Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD Zen desktop might slip to Q1 2017
ASUS ROG G752VS (XB78K OC Edition) Laptop Review
Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro S RGB
Cryorig C7 CPU Cooler Review
DeepCool Captain 240 EX AIO Liquid CPU Cooler Review
Dell UltraSharp 4K UP3216Q 32-inch Monitor Review
GE 12728 and 12723 Z-Wave Add On Switches
GIGABYTE P55W v6 Review
Gigabyte Radeon RX 480 G1 GAMING Review
Hands On with Windows 10 (Redstone 2) Build 14926 for PC and Mobile
How to tame and pimp Xfce on CentOS 7
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Review: The OLED Display Update
MSI Z170A MPOWER Gaming Titanium Review: Heavy Metal Magnificence
REEVEN Brontes Low-Profile CPU Cooler Review
Rosewill Cullinan
Sapphire RX480 8GB Nitro+
Thermaltake Toughpower SFX 600W PSU Review

AMD Zen desktop might slip to Q1 2017

AMD has never really said that it will ship the Zen this year, the company was always cautious about giving  the exact date of the launch. We still believe that the desktop version of Zen will get shown late this year, December or at CES, in the first days of next year. Bench-life thinks that the actual shipping will happen in February. 

The latest information mentions three different chipsets - the X370 high end chipset and the B350 and A320. The B probably stands for Business platform, a market that AMD is eager to re-enter to and of course the A320 should offer a more affordable Zen based computer.

Read full article @ Fudzilla

ASUS ROG G752VS (XB78K OC Edition) Laptop Review

Alert KitGuru readers may well feel the Asus ROG G752VS looks familiar as it uses the same chassis as the G752VT that KitGuru reviewed at the beginning of 2016. While Asus G752VS looks outwardly identical to G752VT, it has received an extensive list of upgrades to its internal components. It’s best not to get too bogged down in detail as there are different specifications and SKUs of G752VS, but the big news is that this new laptop sports GTX 1070 graphics with 8GB of GDDR5 memory.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro S RGB

Cooler Master is back with a new range of keyboards aptly named "MasterKeys". I got to grips with their latest TKL board, the MasterKeys PRO S RGB and put it through its paces.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Cryorig C7 CPU Cooler Review

How about a little less? You hardly hear this question when it comes to PC hardware, especially coolers. But with cramped conditions you need to adapt sometimes. Cryorig produces a cooler with the minimalistic name C7 for these situations. Cryorig is a relatively new company which has the mission to bring in some fresh air into the cooling segment with small, but unorthodox innovations. You can check some of their products out in our previous Cryorig reviews. In this test we want to show if the higher price compared to stock solutions is worth it and if the slender C7 can even hold up to bigger coolers.

Read full article @ OCInside.de

DeepCool Captain 240 EX AIO Liquid CPU Cooler Review

Almost two years ago I had the pleasure of reviewing the DeepCool GamerStorm Maelstrom 240 AIO cooler, and now I have received the GamerStorm Captain 240 EX to test. The original Captain 240 AIO cooler series was released in September, 2014 after the success of the Maelstrom 240 to provide users with another high performance liquid cooler.

The Captain 240 was released with an innovative two section pump and cold plate connected with a visible water flow tube. Then it adds in an LED to the top of the pump/heatsink unit for a "steampunk" look, with a pure copper base and 0.2 mm precision machined water channels for efficient heat transfer.

Released in April of this year, the newer Captain 240 EX cooler has upgraded the high-density water micro-channels and anti-explosion/evaporation rubber tubing. It comes fitted with the GamerStorm TF 120 fan that uses a 2-layer blade for high air pressure, and a channelized frame to reduce air flow noise. With a dustproof, waterproof and oil-leakage proof design, the TF 120 fan comes with detachable blades for easy cleaning (and LED color change).

