Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Antec HCG 850W Gold Power Supply Unit Review
Cherry MX Board 5.0 Review
Creative Sound BlasterX G6 7.1 HD Gaming DAC and External USB Sound Card Review
EasySMX Wireless ESM-9013 Gamepad Review
HyperX Alloy FPS RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review
HyperX Pulsefire Surge Gaming Mouse Review
Intel 660p NVMe M.2 SSD Review
Intel Core i9-9900K Cinebench R15 score leaks
Marshall Kilburn II Portable Speaker Review
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Unboxing
NVIDIA GeForce RTX Explored: What You Need To Know About Turing
Nvidia Turing GeForce 2080 (Ti) architecture Review
NVIDIA Turing GeForce RTX Technology & Architecture
NVIDIA's next-gen Turing GPU: Biggest Leap Since GeForce 256
OWC Express 4M2 Thunderbolt 3 Enclosure Review
Popping the hood on Nvidia's Turing architecture
ROCCAT SUORA FX RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

Antec HCG 850W Gold Power Supply Unit Review

Antec has brought back their award winning High Current Gamer line of power supply units this time featuring a fully-modular design, 80 Plus Gold efficiency certification, rock solid rail stability, wide range of electrical protections and a 10 year limited warranty.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Cherry MX Board 5.0 Review

So most of you who are looking at mechanical keyboards have heard the name Cherry. They are the name brand in mechanical switches, coming out with their MX switch back in the 80’s. It was later used with other brands especially in recent years with the push back into mechanical keyboards. Recently there have been a lot of other switches from companies making clones and a few new designs as well, but Cherry is the classic go-to. Well, it might be a surprise for some of you that Cherry also makes keyboards as well, not just the switches used in them. I’ve covered a few like the MX Board 6.0 and the MX Board 3.0. Well, they also came out with the MX Board 5.0, sporting their Cherry MX Silent Reds. I loved the 3.0 and the 6.0, so I’m curious what sets this one apart.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Creative Sound BlasterX G6 7.1 HD Gaming DAC and External USB Sound Card Review

The latest Sound BlasterX G6 DAC and external sound card is very flexible in terms of supported platforms, but also features important upgrades over the G5. We do have now a future-proof 32-bit/384kHz, 130dB DAC that is combined with separate amplification for each channel, marketed as Xamp. The amplifier supports up to 600 ohm headphones and with the G6 we also have now Dolby Digital Decoding. Scout Mode was been introduced quite some time ago and applies certain filters in-game, for hearing more clearly footsteps, weapons and should give you an advantage. For easy operation, we do also have a hardware button for Scout Mode, but also for switching between different preset profiles or for choosing the amplification.

Read full article @ Mad Shirmps

EasySMX Wireless ESM-9013 Gamepad Review

EasySMX is probably not something that you’ll think of buying peripherals from unless you have some experience with it. Sometimes, it is unfortunate because much smaller brands do have some good products to use it with. This is its ESM-9013 wireless game controller that light in weight and light in the pocket. I haven’t use gamepads for a very long time so it should be interesting as a PC user how this goes.

The game controller is very light. This was flown in from another country and shows no sign of damage. It works and its good enough. No fancy contents- just the controller, the wireless dongle and an instruction manual. There are two accent colour variants- red and blue. I have the blue. I have seen an all-black EasySMX controller as well which looks the same as this one but with the different model number.

Read full article @ Hardware BBQ

HyperX Alloy FPS RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review

If I had to name one company as a rising star in 2018, it would be HyperX. They're not new by any stretch, but for more than a year now their products have stood out as challengers in their respective markets. Today, we're looking at a refresh of one of their most popular mechanical keyboards with the Alloy FPS RGB. It has all-new switches, a fresh look, full programmability, and comes in at $109.99.

Read full article @ MMORPG

HyperX Pulsefire Surge Gaming Mouse Review

Kingston’s gaming brand, HyperX, has been offering gaming headsets and keyboards for quite some time with great results like the Cloud line of headsets. One peripheral area that HyperX had not yet ventured was mice, but that has now come to an end with the HyperX Pulsefire Surge. As the name suggests, the Surge is part of the HyperX Pulsefire line, and offers great hardware like a Pixart 3389 sensor and Omron switches, as well as 360-degree RGB LED lighting effects. In addition to the standard gaming mouse options, the Surge gives users access to HyperX NGenuity, a software application that delivers extra customization options. Let’s get right into the review!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Intel 660p NVMe M.2 SSD Review

For as long as solid state drives have been a thing, Intel has been known for making some of the highest quality SSDs on the market. However, this usually came with a pretty hefty premium, like the 750 series when they first launched. Then, in August of 2016, they introduced their first budget friendly NVME M.2 SSD with the 600p. It was a great value, if you were willing to give up a little speed when compared to other NVME SSDs. The Intel 600p advertised sequential read and write speeds of around 1800 and 560 MB/s. Although this is much higher than the saturation point of a SATA 6 SSD (550 read and 520 write), it was still much slower that the average NVME SSD. However, it was also much cheaper than your average NVME M.2. At launch, I paid only $69.99 at launch for a 250 gb 600p.

Now, about two years later, Intel has done it again with the launch of their all new 660p NVME M.2. This is Intels latest offering of PCIE gen 3 X4 NVMe SSDs. They come in 512 GB, 1024 GB and 2048 GB variants and advertise speeds of up to 1800 on the read and 1800 on the write. The read speeds may be the same as the 660p, but the write speeds are estimated at over 1200 MB/s faster than the 600p. They have also priced the 660p below the launch price of the 600p. So, we have a faster, cheaper drive that its predecessor, potentially. We recently picked up a 660p to run it through our suite of benchmarks. Now let’s see how it did.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Intel Core i9-9900K Cinebench R15 score leaks

Lau Kin Lam from HKEPC had the opportunity to test the new LGA1151 processor from Intel. The one that is supposedly launching next month (I guess no wants to wait). Intel Core i9-9900K scores 2166 points in Cinebench The Core i9-9900K is the upcoming 8-core and 16-thread CPU based on Coffee Lake Refresh architecture. New processors (9900K, 9700K and 9600K) are all meant to be supported by existing 300-series motherboards. In order to get the most out of the new flagship CPU, the Z370 or Z390 motherboard is required (for overclocking obviously).

Read full article @ VideoCardz.com

Marshall Kilburn II Portable Speaker Review

Marshall has updated their Kilburn mid-sized portable speaker with an improved design and better specs -- and AppleInsider has been using it for a while. Consumers have been snapping up home speakers, which is no wonder Marshall has continued to expand their speaker lineup. What launched as a core lineup of wired Bluetooth speakers, now includes many Wi-Fi AirPlay and portable options as well.

Kilburn has been one of the more popular with powerful sound, a vintage design, and a lower price tag. The second incarnation adopts a more robust design and improves the specs for a fantastic portable speaker.

Read full article @ Apple Insider

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Unboxing

Our GeForce RTX 2080 card is here in an inconspicuous DHL box. We decided to picture every step of pulling NVIDIA's sexy RTX 2080 Founders Edition card from its packaging.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

NVIDIA GeForce RTX Explored: What You Need To Know About Turing

A few weeks back, at an event just prior to the Gamescom kick-off in Cologne, Germany, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang officially unveiled the company’s initial GeForce RTX 2000 series graphics card line-up, based on its new Turing GPU microarchitecture. Jensen discussed a number of the cards’ new features and capabilities, including real-time hardware accelerated ray tracing, a new deep learning assisted anti-aliasing technology dubbed DLSS, and with the speeds and feeds of each GPU.

