Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G Raven Ridge
AMD's next-gen Threadripper: 32C/64T 4GHz+ in 2019?
Antec P110 Luce Review
Asus ROG Strix XG35VQ Review
Corsair Carbide 275R Tempered Glass Case Review: Clear Winner?
CORSAIR K68 RGB Keyboard + PBT Keycaps Review
Corsair One ELITE Review (W/ i7-8700K and GTX 1080 Ti)
ECS Z370-Lightsaber Motherboard Review
Fractal Design Meshify C Mini Review
Gamdias HEPHAESTUS P1 Gaming Headset Review
GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice
HP Spectre 13t Review
Intel 800P Optane SSD review: Bleeding-edge pain without bleeding-edge gain
Intel Optane 800P SSD Review (58/118GB)
Intel Optane SSD 800P 58GB & 118GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD Review
Intel Optane SSD 800P 58GB and 118GB Review
Intel Optane SSD 800P Review: A Speedy M.2 Solid State Drive With 3D XPoint For The Masses
Intel Optane SSD 800P Review: Swift, Small-Capacity XPoint
Intel's Optane SSD 800P 58 GB and 118 GB solid-state drives reviewed
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio Review
NZXT H400i Review
NZXT Kraken M22 Review
Prismata PC review: A card game at heart with a few unique twists
Raijintek Orcus 240 RGB CPU Cooler Review
Samsung Galaxy S9 review: Incrementally better in all the right places
Samsung Galaxy S9+ Review: A Fantastic, Fast Android Phone With A Killer Camera
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case Review
Thermaltake View 71 Tempered Glass Edition Full Tower Case Review
Z370 Motherboard Charts: 8 Models tested - MSI Z370 SLI Plus

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G Raven Ridge

Well as you can tell we are a little late on this article. Last week AMD launched their new CPUs with Vega graphics. Without getting too much into it right now (I’ll explain later) but I spent well over a week fighting with issues when trying to test and I didn’t get things worked out until just before this past weekend. Anyhow, testing is done, now we just need to talk a little about what AMD is doing with these new CPUs and then dive into the results! So let's go see what AMD's new Raven Ridge CPUs are all about!

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

AMD's next-gen Threadripper: 32C/64T 4GHz+ in 2019?

We're getting lots of rumors and leaked decks on AMD's future processors in the last few days, but now we have some more concrete details (I guess???) on AMD's next-gen Threadripper CPUs. Interestingly, AMD refers to Threadripper as "the monster truck of computing".

Read full article @ TweakTown

Antec P110 Luce Review

The Antec P110 Luce is a clean chassis that combines some nifty lighting elements with a unique cable-management system and plenty of storage. Add the use of high-quality materials to the mix and you have yourself an extremely interesting chassis.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Asus ROG Strix XG35VQ Review

There are few monitors among gamers that are as imaginative as the Asus ROG Swift PG348Q, still the current top model of the brand: a 34-inch beast of a screen with a resolution of 3440x1440 pixels. The panel is based on IPS technology with 100Hz refresh rate and G-Sync on board. Recently, the Taiwanese giant has presented a little brother for his top model, with the eloquent name ROG Strix XG35VQ. At first glance a twin brother, but at closer inspection - an entirely individual character. We subjected it to our famous extensive testing procedure.

The PG348Q was very impressive at the time of its introduction and it remains so, but developments in the monitoring market have been far from standing still since this model came onto the market in early 2016. Not only do we see more and more UWQHD displays, but a refresh rate of 100Hz is no longer exceptional in this segment either. The prices are also considerably lower, although these are still expensive monitors. If you want to buy a high-end gaming monitor, you need to have deep pockets - just like for a ditto video card or processor.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Corsair Carbide 275R Tempered Glass Case Review: Clear Winner?

The Carbide 275R, outfitted with tempered-glass and builder-friendly, packs a minimalist design. What else is it "made of"?

