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AMD Gets Into the Mobile AI Game with Ryzen AI 300 Sep 30, 2024 Everything these days is AI this and AI that. So it’s on surprise that AMD is bringing out hardware not only for data centers that need deep learning or generative AI horsepower, but also for individual... Learn More

Is Lunar Lake a Game Changer for Intel? Sep 30, 2024 Usually, we’re not too interested in the ultra-mobile segment of the CPU market. After all, even our mobile workstation systems are 200W plus performance monsters, so it’s not our usual thing. However, there’s no denying that... Learn More

Ryzen AI Max 300 Strix Halo Leaks Promise a Hot Little Number Sep 25, 2024 If these specifications are true, then we might be looking at potent thin-and-light gaming laptops that can easily hold their own at 1080p. However, don’t expect ... Learn More

The NVIDIA A800 Lets You Put a Supercomputer in Your Workstation Sep 25, 2024 If you like teraflops, then NVIDIA has the card for you. The A800 has it in spades, but if you’re looking to run AI applications in your workstation or even data center, then these cards offer a mind-boggling... Learn More

Intel Xeon CPU Max Flips the Script on Memory Bandwidth Jul 16, 2024 Whether you’re using a high-end workstation or an office PC clunker, your memory is connected to the CPU using a memory bus that’s basically using the same design. No matter how many channels you have, or how... Learn More

Intel's Xeon 6 Processors: The Future of High-Performance Computing? Jun 28, 2024 If you're in the market for a new workstation or server, Intel's Xeon 6 processor family deserves your attention. With substantial performance upgrades and a range of features designed for modern... Learn More

The RTX 5090 Is Slowly Coming Into View Jun 05, 2024 While all we have are rumors at this point, the RTX 5090 is inevitable and it’s likely close. It’s unclear if the 5090 will be the first 50-series card to debut, but details about NVIDIA’s (likely) biggest... Learn More

NVIDIA's Rubin Already Set to Supersede Blackwell Jun 05, 2024 We’d hardly gotten over our excitement for NVIDIA’s massive Blackwell GPU, when news of something new has been whispered in our ears. The rumors point to a new GPU code named “Rubin” and while it doesn’t sound... Learn More

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation - Does It Get Better Than This? May 08, 2024 The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation marks a significant leap forward in graphics technology. As the successor to the Ampere-based RTX A6000, it offers substantial improvements in performance, memory, and energy efficiency. Named after the... Learn More

NVIDIA Quadro Sync: What Is It and Who’s It For? May 08, 2024 NVIDIA Quadro Sync is a technology designed for professionals who require exact synchronization across multiple displays or projectors. Whether it's in a studio, a lab, or on a stage, Quadro Sync ensures... Learn More

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 and PRO 7000 WX CPUs are Demanding Our Attention May 08, 2024 These are not your run-of-the-mill processors; they're redefining what we expect from our workstations and high-end desktops, catering to the needs of power users and professionals, which means they are hot on our... Learn More

Bringing Azure Home: Dedicated Hosts and Stack Explained Feb 28, 2024 Are you looking to keep a tighter grip on your data and operations, all while still reaping the benefits of Azure's cloud capabilities? Enter Azure Dedicated Host and Azure Stack two powerful options that bring Azure... Learn More

Chinese AI GPUs are on the Rise! Jan 15, 2024 This groundbreaking graphics card, a product of the Chinese GPU manufacturer Moore Threads, is precisely engineered to meet the growing demands of AI and data center operations. The MTT S4000 stands out for its impressive technical... Learn More

AMD's Zen 5 EPYC "Turin" CPUs: A New Era in Server Computing? Dec 19, 2023 AMD's upcoming 5th Generation EPYC processors, codenamed "Turin," are set to redefine server computing with the introduction of the Zen 5 architecture. With a scheduled release before the end of 2024, the Turin CPUs represent a leap... Learn More

Emerald Rapids: Intel's Next Leap in Server Power Dec 19, 2023 Intel is gearing up to make a big splash in the server market with its 5th Generation Xeon processors, codenamed Emerald Rapids. These chips are set to redefine performance benchmarks, and here's why we think every tech enthusiast... Learn More

Harnessing the Future: Intel's Xeon CPU Max Series Nov 11, 2023 Intel's latest offering is not just a processor; it's the brain behind what could be the next big scientific breakthrough. Whether it's predicting climate patterns or unlocking the secrets of the human genome, the Xeon CPU Max Series... Learn More

The Titan Guide To Laptop GPU Performance Oct 30, 2023 Embarking on the quest for the perfect laptop often lands you in a jungle of technical jargon, especially when it comes to understanding the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). At Titan Computers, we’re here to help. Let’s decode the enigma around laptop GPU names and specs... Learn More

ASUS AI Overclocking: What Is It? Sep 29, 2023 Are you constantly tinkering with your PC's settings to squeeze out that last drop of performance? If you find overclocking both intriguing and intimidating, ASUS has something that might just tickle your fancy... Learn More

AMD's Zen 6 EPYC Venice CPUs: A New Dawn with SP7 Platform Sep 18, 2023 AMD has been a significant player in the CPU landscape for a long time, often seen as the more wallet-friendly alternative to Intel. But in recent years, AMD's EPYC server CPUs have pushed them into the forefront, challenging Intel... Learn More

Intel Arrow Lake Rumors Are Piling Up Sep 11, 2023 Rumors are swirling in the tech community as we approach the anticipated launch of Intel's 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPUs, a product line promising to be a major leap in technology and performance. From ditching hyperthreading... Learn More

What Is a DPU? Explaining the Difference Between a DPU, CPU, and GPU Sep 08, 2023 CPUs, or Central Processing Units, have been the cornerstone of computing for many years. They are responsible for handling general-purpose computing tasks and have been the sole programmable element in most... Learn More

AMD's EPYC 'Bergamo' and Zen 4c: A Pioneering Leap Forward in CPU Design Sep 08, 2023 AMD has been at the forefront of CPU innovation for years, consistently pushing the envelope in both consumer and enterprise markets. The recent unveiling of the 4th Gen AMD EPYC 97X4 processors, previously codenamed... Learn More

The Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX: A Behemoth in the Making Aug 25, 2023 A new benchmark leak as reported by Tom’s Hardware has emerged, giving us a glimpse of AMD's upcoming Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX (Storm Peak) processor, a CPU that may redefine the workstation landscape. Sporting an astounding 96 Zen... Learn More

GDDR7 Is Around the Corner Aug 21, 2023 The tech universe was recently set alight with a revolutionary revelation from Samsung. The tech titan announced the completion of the world's first Graphics Double Data Rate 7 (GDDR7) DRAM. This pioneering technology is set to turbocharge the next generation of... Learn More

