Articles by Leo Waldock
Intel 520 SSD 240GB
Intel’s latest SSD (Solid State Drive) model 520 feels rather familiar as it sports the same light silver casing as the model 510 and 1ooks pretty similar to every Intel SSD since the first X25-M which was launched back in 2008. The retail package of goodies is also familiar and consists of a SATA cable,…
Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge-E Extreme Processor
Say hello to Sandy Bridge-E. That’s E for Extreme Intel’s new Core i7-3960X Extreme processor marks the debut of Sandy Bridge-E. The E suffix stands for Extreme so it follows quite logically that Sandy Bridge-E combines Sandy Bridge Core i5/i7 technology with the sort of thinking that gave us the original Core i7 920 and…
AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz Bulldozer processor
AMD’s new Bulldozer architecture is a major change from its previous Phenom and Phenom II processor technology, as it introduces us to an eight-core processor. That’s eight hardware cores, rather than four cores using Hyper-Threading – with the release of its first Bulldozer chip, the FX-8150, AMD genuinely is breaking new ground. It may sound…
Samsung ST6500
Samsung’s new ST6500 is a digital compact camera that has been designed from scratch around its 7.6cm/3in touch screen. But that’s only part of the story: for another thing, it’s really rather dinky, measuring a sylph-like 102x57x19mm and weighing just 142g. In fact, the camera is so small that is uses a Micro-SD memory card…
MSI Z68A-GD65
The MSI Z68A-GD65 motherboard is designed for Intel LGA1155 ‘Sandy Bridge’ processors – very like earlier models such as the P67A-GD65. But unlike that motherboard – and as its name suggests – the new board marks a change from Intel’s P67 chipset to the new Z68 chipset. This brings two significant new features. Integrating GPU…