Today's reviews roundup highlights several new products ranging from a PC case with wooden accents to a completely fanless desktop chassis designed for silence. While Wccftech praises the airflow capabilities of the updated Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition, KitGuru questions if the Arctic Senza can truly handle heavy workloads without sound. Gamers can check out Samson from Liquid Swords or see how Life is Strange Reunion handles player choices differently than before. Tom's Hardware rounds out the coverage by reviewing the budget Windows handheld alongside a premium power supply that demands careful consideration regarding its cost and efficiency levels.
Casing: Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition Case Review: Big, Quiet, & Wooden Accents
Computers: Arctic Senza Review (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + Passive Cooling)
Gaming: Samson: A Tyndalston Story Review – Not Bad, Not Good, Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: The cheapest Windows handheld gets points for showing up, Life is Strange: Reunion Review – Partners in Crime, Partners in Time
Power: be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1200W supply review: Platinum-level efficiency, premium pricing
Casing:
Wccftech: Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition Case Review: Big, Quiet, & Wooden Accents
Antec introduced its Flux Pro casing back in 2024. The full-tower casing was designed to deliver great airflow capabilities, and also offered lots of customization & DIY-friendly options. For these reasons, it received several positive reviews. Now, two years have passed, and Noctua is partnering with Antec to give this casing a nice uplift with the brand new Flux Pro Noctua Edition treatment.
Computers:
KitGuru: Arctic Senza Review (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + Passive Cooling)
The Arctic Senza promises the ultimate stealth PC experience by packing a 12-core Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and 32GB of LPDDR5X memory into a completely passive, desk mounted chassis. On paper, it looks like a whisper-quiet productivity powerhouse capable of handling heavy workloads without breaking a sweat or making a single sound. But does this fanless design actually hold up under sustained pressure, or do the inevitable compromises of a silent PC outweigh the engineering marvel?
Arctic Senza Review (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + Passive Cooling) - KitGuru
Gaming:
Wccftech: Samson: A Tyndalston Story Review – Not Bad, Not Good
amson: A Tyndalston Story is the debut game from independent developer Liquid Swords, and it has a lot going for it. It's got a team of learned developers behind it, led by Christofer Sundberg, the founder of Avalanche Studios and creator of the Just Cause series, and it's not trying to bite off more than it can chew.
Tom's Hardware: Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: The cheapest Windows handheld gets points for showing up
With the Steam Deck OLED in and out of stock, should you consider going the Windows route instead?
Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: The cheapest Windows handheld gets points for showing up
Wccftech: Life is Strange: Reunion Review – Partners in Crime, Partners in Time
Life is Strange: Reunion builds off the ending of Double Exposure but rather than letting players import their save file from the last game and create the choices organically this way, Deck Nine resorted to the tried and true method of letting players choose which (if any or all) of three key characters from Double Exposure that Max Caulfield romanced, whether they picked to save the Bae or Bay in the first game, and whether or not they agreed to help Safi out in the previous game.
Power:
Tom's Hardware: be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1200W supply review: Platinum-level efficiency, premium pricing
Its price and limited connectivity demands careful consideration
be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1200W supply review: Platinum-level efficiency, premium pricing
