Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Alienware 15 (GTX 1070) Gaming Laptop Review
Charts CPU Performance Content Creation: 16 CPUs tested - AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 4.0 GHz DDR4-3066
Das Keyboard Prime 13
Debian 6.0 Through Debian 9.0 Benchmarks
Dobot Magician Robotic Arm
Does Memory Speed Affect Gaming Performance; An Intel Question
Ethereum Hashrate Performance Drop Might Be Coming - AMD and NVIDIA GPUs Tested
FreeTail EVOKE Series CompactFlash Cards Capsule Review
GIGABYTE Intros MZ30-AR0 Motherboard for AMD EPYC
Intel Core i9-7900X 10-Core Processor Review
Intel Core i9-7900X, i7-7820X and i7-7800X Review
Interactive Fit for Fan guide v3.1 - will the cooler fit on the motherboard?
MSI X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Preview
Rosewill RGH-3300 Pro Gaming Headset
Which Power Supply do you need? – Seasonic showcase 2017

Alienware 15 (GTX 1070) Gaming Laptop Review

With a 7th gen Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, the Alienware 15 should prove to be a powerful contender, but is it worth the premium price?

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Charts CPU Performance Content Creation: 16 CPUs tested - AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 4.0 GHz DDR4-3066

These days there are basically two different groups of customers who demand lots of processing power: content creators and gamers, while this 2D performance comparison is targeting content creators. After having had a look at the following pages you'll have an overview on how fast recent CPUs are in regarding a variety of programs, may it be video encoding, rendering, ...

Read full article @ ocaholic

Das Keyboard Prime 13

The Das Keyboard Prime 13 is Das Keyboard acknowledging that some people want the excellent build quality of their flagship products at a lower price point. Add on back-lighting, a USB pass-through instead of a hub, retain the Cherry MX switches and the Prime 13 offers an option worth looking into.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Debian 6.0 Through Debian 9.0 Benchmarks

Continuing in our benchmarks of Debian 9, here is a comparison when re-testing 6.0.10 "Squeeze", Debian 7.11 "Wheezy", Debian 8.8 "Jessie", and the newly-released Debian 9.0 "Stretch".

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Dobot Magician Robotic Arm

The Dobot Magician is an all-in-one smart robotic arm offering multiple features including drawing, 3D printing, laser engraving, and production line integration all with the help of a unified driver program. It has an excellent 0.2 mm precision range of motion, and even comes with a smartphone app for further control.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Does Memory Speed Affect Gaming Performance; An Intel Question

After running through all of the tests, it appears that what I previously thought was an easy and clear answer is in fact more complicated. With the evidence provided I can safely say that memory can play a large role in some games over all frame rates. However, other factors like the processor, type of video card, and resolution will usually provide bigger impact in the final frame rates. Strictly speaking of game performances, the fastest memory tested does yield better results. Some games average FPS was within a 3% margin of error and others were wildly different. I think what any reader should take away from this article is that they need to factor in the rest of the system and make a sensible decision based on their setup. If you have money to burn or like to go full throttle, then you are probably already planning an SLI or Crossfire setup. At that point you might as well spend that little bit of extra memory to receive a faster set of memory. However, sometimes the jump in prices from one set to another can be drastic and that money could be better spent across the system as a whole.

Read full article @ OCC

Ethereum Hashrate Performance Drop Might Be Coming - AMD and NVIDIA GPUs Tested

If you are mining Ethereum you might have noticed that your hashrate recently dropped if you are using AMD Radeon RX 400/500 series cards. Seeing your mining hashrate drop is nothing new for Ether miners and it is usually due to the growing DAG file size. When the move to DAG epoch #130 happened it seems that the AMD Radeon 400/500 series cards took a performance hit while the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1000 series cards and older AMD Radeon 200/300 series cards did not. Let's take a look at some NVIDIA and AMD video cards and see what will happen months down the road at future DAG sizes.

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FreeTail EVOKE Series CompactFlash Cards Capsule Review

Digital cameras and camcorders employ memory cards (flash-based removable media) for storage of captured content. There are different varieties of memory cards catering to various performance levels. CompactFlash (CF) became popular in the late 90s, but, has now been overtaken by Secure Digital (SD) cards. Despite that, cameras with CF card slots are still getting introduced into the market. Today, we will be taking a look at a couple of CF cards in the EVOKE series from FreeTail Tech.

