Here is a roundup of today's reviews and articles with reviews on various components, including cases, coolers, all-in-one liquid coolers, gaming peripherals, graphics cards, and motherboards. The Sharkoon VK4 ARGB chassis offers a value-oriented design with modern features at an affordable price. Reviews of cooling products from be quiet! highlight their focus on silent and efficient performance, including the Pure Rock 3 LX CPU cooler and the Pure Loop 3 LX 360mm AIO liquid cooler. Additionally, reviews have been published on gaming peripherals, graphics cards, and motherboards, covering products such as the Asetek Racing Initium Bundle and the ASRock Phantom Gaming X870 Nova Wi-Fi motherboard.
Casing: Sharkoon VK4 ARGB Chassis Review
Cooling: be quiet! Pure Rock 3LX CPU Cooler Review, be quiet! Pure Loop 3 LX 360mm AIO Review
Gaming: Asetek Racing Initium Bundle 1 Review - A Solid Entry-Level Direct Drive Package
Graphics Cards: aqua computer Ampinel Exclusive Review – The end of all problems and fear with the 12V-2X6 or 12VHPWR connector
Motherboards: ASRock Phantom Gaming X870 Nova Wi-Fi Review
Casing:
Hardware Busters: Sharkoon VK4 ARGB Chassis Review
The VK4 ARGB is a value-oriented chassis that aims to deliver as many modern features as possible without overextending the price point. The real question is: should you consider it for your next build?
Cooling:
eTeknix: be quiet! Pure Rock 3LX CPU Cooler Review
be quiet! is one of the most respected names in the cooling business, with an award-winning range of PC cases, power supplies, fans and coolers, well known for their exceptional focus on great cooling performance and low noise performance. While the Pure Rock 3 LX is far from their flagship product, its more compact size and affordable price certainly make it appealing for a lot of system builders. The be quiet! Pure Rock 3 LX is designed to be a silent and efficient air cooler, designed for modern high-end CPUs from both Intel and AMD.
KitGuru: be quiet! Pure Loop 3 LX 360mm AIO Review
The PC AIO cooler market is flooded with budget 360mm options currently and a lot have the same style with basic RGB on the fans and CPU block. So when be quiet! said it had a 360mm AIO with a customisable CPU block for under £100, well we were keen to take a look. The Pure Loop 3 LX comes with ten custom CPU block foils to give your system a unique look, but does it still offer the trademark be quiet! low noise and solid performance? Let’s find out.
Gaming:
TweakTown: Asetek Racing Initium Bundle 1 Review - A Solid Entry-Level Direct Drive Package
Asetek accelerates onto the entry-level direct drive wheel market and lands near the front of the grid with a strong debut in its all-new Initium lineup.
Graphics Cards:
IgorsLAB: aqua computer Ampinel Exclusive Review – The end of all problems and fear with the 12V-2X6 or 12VHPWR connector
There are products that are not so much a response to a gap in the market, but rather the result of a collective failure that created the need in the first place. This is where the aqua computer Ampinel comes into play, the ultimate solution to a problem that NVIDIA, together with the PCI SIG and its usual partners, initially created for itself in a mixture of ignorance and arrogance. Because ever since Jensen hurled his infamous power whip and the puny connector into world history, we all know what job creation measures really mean: they don’t create jobs, they create entire industries. Without the disasters of this unfortunate connector, there would never have been so many third-party suppliers to fill their coffers with adapter solutions, monitoring systems or simply overpriced cables. And let’s be honest, people like me can almost be grateful for these dramas, because without this plug tragedy, many a summer hole in the news landscape would simply not have been filled and many a video would probably never have been made.
Motherboards:
TechPowerUp: ASRock Phantom Gaming X870 Nova Wi-Fi Review
If $300 is your limit for an AMD motherboard and you need the extra bells and whistles of X870 then this is a very solid offering from ASRock with no major drawbacks. However, some X870E models are quite close in price and B850 models save a lot of cash so is it still a good buy?
