Here a roundup of todays review's and articles:

Crucial BX100 500GB SATA SSD Review
CRYORIG H7 Universal
EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti SC Review
Home Server Deluxe - June 2015
HyperX 32GB DDR4 Fury Memory Review
Intel Compute Stick Performance Surprises Under Ubuntu Linux
Mushkin Ventura Ultra 120GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review
Scythe Ashura CPU Cooler Review
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB review: many TBs for little money
Thermaltake Suppressor F51 Case Review
Thunderbolt 3 is twice as fast and uses reversible USB-C

Crucial BX100 500GB SATA SSD Review

Today we wish to present Crucial's lower series SSD - BX100. This SSD had its premiere couple of week ago but we had no chance to test it earlier and it's for sure interesting product.
Budget SSD series like BX100 are usually hidden in the shadow of higher performance series like recently reviewed Crucial MX200 but for sure are good option for all who don't want to spend much money and still want to enjoy much faster storage than a mechanical hard drives.
Now let's take a look at 500GB version of Crucial BX100 SATA SSD. I hope our review will help you to make a decision during next purchase of SSD.
 

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CRYORIG H7 Universal

CRYORIG continues to push ever forward with, this time, the H7 Universal. Poised to take the entry level market by storm with an affordable price and exceptional features, this smaller sibling to the H5 Universal proves more than a match for the competition, its performance packing a serious punch considering its size.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti SC Review

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti is the new NVIDIA based Flagship PC gaming card. Capable of delivering single GPU 4K performance the GTX 980Ti there is no longer a need for multiple GPUs in order to game at acceptable frame rates at UHD and Ultra-Wide screen resolutions. At launch, EVGA will have multiple variations of the GTX 980Ti to choose from but our focus will be on the GeForce GTX 980Ti SC (SuperClocked Edition). The EVGA 980Ti SC comes factory overclocked with a Core/Boost speed of 1102/1190 MHz, it has a memory clock speed of 7010zMHz and contains 6GB of 384-bit GDDR5 memory. The GPU is the NVIDIA GM200 which has 2816 CUDA cores, six graphics processing clusters and 22 streaming processors. On the I/O there are 3X Display Port, 1x HDMI 2.0 and 1x Dual Link DVI. A 600W power supply is the minimum required and you will need one 8 and one 6-pin PCI-e connector to power the card. The 980Ti SC includes EVGA's state of the art ACX 2.0+ 2 slot cooling solution.

Broken down, the ACX 2.0+ cooling solution consists of a memory MOSFET cooling plate which reduces MOSFET temperatures by 11C. The heatpipes on the cooler are actually straight; by running straight triple 8 mm pipes, friction is reduced which creates better heat reduction than conventional bent heatpipe solutions. When the GPU temperature is under 60C, the EVGA fans remain motionless for 0dB operation. The fans themselves are optimized with swept blades and are powered be a low power double ball bearing, 3 phase 6 slot motor. All combined the ACX 2.0+ Cooling solution cools the MOSFET and GPU better and has increased fan life and decreased fan power consumption.

Read full article @ HiTech Legion

Home Server Deluxe - June 2015

The Deluxe edition of the Home Server distinguishes itself from the standard home server by its smaller size and more powerful hardware. That makes that the server is also suitable for using the ZFS file system. This server is more versatile and takes up less space, and is a lot more expensive.

Please note: the PC Buyer’s Guide is compiled based on independent component tests performed by Hardware.Info. If no new, superior products are released that should replace one or more of the components, then the component(s) will remain the same as the previous month.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

HyperX 32GB DDR4 Fury Memory Review

Today we are looking at the HyperX's new budget friendly lineup: the Fury series DDR4 memory. The HyperX Fury not only offers fast speeds of 2666MHz out of the box, but also offers the efficiency of lower voltage; with that in mind. we can see some great potential with additional performance once overclocked. We will be comparing results from Kingston's (HyperX) previous line up from its DDR3 series all the way up to HyperX Predator DDR4 series we previously tested.

Read full article @ PureOverclock

Intel Compute Stick Performance Surprises Under Ubuntu Linux

In making for an interesting comparison, the systems I'm comparing the Bay-Trail-T-based Compute Stick to for judging its performance are:

- The Intel DN2820FYK Bay Trail NUC with Celeron N2820 dual-core 2.4GHz SoC.

