Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Asus Republic Of Gamers Strix GTX 1080 Aura RGB OC
Best Tablets: Q2 2016
Braven BRV-X Bluetooth Speaker Review
Gigabyte's Z170X-UD3 motherboard reviewed
Kaby Lake-S has 15 percent more I/O lanes
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review
NVIDIA Pascal Mobile GPU Details
Overwatch PC Gameplay And Performance Review: Blizzard's First Shooter Soars High
SanDisk X400 SSD Review (512GB)
Scythe Fuma Twin-Tower CPU Cooler Review
Thermaltake Pacific PR22-D5 Pump Reservoir with Silent Kit Review

Asus Republic Of Gamers Strix GTX 1080 Aura RGB OC

On May 17th Nvidia released their Founders Edition GTX 1080 and today we follow up on the launch review by looking at the first custom partner card to hit our offices. The Asus ROG Strix GTX1080 is fully loaded, featuring the latest Direct CU III cooler, customisable RGB lighting and enhanced ‘out of the box’ clock speeds. ASUS have designed the card with low noise in mind, but it is worth the hefty £659.99 asking price?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Best Tablets: Q2 2016

As the second quarter of the year comes nears its end, its time to refresh our quarterly buyers guides. Todays guide is our best tablet guide. The tablet market hasnt seen many changes on the Android or Windows sides since our tablet guide from March, but there have been changes on the Apple side of things. There are also some new tablets on the horizon, and that means new flagship devices along with potential price drops on existing models. Both are great news for anyone interested in buying a tablet.

As always, Ill begin with the iPads available from Apple due to the simplicity of that category, followed by the best offerings at a couple of price points from Android tablet manufacturers, with the best Windows tablets finishing things off.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Braven BRV-X Bluetooth Speaker Review

It is now June! This marks the start of summer and summer means outdoor activities, campfires, and just fun in the sun.  What makes all of those things better? Great music of course! Bluetooth speakers make it quite easy to share great music with a group of people.  There are so many Bluetooth speakers out there so it is really hard to choose which one is the right one for you.  Braven makes Bluetooth Speakers and specializes in outdoor speakers, which of course are great for summer!  Not too long ago we took a look at Braven’s BRV-1, it was a good speaker, but lacked the sound quality we expected.  Today we have the BRV-X in to review which is a much larger speaker than the BRV-1.  It is IPX7 certified waterproof, shock absorbent, and has a rugged overall design.  Other great features include a 5200 mAh power bank for charging devices, dual audio modes, and the ability to pair another speaker.  Let’s see if the BRV-X is the perfect Bluetooth speaker for summer!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Gigabyte's Z170X-UD3 motherboard reviewed

Gigabyte's Z170X-UD3 is a mid-range motherboard that gives builders everything the Z170 chipset has to offer and more. We take an in-depth look at this board to see whether it lives up to the promise of its impressive spec sheet.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Kaby Lake-S has 15 percent more I/O lanes

This quad-core with eight threads is a high-end processor that will bring a few small changes. It will be faster within the same TDP, but Intel is not talking about the actual clocks. The fastest Skylake is the Intel Core i7-6700K and it has a 4.0GHz base clock that reaches 4.2GHz on Turbo.
Kaby Lake Core i7 7x00K series will be slightly faster. Intel is telling its partners that the Kaby Lake-S will have 15 percent more high speed input / output lanes. This is only four additional PCI express lanes and nothing that is going to change the world.

Read full article @ Fudzilla

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review

In this AIB review we test the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X (custom Edition). Now we all like the reference founders edition cards, but be honest with me; everybody really waiting to see the board partner cards right ? These are factory tweaked and cooled better. Let's check out the new 8 GB beast from MSI, the GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G with the very cool TwinFrozr revision VI cooler.

