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Here a roundup of todays review's and articles:

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti STRIX Review
ASUS X99 Sabertooth Preview
Chillblast Fusion Scythe 2 mini-ITX system Review
Deepcool Captain 240 Liquid CPU Cooler Review
Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming Review
Here is how to make sure you receive Windows 10 RTM on 29 July 2015
Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SSD Review
Samsung 850 PRO 2TB SSD Vs Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SSD
SAPPHIRE R9 Fury X Review
Seagate Wireless 500GB (SDTC500401) Review
TR's July 2015 mobile staff picks

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti STRIX Review

We review and benchmark that owl of a card, the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti STRIX, the graphics card is named after a beast, and is one. The product comes factory overclocked at great levels and has got that all new three fan cooling. Albeit not the best performing cooler, it is the most silent one we've tested thus far. Merge all that with the default goodness the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has to offer like the 6 GB graphics memory and this product simply is a h00t.

The GPU that resides on under the hood is the big Maxwell, and oh man it's a freak of nature with that kind of game rendering powah! You'd expect a product with '980' in it to have a similar slightly tweaked GPU, but no Sir. Nvidia shifted a thing or two around, the 980 Ti is based on the BIG Maxwell GPU, the same GPU that is powering the Titan X. Obviously the product has been trimmed down a tiny bit, but trust us when we say, there's plenty performance to be found. This product comes with a luxurious six Gigabytes of graphics memory and with these specs, the GTX 980 Ti should be fetching a lot of interest for the true gamers among us. The GPU empowering the GeForce 980 Ti is big, this one has a massive transistor count; it is a slightly revised GM200 A1 GPU that currently feeds the Titan X its horsepower. So yes, a slightly different iteration of the GM200. The card has five display outputs: three DisplayPorts, HDMI and DVI-I. Where the GTX 980 has 4 GB, this product has a nice 6 GB frame buffer, and close to a third more shader processors when compared to the GeForce 980, accumulating up-to 2816 of them playing the binary game in a GPU that has a whopping 8 Billion transistors (GeForce GTX 980 has 5 Billion). The card looks pretty identical to previous models with subtle changes here and there and with that familiar cooler shroud. Memory wise NVIDIA equipped its GeForce GTX 980 Ti with 7 Gbps memory, the fastest GDDR5 memory you can find on a graphics card today, that's until HBM (stacked memory) is released by the competition in the near future. Combined with GPU Boost 2.0 you will see this product is advertised in the 1076 MHz range on its dynamic clock for the reference products. The reference base clock for 980 Ti is 1 GHz. It's not that the card can't go any higher, but it is done to keep the product in line power consumption wise. With a 250W TDP, we are not complaining at all, no Sir. For the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, monitor outputs include DVI, HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort, this will vary a little with board partner products that are bound to get released after Computex, based on their own design and cooling. With a card like the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti STRIX you will be able to play the hottest games including the Witcher 3 and Grand Theft Auto V at that whopping Ultra HD 8.2 Mpixels at a 3840x2160 resolution with a single card, in fact we are going to check that out in this review. The maximum allowed board design power draw is roughly 250 Watts, not bad considering the caliber of this product.

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ASUS X99 Sabertooth Preview

Meanwhile ASUS also has a Sabertooth motherboard in its portfolio, which is based on Intels X99 chipset. As expected this is a high-end motherboard, which comes with a lot of features. As with all Sabertooth models you there is the so called thermal shield and apart from that we find a metal back-plate, which reinforces the entire motherboard.

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Chillblast Fusion Scythe 2 mini-ITX system Review

As fashions and technology have changed in the PC industry over the past few decades, systems have invariably become smaller. That means that while you can get yourself a monstrous double sized desktop gaming system from the likes of Chillblast, you can also order much smaller form factor machines with a more general purpose.

Take the Fusion Scythe 2, a mini-ITX system sporting an Intel Anniversary Edition Pentium CPU, a GTX 750 add-in card, all inside an attractive Thermaltake chassis. It’s not a power house by any means, but it should have the potential to offer decent performance, on a budget.http://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/general-purpose-pc/jon-martindale/chillblast-fusion-scythe-2-mini-itx-system-review/

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Deepcool Captain 240 Liquid CPU Cooler Review

If there is one thing to be said about Beijing based hardware manufacturer DeepCool, it would be their tenacity for pushing the limits of their own design while creating new and inspiring pieces of tech. While company has been around and creating cooling solutions since 1996, it hasn’t been until recently that they have thrust themselves onto the global enthusiast stage. Since we have been reviewing their products we have moved from simple air coolers to the very steampunk inspired AiO that we are taking a look at today. The Captain 240 is the middle of their Captain line of AiO coolers and really sets itself apart with it’s aesthetics. Read on as we find out if the design is just a veneer or if this cooler really has what it takes to be one of the best.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming Review

Over the past few weeks there has been a significant amount of movement in the graphics card marketplace as AMD released their 300 series, along with their new Fury cards. That followed NVIDIAs launch of the GTX 980 Ti which had found a pretty impressive mix of price and performance, especially when compared with the Titan X. Now manufacturers are throwing out enhanced versions of NVIDIAs card and we have one of those on our test bench today, welcome to our Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming Review.

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Here is how to make sure you receive Windows 10 RTM on 29 July 2015

Although Microsoft has a staggered roll out planned for Windows 10 later this month there is one way to make sure you can get the final build on the day it becomes available.

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Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SSD Review

Samsung is upping the ante, releasing the Samsung 850 EVO SSD in large capacity sizes. We review the 2TB version of this stunning series that offers enthusiast class speed but is competitive in pricing. 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 Micro the prices now have dropped with another 20%, you can spot SSDs for 35~40 cents per Gigabyte!

Read full article @ Guru3D

Samsung 850 PRO 2TB SSD Vs Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SSD

Samsung has raised the bar with regards to storage capacity in its SSDs today by releasing massive new 2TB models in the 850 PRO and 850 EVO product lines. These are Samsungs highest-capacity SSDs to date for the consumer market and they are being released now because Samsung feels the market and pricing will finally support large 2TB SSDs. Samsungs previous highest-capacity SSD could hold just 1TB of data, so Samsung has doubled the storage capacity of their consumer SSD product line!

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SAPPHIRE R9 Fury X Review

This summer is especially significant for AMD. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the launch of Fury X is just another flagship release to counter the forces of NVIDIA - but this Fiji-based GPU brings with it 10 years of innovation and engineering with a shift away from GDDR5 and into the foray of HBM.

AMD's new flagship is designed primarily for high-resolution gaming. Whether it be 4K, multi-panel Eyefinity, or a VR headset, AMD want gaming on Fury X to be the best possible experience and have extended that to the quality of the cooler, enclosure, and assuaging concerns over heat.

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Seagate Wireless 500GB (SDTC500401) Review

The last few years have seen an emergence of a fairly new creature on the computer scene. Wireless Wi-Fi and even Wireless bluetooth drives started popping up providing personal storage shared by any number of devices in the owners home. Now we are seeing Wireless Mobile drives like the Seagate Wireless 500 GB that not only provide wireless storage but come with a battery for up to 6 hours of mobile storage unplugged.

Some years back computer vendors started pushing limited storage devices (around the Asus EEE PC period) and small portable devices proliferated at an explosive rate. The biggest problem with these small portable devices, chrome books, Phones, tablets and hybrids was / is shortage of storage or clunky wire to device storage. The cloud has been evolving but the cloud is dependent on an internet connection.

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