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

CORSAIR K68 RGB Keyboard + PBT Keycaps Review

CORSAIR has taken last year's K68 and given it the magic of RGB backlighting. Featuring per-key 16.8M colors that can be controlled via their excellent CUE driver, or even onboard controls now, and keeping the IP32 dust and spill resistance, it is a budget friendly mechanical keyboard for those wanting Cherry MX RGB switches as well.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Corsair One ELITE Review (W/ i7-8700K and GTX 1080 Ti)

Corsair introduced its One system in the middle of 2017, and it was immediately impressive: superb performance, inside a chassis that was smaller, smarter and quieter than almost anything else. Now we have the One Elite, but can it live up to its predecessor’s reputation?

Read full article @ KitGuru

ECS Z370-Lightsaber Motherboard Review

The Z370 Lightsaber is the highest performance motherboard currently available from ECS. This motherboard supports Intel K series unlocked CPUs and overclocking, with four slots of memory of up to 64GB capacities and speeds of up to DDR4 3200+ overclocked.

Read full article @ Neoseeker

Fractal Design Meshify C Mini Review

Last August Fractal introduced there new Meshify product lineup with the Meshify C and it was extremely popular. For years now Fractal has had just one main style and the Meshify managed to keep the clean look while doing something different. It was also a departure from Fractal’s noise focused designs with a design focusing on cooling. Well, they are back at it again and this time around I’ve been testing the new case out. Today they are introducing the Meshify C Mini, a Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX variation of the Meshify C. It is just a smaller version of the original, but because I didn’t get a chance to check out the original this will give us a look at the new design with the smaller more compact Mini version.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Gamdias HEPHAESTUS P1 Gaming Headset Review

The Gamdias HEPHAESTUS P1 RGB surround sound gaming headset is a new addition to the brand’s line up. It features RGB illumination with virtual 7.1 surround sound and real vibration from bass impact. The HEPHAESTUS P1 also has cooling ventilation on both drivers to keep the drivers cool during long gaming sessions. Because it does not utilize a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, the headset communicates through a USB 2.0 cable. This allows for software support with Gamdias HERA to fine tune RGB lighting and audio settings. In this article for Benchmark Reviews, we take a look at the HEPHAESTUS P1 and test its various features.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice

While we usually like to focus on all the wonderful and immersive worlds that video cards and their GPUs can open up to us, today we are tackling something a bit different. The GeForce Partner Program, known as GPP in the industry, is a "marketing" program that looks to HardOCP as being an anticompetitive tactic against AMD and Intel.

Read full article @ HardOCP

HP Spectre 13t Review

HP's Spectre Laptop 13t is one of my favorite Ultrabooks right now. I'll tell you why in my video review.

HP has been on a tear the last few years with innovative design, premium builds, and excellent keyboards. All that engineering inventiveness reveals itself with the Spectre 13t – the non-tablet sibling to the Spectre x360 (see my recent review). I've been using the Spectre (late-2017) for a few months now mostly in place of the Surface Laptop. It's a great ultrabook — and probably the best-looking laptop on the market.

Read full article @ Windows Central

Intel 800P Optane SSD review: Bleeding-edge pain without bleeding-edge gain

Intel’s Optane SSD 800P, like previous Optane products, boasts best-in-class longevity and very fast random access. But the rest of its performance numbers are mundane at best, it's only available in two very small capacities, and the price is, ahem, up there.Even die-hard early adopters will experience some sticker shock paying $129 for 58GB or $199 for 118GB, or $2.22 and $1.68 per gigabyte, respectively.

Read full article @ PC World

Intel Optane 800P SSD Review (58/118GB)

Our review of the Intel Optane 800P demonstrates one of the strongest and most powerful SSDs on the market today. Where other SSDs performance drop significantly when being pushed into 'steady state' mode', this new 3D XPoint memory media does not suffer that degradation whatsoever. The result is what just might be the most powerful consumer SSD available, and most definitly a new technology that wil have competitors working many late nights for some time to come. The Intel Optane 800P.

Read full article @ The SSD Review

Intel Optane SSD 800P 58GB & 118GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD Review

Anyone that has been paying attention has been dazzled by the performance of Intel Optane SSDs. This is because where it matters most, Optane SSDs are delivering 5x more performance than conventional NAND-based SSDs. Optane Storage delivers a new level of system response that once experienced, you will never look at conventional NAND-based SSDs the same way again. There is fast, and then there is Optane fast.

