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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

20 of the Worst PC Setups – March 2019
Arozzi Arena Leggero Star Trek Edition Gaming Desk Review
ASRock B365M Phantom Gaming 4 Motherboard Review
AVADirect Section 9 System
be quiet! System Power U9 500W PSU Review
Cooler Master CM310 Review
DLSS Ultra Performance in Anthem, BFV, FFXV, Metro Exodus, & SotTR
Eureka Z2 Gaming Desk Review
GJS Geio Battle Robot Review
Logitech G432 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset Review
Netgear Orbi Pro SRK60 Review
Noctua NH-U12A Review
Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine RGB DDR4-3200 16GB Kit Review
The SilverStone Nightjar NJ450-SXL 450W SFX PSU Review
Thermaltake Level 20 RGB Titanium Gaming Keyboard Review
Travis Touch Plus Translator Review
Western Digital My Passport 1TB Portable HDD Review



20 of the Worst PC Setups – March 2019

I’m sure at some point you’ve had a bad PC setup. Maybe moving into a new place, waiting for a new desk to arrive or you just ran out of room. I can remember my horrible PC setups from when I was living at the dorms in college. If you have ever ventured over to the Shitty Battlestations sub-reddit you will find a lot of horrible PC setups. We will are going to pick 20 each month and feature them as 20 of the Worst PC setups for that month. Here are some of the bad ones from March.

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Arozzi Arena Leggero Star Trek Edition Gaming Desk Review

Arozzi recently released a special edition of their highly successful Arena Leggero Gaming Desk catered specifically for Star Trek fans all over the world and today we're checking it out.

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ASRock B365M Phantom Gaming 4 Motherboard Review

Not so long ago, we reviewed theASRock B365 Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard. It was a good all-rounder thats rich in features.

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AVADirect Section 9 System

At CES 2019 we went to visit the Alphacool suite and there we saw a pretty sweet looking system that displays a whole bunch of Alphacool's products. This is not uncommon as you want people to see what the products will look like inside of a PC in use.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

be quiet! System Power U9 500W PSU Review

The be quiet! System Power U9 models are highly affordable. What about their performance though and are they quiet enough to carry on this brand's tradition?

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Cooler Master CM310 Review

At $29.99, the Cooler Master CM310 is the one of the company's most affordable mice, but still packs solid specifications that easily keep up with their high-end models. It has RGB lighting with five modes, a maximum sensor resolution of 10,000 CPI, and a rather uniquely ambidextrous, but somehow familiar shape.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

DLSS Ultra Performance in Anthem, BFV, FFXV, Metro Exodus, & SotTR

There are currently five games that support DLSS – Anthem, Final Fantasy XV, Battlefield V, Metro Exodus, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. This performance evaluation will compare each game’s DLSS performance on versus off at maxed-out ultra settings to see if it is worth using.

We will test the DLSS Ultra performance of all four Turing RTX cards – the RTX 2080 Ti, the RTX 2080, the RTX 2070, and the RTX 2060 – as they are the only cards for now that that have support for the DirectX ray tracing API. We use Game Ready driver 419.67 which gives similar performance to 419.35 with no performance increases that we could see. Later this month, NVIDIA promises a new driver update that will bring this support to all GeForce Pascal 10-series cards from the GTX 1060 6GB and higher.

Read full article @ BabelTechReviews

Eureka Z2 Gaming Desk Review

It's the little touches that make this desk so nice.

When it comes to gaming desks, comfort over long periods cannot be overstated. The Eureka Z2 gaming desk delivers comfort in a myriad of tiny ways. Plus it looks great in any office or gaming den. But do you really need a gaming desk. Here's everything you need to know about this one, to help you decide.

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GJS Geio Battle Robot Review

The Geio robot has its own companion app boasting many games, including ones with object recognition for power-ups and a camera for first-person shooter views.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Logitech G432 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset Review

Included with the G432 is a 3.5mm to USB adapter as well as a 3.5mm microphone and audio splitter so we can assume connectivity will never be an issue, however utilising the USB adapter is recommended as this allows you use the Logitech G Hub software whereas the 3.5mm wire alone does not.

Read full article @ Vortez

Netgear Orbi Pro SRK60 Review

Late last year we had a look at Netgear business platform, Insight. This solution brings together devices and cloud management into an easy to use platform. Adding to this solution, Netgear launched the Orbi Pro, its Tri-Band mesh platform for businesses that need a more reliable, easy to manage solution for their shops and offices.

Orbi Pro builds off the consumer Orbi platform with both its looks and hardware with added refinement. For hardware we have the Qualcomm IPQ4019, four cores at 717Mhz paired with 512MB of memory and large 4GB flash memory, this also has a 2x2 Radio that offers 400Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and 867Mbps on the 5GHz. There is a separate QCA9984 4x4 Radio that is used for backhaul with a peak rate of 1733Mbps. On the wired side, the Orbi Por offers 1 WAN and 3 LAN ports for the router and four LAN for the satellite, all wired ports are gigabit.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Noctua NH-U12A Review

The NH-U12A utilises Noctua's epic NF-A12x25 120mm cooling fans, one either side of the heatsink; our review of the fan proved it to be the best fan we'd ever tested, and almost a year on, we're yet to see anything better. We've not seen these fans attached to a Noctua cooler yet so we'll be interested to see how these get on.

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Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine RGB DDR4-3200 16GB Kit Review

Not that long ago, we were introduced to Silicon Power DDR4, and to be honest, we knew of them from years gone by, but as a company, they sort of fell into obscurity for most users out there looking to buy new RAM. However, with what we saw with their...

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The SilverStone Nightjar NJ450-SXL 450W SFX PSU Review

In todays review we are taking a look at a a rather unique SFX PSU, the passively cooled SilverStone Nightjar NJ450. Despite the lack of active cooling, both the specifications and real-world performance of the NJ450 are astounding, making a very convincing case for SilverStones first foray into passive SFX PSUs.

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Thermaltake Level 20 RGB Titanium Gaming Keyboard Review

Today we review the Thermaltake Level 20 RGB Titanium Gaming Keyboard as it seeks to take on premium gaming keyboards with its Silver Cherry switches and some cool extras.

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Travis Touch Plus Translator Review

Ever been abroad and unable to communicate properly with the locals? The state of the UK language education system is such that it's a common occurrence even if we jump over the channel to continental Europe. Few can improve upon Del Boy's wonderful Franglais - mange tout, Rodney! - so most of us rely on either an English speaker on the other end or, for the smartphone-savvy generation, a translation app.

Though ever-evolving apps like Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Translate Now and iTranslate do a fine job of voicing translations in myriad of languages, there are instances where fumbling around with an expensive phone, especially for those not au fait with an app ecosystem, is where a standalone device can make sense. It is into this niche that the Travis Translator Touch wants to play.

A bit of history first. Set up in 2016 in Rotterdam by three entrepreneurs, Travis used the Indiegogo platform to raise £1.6m for the original device shipping in 2017 and a subsequent, improved model known as Travis Touch, priced at 199 euros. It is the latter that we're taking a look at today.

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Western Digital My Passport 1TB Portable HDD Review

People talk about SSDs as all the rage, but we forget about their older brother the HDD. Well, Western Digital hasn't forgotten. If you?re running a console in need of extra storage or want a portable game drive to take with you on the go, this drive might be on your wishlist. But should it be? Join us as we find out! This is our review of the WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive.

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