Read full article @ Neoseeker

Dell UltraSharp 4K UP3216Q 32-inch Monitor Review

The Dell 4K UP3216Q is one hell of a monitor, period. Albeit a premium priced affair, what you get is a flexible, wide-gamut display with astounding image quality that'll surely be the envy of all who lay eyes on it.

Read full article @ TechSpot

GE 12728 and 12723 Z-Wave Add On Switches

If the installation of the first in a series of Jasco Z-Wave devices didn't intimidate you then this one might. Many of your lights in your home will be controlled by more than one switch; these are 3-way and 4-way circuits. In order to control these you need to get one or more of the GE Add On Switches. Here we have the Z-Wave GE 12728 In Wall Add On Switch (Toggle style) and the GE 12723 Add On Switch (Paddle style). Both are UL listed for use with 120V 60Hz circuits, mounted indoors with a temperature range of 32-104F (0-40C). They are also packed in the same type of box described earlier but as mentioned these have a gray stripe to indicate they are platform independent, so they can be used with ZigBee and Bluetooth as well.

Read full article @ Bigbruin.com

GIGABYTE P55W v6 Review

Since NVIDIA announced their GTX 10-Series for notebooks, mobile partners have been taking the wraps off their next-gen models featuring one of these spectacular Pascal-based GPUs. Hype surrounding the mobile variants of GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 was formed largely on the notion that the specifications between mobile and desktop counterparts remained almost identical – meaning that mobile users can indeed reap similar results to a fully-fledged desktop gaming configuration. One such notebook partner to seize this new opportunity and revamp their product range is GIGABYTE, who we’ll be turning to today for a detailed look at the P55W V6.

In the spotlight today is the P55W V6 – a gaming notebook that sits within GIGABYTE’s P Series and bearing a plethora of impressive hardware. P55W V6 includes the Intel Core i7-6700HQ, 16GB DDR4 2133MHz and a Liteon CV3 M.2 SSD and more!

Read full article @ Vortez

Gigabyte Radeon RX 480 G1 GAMING Review

For the time being, what you see above will be the top product stack starting with the Radeon RX 480. The Radeon RX 480 graphics card will be made available in 4 and 8GB versions, you will also spot both reference and tweaked SKUs from the board partners. The GPU used in this puppy is based on Polaris 10 (XT), an Ellismere (codename) GPU based on 4th generation GCN architecture. The 14nm FinFET+ process based Radeon RX 480 will push the product to well over 5 TFLOPS. With its 150W TDP it has 36 CUs (compute units aka shader clusters) x 64 shader processors per CU = 2304 shader processors). The card will be available in both 4GB and 8GB versions and has 256-bit GDDR5 memory which offers an effective 8 Gbps / GHz much like the GeForce GTX 1070. The card will run in the 1267 MHz range on its boost clock. Expect board partner cards to run a good 50 MHz faster. The GPU retains technologies of the Radeon GCN lineup such as DirectX 12, FreeSync and XDMA for CrossFire support. The GPU with its 2304 shader processors are tied towards 32 ROPs with 144 texture memory units. The initial consumer graphics card based on Ellismere (XT model) is the Radeon RX 480, the PRO model will get 32 compute units and thus has 2048 shader processors. The Radeon RX 480 is based on a much smaller 14nm fabrication process, as such you will see many enhancements in efficiency and that shows in power consumption, the reference cards will use just one 6-pin power PEG (PCI Express Graphics) header to give the the card its power. The reference boards have a 6-phase VRM power supply design and display output wise the new cards have seen an upgrade as well, including three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors and one HDMI 2.0b. AIB partners may release SKUs with a DVI connector as well, the reference PCB shows SMT traces for a DVI connector. Overall the specs show a very potent card to play the latest games with whilst offering a good memory size versus price in the 1920x1080 and even 2560x1440 monitor resolutions.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Hands On with Windows 10 (Redstone 2) Build 14926 for PC and Mobile

Today's Windows 10 Redstone 2 release to members of the Fast Ring in the Windows Insiders Program contains the first new features making their way into the next major update of Windows 10.

