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ASUS ROG Strix X99 Gaming Review
CHJGD 21000mAh Magnus Opus Premium Powerbank Review
Corsair HX850 Platinum (2017) Power Supply Review
Corsairs Force Series MP500 240GB NVMe SSD reviewed
Gigabyte Aero 15 Review
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2017) Review: Optimized Mobility
Palit GTX 1050 Ti KalmX 4 GB
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 570 4GB Video Card Review
Vulkan and OpenCL will merge into a single API



ASUS ROG Strix X99 Gaming Review

What sets the ROG Strix X99 Gaming apart from other motherboards is the broad swath of features that you get with the board. As a gaming-centric board, the whole of the feature set is geared toward the gaming experience. Starting with the hardware level build out on the board, you have ESD Guards to prevent inbound current spikes from damaging the board. Gamer's Guardian is a set of hardware level protections, including ASUS SafeSlot, ASUS' excellent Digi+ VRM, Q-Code diagnostic display, Supreme FX Sound, Q-Dimm slots with DRAM overvoltage protection, and the RGB LED lit PCIe Q-Slots. RGB lighting is all the rage now and ASUS is ready to support this feature set with AURA controlled RGB LED headers on board. Using AURA, you have the ability to manage attached RGB accessories.

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CHJGD 21000mAh Magnus Opus Premium Powerbank Review

If you own mobile devices compatible with Qualcomm's Quick Charge 3.0 or if you just want plenty of juice for even your large tablet the 21000mAh Magnus Opus premium powerbank by CHJGD is well worth your attention.

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Corsair HX850 Platinum (2017) Power Supply Review

Today we analyse one of the latest power supplies from fan favourite Corsair. I last looked at the HX range back in 2012 but Corsair have updated the newest HX model in key areas – its now a pure modular design with efficiency levels enhanced from Gold to Platinum levels. The HX range is also equipped with a +12V Rail selection to switch between single and multiple +12V rail modes.

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Corsairs Force Series MP500 240GB NVMe SSD reviewed

Corsair is throwing its hat into the NVMe SSD ring with the Force Series MP500 drive. We subjected this gumstick to our testing gauntlet to see how well the 240GB version fares against the rest of the formidable NVMe field.

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Gigabyte Aero 15 Review

The Aero 15 is the best laptop I've ever tested from Gigabyte. It's a reasonably portable 15.6-inch laptop with great internals (Core i7 quad core + GTX 1060 + M.2 SSD), making it suitable for both workstation and gaming use.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2017) Review: Optimized Mobility

Lenovo's venerable ThinkPad business oriented laptop line is punctuated by a couple of stand-out models, but perhaps none as striking, at least for a ThinkPad, as the ThinkPad X1 series. In its current lineup, Lenovo offers two models specifically that command attention perhaps more than others, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga that we recently revisited--with its 360-degree hinge and sweet OLED display--and the new 5th generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon that we'll be looking at here today. Though the 5th gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon may share a similar design signature and materials as the previous generation, Lenovo's 2017 version has been almost completely re-designed...

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Palit GTX 1050 Ti KalmX 4 GB

Palit's GeForce GTX 1050 Ti KalmX is the fastest passively cooled graphics card on the market. It also runs on PCI-Express slot power only, no additional power connector is needed, which makes the card an excellent candidate for a media PC or quiet small-form-factor system.

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PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 570 4GB Video Card Review

Last month AMD released their new Polaris based graphics card series that consists of the Radeon RX 580, RX 570, RX 560 and RX 550. AMD's board partners are slowly making it to market with cards based on these designs and today we'll be taking a look at the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 570 4GB GDDR5 graphics card. This devilish card can be yours if....

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Vulkan and OpenCL will merge into a single API

Graphics and compute in one open standard. Earlier this week the Khronos Group issued a press release concerning the availability of a finalised OpenCL 2.2 specification with SPIR-V 1.2. However, eagle eyed Scott Michaud at PCPer noticed something that slipped by many other tech reporters. A single line statement at the end of paragraph three signalled a very important update on the horizon; "We are also working to converge with, and leverage, the Khronos Vulkan API — merging advanced graphics and compute into a single API."

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