Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles, including Corsair TX750M PSU Review, Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review, and ASRock X79 Extreme9 X79 Motherboard Review



Corsair TX750M PSU Review
Vortez posted a review on the Corsair TX750M PSU

The Corsair TX750M as the 'M' suggests, is a modular unit by design utilising a single 12v rail and brags an 80 PLUS Bronze certification. Corsair's RMA procedure is second to none and thus this PSU also grants piece of mind thanks to the 5 year warranty should you have the misfortune to encounter difficulties with this unit.

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AFOX GeForce GT 430 1GB LP, AFOX GeForce GT 440 D5 1GB, AFOX GeForce GTS 450 1GB, AFOX GeForce GTX 560 2GB and AFOX Radeon HD 6850 1GB LP Graphics Cards
iXBT Labs Review: posted a review on the following five graphics cards: AFOX GeForce GT 430 1GB LP, AFOX GeForce GT 440 D5 1GB, AFOX GeForce GTS 450 1GB, AFOX GeForce GTX 560 2GB and AFOX Radeon HD 6850 1GB LP Graphics Cards

Today we shall review as many as five low and mid-end graphics cards: four based on NVIDIA GPUs and one on an AMD Radeon GPU. All five have custom design and coolers, so let's see if this provides any benefits.

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SilverStone Strider Gold Evolution 750 W Power Supply Review
Hardware Secrets posted SilverStone Strider Gold Evolution 750 W Power Supply Review

The new SiverStone Strider Gold Evolution series of power supplies is comprised of 750 W, 850 W, 1,000 W, and 1,200 W models, all featuring the 80 Plus Gold certification, a removable air filter for the fan, and a full modular cabling system, meaning that even the main motherboard cable is detachable. Let's see if the 750 W model is a good option.

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Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E Processor Review
PC Perspective posted a review on the Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E Processor

The Core i7-3960X that we reviewed initially is set at a substantial price tag of $990 though it includes the highest base clock speed, the highest Turbo frequency and even the most L3 cache. As the next step down, the Core i7-3930K comes in with an estimated price of $555 and clock speeds only 100 MHz lower than the Extreme Edition CPU while continuing to offer a fully unlocked chip for overclocking goodness. There are still six processing cores, twelve available threads and 12MB of L3 cache to satisfy pretty much any computing need.

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Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review
TestFreaks posted a review on the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Kingston’s HyperX brand originally garnered its reputation making high-speed memory for PC enthusiasts. During this past year Kingston has been branching the HyperX labeling into other products; most recently with their SSD drives and now with today’s review item – the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0.

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Samsung 830 Series 256GB SATA III SSD Review
Legit Reviews posted Samsung 830 Series 256GB SATA III SSD Review

Samsung has joined the ranks of SATA III SSDs with their new 830 Series drives, following up on their impressive 470 Series. They're sleek and black with performance that will grab your attention and a nice bundle to boot. Will it be enought to stave off the likes of SandForce, Marvell and Indilinx? Check out the article to find out.

As we hinted at in the introduction, Samsung has done a great job in putting together a SATA III SSD that competes strongly with any other SATA based drive on the market today. The specifications of 520MB/s reads and 400MB/s writes were exceeded in some of our tests and while it trails the fastest SandForce drives in the sequential writes on highly compressed data, it's a usage scenario that rarely presents itself in the real world - especially on a consistent basis. So, it can't be held too strongly against them. Conversely, on incompressible data, it does just as well where the SandForce drives tend to nosedive. The Samsung controller is similar to the Marvell and new Indilinx controllers with the use of a cache and consistent performance across data types...

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ASRock X79 Extreme4 (Intel X79) Motherboard Review
TweakTown posted ASRock X79 Extreme4 (Intel X79) Motherboard Review

Just absolutely powering through the motherboards we have on offer today, we're going to look at the first of the three ASRock boards that we have currently sitting around us. Outside of the Extreme4 that we'll be looking at today, we also have the awesome looking Micro-ATX X79 Extreme4-M and the new ultra high end board from the company - the X79 Extreme9.

Today is all about the $234.99 US X79 Extreme4 and isn't just the cheapest X79 board we've looked at, but it's actually one of the cheapest X79 motherboards currently on the market period. What's that mean, though? Are we missing out on things we need when compared to some of the ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI boards we've looked at? Maybe performance isn't as strong?

