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Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

ADATA SP610 SSD Review (512GB)
Cooltek W1 Windowed Review
Corsair Carbide Series Spec-01 Mid-Tower Chassis Review
Enermax Liqtech 240 CPU Cooler Video Review
Intel Core i7-3960X vs Core i7-3930K 3-way SLI Gaming-Performance
Kingston MobileLite Wireless G2 Review
OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB Solid State Drive
Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB Review
Streacom NC1-GK NUC Chassis
x86 on Android: A quick look at Asus' Memo Pad ME176C tablet
XFX XTS 520w Power Supply Review



ADATA SP610 SSD Review (512GB)

Silicon Motion (SMI) has met with success as of late with release of their SM2246EN SATA 3 SSD controller. It was just under a year ago that we sat with Robert Fan to discuss the future of SM2246EN, while today it can be found in the PNY Optima, Corsair LX, as well as the ADATA SP610 of this report. Our initial thoughts with respect to the SM2246EN were that its success was depend on two things, value and performance. We believe ADATA may have found just that mix in the SP610 and our opinion is that this report is indicative of just that success we hope to see in many of today’s SSD purchases.

Read full article @ The SSD Review

Cooltek W1 Windowed Review

With their W1 Cooltek have great looking mini ITX case in their portfolio suitable for gaming, enthusiast and HTPC builds. The enclosure is made ​​of aluminum with overall reasonable dimensions. Other than that there is a good number of interesting solutions and installing a high-end graphics card for example is not big deal with this case. In this review we're going to have a close look at the windowed version of the W1.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Corsair Carbide Series Spec-01 Mid-Tower Chassis Review

Corsair are a big name in the chassis market, offering some of the best premium gaming chassis on the market, such as their 750D, Air540, 900D and many, many more. The only problem with them is that they’re often out of a lot of people price range, so to not leave those on a more realistic budget out of the game, Corsair have created their new budget friendly Carbide Spec-01. The new chassis still promises all the major features you would hope to find in a decent gaming chassis, but at a much reduced price range. It’s true that most of us want a high-end, expensive chassis for our system build, but it’s the budget friendly models that most people end up buying, and with so many major manufacturers offering great products in the sub-£50 price bracket, Corsair are going to have to offer something unique to really stand out from the crowd.

The Spec-01 comes packed full of features that make it idea for a gaming system, with USB 3.0 support, room for mini ITX, Micro ATX and ATX motherboards, extra long graphics cards of up to 414mm, tall CPU coolers of up to 150mm, plenty of room for 5.25″, 3.5″ and 2.5″ drives, as well as room for radiators, extra fans and dust filters.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Enermax Liqtech 240 CPU Cooler Video Review

Today DaveChaos takes a look at the Liqtech 240 CPU Cooler from Enermax, including benchmark performance results.

Read full article @ Hardware Heaven

Intel Core i7-3960X vs Core i7-3930K 3-way SLI Gaming-Performance

Gamers are always curious to know what benefit they get from an expensive CPU in terms of frames per second. In this series of articles we will have a look at different CPUs, running at different clock speeds and with each article we will compare two CPUs. These CPUs will be place in a test system that's been equipped with no less than three high-end graphics cards in order to open the GPU bottleneck.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Kingston MobileLite Wireless G2 Review

Last year we took a look at the first generation Kingston MobileLite Wireless, which is an extremely handy solution to wirelessly share content amongst your devices. Today, we will take a look at the Kingston MobileLite Wireless G2, which is quite like the first iteration, but with a few new perks and a fresh new look.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB Solid State Drive

Ask any automotive enthusiast what is the most ridiculous road legal sports car ever created, do not be surprised to hear the name "Bugatti Veyron" more than a handful of times as an answer. When the Volkswagen Auto Group launched the car back in 2005, it simply redefined the entire hypercar category; bar none. Equipped with an 8.0L W16 quad turbocharged engine that delivers 987 hp at the crank, the Bugatti Veyron can reach 100 km/h from a dead stop in just 2.46 seconds. Flat out, it can do an astounding 408.47 km/h. At this point, it is important to point out while the Veyron can accelerate with neck breaking forces and capable of traveling faster than an average airplane's V1 speed, it does not mean you can get from New York to Los Angeles in less than eleven hours. At its top speed, the tires will wear out in fifteen minutes, but there is nothing to worry about, because you will run out of fuel in just twelve. Is this a classic case of engineering pushing the envelope so hard, it essentially outdesigned itself, instituting limitations of its own? Interestingly, this not only happens in the automotive world. The OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB we are reviewing today specifies a whopping 1800MB/s sequential read, 1700MB/s sequential write, and up to 140,000 IOPS according to the manufacturer. In fact, it is so fast, it needs to be connected to your motherboard's PCI Express x8 slot directly, because SATA is simply too slow for this beast. Do we have the Bugatti Veyron of SSDs in our hands today? We took in this $800 hyper-solid-state-disk to find out.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB Review

It has has been around a year since we last looked at a Sandisk Solid State Drive – the Extreme II (http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/zardon/sandisk-extreme-ii-240gb-ssd-review/) … their ultimate performance model at the time. Today we look at their latest flagship drive – the Extreme Pro. This SSD is designed to deliver the fastest speeds possible, but with a focus on long term reliability. If you are an enthusiast gamer or media professional this may very well be the drive you will want in your next system build. The 480GB version we review today is priced around the £260 inc vat mark (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/480gb-sandisk-sdssdxps-480g-g25-extreme-pro-sata-iii-25-ssd-550mb-s-515mb-s)

Read full article @ KitGuru

Streacom NC1-GK NUC Chassis

The Streacom NC1 is one of the more intricate NUC enclosures available since it offers a modular approach, allowing for easy installation and upgradablilty. The NC1 is also an excellent compact alternative to Intel's retail NUC chassis.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

x86 on Android: A quick look at Asus' Memo Pad ME176C tablet

Despite its $149 asking price, Asus' Memo Pad ME176C tablet has a quad-core Bay Trail SoC, a 7" IPS display, and little extras like a Micro SD slot and GPS functionality. We take a quick look at this budget slate to see how well Android runs on x86 hardware--and whether a $149 tablet can deliver a good experience.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

XFX XTS 520w Power Supply Review

Today we are taking a look at a PSU from XFX. This model is from their new XTS range and offers platinum efficiency, fanless operation and modular cables.

Read full article @ Hardware Heaven