Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

28-Way NVIDIA GeForce GPU Comparison On Ubuntu: From GeForce 8 To GeForce 1080
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU Review
AMD X399 Motherboards For Ryzen Threadripper 16 Core HEDT CPUs Pictured
ASROCK X399 Professional Gaming and X399 Taichi
Intel Core i9-7980XE 18-Core Processor Headlines Beastly Skylake-X And Kaby Lake-X Core X Family
Intel Core i9-7980XE: 18C/36T chip costs $2000
Intel preparing AIO liquid cooler for enthusisats
Intel's Core X-series CPUs and X299 platform revealed
Kingston DCP1000 Enterprise NVMe SSD Review (1.6TB) – 7GB/s & 1 Mil IOPS in a Single HHHL SSD
Motorola Moto G5 and G5 Plus Review
MSI X299 XPower Gaming AC Motherboard Pictured
Nitro Concepts E220 EVO Gaming Chair Review
Rivet Networks Announces Killer Support for 10 Gbps Network Controllers
Roccat Kone EMP Gaming Mouse Review
Team Group T-Force DARK ROG 3000 MHz DDR4

28-Way NVIDIA GeForce GPU Comparison On Ubuntu: From GeForce 8 To GeForce 1080

After finishing up the tests last week for the GeForce GT 1030 Linux review of this $70 USD passively-cooled graphics card, I ended up getting carried away running more NVIDIA Linux benchmarks and ended up making a much larger comparison -- in part for the pre-celebrations with Phoronix turning 13 next week. Here's a 28-way GeForce graphics card comparison on Ubuntu with GPUs ranging from the GeForce 8600/8800 series through the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.

Read full article @ Phoronix

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU Review

Ryzen 5 1600 brings six cores and twelve threads to the lowest price point in the desktop market, an example of the inherent value of its unlocked multipliers.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

AMD X399 Motherboards For Ryzen Threadripper 16 Core HEDT CPUs Pictured

First up, we have the Gigabyte AORUS X399 Gaming 7 motherboard which is absolutely gorgeous when looking from an enthusiastic view point. Having multiple HEDT options from Intel and AMD this generation is going to benefit the consumer a lot. In terms of design, the X399 Gaming 7 has a standard ATX design with the largest consumer socket we have seen to date, the TR4. The TR4 is a lot similar to the SP3 socket which is designed for the EPYC server platform and feature 4094 pins in total. The socket is surrounded by eight DDR4 DIMM slots that can support up to 128 GB of ram.

The motherboard has a solid power delivery system which is delivered power through an 8 and 4 pin connector configuration. The power delivery system is cooled by two sets of aluminum based heatsinks. What’s interesting is that the X399 platform will feature up to 64 PCI-e Gen 3.0 lanes vs 44 max PCI-e Gen 3.0 lanes on Intel’s X299 platform (TBC). Expansion slots include four PCI-e 3.0 x16 slots and triple M.2 slots.

Read full article @ Wccftech

ASROCK X399 Professional Gaming and X399 Taichi

Looks like AMD and Intel are ready to compete head to head with high-performance desktop platforms at Computex.

ASRock has just showcased its X399 motherboards: Professional Gaming and Taichi. Both ship with four PCI-Express slots and eight memory DIMMs. It also does appear that both X399 Professional Gaming and X399 Taichi also have WiFi antennas and two ethernet connectors. Unlike X399 AORUS Gaming 7 the duo from ASRock has only 8-pin power connector for Ryzen Threadripper.

Read full article @ VideoCardz

Intel Core i9-7980XE 18-Core Processor Headlines Beastly Skylake-X And Kaby Lake-X Core X Family

Rumors regarding Intel’s upcoming Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X processors have been circulating for the past few months, but today Intel is officially taking the wraps off this new line of High-End Desktop Processors (HEDT). The Core i9 Extreme Edition is the flagship of the family that packs 18 cores (36 threads with HyperThreading) and is a beast of a chip, with 44 lanes of Gen 3.0 PCIe connectivity on board and quad-channel DDR4-2666 memory support.

