Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce Review
Arozzi Arena Gaming Desk Review
ASRock B450 Steel Legend Review
ASRock Z390 Steel Legend Review
Brazen Gaming Chair Review
HP Omen X Emperium 65 Review
Latest Windows 10 Update Is Causing ‘Black Screen’ Boot Error
No custom Radeon RX 5700 designs until mid august: report
Noctua NT-H2 Review
PCI-SIG Announces PCIe 6.0 Specification
Phison PS5016-E16 PCIe 4.0 SSD First Look Preview
Razer Hammerhead USB-C ANC Earphones Review
Samsung to shoulder some 14nm production strain for Intel
Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5TB & Backup Plus Slim 2TB Review
Thermaltake C240 DDC Hard Tube Liquid Cooling Kit Review

Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce Review

As the PC enthusiast community continues to grow, as does our options for customization. Customizing your PC has never been so easy and accessible. This is no more apparent than within the water cooling community as a whole. If you’re in the market for a simple all-in-one cooler, or you want a full, custom loop on a system that will …

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Arozzi Arena Gaming Desk Review

The Arozzi Arena is a full-surface mousepad desk featuring a good cable management system and plenty of space. Both gamers and normal users will appreciate the advantages that this computer desk offers, while the lack of electric height adjustment isn't necessarily a con, since it helps with pricing.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

ASRock B450 Steel Legend Review

The ASRock B450 Steel Legend is good mid-range motherboard, ideal for a gaming system and light CPU overclocking. The board offers plenty of useful features and options, two M.2 slots, reinforced metal PCIe slot and good VRM components.

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ASRock Z390 Steel Legend Review

In this review, we peek at a more affordable Z390 motherboard from ASRock, meet the Z390 Steel Legend. Ready for 8th or 9th Gen processors this board is about performance, aesthetics and features....

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

Brazen Gaming Chair Review

No Compromise! The headline that adorns the Brazen website is a statement of intent that sets certain expectations so let?s see if the Brazen Puma is up to the task.

Read full article @ MMORPG

HP Omen X Emperium 65 Review

HP is hoping to offer gamers the best of both world with its Omen X Emperium 65. Although HP is careful not to call the Omen X Emperium 65 a television, per se, there's no escaping that fact that this is a massive display that would be more at home in your living room, den, or bonus room than your average computer desk.

The Omen X Emperium measures a massive 65 inches diagonally, which puts it squarely in big-screen 4K HDTV territory. However, it borrows technology from the gaming world that we don't see in typical consumer-grade televisions, like NVIDIA G-SYNC and support for 144Hz refresh rates, for example...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Latest Windows 10 Update Is Causing ‘Black Screen’ Boot Error

Keeping your operating system up to date is an important part of any regular PC maintenance to ensure that the system is running under the most recent (and usually most stable) version. In addition, it also ensures that you are provided with all of the latest security information to help protect your computer from unwelcome intrusions.

In a report via GHacks, however, the latest patch released for Windows 10 (including Windows Server 2019) is causing a rather unusual error. Namely, that the next time you turn your PC on, you are greeted with a black screen at boot up.

Read full article @ eTeknix

No custom Radeon RX 5700 designs until mid august: report

If true 7/7 availability will be limited to AMD reference designs wearing various badges.

Read full article @ Hexus

Noctua NT-H2 Review

The NT-H2 improves over its predecessor in many ways including being less viscous for better distribution, a new fine-tuned mixture of metal oxide micro-particles for lower thermal resistance and reduced bond-line thickness.

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PCI-SIG Announces PCIe 6.0 Specification

PCI-SIG today announced that PCI Express (PCIe ) 6.0 technology will double the data rate to 64 GT/s while maintaining backwards compatibility with previous generations and delivering power efficiency and cost-effective performance. The PCIe 6.0 specification is actively targeted for release in 2021.

PCIe 6.0 Specification FeaturesDelivers 64 GT/s raw bit rate and up to 256 GB/s via x16 configurationUtilizes PAM-4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) encoding and leverages existing 56G PAM-4 in the industryIncludes low-latency Forward Error Correction (FEC) with additional mechanisms to improve bandwidth efficiencyMaintains backwards compatibility with all previous generations of PCIe technology

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Phison PS5016-E16 PCIe 4.0 SSD First Look Preview

Introduction The Phison PS5016-E16 will be the first commercially available SSD to utilize the PCI Express 4.0 specification. The new bus will double lane throughput and usher in new devices with increased performance capabilities or have the ability to operate on fewer lanes while utilizing less power.

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Razer Hammerhead USB-C ANC Earphones Review

Razer has a pair of USB-C noise cancelling earphones - are they any good at £80?

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Samsung to shoulder some 14nm production strain for Intel

Korean news media says Samsung formally agreed to fab Intel 14nm Rocket Lake CPUs.

Read full article @ Hexus

Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5TB & Backup Plus Slim 2TB Review

Hard drives continue to remain the storage media of choice for cost-conscious consumers with bulk storage requirements. HDD vendors have typically used their 2.5" drives for bus-powered high-capacity models. This market segment has been stuck at the 4TB mainstream capacity point for a few years now, with the z-height of the models coming in at well over 15mm. Earlier this year, Seagate announced an update to their massive 5TB Backup Plus Portable, while also introducing a new svelte 2TB Backup Plus Slim external hard drive. Both of them adopt SMR platters (similar to the Backup Plus models being sold since late 2016), and given the performance impact of SMR, today well be taking a detailed look at how SMR in bus-powered hard drives behaves for consumer workloads.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Thermaltake C240 DDC Hard Tube Liquid Cooling Kit Review

Thermaltake have sent me the C240 DDC Hard Tube Liquid Cooling Kit, typically such loops are purchased in parts rather than kit form and this aims to simplify the buying process by including a set of parts that are compatible yet flexible enough to suit a multitude of builds.

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