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AMDs Ryzen 5 CPUs reviewed, part two
ASRock delivers with an X299 mITX motherboard
Asus H110M-A M.2 Motherboard Review
Asus ROG Strix GL702ZC (Ryzen, Polaris, FreeSync) laptop demoed
Best of Computex 2017
Best Of Computex 2017
Bitfenix Shogun Case Windowed Tower (Asus AURA RGB SSD Bays)
Computex 2017: Gigabyte's latest and greatest gear
Five Years Without Facebook
Futuremark PCMark 10
Intel Announces SSD DC P4501 Low-Power NVMe SSD With 3D NAND
Intel Core i9 Skylake-X Processor Preview
Intel's Core i9-7980XE 18C/36T processor: 2018 release?
QNAP brings Ryzen 7 to NAS boxes
ROCCAT Kone Pure Owl-Eye Optical Mouse Review
Test Driving Futuremark's PCMark 10 Benchmark
The Apple WWDC 2017 Live Blog



AMDs Ryzen 5 CPUs reviewed, part two

Part one of our AMD Ryzen 5 review proved these CPUs have game, but what happens when we have to put the toys away and get back to work? We ran all four Ryzen 5 CPUs through a wide range of productivity testing to find out.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

ASRock delivers with an X299 mITX motherboard

Computex 2017 - ASRock delivered the only X99 motherboard to the consumer market and it seems that they have done it again with the X299 chipset. The socket will support LGA2011 mounting.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Asus H110M-A M.2 Motherboard Review

Readers request, and we deliver: Asus' low-cost H110M-A M.2 takes on two competing samples from MSI. Is it the better-value choice?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Asus ROG Strix GL702ZC (Ryzen, Polaris, FreeSync) laptop demoed

The Strix GL702ZC is the first ever AMD CPU powered laptop from Asus ROG. Here's another eye opening story from the floors of Computex 2017. Asus ROG has produced AMD motherboards before, but never a laptop featuring an AMD CPU. At Computex Asus ROG showcased the Strix GL702ZC gaming laptop that not only features an AMD Ryzen CPU, but also a top of the line Radeon Polaris GPU, and a FreeSync display panel. Of course Asus ROG hasn't neglected supporting components and the laptop also boasts expansive fast RAM options, M.2 NVMe SSD support, and other premium modern technologies.

Read full article @ Hexus

Best of Computex 2017

Computex is the third major show we attend this year, and it looks like it's here to remind us about all the innovation and work happening in the hardcore computing arena. After all, while mainstream PC sales have stagnated, the segment occupied by computer enthusiasts, gamers, and e-sports has continued to flourish. Computex is PC power user haven.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Best Of Computex 2017

The Tom's Hardware team pounded the pavement in Taipei to bring you the best, most interesting, and most promising products and technology from Computex 2017.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Bitfenix Shogun Case Windowed Tower (Asus AURA RGB SSD Bays)

The Bitfenix Shogun is certainly a looker. The top and bottom are wrapped around with thick curved aluminium panels and the case incorporates high quality tempered glass on either side to showcase the build. It is roomy enough inside to accommodate an EATX build with 360mm or 280mm radiators at the top panel, 280mm or 240mm at the front and 140mm or 120mm at the rear. At £144.95 is this a chassis you should be shortlisting for a new system build in 2017?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Computex 2017: Gigabyte's latest and greatest gear

Gigabyte's Computex booth was filled to the brim with X299 motherboards, new laptops, gaming peripherals, and more. We documented all of these new goodies for your enjoyment.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Five Years Without Facebook

In 2012 I wrote an article about leaving Facebook. I've kept this stance for about five years now, but an accumulation of several small things during this time have had me questioning whether or not abandoning the social network was the brilliant idea I once thought it was.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Futuremark PCMark 10

PCMark 10 is the latest iteration of Futuremark's popular full system benchmarking suite. It supports Windows 10 and runs quicker and more efficiently than the previous version. Futuremark also updated the tests to better reflect real world scenarios used by office and home professionals alike, including digital content creation, a new gaming test group, and 3D modeling/simulations.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Intel Announces SSD DC P4501 Low-Power NVMe SSD With 3D NAND

A month ago, Intel unveiled a new generation of enterprise SSDs based on their 3D TLC NAND and powered by a new generation of Intel NVMe SSD controllers. Intels first NVMe controller—introduced with the SSD DC P3700—had a great run, but its been showing its age for a while now. The new controller used on the P4500 and P4600 enables higher performance despite the new drives using 3D TLC NAND compared to the P3700s 20nm planar MLC, and despite the newer controller having only 12 flash channels instead of 18.

More significantly, Intels second-generation NVMe controller is much smaller and more power-efficient, allowing it to be used in product segments that Intels first generation controller literally couldnt fit in. Intels new SSD DC P4501 is a lower-power take on their new generation of NVMe technology, putting Intel controllers into M.2 and 2.5" 7mm U.2 SSDs for the first time. With capacities from 500GB to 4TB, the P4501 delivers somewhat lower performance than the P4500 and P4600, but with reduced power consumption and substantially higher density.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Intel Core i9 Skylake-X Processor Preview

In this technology preview we'll have talk a little more about what Intel has announced at Computex, Kaby Lake-x and Skylake-X processors with a spread from 4 to 18 core processors on that new X299 platform.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Intel's Core i9-7980XE 18C/36T processor: 2018 release?

Intel might have unveiled their new Core i9 range of processors at Computex 2017, led by the flagship Core i9-7980XE processor and its 18C/36T of power. Except, that monster will not see the light of day until 2018 according to an ASUS representative.

Read full article @ TweakTown

QNAP brings Ryzen 7 to NAS boxes

Reckons price-to-performance ratio makes it great for high-end NAS. High-end NAS units tend to have powerful CPUs at their helm, helping buffer operations when eight to 16 drives are in a box. Historically, these have been powered by Intel processors, typically the Core series or, looking to the extreme end of the market, Xeons.

However, the recent release of AMD Ryzen 7 processors have brought high-end performance down to a more agreeable price point. This is why Qnap, a leading NAS provider is the first to use Ryzen 7 chips in its six, eight, and 12-bay NAS boxes known as TS-x77.

Read full article @ Hexus

ROCCAT Kone Pure Owl-Eye Optical Mouse Review

The ROCCAT Kone Pure Owl-Eye is everything we loved from the Kone EMP in an agile package.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Test Driving Futuremark's PCMark 10 Benchmark

​Futuremark is a well-respected provider of computer benchmark applications. Their PCMark and 3DMark benchmarks have been around for almost 20 years, and provide a good indication of the system performance for various workloads. Today, Futuremark is launching PCMark 10, their seventh major update to the PCMark series of benchmarks first launched in 2002. PCMark 10 builds upon the PCMark 8 platform, adds a few workloads and streamlines the rest in order to present a vendor-neutral, complete, and easy-to-use benchmark for home and office environments. Futuremark provided us with a preview copy of the benchmark, and we took it for a test drive. This piece presents some of our impressions with the benchmark, and points out areas where it excels, and where it could do with some improvement.

Read full article @ Anandtech

The Apple WWDC 2017 Live Blog

Were here in sunny San Jose, California for Apples annual World Wide Developers Conference. A show of both hardware and software, its Apples keynote event of the year.

Read full article @ Anandtech