Read full article @ Anandtech

GIGABYTE Intros MZ30-AR0 Motherboard for AMD EPYC

GIGABYTE introduced the MZ30-AR0 motherboard for single-socket AMD EPYC processor-powered servers and workstations. The motherboard is built in the E-ATX form-factor, and features a single SP3r2 socket, for AMD EPYC 7000-series processors. Given that EPYC is a full-fledged SoC, the board has no chipset. An ASpeed AST2500 remote-management chip puts out basic display and IPMI features. The board draws power from two 8-pin EPS connectors, besides the 24-pin ATX. The CPU socket is flanked by 16 DDR4 DIMM slots, which support up to 512 GB of octa-channel DDR4 memory.

Expansion slots include four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 with full-time x16 wiring, one x16 with x8 wiring, and two x8 slots. Storage connectivity includes four slimSAS 12 Gb/s ports, which put out sixteen SATA 6 Gb/s ports, and a 32 Gb/s M.2 slot. Networking is care of two 10 GbE ports driven by a Broadcom BCM57810S processor, and a single GbE port. There's no onboard audio or even USB 3.1 ports.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Intel Core i9-7900X 10-Core Processor Review

2017 will go down as one of the more interesting years in the CPU market.  AMD released their Ryzen CPUs earlier this year and now Intel has the brand new Core X Series, which is solely aimed towards gamers and enthusiast.  This high-end desktop (HEDT) series is quite interesting as when completely released there will be a total of nine processors, stating with a quad-core Core i5 ($242) and going all the way up to a 18-core Core i9 ($1999).  Another new thing we are seeing here is the Core i9 Series, which is reserved for the highest-end Intel processors.  Intel will release five out of the nine Core X Series processors on June 26th, and today we have the Core i9-7900X up for review.  This processor right now is the current flagship until the other processors come out, and it is quite a beast!  Rocking 10-cores, 20-threads, a 3.3 GHz base clock, max Turbo Boost 3.0 of 4.5 GHz, 13.75 MB of cache, 44 PCI-Express lanes, and a TDP of 140 watts.  You get all of this for $999.  Let's jump in and see what the i9-7900X is all about!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Intel Core i9-7900X, i7-7820X and i7-7800X Review

Intel recently announced their new Core X CPU series, comprising of not just three or four processors, but nine of them, making it the biggest range of high-end desktop CPUs Intel has ever announced. Today we'll finally be checking some of them out.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Interactive Fit for Fan guide v3.1 - will the cooler fit on the motherboard?

Now with Intel Skylake-X X299 LGA2066 motherboards, AMD Ryzen B350 and X370 Socket AM4 motherboards, Intel LGA1151 Z270, H270 and B250 Kaby Lake motherboards, Intel X99 LGA2011-3 motherboards and many new CPU coolers ! Since the year 1999 OCinside.de is testing coolers and motherboards and followed the question, which CPU cooler can be used for which motherboard. With this interactive fit for fan guide one can find out exactly this with a few clicks, by moving the desired CPU cooler virtually on the selected motherboard. You can not only see if CPU cooler fits on the motherboard and how much space is left for the remaining components, but also listen to the fan sound, check the current price and read a review. Enjoy the interactive fit for fan guide !

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MSI X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Preview

The X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC is a new high-end motherboard from MSI. Compared to what could be seen as the predecessor, the X99A Gaming Pro Carbon, MSI apparently chose to reposition the Gaming Pro Carbon model in their portfolio more towards the high-end segment. Therefore you find many interesting features on this board such as two M.2 slots and an extensive RGB lighting implementation.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Rosewill RGH-3300 Pro Gaming Headset

The second-cheapest gaming headset Rosewill has to offer - the $35 RGH-3300 - isn't the prettiest to look at, but acoustically, it’s surprisingly well balanced and capable of delivering good performance in both games and music. Contrary to what the song says, it's not all about the bass!

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Which Power Supply do you need? – Seasonic showcase 2017

One of the biggest mistakes that a relatively inexperienced system builder will make is to place all the component focus on the most powerful processor, motherboard and graphics card while trying to save money on the power supply – often ending up with a no name brand from China.

When I am building a new rig I generally work out the power I will need first then buy the best supply I can afford while leaving enough headroom for a possible upgrade. Seasonic are without question one of the finest enthusiast power supply brands in the world and over the years I have entrusted their products to power many of my own systems, both at home and work. I would go as far to say that they have proven the most reliable brand of power supplies I have tested in the last seven years on KitGuru.

Read full article @ KitGuru