Read full article @ WinSupersite

How to tame and pimp Xfce on CentOS 7

Linux and chill. Tweak and pimp. CentOS and Xfce. You thought you had enough CentOS in your life, haven't you? Well, no, Kemosabe, CentOS is like that professional wrestler and rapper, always coming back. Enough memes for one update yet. On a more serious note, here's a splendid guide explaining how to improve the look & feel and behavior of the Xfce desktop in CentOS 7.2, including visual tweaks like new icons, themes and decorations, transparent desktop icon text background, Whisker menu, keyboard shortcuts, system sounds, PulseAudio configuration, and more. Enjoy deeply.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Review: The OLED Display Update

Lenovo recently sent in a new ThinkPad X1 Yoga with an OLED (Organic LED) display with a native WQHD resolution of 2560X1440. This display is a significant upgrade for the machine, offering a dramatic improvement in image quality in terms of brightness, contrast, saturation, and color gamut coverage. As it turns out, it also offers a notable improvement in battery life as well. For roughly a $240 price premium over Lenovo's standard IPS display option in the ThinkPad X1 Yoga, the OLED upgrade is an impressive, satisfying gain in display image quality that we highly recommend. In fact, it upgraded our final evaluation of the machine to Editor's Choice level for the OLED display-equipped variant of this Lenovo laptop due to the improved battery life and experiential upgrades associated with the better quality of the OLED panel...

Read full article @ HotHardware

MSI Z170A MPOWER Gaming Titanium Review: Heavy Metal Magnificence

Once in a while you come across the sight of something that leaves you at a loss of words (in a good way).  Even if it is something you see a lot of, it has a je ne sais quoi so tangible you could almost touch it.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

REEVEN Brontes Low-Profile CPU Cooler Review

Although it doesn't share the same "punch" as its larger brother the Steropes the smaller size and lower noise levels make the Brontes low-profile CPU cooler by REEVEN a more suitable candidate for HTPC use.

Read full article @ Nikktech

Rosewill Cullinan

The Rosewill Cullinan utilizes glass panels on three sides of the chassis. It looks sleek and clean and comes with four LED-equipped fans, but also offers a long set of functional and design-specific features. We light it up and take a closer look behind its tinted glass panels.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Sapphire RX480 8GB Nitro+

Well for a while there it seemed like all I was covering were cards from all of AMDs launches. I took a break and took a look at a few GTX 1060’s and a few other things around that office. But I’m now back at it again. Today I get to take a look at our first aftermarket RX480 and it’s an exciting one, the RX480 8GB Nitro+ from Sapphire. This is one of the cards that people have been especially excited for. Given how well the Nitro RX470 performed in my previous review I don’t blame them for being excited. So today I’m going to check out the card and see what it has going, then run it through our benchmark suite and see how it performs. While I’m at it I’m also going to take a look at the recently introduced revision to the Trixx software that adds proper lighting controls for the card. Let’s go!

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Thermaltake Toughpower SFX 600W PSU Review

Thermaltake entered the SFX PSU market with two models featuring 450 and 600 W of maximum power. Both units are made by Enhance Electronics, so they are identical to SilverStone's similar-capacity SX600-G and SX450-G. We reviewed the former last year, and it failed to impress us big time. Excess ripple under full load killed it in our evaluation.
Naturally, we're curious to see if Enhance fixed this problem in the Thermaltake STP-0600F-G we're testing today. The fact is that it is very hard for such a physically diminutive PSU to deliver 600 W. Inevitably, some compromises have to be made in its design. Since no filtering caps are installed on its modular cables, ripple suppression can be challenging since there is limited space on the secondary side for installing lots of filtering caps. Without a doubt, ripple suppression and load regulation are the two most important performance aspects of a PSU, so every manufacturer should give its best to offer products that perform well in those two disciplines.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware