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A Quick Look At NVIDIAs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
ASRock Z370 Taichi Coffee Lake Motherboard Review
ASUS ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming Motherboard Review
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GAMING Graphics Card Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition Review
Nvidias GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card reviewed
Razer BlackWidow Tournament Edition Chroma Keyboard V2 Review
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 12TB HDD Review
Seasonic Prime Gold & Platinum review: gold with platinum characteristics
Thermaltake View 71 Tempered Glass Edition Review
Thinksound TS03+mic HD In-Ear Headphones Review
Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti AMP Extreme (8GB GDDR5) Review



A Quick Look At NVIDIAs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

If the launch of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Ti comes as a surprise to you, you’ve clearly been reading different news websites than I have been. This is one of those odd launches where reviewers didn’t even know about the product until it leaked, and didn’t hear about samples… well, at all. The day following the unveil, a card simply showed up. No shipping memo, not even a peep out of NVIDIA. It felt like we received one of the most mysterious GPUs ever.

But the GTX 1070 Ti isn’t that mysterious, because it’s been leaked to the point where it already feels like it’s been available. As the name suggests, this card slots in between the GTX 1070 and 1080, and it has a price tag to complement that placement: $449.

The timing of this release is also a little interesting, as I’ve been holding off on rebenchmarking our fleet of cards until the Fall Creators Update of Windows 10 released. Furthermore, one of the games just added to the suite, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, received optimizations in new drivers earlier this week from both AMD and NVIDIA, so despite being behind, it’s nice to have really fresh numbers to share.

Read full article @ Techgage

ASRock Z370 Taichi Coffee Lake Motherboard Review

The third model in our Coffee Lake motherboard launch series, ASRock’s Z370 Taichi hopes to win buyers over with a lower price for a few high-end features. Is the board good enough to win a value crown?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

ASUS ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming Motherboard Review

The ASUS ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming is one of the first 11 ASUS Z370 motherboards https://www.techarp.com/articles/asus-z370-motherboards/ to hit the market in support of the new 8th Generation Intel Core (Coffee Lake) processors https://www.techarp.com/articles/know-intel-coffee-lake-cpus/. In this review, we are going to take a close look at the ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming, and see how it performs with the Intel Core i7-8700K processor

Read full article @ Tech ARP

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GAMING Graphics Card Review

MSI has launched two new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics cards so far, with both samples sitting in my lab right now. We've started with the flagship MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GAMING graphics card, but I'll be working on the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti TITANIUM graphics card, with the review going live next week. MSI's new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is more of the same from MSI and their GTX 10 series, so I won't spend much time going over the card itself... because if you've read a review on an MSI GTX 10 series card, you've nearly read them all really. MSI doesn't need to change much as their cards are nearly perfected as it is, but the GTX 1070 Ti GAMING continues to impress. SLI results will also be on their way with some huge numbers to tease.

Read full article @ TweakTown

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition Review

Performance wise, the GTX 1070 Ti is going to come close to an average of 10% better than the GTX 1070 and fall a bit short of GTX 1080 performance. This is right where it should fall based on the hardware NVIDIA put under the hood. Overclocking the card just adds to the level of performance you can see when you push it. I found that this card overclocked right into the same envelope as the GTX 1070 FE card I have, so you see some consistency in the core and memory clock speeds the Pascal cards can reach. Boost clock speeds of between 2050MHz and 2062MHz are the range this particular card runs at, while the memory reaches right at 2260MHz. As we have seen in the past, the Pascal cards feature a factory boost clock speed that is well in excess of the factory stock speeds when the card is running under the thermal and power limits set by NVIDIA.

