Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

13-Way Low-End GPU Comparison With AMD's AM1 Athlon
AMD A10-7850K Kaveri
Antec TruePower Classic 550W Power Supply Unit
Best Laptops for Productivity
Corsair Graphite 230T Mid-Tower Case and H75 Liquid CPU Cooler Review
GeForce GTX 780 Ti Round Up: EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI
Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04: The best Ubuntu desktop ever
Lexar JumpDrive S33 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review
SanDisk Clip Sport MP3 Player Review
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Cloud Benchmarks

13-Way Low-End GPU Comparison With AMD's AM1 Athlon

For our latest AM1 platform testing with the Athlon 5350 Kabini APU is comparing its Radeon R3 Graphics against an assortment of discrete NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards while running Ubuntu 14.04 Linux. For this comparison there's thirteen graphics processors being compared with the latest Linux GPU drivers.

We have delivered many benchmarks of the Radeon R3 Graphics found on the four socketed Kabini APUs launched nearly two weeks ago, but today's tests are the first time we have compared the Kabini APUs under Linux against any discrete GPUs. This has been one of the most frequent test request since we began our AMD AM1 Linux adventures. Our early AM1 Radeon R3 Graphics testing is mostly focused within our RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. Catalyst driver comparison and in looking at whether the AMD Athlon/Semprons are fast enough for Steam on Linux using Source Engine games.

Read full article @ Phoronix

AMD A10-7850K Kaveri

Over the past few years AMD has invested most of their efforts into their APU line. This has paid off for them in the way of performance improvements every launch and even more importantly this focus helped them score all three of this generations gaming consoles. Considering how many of the PC games that we play today are ports from those consoles AMD is in a great position to benefit from all of the fine tuning done on their console hardware. They recently introduced their Kaveri APUs and after spending some time making changes to our CPU test suite and retesting some of the competition I finally have the chance to sit down and talk about how their latest APU performs both from a compute side of things as well as the performance of the integrated graphics processor.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Antec TruePower Classic 550W Power Supply Unit

AMD just recently launched their flagship R9 295x2 mGPU graphics card which requires no less than a massive (for a single graphics card) 1000W power supply unit to efficiently run in most high end systems. Same goes for the GeForce Titan Ti by NVIDIA which is although less power hungry it still requires a good 750-800W PSU. Because of that the next logical thing would be for us to focus on high wattage PSUs but since we are all well aware that not everyone can afford to spend $1500 or $750 on a graphics card we decided to go the other way around and get our hands on several lower wattage models. A couple of weeks ago we reviewed the latest TruePower Classic 650W 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU by Antec which left us with the best impressions both because of its performance and its price. Today on our test bench we have the 500W variant to see if the same outcome applies for the entire TruePower Classic line (at least for more than just 1 model).

Read full article @ NikKTech

Best Laptops for Productivity

We are starting a new series of articles here on ThinkComputers. We define our “Mobile Arsenal” as what we would recommend to you for your mobile setup. Many of us are traveling all the time and we need to be able to be productive on the road. After using quite a lot of different types of mobile products and applications we are going to focus on the best and present them to you here. Today we will be focusing on laptops. This is of course the core of being productive while on the road. For our Mobile Arsenal we are going to recommend laptops that are great for doing work and getting things done. If you are looking for a gaming laptop or something else we are not going to recommend that here. So let’s get started.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Corsair Graphite 230T Mid-Tower Case and H75 Liquid CPU Cooler Review

Today we take Corsairs 230T and H75 cooler and find out how these two aggressively priced items perform together.

Read full article @ HardwareHeaven.com

GeForce GTX 780 Ti Round Up: EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI

Do you know what gets our juices flowing even more than high-end hardware? It's having the opportunity to wrangle and evaluate multiple versions of a top-tier product. In this case, we've gone out and collected NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics cards from three different enthusiast brands: EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI. Each of the cards in this roundup go above and beyond NVIDIA's reference blueprint -- they're all factory overclocked, custom cooled, and designed to run quiet so you can hear when an enemy tries to sneak up on you...

Read full article @ HotHardware.com

Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04: The best Ubuntu desktop ever

I still find Ubuntu with Unity the best desktop of all for users who don't know computers and just want something easy to use.

Read full article @ ZDNet

Lexar JumpDrive S33 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

Today we wish to present JumpDrive S33 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive which is one of the latest Lexar flash drives and also one of the fastest.
We are already used to see thumb drives everywhere in different sizes, capacities, colors and shapes. Since manufacturers are constantly improving all devices then we also wish to show changes on the market in such handy product line as flash drives.
Let's take a look at our Lexar JumpDrive S33 review and check how much has to offer this little storage device.

Read full article @ FunkyKit

SanDisk Clip Sport MP3 Player Review

In the first part of February SanDisk announced the new SanDisk Clip Sport MP3 player that was aimed at athletes and fitness enthusiasts, and they were nice and sent us one. Now you are thinking “Why do I need a dedicated MP3 player? I have a smart phone”. Well running or working out with a large phone like my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 sucks. It’s a massive phone, and it bouncing around in my pocket while running is not only hard on my leg, but the phone too.The SanDisk Clip Sport is small, light, and with 4GB or 8GB internal storage more than enough for a couple hours in the gym.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Cloud Benchmarks

Our latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS benchmarks up this morning to complement our preliminary Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server benchmarks and desktop benchmarks are of the past two Ubuntu Long Term Support releases running within DigitalOcean's public cloud.

On Friday when running a 12 core, 32GB RAM, 320GB SSD cloud droplet/instance type, I did fresh droplets of Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS -- that was after creating/destroying droplets until getting reasonably matching hardware, per my variable cloud computing performance article from yesterday.

Read full article @ Phoronix