Here a roundup of the latest reviews and articles:

Alienware 13 With OLED: Hands-On The Future Of Notebook Displays
AMD adds RX 470 and RX 460 to Polaris GPU line-up
Arctic Freezer i11 and i32 CPU-coolers review: cool coolers
Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Review
ASUS STRIX GTX 1080 Review
AudioMX HB-8A Bluetooth Headphones Review
Cooler Master MasterCase Maker 5 Review
Crucial MX300 750GB SSD Review
Crucial MX300 SSD Review (750GB)
Easy Roller Polyhedral Gaming Dice Review
GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Overclocking Review
GIGABYTE GA-990X Gaming SLI Review
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 GAMING Review
How to Connect to MySQL Database from Python With Example
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8 GB
Nvidia GP102 Titan coming soon
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB SSD Review
Sapphire AMD RX 480 Nitro on show
Streacom FC5A Fanless Chassis Review
Typeeto – Using Your Mac As A Bluetooth Keyboard
X99 Charts: 15 Boards - Gigabyte X99-Ultra Gaming

Alienware 13 With OLED: Hands-On The Future Of Notebook Displays

Dell's Alienware 13 gaming notebook has been a favorite among gamers on the go and power users that want a little more horsepower in a light 13-inch machine. However, over the past couple of years, the Alienware team hasn't changed-up the design much, until today that is. The company is officially making the OLED display powered Alienware 13, that we saw back in January at CES, available today in conjunction with the E3 show out in LA.

Our initial impressions in the short time we've had the system in-house are similar to our first impressions at CES; hell yes, that OLED display sure is gorgeous...

Read full article @ HotHardware

AMD adds RX 470 and RX 460 to Polaris GPU line-up

The mainstream fight is on. At the gaming-focussed E3 show held in Los Angeles, AMD CEO, Lisa Su, announced two more graphics cards for the mainstream RX series. We already know of RX 480, along with its seemingly attractive $199 price point, and this Polaris-based card is due to debut on June 29. Now, Su confirmed that it will be joined by the RX 470 and RX 460 cards at a later date. Both are based on a cut-down version of the same Polaris architecture.

Read full article @ Hexus

Arctic Freezer i11 and i32 CPU-coolers review: cool coolers

At first glance the Freezer i32 is a standard towercooler with four direct-touch-heatpipes and an aluminum heatsink, but appearances are deceptive. The 120mm Arctic F12-fan comes with an on-board fan controller that completely stops the fan if active cooling is not required. To prevent a fan from turning off motherboards usually do not send a PWM-signal under 40 percent, but Arctic bypasses this. The fan uses a fluid-dynamic bearing and operates at a maximum of 1,350 rpm or revolutions per minute.

The model number starts with an i, indicating that this cooler is only compatible with Intel-sockets. Aside from socket 1151 and other 115x-sockets, you can use this on socket 2011(-3). AMD-users cannot use this particular cooler, although the Freezer A32 is suited for usage with AMD-CPUs. By not supplying AMD-brackets the cost of the cooler can be slightly lower than usual.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Review

Who needs a Founders Edition when there's the ROG Strix? Want to own the world's fastest GPU? Then don't beat around the bush, go out and buy yourself Nvidia's new flagship, the GeForce GTX 1080. It should be as simple as that, yet the decision has been muddied somewhat by the introduction of a Founders Edition model that offers consumers a true reference experience at a premium cost of $699.

The Founders Edition card is solid, there's no doubt about that, yet overclocked partner cards are likely to be faster, cooler and possibly quieter, too. And pricing will start from $599, apparently, so it makes you wonder: outside of those who needed the card on day one, who in their right mind would pay extra for the reference board?

Read full article @ Hexus

ASUS STRIX GTX 1080 Review

The past few weeks have been some of the most exciting we’ve experience in the computer tech industry. Not least because of the spate of interesting announcements at Computex 2016 but taking centre-stage was one of the most significant GPU releases in recent times. Last month, NVIDIA unveiled their new flagship graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1080. Starting at the top end, this high-performance GPU, based on Pascal architecture leaves no stone unturned and is NVIDIA’s most powerful single-GPU they’ve released; even surpassing the performance of the highly revered TITAN-X. Today, we’ll be taking a look at our first partner version of this highly anticipated card.