AMD Experimented With CPU Vapor Chambers Aug 18, 2023 AMD, renowned for its high-performance processors, ventured into an ambitious experiment with CPU vapor chambers during the development of its Ryzen 7000 series. The idea was to incorporate a concealed vapor chamber into the heatspreader... Learn More

The End of 12VHPWR? Aug 16, 2023 The 12VHPWR connector, as we know it, seems destined for retirement, making room for the brand-new and innovative 12V-2x6 PCIe 6.0 design. The news of this switch comes straight from a series of documents released by Igor's Lab, originating... Learn More

Intel Core i7-14700K Rumors Are Everywhere Aug 11, 2023 Recent buzz has centered around Intel's plan to boost the core count of its rumored Raptor Lake CPUs, specifically the Core i7-14700K. The move reportedly aims to enhance performance in multi-threaded workloads, a welcome upgrade for... Learn More

Intel Unveils New Arc Pro A60 Desktop and Mobile GPUs Aug 11, 2023 Intel has set its sights on the workstation market, unveiling two brand-new Arc Alchemist graphics cards, the Arc Pro A60 desktop card and the Arc Pro A60M mobile GPU. These GPUs are currently the peak of... Learn More

What is Intel vPro and Why Do You Want It In Your Workstation? Aug 04, 2023 Choosing the right workstation is like navigating a labyrinth of technical jargon and specifications. One term that you might have come across is "Intel vPro." But what exactly is Intel vPro, and why should it matter when selecting your... Learn More

Why PC Workstations Are Still Better Than a Mac Pro Jul 14, 2023 In the digital world, the eternal struggle between Mac and PC continues. This time, we're putting the newly unveiled Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra chip, announced at Apple's WWDC 2023, under the microscope. And while it certainly... Learn More

That Rumor About an RTX 4090 Ti Just Won't Die Jul 12, 2023 Ever since the first Ada GPUs were spotted on retail shelves back in October 2022, there's been an unremitting buzz about the rumored NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti. The tech community can't seem to shake off the fascinating speculation around... Learn More

What To Consider When Buying a Workstation Feb 23, 2023 So you’ve got a budget, and you have a job that only a computer can do, but which workstation should you buy? It can be a complicated decision and no one wants to spend money on a computer that doesn’t meet their current and future needs... Learn More

Apple Silicon Isn't Ready To Replace Your Workstation Yet. Here's Why Feb 16, 2023 Apple Silicon is the new technology that powers Apple's latest Mac computers, such as the 2020 M1 2022 M2 chips used in the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini computers. Apple Silicon is based on ARM architecture and is designed... Learn More

USB 4.0 vs. Thunderbolt 4.0: What's The Difference? Jan 26, 2023 USB 4 and Thunderbolt 4 represent the latest in high-speed peripheral connections. Both offer fantastic features, but they aren’t exactly the same thing despite being hard to tell apart. So let’s break down the most important... Learn More

What is ATX12VO? Dec 19, 2022 Power supply standard updates aren’t the sexiest or most newsworthy development, and you may have completely missed the 2019 announcement of ATX12VO. It usually takes a while for new hardware standards to actually manifest as something you... Learn More

What Are Google's Home-grown CPUs Like? Dec 15, 2022 Apple has decisively demonstrated to the tech world that designing your CPUs can pay off big time, and Google seems to be paying attention. After all, Apple Silicon, in all its forms, keeps making devices like Chromebooks and Pixel phones look somewhat behind the times... Learn More

Ampere Altra CPUs: ARM For The Data Center? Dec 05, 2022 ARM CPU architecture has taken the mobile computing world by storm, and now it even powers Apple desktop and laptop computers. ARM CPUs are known for being power efficient, but now they’ve also developed a reputation for performance... Learn More

The Best Workstation CPUs Today Aug 15, 2022 The competition for the best CPU in your next workstation is always red-hot, but perhaps never hotter than it is right now. There are so many different CPUs to choose from, and the “best” CPU is often highly-specific to your needs and budget.... Learn More

EVERYTHING You Need to Know About Nvidia's New Ada Lovelace 4000 Series GPUs Sep 28, 2022 Nvidia has officially unveiled the 40-series Ada Lovelace cards, and there is much information (and misinformation) to process. We've summarized the essential facts you need when choosing your next GPU if you want to know what... Learn More

Juicy Rumors About AMD's Massive Epyc Genoa Zen 4 CPUs Leak Sep 13, 2022 Eventually, AMD caught up to Intel’s IPC (Instructions Per Clock) but kept all the cores, which makes the much anticipated Zen 4 Epyc CPUs (code name “Genoa”) a hot topic for professional and corporate... Learn More

The US CHIPS Act, a New Era for American Microprocessors chip manufacturing Sep 28, 2022 US President Joe Biden has signed the CHIPS and Science Act, pushing $52 Bn into the US semiconductor industry through subsidies. This act has been three years in the making and is likely to go down in history as a turning point for the hollowed-out... Learn More

What We Know About Intel 13th-Gen So Far Oct 18, 2022 The 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs put Intel solidly back into the CPU game after years of sliding against its competitor AMD, yet now with the Ryzen 7000-series desktop CPUs giving even the 12900 processors a solid... Learn More

When Will We Have Practical Quantum Computing? Sept 07, 2022 There are many more ways to compute than flinging electronics thorugh silicon semiconductor chips. We can computer with ligth, DNA, and even quantum mechanics. Quantum computers em like they’ll change the world, but first we need to figure out how to... Learn More

The RTX 4070 and 4080 Rumors are WILD! Sept 07, 2022 It seems like just yesterday that Nvidia released the 30-series of Ampere GPUs, but it’s actually been almost exactly two years as we write this. A part of why these GPUs still feel so new is that we’re only now coming out of an absolutely brutal silicon... Learn More

Should You Buy Intel's Arc or Arc Pro GPUs? Jul 26, 2022 After decades of trying to enter the dedicated GPU market, with high-profile failures like Larrabee, Intel has finally released graphics cards you can buy right now. The first generation of Intel Arc GPUs is here, and Intel’s... Learn More

Samsung is Fighting Latency in HPC Storage With AMD Tech Jul 26, 2022 It’s easy to forget that HPC (High-performance Computing) is about more than stuffing as many CPUs into a data center as possible. Instead, what truly matters is the architecture of that HPC system, which is largely about where data is stored and where... Learn More

20 Careers You Can Pursue Via Trade Schools Jul 12, 2022 A bachelor’s degree is often seen as an important step toward securing postgraduate career options. But this path doesn’t necessarily appeal to everyone, and that is okay! For many individuals looking to take steps... Learn More

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series Chips Lift the OEM Workstation Market Jul 13, 2022 AMD’s Threadripper CPUs are mostly known as consumer-grade CPUs that brought professional-grade features and performance to users who could never justify workstation prices. A Threadripper was perfect for the serious YouTuber with big video editing renders to do... Learn More

