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3 Tips for Browsing Reddit Like a Pro
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Rears Its Head On Geekbench
Arctic Freezer 33 TR CPU Cooler Review
ASRock H370, H310 and B360 motherboards leaked
ASUS ROG Strix Flare Mechanical Keyboard Revealed
Cooler Master MASTERAIR MA610P CPU Cooler Review
Dell XPS 13 2018 (9370) Preview
Fractal Design Meshify C Mini Review - Meshify C Gets Smaller
Intel SSD DC P4510 NVMe PCIe Review: Blistering 3GB/s Transfers, With Low Latency
MATE 1.20 Review - Are you all right, mate?
Phanteks Glacier C350i CPU Water Block Review
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ launched to celebrate Pi Day
Revisiting the Radeon R9 280X / HD 7970
Seagate IronWolf Pro 12TB Review: The Best NAS Drive?
TekQ Rapide 240GB Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSD Review
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Performance Analysis



3 Tips for Browsing Reddit Like a Pro

From keyboard shortcuts to URL tricks, there are a lot of ways you can get through the ton of time-wasting posts on Reddit you know you dont want to miss, and get back to doing other things. Here are just a few. 1. Quickly Jump Between Subreddits The Chrome extension Reddit Hyper Jump makes it easy to jump between subreddits without having to scroll around the page. Once its installed, just go to Reddit, use the keyboard shortcut Alt + R and type in the name of the subreddit you want to go to and hit enter.

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AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Rears Its Head On Geekbench

As we grow ever closer to the launch fo AMD's 2000-series launch, details and scores are expected to be revealed in increasingly faster fashion. Today, some Geekbench benchmarks (reportedly) of an AMD 2700X CPU have appeared, shedding some light on the expected performance - and performance improvement - of the new AMD top-of-the-line CPU.

The Ryzen 7 2700X CPU that has been tested achieved scores of 4746 single core and 24772 multi-core, which show some interesting improvements over the original flagship Ryzen 7 1800X. The official Geekbench baseline scores for AMD's 1800X are 4249 and 21978, respectively, for single and multicore benchmarks. This means that the new 2700X, which is expected to carry an increased 100 MHz base (3.7 GHz vs 3.6 GHz) and 350 MHz higher boost (4.35 GHz vs 4.0 GHz) over the 1800X, is pulling some additional performance from some micro-architecture refinements, and not just from the added clockspeed. The mobo used, an ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero motherboard, is a X370-series chipset motherboard, so while it supports the new AMD CPUs, it might not fully support all their SenseMI Gen 2 improvements. From what can be gleaned, the Ryzen 7 2700X ran at its default base frequency of 3.7GHz, and the accompanying 16GB memory ran at 2.4GHz.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Arctic Freezer 33 TR CPU Cooler Review

A staple denizen on the PC-cooling and thermal-solution landscape for many years, Arctic has produced countless new products in the form of system fans, CPU coolers, and syringes full of thermal compound to be used by the PC DIY masses the world ‘round. The Freezer 33 TR represents a sporty segment of the Arctic Freezer CPU cooler line for PC-gaming- and performance-minded users, aimed directly at a cooling market willing to pay for striking looks and purpose-built quality.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

ASRock H370, H310 and B360 motherboards leaked

Fresh photos from ASRock headquarters. ASRock B360 Pro4 ASRock B360M-HDV ASRock B360M-ITX/ac ASRock H370 Pro4 ASRock H370M-ITX/ac ASRock H310M-ITX/ac ASRock H310M-HDVP ASRock H310M-HDV ASRock H310M-G/M.2 ASRock H310M-DGSKee.

Read full article @ VideoCardz.com

ASUS ROG Strix Flare Mechanical Keyboard Revealed

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the availability of the *ROG Strix Flare RGB mechanical gaming keyboard*! Read all about the ROG Strix Flare here!

Read full article @ Tech ARP

Cooler Master MASTERAIR MA610P CPU Cooler Review

Round two of CPU cooling options is upon us, and is yet another cooler to be released within the Masterair Series. Recently looking at its little brother, the MA410P, we hope this larger, better equipped, tower cooler leaves us with a more pleasant feeling at the end.

