Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

20 of the Worst PC Setups – September 2016
66 Audio BTS Sport Bluetooth Headphones Review
AMD Announces 7th Gen Bristol Ridge PRO APUs with Extended Support
ASUS X99 Strix Review
Deepcool Captain 120 EX AIO CPU Cooler Review
Intel SSD 600p Series 512GB Review: NVMe performance, SATA pricing
MSI Z170A Gaming M9 ACK Motherboard Review: Sharp Dressed, Feature Packed
NVIDIA Shield - Android TV Box
NZXT S340 Elite Review
Rig of the Month - September 2016
Tenda AC9 AC1200 Dual-Band Gigabit Wifi Router

20 of the Worst PC Setups – September 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 August!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

66 Audio BTS Sport Bluetooth Headphones Review

Working out without any kind of entertainment can be somewhat boring at times so whenever i get on the treadmill or whenever i use the multi-gym equipment i like to either listen to music or watch movies on my tablet. Of course it goes without saying really but when you're not living alone or it's very late at night and you don't want to annoy the people living next door using earphones (preferably wireless ones) is pretty much the only valid solution (headsets work too but just too heavy for my taste while working out). Unfortunately most wireless earphones don't sit well on the head/ears and are far from sweat-proof something which i noticed just over a month ago when i had an rather expensive earset fail on me while i was using the treadmill. 66 Audio produces headphones and earphones primarily designed for athletes and today we're taking a look at their BTS Sport model.

66 Audio, LLC is an exciting and rapidly-growing LA-based wearable technology startup company that focuses on designing, engineering, and distributing world-class Bluetooth audio products for active consumers throughout the world. We are very passionate about hardware, mobile software and building the best possible consumer products for the active lifestyle. We're constantly on the hunt for innovative and groundbreaking ways to improve customer engagement and experience within the active category and are obsessively pursuing next-generation technologies that will change the way people experience their music on both the hardware and mobile app side of things. 66 Audio is based in Culver City, California with offices in Shenzhen, China as well as Krakow, Poland and London, UK. Learn more at www.66audio.com.

To ensure that the BTS Sport Bluetooth headset doesn't fall from your head regardless of the type of workout you do 66 Audio followed the somewhat typical around the head design by using a very thin headband to connect the two medium-sized earcups. Stability is also always a concern for such headsets/earsets so to improve on that area the headband passes just over/behind your ear (in a way it locks in position) so there's really very little to no chance of them falling off your head. Under the hood 66 Audio has placed two 30mm drivers (20Hz – 20KHz frequency response with 32Ohm impedance), Bluetooth v4.0 connectivity with EDR (supports multi-point, A2DP v1.2, hands free profile v1.5 and AVRCP v1.0), CSR aptX codec support, built-in microphone with patented Clear Voice Capture Technology and a 400mAh rechargeable lithium-polymer battery pack which gives the device up to 25 hours of music playback and over 400 hours of standby mode.

Read full article @ Nikktech

AMD Announces 7th Gen Bristol Ridge PRO APUs with Extended Support

There are a number of directions for ‘professional grade’ processors in the market, varying from embedded to long-life support to server functionality. AMD’s PRO lines of processors are akin to their consumer counterparts, except they run a guaranteed lifecycle of support with ‘image stability’ (guaranteed OS images) and extended OEM warranties. AMD’s PRO line typically covers both embedded systems via the BGA lower parts and commercial/enterprise systems with socketed units. This week AMD is announcing their PRO line using the latest AMD microarchitecture, Bristol Ridge, along with continued support for customer requested features.