Intel's Sapphire Rapids Brings (Rumored) Chart-topping Single-Core Performance to HPC Jul 08, 2022 Intel’s Sapphire Rapids-SP Xeon CPUs are a direct broadside to AMD’s Zen-3 EPYC CPUs, escalating the battle to be the CPU of choice for servers and high-performance computing centers. Up to the release of the Alder-Lake... Learn More

AMD Teaches an Old Dog New Tricks With the 5800X3D Jul 01, 2022 Until the release of Intel’s 12th-generation Alder Lake CPUs, AMD had been on top of the gaming performance charts. It took years for the company to snatch the final pillar from Intel, having already beat them on core count, multithreaded work, power... Learn More

Ryzen 7000 CPUs are Bringing Out the Big Guns Jun 03, 2022 With the release of the Ryzen 6000 mobile processor range, AMD showed it was serious about performance-per-watt and gave the 12th-generation Intel laptop CPUs a run for their money even without the benefit of a hybrid architecture. It was a solid showing that really... Learn More

The RTX 40-Series Leaks Are Piling Up! May 26, 2022 It’s hard to believe that on September 17 2022 the RTX 30-series GPUs from Nvidia will already be two years old. That date might be more important than just a sign of how time flies by. According to well-regarded tipster Kopite7kimi the... Learn More

Alder Lake-X Rumoured to be Coming for Threadripper’s Crown May 11, 2022 There’s been an absolute fire lit under Intel by AMD. After years of phoning it in with each boring new generation of Intel CPUs, the Team Blue got a rude awakening when AMD not only made CPUs with more cores for less money, but... Learn More

Raptor Lake Early Benchmarks Look Promising May 22, 2022 We’ve barely come to terms with the technological leap of the 12th-generation Intel CPUs with their hybrid architecture and the 13th-generation chips from are already poking their head out, ready for a Q2 2022 launch. Early engineering samples... Learn More

GPU RAID Controllers Could Be a Game-Changer May 22, 2022 Setting your drives up in a RAID array is still the best way to protect your information, maximize performance, or both. While many motherboards support software RAID solutions, the best approach is to use a dedicated hardware RAID card... Learn More

Intel Arc GPUs Info Is Leaking, But It's a Mixed Bag Apr 18, 2022 If there’s one thing the discrete GPU market needs it’s more competition. At one point there were more GPU brands than anyone could remember, but after massive market consolidation, we’re basically left with Nvidia and AMD. Intel has been a... Learn More

The RTX A5500 Is a Real Sleeper Beast Apr 18, 2022 To look at the RTX A5500’s sleek, featureless black shroud, it’s easy to think there’s not much to this GPU. Unlike the gamer-centric RTX cards with their flashing lights and hypercar-inspired designs, the A5500 is all business. Under the hood, however.. Learn More

Nvidia’s Hopper Architecture Offers Plenty to Get Excited About Apr 08, 2022 Ever since it became apparent that the supercomputer-like architecture of GPUs could do more than just pushing pixels, Nvidia has been refining the GPGPU architecture in its products to a razor edge. Today many machine learning and high-performance scientific... Learn More

How is DirectX 12 Different From 11? Mar 24, 2022 DirectX is an API (Application Programming Interface) that’s used for virtually all Windows games and the Xbox console family (originally the “DirectX Box”). DirectX 12 hardware is now common and thanks to the Xbox Series consoles, games for... Learn More

Why You Should Consider Windows 11 Pro or Pro for Workstations Mar 24, 2022 Windows 11 Home is perfectly fine for gaming and general productivity, but if you’re a professional user there are many reasons to consider paying a little more and opting for either Windows 11 Pro or Windows 11 Pro... Learn More

What Is the Difference Between RTX Core Generations? Mar 24, 2022 With the launch of the 20-series RTX GPUs from Nvidia, the world was introduced to the idea of dedicated hardware to accelerate real-time ray-tracing. Combined with another dedicated machine learning accelerator, the RTX GPUs have shaken up... Learn More

Intel’s Upcoming Raptor Lake CPUs are Looking Scary-good in Leaks Feb 25, 2022 We’ve barely had time to process the major leap Intel has achieved with its hybrid architecture Alder Lake CPUs when rumors of its successor, Raptor Lake, started surfacing. While the exact details of Raptor Lake are still up in the air before... Learn More

The 8GB Nvidia T1000 Can Terminate Your Performance Target Without Breaking the Bank Feb 25, 2022 Nvidia’s Quadro P1000 workstation GPU was quite popular for entry-level workstations or professional computers that are mainly aimed at CPU-centric jobs. The card wasn’t really up to complex graphical work, but it did give users access to... Learn More

The Nvidia RTX A4500 is a Mid-range Wonder Feb 21, 2022 Nvidia’s RTX cards on the consumer side of the market are almost impossible to find these days, at least if you want to pay the MSRP for them! In the workstation card world, things aren’t quite as dire, but GPU prices are going up across the board... Learn More

Intel vs Apple Silicon: Is it Time to Switch? December 02, 2021 Apple’s shift to its own in-house CPUs wasn’t a major shock, since we knew it was coming for quite some time, but it is surprising how smooth and effective the transition has been. Even non-native software runs faster on current Macs than their Intel predecessors... Learn More

Intel's Alder Lake CPUs Revolutionize x86 CPUs November 02, 2021 For the last few years, Intel has been facing some stiff competition on multiple fronts. AMD’s Ryzen series of processors eroded virtually all of Intel’s advantages, offering more cores and faster IPS (instructions per clock) at lower prices. The only real advantage left to a technologically... Learn More

The Nvidia RTX A2000 - Puny But Powerful November 02, 2021 It seems that the last few generations of GPUs have been swelling in size, especially more high-end models. We’ve certainly found it more difficult to find the right parts to build small, compact professional workstations. Then, almost out of the blue Nvidia introduces... Learn More

Thunderbolt 4 Isn’t About Speed, So What’s the Big Deal? November 02, 2021 Thunderbolt 3, despite not featuring on that many systems, has been a revolution for external IO. Fast enough to allow for rapid SSD data transfer or external GPU use, there’s seemingly more bandwidth on offer than anyone... Learn More

Getting to Know the Ryzen 5000X Series June 24, 2021 AMD continues to give Intel a bloody nose in the desktop CPU market with its impressive (and affordable) series of Ryzen desktop CPUs. With the launch of the Ryzen 5000 series processors, AMD has met or exceeded the IPC (instructions per clock) of Intel’s offerings... Learn More

Here's What You Need to Know About Windows 11's Requirements September 09, 2021 WIndows 11 has been officially announced and the good news is that if you currently own Windows 10, you’ll get a free upgrade to Windows 11 when the time comes. Unfortunately, the good news seems to stop there. First of all, Windows 10... Learn More

