Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Alphacool EISWAND 360 External Water Cooling Kit Review
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 CPU Review
ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero Motherboard Review
Charts CPU Performance Content Creation: 16 CPUs tested - AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Corsair Crystal 460X RGB Compact ATX Case Review
Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming Laptop i7/ GTX 1050ti
Does Ryzen Perform Better with AMD GPUs?
EpicGear's Morpha X modular gaming mouse reviewed
Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Gaming 11 GB
Latest AIDA64 boasts Radeon RX 570/580 & 16C/32T Ryzen support
MSI Trident 3 Arctic Review
Project Build: Carmine - Part 1
Project Scorpio: Jaguar CPU, Polaris GPU, 12GB memory
Roccat Suora FX Keyboard
Zooz ZEN06 Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug Review

Alphacool EISWAND 360 External Water Cooling Kit Review

Top of the charts cooling performance yet very easy to install and requires almost zero interior space from your PC case? We are of course talking about the brand new EISWAND 360 External Water Cooling kit by Alphacool.

Read full article @ NikKTech

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 CPU Review

AMD claims that Ryzen 7 1700 is the most efficient eight-core CPU available, and at $330, it’s undoubtedly the cheapest one with modern amenities. We think it can match its bigger brothers with a decent overclock. Let’s put it to the test.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero Motherboard Review

With all of the hype surrounding the launch of AMD's Ryzen 7 processors, one of the most highly anticipated motherboards was ASUS's ROG Crosshair VI Hero.  If you didn't know ASUS launched the Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand with the original Crosshair AM2 motherboard.  With AMD making a big push with Ryzen ASUS thought it was time for a new AMD Crosshair motherboard.  The Crosshair VI motheboard makes use if the new X370 chipset and features a 12-phase power design, support for 2-way SLI / CrossFire, a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 M.2 connector, ROG SupremeFX audio technology, USB 3.1, RGB lighting with two RGB headers, and much more!  Is this the motherboard to get for your new AM4 build?  Read on as we find out!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Charts CPU Performance Content Creation: 16 CPUs tested - AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

These days there are basically two different groups of customers who demand lots of processing power: content creators and gamers, while this 2D performance comparison is targeting content creators. After having had a look at the following pages you'll have an overview on how fast recent CPUs are in regarding a variety of programs, may it be video encoding, rendering, ...

Read full article @ ocaholic

Corsair Crystal 460X RGB Compact ATX Case Review

If there are two big trends in computer accessories and peripherals these days, it’s “tempered glass” and “RGB illumination”. And if you can combine the two, as Corsair has done with the Crystal 460X RGB Compact ATX mid-tower case, so much the better! But there’s more to this case than just a serious amount of glam, and Benchmark Reviews will build a system in it to see if it would be a good home for your next gaming rig.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming Laptop i7/ GTX 1050ti

Today we take a look at the Dell inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop that boasts a 15.6″ 1080p resolution screen with a single stick of 16GB RAM running at 2400MHz, along with a 7700HQ CPU quad core processor. Dell include a GTX1050ti with 4GB VRAM to handle the graphics. We like the feel of the Inspiron 15 7000 and it is easy to admire the matte finish and white back lit keyboard – but how does it handle?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Does Ryzen Perform Better with AMD GPUs?

Since our initial review we've been looking at Ryzen from a few different angles. But there's a rumor going around that Ryzen's gaming performance is better than we think... if you use a Radeon GPU. Curious to see if there is any truth to the story, we put together a test designed to eliminate GPU bottlenecks and see what happens.

Read full article @ TechSpot

EpicGear's Morpha X modular gaming mouse reviewed

EpicGear's Morpha X gaming mouse offers a wealth of customization options, from its shell to its sensor to its RGB LED accent lighting. We swapped out every component and tested every setting to see whether the Morpha X delivers a spot in the gaming-peripheral hall of fame.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Gaming 11 GB

The Gigabyte AORUS GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Gaming comes with the largest out of the box overclock we've seen so far. At 33 dBA, it's also running much quieter than the Founders Edition and includes the highly popular idle-fan-stop feature. Pricing is very reasonable too, with a pre-order price of $750.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Latest AIDA64 boasts Radeon RX 570/580 & 16C/32T Ryzen support

Developer FinalWire has since realised its mistake and edited the release notes. Sometimes developers can be a little too laser-focussed upon their own travails to worry about minor details such as NDAs, or other insider knowledge. A case in point came to light today when FinalWire, the developers of the respected AIDA64 benchmarking toolset released a new beta version of the AIDA64 Extreme software (Version: 5.90.4208 beta (Apr 04, 2017)).

Read full article @ TweakTown

MSI Trident 3 Arctic Review

Putting Core i7 and GTX 1070 under the big-screen TV. 2017 is shaping up to be a great year for small-form-factor PCs and we get the feeling this perennially niche segment of the market is on the verge of breaking into the mainstream. The likes of the Corsair One, Asus ROG GR8 II and HP Pavilion Wave have already shown us what modern hardware can do when shoehorned into compact chassis, and MSI is redoubling its efforts with the new Trident 3 Arctic.

Priced at £1,800 and introduced as a more powerful revision of the original Trident, the third-generation Arctic ups the ante by pairing an Intel Core i7-7700 processor with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics. A potent mix for any PC, so it's all the more impressive to see that MSI has squeezed said hardware into a games-console-like chassis measuring 346mm x 72mm x 233mm.

Read full article @ Hexus

Project Build: Carmine - Part 1

So the launch of Ryzen was exciting because AMD was finally rejoining the high-end market on the CPU side of things and a lot of the benchmarks were very exciting. So once it was all finished up I had to get a proper AMD build together. The original plan was my wife's new PC might be running a Ryzen 7 CPU but ITX AM4 boards aren’t out yet so rather than wait I decided to build an AMD themed build right away. While Ryzen has gray and orange as its colors I decided to stick with the traditional black and red as AMD has used them both a lot in the past. So I started gathering parts and decided on a project name as well. This build is going to be called Carmine as it is a shade of red while also avoiding the traditional red themed names like Ruby. I’m still working on getting in components and planning out the build but I did want to at least get a post up with the base components we are going with, so check them out!

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Project Scorpio: Jaguar CPU, Polaris GPU, 12GB memory

Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter hypes up Project Scorpio's raw power, despite the fact the system uses an 8-core Jaguar CPU that's been "evolved" to target latency and synergy with the system's highly customized GPU. The GPU itself does indeed hit 6TFLOPs of power, and has 40 compute units at 1172MHz, giving the system an 11% increase in Radeon hardware and a 27% boost in frequency, totaling for a 47% compute advantage.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Roccat Suora FX Keyboard

The Suora FX is Roccat's answer to those who said their Ryos series was too big and "gamery". It features a minimal bezel, metal housing, new TTC mechanical switches, and full 16.8M RGB backlighting. Roccat has also added in support with their software driver Swarm and is aiming to take on the larger gaming keyboard brands with it.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Zooz ZEN06 Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug Review

The Zooz ZEN06 Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug is easy to setup, works well, looks cool, and offers a few features you might not find in other smart plugs. With the right Z-Wave controller, you will not only get the ability to toggle the plugged in device on/off, but you will also get feedback on the power being consumed from within the app. On top of that, the colors in the LED ring around the outlet provide a novel way to get a general idea of how much power your device is drawing.

Read full article @ Bigbruin.com