Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Anime Expo 2016 Impressions and Huge Cosplay Gallery
DMark Time Spy Benchmark – DX12 Async Compute Performance Tested
EK Water Blocks Performance 280 Starter Liquid Cooling Kit Review
G.Skill TridentZ 3866 MHz 2x 4GB DDR4
iiyama ProLite XUB3490WQSU Review
Intel Readies New NUCs Based on Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake SoCs
Lumia 640 LTE & WP10 review - Very decent
Radeon RX 480 performance revisited with AMD's 16.7.1 driver
Reeven Four Eyes Touch RFC-03 Fan Controller Review
Samsung Gear Fit2 Review: More Than Just A Fitness Wearable
Scythe Fuma CPU Cooler Review: A Little Off the Top
Vortex Pok3r RGB

Anime Expo 2016 Impressions and Huge Cosplay Gallery

During this past 4th of July weekend, Legit Reviews checked out Anime Expo 2016 in Downtown Los Angeles to see the hottest trends in anime, gamer, and comic book culture. This year€™s gallery comprises 140 photographs across seven pages! Enjoy!

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DMark Time Spy Benchmark – DX12 Async Compute Performance Tested

3DMark Time Spy came out yesterday and it is the latest and greatest DirectX 12 benchmark test for gaming PCs running Windows 10. This DirectX 12 Feature Level 11_0 benchmark utilizes a pure DirectX 12 game engine that supports features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading! We ran 3DMark Time Spy on our tried and true video card test system on more than a half dozen video cards and got some pretty interesting results!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

EK Water Blocks Performance 280 Starter Liquid Cooling Kit Review

Thanks to the brand new Performance 280 Starter Liquid Cooling Kit by EK Water Blocks we now know that you can still get the performance offered by larger 360mm radiators even if your case only has room for up to 280mm long ones.

Read full article @ NikKTech

G.Skill TridentZ 3866 MHz 2x 4GB DDR4

Intel's Skylake loves high-speed DDR4. G.Skill loves making it. The G.Skill F4-3866C18D-8GTZ is one of those high-speed kits, topping out at a crazy 3866 MHz, a whole 1733 MHz above the Skylake base memory specification. Can our CPU make it that high? Does your motherboard even support such speeds? G.Skill's 3866 MHz TridentZ kit definitely pushes the limits.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

iiyama ProLite XUB3490WQSU Review

A productivity powerhouse. iiyama is a monitor manufacturer that enthusiasts usually remember with fondness. Back in the day, when yours truly thought he was the bee's knees at Quake II, the iiyama Vision Master Pro 17 was the monitor to own and fawn over.

Fast forward almost 20 years and the Japanese company has kept up with the times and now offers a bewildering range of LCD screens for almost every conceivable use. There's the expected multitude of 1080p screens, enough QHD and UHD models, but only one that uses the 21:9 widescreen format. Enter the ProLite XUB3490WQSU, equipped with an onerous name but, more importantly, a 3,440x1,440 resolution inside a 34in panel.

Read full article @ Hexus

Intel Readies New NUCs Based on Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake SoCs

As one might expect, Intel is working on a new generation of its NUC small-form-factor systems based on the company’s upcoming Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake microprocessors. The writers over at FanlessTech have published what appears to be an exclusive of a set of Intel slides regarding the next generation of NUCs, and we are in the process of double verifying the details. Until then, heres our analysis of the news.

The new systems are expected to hit the market in late 2016 and early 2017 and bring a number of new technologies, which are absent from today’s SFF PCs. In particular, the new systems will support Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1 (10 Gbps), HDMI 2.0 and the new processors.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Lumia 640 LTE & WP10 review - Very decent

Not all that is Redmond is bad. On the contrary. Here's a chipper, long, thorough review of Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE smartphone with Windows Phone 10 operating system, covering spec, look & feel, network connectivity, applications, HERE navigation, Windows Maps, Cortana, Edge, Microsoft Office, Store, multimedia - MP3 and HD video and ease of use and access to personal content, camera, system settings, security & privacy, updates, stability, performance, responsiveness, battery life, and more. Take a look.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

Radeon RX 480 performance revisited with AMD's 16.7.1 driver

AMD's Radeon RX 480 turned in great performance in our original review, but some sites discovered that the card drew a potentially troublesome amount of power from the PCIe slot. AMD's Radeon Software 16.7.1 update promised to fix this issue. We take a second look at the card to see whether the fix affects performance.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Reeven Four Eyes Touch RFC-03 Fan Controller Review

The Reeven Four Eyes Touch is a stylish fan controller to complement computers sporting an unused 5.25" drive bay, allowing you to choose how hot or cool your build is -- literally.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Samsung Gear Fit2 Review: More Than Just A Fitness Wearable

Blending some of the best features from a fitness tracker, including the ability to measure activities using an embedded GPS and heart rate monitor (HRM), it’s clear Samsung had fitness enthusiasts in mind when it developed the Gear Fit2. But Samsung also recognized there are many people who want more than just the basic features of a fitness tracking wearable, so the company added a few smartwatch features like the ability to read and respond to text messages (albeit in limited form) or see who is calling.

In addition, you also get Bluetooth audio connectivity now as well...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Scythe Fuma CPU Cooler Review: A Little Off the Top

Heatsink designs are driven by the fundamental principle that a larger surface area equates to better heat dissipation than a smaller area. Factoring in componential consent, modern aftermarket CPU tower heatsinks had to get creative to compensate and dial-in the efficiency needed, hence the rise of dual-tower cooler designs. By isolating the two ends of the heatpipe set into two … Read more.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Vortex Pok3r RGB

For a while there I was covering a new RGB keyboard every two weeks but I haven’t covered any in over a month now. This is partially due to all of the video card launches, but also I’ve been turning away a lot of companies as well. Frankly, everyone in their mom is making their new RGB mechanical keyboards and there just isn’t much separating them. I would prefer to keep things fresh and check out a variety. So to change things up today I’m taking a look at the new Vortex Pok3r RGB. Those of you who see me and my wife out at LANs has most likely seen both of us gaming using Vortex Poker keyboards (she has a Poker 2 and I have a Pok3r), so I’m excited to finally be able to talk a little about one of my favorite keyboards. On top of this one having RGB backlighting, it also sports Cherry’s new Nature White keyswitches, so this is my first experience with them as well.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews