Hardware benchmarks and reviews

Geforce Now - first impressions of game streaming - Playing games without the need for GPU and CPU capable to run it.
Design and capabilities of multi-CPU computers - Testing cheap LGA 1366 dual-CPU systems
Past and future of VIA Technologies x86 CPUs - Can a third company join the x86 CPU competitive market?
Price to performance of used graphics cards - July 2019 - Checking price to performance of used and new graphics cards

Getting rid of dust from home and from a computer case - How to troubleshoot and avoid dust in your PC and home?
Grounding and electrostatic discharge protection of a problematic PC system - Understanding and troubleshooting problems with ESD and grouding of a custom built PC

Benchmarking and analyzing World of Warcraft performance - How WoW performance changes in different places and with different hardware
Testing DDR3 and DDR4 RAM performance on Linux - What affects RAM performance and how that affects games and application performance?

Design and capabilities of multi-CPU computers - Testing cheap LGA 1366 dual-CPU systems
Threadripper 1920X and Vega 64 all water AiO build and benchmarks - Building a compact and quiet workstation with 12 core Threadripper and Vega 64
Testing old 16 core Opteron 6386 SE on a Jingsha X89 motherboard - How does 16 cores from 2012 compares to 2019 processors?
Threadripper cooling: low profile server air coolers and Thermal Grizzly thermal pad - Checking some new and alternative Threadripper cooling options
Building a software developer PC based on Ryzen 7 1700 - A powerful yet price optimized PC for software development

Building a small form factor system with upgrade options on the cheap - Challenges of building a small form factor PCs
Testing fanless Pentium J5005 + GTX 1050 Ti PC - Will a 10W handle games and other computational taks or maybe GTX 1050 will be the bottlenet?
Power and thermal performance of fanless Pentium J5005 PC - How much power a 10W TDP CPU can draw?
Measuring power draw of DC-DC Pico PSU power supply powering AMD APUs - How much power a Ryzen 2200G and Athlon 220GE need?
Building a Linux PC using low power quad core Celeron J1900 - Ultra quiet PC with no fans, four cores and up to 16 GB of RAM running Linux or Windows
Benchmarking Celeron J1900 on Xubuntu Linux - How much computing power does a 10W CPU offers and how much power does it really consumes?
Improving Celeron J1900 gaming performance by connecting external graphics card to PCIe x1 2.0 slot - How much can we gain from GPU connected to slow PCIe x1 slot instead of typical x16? How much performance increase simple external GPU will give?
Are cheap low power x86 CPUs an alternative to higher end makers ARM boards? - Can low power x86 boards compete with performance oriented ARM boards?

Performance of AMD A8 APU on Xubuntu 15.04 with radeon and fglrx drivers - Which driver is better - open source radeon or closed fglrx, and what is the user experience for both of them?
How cool is Lenovo Flex 10 netbook and how to install Linux on 32-bit UEFI system? - Reviewing Lenovo Flex 10 laptop with a flippable touch screen allowing using it in tent and stand modes.

Monitoring AMD, Intel and NVIDIA graphics card usage under Linux - A quick look through tools allowing to monitor resource usage of graphics cards under Linux
Testing OEM and no-name RX 460 graphics cards - What features and performance an OEM generic card can offer?
Testing fancard effectiveness on GPU cooling performance - Does more fans helps cool down a GPU?

Testing two cheap portable monitors - A 11,6 and 13,3 inch cheap portable displays from Aliexpress
Atrix Lapdock - a laptop-like docking station for mini PCs - A handy dock for Raspberry Pi and other mini PCs providing power and a 11,6" laptop like features
Using USB3 to HDMI adapter based on SMSC chipset under Linux - Using SMSC UFX7000 based USB3 to HDMI adapter under Linux

Testing DDR3 and DDR4 RAM performance on Linux - What affects RAM performance and how that affects games and application performance?
Risers and adapters for non-standard GPU connection - eGPU adapters, PCIe riser cables and adapters
Right angle 90 degree ATX adapter - A handy ATX socket adapter that flips it to horizontal orientation
Quick SSD on USB performance test - Testing write and read speeds of an SSD disk connected via USB2 and USB3

Quick test of Asus USB-N10 WiFi adapter under Linux - Testing how good and stable Asus N10 WiFi dongle works under Linux
Long range Bluetooth communication with SENA Parani UD100 adapter - A USB based simple to use Bluetooth adapter achieving long working distances due to use of external antennas

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6 July 2014, Piotr Maliński