Intel Lists W-1300 Rocket Lake CPUs for Entry-level Workstations May 24, 2021 There are currently seven models of W-1300 family processors that have been released. Two of these are hexa-core models, while the other five are all octa-core. Surprisingly, turbo frequencies are all more or less 5 Ghz, with a range of 4.9Ghz to... Learn More

Nvidia’s Dedicated Cryptocurrency Mining GPUs Explained September 14, 2021 We’re still in one of the most crushing GPU shortages in history and it’s not just thanks to scalpers and silicon shortages. Cryptocurrency miners have long been the bane of enthusiast and professional GPU customers who simply can’t find cards to buy or, at least, find them at... Learn More

What Are RT Cores in Nvidia GPUs? June 02, 2021 The latest GPUs from Nvidia have special hardware inside that accelerates ray-traced graphics, allowing them to be rendered in real time. These RT (ray tracing) cores have pushed what’s possible in real time rendering to new heights, but what are RT cores... Learn More

What is the AMD Ryzen Master Utility? September 14, 2021 There was a time when CPU makers frowned heavily on the practice of CPU overclocking. Not only would it toast your warranty, it represented a way for users to buy a cheaper CPU and get the same performance of a much more expensive model for free... Learn More

Windows 11 Is Almost Here, but Should You Care? October 14, 2020 On the 5th of October, barring any delays, Microsoft will release Windows 11 to everyone. If you’re currently a Windows 10 user, there’s a good chance you’re eligible for an upgrade, but should you jump at the chance or wait for a little while? TPM and CPU Confusion... Learn More

Why Are Nvidia's T4 Tensor Core Cards Special? May 10, 2021 We’ve explained what “Tensor cores” are in a previous blog post, but what you may not know is that Nvidia is working hard at improving how fast these already blistering CPU cores are. The T4 PCIe card was first introduced in 2018, but... Learn More

Intel's Dedicated Deep Learning Chips are Out of this World April 21, 2021 Deep learning is not a new concept, but it’s certainly a computing technology that’s finding a lot of applications these days. If you didn’t know, Deep Learning is a segment of machine learning, which is in turn a part of the larger field... Learn More

What Are Tensor Cores Anyway? April 19, 2021 There are as many as three types of specialized processor cores on a modern Nvidia graphics card. CUDA cores, which are the mainline programmable graphics cores. Next we have ray tracing cores, which are built to rapidly calculate the effects of light rays bouncing... Learn More

NVIDIA Unveils Ampere Workstation Graphics Cards - The RTX A6000, RTX A5000, A4000, A3000 & A2000 April 15, 2021 Sometimes it feels like users in the consumer GPU space get to have all the fun. With the launch of cards like the RTX 3070,3080 and 3090 more conservative workstation cards can feel downright stagnant. The 3090 in particular... Learn More

The Third-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Line Get a Detailed Reveal April 15, 2021 On the 6th of April 2021 Intel released details on their latest line of Xeon Scalable CPUs. These high-performance professional CPUs have support for the latest CPU use cases built right into the CPU architecture. This includes AI acceleration... Learn More

AMD's Third-generation Epyc Processors Promise to Bring The Thunder February 02, 2021 So say that AMD have been on a roll lately is a massive understatement. Their latest generation of desktop CPUs have given Intel a solid thrashing. Beating the chip giant not only in price to performance, but in outright ... Learn More

What is Enscape 3D and Why Should You Care? February 01, 2021 Thanks to ever increasing GPU and CPU power, it’s now possible to achieve things with real-time rendering that would simply have been impossible not too long ago. Enscape is a fantastic example of this trend. It’s a real-time rendering plugin... Learn More

Unreal Engine Has Become a Monster. This is Why it Should Be on Your Radar January 21, 2021 If you haven’t been paying too much attention, you might be surprised to see how often Unreal Engine pops up in the visual art industry. While the name is rather famous in the video game industry, it isn’t the first thing you think of when it comes to the... Learn More

The RTX 3060 Ti Could Be The Best Budget Performance Card Ever January 13, 2021 As has become tradition, Nvidia announced their new Ampere 30-series cards in reverse order. They started with the flagship, high end cards and then slowly told us about the mid-range options. The latest mid-range Ampere GPU to be... Learn More

V-Ray 5 Is Out And We're Excited! January 06, 2021 The biggest new addition to the package is a new frame buffer, with an advanced compositor and lighting system. This enables layered compositing and relighting scenes after rendering has already been completed. Something you’ll see reflected in the new features of... Learn More

What Apple's M1 Chip Means For Professional Computing December 09, 2020 Apple has never been afraid to make radical changes. Whether it’s dumping the headphone jack on iPhones or getting rid of optical drives on Macs. They’ve also changed their fundamental CPU technology several times, with the shift to Intel merely being the latest one. It’s a bold... Learn More

What Is RTX IO And Will It Be A Performance Game Changer? December 09, 2020 You’ve probably noticed the buzz around Nvidia’s 30-series GPUs. They are mightily impressive, especially from a price, performance and power consumption perspective. For example, Nvidia’s $1000-$1200 RTX 2080 Ti is now more or... Learn More

Nvidia Announces New A40 and RTX A6000 Professional Cards and We’re Pumped! December 02, 2020 Nvidia’s Quadro cards are of course a mainstay of professional computing, but not all Nvidia professional GPU products carry that brand name. The Tesla GPU computational cards are probably the best-known example, but Nvidia has recently released two “A” series... Learn More

Tips, Tricks and Troubles When Working From Home On A Remote Workstation November 20, 2020 More people are now working from home than ever. It’s not necessarily by choice, given that we’re living through an unprecedented global pandemic, it’s a reality that has to be dealt with. If you’re a professional who... Learn More

Gigabyte MZ72-HB0 - Dual-socket Epyc Motherboard Is Blowing Our Socks Off October 14, 2020 With single CPU packages packing so many cores these days, it might seem that dual-socket motherboards are becoming less and less relevant. That could however not be further from the truth. Apart from modern professional computing workloads using as many cores as you can... Learn More

Why the RTX 3070 Might Be The Best Deal In GPU History October 14, 2020 The 20-series of GPUs from Nvidia made major waves with unprecedented new hardware aimed at making fast machine learning and real-time ray tracing possible. They were also expensive and not much more powerful at pure rasterization 3D... Learn More

Is The RTX 3090 The Budget Workstation Card You've Been Waiting For? October 14, 2020 The RTX 3090 isn’t the flagship card for Nvidia’s new line of Ampere-based 30-series GPUs. That honor goes to the RTX 3080 which, for $700, promises to offer about double the performance of the RTX 2080 card that occupied it’s slot in the range... Learn More

