Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in NVLink: 8K 60FPS Gaming Now A Reality
GIGABYTE MD71-HB0 (C622, LGA3647) Motherboard Review
Intel Will Announce New CPUs On October 8th
Razer Mamba Wireless (2018) Gaming Mouse Review
Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 and SuperAmp Gaming Headset Review
Windows 10 updates - One step forward, one step back

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in NVLink: 8K 60FPS Gaming Now A Reality

If there's something I've always had a passion within a passion for when it comes to technology, it's pushing graphics cards to their limits. I want to see not just what new cards can do for me today and tomorrow, but what about the future of gaming? 4K 120Hz was once thought of to be a fantasy land: something unachievable for many years, and then that future came to us much quicker than anticipated with NVIDIA's reveal of the Turing GPU architecture.

NVIDIA's introduction of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti was a massive milestone. It opened the door to beyond 4K 60FPS gaming, a milestone even next-gen consoles won't get close to with beefed-up internals provided by AMD in the form of Navi inside of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Scarlett consoles. The next-gen consoles will hopefully hit 4K 60FPS solid but I'm sure it won't be at Ultra settings, with anti-aliasing, 60FPS minimum, an option for 120Hz given NVIDIA's new Big Format Gaming Display (BFGD) TVs will offer 4K 120Hz gaming at a huge 65-inch.

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GIGABYTE MD71-HB0 (C622, LGA3647) Motherboard Review

We’ve had a look at Intel’s Scalable Platform in earlier reviews, but today it’s time to look at it in a multi-CPU setup. For this, I have GIGABYTE’s MD71-HB0 (product link) in the office for a thorough review.

GIGABYTE’s MD71-HB0 is an epic motherboard, that’s clear from the feature list. Dual 10GbE, dual 1GbE, dedicated remote management, dual M.2, quadruple U.2, and 12 SATA3 ports are just some of them. All wrapped up on a standard E-ATX size of 305 by 330 mm.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Intel Will Announce New CPUs On October 8th

Along with higher core counts, Intel is also revamping the way Hyper-Threading works in the lineup. From what we have seen, only the top end SKUs will feature this technology. Low-end chips will just have 1 thread per core. The new chips also feature possible hardware mitigations to Meltdown and Spectre. Unfortunately, due to delays with 10nm, the chips will be on 14nm. Left unsaid is the possibility that the 14nm shortage the company is facing will cripple launch supply and drive prices up. The only hope is that Intel purposefully crippled 8th Gen production to build up 9th Gen supply.

Along with the new 9th Gen chips, Chipzilla is also expected to talk about their HEDT platform as well. This will see a replacement to Skylake X and update to Basin Falls to counter Threadripper 2. This will likely mean even higher core counts as AMD jumped from 12 to 24. Finally, the company is sure to share more details about Z390. The new chipset will support the new platform and chips. With only a day or so to go, we won’t have long to see what Intel’s response to AMD will look like.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Razer Mamba Wireless (2018) Gaming Mouse Review

Razer is great at coming out with new and different versions of their gear and their latest is no exception. The Razer Mamba Wireless promises to do everything you've come to expect from the Mamba class does but now with improved battery life for 50 hours of wireless play. Let's look a little deeper in our review of the Razer Mamba Wireless!

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Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 and SuperAmp Gaming Headset Review

It was two years ago when we first laid hands on the truly fantastic Turtle Beach Elite Pro gaming headset. It still stands as one of my all-time favourite headsets. I still often use one myself, as it provides fantastic acoustic performance for a “gaming” headset, that’s great for movies, music, and much more. Check out our original review of it here. It came with a desktop mix amp, which was great for gaming and streaming. However, their new and more compact Superamp looks set to improve on that, and even comes with a mobile app to tweak your headsets settings via Bluetooth.

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Windows 10 updates - One step forward, one step back

The Windows Update functionality has changed a lot over the years. I remember you needed the Internet Explorer and ActiveX to download stuff in XP. Then, come Windows 7 and 8.1, we got a dedicated browser-less utility that would - will - do this for you, relatively quickly and elegantly. Windows 10 introduced yet another change - the updates are nestled inside the immersive control panel (the new settings), and you get them in a cumulative fashion, and with less tweaking than before. Oh, they also got much, much longer. And also far less stable than they used to be.

In this article, I want to talk about these changes - and what they are harmful to the user. And then, talk about what Microsoft plans to do to address user complaints (partially). And then, there's the overarching story, and this is one of the regressive nature of agile development that has taken the Internet by storm, and not in a good way. Follow me.

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