ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1050 Ti STRIX Video Card Review and more

Today we take a look at the quad-core Ryzen 5 1400 and six-core 1600 CPUs from AMD, priced for the sub-$300 USD market segment yet still promising plenty of power for 1080p gaming as well as overclocking potential.

AMD Ryzen had an amazing launch, because the new AMD processors promises a very good price / performance ratio. Right there, also ASRock would apply with this inexpensive Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 motherboard, which we are testing on OCinside.de, today. In this ASRock AB350 Gaming K4 AMD AM4 review we will test and overclock the motherboard both with an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, as well with an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU. We will also give a few AMD Ryzen OC tips and show some interesting infrared thermal images of the system along with the chipset and voltage regulators.

Since the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti was released in October 2016 it has become one of the most desirable cards to have for 1080P gaming due to be priced around $150. Over the past the past seven months there have been many driver updates, so we wanted to take a fresh look at a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB graphics card to see how they perform. We managed to get our hands on an ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB ROG STRIX OC Edition graphics card and gave it a test spin!

This week AMD released AOCC 1.0, the AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler, with initial support for Ryzen/Zen CPUs. In this article are our first benchmarks of the AOCC compiler compared to the GCC 6/7/8 and LLVM Clang 4/5 compilers.

While you might not have heard of ID-Cooling, the company is targeting the mainstream all-in-one cooler market with its FrostFlow 240L. A big part of its appeal is undoubtedly the price – at £79.99, it is not ‘cheap’ but is definitely more affordable than a lot of other AIOs currently on the market. Can it justify the price with solid performance?

The NZXT Aer F may not take my breath away, but they are a capable and aesthetically customizable set of fans.

We take a look at another high-end gaming chair, this time from Vertagear. It promises to take you through comfortable, hour-long gaming sessions and looks nice; however, its price is quite steep.

We review the Zalman ZM-K900M mechanical keyboard with Kailh Blue switches.