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Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

10 Incredibly Stupid Quotes By Steve Ballmer
Cooler Master Quick Fire Rapid-i Mechanical Keyboard Review
Corsair Voyager Air 2 Review
Netgear R7000 Router & EX6200 Extender Review
Noctua redux Series Review
Phanteks Enthoo Pro Full-Tower Case Review
Silverstone Raven RV 05 Review
SilverStone Strider Gold S ST85F-GS 850W Power Supply Review
Superlux HD668B Headphones Review
Thermaltake NiC C5



10 Incredibly Stupid Quotes By Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer was the CEO of Microsoft from 2000 up until February of 2014. If you didn’t know he is quite the eccentric guy. Throughout his career has has said some pretty outstanding and rather funny things in interviews and presentations. I’m sure there are a whole lot we could list here, but here are 10 Incredibly Stupid Quotes By Steve Ballmer, enjoy!

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Cooler Master Quick Fire Rapid-i Mechanical Keyboard Review

Cooler Master has re-built the Quick Fire series with the Rapid-I model, which features fully-customizable backlighting, but also some preset catchy modes, which sport the ActivLite marketing name. More modes will be introduced in the near future via firmware flash and the tenkeyless design saves a lot of space while making the product lighter for going to LAN parties.

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Corsair Voyager Air 2 Review

Now, 18months after the launch of their first Mobile Wireless Storage device Corsair have a new revision, the Voyager Air 2. With USB 3.0 support, 1TB capacity and a more compact design it aims to provide for many of our storage needs, especially integration with smart devices.

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Netgear R7000 Router & EX6200 Extender Review

Since the release of AC1900 wireless routers we here at Hardwarecanucks have tried to cast as wide a net as possible. Everyone ASUS, D-Link, and even Linksys are now represented in our charts, but one company was noticeable by its absence: Netgear. While Netgear may not have the same brand-name recognition as the other three major wireless router manufactures their R7000 'Nighthawk' has quickly gained quite a loyal following. This one device has introduced countless numbers of consumers to what Netgear has to offer.

The reason the Nighthawk has quickly received the attention of consumers is that it has been built from the ground up to outperform the competition. While it may use a Broadcom BCM4000 series System on a Chip as its main processor, unlike most, Netgear has opted for the faster BCM4709 instead of the slower but more common BCM4708. Unlike the 800Mhz BCM4708, the BCM4709 clocks in at brisk 1GHz. This may not sound like much of a difference, but an extra 200Mhz offers a lot more performance in high stress environments. Mix in three large and powerful external antennas, an aggressive angular form factor and the R7000 looks as fast as it is purported to be.

Thankfully, with an online asking price of $180 the Nighthawk is actually quite affordable compared to some of its compatriots. In fact the R7000 is now actually one of the lowest priced AC1900 options available today.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Noctua redux Series Review

n 2012 and 2013, Noctua released A-series fans based on their new silent PWM circuit, new impeller designs and lots of little nuances that added up to new levels of performance. But then, what did Noctua do with their old fans? Now we have an answer. In May of this year Noctua have released their redux series of fans. There are 13 fans in this series. Each fan is a clone of an earlier retail Noctua fan, or a variation on one of the earlier fans, with three changes: they come with almost no accessories, they are packed in cardboard boxes that are easily recyclable, and they have swapped their old tan-and-brown color scheme for shades of gray. Oh yes – Noctua now offers their accessories as separate items. This review will cover most of those fans, and all the accessories.

The Noctua redux fans come in four sizes and five form factors – the NF-R8 redux, the NF-B9 redux, the NF-S12A redux, the NF-P14r redux and the NF-P14s redux. Each of the redux fans has an SSO bearing, and as we shall see, except for their colors they are identical to their non-redux predecessors. All of the redux fans come with 40 cm (8 inch) power cords.

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Phanteks Enthoo Pro Full-Tower Case Review

Legit Reviews did not take a look at the Phanteks Enthoo Primo Full-Tower case, but the popularity of Phanteks is growing and we decided that now is the perfect time to see what Phanteks has to offer when it comes to PC cases. The Enthoo Primo was Phanteks first entry into the crowded case market, and it caused quite a splash in the higher end Full-Tower case market. It included nearly everything enthusiasts need in a case with multiple liquid cooling options. Their latest case, the Enthoo Pro is another full tower case, which takes many of the features from the Enthoo Primo at a fraction of the original price.

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Silverstone Raven RV 05 Review

The Raveon RV05 is the latest model from from SilverStone that got added to their well known case series. The product features a unique design and since it's a SilverStone case, it should also come with impeccable build quality. A very interesting feature is, that the motherboard has been rotated by 90° in order to make use of the chimney effect. For a price of 100 Euro, this sound like a really interesting product, doesn't it?

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SilverStone Strider Gold S ST85F-GS 850W Power Supply Review

If there is one topic that has always fascinated me outside of what I normally study, it will have to be time travel. And while the whole concept of time travel is purely theoretical (At least we can say, "What do we want? Time travel! When do we want it? It does not matter!"), it does stem from a lot of well proven concepts such as quantum mechanics, and other conjectures that are purely hypothetical, such as the multi world interpretation. Now, to someone who does not spend five hours a day on Wikipedia reading up on information that will only be useful in a knowledge faceoff against your friends, or write an introduction to a review here at APH Networks, Erwin Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment in 1935 to interpret quantum mechanics in terms of everyday objects. Basically, Schrödinger's cat describes a scenario where, inside a sealed box, the cat inside can be both alive and dead at the same time, as its state is linked to events that happened prior. This concept is often applied to the multiverse hypothesis, where every event is a branch point. In this configuration, the cat can be both alive and dead even after the box is opened. This is made possible by interpreting them in different branches of the universe, where are both equally real, but also fully independent of each other. Unfortunately, in the world we live in, no matter how hard you try, the cat is going to be either alive or dead, not alive and dead at the same time. You really cannot get the fact of both universes. In the technology world, things might be a bit different. Can you make a power supply that is rated for a high wattage, fully modular, and compact at the same time? If Erwin Schrödinger was alive today, we might call that Schrödinger's Strider Gold S ST85F-GS 850W. But since he is not, we will call it the SilverStone Strider Gold S ST85F-GS 850W. Read on to find out what is inside this sealed box!

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Superlux HD668B Headphones Review

Superlux is a Taiwanese manufacturer of audio components that targets the “affordable market”. Their headphones have slowly entered the market during the past years and they have made quiet a hype in various enthusiast forums and gaming communities. At first, we were quite skeptical about the relatively unknown company as it is the first time we ever heard from them, and at such a low price, the Superlux HD 668B Headphones are the most affordable set of headphones that Benchmark Reviews has ever taken a close look at.

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Thermaltake NiC C5

Thermaltake is shaking things up with their non-interference line of CPU coolers which includes the NiC C5. This single-tower, dual-fan offering not only beats the heat, it also offers unobstructed access to all DIMM slots. So if you like stylish memory kits with tall heatsinks, Thermaltake's NiC C5 has you covered.

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