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Fractal Design Meshify C
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 The Meshify C utilizes the same frame as the Define C but targets the chassis towards a more gamer and enthusiast based crowd. It replaces the understated looks with an edgy design, adds full glass panels - all while offering nearly the same feature set as its Define C counterpart.
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Intel Core i7 7820X Linux Benchmarks
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"While the June launch of Intel's X-Series processors took the
attention with the top-end Core i9 7900X Skylake-X and Core i7 7740X
Kabylake-X processors, coming in several hundred dollars less than the
i9-7900X is the i7-7820X, which still packs a very hard punch. We have
now received a Core i7 7820X for Linux testing at Phoronix and are
beginning with a round of benchmarks on Ubuntu."
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Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Case Review
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When Fractal Design offered up yet another, as-of-yet unannounced product to add to their lineup my curiosity was piqued. What else could they possibly have in store? All I had was a product name: the Meshify C. I could hazard a few guesses as to the nature of this new case: ATX, based on the Define C no doubt, with a dressing of mesh – perhaps an Arc Midi successor? Follow along as Benchmark Reviews investigates this new direction from Fractal Design.
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WD My Passport SSD 1TB @ LanOC Reviews
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When it comes to data storage there are all different form factors and options. If you have a huge computer and don’t need to transport the data you can just toss a hard drive in and you are good to go. I take advantage of network attached storage for most of the data around the house but I also used a few flash drives for on the go. But when you need more space the thumb drive options get expensive, huge, and they aren’t exactly fast as well. So you are left with a portable hard drive but again speeds are terrible. Well recently SSDs have been making it into the portable market and the WD My Passport SSS really caught my eye to be paired with my Ultrabook for when I’m on the go and between test benches around the office. With a small form factor and a Type-C connection, it looks to be what need but first today I want to put it to the test and see how it performs.
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GeIL EVO X DDR4-3200 16GB Memory Kit Review
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"As we’ve said before 2017 seems to be the year of RGB, almost all parts of our PC’s now come with RGB options. One of the first company’s to come out with RGB memory was GeIL. Their EVO X DDR4 kits really pushed the envelope and many other memory makers followed suit. While this kits are a little older they are still a great choice when adding RGB lighting to the inside of your case and their performance is quite good as well. Today we will be checking out the GEX416GB3200C16DC kit which is a 16GB (2x8GB) kit operating at 3200 MHz with timings of 16-16-16-36 at 1.35V. Let’s take a look at this kit and see if it adds the extra bling to our system that we were looking for!"
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Aerocool Project 7 PSU 650 W
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Aerocool collaborated with TPU in order to build an ultra-reliable high-performance PSU. The P7-650W Platinum is one of the best power supplies we ever tested, featuring full modularity, high efficiency, and dead silent operation even under tough conditions. It is also equipped with Japanese caps and a quality fan.
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WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB SSD Review
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The first WD Blue SSD to see the light of day didn’t really cause that many ripples in the market. Now we have the second generation WD Blue SSD and it’s a totally different animal. This time people will take notice not least because it uses leading edge 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND technology.
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Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7 review
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We review the Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7, this motherboard for Ryzen Threadripper processors has five PCI-Express x16 slots, an array of OC buttons as well as a diagnostic POST LED and thee m2 slots. She is pretty alright, we'll have a lot to talk about.
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Nvidia's Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation
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Nvidia's Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation software yokes the flexibility of Pascal Tesla accelerators to let them host more professional users or more demanding data sets in virtual desktop environments. Join us as we explore this next step in GPU-accelerated virtual desktop infrastructure.
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Athlon II X3 vs. Ryzen 3: How AMD's Performance Has Evolved
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"Noticing I had an AMD Athlon II X3 425 system still racked up
and hadn't been powered on in a long time, I decided to decomission it,
but not before running some final benchmarks on that system. Having the
recent AMD Ryzen 3 1200 / 1300X CPUs I decided it would make for an
interesting comparison how the old Athlon II X3 compares to AMD's
low-end CPU of today, the Ryzen 3 processors based on Zen. Here are
those benchmarks that also include performance-per-Watt and overall AC
system power consumption numbers."
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Sound BlasterX AE-5 Review: An Uncompromising
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Creative Labs was instrumental in evolving PC audio with notable products, like the Sound Blaster 16, AWE 32, AWE64, Live!, Audigy, X-Fi, and Extigy, and algorithms like EAX technology. Most of its competitors through the last three decades, like Yamaha, ESS, Turtle Beach, Auzentech and M-Audio, evolved their product line-ups or faded into obscurity. There were acquisitions of Aureal and Sensaura technologies that further boosted Creative's technology portfolio, too. Sound cards seem passé nowadays, as motherboard manufacturers hop up high-definition audio codecs with higher quality op-amps, capacitors, shielding and S/PDIF outputs, that make discrete sound cards a harder sell. But despite all the optimizations and tweaks to on-board audio, there’s only so much you can do with cost-conscious audio codecs. That's where the Sound BlasterX AE-5 comes in...
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Ballistix Sport LT 16GB DDR4 SODIMM Memory Kit Review
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"Besides the small performance bump in the encoding/rendering productivity applications, we have also seen lower loading times in various memory hungry games such as Forza after the upgrade and the stuttering was gone. One other aspect is that by using a larger memory quantity, we will also decrease the wear from the boot drive (a usage example would be working with a larger project in Adobe Premiere). Even if the RAM did run at the same frequency as before, the speed bump is mainly due to the switch from a single-channel (stock) configuration to a dual-channel."
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