Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD Demos Ryzen 7 Benchmarks Beating Intel, Reveals Chip Details, Clock Speeds, And Pricing
AMD officially announces Ryzen 7 CPUs
AMD Ryzen finally makes octo-core processors affordable
AMD Ryzen Pre-Orders Start Today – 8-Cores For $329
AMD's eight-core, 16-thread chips lead the Ryzen charge
Aorus Z270X-Gaming 9 Motherboard Review
BitFenix Whisper M Series 850W PSU Review
Comparison List Update: All AMD Ryzen Models
Das Keyboard X40 Pro Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review
Galactic Civilizations III v2.0 Review
GRUB2, Fedora & can't find command error
How to prevent Ubuntu from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf
Project Build: Crush – Part 5 – Painting a GTX 1080 FE
Radeon vs. NVIDIA Performance For HITMAN On Linux With 17 GPUs
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti countdown has begun

AMD Demos Ryzen 7 Benchmarks Beating Intel, Reveals Chip Details, Clock Speeds, And Pricing

AMD President and CEO, Dr. Lisu Su, took to the stage at AMD’s Ryzen Tech Day and opened the event with some official speeds, feeds, pricing information, and benchmark scores from the company’s upcoming Ryzen series processors. To date, we’ve seen a number of leaks with related data and benchmarks, but the numbers and information we’ll be presenting here are straight from AMD – they are the real deal, not rumors or speculation. And we’ve got a couple of surprises and new pieces of information to share as well...

Read full article @ HotHardware

AMD officially announces Ryzen 7 CPUs

We show you performance and price. AMD CEO, Dr Lisa Su, today officially unveiled a trio of Ryzen processors, ending weeks of speculation.

The trio are Ryzen 7 1800X, Ryzen 7 1700X and Ryzen 1700, and they all use the same die composed of eight cores and 16 threads via AMD's own take on hyperthreading.

Su spoke of the high-level details only, with the nuts and bolts to be released at a later date. The following table, which we speculated upon last week, is now confirmed as being largely true.

Read full article @ Hexus

AMD Ryzen finally makes octo-core processors affordable

AMD announces its new Ryzen lineup with three powerful and low-cost processors.

Read full article @ TechRadar

AMD Ryzen Pre-Orders Start Today – 8-Cores For $329

The wait for AMD Ryzen is finally over! You can now officially go out and pre-order one of three AMD Ryzen 7 processors, which is being touted as the fastest 8-core processor on the market today.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

AMD's eight-core, 16-thread chips lead the Ryzen charge

The wraps are off AMD's first round of Ryzen CPUs: the Ryzen 7 1800X, the Ryzen 7 1700X, and the Ryzen 7 1700. Check out these chips' specs, pricing, and availability info in AMD's first official Ryzen release.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Aorus Z270X-Gaming 9 Motherboard Review

Aorus is here! If you are wondering what Aorus is, it is Gigabyte’s new high-end gaming brand. It seems that Gigabyte wanted to really differentiate their different lines, so Aorus will effectively replace Gigabyte’s G1 Gaming line. Not only for motherboards, but graphics cards and other products as well. The first Aorus motherboards come to us from the Z270 line, in which Aorus has six motherboards. Today we will be taking a look at the flagship Z270X-Gaming 9, which has everything you would want on a Z270 motherboard, plus a lot of extras. You have a PEX8747 to enable 4-way graphics, the Creative Sound Blaster certified ZxRi audio solution, integrated EKWB G-Frost hybrid water block, dual M.2 and U.2 connectors, Killer DoubleShot-X3 networking, RGB LEDs galore, and so much more! Let’s jump in and see what this board is all about!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

BitFenix Whisper M Series 850W PSU Review

It has been a long time since we reviewed a Bitfenix power supply and at the time I walked away feeling less than impressed with the overall quality and performance of the unit. Today we analyse the relatively new BitFenix Whisper Series 850 watt supply, a pure modular unit with 80 Plus Gold Certification.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Comparison List Update: All AMD Ryzen Models

Over time CPU manufacturers like Intel and AMD release numerous processors and it is very likely to lose track of all the models out there. Furthermore it is difficult to find complete comparison tables where all CPUs and their features are listed. Following you find such a list regarding AMD's upcoming Ryzen processors.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Das Keyboard X40 Pro Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review

Das Keyboard enters the gaming peripherals market with the X40 Pro Gaming Keyboard featuring their very own Alpha-Zulu Linear and Tactile mechanical switches and we're here to check and see whether or not they're on the right path.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Galactic Civilizations III v2.0 Review

Just one more turn. I think that rather familiar phase sums up my feeling on *Galactic Civilizations III* quite well; I want to play another turn, and another, and another. Typically in 4X games I prefer the civilization development half of the game or the military half of the game, but here I genuinely am enjoying both. Okay, maybe not the strategic placing of structures on planets, that I will leave to the AI governors, but strategically placing starbases to capture resources and spread influence is very satisfying to me. I also enjoy managing my fleets to cover regions, stifling enemy planets until I can get a troop transport there to capture it. It is all just fun for me, and I know there are more mechanics I can
learn to exploit to further optimize my strategy. I do have some criticisms here and there, but largely this is a game I just want to sit down and play because those criticisms are not severe enough to limit enjoyment. They are only things I think might possibly be done better, but are not flaws by any stretch. This makes the game a very easy recommendation from me for anyone looking for a good space-based 4X game.

Read full article @ OCC

GRUB2, Fedora & can't find command error

Here's a tutorial explaining how to work around the issue of not being able to boot other operating systems in a multi-boot setup governed by a Red Hat based distro bootloader on UEFI systems, covering architectural differences, missing EFI tools, linuxefi and initrdefi commands, how to update the menu configuration, other tips and tricks, and more. Le enjoy.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

How to prevent Ubuntu from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf

If you've been trying in vain to get static DNS to stick in Ubuntu, Jack Wallen shows you how this can easily be done from within a single configuration file.

Read full article @ TechRepublic

Project Build: Crush – Part 5 – Painting a GTX 1080 FE

For some people, you get your computer together and never mess with it again. I, on the other hand, have a problem and as they say, the first thing is to admit you have a problem. I finished up the Crush build and even posted up performance numbers last week. My problem is I keep looking and thinking how much better the build could look with this one change. Once you do that, you are done, right? Nope! Now that you did that, this other thing really needs to be changed. It’s an endless battle. Well with Crush I just HAD to pull it all apart and keep messing with it. I’m actually in the middle of a few different changes, but the biggest was painting the two GTX 1080’s like I had originally planned. So today I’m going to run through how to paint the new GTX 1080/1070 Founders Edition cards for a nice matching look.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Radeon vs. NVIDIA Performance For HITMAN On Linux With 17 GPUs

Last week Feral Interactive released the much anticipated Linux port of HITMAN, which debuted for Windows last year. Now that there's benchmark support for HITMAN on Linux, I have been running a number of tests for this game that's powered by the Glacier Engine and making use of OpenGL for rendering on Linux. In this article are our initial AMD Radeon performance figures making use of the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver compared to NVIDIA's driver and the assortment of GeForce results published yesterday.

Read full article @ Phoronix

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti countdown has begun

Countdown hits zero during the GeForce GTX Gaming Celebration on Tue, 28th February.

Read full article @ Hexus