Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD Radeon VII reaches end of life?
ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming X Motherboard Video
Asus publishes X470 and B450 PCIe Gen 4 compatibility chart
ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming Review
Dell XPS 15 2019 Laptop Review
Five Easy Ways To Capture a Screenshot in Windows 10
Gigabyte Aorus X570 Motherboard And PCIe 4.0 SSD Preview: Ready To Rock Ryzen 3000
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC 8 GB Graphics Card Review
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER Review
MSI GE75 Raider Laptop Review: Core i9 and RTX 2080 Performance
No, AMD Still Isn’t Enabling PCIe 4 On 300/400 Series Boards
Noctua NH-U12A 3 CPU Cooler Review
PC Specialist Vulcan PBA Review
PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe SSD Performance on Ryzen 3000 & X570
Scythe Big Shuriken 3 CPU Cooler Review
Seagate FireCuda 510 1TB Solid State Drive Review
Windows 7 July 2019 Security Patch Includes Telemetry

AMD Radeon VII reaches end of life?

AMD Radeon VII is no more Cowcotland has just confirmed with their sources that AMD Radeon VII is no longer in production. The stores are selling the remaining stock and apparently, no more Radeon VII cards will be made. According to Cowcotland, Radeon VII was declared 'end of life' last month by AMD. The Radeon VII is AMD's first 7nm-based graphics card featuring Vega 20 GPU with 3840 Stream Processors. The VII was also AMD's first to feature 16GB memory for the consumer market.

Read full article @ VideoCardz.com

ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming X Motherboard Video

We have published on OCinside.de an unboxing video of the new ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming X motherboard, which offers an enormously impressive basic equipment and is designed for current Intel 9th Gen Socket LGA1151 v2 processors. The detailed review of the new ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming X ATX motherboard will follow soon as well.

Read full article @ OCInside.de

Asus publishes X470 and B450 PCIe Gen 4 compatibility chart

At Computex AMD denied that pre-X570 motherboards would support PCIe Gen 4.

Read full article @ Hexus

ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming Review

The X570-E Gaming sports a pair of NVMe M.2 slots and a trio of x16 PCI-E adaptors, all running on the aforementioned 4.0 specification. Alongside that we get dual LAN with 2.5G and 1G as well as WiFi 6 support.

Read full article @ Vortez

Dell XPS 15 2019 Laptop Review

The Dell XPS 15 offers an amazing display and strong performance, but OLED is only on some top models and gaming performance, if you want it, is mixed.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Five Easy Ways To Capture a Screenshot in Windows 10

We’ll walk you through five different methods to capture a screenshot in Windows 10.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Gigabyte Aorus X570 Motherboard And PCIe 4.0 SSD Preview: Ready To Rock Ryzen 3000

AMD's latest offerings have OEM partners like Gigabyte excited and lining-up to support the platform. Gigabyte has an extensive array of motherboards, graphics cards, storage devices, and other accessories at the ready to support the Ryzen 3000 series and Radeon RX 5700 family of graphics cards. At a recent event, Gigabyte featured its top-flight Aorus motherboards for Ryzen 3000, but the company also had some gaming monitors and PCI 4.0 SSDs on hand...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC 8 GB Graphics Card Review

Last year, NVIDIA introduced their latest Turing based GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards, which made a complete departure from traditional GPU design and created a hybrid GPU architecture that would include a range of new technologies to power the next-generation immersive gaming experiences

The GeForce RTX 20 series was the enablement of real-time raytracing which is the holy grail of graphics and something NVIDIA took 10 years to perfect. In addition to raytracing, NVIDIA also aimed to place bets on AI which would go on to play a key role in powering features such as DLSS or Deep Learning Super Sampling.

Read full article @ Wccftech

GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER Review

The X570 AORUS MASTER is certainly up to the task at hand, starting with a trio of heatsink-equipped PCI-E 4.0 M.2 slots, as well as the same count of PCI-E 16x expansion slots, all featuring an ultra-durable PCI-E Armour.

Read full article @ Vortez

MSI GE75 Raider Laptop Review: Core i9 and RTX 2080 Performance

MSI went heavily into developing gaming products several years ago, and although the company’s laptop lineup isn’t exclusively gaming, that is by far the biggest portion of their portfolio, and as such we’ve seen some impressive laptops from MSI that offer both performance and quality ahead of their competition. Today we are looking at the latest in their “enthusiast” level of laptops with the MSI GE75 Raider. The GE range isn’t quite at the top end of MSI’s lineup – a spot that is occupied by the GT series – but it still offers prodigious portable performance without being as tied to the desk as a typical GT laptop would be.

Read full article @ Anandtech

No, AMD Still Isn’t Enabling PCIe 4 On 300/400 Series Boards

Following this week’s launch of AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 series of processors, reports have once again begun circulating that PCIe 4 will be available on some existing 300 & 400 series boards. This comes despite AMD’s official statement last month that they would not be allowing the feature on older boards, as PCIe 4’s tighter signal integrity standards would have led to, at best, a highly fragmented market where some boards work, some boards don’t, and some boards may be outright marginal. At the time the company stated that the feature would be stripped from the AGESA that goes into the final Ryzen 3000 launch BIOSes for older boards.

So, to get right to the heart of matters, I reached out to AMD PR this evening to find out what’s going on with PCIe 4 support. The short version then is that no, AMD’s plans have not changed: PCIe 4 support will be disabled in the shipping AGESA for these boards.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Noctua NH-U12A 3 CPU Cooler Review

It seems since forever ago when we last saw a strong entry to the high-end CPU air cooler segment from Noctua, but today we are together to have a look at just that. Part of the fifth generation of the line, this latest cooler packs quite a bit of punch into a smaller package than many others need to accomplish similar results.

What we mean to say is that Noctua has increased the surface area of their fin stack, opted for more heat pipes, which enables this cooler to deliver the performance of a 140mm fan-cooled design, without all of the compatibility and clearance issues such coolers tend to have.

Read full article @ TweakTown

PC Specialist Vulcan PBA Review

Of course, in 2019, the biggest talk has surrounded real-time ray-tracing in games; the Vulcan happily supports this with the NVIDIA GeForce ASUS ROG RTX 2070 graphics card, rocking 2304 CUDA cores at 1620MHz and a huge 8GB of the latest GDDR6 memory.

Read full article @ Vortez

PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe SSD Performance on Ryzen 3000 & X570

AMD's new Ryzens are the first desktop processors to support PCI-Express 4.0 which doubles transfer rates over PCIe 3.0. We test real-life performance gains using the 2 TB Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSD, which reaches over 5 GB/s in sequential speeds.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Scythe Big Shuriken 3 CPU Cooler Review

Scythe has sent over another of their coolers to have a look at, and with the fact that we keep referencing their coolers in comparison to others as we review them, it goes to show what sort of a standing they have in the market.

In just about every category, single-tower 120mm fan-cooled, dual-tower/dual thickness 120mm fan cooled, or whatever your specific needs may be; Scythe has a reliable reasonably priced solution for you. That being said, moving into the C-style coolers, as well as restricting the cooler to the smallest of Mini-ITX systems, we are eager to see if Scythe is here to top yet another class of coolers. While we have not reviewed any of the past version of this cooler, we are no stranger to C-Style coolers, no matter the size and design. In this category, you tend to get things that tower coolers cannot offer. Things like a low-profile stance for use in NAS or HTPC builds where a tower cooler would never fit, and a stock solution may be overtaxed.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Seagate FireCuda 510 1TB Solid State Drive Review

The Seagate FireCuda 510 1TB packs some serious hardware to show off impressive numbers in both linear and heavy workloads and promises amazing write endurance, but somehow comes under-optimized in medium workloads.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Windows 7 July 2019 Security Patch Includes Telemetry

To the surprise of Windows watchers, the latest Windows 7 “security-only” update includes telemetry. The telemetry in question is Microsoft’s “Compatibility Appraiser,” which checks PCs for problems that could prevent upgrading to Windows 10.

As Woody Leonhard points out on Computerworld, this is pretty odd on Microsoft’s part—the telemetry code was previously available and is probably installed on your system already if you use Windows 7. But, it was restricted to the normal “cumulative” update rollups. As Ed Bott explains on ZDNet:

What was surprising about this month’s Security-only update, formally titled the “July 9, 2019—KB4507456 (Security-only update),” is that it bundled the Compatibility Appraiser, KB2952664, which is designed to identify issues that could prevent a Windows 7 PC from updating to Windows 10.

Read full article @ Mad Shrimps