Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro (ZD552KL) Review
An AMD Threadripper X399 Motherboard Overview: A Quick Look at Seven Products
ASUS TUF X299 Mark I Motherboard Review
be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W Power Supply Review
Charts CPU Performance Content Creation: 17 CPUs tested - Core i9-7900X
CHERRY B.UNLIMITED 3.0 Review
Corsair HX1000 Platinum 2017 Review
Crucial BX300 480 GB
Ethereum Mining Performance: GeForce Vs. Radeon
GeIL EVO X AMD Edition DDR4 Review
HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 PCIe Slots, 1700W
Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD EPYC 7601 On Ubuntu Linux
Intel Z270 Motherboard Round-Up: MSI, Gigabyte, And ASUS Offerings For Kaby Lake
MSI X399 Gaming Carbon Pro AC Review
Reeven Naia 240 AIO Cooler Review
Ryzen 5 APU Mandolin are detailed

ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro (ZD552KL) Review

The *ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro* boasts TWO selfie cameras - a *wide-angle camera* and a *24 MP selfie camera*! Find out if this is the ultimate selfie smartphone!

Read full article @ TechARP

An AMD Threadripper X399 Motherboard Overview: A Quick Look at Seven Products

With the release of AMD’s Threadripper CPUs into the HEDT market, board partners have released new motherboards based on the X399 chipset. Consumers are going to see quad channel memory, native 4-Way SLI and Crossfire capabilities, more full-speed M.2 slots, added 10G network ports, and more on the new platform. Were taking a quick look at each of the motherboards that the vendors are promoting in the market, as well as a few upcoming teasers.

Read full article @ Anandtech

ASUS TUF X299 Mark I Motherboard Review

We grab a Core i9 7900X processor and review the €289,- ASUS TUF X299 Mark 1 motherboard with it, yes the Sabertooth series is back. A nice looking motherboard in dark theme offering nice features, design and of course performance. This X299 motherboard can house Kaby-Lake-X and Skylake-X processors. Will the recent BIOS updates have fixed the initial Skylake-X issues?

Read the full review here.

Read full article @ Guru3D

be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W Power Supply Review

be quiet!, a division of Listan GmbH & Co. KG along with Xilence is a rather new face in the DIY enthusiast PC market. be quiet! began as an outgrowth of Listan's e-tail business in 2002. Since then, be quiet! has developed product lines covering cases, coolers, fans, and power supplies among other products. While not a major brand in North America, be quiet! has had some popularity across the pond (particularly in their native Germany) and their retail presence has started to grow even in North America. So, today, we are looking at the be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W which comes from be quiet! and FSP.

The be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W is just the second power supply we have ever seen from be quiet! and be quiet! is a brand that may not be that familiar to our North American readers. However, be quiet! has been a rather popular brand in Europe for some time now and has drawn a rather loyal following due to their products seeming to embody "silence". That said, our first outing with be quiet! was the Pure Power 10 600W and, while that unit had a lot of things that looked good about it to start off with, it ended up falling short in our metrics. To be completely fair, though, part of that might well have been the units market segment. So, today we are back with another be quiet! unit that seems to be slated for a much higher end portion of the market than the Pure Power 10 600W was. Given that, we both expect the Dark Power Pro 11 850W to be a better performer and we have higher expectations for it to start with. This is one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of moments it seems. However, before we move on, let's see what be quiet! has to say about this unit and see if our perceived market placement of this unit matches up with where be quiet!

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Charts CPU Performance Content Creation: 17 CPUs tested - Core i9-7900X

These days there are basically two different groups of customers who demand lots of processing power: content creators and gamers, while this 2D performance comparison is targeting content creators. After having had a look at the following pages you'll have an overview on how fast recent CPUs are in regarding a variety of programs, may it be video encoding,
rendering, ...

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CHERRY B.UNLIMITED 3.0 Review

The B.UNLIMITED 3.0 is aimed at the office, appealing to customers who want a reliable keyboard backed by German build quality and well-thought out design. The B.UNLIMITED features an incredibly low-profile design, a 128-bit AES encrypted wireless connection, for complete peace of mind, handy shortcut buttons and built-in Ni-MH batteries. You may also be surprised to find that this keyboard doesn't use their own Cherry MX key switches, but instead uses a membrane SX key.

Read full article @ Vortez

Corsair HX1000 Platinum 2017 Review

This year Corsair has released a new version of their popular HX series and therefore also the 1000W model underwent an overhaul. There is now a 80 Plus Platinum rating, which is pretty much standard these days in the case of high-end units and apart from that the exterior looks sleeker now. Improving the internals, which are being assembled by CWT, included better cooling more high-end components from Nichicon and Nippon Chemi Con for instance. Overall this should make for a very solid unit.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Crucial BX300 480 GB

Crucial's new BX300 SSD is not only affordable, but also impresses with excellent performance that's right up there with the best SATA drives in our test group. The secret sauce is clearly the use of MLC flash, which offers better write performance than TLC, lasts longer and is trusted by users.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Ethereum Mining Performance: GeForce Vs. Radeon

While the number of different cryptocurrencies is always increasing, only a handful have attained enough market capitalization to be truly viable. Ethereum, a blockchain-based distributed computing platform, is one of the most popular.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

GeIL EVO X AMD Edition DDR4 Review

GeIL jump into the market with the EVO X memory modules, specifically tailored for the AMD Ryzen platform. GeIL are renowned for the long 'burn-in' testing, allowing them to guarantee performance, quality and stability. The EVO X is available with heatspreaders in either anodised black or white, and features HILMT - Hybrid-Independent-Light-Module Technology.

