Filming has begun on the four sequels to Avatar, James Cameron’s 2009
3-D CGI adventure about a paraplegic marine who lands on the planet Pandora to mine unobtainium. This time, though, Cameron is really gonna make it happen — he’s not playing around! He’s spent much of the last decade teasing us about the upcoming installments, throwing out piecemeal updates (with occasional breaks for a Titanic rerelease or to shade Alien: Covenant). Read More...
AnandTech Storage Bench 2013 Our Storage Bench 2013 focuses on worst-case multitasking and IO consistency. Similar to our earlier Storage Benches, the test is still application trace based – we record all IO requests made to a test system and play them back on the drive we are testing and run statistical analysis on the drive's responses. There are 49.8 million IO operations in total with 1583.0GB of reads and 875. Read More...
BIOS ASRock has gone with a fairly basic but enthusiast-oriented BIOS that features a black and red theme. The ASRock BIOS implementation is, as an enthusiast, one of the more intuitive BIOSs on the B350 chipset I have encountered thus far. The different panels themselves are grey with white writing across the entirety of the BIOS, giving it a subtle, yet rather gaming style theme. You know, because 'gaming' is defined as red and black. Read More...