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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Aerocool Project 7 750W PSU Review
CHERRY B.UNLIMITED 3.0 Keyboard & Mouse Kit Review
Intel preps dual-core i3-7360X for X299, but why?
Moto Z2 Play Review: A Refined Battery Life Champion Returns
Philips BDM4037UW 40-Inch Curved 4K UHD LCD Display Review
Supermicro Z270 C7Z270-CG Motherboard Review
TerraMaster F2-420 2-Bay Quad-Core NAS Review
The Ultimate RGB Build: The Hardware
Tunai DRUM Bass Enhanced Audiophile Earphones Review



Aerocool Project 7 750W PSU Review

Another entrant into the premium PSU ring. We have taken a good look at a fair share of premium PSUs this year. They usually come from a band of established vendors such as Corsair, be quiet! and EVGA, yet there's always a new name trying to break into this lucrative market.

This is why Taiwanese cooling and chassis specialist Aerocool sent word that it has a new range of power supplies that are comfortably on a par with anything else out there, matching the 80 PLUS Platinum supplies from the guys we already know about.

That Aerocool PSU line is the Project 7, available in 650W, 750W and 850W capacities. We have the mid-capacity model, costing £130, in for review today.

Read full article @ Hexus

CHERRY B.UNLIMITED 3.0 Keyboard & Mouse Kit Review

If you are looking for a good quality wireless mouse and keyboard set and would like to use it for any activities except gaming, then you are in luck! B.UNLIMITED 3.0 from CHERRY does come with a very good battery life, a full-sized SX switch keyboard (low excursion) and an ergonomic ambidextrous mouse with two DPI settings that can be adjusted without any extra software. Its low sell price is another strong point of this product, the B.UNLIMITED 3.0 kit being available for just about 63 Euros (rechargeable batteries included).

Read full article @ MadShirmps

Intel preps dual-core i3-7360X for X299, but why?

Intel is not done with Kabylake-X yet. A prototype of i3 dual-core processor has been spotted in China. Intel Core i3-7360X This is a really bizarre processor. A platform that is designed for high-performance computing might soon get a new CPU... with two cores. The i3-7360X is a HEDT alternative to i3-7350K, which, by the way, will soon be succeeded by 8350K. The specs of this new processor are not overwhelming. It's only 100 MHz faster than 7350K. The turbo clock is 4.3 GHz. The TDP though, skyrockets to 112W.

Read full article @ VideoCardz.com

Moto Z2 Play Review: A Refined Battery Life Champion Returns

Lenovo introduced their Moto Z family last year with high hopes of being something different. The evolution of smartphone design has been more iterative than innovate in recent years from most manufacturers. The Moto Z smartphones, however, offered modularity to allow the phones to adapt to a user’s in-the-moment needs.

However, for the most paired down member of Motorola's Moto Z family, the Moto Z Play, the intrigue for many users had little to do with the its Moto Mods functionality and more to do with its seemingly endless battery life. In a world where many flagship phones fade after four or five hours of actual screen-on usage, the first generation Moto Z Play presses on for ten or twelve hours.

Now the second generation Moto Z2 Play is here with modest hardware improvements and a slightly scaled-back battery capacity. Is this successor still up to the task of powering through our workday?

Read full article @ HotHardware.com

Philips BDM4037UW 40-Inch Curved 4K UHD LCD Display Review

It may not be the best 4k monitor for gaming use in the market today but overall the latest Brilliance BDM4037UW with its massive 40 inch curved screen, very good picture quality and all its features represents a great offer by Philips.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Supermicro Z270 C7Z270-CG Motherboard Review

SuperMicro is well known server equipment manufacturer but most of our readers probably don’t know that under this brand are also gaming motherboards. Today we will take a closer look at one of gaming series motherboards with the Intel Z270 chipset.

I think this review will be interesting and quite refreshing since we are used to see motherboards from other brands and many of them are quite similar.

As usual we will start from key features of the product and general description while later you can count on more details and some overclocking results.

Read full article @ FunkyKit

TerraMaster F2-420 2-Bay Quad-Core NAS Review

The TerraMaster F2-420 2-Bay NAS Server is a diskless model that is priced at $299.99 shipped and backed by a 2-year warranty. This is your basic RAID 0/1/JBOD 2-bay NAS that is designed for home or small business use. It is powered by the Intel Celeron J1900 ‘Bay Trail’ Quad-Core CPU at 1.99GHz and has 4GB of DDR3 RAM (can be upgraded to 8GB if needed) and features 2 Gigabit LAN ports. This 2-bay NAS also has two USB ports (one USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0) on the back. If you don’t need something that powerful you could also step down to the TerraMaster F2-220 2-Bay NAS that uses an Intel Celeron J1800 2.41GHz dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM and has just one Gigabit LAN port for $189.95 shipped.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

The Ultimate RGB Build: The Hardware

So I’ve been using the same PC as my main gaming / video editing rig for what seems like forever. When I built it not much thought really went into it, it was just available parts that I had laying around. The system itself has a Core i7-3970X, ASRock X79 Extreme4-M motherboard, 16GB of DDR3, a GTX 580, which was updated to a GTX 1080 recently, and a few SSDs. All of this was inside the Thermaltake Supressor F31 case, not really much to look at when you walk into the office. To this day that PC still kicks ass and in most cases is more than sufficient, but now that we are doing a lot of 4K video editing I felt it was time for an upgrade. Also we wanted to build something that looked totally badass! That is when the idea for the Ultimate RGB Build was hatched. We’ve said 2017 is the year of RGB so why not build a system with all RGB components? So we’ve compiled a list of awesome components and are ready to get this build started! This is part 1 of the build where we will go over the hardware used and why we selected it.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Tunai DRUM Bass Enhanced Audiophile Earphones Review

I've reviewed a few Tunai products over the last couple of years and have been quite impressed with the innovation of the Firefly, the quality and convenience of the CLIP and today we are looking at their latest (upcoming) product - the DRUM. Right now, this project is on Kickstarter and the pricing options make it very attractive. Let's face it though, there is a metric tonne of earphones on the market and they all have pretty solid claims. Some are geared toward athletic use, others for comfort and others claim to be built for the audiophile. The price range is all over the map - making it great for consumers. You'll always be able to afford something to stick in your ears as they range from $2.99 to well over a $1,000 for some high-end custom-fit monitors.
The DRUM has impressive claims as they are trying to be "High-Resolution Bass Enhanced Audiophile Earphones". We'll get into what that means here in a little bit, but more important, we'll cover how they sound, feel and what you can expect from this $39.99 USD (MSRP) set of earphones. On Kickstarter they are currently available from $9.99 and up - so if you like the way this sounds, you should get after it and snag a pair. That being said, let's look at what you'll be getting with the retail package.

Read full article @ BCCHardware