We'll have a look at the June 2017 state of Ryzen with AGESA 1006. Over the past two months a number of things have changed. AMD issued firmware updates to increase memory compatibility mostly. We'll check that out. But the the trivial question remains, is 1920x1080 performance increasing? It sure as that responsibility is to be found by the software developers.

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As you have been able to notice from my reviews, the X299 platform has massive challenges in overclocking (and other segments as well). Pro-overclocker Der8auer now states that the X299 Platform a “Disaster” for tweaking. 

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) announced the availability of the ROG Zephyrus, a gaming laptop powered by a GeForce GTX 1080 GPU that includes a 120Hz Full HD G-SYNC display, and a 7th Gen Core i7 processor. 

Samsung is embarking on a strange move, they will bring back the Note 7 in the form of a refurbished “Fandom Edition” model, not Founders Edition or Frontier Edition - oh come on easy pun :)

Dell launches its Alienware 25 series monitor. The 24.5 inch full HD LCD screen manages 240 Hz  at 1 ms. In Asia these screen just went on sale at 49,800 Yen which is roughly 399 usd / euro. 

ASUS is excited to launch the XG-C100C, an all-new affordable network adapter designed to enable ultra-fast 10Gbps network access for desktop PCs, so you can easily handle the most data-intensive workloads in your office or at home.

QLC (Quadruple Level Cell), which is also 4-bit MLC, has been announced by Toshiba, vertically stacked of course. It features 4-bit-per-cell, quadruple-level cell (QLC), technology and enables larger (768Gb) die capacity than the company’s third-generation 512Gb 3-bit-per-cell, triple-level cell (TLC).

Western Digital today talks about BiCS4 NAND Flash memory, that will be based up-on a massive 96 layers of vertical storage capability. They are going ahead full speed as sampling to OEM customers is expected to commence in the second half of calendar year 2017 already. 

Gigabyte unveiled the AMD AB350N-Gaming WIFI Mini-ITX motherboard, based on AMD B350 chipset. Besides built-in Smart-Fan 5, Hybrid Fan Pin Header, RGB fusion and server-class components, AB350N-Gaming WIFI motherboards have been designed to support Wraith Max CPU coolers.

ASUS today announced Mining RX 470 and Mining P106, two new graphics cards specifically built to serve the needs of the burgeoning global coin-mining community, featuring high-efficiency designs for maximum hash-rate performance at minimum cost.

Thermaltake  today released the latest addition to the Core V Series and the Suppressor F Series, the Core V71 Tempered Glass Edition Full Tower Chassis, Core V51 Tempered Glass Edition Mid Tower Chassis, and Suppressor F51 Tempered Glass Edition Mid Tower Chassis. 

A group of journalists got a tour on the newest British aircraft carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth. This Royal Navy pride costs around $4.5 billion, during the tour the journalists noticed something - the vunerable and unsupported Windows XP is running on it's computers.

T-Mobile successfully tested LTE-LAA in real-world trials. The company claims its LTE-LAA tests reached 741 Mbps in and around Los Angeles. Like the recent tests conducted by AT&T, T-Mobile's use of LTE-LAA combines airwaves that it owns along with unlicensed spectrum to push speeds upward.

AOC today send around a press release indicating that they launch five new IPS monitors with thin bezels. The magic five are all IPS based and hare sized 23.8 up-to 27 Inches. The first four models are 1920x1080, the 27" model is a 2560x1440 resolution display.

Intel today ahs released the 545s SATA SSD series, the new thing about it is that is has all new 64-layer 3D (vertically stacked) NAND. The 545s series replaces the 540s series. 

An Intel upcoming 6-core Coffee Lake generation processor has surfaces in GeekBench (again). This CPU scored 4,619 points on a single thread and 20,828 on multi-threading. A comparable slightly clocked Ryzen 5 1600X (also 6-cores) scores 4,574 in single-core performance and 20,769 for the multi-core.

Okay so we already have shown these in-depth in the news, but Gigabyte now officially announced them. They are the AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G, featuring an all-in-one, closed-loop liquid cooler, and the AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G, an open-loop solution fitted with a custom-designed full-cover water block.