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Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

ADATA DashDrive Elite SE720 External SSD Review
ASUS GeForce GTX 750 STRIX OC Edition Review
Cooler Charts: 27 Models tested - update Antec Kühler H2O 1250
Errata prompts Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs
Google Nexus 10 (2014) release date, news and rumors
Iiyama ProLite B2888UHSU 4K Monitor Review
Mini-ITX Game PC August 2014
Phanteks Case Accessories Review
Seasonic Platinum 1050WXP3 PSU Review
Tesoro Lobera Supreme Review
Zotac GTX 750 Zone Edition Review (Silent/Passive)



ADATA DashDrive Elite SE720 External SSD Review

How smart is your car? Can you play .mp3 or video off of a USB hard drive? I recently found out that mine can. It was not by choice but out of desperation. I thought I forgot my phone while on my way to work (later to find out it was in my bag) and was too far from home to turn back. Always having my laptop with me, I remembered that I had a USB hard drive in my briefcase. I pulled over and got it out, knowing that I had most of my favorite music on it. I was desperate, I had a song in my head and needed to hear it. With fingers crossed, I plugged it into my car's USB port, hit the auxiliary button and in about a minute my files were displayed on my multimedia screen. Bonus!

Well, how about that? A true Smart Car (pun intended) but what makes this story more ironic? The external USB 3.0 Drive I was using is manufactured by ADATA. By now you’re probably saying so what, ADATA makes it. OK, I’ll let you be the judge. The USB 3.0 external 128 GB SSD is named the ADATA DashDrive Elite SE720. Now do you get the irony? It’s a DashDrive, plug it into your car and place it on your dash then put the car in drive and pull away.

Read full article @ HiTech Legion

ASUS GeForce GTX 750 STRIX OC Edition Review

After DirectCU and Matrix series ASUS has a new GeForce GTX 750 Ti card in its portfolio which even features a new revision of their DirectCU II cooler with 0dB Fan technology named STRIX, there is also a non-reference PCB which features super alloy components. Everything put together sounds like a higly compelling offer.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Cooler Charts: 27 Models tested - update Antec Kühler H2O 1250

In our comparison tables, you can find test results regarding 21 recent air and watercoolers. Furthermore we do not comment the benchmark values. The idea and also the goal is to present to you a market overview which helps you choose the right cooler.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Errata prompts Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs

The TSX instructions built into Intel's Haswell CPU cores haven't become widely used by everyday software just yet, but they promise to make certain types of multithreaded applications run much faster than they can today. Some of the savviest software developers are likely building TSX-enabled software right about now.

Unfortunately, that work may have to come to a halt, thanks to a bug—or "errata," as Intel prefers to call them—in Haswell's TSX implementation that can cause critical software failures.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Google Nexus 10 (2014) release date, news and rumors

Shouldn't we have a new Nexus 10 by now? A big-screen device that Google can use to champion its OS on a bigger display?The last version appeared in 2012 alongside the first Nexus 7 (2012) , so it's high time we got something else.While Google hasn't confirmed on denied anything surrounding the new Nexus 10 rumors, it appears it's accidentally posted the specs of the upcoming tablet on its Play store site - although given this was last year, we're thinking that this was actually faked.Cut to the chaseWhat is it? The follow up to Google's 2012 10-inch tablet, aiming to take on the iPad AirWhen is it out?

Read full article @ Techradar

Iiyama ProLite B2888UHSU 4K Monitor Review

4K monitors have really come of age in recent months. After the initial crop of premium panels back in 2013, the market has seen a steady influx of sub-£500 solutions that are far more attractive to mainstream users. This charge has been led, primarily, by a 28in TN panel that has impressed to such an extent that many manufacturers are lining-up to employ the technology in a display of their own.

The sought-after panel has already been featured in the likes of AOC's U2868PQU, Samsung's U28D590 and the Philips Brilliance 288P6LJEB/00, and is now being interpreted by Iiyama with the ProLite B2888UHSU.

Read full article @ Hexus

Mini-ITX Game PC August 2014

The Mini-ITX Game PC is a desktop computer that is small enough to be portable, but has better performance than a gaming notebook.

Please note: the PC Buyer’s Guide is compiled based on independent component tests performed by Hardware.Info. If no new, superior products are released that should replace one or more of the components, then the component(s) will remain the same as the previous month.

If you want to know more about how we compile our PC Buying guides, have a look at this article.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Phanteks Case Accessories Review

Phanteks has found itself in the enviable position of having some of the most highly regarded cases currently on the market. Their line-up of course begins with the Primo on top followed by the Luxe and bringing up the rear is the Pro. With these cases Phanteks has used a sort of modular design for certain parts. For example the SSD brackets; they all mount in the same way in all three cases. The difference being the type and quantity of brackets included, with the Pro you are limited to just one single drive bracket. This might be disappointing to you, but don’t worry, Phanteks has your back. Now available on most major computer component retailer sites is Phanteks full line of case accessories. Let’s take a brief look at what Phanteks has to offer.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Seasonic Platinum 1050WXP3 PSU Review

Today we look at the latest high end power supply from Seasonic – the Platinum 1050WXP3. This unit follows on from the success of the previous 1000W Platinum but brings some upgrades into the mix. The new unit has a pure copper bridge to improve high current conduction and a new IC added to the fan control based on hysteresis (http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/sethna/hysteresis/WhatIsHysteresis.html) to reduce the number of times the fan turns on and off.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Tesoro Lobera Supreme Review

Established in 2011, Tesoro are a thriving and relatively new brand which are concerned with gaming products. For a company which is still only young, you’d be surprised to discover they have already produced quite a collection of different products ranging from mice to keyboards and from surface pads to audio headsets. Today is our first outing with Tesoro and we are to take a look at one of their latest mechanical gaming keyboards.

Lobera Supreme is a mechanical gaming keyboard which comes accompanied by an assortment of exciting and useful features. Gamers will be pleased to know that Full-NKRO is support, USB and audio ports come as standard as well as a highly customisable backlight LED lighting system.

Read full article @ Vortez

Zotac GTX 750 Zone Edition Review (Silent/Passive)

Today see'€™s Zotac take a new approach to the GTX 750 with the launch of their Zone Edition, a passively cooled version of the Maxwell GPU and we have one for review.

Read full article @ Hardware Heaven