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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Motherboard Review
AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra and Live Gamer 4K Review
Crucial P1 NVME SSD Review
Das Keyboard 5Q Review
DREVO BladeMaster TE Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboard Review
Gigabyte Aorus P850W Modular Power Supply Review
Gigabyte M.2 PCIe SSD 256GB Solid State Drive Review
Google Pixel 3 Review
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (Kaby Lake-R) Laptop Review
MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Gaming Z Review
Seagate IronWolf and Pro 14TB NAS HDD Review
The Best Entry Level Gaming CPU: Athlon 200GE vs. Pentium G5400 vs. Ryzen 3 2200G



ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Motherboard Review

Intel has come a long way with their mainstream processor platform. The platform has largely seen stagnation in terms of core and thread count over many generations since the first Core series CPU that launched back in 2010 but last year brought a big change to the CPU giant.

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AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra and Live Gamer 4K Review

Its no secret that streaming video games on the internet is immensely popular now due to the rise of services dedicated to game streaming like Twitch and Mixer. A combination of commodity capture cards and software capture solutions have made it easier than ever to start streaming. 
 As internet speeds increase (at least in some parts of the world) combined with newly available capture hardware, its only a matter of time before we start to see more of a push towards 4K streaming in the coming years.

Read full article @ PC Perspective

Crucial P1 NVME SSD Review

NVME is the reigning kind of solid state storage and prices are getting more affordable than ever. Today, we're looking at the very first NVME drive from Crucial, one of the world's leaders in DRAM and SSD manufacturing, with the P1 NVME M.2 solid state drive. We've seen an impressive showing from Crucial so far this year. Does the P1 continue the trend? Join us as we find out!

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Das Keyboard 5Q Review

Das Keyboard, known for high quality classic design mechanical keyboards, takes a giant leap forward the technology train by introducing cloud-connected Q-series keyboards. The Das Keyboard 5Q allows for internet-based monitoring and control of your life, while also ticking the feature list of RGB backlighting, an exclusive switch, and software driver support.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

DREVO BladeMaster TE Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboard Review

Thanks to an overwhelming crowdfunding campaign the retail version of the BladeMaster TE Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboard by DREVO is finally with us.

Tenkeyless mechanical gaming keyboard sales are on the rise lately so as expected many both well established and rather new gaming peripheral manufacturers have launched their very own models lately in an effort to try and get a piece of the pie. Now although i never owned a tenkeyless gaming keyboard nor did we ever used one in the lab (aside of course the ones we test/review) it's a fact that there are many people out there who may not have enough space on their desks for regular sized keyboards (some may never even use the numeric keypad so that could also be a reason as to why they'd choose a tenkeyless model) or who may prefer a shorter distance between the keyboard and the mouse. With the help of crowdfunding via Kickstarter DREVO recently launched their somewhat unique BladeMaster TE and PRO Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboards (both wired and wireless) and today with us we have the wired version which we've been using for almost two weeks.

Founded by a group of Gamers, Programmers and Designers, DREVO is a young brand which focuses on gaming PC components, peripherals and accessories products. With the purpose of exploring new technology, new workmanship and providing a new experience, we continuously create super cool tech products. "Game With Cool Tech" is our slogan. DREVO is working hard to provide the ultimate gaming experience for each global customer. “No added hassle, pure gaming fun” is a consensus here. DREVO is working hard to convince everyone that it is very simple to have fun with gaming. The R&D team at DREVO don’t just design products, they design experiences. Each and every detail is crafted after some well-designed research based on user requirements. Every product that comes out of our stable undergo strict quality checks to ensure that you have a smooth gaming experience.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Gigabyte Aorus P850W Modular Power Supply Review

Gigabyte has one of the best-known gaming brands with their Aorus range of products. With a surprisingly large range of products on offer, they are a brand that has an excellent reputation. Not just for a name, but also the top level of performance that their various products bring to the market.

