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Arion Bluetooth Mini Keyboard with Speakerphone Review
Corsair Hydro H100i GTX Review
Crucial BX100 500GB SSD Review
CyberPowerPC launches eye-catching Trinity gaming PC
Hands-on review: HP Pavilion notebooks (2015)
Hands-on review: HP Pavilion x360 (2015)
Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB PCI-Express Solid State Drive Review
No Expenses Spared: The ridiculously powerful MicroATX PC
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X SLI / 3-way SLI / 4-way SLI review: insane performance!
Razer Seiren Review
The Moto E (2015) Review
TRENDnet AC1900 Dual Band Wireless Router Review



Arion Bluetooth Mini Keyboard with Speakerphone Review

Touch screen devices can be a pain to type on, although admittedly the issue isn’t as bad as it used to be as many of us have had a good few years practice now and screens, as well as keyboard applications, have improved greatly over the years. Then you’ve got PlayStation, where entering data to the on-screen keyboard via the controller can be a very tedious process. To solve any issues, or at least mitigate the issues a little, you can invest in a separate keyboard, such as the Arion KB100B-BK which I have with me today.

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Corsair Hydro H100i GTX Review

Corsair’s new H100i GTX all-in-one water cooling system is the latest evolution of the H100 series of dual 120 mm cooling systems. This version adds Corsair link capability, improved cold plate and pump performance for better thermal efficiency and throws in a cosmetic update as well. In this article, Benchmark Reviews takes the new Corsair H100i GTX out for a test drive and compares its performance against a few other popular all-in-one cooling solutions.

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Crucial BX100 500GB SSD Review

Crucial is a subsidiary of Micron Technology and presents one successful SSD after another since the first SSD. According to our reviews of the current MX200 with 500 GB and 1 TB capacity, we are testing now the less expensive BX100 SSD with 500 GB capacity. In this review, the Crucial CT500BX100SSD1 will compete against the predecessors C300, m4, M500, M550 and MX100 and some more current SSDs. The price is excellent, but what is about the SSD durability and performance ?

Read full article @ OcInside.de

CyberPowerPC launches eye-catching Trinity gaming PC

Featuring a unique tri-blade form factor. CyberPowerPC has launched a new gaming PC called the Trinity. The chassis of this PC breaks away from the usual utilitarian box shaped structural efficiency with its tri-blade construction. CyberPowerPC says the design isn't just for eye-candy but brings with it maximum cooling capacity for the separated heat-generating components. A version of this PC/chassis was on show at CES in January.

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Hands-on review: HP Pavilion notebooks (2015)

Even though HP is exploring different notebook form factors with its x360 products across the Spectre, Envy and Pavilion line, the PC-maker isn't giving up on the traditional laptop design. This year's Pavilion notebooks, available in 14-, 15- and 17-inch displays, represent HP's continued investment in the affordable laptop space.The biggest changes this year include support for Intel's latest Broadwell architecture as well as HP's shift to its newest music partner Bang Olufsen with the BO Play branding. As the entry models to HP's back-to-school lineup, the Pavilion comes in at an affordable starting price of $479 (£321, AU$621). With varying options for processors, storage, and RAM, the Broadwell-equipped Intel Core i3 Pavilion in a 14-inch form factor starts at $549 (£368, AU$712). At this price, you're getting more power - and screen real estate - than a netbook without breaking the bank.The 14-inch Pavilion competes against Dell's 14-inch Inspiron 5000 series ($499, £335, AU$645), Lenovo's G40 ($429, £290, AU$555), and the Intel Celeron-powered Asus Vivobook X200MA with an 11-inch display ($300, £200, AU$370). Even Microsoft's recently announced Surface 3 comes in at the $499 (£335, AU$645), though the cost quickly increases if you add in accessories like a keyboard and USB hub to get additional ports.

