Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X Review
ASUS Intros TUF B350M-Plus Gaming Motherboard
Best CPUs: August 2017
Crucial BX300 480GB SATA6G SSD Review
CRYORIG H7 Quad Lumi
ECS Liva Z Plus Kaby Lake UCFF PC Review
F1 2017 Review
Gigabyte ATC700 AORUS CPU Cooler Review
Hands on with the LG V30/V30+: 6-inch OLED 2880x1440 Display, Quad DAC, IP68, Daydream VR
LG V30 Hands-On First Look: Make Way For A Fantastic Android Flagship
LG V30 hands-on: The phone the G6 should've been
Razer Blade Stealth Laptop On Linux, Various Linux Laptop Performance Metrics

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X Review

Threadripper 1920X sports 12 fed by 38MB of cache, quad-channel memory, and 64 PCIe lanes - all for $800, compared to Intel’s $1000 Core i9-7900X.

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ASUS Intros TUF B350M-Plus Gaming Motherboard

ASUS introduced its first socket AM4 motherboard bearing the durable TUF branding, the TUF B350M-Plus Gaming. Built in the micro-ATX form-factor, the board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS power connectors, conditioning it for the AM4 SoC using a 6-phase VRM. The components that make up the VRM are of a very high grade, enough to warrant TUF branding. The AM4 socket is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots, supporting up to 64 GB of dual-channel DDR4 memory; and the board's single and reinforced PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot. The second x16 slot is electrical x4, and wired to the AMD B350 chipset.

Storage connectivity includes one 32 Gb/s M.2 slot, and six SATA 6 Gb/s ports, two of which are directly wired to the SoC. Display connectivity includes one each of HDMI, D-Sub, and DVI. USB connectivity includes two 10 Gb/s USB 3.1 ports (both type-A), eight USB 3.0 ports (six on the rear panel, two by headers). Networking is care of a single 1 GbE interface, driven by a Realtek RTL8111H controller.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Best CPUs: August 2017

In our series of Best Guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing (29-Aug). Numbers in graphs reflect MSRP.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Crucial BX300 480GB SATA6G SSD Review

I have really good experience with Crucial products so I never can’t wait when I hear there will be something new. This time it’s the BX300 SATA SSD designed as a replacement for HDD.

Crucial says “You don’t need a new computer – just the Crucial BX300 SSD”. This is actually true as storage performance makes huge difference in new and older computers. Most users don’t really need faster processors or RAM while swiching from HDD to SSD can give new life to even older computers.

Read full article @ FunkyKit

CRYORIG H7 Quad Lumi

CRYORIG joins the RGB craze with the H7 Quad Lumi. Based on the wildly popular and successful H7 cooler, this new offering keeps everything you love about the original while improving performance and making it light up the night.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

ECS Liva Z Plus Kaby Lake UCFF PC Review

The ECS Liva Z Plus is a UCFF PC system with an intention to be used for business and personal use. The main selling point is that it uses an Intel Core i5 7300U 14nm Kaby Lake SoC in such a small form factor, with vPro enabled. The CPU uses Intel 620 graphics and supports 4K Playback. So it’s also good enough to function as a compact HTPC unit.
NUCs have been around for a while. Zotac makes mini PCs with and without gaming centric GPU. They have good usefulness as a general PC. What I liked about Liva Z Plus offering was that it is in the same form factor and design as its Apollo Lake SoC version ‘Liva Z’. Usually, such units are barebone devices, but this does come with a single DDR4 module, a 128GB M.2 and the BT 4.0+ WiFi AC adapter. This is ideally good for those who need out-of-box usability, but it also has room to make some upgrades.

Read full article @ Hardware BBQ

F1 2017 Review

Okay, to be more serious and detailed, the graphics really are quite good. For me this is one of those examples where things look right so nothing stands out. The tracks have good detail, as do the cars, and there are small details to enjoy like blades of grass sticking to the tires, if you accidentally run off the track. When running a wet track, the ground does in fact look wet, and the sound the tires on it make is correct, too. If you look at the screenshots of the wet track I have, you will notice the tires are different from on a dry track, and if I had any images from when I stopped, you would see the tire tread is different, too.

Read full article @ OCC

Gigabyte ATC700 AORUS CPU Cooler Review

We test and review the Gigabyte ATC700 AORUS processor cooler. The cooler is setup in a robust push-pull configuration and has three massive direct contact heatpipes as well as being RGB lighting configurable.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Hands on with the LG V30/V30+: 6-inch OLED 2880x1440 Display, Quad DAC, IP68, Daydream VR

As part of their IFA 2017 showcase, this morning LG is unveiling their long-rumored next-generation flagship phone, the V30. Like its predecessor, the LG V20, the V30 hasnt exactly been a well-kept secret, with several leaks springing over the last month. Still, with the official announcement from LG, were finally getting a complete look at the phone.

Some of the feedback that LG received for the LG V10 and the LG V20 explained that the smartphones were considered ‘too professional’ for the mass market and younger generations. Despite LG’s heavy marketing to millennials using celebrities such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the dual screen combinations had an interesting feature set but often sat in the store next to their better selling competitors. To crank up the base of Generation V (what LG calls the millennial generation targeted by the V-series), the biggest and most noticable design change for the V series is that the new V30 drops the slightly esoteric dual screen design in favor of a single, larger FullVision OLED display, with super narrow bezels to make as much of the phone a display as possible.

Read full article @ Anandtech

LG V30 Hands-On First Look: Make Way For A Fantastic Android Flagship

If you keep a pulse on the premium smartphone arena, you probably have a line on the fact that there might be something special about the forthcoming LG V30. Set for an official IFA 2017 unveiling, the new handset has been leaked, rumored and even teased by LG itself. LG in fact as been on a consistent marketing blitz, releasing bits and pieces of LG V30 features to keep the buzz factor and discussion of its new device at peak volume. Regardless, with a complement of features that may not be earth-shattering, but when combined add up to what could be handset nirvana for many, it's beginning to feel like LG may truly have something compelling in hand for Android power users with the V30.

And we're here to tell you today with our hands-on preview first look, that in fact the LG V30 is indeed something pretty special...

Read full article @ HotHardware

LG V30 hands-on: The phone the G6 should've been

Despite all its resources and technical know-how, LG has always felt like an also-ran in a race dominated by Apple and Samsung. The G4 is the subject of a class-action lawsuit. The modular G5 was an ambitious non-starter.

Read full article @ Engadget

Razer Blade Stealth Laptop On Linux, Various Linux Laptop Performance Metrics

Earlier this year Razer co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan announced that Razer is planning better laptop support on Linux. He noted that more customers are requesting Linux support and they formed a goal of figuring out how to make "the best notebook in the world that supports Linux." Razer doesn't have any Linux laptop announcement to make yet, but for seeing the current state of affairs, they sent over the Razer Stealth laptop so we could put it through our Linux testing paces at Phoronix. Here is a look at the Razer Stealth ultrabook on Linux as well as a variety of interesting performance metrics, including some power metrics compared to Windows.

Read full article @ Phoronix