Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

ADATA Ultimate SU800 512GB SSD Review
AMD Vega 10 scores 24 TFlops
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Performance Analysis Review
Fnatic Gear Rush Pro Review
Intel 600p Series SSD Review
MSI X99A Tomahawk Motherboard Review
MSI X99A Workstation Motherboard Runs Nicely On Linux
MSI X99A XPower Gaming Titanium Motherboard Review
SK hynix Canvas SL308 500GB Review
The HTC 10 Review
The KB3189866 Windows 10 Update Is Stuck: What to Do?
VMware OS Optimization Tool Review
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 ArcticStorm Review

ADATA Ultimate SU800 512GB SSD Review

The ADATA Ultimate SU800 is the first SSD series from ADATA that features 3D TLC NAND Flash memory components. Despite having 'Ultimate' in in its product name, the Ultimate SU800 is a SATA III 6Gb/s SSD that is aimed at the price-conscious consumer in the SSD value market. As you might have guessed, this means you'll get decent performance at rather affordable price points. Read on to find out how it performs and what the pricing is like!

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AMD Vega 10 scores 24 TFlops

Thanks to our well informed and reliable friends, Fudzilla has learned that you can expect as much as 24 TFlops of half precision performance and 12 TFlops of single precision performance. Both half precision and single precision numbers are higher than Nvidia scores with Pascal P100, its highest end Tesla chip.
Earlier  we learned that HBM 2 won’t be really available before the end of the year and this is one of the main reasons why the Vega 10 had to be pushed to 2017. Nvidia  announced the Tesla P100 but it always claimed that it plans to ship it in Q4 2016.
Bear in mind that the Titan X uses GDDR5X memory and scores significantly lower than the Tesla P100 and Titan X uses the GP102 chip that packs 12 billion transitions, while the P100 has 15.3 billion.

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Performance Analysis Review

I was able to find good, playable settings for each of the four tested GPUs, but three of them all seemed to hang around the same FPS range. This suggests my CPU is holding them back, along with my observation that performance improves significantly when inside buildings. The GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 are almost certainly being bottlenecked by my CPU, and it is possible the GTX 980 is as well, but I do not want to commit to that idea. Also, options that I would normally expect to reduce a CPU bottleneck, such as reducing Level of Detail, did not seem to make a difference. While I will not take this as proof it is not bottlenecking me, it may suggest the nature of the bottleneck is something I cannot so easily remedy. That wraps up this analysis, but I do intend to return to it in the future, when DirectX 12 support is added. This could actually go a fair distance in addressing what CPU issues I seem to be having, so I for one am looking forward to this particular patch.

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Fnatic Gear Rush Pro Review

Fnatic, if you aren't aware, are a London based esports team and have many top players involved in some of the most competitive games around. They have many awards and championships under their belts and I have to thank their DOTA team for some amazing matches this year at the TI6 where they took a whopping $1.5m for 4th place. So it would be an understatement to say that they are among the biggest esports teams around.

So where do you go with an established brand? Well Fnatic launched an Indiegogo crowd funded campaign to create their own line of peripherals last year, and have been working to bring gamers a new line of products. Part of this plan included the takeover of Func, a brand that had built a great reputation for solid and reliable products. This takeover could be the start of something incredibly interesting due to the vast experience of the team as well as having access to in-house pro-testers from all walks of gaming life. I must confess, their mission statement is hard-hitting and to the point.

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Intel 600p Series SSD Review

If you can't beat them, undercut them on price. Intel plans to do just that with the first TLC-based NVMe M.2 SSD to hit the market. The new 600p Series ships in three low-cost capacities, and a 1TB drive will join them, but endurance is a sticking point.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

MSI X99A Tomahawk Motherboard Review

The next generation of X99 motherboards was released earlier this year during the launch of Broadwell-E. While this CPU will run on existing X99 motherboards there was is a real opportunity to make the most of it and release a few new products and better align them with current technology. One of the biggest shifts between then and now is a change in storage connectivity. When X99 was initially released M.2 wasn’t really a thing despite there being mSATA devices the M.2 PCI SSD storage option wasn’t widely used.

These days we have available M.2 SSDs and and are starting to see U.2 drives which allows PCI Express drives to work much like current SATA systems with a flexible cable. This upgrade in storage technology will change how PCI Express is implemented and move it from being dedicated to high-end multi-gpu configurations to things like large storage arrays with minimal system footprints.

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

MSI X99A Workstation Motherboard Runs Nicely On Linux

The past few weeks I've been testing out the MSI X99A Workstation motherboard courtesy of MSI Computer and it's been working out very well across a spectrum of open-source Linux (as well as BSD) use-cases for those in need of a LGA-2011 v3 motherboard.

The MSI X99A Workstation motherboard was rolled out this summer as one of the newer Intel X99 products and comes with full support for the Broadwell-EP/Broadwell-E LGA-2011 v3 CPUs, dual Intel Gigabit LAN, USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A/C connectivity, M.2/U.2 storage support, DDR4 ECC support, SATA Express, support for three PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, and more.

