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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

7 Ways to Screenshot in Windows 10
ADATA A10050QC Power Bank Review
AMD drops Windows 8.1 32-bit Radeon driver support
ASUS ROG Maximus IX Formula Review
Azio Armato Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Kolink Continuum KL-C1050PL 1050W Platinum Review
MSI GS43VR Phantom Pro Gaming Laptop Review
Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti KalmX Review
Patriot Hellfire 480GB PCIe 3.0 x 4 NVMe M.2 SSD Review
Roccat Suora FX gaming keyboard review
Toshiba Samples 64-Layer 512 Gb BiCS 3D NAND, Announces 1 TB BGA SSD



7 Ways to Screenshot in Windows 10

A few of you are probably thinking: "isn't it easy to screenshot in Windows 10? You just press the print screen button and a screenshot is saved to the clipboard!" And you'd be correct; But Windows provides several other ways to screenshot, many of which are better options depending on your requirements.

Read full article @ TechSpot

ADATA A10050QC Power Bank Review

We are attached to our phones, if its business related, or we are just checking Facebook our mobile phones are an integral part of our lives. If you are on the go, travelling, or just don’t happen to have access to a charger at your job you probably know how important a power bank is. When our phones get low on battery we freak out because we’ll be “disconnected” from the rest of the world. Well ADATA has you covered with their new A10050QC Power Bank. This power bank provides 10050mAh of recharging power, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 technology, and even a USB Type-C connection. Let’s take a look!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

AMD drops Windows 8.1 32-bit Radeon driver support

"Nobody cares about 32-bit Windows 8.1 anymore," said a company rep.

Read full article @ Hexus

ASUS ROG Maximus IX Formula Review

With very few exceptions, the Maximus IX Formula is another step forward in the evolution of ASUS' ROG brand. The red and black theme never gets old and you can surely stick to it if you want to do so. However, ASUS' AURA Lighting and AURA SYNC technology takes the visuals a little bit further, well, a lot further away from the red and black, actually. Using ASUS' AURA Lighting controls you can set the LED accents on the Maximus IX Formula to any color in the rainbow with up to nine different lighiting patterns. It's interesting just to sit back and watch it. To take the RGB lighting control a bit further, you can connect RGB LED strips to the pair of headers that are also managed by ASUS AURA. If you purchase ASUS SYNC compatible peripherals you can essentially match the LED lighting theme throughout your ecosystem. Built with a decided bent toward gamers, the ROG brand is also the premier overclocking solution in ASUS' product stack. Built with hardware that supports overclocking and the software package, and UEFI BIOS to back it all up, you can get the most out of your installed hardware. In the two comparison boards, my Core i7 7700K is, at best, a 4.95GHz chip that takes about 1.375v to 1.39v to maintain stability at that level. Thanks to ASUS' Extreme Engine Digi+ all-digital VRM, TPU, and Pro Clock chips, this CPU does indeed hit 5GHz for daily use with an applied 1.36v. By manually tuning the clock speeds to 102MHz x 49, 5GHz was easy to reach, with a cache ratio of 45 and memory speed of close to 3700MHz.

Read full article @ OCC

Azio Armato Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

Azio Corporation says that their name derives from “A to Z, Input to Output”, While their products are manufactured in Taiwan, they’re designed in California (sound familiar?) In any case Benchmark Reviews has in hand their Armato Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, model MGK-ARMATO-01. As a single-color backlit mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches, it might seem as if there’s little to distinguish it from the many other similar products available. But first appearances can be deceiving, as we’ll find out in this review.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

Kolink Continuum KL-C1050PL 1050W Platinum Review

Kolink are a relatively new brand to market, however I was impressed with their 1200W power supply, which I reviewed in November 2016 – today we look at the new 1050W model. These products are controlled by Hungarian Kellytech, a sister company of European based Caseking – who have exclusive distribution rights. Unsurprisingly they are sold in the United Kingdom by Overclockers UK.

Read full article @ KitGuru

MSI GS43VR Phantom Pro Gaming Laptop Review

Will the MSI GS43VR Phantom Pro spook the competition? Alongside the official release of Intel’s 7th generation Kaby Lake processor came a tidal wave of updated gaming laptops. They look very much like Skylake-based versions we've been testing. The GS43VR Phantom Pro-069 from MSI is the first to hit our test bench. Will the updated Phantom Pro’s performance be able to spook the competition?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti KalmX Review

Check out this review on the passively cooled GeForce GTX 1050 Ti KalmX from Palit, the graphics cards has no fans, just one big cooling radiator and is positioned at the budget minded consumer as these cards are located in the entry level segment.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Patriot Hellfire 480GB PCIe 3.0 x 4 NVMe M.2 SSD Review

Ultra-high performance, excellent durability and a very tempting price tag are just a few of the things that define the brand new Hellfire 480GB NVMe M.2 SSD by Patriot.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Roccat Suora FX gaming keyboard review

Roccat has been one of the top gaming peripheral makers for a long now and looks to continue that reign with its new board, the Suora FX. Built with the same RGB backlighting and mechanical functionality of its predecessors, the Suora FX goes the barebones route and tears off all the unneeded plastic to give you a compact, but versatile gaming board.

It is in essence, the Roccat Suora, but with RGB backlighting added to the mix. The FX is designed to be a full-size gaming keyboard, but with less of the waste and clutter of its competitors and contemporaries in the Roccat line up – while looking extra pretty.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Toshiba Samples 64-Layer 512 Gb BiCS 3D NAND, Announces 1 TB BGA SSD

Toshiba on Wednesday said that it had begun to sample its latest BiCS 3D NAND flash memory chips with 64 word layers and 512 Gb capacity. A co-development project with Western Digital, the two companies intend to produce the new ICs (integrated circuits) in high volume sometimes in the second half of this year. Among the first products to use the new chips will be Toshiba’s BGA SSD with 1 TB capacity.

Looking at the specifications, Toshibas 512 Gb (64 GB) 64-layer BiCS 3D NAND will be TLC-based, with the use of TLC being unsurprising here as all makers of non-volatile memory nowadays concentrate on TLC ICs for SSDs. Toshiba as well as its fab and development partner (Western Digital) has not formally revealed the interface speed of their new 512 Gb 3D NAND ICs nor the number of planes per IC, but these are details that the companies are probably going to share when they are ready to ship such devices in high volume (or simply decide to publish their ISSCC presentation from earlier this month).

Read full article @ Anandtech