Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

20 of the Worst PC Setups – April 2017
Acer Aspire VX 15 Budget Gaming Laptop Review
AMD Radeon RX Vega specs leaked, a shy monster?
ASRock X370 Taichi AMD AM4 Mainboard Test
Asus eeePC + Xubuntu 16.04 - Engage!
ASUS ROG Maximus IX Extreme motherboard review
Corsair Carbide SPEC-04 Review
G.Skill Flare X 16GB DDR4-3200 (F4-3200C14D-16GFX) Review
Patriot Viper V570 RBG Laser Gaming Mouse Review: Red, Green and Blue
Raijintek Asterion Plus Aluminium Case – Black Window
Streaming devices review: 10 capture cards tested

20 of the Worst PC Setups – April 2017

I’m sure at some point you’ve had a bad PC setup. Maybe moving into a new place, waiting for a new desk to arrive or you just ran out of room. I can remember my horrible PC setups from when I was living at the dorms in college. If you have ever ventured over to the Shitty Battlestations sub-reddit you will find a lot of horrible PC setups. We will are going to pick 20 each month and feature them as 20 of the Worst PC setups for that month. Here are some of the bad ones from April.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Acer Aspire VX 15 Budget Gaming Laptop Review

Armed with an Intel Core i5-7300HQ and an Nvidia GTX 1050, Acer aspires to provide a well-rounded entry-level laptop. Does the Aspire VX 15 fulfill that role?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

AMD Radeon RX Vega specs leaked, a shy monster?

We now know that AMD have some interesting things planned for Vega, including GPU sensors, partial resident textures, network visualization, non-contiguous VRAM mapping, and more. But it's the internal specs of Vega 10 that we're all here for, so without getting your excitement meter up too much - please, take some of this salt and throw it over your shoulder. Vega 10 will supposedly rock 64 next-gen compute units, each with 64 GCN stream processors - with a total of 4096 next-gen GCN stream processors in 4 divisions, each with a single shader engine. Every 1024 stream processor shader engine has two Asynchronous Compute Units, one render back end and 4 texture blocks. Inside of each texture block are 16 texture mapping units, providing a total of 256 TMUs - while Vega 10 has the ability of supporting 8 independent work threads simultaneously. With Vega 10 clocked at 1.5GHz, we could expect a monstrous 12.5 TFLOPs of FP32 compute performance, and the high-speed 8GB of HBM2 with what I think will be the start of the show in High Bandwidth Cache (HBC), AMD could have one of the fastest graphics cards on the market with its Radeon RX Vega.

Read full article @ TweakTown

ASRock X370 Taichi AMD AM4 Mainboard Test

Heute haben wir mit dem ASRock X370 Taichi ein weiteres AMD Ryzen Mainboard im Test. Das High-End AM4 Mainboard wurde im OC Test mit einer AMD Ryzen 5 1600 und einer AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU übertaktet und konnte die hohen Ergebnisse aus den vorigen Mainboard Tests nochmals übertreffen. Zudem werden wir im folgenden X370 Test die AMD Chipsatz Unterschiede von X370, B350 und A320 erklären, die bei dem AMD Ryzen PC Kauf wichtig sind.

Read full article @ OCInside.de

Asus eeePC + Xubuntu 16.04 - Engage!

Old but gold: Here's a review of Xubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus running on an eight-year-old Asus eeePC netbook, covering long but successful upgrade process, reuse of programs and settings, applications, media playback and streaming, Samba access, printing, performance, responsiveness, multi-tasking, resource usage, hardware compatibility, amazing battery life, other observations, and more. Should be interesting.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

ASUS ROG Maximus IX Extreme motherboard review

Got 600 bucks to spend? We review the flagship ASUS Z270 motherboard, the ASUS Maximus IX Extreme from the Republic of Gamers line. The board boasts everything you want and need, has a deep and profoung AURA LED lighting system, CPU VRM area water-block (monoblock) and then some!

Read full article @ Guru3D

Corsair Carbide SPEC-04 Review

The Carbide SPEC-04 is the latest mid-tower case from Corsair, which offers plenty of interior space in order to build gaming systems. Furthermore there is also enough space for small all-in-one water coolers on the front and at the rear. Apart from that, the Carbide SPEC-04 features quite an aggressive design and rather edgy lines. The Corsair Carbide SPEC-04 is available in three different color options for a price of 65 euro.

Read full article @ ocaholic

G.Skill Flare X 16GB DDR4-3200 (F4-3200C14D-16GFX) Review

Faster memory for Ryzen? Yes please. AMD Ryzen processors are now entrenched firmly in the PC firmament. They offer particularly appealing performance-per-dollar if you are able to harness all of the cores and threads.

It is usual to equip hugely multithreaded chips with lots of onboard cache that helps to keep the beasts full of data. And Ryzen is no exception, as the eight-core, 16-thread CPUs have a wholesome 16MB of speedy L3 cache to tap into.

Yet teasing out the last morsel of performance means running system memory at higher-than-default speeds. The gains may well be marginal, truth be told, though the small price premium for, say, DDR4-3,200 memory over DDR4-2,666 should be worth it.

Read full article @ Hexus

Patriot Viper V570 RBG Laser Gaming Mouse Review: Red, Green and Blue

It seems that everything is coming as an RGB device now a days even mice. Mice has been a primary direct input devices since day one of computers. Even now in the world that is filled with virtual reality and virtual controllers we still need mice.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Raijintek Asterion Plus Aluminium Case – Black Window

The Raijintek Asterion is a lovely looking chassis, it is crafted from aluminum and inside there is enough physical depth to install a CPU cooler up to 180mm high. There is also the option for either a closed liquid cooling loop or even custom loop with space at both the top and front with room for a 360mm Radiator. The Asterion Plus features a hinged door system for ease of access on both sides of the case, something we delve into later in the review.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Streaming devices review: 10 capture cards tested

Streaming is extremely popular and also accessible thanks to free programs. However, capture cards can offer advantages in certain cases in terms of performance, image quality and features. In this article we explain why and compare ten models.

It's been possible for ages to stream with free programs such as Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). These days streaming is even easier and with a minimal impact on performance if you use the built-in encoder of your graphics card. You can even record in Windows 10 by using the built-in game-recorder. This is definitely a huge plus, especially for inexperienced streamers, since you don't have to invest anything extra to start streaming.

Streaming without separate hardware is perfectly doable, however it does come with a couple of disadvantages. In short, a capture card gives you better performance, image quality and stability in theory. Furthermore, such a device also gives you more features if you want to stream from a console.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info