Some of the things that set the two coolers apart are things like a full fan shroud in it, increasing the number of heat pipes, installing a pair of fans this time, and even offering a much more substantial pre-cooler on the base. In principle, if on the same tower as the MA410P, things look promising out of the gate for what we are about to see.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Dell XPS 13 2018 (9370) Preview

We managed to get our hands on the new *Dell XPS 13 2018*. Here is our hands-on preview, as well as the key features, specifications and pictures of the Dell XPS 13 2018!

Read full article @ Tech ARP

Fractal Design Meshify C Mini Review - Meshify C Gets Smaller

When Fractal Design launched the Meshify C ATX case we knew it was only a matter of time before we saw a smaller version and six months later we have the grandly titled Fractal Design Meshify C Mini TG Dark Tint. We might try to jazz up this review and claim we’re looking at an entirely new case but the truth of the situation is that Meshify C Mini is a Micro-ATX version of the Meshify C.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Intel SSD DC P4510 NVMe PCIe Review: Blistering 3GB/s Transfers, With Low Latency

Intel has released a dizzying array of solid state storage products over the last few weeks. We recently took a look at a pair of Intel Optane SSD 800P series drives for enthusiast desktop and mobile systems and also tinkered with the impressive Intel SSD DC P4600 series enterprise-class NVMe drive. Today, we’ll stay in the enterprise space and inspect a pair of Intel’s recently-announced SSD DC P4510 series drives, which target cloud storage applications with impressive throughput and latency characteristics.

The Intel SSD DC P4510 series is an evolution of the existing SSD DC P4500, but features some newer technologies and highly-optimized and re-tooled firmware to boost throughput and minimize latency with the 64-layer TLC 3D NAND at the heart of the drives...

Read full article @ HotHardware

MATE 1.20 Review - Are you all right, mate?

The past and the present, coming together. I've written a review of the MATE 1.20 desktop environment, covering installation setup, look and feel, customization, visual and functional niggles, general usage, application stack, stability, performance, comparison to Gnome 3 and Xfce, other observations, and more. Take a look.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

Phanteks Glacier C350i CPU Water Block Review

With Phanteks getting ready to launch new acetal top versions of their Glacier C350i CPU water block soon, we take a detailed look at the acrylic top version of the same. This was the product that launched their entry to custom water cooling - with aluminum side covers, integrated RGB lighting, a user friendly installation, and low coolant flow restriction providing a new, and yet fresh option for DIY enthusiasts.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ launched to celebrate Pi Day

Revised, faster processing, faster networking RasPi is on sale now for $35. On what a certain segment of society refer to as 'Pi Day', the Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. As is usual with RasPi product launches, the hardware is available immediately and at the same price as the predecessor device. This is the best RasPi ever in terms of performance and the Foundation has made key changes in a number of areas which will be immediately appreciable.

Read full article @ Hexus

Revisiting the Radeon R9 280X / HD 7970

Continuing along with revisiting some of our favorite old graphics cards, today we'll be checking back in with the Radeon R9 280X, which is also to say that we're checking back in with the 7970 GHz Edition, both of which are essentially a factory overclocked Radeon HD 7970, so we'll technically be revisiting that, too, the very same card we first reviewed in December 2011!

Read full article @ TechSpot

Seagate IronWolf Pro 12TB Review: The Best NAS Drive?

Seagate's upstream 7,200-RPM NAS and server series features RV sensors and supports arrays with up to sixteen drives.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

TekQ Rapide 240GB Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSD Review

I'm sure TekQ isn't a vendor many of us have heard of. I myself had not heard of TekQ until they approached me to do this review. In researching this company for this article, I did find a solid product history that includes MFi certified flash drives an entire uCable lineup that allows consumers to go from USB to Lightning or USB to microUSB or USB-C. Their biggest move to date is the product we are talking about today, the Rapide Thunderbolt 3 SSD.

For those of you that have read my articles in the past, you know I have been testing Thunderbolt storage devices from day one. With Thunderbolt 3, we have seen an emergence of high performance portable SSDs hit the market.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Performance Analysis

Having additional GPUs may have proven useful for this work since we leapt from barely playable on the GTX 770 to max settings on the GTX 980. The GTX 1080 naturally surpassed the GTX 980 and the RX Vega 64 beat them all, both at stock and with the undervolt and power limit. Based on this sampling of performance data, if you could pick any GPU to play Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on, the RX Vega 64 would be the best of those test. However, you can very comfortably go with something older and cheaper, like the GTX 980 without compromising a setting. To my mind, that is pretty impressive for a modern game with modern graphics.

Read full article @ OCC