Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Cooler Master MasterLiquid Pro 280 Review
Crucial Ballistix Tactical 3000 MHz DDR4 (4x 8 GB)
Make CentOS 7 MATE & Xfce ultra fine with Numix
NZXT S340 Elite Review
Plextor M8Pe Series SSD Review
Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Screenshots Tour
XFX RX 480 GTR Black Edition Graphics Card Review
Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition Graphics Card Review

Cooler Master MasterLiquid Pro 280 Review

Cooler Master listened to customer feedback and incorporated some attractive braided sheathing to the cooling lines (and pump power cable). The MasterFan Pro 140 Air Balance fans can really move the air and they do so without sounding like a jet engine. Plus you get the ability to select three different speed ranges. How many fans out there can do that? So when you consider all of these features, I would agree that the FlowOp Technology does give this cooler an edge over other similarly priced units. I also have to mention that I liked the clear hardware organizing tray in the hardware kit. Installation was also a breeze.

Read full article @ OCC

Crucial Ballistix Tactical 3000 MHz DDR4 (4x 8 GB)

Crucial released a speed bump to their DDR4 products! Today, we get get to look at their update to the Ballistix Tracer line-up with a maximum speed of 3000 MHz and amazingly decent timings of 15-16-16-35 operating at a voltage of 1.35 V. You may have thought of Crucial as a company that only offers entry-level to mid-grade DDR4 products, but cannot do so any longer!

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Make CentOS 7 MATE & Xfce ultra fine with Numix

Here's a short yet dope article showing how to visually customize the Xfce and MATE desktops in CentOS 7.2 to an extreme aesthetics level using the Numix theme and icons. Enjoy.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

NZXT S340 Elite Review

At a first glance the S340 Elite from NZXT is one good looking case. The design is elegant and apart from that this particular case is available in different color combinations. It's quite clear that while developing this case, NZXT have had a strong focus on the design aspect and they wanted to come up with something beautiful. For us this is certainly already reason enough to have a thorough look at this case.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Plextor M8Pe Series SSD Review

Plextor launched an aggressive attack on the NVMe market with the new M8Pe that comes with three various cooling options and a plethora of capacities. The series uses Toshiba 15nm MLC flash to ride the performance wave and provide high endurance.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Screenshots Tour

Codenamed "Yakkety Yak", Ubuntu 16.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

Read full article @ Ubuntu Geek

XFX RX 480 GTR Black Edition Graphics Card Review

The RX 480 is AMD's flagship product in the Polaris series and designed to provide a stellar PC gaming experience without breaking the bank. Rather impressively, this mainstream graphics card can maintain fluid frame rates while powering some of the most demanding games available today. Not only that, the RX 480 supports FreeSync, Eyefinity and has an architecture built from the ground up for the latest APIs including Vulkan. Of course, there's fierce competition around the £200 mark in the form of the GTX 1060 and AMD's previous generation offerings. Although, the RX 480's ability to deploy asynchronous compute efficiently makes it a good investment for the future.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition Graphics Card Review

A little over a month ago NVIDIA announced both the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce GTX 1050 graphics cards.  These are designed for MOBA gamers and gamers who will only be gaming in 1080p resolutions.  These cards effectively replace the older GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphics card.  The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is the more powerful of the two card featuring 768 CUDA cores spread across 6 streaming multiprocessors, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and 4GB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface.  Today we will be taking a look at Zotac's OC Edition of the card which features a base clock of 1392 MHz and a GPU boost of 1506 MHz.  This is compared to the GTX 1050 Ti's reference speeds of 1290 MHz core and 1392 MHz GPU boost.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org