Here a roundup of the latest reviews and articles:

Best PC gaming headset: top 5 headsets we've tested
Buying Guide: The 5 best 13-inch laptops: top portable yet powerful notebooks
Corsair VOID RGB USB Review
CPU Performance Content Creation: 8 CPUs tested - updated
EVGA SuperNOVA 750 P2 PSU Review
Hands-on review: Dell Precision 7710
Hands-On The Phab2 AR Smartphone, Moto Z And Moto Z Force At Lenovo Tech World
Intel NUC6i5SYK Skylake SFF HTPC Kit Review
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB
Sandberg ThunderStorm Gaming Keyboard Review
The History Of Intel CPUs
Total War: Warhammer DirectX 12 Graphics Performance Analysis

Best PC gaming headset: top 5 headsets we've tested

Best PC gaming headsetNo PC gamer worth their kill/death ratio would skimp on a decent headset. Arguably more important than a mechanical gaming keyboard or a weighted mouse, a worthy pair of cans make the difference between guessing where enemies are and hunting them down like a sonically-enhanced ninja.Pick the right pair and you'll hear the sound of whizzing bullets envelop your ears while explosions rock your eardrums, and dialogue in games takes on a new level of clarity.Whether you need a USB or 3.5mm headset, a surround sound or stereo pair, or simply one to communicate with friends online, we've picked out the very best PC gaming headsets for your needs.

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Buying Guide: The 5 best 13-inch laptops: top portable yet powerful notebooks

In many ways, a 13-inch laptop is the perfect size for a portable PC; they're not as fiddly and squint-inducing as netbooks, but not as heavy and awkward as a full-on notebook.And, there are plenty of PC and Mac options available, too.

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Corsair VOID RGB USB Review

This is our second outing from the VOID family of Corsair gaming headsets, we previously had a look at the Void Surround, a versatile analogue stereo headset that ships with a USB dongle. This time we go on a date with the VOID RGB USB, a dedicated USB gaming headset that had all the digital features and controls built in, including, as you would guess, RGB lighting. Dolby Surround returns to supply the virtual 7.1 rendering that is delivered by powerful 50mm neodymium drivers. The headband and earcups use memory foam covered in a microfibre mesh to keep things all snug.

At the £70 price point, the VOID RGB USB sits firmly in the middle of ground zero where it will ultimately have to butt heads with some fantastic competitors, though with a slogan like 'upgrade to unfair', Corsair seem ready for a fight.

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CPU Performance Content Creation: 8 CPUs tested - updated

These days there are basically two different groups of customers who demand lots of processing power: content creators and gamers, while this performance comparison is targeting content creators. After having had a look at the following pages you'll have an in-depth overview on how fast recent CPUs are in this area.

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EVGA SuperNOVA 750 P2 PSU Review

Another EVGA P2 is on our test bench today. The 750 P2 features 750W max power, modular cabling and Japanese caps throughout. This PSU promises high performance and increased reliability, so it looks to be a great choice for enthusiast PCs.

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Hands-on review: Dell Precision 7710

Hardware vendors have annual refresh cycles, both for consumer and professional products. While that's a fairly easy exercise for the former, trying to innovate too much with a niche professional audience can backfire – and sometimes badly. Dell somehow took the risk and completely revisited its 17-inch workstation, although we feel the company didn't push the envelope as far as it could, maybe because it wanted to trickle improvements rather than deliver everything in one go.The Dell Precision range could learn a trick or two from the XPS series but the shoe-in replacement of the M6800 sticks to what it does best, delivering the ultimate performance, using the best components, in a portable form factor with little regard for budget.Since this is a 17.3-inch model, it is a sizeable laptop weighing just over 4.5kg with its 240 Watt brick-like power supply unit, and the device barely fits on an A3 (yes, A3) sheet.

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Hands-On The Phab2 AR Smartphone, Moto Z And Moto Z Force At Lenovo Tech World

On Thursday, Lenovo summoned the tech press to San Francisco where it took the wraps off two new mobile phone platforms that could both be game changers. It unveiled the world’s first Project Tango-enabled phone in the Phab2 Pro, and introduced an all-new type of modular smart phone with the Moto Z. The Moto Z has the ability to be upgraded via things Lenovo calls Moto Mods. We got some hands-on time with all of the new gear after the keynote, which we'll be presenting to you here...

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Intel NUC6i5SYK Skylake SFF HTPC Kit Review

Intel just about perfected the small form factor (SFF) home theater PC (HTPC) over the last few iterations of NUC systems, so it is great to see that the Skylake based Intel NUC6i5SYK kit has stayed with this winning formula. Updated with an Intel Core i5-6260U with Intel Iris Graphics 540, support for NVMe SSD, and DDR4, the system has the opportunity to fix the shortcomings in the previous generation (cough, CSH). The sleek looks and features will not be as much of a bargain as the plug-in-and-go Intel Pentium based NUC5PGYH. Intel is asking $380/£335 for the barebones kit, but with quite a bit more performance, better networking, and features on tap, it could well be worth the extra dosh.

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MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review

In this review we look at the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G fitted with a Pascal GP104 based GPU. A product series that is to replace the GeForce GTX 980. It's all custom with 10 power phases, has a nice dark aesthetic feel and comes with the all new TwinFrozr VI model cooler, that is marketed as a cooler with Balls of Steel. Seriously I am not making that up, it literally was in the press release and actually refers towards the Double Ball Bearings that the fans use -- made out of steel. The GeForce GTX 1070 is all about that Pascal GP104 GPU, yet for obvious reasons had to be slowed down a bit. The GeForce GTX 1070 might have the same GP104 GPU housed on it's PCB as the 1080, however it is a cut-down version of the GPU as Nvidia stripped away some segments. Where the GeForce GTX 1080 has 2560 shader processors, the GeForce GTX 1070 has 1920 shader processors. This means it is has 15 out of the 20 SMs active (15 streaming multi-processors x 128 shader cores). In order of magnitude, the secondary biggest change is the memory type being "regular GDDR5" memory and not the new and hip GDDR5X. That memory is clocked at 2,000 MHz which is 8 GHz (GDDR5-effective) at a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. The two differences are responsible for a performance drop from 9 TFLOP/s Single-precision floating point performance for the GeForce GTX 1080 towards 6.45 TFLOP/s for the GeForce GTX 1070. You will have noticed that MSI is to release a regular Gaming and then an X and a Gaming Z model. The regular Gaming model (no X or Z) will not have the backplate and configurable RGB LED light system and basic clock frequencies. Then there are the X models, these are released in the initial launch and come with a backplate and RGB system and are clocked a notch higher. Then the Z models will be the most high-end SKU, even more overclocked with all the benefits the X model has as well. So we test the X model, but there will be even faster clocked revisions. The Gaming Z gives you all the features of the Gaming X, but with higher clock speeds. Right with that explained, the cooling perf has been improved and combined with a new generation fans, the airflow is improved whilst remaining silent. Up-to 60 Degrees C the card will even stay in passive mode, e.g. the fans will not spin. The TWIN FROZR cooler is now intensified by a red GAMING glow piercing through the cover, while the MSI GAMING dragon RGB LED on the side can be set to any of 16.8 million colors to match the LED lights in the color-tone of your PC. The GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G comes with MSI's traditional Military Class 4 components and holds both an 8- and 6-pin power connector. At the backside you'll spot a nice matte black solid backplate. Both versions do have TwinFrozer VI as wel as a memory cooling plate and a PWM heatsink.

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MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review

Just imagine how great it would be to upgrade your four-year-old graphics card. You would be able to play the latest games, purchase that 4K or ultra-wide monitor and if you’re really daring you can even immerse yourself into the world of Virtual Reality. New games are being released on a weekly basis and older video cards won’t keep up. Most four-year-old video cards aren’t even DirectX 12 capable which means they cannot take advantage of the less bloated API which would increase frame rates and enhance gameplay. That old 1080p monitor probably has some dead pixels or its response rate may not be the best this certainly has to hurt your overall gaming experience. It’s unfortunate but that four-year-old video card won’t be able to handle a new 4K monitor when gaming.

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MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review

Nvidia's original GTX 970 was long hounded as the best value for money card you could get last generation. Packing a meaty 1,664 CUDA cores and a final boost clock coming in at a respectable 1,178 MHz, this 4GB card was fully capable of powering practically all AAA titles at 1080p at fairly respectable frame rates.The GTX 1070 is its successor and the new generation of young blood poised to take the crown off its value-oriented older cousin. So what's new? Well, there's an additional 256 CUDA cores this time round, a higher boost clock running up to 1683 MHz (1797 MHz on the MSI Variant we have in OC Mode) and an additional 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM.Of course, it's running off of Pascal's mighty 16nm FinFET manufacturing node, enabling 6.5 TFLOPS of overall performance, or thereabouts. That's close enough to a Titan X in spec, but for half the price. If you take a look back at our first review of the GTX 1080 that launched at the beginning of this June, you'll know our biggest complaint was with the price.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1070 is nearly twice as fast as GTX 970, easily beats the $1000 Titan X, and GTX 970 SLI, at only $379/$449. It is built on the same platform as the GeForce 1080, using the same GPU and cooler, just GDDR5 memory instead of GDDR5X. As expected, power efficiency is amazing, and overclocking works well, too.

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Sandberg ThunderStorm Gaming Keyboard Review

Gaming keyboards are perhaps the hottest products in the gaming peripherals market right now and although most models seem to follow the trend of our times and thus use mechanical switches (and the majority of those use RGB ones) there are always those equipped with the all-time classic membranes and aimed towards casual users and gamers who are just not willing to spend much. The problem is however that most manufacturers no longer focus their resources in the design and manufacture of membrane keyboards so consumers are usually left with second rate models to choose from. Sandberg recently entered the gaming peripherals market for good with their Thunderstorm Gaming Keyboard and their Blast Gaming Mouse and although we have both here we decided to check out their keyboard first.

Sandberg stands for quality and user-friendliness. If it is important for you that accessories are high quality and easy to figure out how to use, then choose Sandberg. Our ideology "IT is for everybody" is part of everything we do. Since its inception in 1985, private consumers, institutions and companies have benefited from this simple philosophy. Distributors and dealers appreciate the availability, range, simple procedures and the exceptionally low failure rate. Every year over half a million Sandberg products find their way to users in more than 30 countries. Choosing Sandberg means choosing a safe and conscientious product that meets all applicable regulatory requirements. A product manufactured by subcontractors who are committed to following Sandberg's Code of Conduct to ensure decent working conditions and reduce the environmental impact of the production and waste disposal.

Just looking at the new Thunderstorm gaming keyboard by Sandberg you can tell that it was designed with gamers in mind (and young ones at that) since its housing features a layout that reminds us a lot of some Warcraft related gaming peripherals launched in the market a few years back. To be more precise the keyboard features a pattern of lightning bolts (also seem like cracks on the earth) spread throughout its top surface and thanks to the three available backlight LED colors (red, blue and purple) these actually look quite nice. The Thunderstorm was designed as a driverless keyboard so all its functions can be controlled directly from its keys (Fn key) and in terms of features Sandberg has used a metal plate as its "base" to ensure stability when used with fast passed games and has placed a total of 10 dedicated multimedia keys for more demanding users. Can three backlight LED colors however compete with full RGB illumination and what about the membrane based keys?

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The History Of Intel CPUs

From the 4004 in 1971 to Skylake in 2015, we look at the evolution of Intel's CPUs. Intel Begins with The 4004Picture 1 of 33
The first microprocessor sold by Intel was the four-bit 4004 in 1971. It was designed to work in conjunction with three other microchips, the 4001 ROM, 4002 RAM and the 4003 Shift Register. Whereas the 4004 itself performed calculations, those other components were critical to making the processor function.

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Total War: Warhammer DirectX 12 Graphics Performance Analysis

The Total War franchise has entertained fans of the strategy genre who have a penchant for barbaric historical periods since the dawn of PC gaming. Furthermore, these bloody conflicts brought history to life and gave users an insight into the harsh reality of classical warfare. Not only that, the ability to plan strategic onslaughts and react to the enemy's movements is incredibly satisfying. Of course, Total War titles are set on a huge scale featuring a massive quantity of ground units which requires a thoughtful approach. The latest entry is quite unusual and based on the Warhammer fantasy series. Throughout the game, you can select between four playable factions: the Dwarfs, the Empire of Man, the Greenskins and the Vampire counts. According to Metacritic, the game has received a relatively positive response from both professional critics and PC users.

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