Here a roundup of the latest reviews and articles:

A10-7800 CPU Review
Antec P70 Case Review
CyberPower Syber Vapor PC Gaming Console Review
DeepCool CAPTAIN 360 Liquid CPU Cooler Review
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Super Superclocked Review
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Review
Kingston HS4 Memory Card Reader Review
Linux 4.0 Kernel Will Likely Be Released Next Weekend
Raijintek Triton
Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X 8GB CrossFireX Review
Scythe Ashura SCASR-1000 Heatsink Review
What is a good alternative to wget or curl on Linux

A10-7800 CPU Review

The AMD A10-7800 is a mainstream desktop CPU (or APU, as the manufacturer calls it), altough it is one the most expensive processors available for the platform FM2+. The A-series 7xxx CPUs are codenamed "Kaveri", and they are more energy-efficient than the previous generation, "Richland". The A10-7800 has a 65 W TDP, which can be lowered to 45 W (at expense of a lower maximum clock rate), if the BIOS of your motherboard supports this option. The A10-7800 is based on a microarchitecture called "Steamroller" and, as mentioned, it uses the FM2+ socket.

Read full article @ Hardware Secrets

Antec P70 Case Review

The Antec 900 made true case history with the little Mid Tower monster and his big brother the Antec 1200 gaming case. These cases were the first case with a huge 200mm exhaust fan and it revolutionized air cooling computers for a decade to come and with its dual 120mm lighted intake fans in the front and that giant top 200mm exhaust and even a 120mm fan attached to this case, it was a piece of computer aerodynamics history that was proven over and over by temperature tests by owners and reviewers all over the world to be the best they had ever witnessed. There were revisions over the years and a second generation to the 900 case, and it went over okay I guess; but the price and the look of the original real thing was so incredible it was hard to get people to buy the next gen cover model. Even, now I am almost sure that there are a few Antec 900 user’s out there reading this review on the internet right now. It has been Newegg.com’s Most Sold computer case ever in history and has been on the number one spot of the Electronics’ Billboard Charts of production cases since its inception almost a full decade ago. Now 9 years have passed and sure there have been lot of Antec cases since then but nothing to rate or to make history like the Antec 900, but Antec has a new Economy case called the Antec P70. I really don’t think that this case is going to make history like its grandfather but he is quite a case of it’s own.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

CyberPower Syber Vapor PC Gaming Console Review

Had things gone to plan, Steam Machines would be a shipping product by now. However, Valve threw a wrench into the works when it decided that more time was needed to tweak its custom Linux-based Steam OS and fine tune the platform's accompanying Steam Controller. That decision left several partnering OEMs and boutique system builders in limbo, as they had already put in the necessary R&D to develop living room boxes that would serve as official Steam Machines.

Hence a new category was born -- the PC gaming console. Systems like the Syber Vapor are full-fledged PCs stuffed inside console-sized cases that could have and would have served as Steam Machines. Since they lack Steam OS, they're not official Steam Machines, but they are intended for the living room where they'll mate with your large screen HDTV. The Syber Vapor that we're looking at here even boots directly into Steam's Big Picture mode, a 10-foot user interface that was designed specifically for this purpose...

Read full article @ HotHardware.com

DeepCool CAPTAIN 360 Liquid CPU Cooler Review

All in one (AIO) liquid CPU cooling solutions have been around for quite a few years now (made primarily by Asetek and CoolIT) and as we all know are gaining ground against regular CPU air coolers since in most cases these are easier to install, offer zero clearance issues with memory modules and mainboard components and of course perform and look better. However although the high-end 240mm models made their appearance shortly after the mid-end 120/140mm models it wasn't until somewhat recently that we witnessed the release of the very first ultra-high-end 360mm models like the Water 3.0 Ultimate by Thermaltake and the H320 by Swiftech. DeepCool also launched their own 360mm AIO model as part of their brand new CAPTAIN series and it so happens that today we have it on our test bench.

Read full article @ NikKTech

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Super Superclocked Review

Better than the rival R9 290X? December 2014 saw EVGA release the GeForce GTX 970 Super Superclocked (SSC) ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-2975-KR) graphics card in very limited numbers through a handful of etailers in North America, Germany, and the Nordics.

Priced at $359.99, or $30 more than reference, the original SSC version's 1,190MHz core and 1,342MHz average boost speeds provided a significant in-game performance uplift over the bog-standard card.

