Here a roundup of todays review's and articles:

Acer Aspire S7-393 Review (2015): Refreshed With Intel's Broadwell
Crucial Ballistix Sport 2400MHz 32GB DDR4 Memory Kit Review
GPU Charts 2015 - 1080p, 1440p, UHD - EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC
Intel And Micron Jointly Drop Disruptive, Game-Changing 3D XPoint (Cross Point) Memory, 1000x Faster Than NAND
Lenovo ThinkPad T450s Review: An ultrabook aimed squarely at professionals
MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G Review
Noctua NH-C14S CPU Cooler Review
NVIDIA's Tegra X1 Delivers Stunning Performance On Ubuntu Linux
Palit GTX 980 Ti Super JetStream 6 GB
QNAP TS-453mini NAS Review
Raijintek Triton Review
SilverStone TD02-E Liquid CPU Cooler Review
Thermaltake Core V21 Mini-ITX/Mini-ATX PC Case Review
Tt eSports Shock 3D 7.1 Review
Windows 10 review: the best of Windows 7 and 8

Acer Aspire S7-393 Review (2015): Refreshed With Intel's Broadwell

We've got a fairly well defined set of expectations with today's current crop of ultrabooks. What you trade away in performance, you usually gain in convenience with these ultra-light, ultra-portable, and easy to carry laptops...

However, we were pleasantly surprised to see Acer's Aspire S7-393 perform so well on most of the benchmarks we tossed its way, however, as you'll see on the pages ahead. This ultrabook is not only priced a touch lower than one of our favorite ultrabooks, the Dell's XPS 13, but it's also faster for general use and gaming (the latter, by just a smidge).

Though you're a little stuck in that you can't customize the S7-393 from Acer directly, we're not sure what else you'd want to throw into this pretty stellar laptop.

Read full article @ HotHardware

Crucial Ballistix Sport 2400MHz 32GB DDR4 Memory Kit Review

With DDR4 prices being driven down in preparation for the launch of a mainstream chipset supporting the memory type, now can be considered a good time to bag a high density quad-channel kit.

Combining a quartet of 8GB DIMMs in a quad-channel configuration with an operating frequency of 2400MHz and CL16 timings, how will Crucial’s Ballistix Sport set of memory perform in our testing?

Read full article @ KitGuru

GPU Charts 2015 - 1080p, 1440p, UHD - EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC

These garphics cards charts contain benchmark results of numerous recent graphics cards. We've tested the card with three different resolutions, where there are 1080p, 1440p and 2160p. Apart from that we also show live price tags for all models.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Intel And Micron Jointly Drop Disruptive, Game-Changing 3D XPoint (Cross Point) Memory, 1000x Faster Than NAND

This is something many people thought was impossible," exclaimed Intel Senior Vice President Rob Crooke. During an invite-only press conference, Crooke along with Micron CEO Mark Durcan revealed a radically new class of storage and memory architecture called 3D XPoint (pronounced "Cross Point"). To say this is a game-changer would be the understatement of the year.

Get this: 3D XPoint is 1000 times faster than NAND, boasts 1000x the endurance of NAND, and is 10 times more dense than conventional memory. Consider that existing NAND flash storage is 1000 times faster than traditional mechanical hard drives. We’ll give you a minute to process that.

Read full article @ HotHardware

Lenovo ThinkPad T450s Review: An ultrabook aimed squarely at professionals

The Thinkpad T450s is Lenovo’s latest addition to the “legendary” Thinkpad T series. This update brings Broadwell and several other refinements, but most notably a much needed trackpad redesign. An ultrabook aimed squarely at professionals, the T450s carefully balances portability, power and features in a semi-rugged 3.5 pound package.

Read full article @ Techspot

MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G Review

MSI has been a bit of a stranger to us for a few months but their latest releases have been making some real waves within the graphics card market. Their cooling solutions are top-notch, performance is always in the upper tiers and their products are built to last in today’s most demanding environments. No better example of this newfound poise can be found than MSI’s GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G.