Until today, you were limited to two choices if you wanted to go with Optane storage. You could either go with Optane Memory at up to 32GB and use it as a storage accelerator by putting it in front of a SATA HDD or SATA SSD. Or, you could break the bank and go with the world's fastest SSD, the Intel Optane SSD 900P. There was no middle ground if you wanted the power of Optane storage.

Optane Memory can be utilized as a stand-alone storage device, but at a maximum of 32GB it is a little too small for most people to consider using it for a boot drive. The enthusiast oriented 900P is not only more expensive than the average consumer is willing to spend for a boot drive, it only comes in form-factors that are probably the least popular in the consumer space.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Intel Optane SSD 800P 58GB and 118GB Review

Intel has finally launched an Optane SSD for the mainstream market, the Intel Optane SSD 800P. The Intel Optane SSD 800P series is available as M.2 2280 single-sided ‘gumsticks’ that use the PCIe 3.0 x2 interface. Only two capacities are available, so you get your choice of a 58GB drive for $99 or a 118GB for $199. These won’t be large enough to be the sole storage drive in an enthusiast or gamers PC, but they’ll make for an ideal boot drive for a Windows 10-base system.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Intel Optane SSD 800P Review: A Speedy M.2 Solid State Drive With 3D XPoint For The Masses

Intel is launching its latest Optane-branded family of solid state drives today, the Intel Optane SSD 800P. Unlike the Intel Optane Memory devices, which accelerate hybrid storage configurations through intelligent data caching, or the Optane SSD 900P that’s aimed squarely at hardcore enthusiasts with big budgets, the M.2 based Intel Optane 800P targets the meat of the mobile and desktops markets, with higher capacities than Optane Memory, but more affordable pricing than the 900P...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Intel Optane SSD 800P Review: Swift, Small-Capacity XPoint

Intel's 800P is the first bootable Optane SSD in the M.2 form factor, so now you can install a small SSD that should deliver big performance.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Intel's Optane SSD 800P 58 GB and 118 GB solid-state drives reviewed

Intel's 3D Xpoint memory technology has been on the market for almost a year now, but mainstream builders have yet to see an Optane product they can really sink their teeth into. Intel's 16-GB and 32-GB Optane Memory accelerators carved out a new niche by offering SSD-like (or even greater) speeds to systems otherwise hobbled by mechanical storage. Jeff's analysis concluded that the little drives aptly handled that use case, but Intel's decision to restrict their use to Kaby Lake and newer Core CPUs hamstrung their market appeal.Intel's next 3D Xpoint client drive followed several months later in the form of the data-center-derived Optane SSD 900P.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio Review

In the last few months, many manufacturers have again made us happy with new computer games. Of course, some of the users take the time to play these games. Unfortunately, one often finds out that the faithful companion, the graphics card, no longer plays these games with 100 FPS in FullHD or even 4K. So we have just the right thing for you. The GeForce GTX 1080Ti Gaming X Trio from MSI. We have recently tested the MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X and were thrilled with both the card’s performance and smoothness. Can the 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio top it all? Is it really worth the price called for? More about this in the following test on OCinside.de!

Read full article @ OcInside.de

NZXT H400i Review

After looking at the Fractal Meshify C Mini last week I figured I would see what other cases I had in the office to check out and I happened to have another Micro-ATX case that I had been excited about. This time it was from NZXT and it was the H400i. Like the Fractal, the H400i is a smaller version of the H700i that I didn’t get a chance to check out so this is a great chance to check out NZXTs new line of cases. The H series of cases have a new look that is an extension of what NZXT has been doing with their cases for a while, but the biggest feature of their new cases is the built-in CAM powered controller that powers the built-in lighting and fan controls. So today I’m going to break down the cases features, then build in it and see how this smart controller works.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

NZXT Kraken M22 Review

Same stylish looks. More agreeable fee. Want to build an eye-catching rig with high-end liquid cooling that's easy as pie to install? You should probably have an NZXT Kraken on your shopping list. We described the Kraken X52 as "the best-looking all-in-one CPU cooler that money can buy" in our review back in late 2016, but there is a catch in terms of pricing. Kraken coolers tend not to come cheap, with even the smaller 140mm X42 fetching £110 at retail.

