So, You Wanna Be The Performance King?

The year is 2005 and AMD has the desktop performance crown. Intel needs to make a move to gain back ground. Their current Core series CPUs aren’t cutting it against the Athlon64 x2 series from AMD. [Read more...]

Refining Coffee Lake

Intro Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Previously when I wrote about the 8700k I deliberately left out data on temperature and more detailed depth into power and clock speeds. [Read more...]

The Intel Core i7-8700k 'Coffee Lake' 6 Cores 12 Threads of Raw Power

Intro Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Here we are with what I’ll consider my first real written CPU review and what a processor to start it out with. The 8700k is Intel’s latest desktop processor and I was lucky enough to snag one near the end of October 2017. [Read more...]

Review of the HP Pavilion x360 Kaby Lake Refresh i5

Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Today I’m going to be looking at the HP Pavilion x360. This is a 2017 model laptop with a hinge that allows you to fold back the display, so you can use it as a tablet hence the x360 moniker. [Read more...]