Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

11 Essential MySQL Update Command Examples
20 of the Worst PC Setups - May 2016
AMD Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 Revealed
Budget Game PC - June 2016
Corsair K65 RGB RAPIDFIRE Keyboard Review
Corsair Sabre RGB Review
G.Skill Trident Z 32GB DDR4-3200 (F4-3200C14Q-32GTZ) Review
GAMDIAS Hermes RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review
GeForce GTX 1080 2-way SLI Review
HTC 10 Review: An impressive return to form for HTC
HTC Vive virtual reality headset indepth review
Intel Core I7 6950X Extreme Edition Broadwell-E Overclocking Review
Mid-range B150 Micro-ATX review: five motherboards tested
MSI X99A Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard Review
Office 365 gets a powerful new tool for planning your projects
QNAP TBS-453A 4-Bay M.2 SSD NASbook
Razer BlackWidow X Chroma Review
Rig of the Month - May 2016
Thermaltake ToughPower DPS G 850W Power Supply Review

11 Essential MySQL Update Command Examples

One of the most common MySQL operation is to change an existing value of a record in a table. In this article, we’ll explain how to use MySQL update command along with some helpful examples.

Read full article @ The Geek Stuff

20 of the Worst PC Setups - May 2016

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 May!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

AMD Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 Revealed

In the final minutes of his presentation, Raja Koduri showed how two Radeon RX 480 graphics cards can beat the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card for far less money. What’s really odd is that Raja Koduri explicitly pointed out that the two Radeon RX 480 graphics cards were only utilised to 51% to slightly best the GeForce GTX 1080. That are frankly, really odd numbers.

Read full article @ Tech ARP

Budget Game PC - June 2016

The Hardware.Info Budget Game PC Advice has a balanced configuration for playing video games, without having to spend too much. The components have been selected to offer the best bang for your buck.

That means you cannot always expect the highest settings, resolution and frame rate, but at the same time you should be able to play all modern games in Full HD resolution without making huge concessions to either the image quality or your enjoyment of the game.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Corsair K65 RGB RAPIDFIRE Keyboard Review

Corsair and Cherry have been working together to make some of the finest mechanical switches for gaming. With the K65 RGB RAPIDFIRE compact mechanical gaming keyboard, it comes with Cherry MX Speed switches. These switches have a silver colored stem and the actuation point is 1.2mm instead of 2mm on a standard Cherry MX Red switch. According to Corsair, this makes the switch 40% faster than a standard red switch. The Cherry MX Speed switch is similar to the standard Cherry MX Red switch, but the only difference is the shorter travel distance to the actuation point. At Benchmark Reviews, we will take a look at the compact Corsair K65 RGB RAPIDFIRE mechanical keyboard. Let’s take a quick look at the features and specifications.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

Corsair Sabre RGB Review

The trusty sabre, a weapon of choice for nearly 200 years. Corsair have reimagined this trusty one handed sword into a lightweight gaming mouse with consideration towards fast paced action games such as FPS, RTS and MOBAs. To help gamers along the way, the mouse weighs a mere 100g and is ergonomically designed to be suitable for various grip types. It features 4 zone customisable RGB lighting (front, wheel, logo and profile indicator), Omron switches, 8 programmable buttons, 1000Hz polling, and a 1.8m braided easy-flex USB cable.

The listed features above, as some may be aware, are identical to the previous Sabre RGB mouse, though there are a few exceptions. One of which is the use of the more attractive sails logo as opposed to the Corsair Gaming logo, and of course Corsair have upped the resolution from 6400 DPI to 10K DPI. This is likely to appeal to those that are gaming on a high resolution/multi-monitor setup that requires a higher resolution mouse to span the screen/s with a more convenient hand movement.

Read full article @ Vortez

G.Skill Trident Z 32GB DDR4-3200 (F4-3200C14Q-32GTZ) Review

Eyeing up a Core i7-6950X and a GTX 1080? Then you'll want some potent DDR4 memory. The quad-channel (4x8GB) pack, designated as model F4-3200C14Q-32GTZ, is specified at 3,200MHz with keen 14-14-14-34-2T timings at 1.35V. A well-rounded set with more aggressive latencies than we're accustomed to seeing, and G.Skill's ability to produce such modules is testament to better yields and much wider availability.