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Patriot Pyro SE 240GB SSD Review
The Guru of 3D posted a review on the Patriot Pyro SE 240GB SSD

Patriot wanted to release another SSD, something a little over the top and as such that meant releasing the Pyro SE SSD. While based on the SandForce 2281 controller Patriot did apply some tweaks to make the product even faster. To keep it up to snuff it comes with synchronous NAND flash memory.

According to Patriot that will increase its sequential read and write performance to 550MB/s and 520MB/s, let's find out if that is the case. Check out the article right here.

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Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 & Xyboard 8.2 Tablets Review
TechSpot posted Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 & Xyboard 8.2 Tablets Review

The Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 and 8.2 tablets pick up where the original Xoom tablet left off. They both offer Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE data speeds, large displays, and a stealth black finish that has been updated to feel better in the hand.

It's regrettable that they run Android 3.x Honeycomb, like the original Xoom tablet that they replace when Ice Cream Sandwich is literally already here. Still, as far as Android tablets go, these two devices are quite capable and aren't hard on the eyes.

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Mushkin Chronos 60GB Review
OCC has published a review on the Mushkin Chronos 60GB

The Mushkin Chronos 60GB SSD still does offer good read and write performance for its price, especially when compared to mechanical drives. The drive also utilizes the SATA III 6Gb/s interface as well as a Sandforce 2281 controller. For those still using the SATA II 3Gb/s interface the drive is backwards compatible, although you will take a performance it. In the end I'd say that the Mushkin Chronos is a decent SSD, and well worth its cost.

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NZXT HALE82 750 Watt Modular Power Supply Review
TestFreaks posted a review on the NZXT HALE82 750 Watt Modular Power Supply

Up for review is a type of product that I haven’t reviewed in while, a power supply and it’s from NZXT. It’s one of their newest models the Hale82, it’s a 750 Watt modular power supply and it offers some serious power for anyone who needs a decent PSU. This power supply has an 80+ Bronze Certification which means it’s a very efficient power supply which in turn means it theoretically could save you some money in the long run. It features a single 12v rail that offers a whopping 62 amps total,. which should be more than enough for even the highest of high end systems. Anyway, let’s just get into it…

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Rosewill Mechanical Keyboard Review
PureOverclock has published a review of the Rosewill Mechanical Keyboard.

We've got the latest mechanical keyboard from manufacturer Rosewill, and it's called the Mechanical Keyboard. It's geared to gamers, and features the vaunted Cherry switches. At a price of $100, the Mechanical Keyboard is one of the more affordable mechanical gaming keyboards on the market.

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ASRock X79 Extreme9 X79 Motherboard Review
eTeknix.com posted a review on the ASRock X79 Extreme9 X79 Motherboard

I had never really used ASRock boards in the past, on a personal level, and only being in charge of motherboard reviews saw me having a glance at their potential. After looking at their Z68 boards, I instantly knew they had something special going on. X79 confirmed this, when we looked at the X79 Extreme4 which was one of the best looking boards that had passed through my hands. It also showed great performance and utilised the new X79 structure in terms of benchmarking, overclocking and a nice, easy to use UEFI BIOS.

After concluding the Extreme4 with our "Editor's Choice" award, we were extremely keen to see what the other boards in the X79 range were capable of, as the Extreme4 comes in as an entry level motherboard in ASRock's X79 product lineup.

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ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard Review
Hi Tech Legion posted ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard Review

The ASUS Sabertooth 990FX is another solid board offered from ASUS. The Sabertooth 990FX offers all of the same TUF features, but on the AMD platform. The chipset comprises of the AMD 990FX/SB950 with the newest AM3+ CPU socket. This will support all of the newest CPUs up to 8 cores and 140W. Memory support is up to 32GB and 1866Mhz DDR3 DRAM. The term TUF means "The Ultimate Force" and ASUS uses that to label a model of boards that goes that extra step to ensure total reliability and stability. All of the capacitors, MOSFETs, and chokes are comprised of a special alloy and are certified to meet military standards. In addition, this model includes a CeraM!X heatsink coating that allows 50% larger area for heat dissipation. Another feature of the Sabertooth is the thermal radar. Temperature zones can be set and fan speeds adjusted for total thermal control. Overall, the Sabertooth is built to last under any condition.

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NZXT Source 220 Case Review
Neoseeker posted a review on the NZXT Source 220 Case

The NZXT Source 220 complements the Tempest 210 as the backbone for NZXT's budget mid-tower line-up, and with suggested MSRPs in the low $50's they could be extremely viable contenders in the low price market.

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