see boards from ASUS supporting the platform; even if they are more “performace” oriented than I’d use in a HTPC. Hopefully we’ll see some of those soon as well. ASUS Launches New AMD AM4 Series Motherboards — […]
Read moreLeaked benchmarks of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen CPU look very promising. The system used in the review again used a basic MSI A320 AM4 mainboard with no overclocking and 16GB of 2400MHz DDR4. We really want to know at this point what the Ryzen chips would do when crammed into a high-end board with high-end RAM and overclocked. There are a […]
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I’ll admit it. I was a hardcore AMD fanboi back in the day. K7 was awesome, and the subsequent stream of related CPUs gave Intel a proper foil on the performance, and value, fronts. But, somewhere along the way AMD got lost in the wilderness… Perhaps too distracted by their attempts to ingest ATI into the fold… Although… I guess […]
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There is a ton of great information around AMD’s future plans for 10-bit, Rec. 2020, and many other things in the AnandTech write-up, but two items stood out for me: HDR and HDMI 2.0a support in 2016 GPUs. Huzzah! As part of AMD’s RTG technology summit, I had the chance to sit down and hear about RTG’s plans for their […]
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If you’ve been holding on to an older pre-Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU, AMD has finally EOL’d driver support for these chips. It’s a bit difficult to determine just from the name of the GPU which set have been put out to pasture due to AMD’s bizarre moniker recycling scheme, but the gist of it is that if your card […]
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AMD has struggled mightly over the last few years to define a niche where they could be profitable and sell CPU+GPU (aka APU or IPG depending on your preference) at the same time. This “Godvarai” based APU (AMD’s term) runs $118, so in the middle of AMD’s Kaveri lineup. Over the past couple of years, AMD has slowly released their […]
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen an AMD based NAS before, but this guy looks like a beast and not terrible money for what you get. Well worth a read. This is not the first AMD-based NAS we are testing on MadShrimps and it has been demonstrated to us once again that the platform has potential even when dealing with […]
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