It wasn't long ago that DDR4 memory came accompanied by a hefty early adopter's tax, but time has done a good job of eroding that premium and the 32GB Trident Z kit is today available for around £200. Same-capacity packs at slower speeds with looser latencies do offer a further saving, yet G.Skill's pricing is competitive for a top-tier Trident Z solution armed with specially screened Samsung ICs. And if it's enthusiast build quality you're after, it's worth noting that a Trident Z module was recently used to smash the 5GHz barrier.

Read full article @ Hexus

GAMDIAS Hermes RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review

I have always been fascinated by the history of something, or the lore in a fantasy story. I thought a bit about the history of the keyboard, and how they became popularized to be used as much as they are today. Typing instruments have been around since the early 19th century, which were known as the early typewriters. However, they were not used by many people, and instead only used to produce legible and uniform business documents. At this time, typewriters were slower compared to handwriting. Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden were the two people who created the first commercially successful typewriter, also known as the Remington No. 1, in 1874. They slowly changed from here until 1910, which, by that time, they have all been standardized. The next step in keyboards was to use small type-balls instead of type-bars. These type-balls allowed someone to change fonts easily. The first teletype and ENIAC computers were very big, and used paper cards the computer would punch holes into. These cards would then be read by a card reader, and analyzed as data. The first keyboard to instantly display text on a screen was developed by Bell Labs and M.I.T in 1964, and it was a lot more efficient to use than previous designs. The first keyboards used were mechanical units in the 1970s, and only much later in the 1990s did membrane switches start to be implemented. Since then, the design and build have changed frequently to target a wide range of markets. Today, we have the GAMDIAS Hermes RGB, and much like other RGB LED keyboards, is aimed at gamers. Will it prove to be a worthy successor to years and years of history, while staying true to the goodness of the mechanical switch? Read on to find out!

Read full article @ APH Networks

GeForce GTX 1080 2-way SLI Review

Two weeks ago we had a peek at the GeForce GTX 1080, this round however we bring in the big guns, as in plural. We will arm our big daddy PC rig with not one, but two GeForce GTX 1080 cards and zoom in at SLI performance for the GeForce GTX 1080. In this review we'll run the standard benchmarks, but we will also have an even closer look at Ultra HD gaming performance as well as a micro stuttering analysis with the help of FCAT.

Before we start please read this a HUGE note; this will be article is revision one. The early 368.25 driver does not seem to support SLI for the majority of games, hence we'll look at a handful of games in this preliminary revision of the article first, once a proper final SLI supporting driver is out, we'll add the rest okay ? So this is us jumping the gun to push some results out, not blaming Nvidia.

Read full article @ Guru3D

HTC 10 Review: An impressive return to form for HTC

The HTC 10 marks the start of a new chapter for HTC. The signature metal body has returned, complete with new additions like a fingerprint scanner and USB Type-C. The camera, a problem area for HTC’s past devices, has been completely overhauled, and we’re seeing welcome iterations such as a new 5.2-inch 1440p LCD and a Snapdragon 820 SoC.

Read full article @ Techspot

HTC Vive virtual reality headset indepth review

The HTC Vive has proved to be quite a formidable piece of kit. Not only did it surprise when it stole much of Oculus’ pre-release thunder with roomscale and hand tracked controllers, but it surprised post launch by being more widely available.

Where it does not surprise us though is in the quality of its virtual reality. We got our first glimpse at its potential with the Vive Pre sent to us by HTC a few months ago (http://www.kitguru.net/components/vr/zardon/htc-vive-pre-unboxing/) . Today’s review sample is not a ‘Pre’ though, nor a devkit. This is the real, CV1 Vive, complete with new packaging, a newly designed head strap and a lot more content to play with.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Intel Core I7 6950X Extreme Edition Broadwell-E Overclocking Review

The single biggest hurdle when running higher voltages and clock speeds is thermal management. A nice air cooler or even some of the nicer AIO kits are going to be fully overwhelmed with the thermal load displaced by the Core i7 6950X when overclocked and over volted. I had to resort to a full on water cooling setup to reach the observed 4.34GHz and 4.28GHz speeds I ran in my testing. Usually the hefty 240mm radiator I use for overclocking processors is sufficient to handle the typical load. Not so with this beast. I had to back up and put in a second radiator to handle the load discharged into the liquid. By doing so, I was able to keep the processor from throttling and bouncing off the 99 °C max temperature before the chip could throttle. Overall, most of your usual overclocking tools and methods that we have worked with over the past few generations of Intel processors work well with this generation of Intel's Extreme series chips. The new flexibility adds some wrinkles, but nothing that cannot be easily overcome. The Intel Core i7 6950X Broadwell-E processor is one hell of a processor.