MSI’s focus for the GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G is pretty straightforward. They want to offer gamers better-than-stock performance in a card that doesn’t command a massive premium and boasts much broader availability than a specialist card like Zotac’s AMP! Extreme or EVGA’s Classified. Indeed, with a price of $680USD (but significantly more in Canada) it is a good $20 less expensive than the flagship competitors from EVGA and Zotac.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Noctua NH-C14S CPU Cooler Review

Darwinism has also been referred to as “adapt or perish”. It exists not only within nature, but within consumer products. Essentially, companies must change their product line to meet the needs of the consumer or they will not be purchased. Which, in turn, will cause the product line or company to perish. While things looked bleak for air cooling for a short time, the adaptations of top tier manufacturers made it once again the go to choice for reliability, effective cooling, and low noise. However, a more recent change in the size and shape of builds has forced a slew of new smaller coolers to market, and has set up a need for better component compatibility across coolers of all sizes. We are seeing the first PCIe slot more commonly used, and this largely ignored space has commonly been the home of fin stacks in coolers. Companies like Noctua are adapting with high compatibility products such as the new NH-C14S CPU cooler.

Read full article @ HiTech Legion

NVIDIA's Tegra X1 Delivers Stunning Performance On Ubuntu Linux

NVIDIA's Tegra X1 64-bit ARM SoC running (non-Android) Linux is a beast! I was given access to a SHIELD Android TV that was configured to run Ubuntu Linux, which has led for some exciting benchmarks. In some workloads, the Tegra X1 comes up just shy of an Intel Core i3 "Broadwell" system. The Tegra X1 has me very excited about the future of ARMv8 hardware on Linux and NVIDIA's continued Tegra advancements.

For those not recalling the Tegra X1 launch from earlier this year, the X1 SoC succeeds the K1 and is a 64-bit ARM design that's packing in four Cortex-A57 cores and four Cortex-A53 cores in a big.LITTLE design. The X1 SoC features Maxwell-class graphics, but the focus of this article is just on the CPU benchmarks while the GM20B Maxwell benchmarks will happen at a later date. The Tegra X1 SoC consumes less than 10 Watts.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Palit GTX 980 Ti Super JetStream 6 GB

Palit's triple-slot GTX 980 Ti Super JetStream is the quietest GTX 980 Ti we tested so far, it's actually quieter than the watercooled AMD Radeon Fury X. Thanks to the overclock out of the box, the card is 9% faster than the much more expensive GTX Titan X.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

QNAP TS-453mini NAS Review

Powered by a dedicated and efficient platform from Intel, the J1900 quad-core processor and paired with 2GB of RAM, the TS-453mini is running the last version of the fully-fledged QTS which is currently at its 4.1.4 version and is also sporting a unique-shaped chassis design. Speaking about the chassis, now it looks more stylish, ideal to be installed in our living-room and the discrete LEDs help us find out the system status at all times; the memory is now very easy upgradable up to 8GB of RAM by simply removing a small plastic cover on the bottom area of the unit.

Read full article @ Madshrimps

Raijintek Triton Review

Today at OCinside.de we published a review of the Raijintek Triton water cooling. Oh no, not a water cooler, again ! Exactly this is what some of you might have thought, reading this new review in the news. At this point, we can give the all-clear, because at least at one point, this water cooling differs greatly from previously tested water coolers. We will find out in this Raijintek Triton AIO water cooler review.

Read full article @ OcInside.de

SilverStone TD02-E Liquid CPU Cooler Review

I’ve said it before and I guess I’m saying it again; I have reviewed a lot of AiO coolers. As the resident AiO guy at ThinkComputers if there’s a new closed loop product on the market it finds it’s way to me. As you might imagine I have seen everything from coolers that are basically bone stock, slap the company logo onto it and call it good, to very unique, well thought out and inventively engineered designs. It’s the later that keeps me going, because every once in a while a sample will come along that you can tell some love and creativity was poured into the design. Today we’ll be taking a look at the Silverstone TD02-E. While Silverstone is far from being a one-off boutique brand, their products in general carry a certain feeling of quality and pride in the design. Follow along as we find out if the TD02-E has the genes of its counterparts or if it’s simply a generic design with a logo slapped on as an after thought.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Thermaltake Core V21 Mini-ITX/Mini-ATX PC Case Review