NZXT wants to appeal to a wider range of users, hence the introduction of the Kraken M22. Priced at £90, the new baby of the Kraken line offers the same eye-catching pump design in a widely compatible form factor for those seeking modest liquid cooling and minimal hassle.

Read full article @ Hexus

Prismata PC review: A card game at heart with a few unique twists

Prismata is a game that appeals to those who enjoy games like Hearthstone but don't like randomness.

I've been a fan of card games for years. Pokémon played a major role in my entertainment as I grew up. Not only did I play the games with friends but also collected, traded and battled cards too. This transitioned to other physical games until Hearthstone was released and I made the jump to the digital age for collecting cards. An issue I have with Blizzard's popular title is the random elements that take effect and can really screw a player over.

This is something I found Prismata works well in addressing while keeping the card gameplay feel with a strange (but awesome) traditional strategy game feel. After securing a Kickstarter goal of $140,000 and a few years in development, Lunarch Studios is now ready to launch the game out of Early Access with a new single-player campaign and storyline.

Read full article @ Windows Central

Raijintek Orcus 240 RGB CPU Cooler Review

Today, we've been provided with the Raijintek ORCUS 240, an all-in-one watercooling loop for your CPU, featuring a pair of 120mm RGB fans, an RGB CPU header and Teflon sleeved tubing. Something we've not seen before is the pump mounted on the tubes themselves, instead of being within the CPU head itself.

Read full article @ Vortez

Samsung Galaxy S9 review: Incrementally better in all the right places

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 is a strange breed of smartphone. With a Snapdragon 845 processor, great camera, and 18:9 screen, it has all the trappings of a fantastic 2018 handset. Yet, at the same time, it’s remarkably similar to the Galaxy S8 that it replaces. In fact, it’s so much like its predecessor, issues we might normally overlook become all the more obvious this second time around.Samsung’s hook with the Galaxy S9 is a “reimagined” camera, but the camera’s new features—namely Dual Aperture, Super Slow-mo, and AR Emoji—are equal parts gimmick and catch-up to competing models. And because Samsung is limiting the dual camera and Live Portrait mode to the larger Plus model, the S9 (the phone I’m reviewing here) feels less like a new phone than a mid-cycle refresh. As such, the S9 is a perfectly fine entry for the first new premium phone of 2018, but there’s nothing here that breaks exciting new ground for other phones to follow.

Read full article @ PC World

Samsung Galaxy S9+ Review: A Fantastic, Fast Android Phone With A Killer Camera

Today marks the official embargo lift on full reviews of Samsung's new flagship Galaxy S9 dynamic duo, and on the pages ahead we've prepared a deep-dive analysis specifically of the 6.2-inch Samsung Galaxy S9+, with its 6GB of RAM, dual rear cameras and Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 on board.

Read full article @ HotHardware

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case Review

Utilizing the 'Film Window' engine once more, The 25th Ward: The Silver Case stands as a visual novel unlike any other on the PlayStation 4, although repeated viewings of The Silver Case may be required to fully appreciate this one.

Read full article @ Wccftech

Thermaltake View 71 Tempered Glass Edition Full Tower Case Review

It seems we are starting to see less and less full tower cases out there.  With graphics card manufactures not really supporting over 2 cards in a multi-GPU setups we are seeing less and less over those crazy large builds.  Full towers have been reserved for workstations and crazy watercooled builds.  I've always been a fan of full towers, their size, space for components, and quality you typically get.  Thermaltake is a company that has continued to put out full tower cases and today we are checking out their View 71 Tempered Glass Edition.  This case as you can guess comes with tempered glass side panels, but not just on one side, you'll find four tempered glass panels on this case!  On top of that you have room inside for long graphics cards, a ton of hard drives, and lots of watercooling.  Let's get building in the View 71 Tempered Glass Edition and see what it is all about!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Z370 Motherboard Charts: 8 Models tested - MSI Z370 SLI Plus

Meanwhile you can find benchmark values of the first Z370 motherboards in our comparison tables. We do not comment the benchmark values. The idea and also the goal is to present to you an overview which helps you choose the right motherboard simply based on facts in the form of numbers.

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