Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

20 of the Worst PC Setups - June 2017
Acer Predator 21 X ($9,000) Gaming Laptop Review
AMD Radeon RX Vega leak: 8GB HBM2, GTX 1080 perf
Cherry MX Board Silent Keyboard Review
Creative Sound BlasterX Vanguard K08 Keyboard
DiRT 4 Review
Intel Skulltrail vs. Intel Skull Canyon
Intel SSD 545s Series Solid State Drive Review: One Of The Best SATA SSDs Available
Razer Lancehead Review
SteelSeries Rival 700 (w/ OLED display) Mouse Review
Update on the Intel X299 Platform VRM Disaster
WD My Passport SSD (256GB) Review

20 of the Worst PC Setups - June 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 June.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Acer Predator 21 X ($9,000) Gaming Laptop Review

The Acer Predator 21X features i7-7820HK, two GTX 1080s, and a 21" curved Wide FHD (2160x1080) IPS display with G-Sync and a 120Hz refresh rate, all for $9,000!

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

AMD Radeon RX Vega leak: 8GB HBM2, GTX 1080 perf

There's a significant rumor on AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega graphics card, with WCCFTech reporting that there's a new listing of RX Vega with the code 687F:C1, showing details on RX Vega's GPU clocks, HBM2 clocks and memory bandwidth.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Cherry MX Board Silent Keyboard Review

Being the successor to the classic G80-3000, the Cherry MX Board Silent G80-3000 comes equipped with genuine Cherry MX Silent switches. The MX Board Silent features a standard 104 international key layout and a simple exterior design. Built for an office environment, the MX Silent switches provide silent keystrokes to keep keyboard noise down to a minimum. This keyboard does come in two flavors: MX Silent Red and MX Silent Black. Cherry has sent Benchmark Reviews the one with MX Silent Black switches. Let’s take a look at what this keyboard has to offer.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

Creative Sound BlasterX Vanguard K08 Keyboard

The Sound BlasterX Vanguard K08 is the first keyboard from Creative and features OMRON mechanical switches, full 16.8M RGB backlighting, dedicated media and macro buttons, and a USB pass-through port. The hardware is supported by their Sound Blaster Connect software driver for lighting customization and performance tweaking.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

DiRT 4 Review

The graphics might not be the best you can find, but where they really matter is where you will find they look best. At maximum settings the game is completely playable for me, but I believe I will be turning settings down to improve performance. Over time I do think optimizations through patches and new drivers will help. Gameplay, to put it simply, is where I want it to be. The challenge is there and has been progressing nicely, for me at least. With a variety of events and rewards just to the Career Mode there is plenty to do, but the game offers even more with community challenges and the Your Stage feature for generating even more tracks to try.

Read full article @ OCC

Intel Skulltrail vs. Intel Skull Canyon

A battle of the ages - can the biggest and baddest setup from 2008 beat out the pocket-sized NUC? We ran each through a large variety of tests, from professional applications to gaming, to see just how far Intel's technology has come.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Intel SSD 545s Series Solid State Drive Review: One Of The Best SATA SSDs Available

Much of the current excitement in the consumer storage space involves blazing-fast NVMe solid state drives, but there are still hundreds of millions (if not billions) of systems packing SATA hard drives that would benefit greatly from an SSD upgrade. As such, many manufacturers continue to introduce SATA-based offerings like the recently-launched Intel SSD 545s series, which feature newer technologies in an effort to drive costs down and capacities up.

The Intel SSD 545s series is the first in the company’s SATA-based solid state storage line-up to feature 64-layer TLC 3D NAND...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Razer Lancehead Review

The Razer Lancehead is the company's latest ambidextrous mouse offering that comes in both wireless and wired iterations. The wireless version will set you back a whopping $140 for a top-of-the-line gaming mouse, while the wired Tournament Edition comes in at a more reasonable $80. We've had hands-on time with both versions for this review.

Read full article @ TechSpot

SteelSeries Rival 700 (w/ OLED display) Mouse Review

SteelSeries has earned itself a very good reputation for its peripherals, and what better way to put that to the test by analysing the company’s flagship mouse. The Rival 700 optical gaming mouse sports a DPI of up to 16,000, an integrated OLED display and can even vibrate. Is it worth the £74.99 asking price?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Update on the Intel X299 Platform VRM Disaster

We have some updated information on the X299 Platforms VRM issues from the same overclocker who initially discovered the issue, renowned overclocker der8auer. In an updated YouTube video, der8auer first updated his viewers with new information on his testing techniques, and basically concluded that all issues initially detected (throttling included) are still is an issue even after extensive testing, only in some instances it is difficult to detect not only if you are throttling, but even specifics such as what precisely is throttling. He goes into extensive detail, but a brief summary of the videos main points can be found below for your consumption.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

WD My Passport SSD (256GB) Review

The fastest My Passport drive to date. It feels like only yesterday that SSDs (solid-state drives) arrived to transform our storage experience, and for those who have made the switch there really has been no looking back. SSDs are faster, quieter, more resilient and smaller than traditional mechanical drives, making them the preferred solution if budget permits.

Many of today's computing devices, be it laptop, tablet or smartphone, come equipped with a solid-state drive as standard, but one area that lags behind is external storage, where high-capacity hard disks continue to offer plenty of appeal at mainstream prices. A 4TB USB-connected hard disk can be had for under £100, but if capacity isn't the top priority, there are genuine reasons to consider an external SSD.

Read full article @ Hexus