Read full article @ OCC

Nvidias GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card reviewed

Now that both Nvidia and AMD have made a beachhead on next-generation process technology with next-generation architectures throughout their product stacks, the fight for high-end graphics card supremacy seems ready to settle down into guerilla skirmishes. Witness the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti that Nvidia just launched. Although the chips aren't quite as big and the stakes aren't quite as high as they were among the Radeon R9 290X, the GeForce GTX 780, and the GeForce GTX 780 Ti during the 28-nm era, history echoes. AMD's Radeon RX Vega 56 basically tied a hot-clocked GeForce GTX 1070 in our inital review of AMD's latest, and had I tested those cards reference-for-reference, it's quite likely the GTX 1070 would have fallen behind. For a company that's on top of its GPU game like Nvidia is right now, that kind of rebeliousness won't stand. Time to Ti it up.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Razer BlackWidow Tournament Edition Chroma Keyboard V2 Review

With the BlackWidow Tournament Edition Chroma V2, we have conducted several gaming sessions in Secret World Legends, Black Desert Online, Kritika Online, Wolfenstein II The New Colossus and we were very happy about the key response time that is very similar to the CHERRY MX Speed switches. Other benefits of using this keyboard is its compact chassis, that leaves more room on the desktop, but also you will be able to keep the mouse even closer to the frequently used gaming keys. By using an actuation distance of just 1.2mm, you might need some time to adjust while doing regular office work such as writing documents, but after some time you will realize that this keyboard is great for such activities as well.

Read full article @ Mad Shrimps

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 12TB HDD Review

Seagate’s BarraCuda Pro line of hard drives are designed for high-performance desktop and gaming use. The new flagship drive of the range is recently released 12TB model and while there are larger capacity drives in the enterprise segment, this is the highest-capacity desktop hard drive available at the time of writing this review.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Seasonic Prime Gold & Platinum review: gold with platinum characteristics

Mid last year Seasonic introduced the technical high level Prime Titanium power supplies, which we were very happy about. At the start of this year the brand released versions that are more affordable; these Prime-models are still high-end power supplies, but Gold and Platinum certified. They are available in different variants; we tested all of them for this article.

All Prime power supplies are semi-passive, completely modular and offer a large number of connectors. With that the models in this series are suited for extremely varied purposes, varying from an average all-round game pc to high-end machines with a Skylake-X processor and SLI- or Crossfire set-up, to mining rigs that have six or eight graphics cards. The recent mining hype did not only result in a shortage in the world of graphics cards, but also renewed the interest in power supplies with a capacity of 1000 watts or more. Compared with their previous generation power supplies, Seasonic promises that the Prime series are more silent under load.



Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Thermaltake View 71 Tempered Glass Edition Review

It's big, it's glass, but don't worry it is tempered in the event should you decide to take a header into it in the middle of the night. It's Thermaltake's View 71 Full Tower Chassis and if you want to see inside your case and show off all those Frag-Harder lights, the View 71 maybe just be your ticket. But how good of a case is it?

Read full article @ HardOCP

Thinksound TS03+mic HD In-Ear Headphones Review

The brand new TS03+mic 8mm HD headphones by thinksound is yet another product aimed towards demanding users who are not only after audio quality and rich bass but also build quality and looks.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti AMP Extreme (8GB GDDR5) Review

Thanks to Zotac, we’ll be taking a look at the their GeForce GTX 1070 Ti AMP Extreme (8GB GDDR5) graphics card.

In recent months, the competition between AMD and Nvidia has been heating up, and although AMD’s recent release of their Radeon RX Vega 64/56 had mixed reactions, it’s still considered a threat to Nvidia’s dominant market share of desktop graphics card. To counter AMD’s effort … Nvidia has released the GeFocrce GTX 1070 Ti. In terms of performance, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will sit between the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070. See the comparison chart below.

Of course, not content with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 10710 Ti reference designs, Zotac has added extras such as the IceStorm Cooling with EKO Fans, Metallic ExoArmor with wraparound backplate, PowerBoost for stability, and SPECTRA LED Lighting System. For the AMP Extreme edition, Zotac has factory tested their GPUs to overclock up to an extra +150 MHz GPU core, and more than +200 MHz on the memory.

Read full article @ FunkyKit