Many people i know who either enjoy modding or just like to own something unique looking all agree that never before has the market been so vast and with so many available PC Cases for them to choose from. Of course as always in the years to come things should get even more interesting but i do agree with them since today you can find PC cases of all shapes and sizes with unique looking designs, plenty of features and pretty much in every price segment. Now it's no secret that not all PC case manufacturers out there have the ability to cover every single consumer in the market but Thermaltake is amongst the very few that thanks to their size and years of experience can and today with us we have one of their latest and most interesting mATX/mITX models the Core V21.

The beginning of every myth and legend is about dreams and desire: the challenging, creative and combative features of Thermaltake Group create an exciting and fascinating user experience to share with everyone, while allowing users to enter a selfless state in terms of function and potential. Thermaltake Group's 3 main brands: Thermaltake, Tt eSPORTS and LUXA2 have been merchandising throughout the world, and have successfully established 6 business footholds in areas such as Europe, America, Oceania, Japan and China, with 95 regional distributors and over 4000 premium retailers. All product planning is orientated by observation of global PC peripheral market and understanding of consumer demands. Thermaltake creates direct contact opportunities with resellers and consumers by participating major global ICT exhibitions and trade shows every year, and develop innovative marketing strategies for the promotions of new products. Meanwhile, Thermaltake incorporates the composite marketing system by making branch offices and regional distributors both the distribution channel and technical support or service center to provide instant support; by maintaining close contact with end users, we manage to strengthen corporate competitiveness and create the momentum for the growth of accomplishments. With its outstanding wisdom and strength Thermaltake Group is recruiting creative talents to build a cultural brand for the enjoyment of entertainment, e-Sports, technology and lifestyle!

How many of you remember the Core V1 mITX PC case we reviewed a while back? Well the Core V21 is an improved version not only because it has enough room for mATX/mITX mainboards and features a stackable design but also because it allows the end user to easily rearrange pretty much everything including the mainboard tray orientation (horizontally or vertically), side/top/bottom panels, drive trays/racks and the radiator/fan mounts. The Core V21 is also quite spacious since you can fit CPU coolers up to 185mm in height, graphics cards up to 350mm in length, power supply units up to 200mm long and a grant total of up to 11 fans (or 5 radiators) inside. Well we certainly do like what the Core V21 has to offer on paper but is it really as impressive as it sounds?

Read full article @ NikKTech

Tt eSports Shock 3D 7.1 Review

The Tt eSports Shock series of headsets has matured to offer good value for gamers in need of a reliable well built headset. Though not to be caught standing still, Tt eSports have been working behind the scenes to improve their stable and as of 2015 have added a line of refreshed products labelled 'Bass Boosted'.

Today we take a look at the Shock 3D 7.1, filling an important role in the USB powered virtual 7.1 surround headset market. The stylised design of the earcups are quite bold in design, having a stretched pentagon come hexagon shape yet manages to be pleasing too. It features 40mm drivers, conveniently placed built-in controls for equaliser presets, enable/disable 3D sound and volume control.

Read full article @ Vortez

Windows 10 review: the best of Windows 7 and 8

The best thing about Windows 10 is that it's simply Windows, through and through. It's as if Microsoft realized that devaluing the desktop in Windows 8 was akin to sacrilege, and Windows 10 is its penance. At its core, it's a union of the best qualities of Windows 7 and Windows 8 -- the desktop features of the former with some of the touch-friendly aspects of the latter. It's no wonder Microsoft is calling it an operating system that's both fresh and familiar. It's easy to use with a keyboard and mouse, but it's even better with touchscreen computers. The Start menu is back! And new features like Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant and Edge browser breathe new life into Windows. Microsoft is framing the OS as "Windows as a Service," meaning it's never quite done and constantly evolving. Most importantly, Windows 10 proves that Microsoft's dream of delivering a single OS that can work across computers, tablets and phones might actually come true.

Read full article @ Engadget