Read full article @ HotHardware

Intel Core i9-7980XE: 18C/36T chip costs $2000

Computex 2017 - Intel has just launched its new HEDT offensive with the introduction of the new Core i9-7980XE processor offering 18C/36T of CPU performance for a whopping $2000.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Intel preparing AIO liquid cooler for enthusisats

Computex 2017 - Intel has just unveiled its next-gen HEDT processors and X299 platform, as well as their new Liquid Cooling TS13X product, a new high-performance thermal solution for enthusiasts.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Intel's Core X-series CPUs and X299 platform revealed

As Computex kicks off, Intel is refreshing its high-end desktop platform from top to bottom. We take a first look at the company's Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X CPUs and the X299 platform.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Kingston DCP1000 Enterprise NVMe SSD Review (1.6TB) – 7GB/s & 1 Mil IOPS in a Single HHHL SSD

Kingston DCP1000 is a total beast. It is an IOPS spewing monster that, when utilized to its full potential, can deliver more than enough performance for the vast majority of adopters. Move over Intel DC P3608, we have a new performance king! In today’s testing, it was able to sustain sequential read and write speeds of 7GB/s and 6GB/s, respectively! Not only that, but it is able to deliver over 1.1million IOPS with 4KB random read performance and over 180K for write. During the server workloads, it beat out most of the test pool, except for the Micron 9100 MAX during the more write heavy workloads at higher QDs.

Read full article @ The SSD Review

Motorola Moto G5 and G5 Plus Review

I've recommended every iteration of the Moto G since it first launched four years ago. Motorola consistently nails it, producing excellent budget smartphones year after year. Most new Moto G phones are only minor upgrades on their predecessor, but with little improvements here and there, and an affordable price point, the Moto G line is hard to pass up.

Read full article @ TechSpot

MSI X299 XPower Gaming AC Motherboard Pictured

Here's the first picture of MSI's flagship socket LGA2066 motherboard, the MSI X299 XPower Gaming AC. It features a polarizing silvery/white design, which you'll either love or hate. Built in the ATX form-factor (well, midway between ATX and E-ATX), the board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, 4-pin ATX, 8-pin EPS, and an optional 4-pin Molex. A 14-phase VRM conditions it for the CPU, which is wired to eight DDR4 DIMM slots, and four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x16/NC/x16/NC or x16/NC/x8/x8 or x8/x8/x8/x8).

Can you imagine five M.2 SSDs in your rig? MSI can, and besides three 32 Gb/s M.2 slots on the board (two 110 mm and one 80 mm), an included PCIe 3.0 x8 riser card gives you two additional 110 mm 32 Gb/s slots. Other storage options include a 32 Gb/s U.2 port, and ten SATA 6 Gb/s. The board supports NVMe RAID and Optane. Networking is care of two Intel i219-V driven GbE interfaces, and an Intel-driven 802.11ac WLAN with Bluetooth 4.1 connection. MSI Mystic Light RGB software marshals not just a splattering of RGB LEDs all over the board, but also an "art in motion" LED ornament on the PCH heatsink.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Nitro Concepts E220 EVO Gaming Chair Review

The E220 EVO Gaming Chair by Nitro Concepts is a good option for gamers on a tight budget out in the market for a great looking medium sized model (available in 7 color combinations) with good comfort levels.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Rivet Networks Announces Killer Support for 10 Gbps Network Controllers

As part of several announcements today, Rivet Networks (the company behind the Killer branded network controllers, and formerly a brand under Qualcomm) is starting their Computex news with software support for upcoming platforms featuring multi-gigabit technologies. In the past few months we have seen network controllers, such as those from Aquantia, supporting new multi-gigabit standards, such as 2.5G and 5G, in a single chip (and some chips support 10G as well). In order to propagate the Killer networking infrastructure moving forward, Rivet is working with their motherboard partners to offer Killer-based software solutions on top of these new multi-gigabit controllers. To start this is a fully software-enabled enterprise tightly coupled to the motherboard vendors and certain multi-gigabit chipsets, but we were told to expect hardware solutions from Killer in the future (time-scale is TBD).

We discussed with Rivet Networks about the software solutions, which will allow users to prioritize traffic and take advantage of lower ping/fewer freezes when the network is being saturated from the same machines, compared to the current hardware solutions available. When using their own silicon and controller, Rivet stated that they are able to do more, offload more, and implement more features without impacting system performance. The software solution does a number of similar things, but it’s not complete. That being said, the venture into supporting certain multi-gigabit chipsets such as the Aquantia ones is a step forward into preparing for their own silicon. It should be noted that the collaboration is more at the motherboard manufacturer level rather than the silicon level, so Rivet has had to peel through documents and test the supported chipsets to see what features they can offer.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Roccat Kone EMP Gaming Mouse Review

The Roccat Kone EMP is the next mouse in the Kone line up and the successor to the Kone XTD. The Kone EMP features Roccat's OWL-Eye optical sensor and four RGB LEDs for custom lighting. This mouse is geared towards FPS and MOBA gamers  and features a maximum of 12000 DPI along with 1000Hz polling rate.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Team Group T-Force DARK ROG 3000 MHz DDR4

Today, we take a look at Team Group's ROG Certified DARK series of DIMMs from their T-Force line-up of enthusiast-oriented DDR4 DIMMs. These ROG Certified DIMMs have a special secret; read on to find out what that is!

Read full article @ techPowerUp