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Here a roundup of todays review's and articles:

ADATA Premier SP550 SSD Review
Creative T3250 Wireless Review
FSP Aurum 92+ 650W Power Supply Unit Review
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming: Killer 1080P Gaming
Logitech G310 Atlas Dawn Review
MSI's Z170A Gaming M5 motherboard reviewed
PC Specialist Mortis Review
Poseidon Z Plus Review: The Simple (Smart) Keyboard
Shuttle DS57U Fanless mini PC Review
Tesoro Lobera Spectrum RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review



ADATA Premier SP550 SSD Review

Benchmark Reviews has previously looked at the ADATA Premier SP550 mainstream and ADATA XPG SX930 performance SSDs; today we have the ADATA Premier SP550. With Hynix TLC NAND backed by a Silicon Motion controller and LDPC error correction, is the SP550 the price/performance sweet spot in ADATA’s lineup?

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Creative T3250 Wireless Review

If your PC is housed on a small yet convenient computer desk, your choices for desktop speakers may feel restricted due to the space available to you; especially when you get an idea of how large some 2.1 speaker systems can be. Those who use their PC daily for various purposes, yet are in this position, may not want to compromise on the loss of that 'big sound' often provided by a subwoofer.

This is where the Creative T3250 comes in. Utilising various technologies in the satellites such as DSE (Dual Slot Enclosure) to improve mid-bass and frequency distribution, and IFP (Image Focusing Plate) to give a wider 'sweet spot' in regards to tonal accuracy, you could say that Creative have set out to create a compact system specifically capable in delivering big sounds. The down firing subwoofer has a footprint of just 184 x 184mm and compliments the satellites with the deep bass that many enjoy from their games, movies and music. For the cherry on top, Creative have included Bluetooth connectivity to allow users that extra flexibility.

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FSP Aurum 92+ 650W Power Supply Unit Review

Professionals, serious gamers and even enthusiasts always use quality components in their PCs and although their needs are not exactly identical still they all agree that quality PSU is always a good investment (at least judging from the people we all know). Although however finding a quality PSU is not really hard (the easiest way is to check its 80 plus Certification and price) some people have a hard time figuring out just how much juice they need for their PCs. I've always believed that having a PSU with ore output power and never use it is far better than to need the extra juice and not have it but at the same time when i see PCs that can never possibly surpass the 500W mark recommending a 1KW model to those people makes no sense at all. FSP released the Aurum PT line of power supply units over a year ago and long after our review of the top PT model we decided to take a look at the 650W 92+ one released quite a bit earlier.

FSP Group is the 5th largest power supply vendor in the world. Since the company was established in 1993, our outstanding management team has drawn together our R&D expertise, our sizeable production capacity, outstanding product quality to consistently excel in this competitive marketplace. FSP group is a publicly traded company listed in the Taiwan stock exchange, symbol: 30.15.TW, with revenues exceeding over 600 million USD. FSP group provides OEM/ODM power conversion products and services to the majority of well-established manufacturers and is the leading volume supplier of desktop PC ATX power supplies. In recent years, FSP group has expanded its R&D and manufacturing capabilities to become one of the major power conversion supplier of power adapters, industrial PCs, servers, LCD/LED monitors, LCD/LED TVs, heavy duty industrial products (UPS), portable battery chargers, Uninterrupted Power Supply as well as providing off-the-shelf consumer products, partnering with many strategic manufacturers.

The Aurum 92+ line may not be part of the higher end PT line of PSUs again by FSP but it shares most of the same features (lacks the full-modular design however) and so here we find the 80 Plus Platinum efficiency certification, four 18A +12V rails, MIA IC technology (active-clamp), active PFC, industrial grade Japanese capacitors, flat cabling system, 120mm fluid dynamic bearing silent fan and a full suite of electrical protections including OCP (over charge protection), OVP (over voltage protection), SCP (short circuit protection), OPP (over power protection) and UVP (under voltage protection). Finally the 650W model which we have here with us has a peak output (max combined power) of roughly 700W.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming: Killer 1080P Gaming

We already know a lot about the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960. In our launch coverage of the GPU we noted, “The GeForce GTX 960’s low-power characteristics, beefed up video engine, and overclocking headroom, in addition to support for technologies like NVIDIA’s Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI), Multi-Frame sampled AA (MFAA), Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR), and DX12,l make the card a compelling choice.” The GTX 960 is an excellent choice for MOBA gamers or gamers running single displays at resolution of 1080P, or below but at high image quality settings.