With this in mind, we take a look at their Aorus P850w. A fully modular power supply offering 850w of power. Based on this, it should, at least on paper, be an excellent option for nearly any gaming PC. In addition to all this though, it also comes with gold certification meaning a very high level of performance efficiency.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Gigabyte M.2 PCIe SSD 256GB Solid State Drive Review

The crowded and competitive SSD market means the Gigabyte M.2 PCIe SSD 256GB is a decent option, but not necessarily an outstanding choice in a sea of equally or more desirable products.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Google Pixel 3 Review

The Pixel 3 is Google’s third generation in-house design, meant to showcase the company’s own view of what an Android device should be, whilst fully embracing Google’s first-party software applications and services. The one thing Google’s Pixel phones have become synonymous with is the camera experience. The Pixel 3 continues this focal point of the line-up, and promises to be “the best smartphone camera”, period. We’ll dive into the phone and verify Google claims, including an extensive camera comparison between all of this year’s major camera shooters.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (Kaby Lake-R) Laptop Review

Today we are taking a look at one of Lenovo's prized products, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga. The notebook we have in for review today is the 3rd Generation of the ThinkPad X1 Yoga line and features 8th generation Core i5 series processor, as well as many other notable features.

The new processors offer more cores in the same power package as their predecessors, which should greatly improve productivity. Let's take a look at this stylish notebook.

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MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Gaming Z Review

While writing this introduction, I just finished testing the actual product. I am still a little amazed. join us as we review out what could be the most exquisite GeForce RTX 2070 of them all, the Gaming Z edition from MSI. It cools great, it's incredibly silent and most of all, it's factory tweak out of the box extremely well. This card is definitely one to check out.

The 3rd RTX card also comes with the Turing architecture of the new GPUs, offering a fundamental change in the graphics card arena as next to your normal shading engine, NVIDIA has added RT (Raytracing) cores, as well as Tensor (AI), cores onto the new GPUs, and these are active. Is Turing is the start of the next 20 years of gaming graphics? Well, that all depends on the actual adoption rate in the software houses, they guys and girls that develop games and a dozen or so RTX games are in development and a dozen or so announced titles will make use of deep learning DLSS running utilizing the Tensor cores. For the new RTX series, it's mostly about Raytracing though. So welcome to a long row of RTX reviews. We start off with the reference cards and will follow with the AIB cards as for whatever reason NVIDIA figured it to be an okay thing for them to launch everything at once. First a quick recap of what's tested in this article, a bit of architecture and then we'll dive into real-world testing of course. NVIDIA last month announced the 499 USD GeForce RTX 2070. This 185 Watt car will have 2304 shader procs. It has a 1410 MHz base clock and a 1710 MHz boost clock for the standard founder version. The AIB cards are allowed to be clocked at 1620 MHz on that boost frequency. The card has 8GB of the now familiar GDDR6 memory running a 256-bit wide bus (448 GB/s), the price is 499 USD and 599 for the founders' version. That means the cheapest of cheap AIB card will sit at the 500 USD marker, realistically though we expect them all to sit on the 550~600 USD ranges.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

Seagate IronWolf and Pro 14TB NAS HDD Review

We don't hear a lot from hard disk drive companies these days, at least not from the actual drive side. Seagate recently released updated the Guardian Series models with the 2018 update. The annual update is similar to what happened last year, a capacity increase and another step away from the competition.

The Guardian Series splits into three consumer-facing product lines, Barracuda, IronWolf, and Skyhawk. Today we're looking at the IronWolf line that actually splits again with Pro and non-Pro models. Now that we got past the complicated breakdown on what we're actually talking about today, we can talk about what's new.

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The Best Entry Level Gaming CPU: Athlon 200GE vs. Pentium G5400 vs. Ryzen 3 2200G

Not that long ago we reviewed the $60 Athlon 200GE CPU and we've been wanting to come back to it for more. So we've dug out the plucky little Zen based chip and for comparison grabbed the Ryzen 3 2200G and Intel's Pentium G5400.

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