Read full article @ Vortez

HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 PCIe Slots, 1700W

HP has updated its most powerful dual-processor Z8 workstation line with the latest components. The new systems contain up to two Intel Skylake-SP Xeon CPUs with up to 56 cores in total, up to 3 TB of DDR4 RAM, terabytes of storage as well as up to 9 PCIe slots along with optional TB3 and 10 GbE support via add-in cards. The HP Z8 workstation will be the pinnacle of HP’s computers for personal and professional use and its price in high-end configurations will surpass even the top-of-the-range gaming PCs.

Historically, most high-end workstations relied on server platforms to support more than one CPU and thus offer higher performance than any consumer desktop. The emergence of dual-core and then multi-core CPUs a little more a decade ago changed the workstation market quite quickly and significantly. In a world with quad-core CPUs, 4-way workstations did not make a lot of sense for 99% of the users and therefore they quickly became extinct. Moreover, by now, even 2-way workstations became rare. Today, the vast majority of workstations use one multi-core CPU that provides enough compute horsepower for professional workloads, whereas GPU-based accelerators are used for tasks like simulations. Nonetheless, there are still users who need maximum x86 performance and who therefore require 2-way workstations — and the HP Z8 is aimed precisely at such users. While the Intel Xeon Scalable processors with extreme core count were developed primarily with servers in mind, the Z8 is a system that people put on their desks and therefore it has a number of specific requirements regarding noise levels, features, security, compatibility with components and so on.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD EPYC 7601 On Ubuntu Linux

Last week we received the AMD EPYC 7601 32 core / 64 thread processor for testing at Phoronix with the Tyan Transport SX TN70A-B8026 2U server. Since then I've had the pleasure of putting this Zen workstation/server processor through its paces. I am still early in the testing process with many more interesting benchmarks to come, but today are some initial numbers of the AMD EPYC 7601 compared to various Intel Xeon CPUs while running Ubuntu Linux.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Intel Z270 Motherboard Round-Up: MSI, Gigabyte, And ASUS Offerings For Kaby Lake

Today we are going to take a look at three popular Intel Z270-based motherboards targeted at power users and gamers, produced by enthusiast favorites Gigabyte, ASUS and MSI. The three boards we've rounded-up here cover a wide range of price points. The Gigabyte Aorus Z270X-Gaming K5 and ASUS ROG STRIX Z270F Gaming boards represent more mainstream segments, while the MSI Z270 XPOWER Gaming Titanium targets the ultra high-end. Although AMD's powerful Threadripper processors and Intel's upcoming 18-Core Skylake-X behemoth have gotten the lion's share of attention lately, more mainstream processors like Intel's Kaby Lake-based Core i7s and Core i5s sell in much greater quantities.

As such, we decided to take a look at these three Z270-chipset based motherboards which are designed specifically for Intel’s Kaby Lake family of processors, for more mainstream PC builds...

Read full article @ HotHardware

MSI X399 Gaming Carbon Pro AC Review

An eminently good choice for Threadripper. AMD brought back some genuine high-end desktop mojo with the release of the Threadripper CPUs. They offer lots of compute-centric performance and, handily, for a high-end platform, a massive amount of I/O on which you can hang numerous high-speed devices.

Building boards on Threadripper's platform, known as TR4, is limited to just a handful of vendors, with AMD wanting to ensure that those companies in charge of TR4 board production know what they're doing. MSI is naturally on the list and has one board, the Gaming Pro Carbon AC, available right now.

Read full article @ Hexus

Reeven Naia 240 AIO Cooler Review

Reeven has been around only for a few years however that doesn’t stop them from slowly growing their line up for the consumers. Their first attempt at liquid cooling solutions for the computer enthusiasts is called the Naia 240.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Ryzen 5 APU Mandolin are detailed

Time will tell if it is a Nicholas Cage or the novel 
Details of a new Ryzen 5 APU, with onboard Radeon Vega Graphics, has been spotted on Geekbench, giving both a hint of its performance, and specifications.

It is not really a big deal as we have been pretty much been predicting this spec for ages.  The Ryzen 5 2500U APU boasts four cores and eight threads, and 4MB of L3 cache, and runs at 2GHz. On Geekbench, the APU scored 3561 in single-core performance, and 9421 running on all cores.
The 2000 series of APUs will be launched around the time of CES.
 

Read full article @ Fudzilla