Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Alienware 13 R3 With GeForce 10 And OLED Eats MacBook Pros For Lunch (Hands-On)
ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S Motherboard Review
Cooler Master MasterAir Pro 3 and 4 CPU Cooler Review: Living Up to a Legacy
Great wallpaper resources to keep your desktop and phone home screen fresh
HiFiMAN HE-1000 V2 Planar Magnetic Headphones
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver 8G OC review
Mushkin Triactor SSD Review
NZXT S340 Elite ATX Case Review
Oculus Rift troubleshooting guide
Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT CPU Cooler Review
Two new Gigabyte AM4 motherboards spotted

Alienware 13 R3 With GeForce 10 And OLED Eats MacBook Pros For Lunch (Hands-On)

Dell's Alienware division stepped up today with a new, compact and powerful weapon in its laptop arsenal with the announcement of the redesigned Alienware 13 notebook. Now, before you get all misty about the headline, we understand Apple's latest MacBook isn't optimized for gaming, but the comparison of what can be done in a 13-inch notebook frame can still be made. We're just having a little fun with it...

It's built with some of the highest-end notebook components on the market currently, save for perhaps its GPU, which is more of a desktop-class graphics chip, actually. In addition, Alienware's delicious OLED display option returns in to machine with 400 nits of brightness, a QHD 2560X1440 resolution and gobs of saturation and pop.

Read full article @ HotHardware

ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S Motherboard Review

ASUS is one of the most recognizable names in the enthusiast community, with a product line that covers nearly every aspect of computer hardware, including motherboards, graphics cards, monitors, networking devices and many other product lines. One of their most well known product lines is their award winning motherboards. When a new chipset is released, they are ready with new motherboards, designed to fit almost any budget and user type. When the Intel Z170 chipset first came out, ASUS provided us the opportunity to take a look at one of their flagship motherboards the Maximus VIII Extreme. Which while one of the best motherboards available, it has a price tag to match. Now, we have a chance to take a look at one of their mid-tier motherboards, the Sabertooth Z170 S; with a price tag of $169.99 with free shipping, it is better priced to meet the budget of most enthusiasts.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Cooler Master MasterAir Pro 3 and 4 CPU Cooler Review: Living Up to a Legacy

Since it is essentially replacing the legendary Hyper 212+/EVO, the expectations for Cooler Master's new MasterAir Pro series is quite high. Despite not being a high-end product, the Hyper 212+ dominated the market with its popularity and sat on the throne of the bang-for-buck sweet spot for a long time.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Great wallpaper resources to keep your desktop and phone home screen fresh

There’s no shortage of great places to find something to revitalize your home screens, whether you are into beautiful landscapes, abstract illustrations or simple designs and patterns. If you are still rocking your device’s default wallpaper and need some inspiration to mix it up a bit here are some great resources to get you started.

Read full article @ TechSpot

HiFiMAN HE-1000 V2 Planar Magnetic Headphones

The HiFiMAN HE-1000 V2 is the newest über-high-end offering from the company that spawned the newest generation of high-end planar magnetic headphones. The HE-1000 V2 shares most of its DNA with the V1, but there are several significant updates to pads, cable, and headband.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver 8G OC review

We review the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver 8G (OC edition) armed with 8GB GDDR5 graphics memory. This all new 'Quick Silver' edition is the latest SKU from MSI located in the Gaming series. The graphics card comes with extra LED functionality and the very cool TwinFrozr revision VI cooler in a rather new and unusual color schema. As you guys all know, we've reviewed the MSI Gaming X and Gaming Z editions of their 1070 series as well. Think of the Quick Silver edition as something in-between the X and Z Gaming models. The Quick Silver edition has similar clock speeds compared towards the Gaming X, but is getting the more advanced LED activated back-plate from the Z model. There is however something else quite different, and that obviously is the silver/black design, again for a reason. This year year MSI has been releasing motherboards with a silver / titanium colored coating which they tagged as the Titanium series.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Mushkin Triactor SSD Review

The Mushkin Triactor series pairs the Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2256 controller with high-quality SanDisk 15nm TLC flash and hides in the shadows as a great low-cost option in a sea of mediocre products.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

NZXT S340 Elite ATX Case Review

The NZXT S340 Elite computer case expands from the original S340 with its improved cable management system, VR capabilities, and a large tempered glass side panel. Because the Elite is geared towards VR, extra USB ports with an HDMI port are located on the front. Included with the S340 Elite is a magnetic cable management puck to store VR or audio headsets for easy access. A side mounted bracket for a 2.5″ SSD is located on the side of the power supply housing and the tempered glass side panel can show off the internal components. Benchmark Reviews will be taking a look at the NZXT S340 Elite in Matte Black.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

Oculus Rift troubleshooting guide

How to fix pretty much everything.

Even a system as good as the Oculus Rift can run into problems, both in the hardware and software ends. To make troubleshooting as simple as possible, we have assembled all articles into this one handy guide. Here's how to fix pretty much every problem you'll run into with your Rift.

Read full article @ VRHeads

Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT CPU Cooler Review

Thanks to an 140mm PWM fluid-dynamic bearing fan the already excellent Le Grand Macho by Thermalright has not only gotten even better but it's still inaudible even at load.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Two new Gigabyte AM4 motherboards spotted

Two new Gigabyte motherboards with the new AM4 socket have been spotted online, showing what to expect from launch later this year.

Originally spotted by Guru3D.com, both new motherboards are most likely based on AMD's B350 chipset although it could also be the entry-level A320. Due to further integration with AMD's upcoming AM4 chips, the southbridge, also known as the FCH, will only add further PCIe lanes and additional SATA and USB ports.
The first pictured motherboard from Gigabyte is based on the micro-ATX form-factor and has a single PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot, two DDR4-DIMM slots and four SATA 6Gbps ports. It also features standard 5.1-channel audio, Gigabit Ethernet and up to 6 USB 3.0 ports.

Read full article @ Fudzilla