New Monster CPU is coming to town - AMD ThreadRipper Pro WX Series up to 64 Cores Cores September 14, 2020 Intel has not been having a great time recently. Their 7nm process may now be pushed back as far as 2023 and AMD’s Ryzen 3000 processors are matching the IPC numbers while offering more cores at a lower price. This has led to some very welcome price cuts... Learn More

Getting to Know Intel’s Xeon W-1200 Series July 09, 2020 Usually when you hear the word “workstation” the first word that goes with it is “expensive”, but that’s actually not the case. There are plenty of entry-level workstations that provide just enough performance for their designated purpose. In fact, we specialize in building... Learn More

Intel’s Xeon M Series Makes Dual CPU Workstations Obsolete for RAM-hungry Users June 09, 2020 With the ever-increasing core counts on modern CPUs, dual-socket systems are no longer as essential for high-end workstations as they used to be. Which is a good thing for various reasons. Not only can you do away with expensive, complex motherboards... Learn More

Nvidia RTX 30-series and the Ampere Architecture: The Rumors are Out There June 09, 2020 Nvidia’s RTX 20-series cards have been met with a rather mixed reception. Unlike the almost universally-loved 10-series of cards, the 20-series did not bring as such a large leap in performance, while bringing down cost and power consumption dramatically... Learn More

Xeon W 3200 Series Offers Astounding Bandwidth for GPU Workloads June 01, 2020 Launched in mid-2019, the W-3200 family of Xeon processors didn't get much of a marketing push, but has quickly impressed us with how much performance value they bring to the table. Moving to the Cascade Lake architecture from the Skylake SP technology older Xeon W... Learn More

The Quadro GV100 Brings Professional-grade Ray Tracing and AI to the Workstation May 21, 2020 Consumer grade GPUs from Nvidia have long enjoyed cutting-edge real-time ray tracing hardware along with dedicated silicon for machine learning and artificial intelligence. As is usually the case, newer technologies make it into the general consumer space first, with professional... Learn More

Threadripper 3990X and 3970X: Ripping Up the Competition? March 26, 2020 Short on the heels of the i9-10980XE processor, which has been priced to compete against the Threadripper 3950X, AMD has released two third-generation Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. The 3990X and 3970X represent another leap forward for the company, which has... Learn More

Intel’s i9-10980XE Arrives with a Whimper, Not a Bang March 23, 2020 Intel has launched it’s latest top-end i9 CPU. A processor that straddles the line between the high-end enthusiast segment and the low end of the professional computing market. It’s the type of CPU that makes many users look at the prices of Xeons and think, “Do I really... Learn More

The Cerebras CS-1 Rewrites the AI Hardware Book March 23, 2020 CPU development is still moving at a fast pace, although it might feel that we are only getting incremental improvements from year to year. Compare workstations of today to those of five years ago however, and you’ll see big improvements in performance... Learn More

Ryzen 3000 Could Spell Big Trouble for Intel August 07, 2019 Until the arrival of the first Ryzen chips, we had gone through more than a decade of virtually no competition to temper Intel’s worse impulses. Since the Phenom CPUs first lost the plot, Intel has had its way. AMD has put up a good fight on the GPU side of things, but every year they... Learn More

What Does the Radeon Pro Vega II Mean for Professional Computing? July 31, 2019 For the first time in years, we’re getting a dual-GPU card coming to market. In a twist, this Radeon Pro Vega II is coming to Mac Pro users. What is this card and what does it mean for professional users in general... Learn More

The GTX 1660 Ti Seems All But Certain Now April 25, 2019 With rumors showing no sign of going away, it seems that the release of a GTX 1660 Ti graphics card is all but certain. So what is this strangely named card and who is it for? We spend some time digging through the noise. Nvidia's RTX 20-series of cards have not exactly... Learn More

What is Gaussian? April 25, 2019 At Titan we’re all geeks, but not the sort of geek who dreams about creating the next metamaterial or winning a Nobel for chemistry, So it was a little shocking to find out that modern chemistry is 90% math and very little “meth”. Back in the 1970s, right at the... Learn More

The Asetek 690LX-PN Liquid Cooler is a Serious Step Above the AIO Competition April 18, 2019 Just a few years later and PC liquid cooling is a highly-standardized industry. You can buy reservoirs, tubing, heatsinks and everything else you need from various manufacturers and be assured that they will work together. The actual design and construction of a full-on... Learn More

Is the RTX 2060 the Midrange Card We’ve Been Waiting For? February 11, 2019 The first midrange RTX card has been a long time coming, but now it’s finally here. Is this the reasonable performer the masses will want? Let’s take a closer look at what’s going on under the hood... Learn More

The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning February 01, 2019 The computing world is no stranger to misused terms, the distinction between AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning are quite important. Especially since consumers may be confused by inappropriate use of these terms. Let’s look at how these concept differ and what they mean... Learn More

The RTX 4000 is the New Mid-range Workstation King January 18, 2019 While all the attention may have been stolen by RTX gaming cards, Turing has come for the professional market with a vengeance. The RTX 4000 brings a lot that’s new to workstation life and we have the details. The nature of professional workstation graphics cards means... Learn More

AMD Scores in the Core-wars with Its 32-Core Monster January 17, 2019 The Ghz race is is long behind us, but AMD kicked off the core-wars by offering mainstream users more than just quad-core CPUs. Now it seems the sky's the limit as Big Red keeps cramming more cores into it’s consumer line. The latest attack comes in the form... Learn More

The Difference Between a Supermarket PC and a Titan PC January 08, 2019 Major supermarket chains are now selling high-end PCs, but there are plenty of hidden reasons to avoid getting your PC performance hit from the same place that sells bulk toilet paper. Here is the difference between them and us... Learn More

Intel Lays Down the Hammer with the Xeon W-3175X December 01, 2018 At Titan we can remember the megahertz wars as if it were yesterday. At the outset of the Pentium 4 generation of processors, the general belief was that performance increases would be largely driven by faster clock speeds. We really thought that by now we’d be... Learn More

The Intel Optane 905P May be the Last SSD You’ll Need November 16, 2018 It wasn’t too long ago that SSDs were too unreliable, too small and certainly too expensive.Now it’s hard to imagine buying a computer that doesn’t have a SSD as its primary drive. An SSD is perhaps the best quality of life upgrade any computer can get. Ironically... Learn More

The New Nvidia RTX Quadro Family is Throwing Out the GPU Rulebook November 12, 2018 While the response to the RTX consumer cards from Nvidia has been underwhelming, professional GPU customers should sit up and listen. Nvidia is taking no prisoners with the new generation of Quadro products... Learn More

