Asus ROG Strix X370-I Gaming – Pure engineering genius BENCHMARKS Asus ROG Strix X370-I Gaming MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon X265 (Avg fps) 28.3 27.98 Cine bench R15 Multi (Index) 1,635 1,622 Fry Render (Seconds) 152 158 AIDA64 Memory Latency (ns) 76 90 Power Draw Idle (Watts) 81 56 Power Draw Load (Watts) 168 147 CrystalDisk … Read more
OnePlus 5T – 20-hour battery life, anyone? Despite adding only one letter to last year’s OnePlus 5, the 5T feels like a new phone. The glitchy wide-angle/telephoto dual camera has been replaced, while the front gets a wider-than-widescreen 18:9 AMOLED screen reminiscent of the iPhone X. Unlike Apple’s phone, OnePlus has left a small border at … Read more
by Jason Kennedy It works like this: you get into hi-fi in your teens/twenties. toil away at a decent job for twenty or thirty years, and then realize that life is finite and that if you’re ever going to do what you really want to. now is the time. So you start building audio components … Read more
Computeractive’s Office expert Jonathan Parkyn explains what your options are On 10 October, Office 2007 will reach the end of its ‘extended’support period, meaning it will join other dearly departed Microsoft products -such as Windows XP, Vista and Office 2003 – in the great software store in the sky. At the end of a support … Read more
Head to head: x86 vs ARM – In this new monthly feature, Jeremy Laird pits two competing techs in a head-to-head battle to decide which one is superior. For pure performance, x86 has a clear edge. “Support for legacy code is another x86 advantage. Allx86 chips must support the original 16-bit registers and instructions.” Microsoft … Read more
Mobile Chips BY JOHN BUREK, MATT SAFFORD Dogs and cats living together? Intel and AMD in one chip? We’d have bet first on the felines and canines hooking up. A blockbuster blog post from Intel’s Christopher Walker, vice president of the Client Computing Group and general manager of the Mobile Client Platform, and backed by … Read more
Intel Core i5-8400 – After months of endless AMD praise, Jarred Walton finally has some good news for Intel and the Blue processor team. Specs »Socket: 1151 »Type: 64-bit » Process: 14nm »Cores: Six »Threads: Six »Clock: 2.8GHz »Turbo: 4.0GHz »Cache: 9MB »RAM: DDR4-2667, two channels 64GB Max »TDP:65W »GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 »GPU Clock: … Read more
Annoying errors from Microsoft’s cloud backup tool can be repaired with a few clicks using a simple app from the company’s website OneDrive gives you 15 free gigabytes of cloud storage and file-syncing apps that work on almost every platform. It’s a good deal for Windows users and an integral part of the latest version … Read more
The MSI Z270I Gaming Pro Carbon is on its own in this month’s group test, being cheaper than the premium offerings, but taking a very different route from ASRock’s similarly priced Fatality Z270 Gaming The Z270I Gaming Pro Carbon sports both Type-A and Type-C USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, while the ASRock board lacks the … Read more
As the cheapest board on test, the Gigabyte Z270N-WiFi doesn’t have many immediate competitors, with just ASRock offering the Z270M-ITX/ac. Both boards lack the visual pizzazz of other boards on test, instead focusing on features, and In some areas, they’re better equipped than their more expensive peers. The biggest difference between the Gigabyte board and … Read more
VERY GOOD FEATURES FOR A REASONABLE PRICE Last but not least we have MSI’s mainstream gaming/performance Z270 product, the Gaming M5. By now we’re starting to see certain trends that all of the motherboard makers have adopted for these boards at this price point, which makes it rather hard to highlight one over the others. … Read more
TP-Link delivers a heavy duty AC class broadband router However you look at TP-Link’s new flagship router, the Archer VR2600, it’s a monster. Being 263mm wide by 198mm deep and 33mm high, hiding this one could be a challenge even if it can be wall mounted. This hardware isn’t all about aesthetics, thankfully. Instead it’s … Read more