Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD Ryzen die shot and other slides from ISSCC emerge
Anonabox FAWKES Tor Router Review
AORUS GTX 1080 XTREME Edition Review
Creative Sound BlasterX Pro-Gaming Katana Desktop Soundbar Review
Cryorig A80 AIO water cooler
Intel Core i3-7350K Kaby Lake Processor Review
Mesh 7EVEN (7600K & GTX 1060) Gaming PC Review
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Aero Mini ITX Review
NVIDIA Quadro P4000 And P2000 Workstation GPU Reviews: Midrange Professional Pascal
Rockit Cool Rockit 88 Processor Delidding Tool
Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC PRO Wi-Fi Access Point (UAP‑AC‑PRO)
Win 10 Toggle Tweaker 4.0 Review
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux OpenGL Benchmarks With A Core i7 7700K

AMD Ryzen die shot and other slides from ISSCC emerge

Die shot close-ups are joined by slides highlighting Zen architecture advances.

Read full article @ Hexus

Anonabox FAWKES Tor Router Review

As we saw with the Pro, the TOR performance is meager, but this is the design of TOR. TOR hops around the world to "wrap" your data in, hence the name The Onion Router. Because your hops and exit nodes are spread all over the world, your traffic is bouncing around all over the place and this will cause latency. TOR is not designed to stream media over or torrent your favorite files; in fact TOR recommends not using it for torrent downloading, which can be illegal anyway and we do not condone that. What TOR is good for is sending your private emails, downloading confidential documents, etc., that you do not want public eyes viewing. Take, for instance, if you want to check your bank account and send some emails at Starbucks while sipping a latte, then the Anonabox FAWKES with TOR will allow you to do so without having to worry about me in the corner with a packet sniffer and decrypting your logins.

Read full article @ OCC

AORUS GTX 1080 XTREME Edition Review

In the spotlight today is the AORUS GTX 1080 XTREME. The eagle eyed among you will see a key resemblance to the GIGABYTE's mighty GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming - both cards are indeed very similar, though there are subtle differences which are mainly seen with the cooling configuration and of course the minor adjustments to the styling.

Read full article @ Vortez

Creative Sound BlasterX Pro-Gaming Katana Desktop Soundbar Review

Desktop audio is something worth caring about, from being able to hear the footsteps of your enemies in multiplayer shooters, to simply rocking out to your favourite songs while working, pretty much everyone has a need for good quality sound at their desktop. Creative have long been one of the biggest names in desktop audio, with many years of experience of creating fantastic speaker setups for everything from day-to-day office use, to movie fans, to gaming. Now they're back again with one of their proudest creations, the Sound BlasterX Katana, a multi-channel gaming soundbar and subwoofer that's set to give you the enthusiast grade audio processing, drivers and bone-shaking power you desire.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Cryorig A80 AIO water cooler

HardwareOverclock.com has just posted another review. Last week we have tested the Cryorig A80 AIO water cooler. Built on the bases of Asetek's Gen. 5 Pump and Cold Plate design, CRYORIG's A Series HCL units have a completely redesigned and improved pump system. Actually they have 3 kind of AIO solutions, we have tested the biggest one, the A80.

Read full article @ HardwareOverclock.com

Intel Core i3-7350K Kaby Lake Processor Review

When Intel released their 7th Generation Core “Kaby Lake” processors there was a rather interesting processor in the bunch, it was the Core i3-7350K. This was the first time Intel released a Core i3 series processor that featured HyperThreading technology as well as being a fully unlocked K-SKU. If you remember back in 2014 Intel released the Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition, which was fully unlocked, but did not feature HyperThreading. With the Core i3-7350K you get a dual-core, 4-thread processor running at 4.20 GHz, with a TDP of only 60W. You get all of this for a modest $168. Could this be the entry level enthusiast part people have been looking for? Read on as we find out!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Mesh 7EVEN (7600K & GTX 1060) Gaming PC Review

Since Intel launched its new Kaby Lake CPUs last month, we have seen a lot of system builders ship out gaming PCs sporting those processors. Mesh are no different, as their 7EVEN Gaming PC comes with an i5-7600K as well as a GTX 1060 to provide the necessary grunt for gaming. With a focus on the system’s aesthetics as well, could this be a winner in the sub-£1500 sector?

Read full article @ KitGuru

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Aero Mini ITX Review

We're going from small to smaller with graphics cards, meet the 17cm MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Aero Mini ITX that MSI releases today. The dual-slot graphics card is tiny, really tiny yet manages to be a very silent graphics card that offers pretty respectable gaming performance up-to a resolution of 2560x1440. MSI fitted this model with 6GB of graphics memory, and yes it is even tweaked a bit for you.

Read full article @ Guru3D

NVIDIA Quadro P4000 And P2000 Workstation GPU Reviews: Midrange Professional Pascal

A couple of weeks back, NVIDIA unveiled a family of new professional Quadro cards, based on the company’s Pascal GPU architecture. The latest additions to the Quadro line-up run the gamut in terms of features and capabilities, from the low-power, small form factor Quadro P400 to the gargantuan, ultra-powerful Quadro GP100. Smack dab in the middle of the line-up are a pair of mid-range offerings, the Quadro P4000 and Quadro P2000, which we’ll be featuring here...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Rockit Cool Rockit 88 Processor Delidding Tool

The act of delidding goes back quite some time to when chip makers started putting the CPU die on top of the processor substrate (or package). Before then the die was under the substrate on the same side as the data pins and fairly well protected. By flipping the chip it allowed them more control over the size of the die and improved cooling. However, it also exposed the die damage due to incorrect heatsink mounting. There were several ways for chip makers to address this issue and the most common was by adding a heatspreader.

Early processors like the cartridge style Pentium II benefited from a delidding process because of the thermal compound used to connect the CPU to the cartridge. Replacing it was rather simple but required you to disassemble the cartridge. Modern CPUs like the Pentium 4 and Althon64 both came with copper based heatspreaders to protect the die and instead of using thermal paste they directly connected the die to the heatspreader using a soldering tekniq. It was so effective that delidding was no longer needed.

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC PRO Wi-Fi Access Point (UAP‑AC‑PRO)

One of the rising stars in the enterprise networking world is Ubiquiti Networks, a company which has become very well known for producing competitive enterprise grade networking equipment for less than half the cost when compared to similar products from more well known brands...

Read full article @ Custom PC Review

Win 10 Toggle Tweaker 4.0 Review

Win 10 Toggle Tweaker is a batch script that Windows 10 users can run on their devices to modify various settings and features of the operating system. Since it is offered as a batch file, it is easy enough to verify the program before you run it.

Read full article @ gHacks

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux OpenGL Benchmarks With A Core i7 7700K

This week I've published Windows 10 vs. Linux NVIDIA gaming benchmarks and a Radeon Software Windows 10 vs. RadeonSI/RADV Linux comparison with a variety of interesting games. For this third article on the topic of Windows 10 vs. Linux performance are a few Intel HD Graphics 630 benchmark results.

Read full article @ Phoronix