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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

39 700-850W power supplies review: power for your Skylake-X or Threadripper
4K Video Editing PC - December 2017
AMD FreeSync For Tear-Free Linux Gaming - Current State In 2017
Antec P8 Case Review
G.SKILL RIPJAWS KM570 RGB Review
GameMax Kallis Case - best £60 case of 2017?
Pittasoft BlackVue DR650S-2CH Car Dashcam Review
PowerColor Red Devil Vega 56 8GB Review
Serious Statistics Pt. 2: The Sync Encounter
SilverStone SFX SX650-G 650W Power Supply Review



39 700-850W power supplies review: power for your Skylake-X or Threadripper

Skylake-X and Threadripper CPUs, and GTX 1080 Ti and Vega GPUs have one thing in common: they consume a lot of power. If you want to build a high-end system, you have to choose a fitting power supply. We tested 39 models that can supply 700 or up to and including 850 watts.

During the last couple of years we have gotten used to processors offering improved performance as well as lower power consumption with every new generation. However, this trend seems to have come to and end for now. The brand new Intel Skylake-X processors consume (in part due to the increase in core count) a lot of energy, which can also be said about AMD's Ryzen Threadripper. While the Nvidia 10-series GPUs consume less energy than the models in the 9-series, the 1080 Ti (thanks to its enormous amount of transistors) still consumes more power than every other common Nvidia GPU of the last couple of years.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

4K Video Editing PC - December 2017

A few years ago, your PC just couldn't be fast enough for digital video processing. By now every average PC is able to process Standard Definition (PAL 720x576) as well as HD Ready, but technology doesn't stand still. By now just about every smartphone can record in Full HD and the new frontier is Ultra HD, also known as 4K. This resolution and the 'accompanying' codec HEVC / H.265 require seriously powerful hardware.

That's the reason why a powerful PC can still really make a difference. You need a fast processor, lots of storage capacity, and good monitor able to display 4K resolutions.

4K digital video editing requires a hefty amount of processing power, and our video editing PC delivers that in spades. Often overlooked in off-the-shelf PCs is the power supply - a video editing PC will be running longer and more frequently at full load, which stresses the PSU quite a bit. We choose high-end components that will work fine for some years down the road, ensuring stable operation for the rig's entire lifetime.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

AMD FreeSync For Tear-Free Linux Gaming - Current State In 2017

If you are thinking of gifting yourself (or someone else) a FreeSync-compatible monitor this holiday season, here's a look at how the AMD FreeSync support is working right now, the driver bits you need to be aware of, and how it's all playing out for those wanting to use this tear-free capability for Linux gaming.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Antec P8 Case Review

Antec’s P8 joins the race to the bottom in tempered-glass case pricing, but can it race back up to the top in performance and value?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

G.SKILL RIPJAWS KM570 RGB Review

Today we take a look at the RIPJAWS KM570 RGB from G.SKILL. This new keyboard in their lineup offers full RGB per-key backlighting, Macro support, full n-key rollover, dedicated volume controls and Cherry MX switches in Red, Blue, Brown or Speed Silver flavours. We've been provided with the brown keys for review, usually aimed towards typists and casual gamers.

Read full article @ Vortez

GameMax Kallis Case - best £60 case of 2017?

At Kitguru we’ve taken a look at quite a few budget PC cases from Gamemax recently. The Gamemax Kallis provides features such as a PSU shroud, RGB lighting, and a windowed side panel at a RRP of £56.99. Is the Kallis as good as it sounds and is it a viable option for the budget gamer?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Pittasoft BlackVue DR650S-2CH Car Dashcam Review

Just like its award winning predecessors the BlackVue DR650-2CH Car Dash Camera by Pittasoft with its high image quality, dual-cameras and number of available features is among the best models money can buy today.

Read full article @ Nikktech

PowerColor Red Devil Vega 56 8GB Review

Finally, the first custom Vega boards have hit the market. In this review, we take a devilish PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 with 8GB graphics memory for a spin. The 56 is a more affordable graphics card in the Vega range, and might actually be the better proposition value for money wise.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Serious Statistics Pt. 2: The Sync Encounter

I am not completely sure if a conclusion is really necessary for this article, but why not? As is perhaps not surprising, playing in a Borderless window under DirectX 11 results in the highest frame latency, because of omnipresent Desktop Window Manager's double buffering. When playing in Fullscreen or under Vulkan, as far as PresentMon/OCAT could tell only V-Sync of the in-game options actually introduced any latency. Of the driver-side options, it was again only the basic v-sync option to add latency, according to PresentMon/OCAT, with the Fast Sync, Enhanced Sync, and Frame Rate Target Control all appearing to send frames out just as quickly as they were available to send.

Read full article @ OCC

SilverStone SFX SX650-G 650W Power Supply Review

The SilverStone SFX SX650-G 650W is another excellent SFX unit from SilverStone with High Power as the OEM.

Read full article @ APH Networks