When the initial Pascal articles launched three weeks ago, it caught us a bit by surprise, the actual reference review took down this site for a couple of minutes as our load-balanced front-end servers could not handle the near 2500% increase in traffic. Crazy stuff, and that is testimony to the fact that you guys have been waiting very long on the new graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia. It's for good reason, the graphics card industry, or the GPU industry has been on hold, waiting for a smaller GPU fabrication process to become viable. Last generation GPUs were based on a 28 nm fabrication, an intermediate move to 20 nm was supposed to be the answer for today’s GPUs, but it was a problematic technology. Aside from some smaller ASICs the 20 nm node has been a fail. Therefore the industry had to wait until an ever newer and smaller fabrication process was available in order to shrink the die which allows for less voltage usage in the chips, less transistor gate leakage and, obviously, more transistors in a GPU. The answer was to be found in the recent 14/15/16 nm fabrication processors and processes with the now all too familiar FinFET + VLSI technology (basically wings on a transistor). Intel has been using it for a while, and now both Nvidia and AMD are moving towards such nodes as well. Nvidia is the first to announce their new products based on a TSMC 16 nm process fab by introducing Pascal GPU architecture, named after the mathematician much like Kepler, Maxwell and Fermi. That stage has now passed, the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 have been announced with the 1080 slowly becoming available in stores as we speak, the 1070 cards you'll start to see selling by next week (June 10th 2016). Both cards are equally impressive in it's product positioning, though I do feel the 1070 will be the more attractive product due to it's price level, the 1080 cards really is what everybody want (but perhaps can't afford). The good news though is that the board partner cards will sell for less opposed to the Nvidia reference / Founder edition cars. Obviously the higher-end all customized SKUs will likely level with that founders edition card price level again, but I am pretty certain you'd rather spend your money on a fully customized AIB card that is already factory tweaked a bit opposed the the reference one.

Read full article @ Guru3D

NVIDIA Pascal Mobile GPU Details

The upcoming NVIDIA Pascal mobile GPU will not only be faster, but also offer reduced power consumption. All that translates into a better and longer gaming experience. We can now confirm the following details on the forthcoming NVIDIA Pascal mobile GPUs.

Read full article @ Tech ARP

Overwatch PC Gameplay And Performance Review: Blizzard's First Shooter Soars High

Overwatch, the team-based multiplayer shooter from Blizzard Entertainment has proven to be an unstoppable force in the industry having now reached the hands of more than 7 million gamers within a week of launch. Many predicted as much once the early beta saw nearly 10 million users. Admittedly, we too have been immovably glued to the game since installing the PC version early last week. It features a wide variety of characters, and play styles, with frenetic-pace gameplay that is easy and intuitive for casual players. Yet Overwatch dishes out plenty of depth and strategy for crafty players who strive at filling specific roles in a team-based setting...

Read full article @ HotHardware

SanDisk X400 SSD Review (512GB)

Targeted towards read-intensive workloads, boot, and logging applications in both servers and mobile computing, the X400 is SanDisk's top-tier client SATA SSD available in both M.2 and 2.5" form factors. Based upon the marketing material it seems that SanDisk has put a lot of value into this drive, not only with its feature set, but performance and efficiency.

The X400 is the successor to the X300 and X300s models and utilizes their latest sixth generation TLC NAND flash as well as a 4-channel Marvell controller with their nCache 2.0 architecture to deliver some impressive performance numbers. With DataGuard Client and LDPC error correction code, its endurance is far beyond their previous models. There are even SED SSD sku's offering AES 256-bit encryption with TCG Opal 2.0 support, and moreover, it is backed by a 5-year warranty to boot!

In a time when data security is more important than ever and price being king, will all this be enough to be a Top Value contender in the marketplace? Read on to find out!

Read full article @ The SSD Review

Scythe Fuma Twin-Tower CPU Cooler Review

It may not be the highest performance twin-tower CPU cooler in the market today but the Scythe Fuma comes really close and unlike the majority it's just 149mm in height making it ideal for use in small PC cases.

Read full article @ Nikktech

Thermaltake Pacific PR22-D5 Pump Reservoir with Silent Kit Review

One of the most important components of any watercooling system is the circulation pump which is tasked with moving coolant throughout your loop. Without it your cooling system cannot function, components may fail and hardware enthusiasts will be said. Another important component that is often considered optional by many cooling enthusiasts is the coolant reservoir. This small tank holds excess coolant and makes filling your loop considerably easier.

Normally these two components are installed separately however by combining them you not only make installation easier but reduce the chance of leaks and airbubbles given the fewer hose connections.

In this review I’ll be looking at the Thermaltake Pacific PR22-D5 pump reservoir combo. The PR22 comes with the Thermaltake Silent Kit pump cover that is claimed to reduces noise by 10% and makes the bottom part of the combo look really good.

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum