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Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

AMD A10-7800 Kaveri
ASUS MeMO Pad 7 and 8 review: small, speedy tablets that cut a few corners
Brother HL-L9200CDWT Review
Cooler Master N600 Mid Tower Review
Corsair Voyager Air 2 Review
EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1200 W
HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 Review
Moga Pro Controller for Android Review
MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC – MSI’s top tier gaming offering for the Haswell refresh
Sony Xperia M2 Android Smartphone
Synology DiskStation DS414slim Review
Xiaomi Mi 3 Review



AMD A10-7800 Kaveri

Earlier this year AMD introduced their Kaveri APUs and I had the chance to take a look at the A10-7850K. While I wouldn’t consider is an enthusiast part, I came out of our testing seriously impressed with the improvements AMD has made on the GPU side of things. I thought the new Kaveri APUs would be perfect for HTPCs as well as budget gaming rigs. Well today AMD is officially announcing a few new APUs that fill in a few gaps in that product line. The new APUs are the A10-7800, A8-7600, and the A6-7400K. While the architecture is the same, the new models do have a few interesting standouts. For one the A6-7400K is unlocked and has a low price to compete with the Intel G3258 Anniversary Edition. The other one that caught my eye was the A10-7800. It shares similar stats with the A10-7850K but with nearly half the power usage! Today I’m going to take a look at the A10-7800 to see if it is as exciting as the numbers imply.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

ASUS MeMO Pad 7 and 8 review: small, speedy tablets that cut a few corners

The MeMO Pad HD 7 was arguably the sleeper hit among small tablets in 2013. ASUS' device didn't have the speed of the Nexus 7 or the interface tricks of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 line, but it was superbly balanced. It ran smoothly, packed smart software and (most importantly) carried a sub-$200 price. For that reason, this year's MeMO Pad 7 and 8 are potentially exciting; they stick to that familiar formula while bringing in faster processors and a fresher interface. What's not to like? As you'll find out in our review, there are a few aspects that definitely need improvement, or even take steps backward -- but it's also clear that ASUS has budget-tablet design down to a science.

Read full article @ Engadget

Brother HL-L9200CDWT Review

Printing is supposed to be a simple matter, but the more devices you have to support the more issues you need to consider.Desktops may be perfectly happy with USB or Ethernet connections, but mobile workers expect Wi-Fi in its various flavours – and if you're part of the modern multi-device world, enabling printing from smartphones, Chromebooks and tablets involves yet more standards to support, such as AirPrint and Google Cloud Print. Can you get all of that for an SRP of £659 inc VAT (US$700, or around AUD$745)?Brother says you can. The HL-L9200CDWT promises high speed, high quality colour and mono laser printing that won't break the bank or frustrate end users. Brother claims both best in class print speeds (up to 30ppm) and the firm's best ever total cost of ownership thanks to what it calls super high yield toners delivering up to 6,000 pages at the standard 5% coverage.You can't fault the HL-L9200CDWT's credentials. It has wired (10/100 Ethernet) and wireless (802.11b/g/n) networking, USB and Wi-Fi Direct, and it supports both Apple's AirPrint and Google's Cloud Print for mobile devices. It's Windows, Mac and Linux compatible, emulates PCL6, BR-Script 3 (Brother's version of PostScript 3), PDF 1.7 and XPS, and promises up to 30ppm print speeds in both mono and colour.

Read full article @ Techradar

Cooler Master N600 Mid Tower Review

One can easily say that Cooler Master is a household name among PC enthusiasts. With an absolute plethora of cooling products and chassis to choose from, Cooler Master boasts one of the largest product lines in the industry. With products such as the immensely popular Hyper 212 EVO CPU cooler and the HAF 932 chassis, one can generally expect good things to come from Cooler Master. Last year Cooler Master released the N-series cases, which includes the N200, N400, and N600 models. The N600 is the premier model in the series, designed to bring enthusiast features at a more affordable price point.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

Corsair Voyager Air 2 Review

Contemporary smartphones have come on leaps and bounds in the past few years but if you are a mass media consumer they are still lacking in one key area: storage space. You can pick up hard drives for your PC with multiple terabytes for a fraction of the cost of a new phone and yet they come with merely a few gigabytes, often at most 64. So it is no wonder that companies are starting to produce larger storage devices, designed with mobile in mind.

Take Corsair’s latest effort, the Voyager Air 2. It is a one terabyte, mobile, wirelessly connected storage hub and streaming platform, giving your tablet or smartphone the ability to connect to whole archives worth of music, TV shows and movies, wherever you go.

Read full article @ KitGuru

EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1200 W

Another member joined EVGA’s SuperNOVA family. The new P2-1200 with a capacity of 1200 W and Platinum efficiency promises up to 94% efficiency with 220 V input and features a fully modular design with Japanese capacitors to ensure it is incredibly reliable and stable.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 Review

The rugged HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 ultrabook is equipped with a touch screen and trades physical connectivity for a slim and portable chassis. It's a good choice for a business that needs to buy new PCs for an entire staff.

Read full article @ TechReviewSource.com

Moga Pro Controller for Android Review

It’s pretty obvious I think that mobile gaming is popular, everyone is playing games on their phones and other devices and there’s thousands of them to choose from but personally I think touch control don’t work well with all games. Today for review I’ve got the Moga Pro controller for Android which is simply a gaming controller like you’d have with your console but it’s Bluetooth and for your Android devices. The controller will work with most games but there are certain games that are what they call Moga Enhanced that are made specifically to work with the Moga line of controllers. The controller has two modes, the Moga Enhanced mode and a HID mode which let’s the controller work with any HID enabled Bluetooth device. I’ve found that the controller really does make gaming on mobile device more enjoyable and more console like. Read on to learn more..

Read full article @ TestFreaks

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC – MSI’s top tier gaming offering for the Haswell refresh

MSI looks to be hitting Z97 pretty hard with not just a gaming board but a full line along with OC series boards and even standard boards so now this begs the question. If offering so many SKU’s will it pay off in better customer satisfaction byhaving plenty of options of models to meet their needs or will it be a case of too many options and actually confuse the consumers? That is one of the risks board manufacturers take when they start to expand to multiple lines each with growing numbers of options and SKU’s.

Now to the board we have today which is the MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC which is the top end of the MSI gaming series models. The AC moniker denotes the addition of 802.11 AC WiFi to the mix ensuring absolute connectivity solutions.

Read full article @ Bjorn3D

Sony Xperia M2 Android Smartphone

Sometimes, you really like the styling or design of flagship caliber devices, but you’re not as interested in all of those really high-end features. Maybe, you’re on a tighter budget. Maybe, you want something that looks pretty good and just gets the job done. Maybe, you’re in the market for something like the Sony Xperia M2 Android smartphone. Let’s see if it’s up to snuff.

Read full article @ MEGATech

Synology DiskStation DS414slim Review

Sometimes, you really like the styling or design of flagship caliber devices, but you’re not as interested in all of those really high-end features. Maybe, you’re on a tighter budget. Maybe, you want something that looks pretty good and just gets the job done. Maybe, you’re in the market for something like the Sony Xperia M2 Android smartphone. Let’s see if it’s up to snuff.

Read full article @ Hardware Heaven

Xiaomi Mi 3 Review

Xiaomi (pronounced Shiao Me) has been mentioned a few times before on TechRadar, regularly picked out as one to watch for the future as the emerging smartphone brand becomes more widely known. That's for two big reasons: it has a reputation for making good phones at very low prices, and the fact that former Google/Android man Hugo Barra joined the Chinese maker last year to head up an international push.It's an interesting company. It sells mobiles direct to customers via its website, so the money it saves on marketing pushes is passed on in offering solid hardware at a budget price - it's not too dissimilar to the OnePlus One in this respect. Xiaomi's current high-end model is the Mi4, but before then it was the Mi 3 and it offers specs similar to those of most of 2013's flagship Android models, combining a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 chipset (as seen in the Nexus 5, LG G2, Xperia Z1 Compact and many, many more top-spec mobiles) with a 13MP camera, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage and a 5-inch 1080p resolution display.In terms of what's inside it, the Xiaomi Mi 3 is very nearly as good as it gets in the world of on-paper performance, if you ignore 2014's brand new models with their superior Snapdragon 801 chipsets.

Read full article @ Techradar