Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Adata's Ultimate SU900 256GB SSD reviewed
Alienware 17 R4 2017 Gaming Laptop Review: Powerful And Refined
AMD's new Ryzen 3 could beat Intel's Core i3 processors
ECS Z270-Lightsaber Review
G.Skill Announces Quad-Channel DDR4-4200 Kit for Intel Skylake-X CPUs
Power Consumption & Thermal Testing With The Core i9 7900X On Linux
SteelSeries Arctis 5 Review
TP-Link TL-PA9020P AV2000 2-Port Gigabit Passthrough Powerline Adapter Kit Review

Adata's Ultimate SU900 256GB SSD reviewed

Adata has issued an update to its Ultimate line of SSDs with its SU900 family. Join us as we find out how much of an upgrade 3D MLC flash brings to the company's Ultimate drives versus its past forays with 3D TLC NAND.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Alienware 17 R4 2017 Gaming Laptop Review: Powerful And Refined

Dell updated its Alienware 17 gaming laptop at PAX West 2016 with NVIDIA Pascal graphics, but at the time Intel’s quad-core Kaby Lake mobile processors weren’t available yet. It was a short-lived update, however, as the Kaby Lake-powered Alienware 17 was announced a short time later at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show this past January. Today, we’re checking out the newest Alienware 17 R4 gaming laptop featuring the latest of both technologies. The chassis may look familiar, but its all-new on the inside with two 7th-Generation Intel Core i7 processor and four NVIDIA Pascal graphics options available...

Read full article @ HotHardware

AMD's new Ryzen 3 could beat Intel's Core i3 processors

AMD has been on the offensive ever since it launched Ryzen earlier this year, with the next few weeks leading into the Ryzen ThreadRipper family of CPUs and their respective X399 chipset, but AMD also teased its mid-range Ryzen 3 CPUs destined for a couple of months from now.

Read full article @ TweakTown

ECS Z270-Lightsaber Review

The ECS Z270-Lightsaber is a high end motherboard designed for Intel's Kaby Lake CPUs. It's loaded with features like a 14-phase power design, multi-GPU support for up to three graphics cards, and supports a Killer E2500 gigabit NIC. As you can see, overclockers and gamers will want to take note of this offering!

Read full article @ Neoseeker

G.Skill Announces Quad-Channel DDR4-4200 Kit for Intel Skylake-X CPUs

G.Skill this past week has formally announced its quad-channel memory kits designed for the latest Intel Core i7 (Skylake-X) CPUs and the Intel X299 platform. The flagship 64 GB Trident Z kit boasts a 4200 MT/s data transfer rate, a rather notable step up from the companys "entry-level" 3600 MT/s kit. In addition, G.Skill is also introducing its new Trident Z Black series dual-channel DDR4-4400 kit for Intel’s Kaby Lake-X processors.

G.Skill’s lineup of memory kits for the Intel X299 platform consists of 8 GB and 16 GB Trident and Trident Z RGB DIMMs based on Samsung’s popular 20nm-fabbed 8 Gb DDR4 DRAM modules. The various kits are available at 3600 MT/s, 3733 MT/s, 3800 MT/s, 4000 MT/s, and 4200 MT/s data transfer rates, while their voltages run from 1.35 to 1.4 V. As youd expect, the higher clocked kits also come with higher latency, with latencies starting at CL16 and reaching CL19 by DDR4-4200 speeds. Which goes to show that even though Intels Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X CPUs can handle very high DRAM frequencies, the tradeoff between clocks and timings has not gone anywhere.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Power Consumption & Thermal Testing With The Core i9 7900X On Linux

Following my initial Intel Core i9 7900X Linux benchmarks this week were questions raised about its power use and thermal efficiency. Here are some tests looking at those factors, including the performance-per-Watt.

Read full article @ Phoronix

SteelSeries Arctis 5 Review

The SteelSeries Arctis 5 is a great gaming headset, chock-full of useful features, and carefully tuned to sound as accurate as possible instead of just focusing on the bass. Thanks to that, it's great for playing games on a high level and just as good for listening to music, both at home and on the go.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

TP-Link TL-PA9020P AV2000 2-Port Gigabit Passthrough Powerline Adapter Kit Review

Thanks to its high data transfer numbers the latest TL-PA9020P AV2000 2-Port Gigabit Passthrough Powerline Adapter Kit by TP-Link is a step forward in bridging the performance gap between powerline and wired connectivity.

Read full article @ NikKTech