Read full article @ Vortez

AudioMX HB-8A Bluetooth Headphones Review

You're on a tight budget but in urgent need for a new pair of bluetooth headphones? If the answer is yes then look no further than the HB-8A model by AudioMX.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Cooler Master MasterCase Maker 5 Review

With the MasterCase Maker 5, Cooler Master introduces a new mid-tower case, which is compatible with high-end components. The MasterCase Maker 5 is the new flagship model which comes with a few interesting accessories like radiator brackets and additional HDD cages. In addition there are more goodies such as a modular HDD mounting system and a mid-plate to hide the power supply away. Overall this sounds like an interesting product and we're curious whether CoolerMaster is able to convice.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Crucial MX300 750GB SSD Review

Micron's new 3D flash comes to market first in a limited edition MX300 750GB SSD. The new drive joins Samsung's 3D with TLC in the mainstream category.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Crucial MX300 SSD Review (750GB)

For what seemed like an eternity Samsung has been the leader in manufacturing 3D NAND. Starting with the release of the Samsung 850 Pro two years ago, they have paved the way for innovation. 3D NAND brings greater capacity, power efficiency, and lower cost to the consumers. After first announcing their 32-Layer 3D NAND last year in March (http://thessdreview.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3d9b6193ffd32dd60e84fc74b&id=7f782b527f&e=312ec141fb) , we have been patiently awaiting Micron and Intel to finally step into the game to combat Samsung in this regard. Luckily for us, we don't need to wait any longer. Today, Crucial releases the Limited Edition MX300 (http://thessdreview.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3d9b6193ffd32dd60e84fc74b&id=96b0c39de4&e=312ec141fb) , a 750GB, 2.5" 7mm form factor SSD powered by Micron's latest 3D TLC NAND! We can finally get hand's on experience with the collaborative result of Micron's and Intel's labor to see how it compares to the competition. Read on to learn more as we put the Limited Edition Crucial MX300 to the test.

Read full article @ The SSD Review

Easy Roller Polyhedral Gaming Dice Review

In this article for Benchmark Reviews, I will test several table gaming products by Easy Roller Dice Company: Legendary Copper Metal 7-Piece Dice Set, Yellow Opaque 10-Piece Polyhedral Dice Set, Wyvern Reversible Microfiber Self-Standing Large Dice Bag, and their Red Velvet Lined Octagon Shaped Dice Rolling Tray.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Overclocking Review

In our overclocking review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition we will see how far we can overclock the GPU and memory and then compare performance with GeForce GTX TITAN X and GeForce GTX 980 Ti. How high will she go Can the $449 GTX 1070 outperform a $1000 GTX TITAN X The answer is exciting.

Read full article @ HardOCP

GIGABYTE GA-990X Gaming SLI Review

Although missing out on the RGB goodness that has been unveiled by GIGABYTE recently, the latest line of G1 Gaming motherboards for the AM3+ platform introduces various new standards to the ageing chipset including an M2 slot with a 20Gb/s transfer rate, as well as 2x USB 3.1 ports.

Read full article @ Vortez

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 GAMING Review

Gigabyte released their GeForce GTX 1080 G1 GAMING edition graphics card. This bad boy is what many of you have been waiting for, all custom, all tweaked and cooled much better opposed to the founders edition. Join me in a review of this 8 GB demon From Gigabyte, the GTX 1080 G1 GAMING located under SKU code GV-N2080G1 GAMING-8GD with that all new WindForce 3X cooler.

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 1070 and 1080 cards slowly becoming available in stores as we speak. Both models are equally impressive in its product positioning, though I do feel the 1070 will be the more attractive product due to its 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 offer SKUs for less opposed to the Nvidia reference / Founder edition cards. 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

How to Connect to MySQL Database from Python With Example

From a Python program, you can connect to MySQL database to access the tables and manipulate your data. For this, you should use one of the Python MySQL Libraries. While there are few of these libraries available, the most popular and stable is mysql-connector-python library.

