Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

All-round Deluxe PC - July 2017
ASRock X299 Taichi Motherboard Review
BenQ ZOWIE XL2720 Review
Corsair Neutron NX500 400GB Review
HP Z2 Mini review: tiny workstation
Intel Core i5 7640X Processor Review
Intel Xeon Platinum 8176 Scalable Processor Review
Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Debut: Dual Xeon Platinum 8176 With 112 Threads Tested
Intel's new 28C/56T CPU costs $8719, uses 670W of power
Lenovo Legion Y520 Review
MSI X370 Krait Gaming AM4 Motherboard Review
Netgear Launches Nighthawk X4S AC3200 DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem Router
Turtle Beach Ear Force Stealth 450

All-round Deluxe PC - July 2017

The all-round Deluxe PC will last you a few years without requiring any upgrades. It is a bit more expensive, but is very complete as well. Using the internet, gaming, business applications, photo and video editing - all of these are possible on a good all-round PC, and you should never feel that you are lacking in performance for any of those activities.

This means a good processor and graphics card from the upper mid-range segment. Fast, yet affordable. You also need enough RAM and storage space, not to mention an attractive chassis and reliable power supply that can last several years. Of course you need a quality monitor, mouse and keyboard, as these are used very frequently.

This PC will cost more than the standard all-round PC, but it is also more powerful and has higher-end components. If this exceeds your budget somewhat, then you can have a look at out standard All-round PC instead.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

ASRock X299 Taichi Motherboard Review

Is the combination of enhanced I/O panel features and reduced internal sharing conflicts the recipe for an award-winning X299 motherboard? Let's find out.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

BenQ ZOWIE XL2720 Review

Aimed at PC gamers, the XL2720 e-Sports features a flicker free, 27" TN panel @1920 x 1080, with a 1ms response time and 144Hz refresh rate. It is also certified for NVIDIA 3D Vision 2.0. Connectivity wise, it has a whole load of options including a Displayport and 2x HDMI, as well as 1x upstream USB and 3x downstream USB ports.

Read full article @ Vortez

Corsair Neutron NX500 400GB Review

The Neutron Series NX500 is Corsair's latest entry into the high performance SSD arena, comes in 400GB or 800GB capacities, both using the half-height half-length form factor. So how does it fare?

Read full article @ TechSpot

HP Z2 Mini review: tiny workstation

Whenever someone mentions workstations, you quickly think of large, heavy computers. HP breaks this 'law' with its new Z2 mini workstation. A mini pc with Xeon, which we cover extensively in this article.

Workstations are the crème de la crème of the business computer world. At first glance there a number of similarities with gaming systems: powerful processors and graphics cards, lots of RAM and storage. However, the latter are optimized for games, wheeras workstations are aimed at professional graphic artists or people that perform heavy scientific or financial calculations. The market leader in this market is HP and the company offers a plethora of systems in their Z-series, which is aimed at this market. The products range from relatively compact models to heavy towers with multiple processors, disks and heavy graphics cards. There are also a bunch of mobile models. The newest model in this series is the Z2 Mini.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Intel Core i5 7640X Processor Review

In this review we'll show you the performance the 242 USD quad core Core i5 7640X from Intel offers. This 242 USD Kaby Lake-X processor is the the most affordable one for the X299 platform. But without hyper-threading / SMT how will it perform?

Read full article @ Guru3D

Intel Xeon Platinum 8176 Scalable Processor Review

Intel's new Platinum 8176 Scalable Processor lands in our labs with 28 cores and 56 threads and a plethora of new features.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Debut: Dual Xeon Platinum 8176 With 112 Threads Tested

Intel announced its Xeon Scalable processor family based Skylake-SP a few weeks back, but today marks the official launch of the platform. These new processors feature a new microarchitecture versus previous-generation Xeons and Intel has revamped the naming convention and arrangement of the product stack as well. Whereas previous-generation Xeon processors carried version, class, and model number designations – for example, Xeon E5-2697 v4 – the Xeon Scalable processor family is now designated by Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze categories, with a single model number.

The new naming convention will take some getting used to if you’re already familiar with Intel’s previous-generation Xeons, but it’s relatively straightforward in the grand scheme of things. We will explain shortly...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Intel's new 28C/56T CPU costs $8719, uses 670W of power

Intel has officially launched its new enterprise CPU range of processors ahead of AMD's next-gen EPYC chips, but Intel is striking down incredibly hard by launching the flagship Xeon Platinum 8176 with 28C/56T of power, at a massive cost of $8719.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Lenovo Legion Y520 Review

An affordable 15.6in gaming laptop from a renowned brand. The PC gaming market was reported to have been worth a cool $36 billion in 2016, and the biggest names in the industry are lining up to take their slice of the pie. They don't come much bigger than Lenovo, who in recent years has injected new life into its growing gaming portfolio, culminating with the launch of the Legion Y520 and Y720 laptops back at CES..

Both systems have now filtered through to UK retail, and we've been able to spend some quality time with the more affordable Legion Y520.

Read full article @ Hexus

MSI X370 Krait Gaming AM4 Motherboard Review

For those who have not kept up with motherboard naming schemes, MSI’s motherboard product line might seem confusing at first just because of the sheer amount of motherboards they offer. In actuality, they have the simplest and easily understandable one there is since there are only technically two: gaming and non-gaming (aka Pro series).

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Netgear Launches Nighthawk X4S AC3200 DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem Router

​The 2017 CES saw various vendors introduce their first cable modem based on Broadcoms DOCSIS 3.1 BCM3390 chipset. Netgears CM1000 was one of the first out of the gate, though it didnt come with future-proof features such as the dual Ethernet ports in the Linksys CM3132.

Today, Netgear is launching the CM7800 cable modem router (being marketed under the Nighthawk X4S tag) based on the same platform as the CM1000. I wont go into the details of DOCSIS 3.1 and its advantages (already covered in the CM1000 launch article). The router and network processor segment is more interesting. Based on the AC3200 specifications, the CM7800 appears to be heavily based on the Broadcom BCM93390 reference design (PDF) where the BCM3390 itself is the network processor with the integrated switch, and the Wi-Fi features enabled by the BCM4366 4x4 802.11ac Wave 2 radio. The BCM3390 integrates a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. The BCM4366 has the proprietary QAM extensions to enable up to 550 Mbps for each 5 GHz spatial stream and up to 250 Mbps for each 2.4 GHz one (hence, the AC3200 tag). The CM1000, as mentioned earlier, is limited to 1 Gbps practically even if the ISP supports, say, 2 Gbps. However, the CM7800s integrated switch ensures that the unit can support 1 Gbps+ speeds to the coax link (assuming ISP support) using just the wired LAN ports.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Turtle Beach Ear Force Stealth 450

The Turtle Beach Stealth 450 is a wireless gaming headset with great sound quality, an impressive wireless range, and long battery life. Its microphone isn't capable of delivering the performance needed for streaming or voiceovers, but with a price of $85, the Stealth 450 provides excellent value for the money regardless.

Read full article @ techPowerUp