Hot Hardware is reporting the discovery of a critical flaw in Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake when HyperThreading is enabled. Head over there for the details, but for the TLDR crowd – make sure to check for a BIOS update from your motherboard vendor. A new flaw has been disclosed that impacts most Intel 6th and 7th Generation Skylake and […]
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With two Intel Gigabit Ethernet ports, this might just make the perfect router. Except that it’s noisy, the i7 is probably overkill, and it’s not that cheap (why, oh why, can’t there be a dual LAN i3 “NUC”?). Ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) PCs have become quite popular after Intel introduced the NUCs. They have become powerful enough to be the […]
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Intel just about perfected the small form factor (SFF) home theater PC (HTPC) over the last few iterations of NUC systems, so it is great to see that the Skylake based Intel NUC6i5SYK kit has stayed with this winning formula. Updated with an Intel Core i5-6260U with Intel Iris Graphics 540, support for NVMe SSD, and DDR4, the system has […]
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As you all know, one of the major disappointment with the Intel Broadwell NUCs was that Intel made it much harder than is should have been to leverage the HTPC’s HDMI CEC header. So when the Intel NUC6i5SYK (Skylake NUC) review unit arrived, one of the first things I did was crack the case to see if Intel had […]
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The review is really light on the critial aspects for HTPC use (read MIA), but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain a lot of useful information about this budget ($65) Skylake CPU. When Intel releases a new processor family, we immediately start seeing reviews and opinions on the enthusiast grade processors such as the i5-6600K and the i7-6700K, both of […]
Read moreIf you were waiting for Iris Pro to pickup a Skylake system, the prices have come out and they are hefty – although currently they are all Xeon models (so aimed more at enterprise workstation), so hopefully we’ll see some Core branded models in a more comfortable price range soon. One of our forum members, Sweepr, posted Intel’s latest pricing […]
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With m.2, 2x Intel NIC the GIGABYTE GA-Z170N-WIFI looks like a really solid foundation for a HTPC or mini server, it is a bit disappointing that DisplayPort didn’t make the cut… Our review unit of the Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI arrived in a medium sized, brown corrugated cardboard box from the company’s American headquarters in City of Industry, California, USA. It arrived […]
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There is a lot of noise and rumor out there on the interwebs, so I don’t tend to give them all equal footing, but when the guy who introduced me to Intel’s Broadwell NUC at CES last year tweets about it… I sure hope they do have one coming, would love to see how it does with madVR. We’ve been […]
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Stress is difficult. Sometime almost impossible to deal with, and when that happens you’re forced to break, or bend, if you happen to be a CPU. Thankfully there doesn’t appear to be a “gate” associated with what is turning out to be quite an issue for some third-party HSF suppliers (see the Ars article for more detail and links). With […]
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What is wrong with motherboard names these days!? Sometimes I feel like a frumpy old man reading these reviews :). Nomenclature asside, Skylake has me a bit excited, and with the recent outpouring of product, and reviews around the ecosystem it looks to have taken the OEMs and PC sites along as well. After Intel left the motherboard market, I’ve […]
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