News has reached us that an old partner in the graphics card and electronics industry has filed for bankruptcy, yesterday Point of View was declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. A lot of people in Asia, EU and south America will be familiar with the Point of View branding under Point of View on-line.

A mysterious five-second video causes phones to slow down and eventually crash. The video is a seemingly harmless mp4 file showing what appears to be a very quick magic trick.

This is the cube-shaped desktop PC from Orio Spec, the DB4 Fanless Silent SL. Adopting STREACOM’s fanless mini-ITX PC case ‘DB4’, this silent desktop PC is configured with a 3.20GHz Intel Core i3-6100T dual-core processor.

FSPlaunches a new 500W addition to its Twins series redundant Power Supplies, with a 700W version coming soon. Fitting most ATX tower chassis, these PSUs offer consumers a reliable solution for home mail, web, or email servers without needing to jump up to more costly form factors.

It looks like AMD is bundling Civilization VI with the purchase of a Radeon RX 480. Some board partners have started the promotion, users are eligible for the game just with the Radeon RX 480 4B or 8GB though.

But will need Edge and a Kaby Lake processor. Netflix will make streaming of movies and series in Ultra HD / 4K available on Windows 10. But you are going to need a computer with a Kaby Lake CPU, a HDCP 2.2 4K display and will be limited to the Edge browser to view the content.

Biostar has added the GK3 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard to their product line-up. It seems everybody is offering mechnical keyboards these days, this one looks good though with a very attractive 45 USD price. That price does mean non Cherry switches, these are based on Outemu Blue switches.

Elitegroup, is going to reveal the LIVA Z Mini PC, a fully functional computer that fits in the palm of your hand.  Its launch touches upon the idea of having an easy to carry, lightweight, and power-saving computing solution.

It remains an issues, game developers that think that console ports are an acceptable thing to bring towards the PC. EA is clearly taking another stance, the recent Battlefield 1 absolutely delivered on that front, being a proper PC gaming title.

Thermalright offers a slightly modified version of the HTPC Value  cooler, which is aimed primarily at price-sensitive fans of compact coolers. The AXP-100H Muscle has been heightened a little bit in order to ensure, that it fits for example on the Asus “Republic of Gamers  Maximus VIII Impact motherboard, with its higher VRM-coolers. 

Yep, it's a gargantula. While Intel already has 22-core processors in its Xeon line-up, you may add to that 24, 28 and 32 core Xeon processors. Photos appeared online on taobao.com showcasing a Xeon E5-2699 V5 processor (Skylake-EP) that has 32 Cores and thus a whopping 64 Threads.

In this review we test the all new and gorgeous Crystal 570X PC chassis from Corsair, a product series that is designed for ease of use and downright terrific looks as the side, top and fronts panel have been fitted with tempered glass. Combined with an RGB LED system in the cooling fans this chassis looks incredibly special. Wanna have a peek? Sure you do!

Read the full review here.
  

MSI has expanded their GTX 15050 Ti line-up with a Low-profile graphics card which might be handy in a small form factor HTPC. The card remains dual-slot as it does need a bit of cooling and has two 50mm spinners.

Corsair just launched three new ATX PC cases. The new Crystal Series 570X RGB and 460X RGB pair renowned CORSAIR build quality and ease of use with beautiful tempered glass and vivid RGB lighting, allowing PC builders to admire and illuminate their system like never before. 

Affordable with that classic design feel, meet the new Corsair Carbide 270R. Based on the popular success of the 200 series this compact mid-tower chassis will house your components inside an affordable good looking case. Do you want to go with a lengthy high-end graphics card and liquid cooling? Not even an issue. 

Read the full review here.

Backblaze has releases a new listing of HDD failure rates for Q3 2016. They replaced a lot of 3TB with 8TB HDDs and had pretty good results it seems.

Kaby Lake processors probably are not a reason to upgrade all by themselves. However alongside the processor series will be the intel series 200 chipsets. Much like the current popular Z170 series there is going to be a H270 and Z270 as well, a new chipsets slide appeared.

It is a long name alright, Asia region based Colorful has released a GeForce GTX 107, the iGame Snake X-Top Graphics Card comes with a massive three fan cooler and a totally custom design.