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Here a roundup of todays review's and articles:

AMD Fury X Review
AMD R9 Fury X Review; Fiji Arrives
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4 GB
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB Review
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X review: AMD's new flag ship graphics card
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Video Card Review
AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card reviewed
Cooler Master Geminii S524 VER.2 CPU Cooler Review
Crucial BX100 256GB Review
Maroo Leather Folio Case for Surface Pro 3
MSI R9 380 Gaming 2G
Scythe Tatsumi CPU Cooler Review
Steelseries APEX M800 Review
The Erebos Extension Laser Gaming Mouse Review



AMD Fury X Review

Batman Arkham Knight, DOTA 2 Reborn (next gen Source Engine) and more tested in 4k against GTX 980Ti

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AMD R9 Fury X Review; Fiji Arrives

After nearly two years of waiting, rumors, hope and disappointment the AMD’s Fiji architecture and the R9 Fury X are finally here. Not only does this pairing hope to compete against the best NVIDIA has to offer but it represents the best hope for AMD’s graphics division as they move forward into the future.

While AMD may not have been leading the graphics race for some time now, if history is any indication, they are obviously willing to take chances on new technologies. For example, the HD 4000-series was the first to boast native support for GDDR5 memory and the now-standard 28nm manufacturing process debuted with the HD 7900-series parts. This time around it is the addition of an innovative High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) interface which is supposed to drastically enhance memory performance while lowering manufacturing costs and memory subsystem overhead.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4 GB

AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X is released today, introducing HBM memory for graphics cards. The new card is built around a watercooled Fiji GPU, which enabled AMD to design a very compact card that will fit into many small-form-factor cases. Gaming performance at 4K is good and roughly matches GTX 980 Ti.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB Review

AMD back in the big league. GPU architectures tend to run like London buses - you rarely see a new one and then, quite unexpectedly, two come along at once. Curiously and interestingly, Nvidia and AMD debut their premium graphics GPU architectures within a month of one another. Thinking about buying a really good graphics card right now? Read away.

Let's make something clear at the very outset of this review. The two GPU heavyweights have decided to use a different tack towards solving the problem of gaming at high resolutions. These decisions are actually made some time in the past, often years ago, so what you see today is the engineering teams' design ethos back in 2012 or so.

Nvidia teases out iterative gains from the energy-efficient Maxwell architecture and relies on pushing considerable throughput on a 250W design. AMD, on the other hand, refines its GCN architecture and, instead, puts more focus on the memory side of things. We know all about Nvidia's efforts from looking at the impressive numbers posted by the GeForce GTX Titan X and, more recently, GTX 980 Ti, so let's examine how AMD goes about letting loose a behemoth of a GPU: enter the Fiji-infused Radeon R9 Fury X.

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AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review

We review the Radeon R9 Fury X, one of the most discussed and anticipated products of the year. A product that is big in performance, it is fitted with that all new HBM memory and is based on a small form factor. This initial Fury X model is already liquid cooled for you. So yes, it has been a wild ride over the past few weeks alright. Most of the rumors in terms of specifications were right, the performance benchmarks you have seen leaked, all fake. Over at E3 2015 AMD announced the new Fury series of products, an enthusiast class graphics cards series with the flagship product being called the Radeon R9 Fury X, and it is quite the beast based on what you guys know as the Fiji XT GPU. There will be more iterations of this Fiji GPU based product though. The X is the liquid cooled version, the 'regular' Radeon R9 Fury (without the X) will be based on Fiji Pro, an air-cooled solution that we will see later this summer. But two more products will be released; the Nano, which will be a small form factor product to house in a tiny PC that sits, say, in your living room and then there is Project Quantum, based on two Fiji GPUs seated on one PCB (dual-GPU). Crazy stuff, so yes, in the months to come we'll have lots to talk about and discuss.

Anyway, today the last segment of the embargo has been lifted, we can finally talk about the Radeon R9 Fury X in the way we like to, in-depth with performance benchmarks. Radeon R9 Fury X uses the Fiji XT GPU, and it is literally a beast as it is still based on a 28nm fabrication node, that means a chip just over the size of 5 x 5cm. There's lots of good stuff going on inside that chip as, the memory you guys all know as GDDR5 typically has been seated on the graphics card PCB. Well, with the Radeon R9 Fury X that has changed. AMD has made a bold move to HBM memory (we'll talk about it over the next pages), the 4 GB of memory now is seated onto the actual GPU (chip). So, try to comprehend this, the Fiji Xt GPU has 8.9 Billion transistors, and that is EXCLUDING the HBM memory chips, I know..! crazy figures right? To be able to fit all that on 28nm, well it's impressive to say the least. The GPU itself (and we'll talk in detail about it on the following pages) is based on GCN 1.2 architecture and then scaled upwards, this puppy now has 4096 shader processors.

Read full article @ Guru3D

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X review: AMD's new flag ship graphics card

Last week AMD introduced the complete new line up of the Radeon R7/R9 300-series. However, all these new models are based on existing technology and GPUs. Today AMD is presenting their newest top end model based on a completely new chip. In our review we put the Fiji-based card through its paces.