Many other deeper technical details regarding the Turing GPU microarchitecture were kept closer to the vest and revealed only to smaller group of attendees at the event. However, today we’re now able to disclose some of those technical details, new features and capabilities...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Nvidia Turing GeForce 2080 (Ti) architecture Review

In this article, we'll take a deep dive into the technology and specifications that is the GeForce RTX series graphics cards and Turin GPUs. This is an architectural deep dive into the Turing graphics processors, and of course, we can share with you all specifications, you know the nitty-gritty stuff including all details you want to know about the pending GeForce RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti. We've got a lot of new stuff to cover as the Turing architecture of the new GPUs offers a fundament change and maybe even a shift in the graphics card arena as next to your normal shading engine. You heard all about it, NVIDIA has added RT (Raytracing) cores, as well as Tensor (AI), cores onto the new GPUs, and these are active on the three announced products. Will Turing be the start of the next 20 years of gaming graphics? Well, that all depends on the actual adoption rate in the software houses, the guys and girls that develop games and a dozen or so DirectX Raytraced compatible games are in development an equal amount of them will make use of deep learning DLSS running utilizing the Tensor cores. Turing predominantly is all about adding Hybrid Raytracing in the rendering pipeline though. That has got to be my opening paragraph for this article. So hey all, and welcome to the first in a long row of RTX reviews. We'll start off with a technical overview of the reference cards and GPUs, of course. It is the 14th of September 2018, that wait is almost over. But before we begin, let's quickly have an overview as to what three graphics cards NVIDIA actually has announced.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

NVIDIA Turing GeForce RTX Technology & Architecture

NVIDIA Turing architecture is the company's best-kept secret if it's indeed 15 years in the making. It comes together with the new RTX Technology to fulfill the long-cherished dream of games: real-time ray-tracing. We dive deep into the theory and background of the two and explore their possible future together.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

NVIDIA's next-gen Turing GPU: Biggest Leap Since GeForce 256

This is the day that I've been personally waiting for, for well, a very long time. NVIDIA first changed the GPU game with the release of the GeForce 256 all the way back in 1999, when Quake III Arena was the flagship first-person shooter and PC crusher.

There is a lot going on under the hood of the new Turing GPU, with NVIDIA developing the next-gen GPU in tandem with their Maxwell and Pascal GPUs over the last few years. NVIDIA has been building Turing for over 10 years now, so this isn't some last-minute release or something that will pass. Turing delivers so many new technologies and opens Pandora's Box (in a very, very good way) for the game developers of the world, AI and deep learning markets, and everything in between. The leap between Pascal and Turing is gigantic, and it's really quite magical.

Read full article @ TweakTown

OWC Express 4M2 Thunderbolt 3 Enclosure Review

The OWC Express 4M2 is a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure that can accommodate up to four M.2 NVMe SSDs simultaneously for up to 8TB of storage. It features a compact design and dual Thunderbolt 3 ports for daisy chain setups along with DisplayPort for connecting to an external display.
OWC says that speeds for the 4M2 can reach up to 2800 MB/s read. To reach those speeds, youll need four fast drives configured with RAID 0 using the included SoftRAID software.
The 4M2, with its massive 8TB capacity and fast speeds is particularly apt for video editing workflows. But the enclosure, which costs $349 without any drives inside, requires a considerable investment to get the most out of it. Should you consider OWCs chassis if you need the throughput speed and storage space? Watch our video walkthrough inside for the details.

Read full article @ 9to5Mac

Popping the hood on Nvidia's Turing architecture

It's Turing Day at TR. We've been hearing about the innovations inside Nvidia's Turing GPUs for weeks, and now we can tell you a bit more about what's inside them. Turing implements a host of new technologies that promise to reshape the PC gaming experience for many years to come. While much of the discussion around Turing has concerned the company's hardware acceleration of real-time ray-tracing, the tensor cores on board Turing GPUs could have even more wide-ranging effects on the way we game—to say nothing of the truckload of other changes under Turing's hood that promise better performance and greater flexibility for gaming than ever before.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

ROCCAT SUORA FX RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

We have seen quite a few different products from ROCCAT including the Horde AIMO RGB hybrid keyboard which got some awards from Craig. Now we put the ROCCAT SUOARA FX through its paces which features RGB customisable backlighting, mechanical switches and a current cost of £90 in the UK and $130 in the US! Let’s check it out and see what ROCCAT and the SUORA FX mechanical keyboard has to offer!

Read full article @ Play3r