Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Alphacool Eisbaer Extreme 280mm Review
Antec Mercury RGB 240 Review
be quiet! Silent Base 601 Window Mid-Tower Review
Cherry MX Board 1.0 TKL Review
Cooler Master MasterBox Q500L Video Review
Cooler Master Wraith Ripper TR4 Cooler Review
Dr Zaber Sentry 2.0 Review
Elgato Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock Review
GIGABYTE X299 Aorus Master (Intel X299) Motherboard Review
Intel Bean Canyon (NUC8i7BEH) Coffee Lake NUC Review
Logitech G – G933s Wireless 7.1 Surround LightSync Gaming Headset Review
SilverStone LSB02 Multifunction Addressable RGB Control Box Review
The be quiet! Dark Base 700 White Edition Case Review
The Current Windows 10 vs. Linux Browser Performance For Google Chrome + Mozilla Firefox
The RPG Files: The RPG Files: Outward Review
WD Black SN750 1TB Solid State Drive Review
WD Blue SN500 NVME SSD (250GB) Review

Alphacool Eisbaer Extreme 280mm Review

Alphacool's Eisbaer Extreme aims to bring custom liquid cooling to the masses, but is it worth £227?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Antec Mercury RGB 240 Review

How does the Antec Mercury RGB 240 fare, priced at £95?

Read full article @ KitGuru

be quiet! Silent Base 601 Window Mid-Tower Review

The Silent Base 601 Window Mid-Tower by be quiet! is not just yet another quality model but it also offers a good balance between interior space and available features.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Cherry MX Board 1.0 TKL Review

The Cherry MX Board 1.0 comes in a variety of offerings: TKL vs. full size, backlit or not. We take a look at the recently announced MX Board 1.0 TKL using genuine Cherry MX mechanical switches and the rarely used Cherry keycap profile. It is a keyboard designed with writing in mind, and this first-party offering is sure to interest the market accordingly.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Cooler Master MasterBox Q500L Video Review

During CES 2019 the Cooler Master MasterBox Q500L made its first appearance to the public and and I was really impressed with the direction over the Q300L by allowing a full size ATX system to fit in the volume of an already small mATX form factor.

Read full article @ Wccftech

Cooler Master Wraith Ripper TR4 Cooler Review

Does the Wraith Ripper repay its high price and weight with high performance for Threadripper owners, or should they stick with liquid cooling alternatives?

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Dr Zaber Sentry 2.0 Review

Back in 2016, I ran across a community inspired case called Sentry. It was designed in Poland as a side project by a wind turbine company. I reached out at potentially getting one in at the time but it being a side project they didn’t have any extra. It went on to have a successful Indiegogo campaign early in 2017. Well, they didn’t go away, in fact, they have been busy bringing in feedback all this time from the Sentry 1.0 owners and working on a new design. Talk about exciting! I was excited about the first design, being able to pack a true PC into a console form factor. What could they possibly have changed? Well, their changelog reads a lot like an open source software roadmap including showing what ideas they decided not to implement with reasons why. Even better, this time around for the Sentry 2.0 they made a few more test cases to spread around. You most likely have seen a few of them around YouTube and the internet by now. Well, we had a Sentry 2.0 come in as well and I’ve been playing around with it. I’m excited to finally take a closer look at this unique design and see if it was worth being excited about all this time.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Elgato Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock Review

One dock to rule them all? Over the past decade there's been a concerted move into making laptops thinner and lighter whilst not skimping on everyday performance. Ultrabooks and MacBooks have led the way, shoehorning potent CPUs inside chassis weighing not much more than a kilo and measuring just 15mm thick. Such portability and sleekness inevitably brings certain compromises along the way, with a lack of ports and connectors of primary concern to those wishing to use their laptops as effective desktop replacements.

Here is where one connectivity technology offers bags of potential for expanding the usefulness of portable machines: Thunderbolt 3. The latest standard provisions 40Gbps of bandwidth, per port, which can be used over USB-C to provide power, multi-display bandwidth, device charging capability, and connectivity throughput for Ethernet and USB. Phew. Best of all, this jamboree is provided by a single cable from laptop to end device.

Read full article @ Hexus

GIGABYTE X299 Aorus Master (Intel X299) Motherboard Review

Today we take a look at GIGABYTE's new Aorus branded X299 motherboard, which was introduced to tackle the new 9th generation of Intel X-series CPUs. The new motherboard features a slightly revamped VRM, and some other newer technologies.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Intel Bean Canyon (NUC8i7BEH) Coffee Lake NUC Review

Intels NUCs have managed to develop a strong market for ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) machines since they were introduced in the early 2010s. Each CPU generation has seen Intel put out stronger versions of the NUC (both in terms of performance and features) in a regular cadence. In parallel, we have seen experiments with slightly larger form-factors (such as the Skull Canyon and Hades Canyon NUCs). Today, we are looking at Intels flagship in their regular NUC category - the Core i7-based Bean Canyon (NUC8i7BEH).

Read full article @ Anandtech

Logitech G – G933s Wireless 7.1 Surround LightSync Gaming Headset Review

There are a lot of things gamers want when it comes to gaming headset, and sometimes it can be pretty hard for manufacturers to meet those demands.

Read full article @ FunkyKit

SilverStone LSB02 Multifunction Addressable RGB Control Box Review

When it comes to RGB lighting there is no question that it is the hot thing in the custom PC building world. Motherboards have started bundling RGB controllers using manufacturer specific software and if you are lucky you’ll get one or two RGB headers allowing you to expand the light show.

Unfortunately, RGB is still the Wild West when it comes to expanding the ecosystem. There are certain RGB memory modules that don’t work on RGB enabled motherboards. Lighted keyboards and mice cannot sync with other components and if you are using video cards from different manufacturers there is a good chance the lighting controls required separate software packages to work.

What ends up happening is that instead of enjoying different patterns you start setting your components to a single color and hope the multitude of software packages all load and play nice together.

This is where the SilverStone LSB02 Multifunction Addressable RGB Control Box comes in offering an external hardware based RGB controller and In what I might consider one of my longest real world product reviews ever let’s check out the SST-LSB02

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

The be quiet! Dark Base 700 White Edition Case Review

The be quiet! Dark Base 700 White Edition is a limited-edition enclosure of only 3,000 units, and it is not only one of the first white cases from be quiet!, but also joins the Dark Base 900 (rev. 2) in featuring RGB lighting - though as tastefully implemented as one might expect from be quiet!.

So what can you expect from a case that - at first glance - appears to be another white mid-tower with a tempered glass side panel and RGB lighting? Quite a bit more than you might think, unless you have first-hand experience with a be quiet! enclosure. My impressions of their products to this point has shown them to have characteristically superior material selection, build quality, overall fit and finish, and attention to detail. In short, a level of perfectionism must surely exist within this German company, and it is impressive to behold.

Read full article @ PC Perspective

The Current Windows 10 vs. Linux Browser Performance For Google Chrome + Mozilla Firefox

Last week were tests looking at the Firefox/Chrome web browser performance on eight Linux distributions but how does the situation look if adding Microsoft Windows 10 to the equation? Well, this article addresses that question as we looking at how well Chrome and Firefox compare Windows 10 vs. Linux on the same system and using the latest releases of these web browsers.

Read full article @ Phoronix

The RPG Files: The RPG Files: Outward Review

Nine Dots Studio's new release Outward is an open-world adventure RPG that throws the player into a brutal world as a nobody. The game is set up to have the player adventure through a dangerous world, while starting out as an absolute nobody. There isn't any magical hero off to fulfill a prophecy here, just trying to go out into the world to find a home and make a few bucks on the side. But, will the game provide a worthwhile journey? This is our Outward review.

Read full article @ MMORPG

WD Black SN750 1TB Solid State Drive Review

Western Digital recently has announced a new high performance NVMe drive in their WD Black SN750. This will be their third generation NVMe drive. The first two were just called “WD Black”, which was confusing to some, especially when both products were available at retailers at different prices. So WD has added the “SN750” to this generation. What else is new? Well not all that much, WD is still using the same in-house controller and 64L 3D NAND, but they have refined the firmware. Being that the controller is designed in-house it gives WD the ability to make changes and optimizations. Also we get some new branding, which is really geared towards gamers. With the new firmware optimizations this drive boasts sequential read and write speeds of 3470 MB/s and 3000 MB/s respectively, which makes it one of the fastest drives available! Let’s take a look!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

WD Blue SN500 NVME SSD (250GB) Review

A week or so Western Digital announced their new WD Blue SN500 series NVMe SSDs. A value NVMe proposition that is capable of rattling some cages.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D