If you’ve ever browsed for an OEM system, or in a brick-and-mortar shop, you may have come across a system labeled something along the lines of ‘PRO A8’ using an AMD APU. I recently wrote a small news piece which involved an HP system in my local store with a PRO name. These parts enable an OEM to build a particular system, either as a business-to-business sale or directly to customers, and guarantee a fixed longevity for replacements to that system. This is a requirement for a lot of government and business electronic installations – the ability to replace like-for-like in the event of failure. AMD states that the unit shipments of their PRO processor line for commercial, enterprise and the public sector has risen by 45% since mid-2014, or a 20.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

Read full article @ Anandtech

ASUS X99 Strix Review

With the X99 Stirx, ASUS has one of the most interesting boards for Intels latest Broadwell-E processors. A quick look around the PCB reveals there is one U.2 port as well as an M.2 x4 SSD slot, improved lighting and the new Aura header to direclty connect LED strips to the motherboard. At this point we're already really curious to find out what this board is capable of.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Deepcool Captain 120 EX AIO CPU Cooler Review

Back in July, the Deepcool Captain 240 EX featured in a 6 way round-up of mainstream AIO coolers. Today we are looking at its smaller counterpart, the Captain 120 EX. The model we were sent for review is white, though there are black and red alternatives available.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Intel SSD 600p Series 512GB Review: NVMe performance, SATA pricing

Announcing half a dozen new 3D NAND-based SSDs in August, Intel's SSD 600p Series in particular caught our attention for being an aggressively priced M.2 NVMe-based model targeting consumer desktops and notebooks. The 600p comes in capacities starting at 128GB for $67 up to $189 for 512GB. At just $0.36 per gigabyte, the latter looks to be exceptional value.

Read full article @ TechSpot

MSI Z170A Gaming M9 ACK Motherboard Review: Sharp Dressed, Feature Packed

The MSI Z170A Gaming M9 ACK motherboard is the company’s top end gaming board for use with Intel 6th Generation Skylake-based Core series processors. The MSI Z170A Gaming M9 is packed with a host of premium features aimed at improving and enhancing your experience.

Like most gaming enthusiast boards, this one also commands top dollar but if copious features, overclocking and cooling are your thing, it's one fantastic looking and performing board with all the bells and whistles...

Read full article @ HotHardware

NVIDIA Shield - Android TV Box

The NVIDIA Shield was one of the first 4K Android TV boxes to hit the market, and today we are taking a look at the 16GB version. The Shield can be used to watch TV, films, play console games, and crucially can also be used to stream games from your PC to your TV. It features a Tegra X1 processor with a 256-core GPU and 3GB memory, which should provide for high performance when it comes to both gameplay and watching video.

Read full article @ PC Review

NZXT S340 Elite Review

The popular Source 340 gets a VR-friendly makeover. NZXT's Source 340 (S340) struck a lot of the right notes when it arrived on the scene back in 2014, and it's clear to see why. For less than £65 the chassis offers a lot of what's good about the pricier H440, making it a favoured choice for a low-cost yet powerful build.

Fast forward a few years and NZXT is hoping to build on the success of the original S340 with a refreshed sibling dubbed the S340 Elite. The new addition to the range is making its way onto retail shelves priced at £90, representing a near-40 per cent premium over the standard model.

Read full article @ Hexus

Rig of the Month - September 2016

Lets peek at the September edition of the Guru3D Rig of the Month 2016. This months build is fabbed by Randall Woody. The man in reality is manager for a parking company, and this actually is his first ever mod slash build. He named it Hi Lo Silver, we'll call it Hue.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Tenda AC9 AC1200 Dual-Band Gigabit Wifi Router

Tenda may not be the first brand you think of when it comes to networking devices, but they definitely deserve your consideration. They have been in business since 1999, and over that time have maintained a focus on offering easy to install and affordable networking gear. This will be the first review of one of their products at Bigbruin.com, but they presently offer a huge range of devices for home and for business networking needs.

We will be looking at the Tenda AC9 AC1200 dual-band Gigabit Wifi router, which is shown in the promotional image above. In addition to the slick styling, this router offers wireless speeds up to 867Mbps 802.11ac at 5GHz and 300Mbps 802.11n at 2.4GHz simultaneously, plus four Gigabit wired connections. Before taking a look at what the AC9 provided for review, let's take a look at a summary of its features and specifications as taken from the official product page on the Tenda (US) website...

Read full article @ Bigbruin.com