Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Best of Mice: Best overall, gaming, wireless and budget picks
Building An Intel Xeon E3 v5 Skylake Linux System
Centon C-380 480GB SATA III Solid State Drive SSD 480GB25S3VVS1 Review
CM Storm Xornet II RGB Optical Gaming Mouse Review
Corsair Carbide 600C Inverted Case Review
Gigabyte H170-HD3 (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
I accidentally openSUSE
Sapphire R9 390 Nitro 8GB (Rev 2 w/ backplate)
Sphero Star Wars BB-8 Super Cute Droid Review

Best of Mice: Best overall, gaming, wireless and budget picks

Deciding what's the best mouse you can buy is a subjective process where several things come into play, such as intended use, feature set, price and how comfortable it feels in your hand and grip style. Today we bring you our choices for the best overall mouse, best gaming mouse, best wireless & portable mouse, plus a handful of budget picks.

Read full article @ Techspot

Building An Intel Xeon E3 v5 Skylake Linux System

Now that Xeon "Skylake" processors are becoming easier to find at major Internet retailers along with supported motherboards, here are the parts I used for assembling an Intel Xeon E3 1245 v5 Skylake system if you are interested in doing a similar Linux workstation build. While my complete Xeon E3 1245 v5 Linux review will come shortly, enclosed are also some initial Ubuntu benchmarks as well.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Centon C-380 480GB SATA III Solid State Drive SSD 480GB25S3VVS1 Review

Solid state drives or SSDs are great that is until they die and recently my Kingston HyperX SSD dies and I mean totally died, no power, no nothing and I lost a little bit of info as I do backups regularly or at least I try to. Luckily I got a chance to review another SSD from Centon, the C-380 which is a 480gb capacity drive which works out as it’s double what my HyperX was and from my testing it’s faster, much faster. So I’ve got a quick review for you, it’s just a lot of testing basically. Read on to learn more…

Read full article @ Technogog

CM Storm Xornet II RGB Optical Gaming Mouse Review

Picking the right mouse can make or break your gaming experience. I’m a strong believer that a really great mouse won’t really make you a better gamer, at least not right away, but it can enhance your experience greatly. From having the right ergonomics to leave your hand feeling comfortable, even after a full days work and a late night of gaming, is certainly something you should be looking for in a mouse. Having a smooth and accurate sensor, so you don’t screw up those edits in Photoshop, or miss those headshots in your favourite game, that’s also pretty important. The latest mouse from CM Storm, the Xornet II, promises to great ergonomics, a great sensor and so much more.

“The Xornet II is built from the ground up for gamers who choose to battle it out using a claw grip style. Renowned as the best gaming mouse design for claw grip, every inch of this mouse has been crafted to prevent cramping and provide maximum comfort. Powered by an improved optical sensor, on-the-fly DPI settings, full 16.8 million color illumination, and lift of distance tuning and calibration, the Xornet II stands out among the competition as a comfortable, accurate and affordable weapon to add to your arsenal.”

The new design and upgrade hardware certainly sound promising, and several great mice, such as the Alcor and the Mizar already to their name, I’m eager to see what this mouse can do.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Corsair Carbide 600C Inverted Case Review

It's hard to be surprised lately when it comes to computer cases. There's so much variety in the market that many different combinations of size and features have already been tried by different companies. Competition seems to have stabilized. Enter Corsair with the Carbide 600C and a design we haven't seen in the case market for some time: inverted motherboard mounting. And be sure to check below for a special giveaway!

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Gigabyte H170-HD3 (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review

Intel’s Z170 platform is designed for enthusiasts utilizing incredibly fast DDR4 memory and large frequency boosts on K-series CPUs. In contrast to this, the H170 chipset caters more towards the budget-conscience consumer running a CPU at stock settings and modest DDR4 speeds. So what are the key differences between Z170 and H170? Firstly, H170 motherboards cannot support memory speeds in excess of 2133MHz and limited to a maximum of 16 PCIe lanes 3.0 lanes compared to 20 on Z170. Additionally, the HSIO Lanes have been reduced from 26 to 22 and theoretically, motherboards are restricted to a single X16 graphics slot. However, motherboard vendors can offer dual card setups via Crossfire. The only other notable change is a reduction in USB 3.0 ports from 10 to 8 which should be more than enough for the average user.

Read full article @ eTeknix

I accidentally openSUSE

What happens when you try the impossible? The answer is, a very short review of the unsuccessful attempt to install Plasma desktop in openSUSE 13.2, resulting in a completely unusable, unrecoverable system. Worry not, a Leap review is coming soon. Meanwhile, enjoy, sort of.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

Sapphire R9 390 Nitro 8GB (Rev 2 w/ backplate)

On July 1st we reviewed one of the first Sapphire R9 390 Nitro cards out of the factory. Sapphire since updated the card, adding a back plate and increasing the clock speeds – and today we present a follow up review of this enhanced model which is available from UK retailers for £269.99 inc vat. We also test the hardware with the latest AMD Crimson drivers and compare against a myriad of other models from AMD and NVIDIA partners.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Sphero Star Wars BB-8 Super Cute Droid Review

BB-8 is a droid which appears in the latest Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie and thanks to Sphero and their cooperation with Lucasfilm and Disney Consumer products, we are able to have a smaller version of it in our homes, which sports some of the features which we have seen in the trailers of the well-known episode of the series. Sphero has built BB-8 on the proven platform of their other droids so the final result is a fully-fledged app-controlled robot which can be driven in a manual mode, comes with a “Patrol” automatic mode and can also display holographic clips (up to 12 seconds long) via the augmented reality feature of the application. Sphero has also mentioned that they will continue to update the robot and add more interesting features to it, near the date The Force Awakens will be released and also afterwards.

Read full article @ Madshrimps