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10 CRM systems small businesses should know
Asus preparing three custom GTX 1060 graphics cards
Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1070 OC Review
Corsair LAPDOG Gaming Control Center
Focal Listen Review
Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Unboxing & Hands-On Preview
OCZ RD400A 512GB Solid State Drive Review
Radeon RX 480 Compatibility Mode Benchmarks in Crimson 16.7.1
Samsung SM961 512GB & 256GB SSD Review
Silverstone TD03-SLIM CPU Cooler Review: The Fit (Almost) Anywhere AIO
Updated: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Pascal Review



10 CRM systems small businesses should know

Our best CRM software round-up has been fully updated. This feature was first published in May 2014.Keeping up-to-date with your leads, prospects and contacts is a vital task for any business. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems help by tracking everything related to your customers: contacts, previous emails and calls, visits, the progress of individual sales or deals, and more.Having all this data to hand helps everyone in your business understand what customers need, keeping them happy, while marketing tools like mass emails and web form support could win you new orders.CRMs don't have to be expensive or complicated. There are free systems which integrate neatly with Google apps to use the data you've collected already, and spending something like £10-£15 (or $10-$15) per user per month will get you some serious business management power. But whatever you're after, we've put together a list of top CRM systems to help you get started.

Read full article @ Techradar

Asus preparing three custom GTX 1060 graphics cards

While it will probably sell the Founders Edition, just as all Nvidia partners, Asus has three custom GTX 1060 graphics cards lined up that will cover different price ranges and customers, including the GTX 1060 Turbo, GTX 1060 Dual and the GTX 1060 Strix Gaming version.
Currently, Asus did not want to talk about any details regarding the GPU clocks but we suspect that the GTX 1060 with three fans will carry a hefty overclock while the GTX 1060 Turbo will be more close to Nvidia US $249 MSRP.

Read full article @ Fudzilla

Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1070 OC Review

Asus brings ROG Strix goodness to GTX 1070, but there's a hefty price to pay. Now's got to be a good time to be an Nvidia partner. The GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 remain largely unchallenged at the top of the consumer GPU hierarchy, and better still, if you're going to be creating a custom cooler for the top-end part, it makes perfect sense to repurpose the same design for the second-tier solution. Two birds, one stone.

Recycling is a win-win, and Asus is doing exactly that with the ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1070 OC. The 298mm x 134mm x 40mm card looks and feels practically identical to the recently reviewed ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080, but at £500, the GTX 1070 OC variant is almost 30 per cent cheaper than its full-fat sibling.

Read full article @ Hexus

Corsair LAPDOG Gaming Control Center

Trying to game on your PC from a sofa or your bed can be a tricky task, especially when you have no desk to support your favourite peripherals. Corsair has come up with a solution that enables us to unlock the true potential of our living room PCs from our sofas, gaming in true comfort.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Focal Listen Review

You may not have heard of French audio company Focal, but they're actually a highly regarded speaker manufacturer. The company has since branched off to create headphones, sound bars and even car audio systems. The company's first pair of headphones, the Focal Spirit One, were lauded for their balanced sound and great build quality. So its successor, the Focal Listen, has some big shoes to fill. Thankfully, the Focal Listen continues the company's streak of making a great-sounding, well-built headphones for an affordable price.

Read full article @ TechRadar

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming

It’s crazy that even a month later, GTX 1080’s and GTX 1070’s are still hard to come by. On my last call with Nvidia, they kept talking about how production has been ramped up at a much faster rate than in the past. Hopefully, this will translate to more availability. While you wait though I did want to take a look at the Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming and see how it compares to the 1070 from MSI. I’m especially curious how the triple fan cooler will perform compared to the huge dual fans of the MSI. So today I’m going to take a look at the GTX 1070 G1 Gaming’s features then run it through our benchmark suite and see where it lands. Enjoy!

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Unboxing & Hands-On Preview

Our non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with NVIDIA forbids us from revealing any benchmark results. However, we were allowed to show off the yet-to-be-released graphics card publicly. So this is our unboxing and hands-on preview of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founder's Edition graphics card.

Read full article @ Tech ARP

OCZ RD400A 512GB Solid State Drive Review

As weird as it sounds, I know a guy who has an interesting tendency to look at other people's phone screen if it was within his visual range. Every time you get a notification, if he was sitting next to you, you know he would be reading it. However, this is not the worst thing he does. He would also read it out loud so everyone around you can hear it, followed by some awkward questions about the sender, as well as the context of your message. The first time this happened, I thought it was an isolated incident. However, after a while, I found out not only does he do this all the time, he would also do it to everyone else as well. Needless to say, I soon learned to keep my phone in my pocket if he was nearby. Now, that said, while I am slightly annoyed by what he does, I do have to clarify he does not have any bad intent. In fact, he does not even know he is annoying anybody. This brings about the question: Why are some people annoyed, or even offended, whenever he reads their text messages out loud? I think the reason is because not only is it an invasion of privacy that can often causes public embarrassment for the person receiving the message, even if they have nothing to hide, it is just not socially acceptable thing to do. There are cultural protocols in existence, and if you do something out of it, then what you are doing becomes inappropriate. When the Serial ATA protocol was first invented, it was made for mechanical hard drives that are nowhere near its bandwidth limit. However, when SSDs came along, even the third revision's 6Gb/s bandwidth was soon saturated, and became no longer appropriate in application. As such, a new protocol needs to be developed, and along came NVM Express in 2011. The NVMe protocol standardizes storage communication on PCI Express for high end SSDs, and today we have OCZ's latest RD400A in our labs today to see how it fares in the super speed realm. With groundbreaking performance promised in this new flagship, read on to see if a change in protocol along with a performance oriented hardware make it a worthy successor to the OCZ RevoDrive 350!

Read full article @ APH Networks

Radeon RX 480 Compatibility Mode Benchmarks in Crimson 16.7.1

Overnight we took a closer look at the new Crimson 16.7.1 video card driver that AMD released as it contains a number of fixes and improvements for the Radeon RX 480 graphics card. These drives improve the Radeon RX 480 video cards power distribution by lowering the current drawn from the PCIe bus and increasing the power drawn by the 6-pin PCIe connector to the systems power supply. There is also a new UI toggle under the Global Settings in the Radeon Software app that allows you to reduce the total power of the card, but it comes off by default. We ran some benchmarks to see how the fixes impacted performance!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Samsung SM961 512GB & 256GB SSD Review

Today we conclude our coverage of the Samsung SM961 NVMe, the fastest consumer SSD on the market today. The two mid-capacity products arrived after our initial coverage, and in this review we compare the 512GB and 256GB to the 950 Pro and other NVMe SSDs.

The Samsung SM961 is not an official retail product from the company, and its OEM status makes availability first come, first serve. We've already delivered a dish of SM961 1TB to the table, and today we follow that up with the main course and dessert, which comes in the form of the two most popular SSD capacities selling today.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Silverstone TD03-SLIM CPU Cooler Review: The Fit (Almost) Anywhere AIO

One of the good things about AIO CPU coolers is that you do not have to worry about component clearance for the most part on your motherboard. Since memory manufacturers have all but given up making sensibly sized RAM heatspreaders the standard,  AIO's have become the cooler of choice for many. While it provides plenty of clearance around the pump/block …
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Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Updated: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Pascal Review

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 is the company's Pascal-based flagship, but its upcoming GTX 1070 is bound to turn more heads with a $449 price tag and GeForce GTX Titan X-like performance.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware