Here a roundup of the latest reviews and articles:

Acer Predator Helios 300 - Midrange Gaming Laptop at a Midrange Price
Asus Prime X299-A Review
Edifier S1000DB Desktop Computer Speakers Review
LaCie 2TB Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C Professional All-Terrain Mobile Storage Review
Logitech G413 Review
Memblaze Launches PBlaze5 SSDs: Enterprise 3D TLC, Up to 6 GB/s, 1M IOPS, 11 TB
MSI X299 SLI Plus Review
Setting Up Your PSVR: A Step-By-Step Guide
SteelSeries Arctis 7
Transfer Steam Games to an SSD without Redownloading

Acer Predator Helios 300 - Midrange Gaming Laptop at a Midrange Price

Acer’s new Predator Helios is design to fit the mid-range budget conscious gamer. It has the familiar black and red color scheme that has become standard with the Predator line and many of the features as well.

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Asus Prime X299-A Review

The ideal companion for your £900 Core i9 processor? Competition in the desktop CPU market may have been lacking in recent years, but if you've been sat on the fence waiting for the AMD vs. Intel rivalry to be renewed, now's the time to pay attention. AMD is firmly back in contention with its Ryzen processors and Intel has fired a retort in the form of the Core X-Series.

Add to the mix an already solid line-up of Kaby Lake Core i7 parts, and desktop enthusiasts now appear to be spoilt for choice. It's therefore a great time to be planning a new PC, and that means giving serious consideration to the latest motherboards. For those who opt to take the Intel route, X299 is now the range-topping platform and boards are arriving at stores priced anywhere between £200 and £500.

Arriving as a long-overdue successor to 2014's X99, Intel's refreshed High-end Desktop (HEDT) platform offers a few key upgrades. The link between CPU and PCH has finally been upgraded to DMI 3.0, the number of USB 3 ports has risen to 10 (up from six on X99) and the chipset offers 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes, representing a 3x increase over the previous generation. Healthy upgrades, and of course we expect motherboard manufacturers add plenty of extras to retail boards.

Read full article @ Hexus

Edifier S1000DB Desktop Computer Speakers Review

The Edifier S1000DB are large desktop speakers that is big on performance and small in price.

Read full article @ APH Networks

LaCie 2TB Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C Professional All-Terrain Mobile Storage Review

Thanks to its IP 54 certified rugged enclosure designed by Neil Poulton and its compatibility with both MAC and Windows systems via Thunderbolt and USB 3.1 connectivity the latest 2TB Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C Professional All-Terrain Mobile Storage by LaCie could be exactly what you've been looking for.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Logitech G413 Review

The Logitech G413 also features a brushed, aircraft grade aluminium-magnesium backplate, for strength and lightness; along with a USB2.0 pass-through paired with cable routeing under the keyboard, single colour backlit keys, multi-function F keys, 26-key rollover and many other features.

Read full article @ Vortez

Memblaze Launches PBlaze5 SSDs: Enterprise 3D TLC, Up to 6 GB/s, 1M IOPS, 11 TB

Memblaze has introduced its new generation of server-class NVMe SSDs for mixed and mission critical workloads. The PBlaze5 SSDs are based around Microns 3D eTLC memory and paired with a Microsemi Flashtec controller. The SSDs come in PCIe 3.0 x8 AIC or 2.5” U.2 form-factors, carry up to 11 TB of 3D TLC NAND, and feature sequential read performance of up to 6 GB/s as well as random read performance of up to 1M IOPS.

The Memblaze PBlaze5 700 and 900-series SSDs are based on Microsemi’s Flashtec PM8607 NVMe2016 controller that features 16 compute cores, 32 NAND flash channels, and supports everything one might expect from a contemporary SoC for server SSDs (LDPC 550 bit/4KB ECC with a 1x10-17 bit error rate, NVMe 1.2a, AES-256 PCIe 3.0 x8/PCIe 3.0 x4 dual-port, etc.) along with a host of enterprise-grade features. Memblaze further outfits the card with their own MemSpeed 3.0 as well as MemSolid 3.0 firmware-based technologies. The MemSpeed 3.0 feature better ensures consistent performance and QoS, and comes with further priority que management optimizations over the previous version. As for the MemSolid 3.0, it is a stack of reliability and security features of the PBlaze5 900-series drives, which we are going to touch upon later.

Read full article @ Anandtech

MSI X299 SLI Plus Review

Feature-packed X299 for under £260. If you've been waiting for a good excuse to spend lavish amounts of money on a new PC, Intel X299 and an accompanying Core X-Series processor may be just the ticket. The new High-end Desktop (HEDT) platform arrives as a long-overdue successor to X99 and offers the highest level of performance we've ever seen on consumer desktops.

But the launch hasn't been entirely free of bumps. Seemingly hurried by the AMD Ryzen threat, as well as upcoming Threadripper, Intel's Core X-Series has the feel of a rushed introduction, with the best CPUs marked as 'coming soon' and supporting X299 motherboards showing signs of software immaturity. It is fair to expect perfection at this premium end of the market, and board manufacturers are having to work quickly to identify and resolve any remaining niggles.

Read full article @ Hexus

Setting Up Your PSVR: A Step-By-Step Guide

The PlayStation VR is the easiest of the three major VR systems to setup, but it's not quite as simple as plugging in a console. Follow along as we walk you through the process.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

SteelSeries Arctis 7

Late last year I took a look at the Arctis 5 from SteelSeries and I was extremely impressed with their new audio series. It won our Top Honors Award and the Editors Choice and I liked them so much that my wife has been using them for the past 6 months. The only reason I didn’t snatch them up myself was that I wanted something wireless so I kept bugging SteelSeries and when some of the Arctis 7’s came in I couldn’t wait to get my hands on them. With a similar design, I have high hopes for their audio performance and I’m really hoping this is going to be the wireless headset that I finally stick with. SO today let’s check them out and see how they perform.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Transfer Steam Games to an SSD without Redownloading

Although solid state drives have steadily increased in capacity, so too have the size of game installs. Today's triple-A titles commonly occupy upwards of 20GB with many approaching or exceeding 60GB, especially after accounting for downloadable content. Ironically, it's often these large releases that benefit the most from the improved load times.

Read full article @ TechSpot