Boxx’s Apexx S3 – Intel’s Alder Lake Maxxed Out
I have spent the last few weeks using Boxx’s newest iteration of their Apexx S3 Workstation, and it is quite impressive. Based on Intel’s “Alder Lake” CPUs, with DDR5, it… Read more »
Category Archives: Hardware News
NAB 2022
NAB has returned to Las Vegas this week, as an in person event for the first time in three years. Due to this, there are many new products being announced… Read more »
GTC 2022 – NVidia Isn’t Slowing Down
NVidia is hosting GTC 2022 this week, which is mostly focused on supercomputing and AI uses for their graphics processors, but there a few announcements that are relevant to content… Read more »
Finding the “Best” Workstation
I have had the unique opportunity to test the two most powerful single socket workstations available on the market today. Last year’s review of the Lenovo Thinkstation P620 looked at… Read more »
The End of Dual Socket Workstations?
High-End Computers and Workstations I have always been a fan of top end computer systems. Truth be told, the reason I originally got involved with digital video production back in… Read more »
Hardware Accelerated HEVC in Premiere Pro
The High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) or H.265 is a very processing intensive codec for both encode and decode, but leads to higher video quality at lower data rates. There… Read more »
Reviewing BOXX’s Apexx Matterhorn
BOXX’s APEXX Matterhorn system is based on Intel’s Xeon W-3300 CPU architecture, and C621A chipset, and it represents the pinnacle of Intel’s single socket system performance, with up to 38… Read more »
Networking for Post-Switches and N-BaseT
My last two articles covered 10GbE networking, and how to set up a direct network connection between two computers without using a switch. Using a switch is actually much simpler,… Read more »
SIGGRAPH 2021
SIGGRAPH 2021 is entirely online this year, and having attended in person in the past, this seems like one of the hardest experiences to translate into an online virtual event. … Read more »
NVidia’s GTC 2021 Conference
NVidia is hosting the third online iteration of their “GTC” GPU Technology Conference. The first one was hurriedly implemented last March, as we were just beginning to realize the implications… Read more »