Read full article @ The Geek Stuff

MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8 GB

MSI's GTX 1080 Gaming X is an overclocked, custom-design variant of the GTX 1080, which doesn't throttle and comes with almost inaudible fans (in heavy gaming), and zero-noise in idle and light gaming, because the fans are switched off while the card is running cool.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Nvidia GP102 Titan coming soon

We don’t have many details about GP102 other than it is fast enough for  Nvidia to call it Titian. There is a chance that there will be a Geforce GTX 1080 Ti branding but our sources are telling us that Titan is more likely.

People will be looking to upgrade their PCs as we already had quite a few new games launching in the last few weeks including Division, Doom and those that will launch later including highly anticipated Battlefield 1 will need a bit more graphics grunt to run.

Read full article @ Fudzilla

Samsung 750 EVO 500GB SSD Review

Samsung has released the Samsung 750 EVO SSD in larger capacity size. As such we review the 500 GB version of this SSD that offers enthusiast class speed but is competitive in pricing as the product is priced at €149, which boild down to 30 cents per GB. Armed with truckloads of performance and that attractive pricing, Samsung will once again set the tone.

As you guys know, we've been testing NAND Flash based storage ever since the very beginning, and it is surprising to see where we have gotten. The SSD market is fierce and crowded though. While stability and safety of your data have become a number one priority for the manufacturers, the technology keeps advancing at a fast pace as it does, the performance numbers a good SSD offers these days are simply breathtaking! You get between 450 MB/s to 500 MB/sec on SATA3 which is the norm for a single controller based SSD. Next to that, over the past year, NAND flash memory (the storage memory used inside an SSD) has become much cheaper as well. Prices a year ago settled at just under 1 USD per GB. That was two to threefold two years ago. These days a good SSD can be found under 50 cents per GB. With parties like Samsung, Toshiba and Micron the prices now have dropped towards and below the 30 cents per GB marker. This means that SSD technology and NAND storage has gone mainstream and due to the lower prices, the volume sizes go up as well. A couple of years ago a 64 GB SSD was hot stuff, then slowly we moved to 120 GB, last year 240 GB for an SSD in a PC was the norm, upcoming year we'll transition slowly to roughly 500 GB per SSD as the norm with sub 150 USD prices. With the market being so huge, fierce and competitive, it brought us to where we are today... nice volume SSDs at acceptable prices with very fast performance. Not one test system in my lab has a HDD, everything runs on SSD while I receive and retrieve my bigger chunks of data from a NAS server here in the office. The benefits are performance, speed, low power consumption and no noise.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Sapphire AMD RX 480 Nitro on show

Looks like a new cooler. AMD's next-gen graphics architecture, codenamed Polaris, will make its retail bow at mainstream prices. We know this because the range-topping RX 480 is set to debut from $199 for cards equipped with 4GB of memory and possibly $229 upwards for 8GB models. Other, cheaper cards will follow in due course.

Given the low-ish TDP on the RX 480 - 150W max, according to AMD - you might be thinking how the company's add-in card (AIC) partners will construct their RX 480 offerings ahead of the launch on June 29. We now have some insight from HWBattle, who has scored some pictures of the purported Sapphire RX 480 Nitro. Feast your peepers on these.

Read full article @ Hexus

Streacom FC5A Fanless Chassis Review

That's right you read it correctly, a fanless chassis. The FC5A is a new breed of computing taking out the fans and incorporating a fanless, therefor silent system. With a thin sleek design it gives thought to the old Dell Optiplex's we saw in school's, libraries and offices except with a lot more style and grace.

Read full article @ TechnologyX

Typeeto – Using Your Mac As A Bluetooth Keyboard

Wish you can use your Mac as a Bluetooth keyboard for your iPhone or iPad? Now you can, with Typeeto! Find out how useful it is in our review.

Read full article @ TechARP

X99 Charts: 15 Boards - Gigabyte X99-Ultra Gaming

So far we've tested 15 X99 motherboards and we have to say that sometimes we got quite interesting results. What we've also done is, we have added results gathered with Right Mark Audio Analyzer in order to check the quality of the onboard audio

Read full article @ ocaholic