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AMD Agesa ABBA with Boost Clock Fix Tested on Ryzen 3900X
ASUS Z390 ROG Maximus XI Apex Motherboard Review
Asus Zenbook Pro Duo Review
Corsair M55 RGB Pro Review
How to Buy the Right 3D Printer: A 2019 Guide
HP Omen X 25f 240 Hz Gaming Monitor Review
MSI GK60 Vigor Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X 8 GB Graphics Card Review
MSI RX 5700 XT Gaming X Review
Orico Transparent Dual-Bay Docking Station Review
Patriot Viper 4 Blackout 16GB DDR4-3600 CL17 AMD Ryzen Memory Review
QSAN XCubeNAS XN7008RE NAS Server Review
Razer Huntsman Tournament Edition Keyboard Review
Seagate Exos X16 16TB HDD Review
Sega Genesis Mini Review
Viper Gaming VPN100 512GB Review



AMD Agesa ABBA with Boost Clock Fix Tested on Ryzen 3900X

AMD has finally responded to the Boost Clock issues on their Ryzen 3000 processors by releasing a fix for their AGESA BIOS firmware. We take a detailed look at the new clocking behavior and thoroughly test the update on the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X in our extensive application and game suite.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

ASUS Z390 ROG Maximus XI Apex Motherboard Review

In the PC hardware enthusiast community, there are few names as well known, or respected as ASUS and The Republic of Gamers. From casual gamers to professional overclockers, the ROG brand is trusted by gamers and enthusiasts worldwide. When you buy a product with the ROG seal of approval, there is a certain level of performance and quality you expect …

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Asus Zenbook Pro Duo Review

Asus’ dual-screen laptop is better designed and generally more useful than the competition. But there’s still lots of room for improvement.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Corsair M55 RGB Pro Review

Corsair's newest gaming mouse is a relatively cheap one. At $39.99, the M55 RGB Pro offers a fully ambidextrous design, PixArt PAW3327 optical sensor with a maximum resolution of 12,400 CPI, Omron switches rated for 50 million clicks, great-looking RGB lighting, and much more.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

How to Buy the Right 3D Printer: A 2019 Guide

Whether you're printing out a figurine, a smartphone case, a wrench or a door stop, you need to pick the right device for your needs and budget.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

HP Omen X 25f 240 Hz Gaming Monitor Review

HP gets into the super-fast gaming monitor market with the 240 Hz Omen X 25f with FreeSync and G-Sync Compatibility. It’s fit for gamers seeking top framerates.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

MSI GK60 Vigor Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

So that sums up our time with the GK60 Vigor. It's a pretty nice keyboard. The typing experience is what you'd come to expect from the Cherry MX switches. In my opinion, they're the best switches I have ever typed on. There's only one contender honestly, which is the Kailh Choc switches that were specially modified by Logitech for use on the G915 and G815 keyboard. I would have preferred the GK60 to have been built with more metal, as I'm a fan of heavier peripherals. That's probably why I like the G502 HERO so much, it has added weights.

Read full article @ OCC

MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X 8 GB Graphics Card Review

AMD’s Radeon RX 5700 series is finally getting the much-awaited custom variants and MSI is out with an entirely new lineup designed just for RDNA based graphics cards. Launched last month, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 lineup introduced very competitive prices for mainstream tier graphics cards which would go against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX lineup, now AIBs are further expanding the lineup with their own non-reference variants that offer better cooling performance and higher out of box clock speeds.

The Radeon RX 5700 series uplifted AMD by bringing a modern architecture design and moving away from their GCN design. This allows AMD to bring more streamlined graphics performance in modern workloads and gaming titles. AMD was already ahead of the curve in utilizing new techs such as HBM and smaller process nodes and Navi is no exception. Aside from the new graphics architecture, AMD has also introduced GDDR6 memory and a smaller 7nm process node for their mainstream lineup which is a big update from the 14nm process on Polaris and Vega series cards.

Read full article @ Wccftech

MSI RX 5700 XT Gaming X Review

After the first minutes with the new MSI RX 5700 XT a déjà-vu attacked me, because I suddenly had the legendary MSI R9 390 X 8G in mind again. Fast thing, a bit hot and by no means a despiser of food, on the contrary. Well, as you know, power comes from fuel and that’s why MSI has aligned itself to it. The concept to bring the fastest RX 5700 XT on the market so far has certainly paid off. I can spoil that much. Of course, we’re still talking about the possible consequences.

In times when school-age girls sail the Atlantic because of the climate, such a current-red packaging of course always makes itself a bit bad. That’s why in a second benchmark run I also trimmed this card to the state of the reference card using our MorePowerTool in order to recognize the actual character behind the construction. The proposed silent solution about MSI’s new Dragon Center would certainly also be an option, but since the software also changes Windows’ energy plan, among other things, I’m leaving it at that. MPT and done!

Read full article @ IgorsLAB

Orico Transparent Dual-Bay Docking Station Review

Orico recently released a whole series of transparent devices and today it is time to take a look at another one of them: The dual-bay USB 3.0 docking station with the model number 6239U3. Orico Dual-Bay Docking Station The new transparent dual-bay docking station from Orico is available in two versions.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Patriot Viper 4 Blackout 16GB DDR4-3600 CL17 AMD Ryzen Memory Review

Already some time has passed since AMD Ryzen 3000 processors premiere, so it’s time to present the new Patriot Viper memory. In this review, we will show you the Viper 4 Blackout memory kit which contains two 8GB modules and is rated at DDR4-3600 so a perfect speed for the latest AMD processors.

The new color scheme of the Blackout memory makes it look fresh, even though we have already seen this design in previous Viper 4 memory kits. These little changes give us an exciting new product, and I feel like many gamers will be curious to see how it works.

Read full article @ FunkyKit

QSAN XCubeNAS XN7008RE NAS Server Review

Excellent build quality, blazing fast 1GbE/10GbE performance, superior data protection, redundant power supplies and the ability to add up to 3200TB worth of storage space via expansion units are just some of the things that make the XCubeNAS XN7008RE by QSAN the ideal NAS for offices, small businesses and organizations.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Razer Huntsman Tournament Edition Keyboard Review

Razer’s latest Huntsman is compact, and packs a new optical switch with a 1mm actuation point. Is it worth the $130 price?

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Seagate Exos X16 16TB HDD Review

It is an absolute beast of a hard drive, with 16TB capacity, but can it perform as well?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Sega Genesis Mini Review

Sega has managed to condense decades of nostalgia into a tidy package well worthy of a place under your TV. This is the Sega Genesis Mini.

The Sega Genesis Mini (or Sega Mega Drive Mini for those of us outside the U.S.) is the latest in a surge of attempts to bank on millennial nostalgia, particularly those who grew up in the late 80s or 90s. The original Sega Genesis launched in 1988, and became a wildly successful home console that helped mainstream the industry.

Read full article @ Windows Central

Viper Gaming VPN100 512GB Review

M.2 SSDs and heat have been an ongoing issue for a while now. They don’t always need to worry about heat, but they often end up in areas like behind a motherboard where there is no airflow or right under your hot video card that is spewing out heat from the bottom right on to the drive. Motherboards have added heatsinks but a lot of them are more like metal covers that hold heat in. On our Crush build a few years ago I had issues with our drive overheating and adding small stick on heatsinks was the solution. That said when heat isn’t an issue heatsinks aren’t needed at all. But all of this has ended up with a few companies bringing out SSDs with heatsinks like the SN750 that I took a look a Well, Viper Gaming sent over their VPN100 a while back and today I’m going to check it out and see how the drive performs as well as how well the heatsink it ships with performs.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews