Yes, so that is 9.1 Petabyte of data written! Good lord. The German colleagues from c't (print magazine) have ended their SSD endurance tests after the last SSD decided to go belly up. 

The guys at PCWorld posted an article on the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (air-cooled) vs Nvidia Titan Xp. They focus on two compute-heavy tests, SPECViewPerf 12.1 and Cinebench R15 (OpenGL) Vega seems to outperform the TITAN Xp.

Debian developers have issued an advisory to disable hyper-threading with Intel and Skylake- Kaby Lake generation processors. The CPUs can cause problems under certain conditions, in fact on all operating systems.

With the Steam Summer Sale now active, Here are ten of the best deals available from the Steam Summer Sale, in no specific order, and which should easily turn around heads unless you already own the game in question.

ECLIPSE ADVANCED 900 series CPU coolers by X2 are universal heat-pipe coolers ideally suited for those who require more performance and reliability. One of the amenities of this series processor coolers is the universal build which enables it to be compatible with all processors such as the AMD, AM2, AM3, AM4, FM1, FM2 and the Intel LGA775/i3/i5/i7 and LGA2011 models.

These are Valve's reporting of the best selling titles on Steam for last week. It never fails to amaze me that GTA-V just remains in there, like forevere.

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Grand Theft Auto V
NieR:Automata
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
Dishonored 2
H1Z1: King of the Kill
Fallout 4
Hollow Knight

Warhorse Studios has released a new video for Kingdom Come: Deliverance in which Tobi and ESO introduce us to its E3 2017 build. 

AOC’s two new curved AGON gaming monitors with almost bezelless design on 3 sides are now available in stores. Both the 31.5″ QHD AG322QCX and the 27″ Full HD AG272FCX are equipped with a curved display with an extremely small curvature radius of 1800 mm.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, which was originally only included with the Legacy Edition or higher of 2016’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, will launch on PS4 for $39.99, followed by Xbox One and PC at a later date, Activision announced. 

Reports indicate that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is going to cost a whopping 999 euro. It seems year after year prices keep going upwards, in the end people simply keep buying such expensive smartphones in significant volumes. The Note 8 would be released in September.

So a couple of photos just flew by from a company called Rambox Technology. No clue as who they are or what they do, but they are based in Hong Kong and apparently are a bit serious about cryptocurrency mining :)

G.Skill is excited to announce new high-speed DDR4 memory specifications designed for the latest Intel Core X-series processors and X299 chipset motherboards. All the new memory kits are built with high performance Samsung 8Gb ICs, and tested under the highest standards of the Trident Z family.

LG has launched a new monitor called the 34UC89G-B. This 34" 21:9 UltraWide Full HD display comes with GSYNC, is Curved and has an IPS panel. The Panel has a 144 Hz Refresh Rate that can be DP overclocked to 166 Hz.

The new OnePlus 5 appears on June 27th. The smartphone will cost 499 euros and includes an improved camera. The smartphone hasan aluminum frame and is fitted with a 5.5-inch Full HD screen slash resolution.

ASRock is to release a more a affordable  Thunderbolt 3 expansion card called, Thunderbolt 3 AIC. The anticipated selling price is around 7,380 yen excluding vat which is about 67 USD and 60 euros. The unit holds two Thunderbolt 3 ports with a bandwidth of 40 Gbps.

CryEngine will be adding Vulkan to their 3D graphics engine. This information is based up-on a blog post on their CryEngine 5.4 (which would be released late next month). 

QNAP announced that its cost-effective, 10GbE-ready TS-831X and TS-531X business NAS now support QNAP’s innovative QM2 PCIe expansion cards. By installing a QM2 card, users can easily configure M.2 SSDs for the NAS to enjoy boosted performance with SSD caching or a caching pool, or add additional 10GbE 10GBASE-T connectivity.