Read full article @ Phoronix

MSI X99A XPower Gaming Titanium Motherboard Review

Over the past couple of years MSI has really solidified themselves as a major player in the motherboard market. Their main focus with many of their motherboards has been gaming a recently they divided their gaming segment into three distinct series, Enthusiast Gaming, Performance Gaming, and Arsenal Gaming. Today we will be taking a look at a really unique motherboard which is part of the Enthusiast Gaming Series. It is not often we see motherboards with PCB’s that differ from black, but MSI has gone Titanium with their X99A XPower Gaming Titanium as the name suggests. MSI did not just make the PCB of this board a Titanium color and expect people to buy it, they have decked it out with all of the options enthusiast gamers would want! You have Intel Gaming Networking, SLI and Crossfire support with steel-plated PCIe and DDR4 slots, 32 Gb/s M.2 and U.2 ports, USB 3.1 Gen 2 (Type-A and Type-C) ports, Audio Boost 3, powered by Nahimic Sound Technology, and so much more! This motherboard has pretty much everything you could ask for! Let’s jump in and see what it is all about!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

SK hynix Canvas SL308 500GB Review

Already well known as a manufacturer of Flash NAND, SK hynix are certainly working on ramping up their presence in the SSD market with their own drives. Hard on the heels of the Enterprise-focused SE3010 that we examined recently comes the latest addition to the Canvas consumer range – the SL308. Aimed more towards the entry level end of the consumer space, the SL308 uses low-cost TLC memory in combination with an SK hynix controller.

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The HTC 10 Review

It probably goes without saying right now that HTC has been a troubled company for some time now. With the One M8 we finally saw that they were making a recovery, but with the Snapdragon 810 and One M9 HTC suffered a massive blow as their offerings just weren’t competitive with the Galaxy S6 or Galaxy Note5 for the time. Realistically speaking, any phone with a Snapdragon 810 or 808 just couldn’t really compete. With the launch of the Snapdragon 820, it seems that Qualcomm had finally launched an SoC that was a real improvement over the Snapdragon 801 and 805, and in the time since then we’ve seen a return to normalcy in the smartphone market.

A a result, HTC has been under fairly enormous pressure to perform this product cycle. Their attempt to meet that pressure is the HTC 10, which is the best of what HTC has to offer distilled into a single package. That distillation starts at the name it seems as rather than the One M10 as you might expect given that the naming scheme for the past few generations has meant that its predecessors are called the One M8 and One M9. There’s no One branding anymore, and the phone is just their tenth, and HTC is hoping that it’s a “perfect 10” in every respect. To see if it lives up to its name, read on for the full review.

Read full article @ Anandtech

The KB3189866 Windows 10 Update Is Stuck: What to Do?

A cumulative update is a Windows update that contains a bunch of previous updates bundled as one. Its useful when you havent updated in a while because it lets you jump to a certain Windows milestone (like the Anniversary Update) without installing those past updates one by one. Unfortunately, cumulative updates can be tricky as evidenced by Cumulative Update KB3189866, which, according to user reports, can get stuck at numerous points throughout the update process namely at 45%, 46%, 48%, 49%, and 95%.

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VMware OS Optimization Tool Review

VMware OS Optimization Tool is a free program for devices running Windows designed to optimize those devices for running VMWare Horizon View. While that is the main purpose, it is an optimization software that has its uses even if VMware Horizon View is not installed on the computer.

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ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 ArcticStorm Review

In this review we check out a GeForce GTX 1080 that you will be able to hook up to your custom liquid cooling loop, it is the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 ArcticStorm. We'll check out the 8 GB GDDR5X beast with some sincerely lovely looks.

We check out the new 8 GB beast with that funky full-version water-block, extra RGB LED functionality and a tiny boost in clock frequencies as well. The GPU industry has been on hold, waiting for a smaller GPU fabrication process to become viable. Last generation GPUs were based on a 28 nm fabrication, an intermediate move to 20 nm was supposed to be the answer for today’s GPUs, but it was a problematic technology. Aside from some smaller ASICs the 20 nm node has been a fail. Therefore the industry had to wait until an ever newer and smaller fabrication process was available in order to shrink the die which allows for less voltage usage in the chips, less transistor gate leakage and, obviously, more transistors in a GPU. The answer was to be found in the recent 14/15/16 nm fabrication processors and processes with the now all too familiar FinFET + VLSI technology (basically wings on a transistor). Intel has been using it for a while, and now both Nvidia and AMD are moving towards such nodes as well. Nvidia is the first to announce their new products based on a TSMC 16 nm process fab by introducing Pascal GPU architecture, named after the mathematician much like Kepler, Maxwell and Fermi. That stage has now passed, the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 have been announced with the 1070 and 1080 cards slowly becoming available in stores as we speak. Both models are equally impressive in its product positioning, though I do feel the 1070 will be the more attractive product due to its price level, the 1080 cards really is what everybody want (but perhaps can't afford). The good news though is that the board partner cards will offer SKUs for less opposed to the Nvidia reference / Founder edition cards. Obviously the higher-end all customized SKUs will likely level with that founders edition card price level again, but I am pretty certain you'd rather spend your money on a fully customized AIB card that is already factory tweaked a bit opposed the the reference one.

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