Site Updates

As many of you noticed, AnandTech has spent several hours offline today. We are still in recovery mode at the moment (as I write this, the site has been restored to a copy from November 25th), but now that our major restoration efforts are completed, I wanted to offer you guys a brief update on the status of AnandTech. At around 13:00 UTC (5am PT) today, the on-site cloud storage for AnandTech’s hosting provider became corrupted. As a result, AnandTech (and some other sites) were brought offline. Due to the nature of the corruption and the need to begin restoration efforts ASAP, we opted to restore the site from an off-site cold storage backup, rather than trusting the questionable on-site storage. This is the first time...

Introducing AnandTech Mobile: A Responsive Design Update

For the past couple of months our ad sales team has been engaged with Box, an enterprise file sharing and cloud content management company. Box was looking for a...

99 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/15/2013

Welcome to AnandTech's 2013 Redesign

In 2010 we went through the single largest redesign in AnandTech history. We modernized the site, finally moved to a tag based architecture and made a number of other...

465 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/9/2013

Qualcomm Gives Away One Free Uplinq 2012 Pass to AnandTech Readers, Discounted Registration as Well

Today we have a change of pace with our giveaways. Qualcomm has given us a single pass to its Uplinq 2012 conference to give away to one lucky reader...

16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/5/2012

MSI GT70 Ivy Bridge Gaming Notebook Giveaway

Congrats to lebarle who won the MSI Z77A-GD65 from our last giveaway. As I hinted at last time however, if you didn't win or aren't in need of a...

4880 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/24/2012

Updated Smartphone & GPU Bench DBs Live!

We've been running our public performance database tool, Bench, for a few years now. Bench allows you to have direct access to the performance data we use in our...

63 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/24/2011

The Antec Giveaways: Part 2

If you're looking for a new case, Antec is setting side a pair of its Eleven Hundred model cases for two lucky AnandTech readers. The Eleven Hundred features three...

2347 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/14/2011

Gigabyte X79-UD5 Giveaway

Earlier this month we reviewed Intel's new ultra high end CPU: Sandy Bridge E. The 2.7 billion transistor chip is a serious workhorse, overkill for most enthusiasts but a...

2923 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/29/2011

The Antec Giveaways: Part 1

Earlier today Dustin reviewed Antec's new P280 chassis, but now we've got two of these cases to give away to a couple of lucky readers. In our review, Dustin...

2029 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/15/2011

HP Launches New Blog, Offers $500 Giveaway to AnandTech Readers

Update: Congratulations to AnandTech reader Tidicus for winning HP's $500 Sweepstakes. Your prize will be on its way to you shortly! Thanks to everyone who entered and don't worry...

1357 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/13/2011

IDF 2011 Recap and Announcing Pipeline

A little over a month ago we quietly introduced a new section to AnandTech called Pipeline. You'll find it in the right hand column of the site where we...

19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2011

The Summer of Honeycomb Grand Finale

The Summer of Honeycomb has come to an end. Congrats to AnandTech reader tsgarp83 for winning our first Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Be sure to respond to my email...

3291 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/18/2011

The Summer of Honeycomb, Part 3: Win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

It's the Summer of Honeycomb and we now have two lucky readers who have won Eee Pad Transformers thanks to our friends at NVIDIA. Congrats to AnandTech reader unbellum...

2820 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/29/2011

The Summer of Honeycomb, Part 2: Win an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer

Want to know if you're the winner of our first Summer of Honeycomb giveaway? Congrats to AnandTech reader jdobratz for winning our first Eee Pad Transformer. Be sure to...

2046 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/17/2011

It's Also the Summer of Storage: Patriot Wildfire SSD Giveaway

What's this - another contest during our Summer of Honeycomb giveaway? Indeed it is. We write about SSDs quite frequently here at AnandTech so it's about time that we...

3147 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/11/2011

The Summer of Honeycomb, Part 1: Win an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer

We're all out of memory, congrats to AnandTech reader raimondi1337 for winning our last giveaway of 16GB of G.Skill DDR3-2133 memory. Be sure to respond to my email to...

4181 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/8/2011

G.Skill Summer Memory Giveaway, Round 2: 16GB DDR3-2133 Kit

Congrats to AnandTech reader: awkward for winning G.Skill's 8GB DDR3-1600 memory kit in our last giveaway. Respond to my email to claim your prize! There's still one more chance...

1774 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2011

G.Skill Summer Memory Giveaway, Round 1: 8GB DDR3-1600 Kit

Remember our Antec soundscience giveaway? reckert and OMGkragnor were the first two winners, however Antec was so pleased with the number of entries that it gave us an additional...

1282 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/23/2011

Antec soundscience rockus 3D Giveaway

April was a pretty exciting month for giveaways on AnandTech. We gave away four Xooms courtesy of NVIDIA, our last one went to AnandTech reader Don of Charlotte, NC...

1759 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2011

We're Giving Away a Qualcomm MSM8660 Mobile Development Platform

Last month Brian put together a performance preview of Qualcomm's first dual-core SoC: the 1.5GHz MSM8660. The article was mostly focused on GPU performance as the new Adreno 220...

813 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/27/2011

The Motorola Xoom Giveaway, Final Round

We've given away three Motorola Xoom tablets already, this is your last opportunity to win one. Read on for details on how to enter.

1865 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/25/2011

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