Intel Z87 Motherboard Review with Haswell: Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock and ASUS

URL: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6989/intel-z87-motherboard-review-with-haswell-gigabyte-msi-asrock-and-asus-at-200

Talk about Haswell and Z87 has circulated the internet for many quarters – today we reap the benefits of the wait and get our chance to review both the CPU and several examples of the Z87 chipset.  Today we have in the Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H, the MSI Z87A-GD65 Gaming, the ASRock Z87 Extreme6/AC and the ASUS Z87-Pro.

System Builder Marathon, Q2 2013: System Value Compared

URL: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mini-itx-build-it-yourself-overclocking,3510.html#xtor=RSS-182

Our top three builders struggled to fit big performance into three tiny ITX-based platforms at three budget levels. Will the more expensive machines once again justify their higher prices through dramatically-improved performance? Read on for more.

Noctua Demonstrates World's First CPU Cooler with Active Noise Cancelling Technology

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/coolers/display/20130613235914_Noctua_Demonstrates_World_s_First_CPU_Cooler_with_Active_Noise_Cancelling_Technology.html

Noctua and RotoSub to Launch Cooler with Noise Cancelling Technology in Mid-2014

10GbE: What the Heck Took So Long?

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3m9AY24O6-s/story01.htm

storagedude writes "10 Gigabit Ethernet may finally be catching on, some six years later than many predicted. So why did it take so long? Henry Newman offers a few reasons: 10GbE and PCIe 2 were a very promising combination when they appeared in 2007, but the Great Recession hit soon after and IT departments were dumping hardware rather than buying more. The final missing piece is finally arriving: 10GbE support on motherboards. 'What 10 GbE needs to become a commodity is exactly what 1 GbE got and what Fibre Channel failed to get: support on every motherboard,' writes Newman. 'The current landscape looks promising. 10 GbE is starting to appear on motherboards from every major server vendor, and I suspect that in just a few years, we'll start to see it on home PC boards, with the price dropping from the double digits to single digits, and then even down to cents.'"

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Intel Announces Thunderbolt 2: 20Mb/s Bandwidth for 4K UHD Video Transfer and Display

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20130604233537_Intel_Announces_Thunderbolt_2_20Mb_s_Bandwidth_for_4K_UHD_Video_Transfer_and_Display.html

Intel Thunderbolt 2 Doubles Bandwidth for Next-Generation Video

Five Z87 Motherboards Under $220, Reviewed

URL: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z87-haswell-motherboard-review,3524.html#xtor=RSS-182

Intel's Haswell architecture displaces Ivy Bridge in its desktop line-up, bringing with it yet another new CPU interface. We tested six motherboards that claimed to be ready for your overclocking efforts, and included the five survivors in today's review.

Graphene-Based Image Sensor To Enhance Low-Light Photography

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cylonlover writes "A team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has developed a new image sensor from graphene that promises to improve the quality of images captured in low light conditions. In tests, it has proved to be 1,000 times more sensitive to light than existing complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) or charge-coupled device (CCD) camera sensors in addition to operating at much lower voltages, consequently using 10 times less energy."

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The Haswell Review: Intel Core i7-4770K & i5-4560K Tested

URL: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-core-i74770k-i54560k-tested

This is a very volatile time for Intel. In an ARM-less vacuum, Intel’s Haswell architecture would likely be the most amazing thing to happen to the tech industry in years. In mobile Haswell is slated to bring about the single largest improvement in battery life in Intel history. In graphics, Haswell completely redefines the expectations for processor graphics. There are even some versions that come with an on-package 128MB L4 cache. And on the desktop, Haswell is the epitome of polish and evolution of the Core microprocessor architecture. Everything is better, faster and more efficient.