Here a roundup of the latest reviews and articles:

G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4-3200 16GB Review
Gigabyte GTX 960 G1 Gaming Review
How to Convert a Physical Windows or Linux PC to a Virtual Machine
If Samsung bought AMD would it be a good move?
Noctua NH-U9S and NH-D9L Rack Mount Compatible CPU Cooler Review
Steelseries Apex M800 mechanical keyboard
The Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case Review
Tt eSPORTS Black V2 Gaming Mouse Review
Turning A Basement Into A Big Linux Server Room

G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4-3200 16GB Review

Over the last few months we have had the privilege reviewing a few excellent high performance DDR4 memory kits from the likes of Corsair, Crucial, and G.Skill. However, we are obviously always on the lookout for something better and this had led us to the G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4-3200 16GB memory kit.

With a DDR4 memory lineup that spans from DDR4-2133 to an industry-leading DDR4-3333 , G.Skill's Ripjaws 4 memory kit series is incredibly comprehensive. In fact, not only are most speeds available in both 16GB (4x4GB) and 32GB (4x8GB) capacities but they have begun offering many of their memory kits in a choice of three colours: red, black, and blue. Like all new memory standards, DDR4 is still very pricey compared to its DDR3 predecessor, but prices have started to come down somewhat since their peak in September.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Gigabyte GTX 960 G1 Gaming Review

It’s been while since Nvidia’s last graphics card launch; more specifically, it’s been quite awhile since Kepler first hit the market. And if we really want to split hairs, the Maxwell cards we saw with the GTX 750 Ti were really only half-measures, hitting the budget segments earlier this year. Suffice it to say, we’ve been eagerly waiting for Nvidia to release “the next big thing” in graphics cards, and today brings the end of that wait: the GeForce GTX 960.

Read full article @ PureOverclock

How to Convert a Physical Windows or Linux PC to a Virtual Machine

Want to keep an old Windows or Linux installation around without keeping the hardware around? Convert that physical Windows partition to a virtual hard drive, allowing you to boot it in a virtual machine program like VMware, Hyper-V, Parallels, or VirtualBox.

Read full article @ Howtogeek

If Samsung bought AMD would it be a good move?

Rumours hit the net last week that Samsung may be interested in a takeover of AMD. AMD have been struggling for some time to compete with Intel and Nvidia in the CPU and GPU markets respectively and they are also dealing with a fair bit of debt - a problem Samsung could deal with quickly. With Samsung's influence, and world-class chip manufacturing facilities they could surely help AMD drive forward new hardware designs. Samsung would also get access to one of two companies licensed to produce x86 processors.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Noctua NH-U9S and NH-D9L Rack Mount Compatible CPU Cooler Review

We all know the old ‘David and Goliath’ story. Not the weird claymation show from the 1960s, obviously, but the one from the Bible that has been transferred into popular culture to be synonymous with the little guy against the giant. Mind you, the 1960s show is definitely worthy of discussion, if only for how incredibly strange it was, and possibly for why they made the dog able to speak….but only very slowly. However, this is an article about cooling, and the possible capabilities of smaller coolers, and we will not be using slingshots and stones during our testing.

It’s only natural that larger coolers will have more cooling potential. You will notice that “potential” is in italics, because that is what it is. More mass means greater potential, but the execution of the design plays a huge role in its ultimate performance. Soldering techniques, alloy composition, fin design and density, and heatpipe design all have enormous impacts on overall performance. These are areas that Noctua has consistently been nearly flawless in, and explains why coolers like the NH-D14 have had so many imitators that never quite lived up in terms of performance. Even their smaller pieces, such as the NH-U12S, have outperformed far larger competitors. When you look at truly going small, such as in rackmount builds, this attention to execution becomes even more important.

Read full article @ HiTech Legion

Steelseries Apex M800 mechanical keyboard

Even though most serious gamers use mechanical keyboards these days, many do not realise that the technology behind those key-switches is over 30 years old. With that in mind, it is no wonder that Steelseries are looking to reinvent the wheel with their new Apex M800 mechanical board. It incorporates Steelseries branded switches, with a shorter travel distance than anything else out there.

Will that be enough to differentiate it from other RGB backlit boards available and can the key design compete with market leader Cherry? Let us find out.

Read full article @ KitGuru

The Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case Review

The Enthoo Pro is most popular tower case of Phanteks, which the company claims to be "beautifully crafted, amazingly flexible, budget friendly and with maximized cooling potential". One might imagine this tries to put too many eggs in one basket - we received a review unit and put it through our test suite.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Tt eSPORTS Black V2 Gaming Mouse Review

The original Tt eSPORTS Black gaming mouse was a no frills gaming mouse designed to give you the best performance possible. Tt eSPORTS is bringing new life into this mouse with their release of the Black V2 Gaming Mouse. The laser sensor has been upgraded, a new surface coating has been added, a textured grip on the left side has been added and an addition thumb button has been added for even more macros. Tt eSPORTS has kept the same shape and adjustable weight system that we saw on the original mouse. Is this the new gaming mouse to get? Read on as we find out!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Turning A Basement Into A Big Linux Server Room

This week I posted about my new server room, where there's Linux benchmarks constantly happening on the Linux kernel and other open-source code via the Phoronix Test Suite and Phoromatic. With many Phoronix readers having been interested in the basement makeover I did to turn a ugly, boring basement into a clean server room, here's more details and pictures on the month-long renovation along with various tips and product recommendations from the experience. This server room is now almost up to 50 systems and is complete with a drink bar and projector. There's plenty of pictures and details for those hoping to build their own personal basement server room, including a few tips for increasing the wife acceptance factor of the big project.

Read full article @ Phoronix