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Hyper-Threading on a Budget with Kaby Lake Pentium

11th January 2017 11/01/17
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Kaby Lake Pentium processors have hyper-threading capabilities—or HT enablement—which is exciting news for budget-level system builders. Specific vector process extensions (AVX) features have meaningful implications ...

Top CPUs 2016 | Best Processors for Business Systems

29th December 2016 29/12/16
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The numbers are in from Newegg—here's a list of the 20 top CPUs for businesses that built PCs and workstations in 2016. Like I did in 2015, this list will compare CPUs by ranking them by total units sold, as well as revenues. This gives a fair idea where NeweggBusiness customers saw best value for CPUs this year.

High SSD Prices? Blame Chinese Handsets and Enterprise Datacenters

13th December 2016 13/12/16
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The nonvolatile memory market is getting, well, volatile. Hardware publications reporting that NAND shortages will mean high SSD prices for consumer drives confirmed what Newegg product managers suspected for months—2017 looks like slim pickins’ for components sellers.

Is Liquid Silicon the Next Generation of Computer Hardware?

28th November 2016 28/11/16
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The idea of “liquid silicon” conjures images from a Terminator film. Fittingly, it is a nascent ’80s computing concept brought to life with modern fabrication techniques, with ...

Top PC Builds of 2016: Overclocked University Workstation

16th November 2016 16/11/16
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University professors assembled some formidable custom PC builds in 2016 judging by NeweggBusiness data for higher education customers. This group consists primarily of science, mathematics, ...

CPU Benchmarks: GIMPS has the Prime Source

21st October 2016 21/10/16
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System builders look at CPU benchmarks to verify vendor specifications printed on the box (or online product page) in real-world contexts before buying hardware. I thought it would be interesting to benchmark the benchmark sites.