Quite a few companies have jumped onto the mini PC bandwagon in the wake of Intel’s NUC form factor. Most motherboard manufacturers, for instance, have a presence and we saw Asus’ Core i5-4210U-based VivoMini. Gigabyte is certainly no stranger to tiny PCs either, and its BRIX range of bare bones units has even included a GTX 760 GPU before now. This month, we’re looking at its latest Intel Broadwell-based BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200. As its name suggests, this model uses an Intel Core i5-5200U, which launched earlier this year and is identical to the mobile CPU found in the latest laptops and ultrabooks.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X Review and Test
On paper, the Titan X’s new GM200 GPU is 50 per cent faster than the GTX 980’s GM204. It is a 28nm part with a 601mm2die size and a massive 8 billion transistors. GM200 is still divided into graphics processing clusters (GPCs) with four Streaming Multiprocessors (SMMs) apiece, and each of these SMMs again has 128 stream processors. However, while GTX 980 had four GPCs, the Titan X adds another two, both of which are fully enabled. This takes the number of stream processors to 3,072 and the texture units to 192. Clock speeds are a little lower, but with the base clock at 1GHz and the rated boost clock at 1,075MHz, there’s a lot of potential.
Corsair Hydro Series H80i GT Review and Test
The H80i GT picks up from where its predecessor left off, with the ‘i’ after the model number signifying its compatibility with Corsair’s Link control software. There’s a mini USB port on the side of the pump section, and an included cable connects it to a motherboard USB 2 header. As we saw with the H110i GT last month, the latest version of the Link software offers masses of customization and control, and you can even adjust the RGB lighting on the pump section to your own preference, or just to indicate the coolant temperature.