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Hands-on review: HP Pavilion x360 (2015)

2015 is turning out to be the year of hybrid laptops with some excellent devices hitting the street such as the Lenovo Yoga Pro 3 and Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi. Not to be left out, HP has been on a tear of its own, creating the Spectre x360 in partnership with Microsoft. Now, the American electronics firm hopes to make the Pavilion x360 a convertible laptop for the everyman.Starting at $409 (about £273, AU$530) the 11.6-inch HP Pavilion x360 comes well packaged with a vibrant 1080p HD display as well as a capable Intel Pentium processor. Aside from the specs on paper, this is also an affordable 2-in-1 laptop that doesn't feel cheap.P

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Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB PCI-Express Solid State Drive Review

PCI-Express storage is nothing new, we have seen many different PCI-Express storage options over the past few years. The biggest advantage of using PCI-Express storage is that you overcome the typical 6.0Gb/s theoretical bandwidth limit of SATA-based solid state drives. If you have been following the storage industry you know that solid state drives have been bottlenecked by the SATA interface for years now. Well Kingston is presenting their first ever PCI-Express solid state drive. Part of their high-end HyperX brand the HyperX Predator boasts sequential read and write speeds of 1400 MB/s and 1000 MB/s respectively. That is some serious speed! While many PCI-Express storage devices we have reviewed in the past have featured a custom PCB with the drive on it Kingston has gone the M.2 route. So you can either buy the single M.2 device to use on an M.2 slot or you can buy it pre-installed in a PCI-Express adapter. We received the version with the adapter, let’s jump in!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

No Expenses Spared: The ridiculously powerful MicroATX PC

Every enthusiast dreams of building a budgetless rig with nothing but the best hardware. Thus, we're throwing caution to the wind by cramming the priciest and most powerful gaming hardware into a 32L chassis. The end result should be a ridiculously powerful mATX system ready for any and all tasks. With the hardware cost coming in at around $2,750 without a keyboard/mouse or monitor, this is an affair with no expenses spared.

Read full article @ Techspot

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X SLI / 3-way SLI / 4-way SLI review: insane performance!

Approximately halfway through March, Nvidia introduced their GeForce GTX Titan X, a monstrous graphics card with a price tag of about $999 / £870 / €1200 that is currently the fastest board out there. We saw that the Titan X boasts so much graphics horsepower that it can run many games at the Ultra HD / 4K resolution. Regrettably, combining Ultra HD with the highest possible in-game settings proves to be too much in most games, even for the mighty Titan X. So how can you solve this annoying little issue? Simple! Throw two, three, or even four Titan X graphics cards at it!

Our friends from Tones.BE were kind enough to lend us a trio of ASUS branded GeForce GTX Titan X boards. Together with our own review board, this enabled us to perform 2-way SLI, 3-way SLI, and 4-way SLI tests. While we are certainly aware of the fact that most people on this planet aren't going to throw a little under €5000 at graphics cards simply to play a couple of video games, this doesn't make it any less interesting to take a look at what such a line-up of monstrous graphics cards is capable of.

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Razer Seiren Review

The first pro-quality USB mic from Razer gets reviewed...

Read full article @ HardwareHeaven

The Moto E (2015) Review

During the past couple of years weve seen a dramatic shift in Motorolas strategy for competing in the smartphone market. As one of the earliest producers of Android devices, the company needed to let go of ideas and strategies from years that had since past. Producing exclusive devices for carriers like Verizon was no longer going to work with the iPhone finally freed from exclusivity on AT&T, and Motorolas hardware and software design had begun to show a great deal of age.

That brings us to today, at a point where Motorola has more or less found their new approach to making smartphones. Its a very simple and understandable approach. Consistency across the design of the hardware, consistency across the design of the software, and a yearly line of phones that can easily be divided into budget, mid-range, and flagship categories based on a single letter in their name. This review takes a look at the newest version of Motorolas budget device, the 2015 Moto E. Read on for our full review of Motorolas newest smartphone.

Read full article @ Anandtech

TRENDnet AC1900 Dual Band Wireless Router Review

When the Wireless N (802.11n) compatible routers first came out in the market slightly over 5 years ago things were quite simple since the majority of manufacturers didn't focus in the development of many such models (with a maximum speed of 600Mbps that didn't come as a surprise really). Some models using two Wireless-N concurrent signals that topped up to 750Mbps did make their appearance but their number weren't enough to draw much attention. Well all that changed with the appearance of the much faster Wireless AC (802.11ac) standard just over a year ago simply because since then we've witnessed the appearance of not one but several different models with support for different total speeds. So although the very first models supported up to 750Mbps (433+300Mbps) the ones that followed supported (and still do) up to a total of 1200/1300/1600/1750/1900/AC2350/2400/AC3200Mbps via two concurrent signals (chances are we will see even more). Today's review is about one such product so with us today we have one of the latest AC1900 compatible router models to hit the market, the TEW-818DRU by TRENDnet.

Read full article @ NikKTech