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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AeroCool DS 230 Readers Review
All-round Deluxe PC - November 2017
ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac AMD AM4 Motherboard Review
Corsair ML120 Pro RGB Review
Corsair ML120 RGB Pro Series Magnetic Levitation Fan Review
Corsair ML140 Pro RGB Fan Kit Review
Corsair PBT Double-Shot Keycaps Review
Crucial MX300 2 TB
Gigabyte Z370N WiFi Review
Intel Core i3-8350K Review
Intel Optane SSD 900P Review: The Fastest, Most Responsive SSD Yet
Samsung Secure Folder Kills & Replaces My Knox
Sennheiser HD 660 S Headphone Review
Team TForce Cardea NVMe SSD 240GB review: gekoelde SSD
Z370 Motherboard Charts: 2 Models tested - ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero



AeroCool DS 230 Readers Review

Today a new reader test is published. This time, Blade1972 is testing the AeroCool DS 230 midi tower in his first OCinside.de reader review. Deadsilence remastered – In 2014, Aerocool landed a big hit with its predecessor DS200, which impressed with its innovative design and high quality. Today we look at the successor of the almost legendary DS 200 and see what Aerocool has come up with something new.

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All-round Deluxe PC - November 2017

The all-round Deluxe PC will last you a few years without requiring any upgrades. It is a bit more expensive, but is very complete as well. Using the internet, gaming, business applications, photo and video editing - all of these are possible on a good all-round PC, and you should never feel that you are lacking in performance for any of those activities.

This means a good processor and graphics card from the upper mid-range segment. Fast, yet affordable. You also need enough RAM and storage space, not to mention an attractive chassis and reliable power supply that can last several years. Of course you need a quality monitor, mouse and keyboard, as these are used very frequently.

This PC will cost more than the standard all-round PC, but it is also more powerful and has higher-end components. If this exceeds your budget somewhat, then you can have a look at out standard All-round PC instead.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac AMD AM4 Motherboard Review

Today we are testing the ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac, the first AMD Ryzen motherboard in ITX format on OCinside. The AMD AM4 ITX motherboard has been tested and overclocked with an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 and an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU. The ITX motherboard results and the features almost match the large ATX AM4 motherboards. How high the ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX motherboard could be overclocked and what great features it has to offer on the smallest space we show in the following review.

Read full article @ OCInside.de

Corsair ML120 Pro RGB Review

Not forgetting the main feature of the ML120 Pro RGB fans, the lighting is provided by 4 LEDs located at every quarter-turn around the centre hub of the blades. Those lighting effects are providing by the Lighting Node PRO, a small device included with the ML120 Pro RGB package that connects to the Corsair Link software via a USB header.

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Corsair ML120 RGB Pro Series Magnetic Levitation Fan Review

In this quick test, we look at the all-new ML120 RGB Pro series fans from Corsair, with the ML short for Magnetic levitation. The new kitscome with a Commander unit and that means fully programmable RGB with Corsairs Link software.

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Corsair ML140 Pro RGB Fan Kit Review

When I reviewed the Corsair LL RGB series of fans, I came away thoroughly impressed, as they offered great looking RGB effects and moved a good amount of air while remaining very quiet. The Corsair LL RGB series of fans would go on to earn the Legit Reviews Recommended Award, but I did fathom when Corsair would take the next step and bring RGB lighting to their incredible series of ML Pro fans, which feature magnetic levitation bearings and custom designed rotors to allow for low-noise, high airflow operation. Corsair ML (Magnetic Levitation) Pro fans are considered some of the best case fans on the market by enthusiasts, with Corsair touting them as being the fans NASA would develop for PC. While the Corsair ML series of fans have been available with single-color LED options for some time, it was only natural that Corsair would take their best fans and add programmable RGB lighting, allowing them to now fit into the Corsair LINK ecosystem. Now, PC enthusiasts who have been waiting for Corsair to bring RGB lighting to their ML Pro fans can fork over their money for some low-noise, high airflow RGB goodness...