- A Haswell-based Apple Mac Mini with Intel Core i5 4278U quad-core 3.1GHz processor.

- The Broadwell-U-based Intel NUC5i3RYB with Core i3 5010U Broadwell processor.

- The CompuLab Utilite with i.MX6 quad-core Cortex-A9 1.0GHz SoC.

- NVIDIA's Jetson TK1 quad-core Cortex-A15 development board.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Mushkin Ventura Ultra 120GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

Solid state drives (SSDs) have many things in common with their "distant" cousins the typical flash drives but performance was never really one of those things mainly due to USB connectivity limitations (both hardware and software ones). This obstacle as some of you know was left behind not too long ago with the arrival of new USB 3.0 compatible controllers and the UASP (USB Attached SCSI) compatible driver found in Windows 8/8.1 since these two marked the day when manufacturers could actually squeeze the same parts found in every day SSD models inside tiny enclosures and expect similar performance results with increased capacity. Casual users have very little use for such drives however so unfortunately not many "portable" SSDs exist in the market as we speak but with the release of the T1 by Samsung and the Ventura Ultra by Mushkin (which we have here with us today) things are starting to get very interesting.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Scythe Ashura CPU Cooler Review

If you are the type of person that prefers to buy products from experienced companies then you won’t be hard-pressed by the manufacturer of the product in this review. Scythe has been around since 2002, that is thirteen years that sets them as one of the oldest and most experienced companies in the DIY PC market. This week, they have allowed Benchmark Reviews to take a look at some of their latest high performance coolers and today the spotlight falls on the Scythe Ashura, a compact 120 mm cooler which Scythe claims will pass our tests with flying colors.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

Seagate Archive HDD 8TB review: many TBs for little money

Last year, Seagate announced their 8 TB Archive HDD, and as of recently, this drive has actually become available through retail channels. It features both a very high storage capacity and a relatively low price per gigabyte. How did Seagate manage to accomplish this? And would the Archive HDD be a good choice for your PC or NAS? Read all about it in this review.

Although the maximum storage capacity of hard drives has been steadily increasing over the years, innovation seems to have slowed down as of late. While this can partially be explained by the rising popularity of SSDs, the fact that manufacturers are slowly approaching the limit of what's physically possible also plays a role. Using contemporary technologies, a capacity of approximately 1 TB to 1.2 TB per platter (the internal magnetic disks that make up hard drives) seems to be the most that manufacturers can offer. At the same time, the use of conventional methodologies allows them to house a maximum of five or six such platters within a 3.5″ enclosure. For example, Western Digital's 6 TB hard drives use five platters of 1.2 TB each.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Thermaltake Suppressor F51 Case Review

Thermaltake has always been one to impress us over the years. Whether it’s from over the top cases or cases that have new design elements made to make installation easier we know Thermaltake first and foremost for their cases. Their latest Core Series was just that, cases made for builders, for expansion, for watercooling and pretty much whatever you could throw at them. While the Core Series was great, they were not traditional cases in the sense that they were more cube like and not a typical tower. Well today we have Thermaltake’s latest case that incorporates many of the design elements that are found in the Core Series and put them into a large mid tower case. The case that I am talking about is the Suppressor F51 and if you can guess by the name of the case it is made to “suppress” the noise inside your system. Let’s jump in!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Thunderbolt 3 is twice as fast and uses reversible USB-C

The next laptop you buy with a USB-C port could be even more useful than you thought. Intel today unveiled Thunderbolt 3, which uses an identical port design as its USB brethren. So if Apple sticks with its new MacBook design, for instance, it's possible you won't need an adapter to hook up external hardware via Thunderbolt. It's a step towards simplifying the often messy sea of ports found on laptops and PCs, and should make the standard accessible to a larger group of people than before. Thunderbolt 3 offers more than just port convenience, however. It'll also deliver a 40Gbps connection over Thunderbolt, which is double the speed of Thunderbolt 2, 10 Gbps USB 3.1 and DisplayPort 1.2.

Read full article @ Engadget