Fiji is a massive chip, with more than 8 billion transistors and 4096 stream processors the GPU is even larger than AMD's fastest chip to date, the Hawaii chip found in the Radeon R9 290(X) and 390(X). The really special feature of the new GPU however is not its size, but the type of memory it uses. The Fury is the world's first graphics card that is using High Bandwidth Memory, a new memory technology that will not only allow for much higher throughput speeds, but also will make it possible to produce (much) smaller graphics cards.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test

Last week, AMD lifted the veil in its Radeon R7 and R9 300 series of products and publicly demoed its latest flagship, the Radeon R9 Fury X, at a small venue adjacent to E3. While the Radeon R7 and R9 300 series leverages existing GPU designs that have previously been featured in Radeon 200 series products, albeit with different clocks and updated memory / board configurations, the Fury X is an altogether new kind of animal that uses some bleeding-edge technology.

Today, we can finally dive deep and tell the Radeon R9 Fury X’s whole story, complete with our own independent benchmarks...

Read full article @ HotHardware.com

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Video Card Review

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X features the brand new AMD Fiji GPU and is the first graphics card to hit the market with High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology. We've been talking about this card so much in recent weeks it really feels weird to be writing the launch article as there really isn't anything new to tell you besides our own internal benchmark results that were done independently by us.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card reviewed

The Fury X is here. At long last, after lots of hype, we can show you how AMD's new high-end GPU performs aboard the firm's snazzy new liquid-cooled graphics card. We've tested in a range of games using our famous frame-time-based metrics, and we have a full set of results to share with you. Let's get to it.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Cooler Master Geminii S524 VER.2 CPU Cooler Review

The GeminII series from cooler master has a very unique design that allows not only the CPU to be cooled, but also the memory and power delivery components located near the socket of the motherboard. Another key point of the GeminII series is compatibility, the Cooler Master S524 Version 2 borrow from it’s predecessor by keeping ram compatibility with modules up to 47.06 mm in height, as well as with cases that allow for 105.4 mm of height, making the GeminII S524 Version 2 adequate for small cases like the Haf Stacker 915F.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

Crucial BX100 256GB Review

rucial MX100 was one of the best affordable SSDs on the market last year. This year, Crucial updated the line-up with not one but two drives: the BX100 and the MX200. While the MX200 is the successor to the MX100 and aimed for mainstream market, the BX100 is designed for budget market. The two drives shared the same 16nm NAND but with different controller. Besides the controller difference, the budget drive lacks the hardware-accelerated encryption and the SLC caching that is found on its bigger brother. The SLC caching has its benefit enhancing a drive’s write performance but the hardware encryption maybe something that budget users may not care much.

Read full article @ Bjorn3D

Maroo Leather Folio Case for Surface Pro 3

I recently tested the Leather Folio Case for the Surface Pro 3, hoping that I had finally chanced upon a contender.

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MSI R9 380 Gaming 2G

At this year’s E3 AMD announced its long awaited next generation of cards. While most of the eyes are on the Fury cards they also introduced the 300 Series. For the most part the 200 Series cards were rebranded but most of the cards did see some tweaks to clock speeds, memory capacity, and memory bus. To start off our coverage of the new cards today I am going to take a look at the R9 380 Gaming 2G from MSI. The R9 380 is a Tonga GPU card, the same GPU that was used in the R9 285 launched last fall. The R9 380 did see a boost clock speed increase over the R9 285 and the MSI I am testing today has a slight overclock over the stock R9 380 clock as well.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Scythe Tatsumi CPU Cooler Review

Scythe might not be one of the big names you hear of when it comes to air CPU coolers. Their coolers typically do not have over-the-top designs or are all that flashy, but when it comes to performance they have always been solid, and of course that is what is most important when it comes to CPU coolers. Today we will be taking a look at a rather inexpensive CPU cooler from Scythe, their Tatsumi. It is only $38.99 at my favorite online retailer and is a very compact cooler made to fit in pretty much any system. Let’s take a look and see what it can do.

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Steelseries APEX M800 Review

The Apex M800 from Steelseries is the companies flagship model. It features RGB backlight and Steelseries' own mechanical switches. The fact that this keyboard comes with a low profile form factor make it rather special and us curious if it can really convince.

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The Erebos Extension Laser Gaming Mouse Review

Hello fellow FunkyKit readers! Here is that gaming mouse review I have been promising you. If you read my review of the Eros gaming headset, then you know that Gamdias also sent me the Erebos Extension Laser Gaming Mouse to review. When looking to buy a mouse, there are many things we tend to look for. I believe for most, one of the first thing we look for in a gaming mouse is the design of the gaming mouse. Our society worries constantly on how we look to the outside world, so a mouse that looks the part, yet also gets the job done is very important! At first glance, the design seems to look awesome from an outside view of the box. If I were thinking of buying a new gaming mouse, I would definitely check this mouse out just from the looks alone.

Like I said, the Erebos gaming mouse caught my eye right off the bat! To determine if I would buy the mouse or not would be the kind of features the Erebos gaming mouse would have to offer. Gamdias has a lot of features with the gaming mouse, that I believe, we all have come to love. First, Gamdias states that the Erebos extension mouse employs a premium micro-processor complemented by a 8200DPI precision-perfect laser sensor. The Erebos also has, 256KB built-in memory that allows plug and play on different PCs with out ever having to download any drivers or the Hera software. Just those two features alone makes the Erebos gaming mouse worth getting a closer look. Especially with having other features such as, up to a 1000 Hz poling rate, interchangeable side panels, 8 smart keys, and up to 16.8 million colored lights.

Read full article @ FunkyKit