The GeForce GTX 960 also happens to be a very power efficient GPU, that’s doesn’t need a ton of cooling and most cards require only a single supplemental power connector. Gigabyte, however, decided to amp-up one of their GTX 960 cards to the max—regardless of the GTX 960’s requirements. What they ended up with is a factory overclocked GTX 960, with a highly-capable, oversized cooler, and enough power in reserve to feed cards an order of magnitude more powerful. And that makes the GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming we’re going to show you here standout from many of the also-rans in the GPU space...

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Logitech G310 Atlas Dawn Review

Today we have Logitech’s brand spanking new G310 Atlas Dawn compact mechanical gaming keyboard, which uses the companies patented Romer-G switches. The G310 does away with the num-pad, making it quite a bit shorter than its bigger brother, the G910. Despite significantly reducing the size of the G310, Logitech has failed to do the same with the price and this is an issue...

Almost a year ago Logitech announced their most important gaming keyboard to date, the G910 Orion Spark. The G910 was an important product for Logitech that was designed to help them stand out of the ever growing pack of companies jumping into the gaming peripheral market.

Logitech claimed that the G910 was the culmination of years of ongoing development by their engineering team. With feedback from gamers and eSport athletes they set out to develop the next-generation mechanical key, the end result was what they called Romer-G mechanical switches.

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MSI's Z170A Gaming M5 motherboard reviewed

MSI's Z170A Gaming M5 motherboard serves up Skylake support with a gaming twist. With an impressive next-gen storage payload and some gamer-friendly features, can this board win over the wider enthusiast population, too?

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PC Specialist Mortis Review

Here's what £999 can buy you in the world of PC gaming. The arrival of Intel's sixth-generation 'Skylake' processors - Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K - has given system integrators new impetus to create cutting-edge gaming rigs.

We had expected a deluge of systems to come our way, but it has been slim pickings, albeit not through a lack of trying. A good number of SIs have struggled to implement overclocks and high-speed DDR4 memory due to immature BIOSes on the latest Z170 motherboards. Confident that such problems have been overcome, PC Specialist is now showcasing its wares with a high-end £999 system dubbed Mortis.

Read full article @ Hexus

Poseidon Z Plus Review: The Simple (Smart) Keyboard

Some typists just want a familiar full size keyboard with tactile feedback and good back-lighting. For those typists, the Thermaltake Poseidon Z plus Smart keyboard is a comfortable fit. The Poseidon Z plus is what I consider a mechanical keyboard for those who desire the benefits of a mechanical keyboard without the proprietary features and higher price tags many manufacturers offer on premium … Read more.

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Shuttle DS57U Fanless mini PC Review

We will be testing the Shuttle DS57U . In its simplest essence this is a tiny fanless PC that is armed with an Intel Celeron 3205U Processor clocked at 1.50GHz and then combined with a decent chipset this puppy offers USB 3.0 ports, MSata and 2.5" SSD support as well as WiFi and two Gigabit LAN jacks. Not bad for a product that doesn't have any active fans right?

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Tesoro Lobera Spectrum RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

Besides that, my list of issues is short, but an important factor. If you aren't tech savvy, this keyboard isn't for you. Simply put, Tesoro does not provide enough information to give any sense of what to do and it shouldn't have to be that hard! Adding to that, this keyboard flat out would not work on my Asus X79 Black Edition motherboard. It just kept locking up the BIOS unless I boot into Windows without the keyboard and then plugged it in afterwards. It would work for a few minutes and then completely freeze up. After a few months, I found Tesoro released a firmware update that had its own set of problems before finally being able to flash the firmware. With that all said and done, the keyboard finally worked on that computer. This is an issue. What if I didn't have a second computer to upgrade the firmware with? The answer is, I would have a worthless keyboard.

Read full article @ OCC