Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Benchmarking Intel Kaby Lake-Y With Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1
Gigabyte Aorus Z270X-Gaming K7
NZXT X42, X52, and X62 Liquid CPU Cooler Review Roundup
QNAP at CES 2017 - Thunderbolt 3 and Xeon D NAS Units, Residential Gateways, and More
Seagate BarraCuda Pro ST10000DM0004 10TB Hard Drive Review
Seagate wants to make you a 16TB hard drive

Benchmarking Intel Kaby Lake-Y With Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1

Intel has been gradually rolling out its 7th generation Kaby Lake-based Core series processors for an array of computing platforms, from desktops to notebooks and 2-in-1 hybrid devices. We've shown you what Kaby Lake can do for enthusiast and gamer desktop platforms. We've even recently explored optimizing its price/performance ratio through overclocking, and of course, Kaby Lake notebooks led Intel's charge starting in the summer of last year.

What we haven't gotten a chance to look at yet is Intel's lowest powered Kaby Lake variant, known as Kaby Lake-Y, until now...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Gigabyte Aorus Z270X-Gaming K7

So it's almost tax time and this year we couldn’t ask for better timing on hardware launches. Intel launched their new chipsets and CPUs around CES time and AMD has their new CPUs and Chipsets coming here soon as well. So it looks like this year might be a big year for hardware, especially with more companies refocusing again on the PC. Well, Gigabyte introduced a whole selection of Z270 boards at CES and along with that they also expanded the reach of their Aorus line. It used to just be their gaming laptop lineup, but they have now brought together that brand with their gaming peripherals, motherboard, and video cards as well. The first Aorus product to come in is their new Z270X-Gaming K7 board. Let’s take a look and see what it’s all about.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

NZXT X42, X52, and X62 Liquid CPU Cooler Review Roundup

It has been a while since we’ve had a chance to take a look at NZXT cooler, but in the past, we’ve been highly impressed with their products. Quite frankly, there hasn’t been a whole lot of innovation in the CPU cooler market, because it’s just tough to improve on something that’s already awesome. Instead, we see a lot of manufacturers adding visual improvements to the coolers to help make them stand out, but this really only helps for those who have windowed cases. Today we’re going to take a look at a trio of NZXT Kraken coolers, called the Kraken X42, X52, and X62. These coolers are updated version of the already successful X41 and X61 with a little added flare and were released just this past November.
NZXT’s all-new Kraken coolers are sealed systems based on Asetek hardware and are the third generation of coolers that Asetek provided to NZXT. As previously mentioned, the X42 and X62 are updated versions of the X41 and X61, while the X52 is new to the line-up. The X42 is a 140mm single-fan cooler, the X52 is a 240mm dual-fan cooler, and the X62 is a 280mm dual-fan cooler. Obviously as we increase in size, we should find that the cooler can handle the load that much better. NZXT bringing a 240mm cooler to this line-up will help fit the crowd that doesn’t have massive cases.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

QNAP at CES 2017 - Thunderbolt 3 and Xeon D NAS Units, Residential Gateways, and More

As part of my usual CES vendor visits, I caught up with QNAP and took a look at the new products and QTS features slated to enter the market over the next couple of quarters. The products that caught my eye included a new series of Thunderbolt-enabled NAS units, a couple of products targeting the IoT / residential wireless gateway space, a NAS unit with an optical drive slot, and a 16-bay Xeon D NAS in the tower form factor. On the software side, QNAP also demonstrated a new QVR Pro Surveillance Station integrating the Surveillance Station package into the QTS OS along with a host of improvements. The DJ2 Live live-stream broadcast platform was also in action at the booth. I wont go much into the software announcements - Interested readers can refer to the press release, and there really is not much to add beyond that on those aspects.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Seagate BarraCuda Pro ST10000DM0004 10TB Hard Drive Review

Unprecedented performance and capacity: Seagate's BarraCuda Pro ST10000DM0004 10TB is one of the biggest and fastest hard drives ever made.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Seagate wants to make you a 16TB hard drive

Running out of room on your desktop computer? Seagate has the solution.

Read full article @ TechRadar