EVGA has since updated the still-capable GeForce GTX 970 GPU by releasing a newer, cheaper SSC ACX 2.0 model that's widely available now.

Read full article @ Hexus

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 4GB Review

We review the 4GB model of the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GeForce GTX 960. The GTX 960 is the mainstream product that we figured has a notch too little memory, will this 4GB version resolve your and our concerns ? We do know that this card is among the most silent we have ever tested, it also has great looks including a proper back-plate. The G1 Gaming comes factory overclocked, has a WindForce X3 based cooler and is a great overclocker as well. Let's check it out, shall we?

The GM206 GPU powering the card has been a topic of much discussion over the past few months, and let's face it... everybody expected this GPU to be based on the GPU being used in the GTX 970 and 980. Then there were delays, and the product got pushed backwards to even after Christmas. Yes, somebody made the decision that the GTX 960 should be a cheaper fab product opposed to using the more expensive GM204 that you know from the GTX 970/980. Nvidia now bakes the GM206 for the GTX 960 series, the product has been castrated and stripped of everything that is sexy with the GTX 970/980. For the 'normal' models you have been able to see the memory cut down to 2 GB of memory on these puppies, that memory runs on a 128-bit wide bus, the shader processors have been halved to 1024 Shader/Stream/Cuda cores. But now the 4 GB models have launched as well.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Kingston HS4 Memory Card Reader Review

Kingston announced just last week the release of their 4th generation HS4 All-In-One Media Reader and the expansion of their CompactFlash Ultimate 600x family by adding a larger 64GB capacity card to the lineup. These two parts are all about giving photographers and videographers capture content on a high-end lifetime warrantied memory card and then quickly and painlessly back up and transfer all of that digital data through the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface. Read on to see how they perform!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Linux 4.0 Kernel Will Likely Be Released Next Weekend

After the article a short time ago about Linux 4.0-rc7 being tagged, Linus Torvalds sent out his 4.0-RC7 release announcement that confirmed what was expected

Read full article @ Phoronix

Raijintek Triton

Raijintek is upping their game by entering the all-in-one liquid CPU cooler market with the Triton. Not content with off-the-shelf, self-contained units, they have instead entered the market swinging with an expandable system. Customizable and to be had for a sweet price, the competition might be in for a world of hurt.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X 8GB CrossFireX Review

The AMD R9 200 range has been with us now for around 18 months, much longer than a normal graphics card range. AMD produced some very high-quality products here that allowed them to initially beat NVIDIA offerings and lately just fall short with the release of the GeForce GTX 900 range. To counteract this, AMD have recently cut the prices of most of its graphics card range and no pose an amazing performance vs price argument. In recent months, 4K gaming has boomed and most consumers are noticing a lacking performance at this resolution due to a shortage of VRAM. In most cases, most general games use below this amount, but some niche games, such as ‘modded’ Skyrim and GTA IV use around 6GB. To counteract this, AMD has allowed its sub-vendors to add an additional 4GB of VRAM to its R9 290x range, revealing the highest single core VRAM card to date.

Today we have the Sapphire Tri-x R9 290x 8GB, boasting high overclocks and some amazing features; this card should impress. We’ve recently had another of Sapphires 8GB offerings, the Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290x 8GB. This graphics card had given us a taste of how useful 8GB of VRAM is and it disappointed us with all of our benchmarking games only using 3.5GB VRAM maximum. This particular model gives us more hope, with newer games being released that hope to break into the 4GB+ realm, such as Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and The Evil Within both supposedly requiring 5-7GB. The Tri-x model differs from the Vapor-X model with its different cooling solution, colour scheme and the bundled Tri-x utility software

Read full article @ eTeknix

Scythe Ashura SCASR-1000 Heatsink Review

On the review bench today we have Scythe's Ashura heatsink; this is a fairly standard tower cooler equipped with a 140mm fan. The Ashura cooler stands 162mm tall, making it suitable for full tower cases where AIO liquid coolers are often too bulky.

Read full article @ FrostyTech

What is a good alternative to wget or curl on Linux

If you often need to access a web server non-interactively in a terminal environment (e.g., download a file from the web, or test REST-ful web service APIs), chances are that wget or curl is your go-to tool. With extensive command-line options, both of these tools can handle a variety of non-interactive web access use cases.

Read full article @ Xmodulo