Intel’s Xeon E CPUs are Looking Out for the Little Guys November 02, 2018 While the response to the RTX consumer cards from Nvidia has been underwhelming, professional GPU customers should sit up and listen. Nvidia is taking no prisoners with the new generation of Quadro products... Learn More

What You Need to Know About the AMD Ryzen 2000 Series October 18, 2018 AMD’s second generation of Ryzen CPUs are now well-established, but figuring out which CPUs go where can be a bit of a puzzler. Let’s have a brief look at the AMD 2000-series of CPUs as a whole and demystify this convoluted product line... Learn More

Nvidia's RTX Cards are Almost Here: Here's What We Know October 11, 2018 It’s been a long time coming, but Nvidia finally has a new generation of consumer cards coming in hot. This isn’t just an upgrade however, Big Green is changing the game and possibly shaking up the graphics market like never before. When the 10-series cards were... Learn More

Meet the AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core Beast October 09, 2018 It’s been a long time since AMD could claim any sort of absolute performance crown, cost be damned. However, every dog has its day and the Threadripper 2990WX is a real pitbull in the benchmarks. We take a closer look at this sick puppy. First things first... Learn More

Introducing the new "Titan WS Chariot" a Workstation Chassis June 29, 2018 AMD’s second generation of Ryzen CPUs are now well-established, but figuring out which CPUs go where can be a bit of a puzzler. Let’s have a brief look at the AMD 2000-series of CPUs as a whole and demystify this convoluted product line... Learn More

What’s the Difference Between a $50 Motherboard and a $350 Motherboard? June 29, 2018 The motherboard is a pretty boring component when you think about it. Which is probably why so many people end up buying the cheapest board that will hold their components. But expensive motherboards aren’t expensive for no reason. So let’s look at some of the differences between cheap and pricey gear... Learn More

Intel Announces Shows off Massive 28 Core CPU June 30, 2018 So let’s talk about what these guys are showing off here. We don’t know a model number or anything like that yet. So it might be a Xeon, but it’s more likely to be something with an “i” on the front. Especially since AMD is launching a 32-core ThreaRipper... Learn More

AMD Scores in the Core-wars with Its 32-Core Monster June 15, 2018 It’s been a long time since CPUs have had a clear marketing number to appeal to mainstream consumers. Until the Core architecture took over from the ill-conceived Pentium 4 CPUs back in the day, the bigger the clocks the better the performance... Learn More

What Do We Know About the Z390? March 31, 2018 Although the Z390 first came to our attention last year, the enthusiast community seems to have forgotten about it a little thanks to an almost complete lack of additional information. In the meantime, we have the Z370, which is already plenty high-end for most people. It’s not clear exactly what will make the Z390 special compared to the $300+... Learn More

Here We go Again: New Intel Cascade Lake-X CPUs are Incoming March 01, 2018 For a while there Intel had a plan and was sticking to it. The tick-tock model gave us a predictable new architecture followed by a die shrink for a few years at least. Then things started going... Learn More

Why Buy a Custom Titan Computer Instead of a Dell or HP? Variety is the spice of life and there is nothing inherently wrong with buying a mass-market, mass-produced computer. It is however very important that you understand the different value propositions you get from us when compared to the giant PC manufacturers.... Learn More

New Xeon W Skylake a CPU for to the Pros February 14, 2018 Another year, another Xeon. This time is different however, since we’re getting a hos of new technologies to revitalize mainstream workstation hardware. Should this be your next workstation upgrade? Read on to find out. I guess we don't spend as... Learn More

The Nvidia Titan V Takes the GPU Crown - For Now Jan 15, 2018 It feels like just yesterday that we were blown away with the price-performance proposition of the GTX 1080, but since then Nvidia has outdone itself time and time again. Their mainstream enthusiast.... Learn More

Radeon Pro SSG: An Insane Card for Insane Times Sep 15, 2017 We’ve been computer hardware geeks for a long time, so we’re pretty used to habituating to new performance levels on a regular basis. It’s not hard to remember wondering how the heck someone would ever fill that 1GB hard drive or why anyone would.... Learn More

The Vega Frontier is a Right Hook as AMD Comes Out Swinging Sep 10, 2017 The Vega Frontier is not your average GPU card. This is a product that was built with a particular type of performance requirement in mind. This is a card for the data scientist, the extreme VFX rendering professional. A GPU that prioritized parallelization above all.... Learn More

The GTX 1030 & 1040: The Average Joes are Coming Sep 05, 2017 It’s easy to forget that the bulk of people who buy a GPU, either directly or as part of a system, do not buy something like the GTX 1080 Ti. In fact, most people don’t buy “mid range� cards like the GTX 1060 either. They are simply too expensive and certainly.... Learn More

Getting Nvidia Drivers Installed on CentOS 7 Aug 29, 2017 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has become one of the most popular and well-respected operating systems to grace the data centers and core infrastructure of institutions all over the world. It is well supported, secure and provides a level of standardization.... Learn More

Windows Mixed Reality Could be a Big Deal for Professionals Aug 22, 2017 Everyone in the professional computing business has heard of the Microsoft Hololens. It’s an amazing headset that brings lifelike augmented reality straight to your eyeballs with hi-tech projection. It’s for sale for a whopping $3000 and has.... Learn More

Oh No, Not Again: Coffee Lake Chips Need a New Motherboard Aug 10, 2017 Coffe Lake chips are coming and soon. At Computex this year Intel announced that these new chips will be available in time for the 2017 holiday season, which suggest... Learn More

AMD Ryzen 3 is Finally Released Jul 31, 2017 We’ve seen what the high-end Ryzen 7 and mid-range Ryzen 5 chips can do, but AMD has taken it’s sweet time letting us have a go at their entry-level CPUs. Why would we care? After all, most of you reading... Learn More

The New Quadro GP100 Feb 01, 2017 Quadro customers have been getting a lot of love over the last few years. The current generation of Pascal cards such as the P5000 and P6000 are industry-leading products... Learn More

Nvidia Mental Ray Explained Oct 15, 2016 Mental Ray has been liberated and returned home to it’s rightful owner Nvidia, who are now going to develop it as an independent product. This means that Mental Ray may now be coming to your favorite 3D modelling software as an integrated plug... Learn More

The ART Renderer Explained Sep 30, 2016 There’s a new kid on the block when it comes to comes to physically-based renderers and it comes from none other than Autodesk themselves. The Autodesk Raytracer Renderer or “ART� has been designed for use across several Autodesk... Learn More

GTX 1080 Ti Rumours: A Titanic Release? Sep 15, 2016 The Titan X is a monstrous card, there can be no doubt about it. It’s also a pretty terrible example of value for money. When we last looked at it our opinion was that you were better off getting two GTX 1080 cards in SLI for about the same money... Learn More

GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti: What We Know So Far Aug 30, 2016 We’ve now seen a new Titan, a 1080, a 1070 and a 1060. Rumours about a 1080 Ti right now are hot right now too. The bottom end of the range has been strangely quiet however. It’s a pity... Learn More

Nvidia IRAY Explained Aug 15, 2016 Like many rendering engines Iray, which is available for several 3D modelling packages such as 3DS Max, makes use of a technique known as ray-tracing to generate it’s stunning visuals.... Learn More

The New Titan X: The King is Dead, Hail to the King Jul 31, 2016 Let’s be honest here, the Nvidia 1080 caught almost everyone off guard when it came out. The Pascal architecture represented a performance leap that spanned a few generations worth of what we had been used to until now.... Learn More

Intel Brings 22 Cores to Xeon E5-2600 v4 May 27, 2016 We won’t lie, things are getting crazy again in the CPU world. While we wait to see what Big Red is going to bring to the table with Zen Intel drops a high-performance refresh of the Broadwell Xeon line... Learn More

The GTX 1080, 1070 and (maybe) 1060 May 16, 2016 Things may have slowed down quite a bit on the silicon front for the last few years, but that should not leave us with a false sense of security. Sure, Intel is so far in the lead that there is nothing really pushing... Learn More

What’s Up With Thunderbolt? April 30, 2016 Thunderbolt is the hot new IO standard, but for most people it’s still a very new connection technology. In this article we go over the most important facts about Thunderbolt so you need be confused no more!... Learn More

A Commercial Deca Core?: i7-6950X Rumours April 15, 2016 It’s time for a new Extreme Edition CPU! Rumours abound and none of it may be true, but what we know so far seems pretty solid and this may be the best consumer CPU yet..... Learn More

Oculus Rift is here: Can You Run It? January 1, 2016 2016 is the year that VR will either go big or go home. The technology is finally good enough to make it a worthwhile experience, but like any new technology things aren’t perfect on every front yet.... Learn More

The Story of Autodesk Maya December 15, 2015 While it’s not that easy to peg exactly when computer animation itself became a viable technology, the beginnings of 3D computer animation in the public eye was... Learn More

Let's look at the leaked Intel Roadmap. November 15, 2015 Tick, tock, tick, tock. That’s the way Intel’s CPU released go. Except it seems that in 2016 this pattern will be broken with the release of a third 14nm CPU series known as Kaby Lake. What we were supposed to see was Cannonlake, a 10nm design... Learn More

Altwork Ergonomic Workstations: You’ll want to lie down for this November 02, 2015 We spend a lot of time talking about the latests CPUs or GPUs. Obsessing over gaining a few seconds in render time or getting that much closer to cracking the next computational milestone..... Learn More

Eyes on the Intel Skylake Xeon E3-1200 v5 October 31, 2015 Intel’s Skylake architecture has been fairly well received, bringing general refinement to its predecessor. Intel’s E3 CPUs have filled a very important niche at the lower- and consumer- end.... Learn More

Best of Both Worlds? EVGA Geforce Titan X with Hybrid Cooling October 22, 2015 The Nvidia GTX Titan X is by anyone’s definition a monster of a GPU solution. 3072 CUDA cores running at 1Ghz couples with 12GB of 7 Gbps GDDR 5 makes for both eye-watering performance and an eye-watering price... Learn More

nVidia GeForce GTX 950: A Budget Dream? October 15, 2015 Decent GPU performance doesn’t come cheap these days. Although onboard GPUs such as Intel’s Iris Pro give great performance to the casual and mainstream user, if you care at all about devent 3D graphics your only real choice is a discrete GPU... Learn More

First Ever Nano-photonic Memory Chips Created in the Lab October 01, 2015 Electronics, especially high-density integrated circuits are hitting a wall in terms of speed and performance. Although every time we think we’ve finally hit that wall so far there has been a new development that provides a little breathing space. Nonetheless... Learn More

Microfluidic Cooling: More Megaherz? September 16, 2015 CPU get hot, really hot and current cooling technologies are not great at getting to that heat. Since the CPU has some components that get hotter than others and the heat spreader is pretty inefficient at transferring that heat, your CPUs thermal limit... Learn More

Samsung 950 Pro M.2 SSD:Hold Onto Your Hats! September 01, 2015 Silicon, integrated circuits have been advancing at an incredible pace of the last few decades. CPUs, RAM, GPUs and every other solid state technology has benefited from these advances, but secondary storage devices such as... Learn More

Mineral Oil Computer Cooling: Components go for a swim August 31, 2015 If you want to cool your computer components you basically have two choices: Air cooling or water cooling. For most people air cooling using a heatsink and fan combination is the way to go. Modern copper heatpipe and fan combinations... Learn More

Intel Skylake: What’s the deal? August 15, 2015 The new Skylake series of CPUs represent a narrow miss for Intel, as they went off their famous “tick, tock�release schedule thanks to problems with the 14nm production process. The 14nm Broadwell CPU line was released late, but Intel chose to... Learn More

AMD breaks the mold with high bandwidth memory August 05, 2015 The integrated circuitry you’ll find in your CPU or GPU is an astounding technological feat. Billions of microscopic logic gates squeezed onto a semiconductor wafer only a few hundred millimeters across. However, that circuitry is two dimensional, which is why die.... Learn More

AMD R9 Nano: Small package, big bang July 31, 2015 The story of computing electronics is one of ever smaller components. From early vacuum tube computers such as ENIAC that 1800 sq feet and ate an astounding 150 KW of electricity to the 5.96B transistor Haswell Xeon E5 that measures at 662mm² and sips on a mere 135W depending on the exact model and clock speed. That a huge improvement in a mere three... Learn More

The Difference Between Professional and Mainstream SSDs March 30, 2015 SSDs are now becoming more common in consumer computers and are almost mainstream when it comes to professional computers or high-end gaming rigs. We often see them used as OS drives with a large traditional mechanical drives doing duty as media and document storage... Learn More

GeForce GTX 960M and 950M March 20, 2015 So we’ve been hearing good things about the powerful mobile Nvidia cards, the GTX 980M and 970M. Still, these days thin and light is the order of the day and many users have been waiting to see what’s happening at the middle of the 900-series mobile range... Learn More

Nvidia Titan X - What we know so far. March 15, 2015 For gamers single-GPU performance is still a very important deal. If you thought it was hard enough to get software to scale evenly over multiple CPU cores wait till you hear the moaning about multi-GPU setups. Despite major leaps in getting multi-GPU setups to work reliably and efficiently it’s still a bit clunky to get two separate chips to double the performance of one. So, in a nutshell, we still care... Learn More

Samsung Brings a Portable SSD to Market March 10, 2015 These days most people who need to shift around files that are too big for DropBox will use USB flash drives, but even USB 3 flash drives top out at just over 200MB/s read speeds, with writes coming in a little lower... Learn More

