Daily Reviews Summary 06/04/12

We review the Cooler Master Silencio 650. With silent PCs becoming more important Cooler Master started designing a new Silencio chassis that's totally up-to snuff with the 2012 standards, requirements and features -- and then some more as hey .. it's Cooler Master and they are know for creative ideas and solutions inside any chassis.

As such the Silencio 650 as shown comes with cable routing, all black interior and an extra retaining hole, sound dampening materials but also a fan controller, and get this a dual boot HDD switch. Yep, you can now switch in-between two HDDs. We'll explain later though.

It is hard for me to say this, as I love my mother-in-law (to be), but this case is the "mother-in-law" of cases. There isn't a darn good thing about it. The most fun I had with it was putting the little wheels on the HDDs and racing them down the hallway. I haven't HATED a case as much as I hate this one. It was ugly to look at and frustrating to work with. There really isn't a perfect case out there, but this Cubitek offering was just one problem after another.

Gaming is all the rage with the kids these days! Who am I kidding I game as often as I can so I’m in that category as well. I have kids and they’re young and I like to game when I’m alone without distractions and that means at night when they’re sleeping so I need a decent set of gaming headphones. Today for review Roccat has sent over the Kave 5.1 Surround Sound Gaming headset that obviously features 5.1 surround for a truly immersive gaming and movie experience. Roccat makes some excellent products and if you’re looking for new gaming headset you really can’t go wrong with these, so read on…