Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

ECS Liva 64GB Mini PC Review: A tiny, efficient HTPC kit
Fractal Design Integra M 650W Review
Intel paying Pentium 4 customers US$15 in compensation
Intel Skylake-S sports LGA 1151 socket
Silicon Power Diamond D06 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Review

ECS Liva 64GB Mini PC Review: A tiny, efficient HTPC kit

Setting the bar for small form factor PCs in July, ECS' Liva made comparable machines look oversized and overpriced, weighing only 190g and measuring 118mm wide, 56mm tall and70mm deep. Since its debut, ECS has updated the Liva with a 64GB option and though that's double the storage, we have only seen a mild price increase to $185. Paired with a super efficient fanless design that promises smooth 1080p playback it certainly grabbed our attention.

Read full article @ Techspot

Fractal Design Integra M 650W Review

Today we take a look at the latest power supply from Fractal Design, the Integra M 650W – released to target the budget enthusiast audience. This semi modular design has achieved 80 Plus Bronze Certification and will hit retail for around £55 inc vat. Is it worth shortlisting if you are working with a restrictive budget?

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Intel paying Pentium 4 customers US$15 in compensation

It allegedly manipulated benchmark scores of the first-gen P4 processors 14 years ago.

Read full article @ Hexus

Intel Skylake-S sports LGA 1151 socket

Skylake-S is a 14nm processor that is set to replace the Core i7 4790, Intel’s so-called Haswell refresh part, and according to some early information we gathered it might launch at Computex 2015 or in June 2015.

Skylake-S needs a new socket, new chipset and new motherboard. The socket is called LGA 1151 and has a single pin more than Haswell, the company’s current generation Core architecture. The new desktop processor supports both DDR4 1.2V and DDR3L 1.35V and it will be up to motherboard manufacturers to support one or the other.

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Silicon Power Diamond D06 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Review

Is there any objective measurement to the quality of art? To illustrate this point, one of my professors displayed a piece of painting on the projector screen a few weeks ago, and asked the class if it was beautiful. Unsurprisingly, in this graduate-level engineering course, most students shouted "no". I was no exception -- I said I would pay $5 if it came with a frame. As it turned out, that piece of painting in question was sold for $150 million dollars a few years ago. Who knew? This is why, a lot of times, when it comes to evaluating appearance, we will use the line, "Beauty is in the eyes of its beholder". However, I would like to challenge this statement just a little bit. While I will agree "beauty is in the eyes of its beholder" to an extent, in most cases, our appreciation for beauty also has some degree of universal agreement. For example, an overwhelming majority of people will not deny that the modern PC looks significantly better than the beige boxes we had in the late nineties. Today, we will take a look at the Silicon Power Diamond D06 1TB USB 3.0 external hard drive. With a luxurious classic diamond-check pattern exterior design in a slim and lightweight package, while no one could say this is objectively the "best looking hard drive in the world", I think it is definitely one of the best looking ones I have encountered in the last little while. Will it perform as well as it looks? Here at APH Networks, you got questions, we got answers.

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