Here is a roundup of today's reviews and articles:
Cooling: Valkyrie VIND 125DL CPU Air Cooler Review
Gaming: BioShock 2 review: Return to Rapture and some unanswered questions | 15 years ago
Graphics Cards: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 8 GB Review
Power: VTOMAN FlashSpeed 1500 SuperSafe LIFEBMS Power Station Review
Software: Plasma 6.4 Wayland vs X11, processor and power benchmarks
Cooling:
eTeknix: Valkyrie VIND 125DL CPU Air Cooler Review
Valkyrie are still a relatively new player in the world of PC components, at least here in the west. However, if you recall our factory tour, they're the second-largest brand in China, which is a massive achievement given the scope of brands and the size of the market there. We've reviewed just about every product they've brought to the UK in the last couple of years, and honestly, we're constantly impressed by what they have to offer. They've taken their designs, build quality, and even their packaging to the next level, and we love it!
Gaming:
IgorsLAB: BioShock 2 review: Return to Rapture and some unanswered questions | 15 years ago
Today I dug up and reconstructed an old article of mine from 2010 that would otherwise have been permanently lost in the digital wasteland of Tom's Hardware.
BioShock 2 review: Return to Rapture and some unanswered questions | 15 years ago
Graphics Cards:
TechPowerUp: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 8 GB Review
NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 5050 is the company’s most affordable Blackwell-based graphics card, priced at $250. That budget-friendly tag comes with some trade-offs: 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM and 2,560 GPU cores. In our review, we’ll find out whether it stands as a true alternative to the RTX 5060 and Radeon RX 9060 XT—or if it's worth spending a little more.
Power:
NikKTech: VTOMAN FlashSpeed 1500 SuperSafe LIFEBMS Power Station Review
People out in the market looking for a portable power station to use while camping or as backup power for their homes and offices should really give the FlashSpeed 1500 model by VTOMAN a go.
VTOMAN FlashSpeed 1500 SuperSafe LIFEBMS Power Station Review
Software:
Dedoimedo: Plasma 6.4 Wayland vs X11, processor and power benchmarks
Follow-up article showing detailed performance analysis and differences between Wayland with power efficiency, Wayland with color accuracy and X11 desktop sessions in Plasma 6.4 on a generic laptop with integrated AMD graphics, covering battery power drainage results, vmstat data, kernel profiling data and statistics, idle desktop and minimal desktop load scenarios, and more
