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Intel Confirms Processors Will Scrap Pentium and Celeron Branding
When it comes to processors, and particularly so with laptops, a common complaint among the less-savvy of consumers is that with Intel having both the Pentium and Celeron branding, it can be hard to know which one to pick, and more so, which is ‘better’ than the other. – In…
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Intel Finally Extends Optane Support to Pentium and Celeron CPUs
Now Available on Entry Level Builds Intel has now extended Optane support down to their entry level Pentium and Celeron CPUs. These of course, have to be 8th Gen or newer, and excludes Kaby Lake or older processors. Furthermore, the CPUs must meet other Optane requirements. Including the presence of…
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MINIX Launches the NEO N42C-4 Mini PC
Palm-Sized Desktop PC Mini PCs can be decently powerful these days, despite being palm sized. In the case of the MINIX NEO N42C-4, it can be 13.9 x 13.9 x 3 cm. Even so, it is able turn an Intel Pentium CPU with passive cooling. Despite the compact size, it…
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Acer Introduces Two 12-inch Chromebook Models
Affordable Education-Focused Laptops Just like ASUS and HP, Acer is following suit and expanding their Chromebook lineup. The two latest models from the company are the Chromebook Spin 512 and Chromebook 512. As you might have guessed, both models have identical features, with the sole exception of the Spin 512…
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More Intel Coffee Lake Processors Arriving February 14
Intel‘s 14nm+ Coffee Lake processors launched a few months ago, but supplies have been very low. Even the motherboards were limited to only the fully unlocked Z370 variant, with no presence of B360 or H310 chipsets. According to VideoCardz.com, more new models are actually coming soon leaked by an Australian…
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Intel Launches ‘Gemini Lake’ Pentium Silver and Celeron CPUs
Intel is announcing new processors for the Pentium Silver and Celeron lineup using the Gemini Lake architecture. Gemini Lake succeeds Apollo Lake and brings desktop as well as mobile solutions. These low power CPUs provide a great balance of performance and connectivity for daily PC tasks. Moreover, it presents even…
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MDK is FREE on GOG for the Next 38 Hours
Younger gamers are probably not familiar with MDK, but those who were alive and gaming in the late 1990s are fond of it. It is a third-person shooter from 1997 made by Shiny Entertainment for Windows. The game is technically advanced for its time as it requires an Intel Pentium…
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ECS Introduces Liva Q–World’s Smallest 4K Pocket PC
ECS has been producing some incredibly compact PCs with their Liva series for the past few years. They have the Liva Z with Apollo Lake at Computex 2017 for example. Now they are pushing the boundaries of compact computing even further with their new Liva Q. According to the company,…
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Intel Rebrands Kaby Lake Pentiums as Pentium Gold
With every new product release, the old naming schemes get more and more complex. Due to the increasing complexity of their lineup, Intel is shaking up the way things are named. Starting November 2nd 2017, Intel is breaking apart the current Pentium lineup in two. Instead of the current Pentium,…
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Intel May Cripple Pentium G4560 to Make Core i3 Competitive
With latest generations of processors, Intel has started to try something new. First, we had the Pentium G3258 which was an overclocking first. Later on, we had the Core i3 7350K which was the first unlocked i3. With Kaby Lake, Intel also tried out the Pentium G4560, a Pentium CPU with…
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Intel Kaby Lake Pentium and Celeron Lack Optane Memory Support
Earlier in the week, Intel revealed their first Optane Memory storage product. Built with the use of 3D XPoint, their new storage medium, Optane Memory utilizes a small cache SSD to help speed up disk accesses. Since there are also Optane SSDs as well, Optane Memory appears to be meant…
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Intel Adds Hyper-Threading to Pentium CPUs
2017 is looking to be a major year for the x86 market like none since the introduction of the Core series. With Ryzen just around the corner, AMD struck gold with their Zen architecture finally being able to offer strong competition against Intel. In an effort to bolster their offerings as…
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Intel Reportedly Working on Brand New x86 Microarchitecture
Since the failure of the Netburst Architecture with Pentium 4, Intel has played it safe with their new designs. To regain their competitiveness, Intel returned to their P6 architecture and reiterated it to create the Core series which continues to this day in some form. According to new reports that are…
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Zoostorm EVOLVE Desktop PC Review
Introduction Here at eTeknix, we endeavour to critique a wide range of systems featuring different component choices which cater to contrasting target demographics. The overwhelming majority of these have some form of gaming credentials and designed to be used as a console replacement. Saying that, it’s important to acknowledge that…
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Netgear Released New 10GbE Powered ReadyNAS’
When we think of Netgear, we usually think of pure network infrastructure as such, but they also have quite a comprehensive line-up of NAS devices and that line-up just expanded with two new 10 Gigabit Ethernet capable devices aimed at SMBs and creative professionals who work with high-resolution digital imagery, Ultra…
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