Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD 7nm Zen 2 CPUs Sampling This Year for 2019 Volume Launch
AMD Precision Boost 2 and Wraith Prism Deep Dive
CHERRY MW 4500 Ergonomic Wireless Mouse Review
Corsair HS60 Gaming Headset Review
Cougar Panzer Evo Full Tower Case Review
Early AMD Vega 20 3DMark11 benchmark result emerges
GPUs as money makers: everything about cryptocurrency mining
Intel hires AMD product marketing veteran Chris Hook
Ryzen 5 2600X vs. 2600: Which should you buy?

AMD 7nm Zen 2 CPUs Sampling This Year for 2019 Volume Launch

Comments made by Lisa Su during a recent earnings call suggest that 7nm Zen 2 CPUs will not fall victim to a paper launch and see wide availability next year, as sampling has already begun. AMD has tasked both TSMC and GLOBALFOUNDRIES for their 7nm lineup, which will include samples of a 7nm GPU based on Vega and 7nm server CPU later this year.

"We have a 7nm GPU based on Vega that we'll sample later this year. We have a 7nm server CPU that we'll sample later this year. And then, obviously, we have a number of products that are planned for 2019 as well. So it's a very, very busy product season for us. But we're pleased with the sort of the execution on the product roadmap," Dr. Su said.

Read full article @ HardOCP

AMD Precision Boost 2 and Wraith Prism Deep Dive

When AMD presented it new Precision Boost 2 technology, I have to think AMD undersold the feature in terms of what it was actually able to accomplish. The original Precision Boost on the 1st gen Ryzen processors was anemic at best. After seeing what Precision Boost 2 can accomplish, do we even need to try to overclock our new 2700X Blasphemy!

Let's setup this article by putting two questions into play. Is AMD "overclocking" the 2700X better than we can overclock it? And, how big of an impact does your CPU cooling have on Precision Boost 2 and how well it works?

Read full article @ HardOCP

CHERRY MW 4500 Ergonomic Wireless Mouse Review

Since the MW 4500 does come with a rather unusual shape, the user needs a bit of time to get used to it, when coming from a regular office mouse. The wireless feature is an added bonus, while the dongle is really small in order to be used with both laptops and desktops, without obstructing devices connected to nearby ports. For some extra flexibility, we do have three DPI steps to choose from: 600 / 900 / 1200 but considering the maximum DPI value we would not recommend it as a gaming product.

Read full article @ Mad Shirmps

Corsair HS60 Gaming Headset Review

Today we will be introducing the HS60 brought to us by Corsair. Building upon the success of the CORSAIR HS50 headset, we are pleased to introduce the latest addition to the CORSAIR headset family, the HS60 STEREO. The HS60 STEREO offers gamers outstanding comfort, audio quality and durability at more accessible price points without sacrificing the performance and quality CORSAIR products are known for.

Read full article @ FunkyKit

Cougar Panzer Evo Full Tower Case Review

So when I was asked if I fancied reviewing a new case, I thought to myself why not I really like Midi Size tower cases they fit in quite well with nearly any and all spaces especially for me. When I was told that it would be the Panzer Evo from Cougar I thought hey this will be awesome and oh boy was I right but it’s a behemoth of a case to say the least!

So I welcome you to the Cougar Panzer Evo Case review as Cougar label this case on their site “The Crystalline Titan” and that’s certainly not wrong! So let gets to it and review this awesome and very smart case, oh cripes all the tempered glass makes it so heavy!

Read full article @ eTeknix

Early AMD Vega 20 3DMark11 benchmark result emerges

Super early benchmark result of Vega 20 demonstrates questionable improvement over Vega 10. AMD Vega 20 A die-shrinked Vega 10 has appeared in AMD labs last week, as revealed by the company on social media. Luckily for us, one of the employees was not careful enough and forgot to disable online result validation. This gave us the first result of yet unreleased Vega 20 graphics card. The card used in this test is clearly an engineering sample running on early drivers.

Read full article @ VideoCardz.com

GPUs as money makers: everything about cryptocurrency mining

Graphics cards with AMD's RX 500 and Vega series and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 10 GPUs have been sold out for months (almost) and are also very expensive. The reason? They are bought on a massive scale to mine cryptocoins such as Ethereum and Zcash. Not a nice development for gamers, but unfortunately a fact we can't ignore. It's time for us to find out which GPUs perform best in mining.

If you want to start mining, you can do so in two ways. The simplest method is to use a video card that you already have at times when you are not actively using it. A gaming PC that is really only used a few hours a day, you can of course use the rest of the time to mine. If that's the case, and you don't have to recoup the investment of the video card, it's especially important to look at the energy consumption of your PC. In the Netherlands, energy is paid for at a price of around 20 eurocents per kilowatt hour. As a result, older CPUs quickly consume more energy than they generate in terms of mining. However, with modern video cards from AMD's RX 400 and 500 series and Nvidia's GeForce 10 models, you can still mine profitably.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Intel hires AMD product marketing veteran Chris Hook

Hook becomes Intel’s first ever discrete graphics marketing executive. Earlier this month HEXUS reported upon the departure of Chris Hook from AMD. He held the significant position of Senior Director, Global Product Marketing at AMD at the time. Furthermore, he had been a long serving ATI/AMD staffer – since 2001. Hook’s status post suggested he was having a break before moving on to company pastures new, but there was no hint that the company might be – Intel.

Read full article @ Hexus

Ryzen 5 2600X vs. 2600: Which should you buy?

This time last year we set out to address a question many of you were asking at the time: should you buy the Ryzen 5 1600X or the non-X 1600? The 1600X was selling for $250 at the time, while the vanilla 1600 could be had for a tad less at just $220.

The R5 1600 came clocked ~10% lower out of the box, but because it was an unlocked part, overclocking was an option and pushing past 1600X performance was possible. The 1600 also came stock with the Wraith Stealth cooler, while AMD tried a move from Intel’s playbook and sold the 1600X without a cooler at all.

Read full article @ TechSpot