Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Asus PL-AC56 AV2 1200 Wi-Fi Powerline Extender Kit
Corsair H115i Extreme Performance AiO Liquid CPU Cooler Review
CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme VR PC Review
Delete the Windows.old Folder and Save Space (Again)
Doom OpenGL VS Vulkan Graphics Performance Analysis
Kingston MobileLite G3 Wireless Card Reader
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Review
Steelseries Rival 700 Elite Performance Gaming Mouse Review
Windows 10 free upgrade is still available using Windows 7 and 8 product keys

Asus PL-AC56 AV2 1200 Wi-Fi Powerline Extender Kit

The Asus PL-AC56 Kit is an AV2 power line networking kit, supporting dual-band wireless connections over 802.11ac or 802.11n, or up to three desktop PCs over Ethernet, carrying data straight to your router over the electricity wires in your home, with quoted (theoretical) speeds up to 1200 Mbps.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Corsair H115i Extreme Performance AiO Liquid CPU Cooler Review

Today we are going to take a look at a heavy hitting liquid cooler that boasts it's self as "Extreme Performance". As a part of Corsair's Hydro series, we are going to take an up close look at the H115i 280mm Liquid Cooler.

Read full article @ TechnologyX

CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme VR PC Review

The CyberPowerPC Gamer XTREME VR is priced at just $719.99 shipped and for that you get an optimized desktop PC for gaming that is marketed as VR ready for the HTC VIVE and Occulus Rift. This Amazon exclusive system uses the Intel 6th Generation Core i5-6402P 2.8GHz quad-core 14nm processor and the AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB ‘Polaris’ video card that just came out one month ago. The system is topped off with an Intel B150 based motherboard, 8GB of DDR4 memory, a large 1TB 7200 RPM hard drive, 24X DVD-RW Optical Drive and a 600 Watt power supply. Read on to see how it performs!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Delete the Windows.old Folder and Save Space (Again)

To keep on the safe side, Microsoft's install setup saves a full copy of your current Windows installation (that's the Windows.old directory right there), and while this will come handy in case something goes wrong or you need to revert back, it will also occupy several gigabytes of precious storage.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Doom OpenGL VS Vulkan Graphics Performance Analysis

After a long hiatus, Doom has finally been rebooted and the latest entry received overwhelmingly positive reviews from both consumers and professional critics. Initially, there was some concern since the press embargo didn’t lift until launch which typically means the publisher is trying to maximise sales before poor reviews are published. This wasn’t the case with Doom and Bethesda didn’t feel the online component was ready to be assessed during the short review time frame.

On another note, ID Software’s rich pedigree as a PC developer has made Doom really interesting from a technical perspective. More specifically, Doom was unleashed using the OpenGL 4.5 engine before adding Vulkan support at a later date. This is significant because Vulkan offers reduced driver overheads which result in lower CPU demands. As a result, Vulkan should make CPU bottlenecks less of an issue through lower loads as the API employs batching. Also, Vulkan is optimised for multi-threaded scaling and utilises each core much better than OpenGL. It’s important to note that Vulkan’s programming stems from AMD’s Mantle API and improved upon by the Khronos Group over time. Please note, AMD doesn’t own Vulkan because it’s an open-source project but their GCN architecture (1.0-4.0) is able to leverage extra performance remarkably well. Unlike DirectX 12, Vulkan can be deployed on a huge range of operating systems including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Mac OS X and Linux.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Kingston MobileLite G3 Wireless Card Reader

About 5 years ago we first reviewed the Kingston Wi-Drive, a wireless storage device with fixed storage that was one of the first devices of its kind to effectively increase the available storage for mobile devices. Two years later we reviewed the next version, the Kingston MobileLite. This device made the natural progression of adding a USB port and flash card reader. A year after that we got our hands on the MobileLite G2. Again this device added to the previous feature set with a wired Ethernet port. The Gen 3 version of the MobileLite comes in two flavors; the G3 and the G3 Pro. The main difference, besides color, is the G3 Pro adds a slightly larger battery and 64GB of internal storage.

Read full article @ Bigbruin.com

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Review

When it comes to business laptops the ThinkPad brand is one that is always mentioned. It has been around forever and is pretty much the standard for the ideal business laptop. While many ThinkPad owners don’t like the idea of Lenovo meshing their ThinkPad and Yoga lines, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga turns out to be extremely functional and it really shows Lenovo is standing behind the 2-in-1 laptop idea, even when it comes to business. As of writing the ThinkPad X1 Yoga is the world’s thinnest and lightest 14-inch 2-in-1 laptop at only 2.8 lbs and 0.66-inches thick! On top of that the X1 Yoga is powered by Intel’s latest 6th generation Core processors, 8GB of DDR3 memory, super fast SSD storage and more! Let’s jump in and see what the ThinkPad X1 Yoga is all about!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Steelseries Rival 700 Elite Performance Gaming Mouse Review

SteelSeries made quite the impression this year at CES with their latest mouse, the SteelSeries Rival 700 Elite Performance Gaming Mouse. It’s a pretty bold statement to claim Elite Performance but the Rival 700 lays claim to some impressive features including the world’s first onboard OLED display and tactile feedback.

The SteelSeries Rival 700 Elite defiantly checks all the boxes and then some. SteelSeries even took home the best gaming mouse award from CES. We had to know if the performance could back up the hype. Let’s take a look!

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

Windows 10 free upgrade is still available using Windows 7 and 8 product keys

In spite of the official end of the free Windows 10 update offer on July 29, it seems any valid Windows 7/8.x retail product key still installs Windows 10 for now.

Read full article @ All About Microsoft