Read full article @ OCC

Mid-range B150 Micro-ATX review: five motherboards tested

If you want to put together a small Skylake system and aren't looking to overclock your components, you could opt for a Micro-ATX B150 motherboard. They are relatively cheap and offer all the necessary basic functionality. In this review we are taking a look at five models from ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

MSI X99A Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard Review

Whenever a new processor line is introduced, motherboard vendors usually go nuts and create all manner of next generation products based off of a new chipset. But what happens when the chipset is carried over without any changes from the previous generation? It’s happened in the past with Intel’s X79 platform, AMD’s ages-old 990FX and now Intel’s ultra expensive Broadwell lineup is tied at the hip to a chipset which was launched nearly two years ago. No one is taking Broadwell-E sitting down, least of all MSI. Their new X99A Gaming Pro Carbon highlights a situation where even though the underlying chipset hasn’t changed, it’s still possible to completely modernize a motherboard.

While the X99 chipset has certainly become synonymous with performance and longevity, Intel's decision to extend its service life to the new Broadwell-E generation was controversial. While Z170 has received a litany of chipset-bound PCI-E lanes for high bandwidth I/O, X99 hasn’t. Intel happens to disagree with any assessment of obsolescence and feels that their current PCH is still more than capable of supporting the Broadwell-E ecosystem. On the surface such a decision does make a certain amount of sense as the existing combination of a massive quad channel DDR4 memory bus, epic core count, and large number of PCI-E lanes has been a winning formula.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Office 365 gets a powerful new tool for planning your projects

Redmond has announced that it's pushing out Microsoft Planner to Office 365 users across the globe, with the rollout happening over the next few weeks. Those with qualifying subscription plans (including Office 365 Business Essentials, Premium and Education customers, plus Enterprise E1-E5 plans) will soon see a new Planner tile pop up in the suite's app launcher.

Read full article @ Techradar

QNAP TBS-453A 4-Bay M.2 SSD NASbook

During our last stay at CES, QNAP surprised us with the TBS-453A NAS, an incredibly small NAS since it only takes M.2 SSDs. While not a NAS for the average user, it does have some really cool features we are going to explore in this review.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Razer BlackWidow X Chroma Review

Though released a few months ago, we now manage to have a hands on with the BlackWidow X Chroma, something we are rather excited to see. The key differences over the BlackWidow Chroma, is that the BlackWidow X Chroma(BWXC) has a footprint that is approximately 10% smaller, freeing up some precious desk space, as well as having an attractive exposed metal top plate design. The added bonus is, that the BWXC is £15 cheaper than the standard BlackWidow Chroma.

Read full article @ Vortez

Rig of the Month - May 2016

We just adore PC related hardware & think you do too. And sometimes you guys really make a PC that really stands out. We ask you to answer a few simple questions and send in photos of your rig. Each month we'll have a look at the entries and perhaps pick you and post your PC with photos and everything here at Guru3D.com. Here you can find out what you need to do and win a nice prize courtesy of Corsair.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Thermaltake ToughPower DPS G 850W Power Supply Review

Wouldn't it be great if your computer system's power supply could warn you if it was in danger of overheating, probably due to the fan failure? Even better, being able to use your smartphone to adjust the PSU's fan speed from a low noise to performance setting. While you're at it, maybe you would also like to know your electrical cost or performance data over certain time frames. You can do that and more with Thernaltake's DPS G power supply featuring PC APP 2, DPS G Smart Power Management Cloud 1.0, and DPS G Mobile APP 1.0 support.

The DPS G 850W power supply was originally introduced back in October, 2015. Then in January 2016, Thermaltake introduced the DPS G App 2.0 software for digitally monitoring key factors of your power supply and motherboard (CPU and VGA voltages, current, wattage, etc.), calculating electrical cost, dynamic monitoring, recording/saving usage pattern and even sharing this information on the cloud and/or with friends. All of this information can allow you to keep your computer system functioning at its peak potential while taking note of any potential problems as they develop.

This will be my first time to test a power supply that has an embedded digital controller with a software package to monitor and record data for analysis, plus it will also be the first 80 Plus Gold emblem power supply. My plan for this review is to compare the Toughpower DPS G 850W Power Supply against my newly replaced TR2 700W Power Supply 80 Plus Bronze rated unit, and I will also take a glance at the DPS G App 2.0 software.

Read full article @ Neoseeker