Audio Workstations: Not So Simple March 01, 2015 The world of professional recording has changed massively since the PC multimedia revolution. You don’t need a multi-million recording studio to make an album or radio show (“podcast� to you cool kids), you just need a modest modern computer and some digital recording gear. You can have single microphone setups and multiple simultaneously recording audio sources... Learn More

USB 3.1 - Why You Should Care February 28, 2015 USB is pretty boring, although many of us remember the dark days before USB when we had to struggle with so many different port types. Parallel ports, serial ports, PS/2 and many other irritating and ugly interfaces all fell to USB. It really has become practically universal, as the name says.... Learn More

Goodbye Achilles Heel: External Laptop Graphics February 15, 2015 The laptop form factor is super popular, these days to most mainstream users a personal computer is a laptop. As computers work their way ever more into our lifestyles it makes sense that the desk-bound computer form factor becomes less of a mainstream device. Which is great if your computing needs include watching YouTube, writing a few essays... Learn More

Steam VR - Did Valve Just Conquer VR? January 31, 2015 Just about everyone who has a stake in computing has been keeping a close eye on recent developments in virtual reality. From gamers to professionals who create graphics and interfaces for others to use, we’ve been feeling the general shift to feasible... Learn More

SATA Express - What is it? January 15, 2015 SATA had a good run, that’s for sure. These neat little connectors with their thin cables did wonders for aesthetics and airflow, but most of all they liberated us from the pathetic speeds of PATA drives, topping out at 133 MB/s. First generation SATA interfaces were rated at 1.5Gb/s or 187.5 MB/s. Not such a great improvement, but each successive generation... Learn More

Geforce GTX960 : Maxwell for the masses January 15, 2015 The inevitable has happened, after blitzing the high end graphics market with the superlative GTX 970 and its big brother the GTX 980, Nvidia GTX 960 cards are now on store shelves. For most users the mid-range is the sweet spot and predictably these cards sell extremely well. So if you’re... Learn More

Windows 10 is Almost Here January 01, 2015 Dubious mathematics aside, Windows 10 is shaping up to be the truly modern OS that Windows 8 was meant to be. Windows 7 & 8 users will also get to upgrade for free for the first year following the Windows 10 release, which is just more evidence that Microsoft is keen to... Learn More

M.2 and MSata: What's the difference? December 15, 2014 It can be a real pain to keep up with new protocols and connector standards, especially if a lot of time passes between your upgrades or new computer purchases. So, like many people, you might be slightly confused by the seemingly sudden appearance of new connectors meant to hook up SSD... Learn More

What Does the Microsoft HoloLens Mean for Professionals? December 01, 2014 Microsoft dropped some big bombs during its Windows 10 keynote recently. We’re looking at Windows 10 itself in a different article, but the announcement that really has everyone buzzing is the Microsoft HoloLens... Learn More

The Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 and GTX 980 Revealed October 03, 2014 When it comes to performance parts it can be argued that GPUs are somewhat sexier than CPUs. Of course in the professional computing world we care more about CPU performance than the general user, but with the rise of GPGPU computing and affordable consumer... Learn More

The ASUS KGPE-D16 Dual Opteron Motherboard - Heart of a Budget Server September 24, 2014 There was a time, about a decade ago, where it really seemed as if perpetual underdog AMD was beating Intel on both price and performance. The Athlon XP desktop processors were giving the Netburst Pentium 4 CPUs a solid whipping by being both cheaper and faster and if it weren’t for the work... Learn More

Nvidia’s New Quadro Cards Whip Up A Storm September 15, 2014 The Quadro brand has really become synonymous with the concept of a workstation computer. Although AMD’s FirePro series are, in general, excellent parts they just don’t have the brand presence of the Quadro products.... Learn More

Noctua CPU Coolers, Why We Love Them September 06, 2014 Back in the old days cooling wasn’t something anyone cared about when it came to desktop computers. Big supercomputers like the Cray II were using elaborate liquid cooling solutions as far back as the 80s, but for most users the CPU fan (there was no such thing as a GPU)... Learn More

Haswell-E Has Arrived September 03, 2014 After months of rumblings and rumours around Intel’s next generation of high-end desktop CPUs, they are finally out in the wild. These new parts have been highly anticipated and we know that many people have been holding out on upgrading their existing setups until we knew more about the pricing and performance of these chips... Learn More

The Geforce GTX Titan August 30, 2014 What’s in a name? If you’re going to name one of your products the “Titan� you better put your money where your mouth is and it looks as if Nvidia have done just that with the Geforce GTX Titan Z. The TItan Z sports two full-fat GK110 GPUs for a staggering total of 5760 CUDA cores. Not even... Learn More

How to Enable GPU Acceleration in Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5 for Unsupported nVidia GeForce Cards August 23, 2014 Did you know that, since Premiere Pro CS5, Adobe has been weaving in support for GPU acceleration into the software? It’s early days yet, so at this point Premier Pro CS5 only supports NVidia’s CUDA GPU acceleration technology and on top of that only a small list... Learn More

The Samsung 840 Pro SSD August 18, 2014 Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a computer is only as fast as its slowest component. Although magnetic hard disk drives have come forward leaps and bounds in terms of storage density, reliability and size their performance improvement over the years has come nowhere close to... Learn More

Windows 9 Rumours Are In The Air! August 16, 2014 It seems like just yesterday that Windows 8 was released to what can at best be described as mixed reactions. Under the hood there were many improvements to the kernel and the stability, security and performance of the new operating system were measurably and markedly better than that of Windows 7. Unfortunately the GUI... Learn More

Whats the difference between an Intel Xeon and Intel i7 processor? August 9, 2014 Consumer grade hardware has come a long, long way in the last few years. The gulf between high-end enthusiast equipment and workstation-grade professional hardware isn’t quite as wide as it used be. So you may be seriously tempted to go for cheaper (relatively) high-end consumer components when putting together a workstation computer. Learn More

The Nvidia Quadro K6000 and Kepler Technology August 1, 2014 In the world of the digital creative professional expectations are always on the rise and results are expected under ever-increasing time pressures. When project delay penalties can run into the tens of thousands you want nothing less than a pinnacle product. Learn More

The REAL Difference Between Workstation and Desktop GPUs July 30, 2014 Consumer desktop-grade hardware has gotten so good these days that many people question the need for expensive workstation-grade parts in their, well, workstations. This question is understandable, since the workstation version of a particular GPU may cost four... Learn More

Nvidia Quadro K4000 Reviewed July 22, 2014 The Quadro K4000 is one of those watershed hardware releases that really makes you go “What were they thinking?� in the back of your head. The K4000 represents that rare confluence of technology and business that sees the release of a mid-range part that seem as if they belong with more expensive products in their range.... Learn More