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Corsair PBT Double-Shot Keycaps Review

It all started with a post in the Corsair User Forums back on February 5th, 2016 by Corsair Henry. Henry asked the Corsair community who wanted to buy double shot key caps if they available to purchase and how much money would they be willing to spend. That forum topic has garnered over 300 posts since then and it appears that was enough for Corsair to launch a product as you can now purchase Corsair Gaming PBT Double-Shot Keycaps for K95, K70, K65, K66, K63 and STRAFE keyboard models. Read on to see how the switch from ABS to PBT keycaps went!

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Crucial MX300 2 TB

The Crucial MX300 2 TB is the biggest SSD in the company's lineup. It provides a staggering 2050 GB of capacity, which should be plenty for everyone. Thanks to its good performance and outstanding price of 27 cents per GB, this is the drive you want if you need tons of fast storage.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Gigabyte Z370N WiFi Review

An almost-perfect Mini ITX board. Intel's consumer CPU focus in the first half of 2017 has been on maximising the efficiency of its laptop chips. We can argue for this point because, lately, most of the firm's innovation has been centred on the U-series. Now offering four cores and eight threads hewn from the Kaby Lake architecture, these 15W silicon supremos put desktop efficiency to shame.

The enthusiast and DIY market has had something to shout about at last, though. You see, the chip giant debuted 8th Generation Core Coffee Lake-based chips just last month, packing up to six cores and 12 threads at similar thermal and wattage levels as the previous generation. But getting your hands on such a platform also requires investing in a Z370 chipset motherboard, meaning it's a clean break, as the 7th Generation Core processors won't work in the new platform.

But that's OK for a number of folks upgrading from, say, a PC that's three to five years old. To them compatibility between generations is an academic concern, so the only question that needs answering is which chip and board to get? You can go normal ATX, you can go a bit smaller and look at Micro ATX, but fully appreciating the overall platform-level efficiencies baked into new architectures, why not run with Mini ITX?

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Intel Core i3-8350K Review

Intel improved its Core i3 family by arming it with four physical cores. Let's see if the unlocked Core i3-8350K can usurp the competition from AMD.

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Intel Optane SSD 900P Review: The Fastest, Most Responsive SSD Yet

Intel gave us a taste of what its Optane could do on consumer desktop systems a few months back when it launched its Optane Memory technology. Those miniscule drives did a great job caching data to give compatible systems packing slower hard drives a huge boost in responsiveness and overall performance. The performance characteristics of Optane Memory also left many enthusiasts chomping at the bit for higher-capacity, speedier Optane SSDs for high-end desktops, however. Fortunately, the wait is now over. Intel recently launched the brand-new Optane SSD 900P series of drives and we can with certainty say that it was absolutely worth the wait...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Samsung Secure Folder Kills & Replaces My Knox

Samsung is KILLING OFF My Knox, replacing it with *Samsung Secure Folder*. Find out more about this development, and what's different about Secure Folder!

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Sennheiser HD 660 S Headphone Review

In the audio community, the Sennheiser HD 650 is something of a legend – an excellent value headphone, it delivers exceptional audio quality without costing the earth. It is perhaps a bold move, then, for Sennheiser to release a successor to the much-loved HD 650, named the HD 660 S. With a price of £429, is this the new go-to headphone for budget audiophiles?

Read full article @ KitGuru

Team TForce Cardea NVMe SSD 240GB review: gekoelde SSD

The M.2 size standard for SSDs is the result of trying to fit hard drives into the ever-slimming laptops without compromising on the bandwidth. Within the world of desktops, this new standard causes a heating issue as the modules are placed flat on the motherboard, where there is little airflow. Team appear to have a solution in their new Cardea-SSD.

In technical terms, the TForce Cardea is not unlike the Kingston KC1000 and the Corsair Force MP500. It is based on the 15nm flash memory module of Toshiba and has the Phison PS5007 controller. The standout feature of it is the red heatsink that covers the entire M.2 module.

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Z370 Motherboard Charts: 2 Models tested - ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero

Meanwhile you can find benchmark values of the first Z370 motherboards in our comparison tables. We do not comment the benchmark values. The idea and also the goal is to present to you an overview which helps you choose the right motherboard simply based on facts in the form of numbers.

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