Six new reviews landed today, and four of them make the case for buying the less-expensive version of something premium. ID-Cooling's $50 Frozn A620 SLK delivers dual-tower cooling in a slim chassis, MSI's $749.99 34-inch QD-OLED wins an Editor's Choice award, and KEMOVE's sub-£100 K94 keyboard packs enthusiast features that rival far pricier boards. The standouts include Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2, a four-out-of-five boomer-shooter worth the price of a takeout coffee. The Welax S9 Pro chair and Lian Li's L-shaped EG0850Gv2 PSU are the notable misfires, offering adjustability and silence but stumbling on build quality and raw electrical performance.
Today's Reviews: A $50 Dual-Tower Cooler, a Bargain OLED, and a Chair That Wobbles
Six new reviews hit the web today. Four of them make the case for buying the less-expensive version of something premium. The Welax office chair and Lian Li's new power supply are the exceptions, and both will make you hover your cursor over the checkout button a bit longer.
Start with the cooler that does the most with the least. ID-Cooling's Frozn A620 SLK is a dual-tower air cooler sized to fit inside a single-tower's clearance, and it costs about $50. The asymmetrical design lets it tuck a two-fan heatsink into a slim chassis that stays clear of tall RAM. EnosTech's John S. pushed an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X out to 243W and found it held its ground across a 30-minute CINEBENCH run. Six 6mm copper pipes and eleven aluminum fin blocks move the heat, and the counter-rotating front and middle fans are a genuinely nice touch.
The catch is noise. That middle fan spins up to 2,500 RPM and sounds like a coffee grinder set on the desk. You can smooth it out with a custom fan curve. Ignore it and you'll pick between a cold CPU and quiet ears. EnosTech still hands out its recommendation, and at $50 with a three-year warranty it's an easy yes.
EnosTech.com: ID-Cooling Frozn A620 SLK CPU Air Cooler Review
The ID-Cooling Frozn A620 SLK is sleek, dual-tower CPU cooler that offers great performance at a good price
ID-Cooling Frozn A620 SLK CPU Air Cooler Review - EnosTech.com
The MSI PRO MAX 341QPXW14G is the one reviewer here actually fawned over. TweakTown scored it 98 percent and tossed out an Editor's Choice award, which rarely lands on this side of a $2,000 monitor. This is a 34-inch QD-OLED ultrawide that does both work and gaming, and it runs roughly $749.99.
The price is low partly because of one number reviewers will quibble about: 144Hz. The fifth-generation Samsung Penta Tandem panel promises better light efficiency and higher brightness, and MSI's switch to an RGB-stripe subpixel layout mostly kills the garbled text that used to plague these OLEDs. It charges a laptop at 98W over USB-C, runs a three-device KVM, and packs a nine-port USB hub. The built-in webcam still makes you do a double take. Who needs a camera on a monitor in 2026? Apparently MSI thinks you do, and TownTown doesn't seem bothered.
That 144Hz refresh rate only bites if you play competitive shooters for a living. For everyone else, the combination is hard to argue with.
TweakTown: MSI PRO MAX 341QPXW14G Monitor Review: A 34-Inch QD-OLED for Work and Play
MSI brings a flat 34-inch QD-OLED ultrawide to the desk with 144Hz, RGB stripe text clarity, dual USB-C, and three-device KVM support.
MSI PRO MAX 341QPXW14G Monitor Review: A 34-Inch QD-OLED for Work and Play
Then there's Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2, which spent about $22.49 and bought a solid four out of five. Alex Cope at Windows Central called the refined boomer-shooter a fun, bloody weekend romp, and two playable characters carry it. The slow bolter-and-shotgun Space Marine Malum Caedo tanks through levels, while the quicker, squishier Sister of Battle Nyra Veyrath runs the slide-dodge hit-and-run style the reviewer favored. PS1-era sprites over 3D backgrounds look gorgeous and ran a locked 60fps. Enemy AI can be "extremely dumb" and the story is thin, but at the price of a takeout coffee it's a no-brainer. It dropped across Xbox, PS5, Switch, and PC on October 14th.
Windows Central: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 review — Refined and varied boomer-shooter fun
Despite the lack of Xbox Play Anywhere and some stupid enemy AI, WH40K: Boltgun 2 is an enjoyable boomer-shooter with more gameplay variety than the first game.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 review — Refined and varied boomer-shooter fun
If you're after value, the cooler and the KEMOVE K94 are the obvious picks.
The KEMOVE K94 is a 96-percent (94-key) tri-mode mechanical keyboard that packs most of its features for under £100. Peter Donnell at eTeknix posted his full review here, and notes it's the first KEMOVE board he's genuinely liked, which is a bit of a backhanded compliment from someone who's waded through the budget crowd. Eight thousand milliamp-hours of battery sits inside. Gasket mount. Hot-swap PCB for 3-pin and 5-pin switches. Open-source QMK and VIA firmware, so you can remap every key in a browser. A small LCD and a rotary volume knob round it out. Any single one of those would justify the price. Together they read like a mistake made by a rival's product team.
eTeknix: KEMOVE K94 94‑key Tri‑mode Mechanical Keyboard Review
KEMOVE is a brand I’ve known of, but haven’t had the pleasure of ever actually using over the years. They’ve just introduced their latest keyboard, the K94, a compact 96% mechanical designed to cater to PC gamers who want lots of features, but in a slightly smaller form factor. By utilising a 94-key layout, and offering up wireless connectivity, it crams in almost all of the functionality of a full-sized board, including a dedicated number pad, while maintaining a smaller footprint, freeing up space for your gaming mouse, suiting smaller desks, and making it easy to store or transport in a backpack. With its premium gasket-mounted design, sound-dampening internals, and factory-lubricated linear switches, the K94 is packing some serious features, and best of all it’s doing it all for just £79.99, which is what got my attention in the first place.
Where reviewers paused
The Welax S9 Pro is a mesh ergonomic chair crammed with more adjustment than you'd know what to do with, then quietly stumbles on the basics. TechPowerUp's reviewer landed on a price of $439.99 and walked away asking, essentially, "at what cost?"
The seat and backrest balance well, and the single-handle control is genuinely convenient. The armrests wobble though, the headrest only lines up when you're reclined, and the fold-out footrest wobbles on a single thin tube with a 20-kilogram limit. There's no tilt mechanism either. At that price you're lined up against the Arozzi Vernazza XL Supersoft and the SIHOO Doro C300 Pro V2, both of which handle these details more reliably. Welax does throw in a ten-year warranty, which at least signals confidence in the frame.
TechPowerUp: Welax S9 Pro Review - Wide Adjustability, But At What Cost?
The Welax S9 Pro brings a breathable full-mesh design, strong lumbar support, and a handy footrest to a chair built for long desk sessions and relaxed breaks. Its sturdy aluminum base and easy single-handle controls stand out, but is it worth your attention, or should you look elsewhere?
The Lian Li EG0850Gv2 is a quieter win that loses on paper. HWBusters gave it 7.5 out of 10, and its most honest move was lining it up against 23 other power supplies and admitting it sits near the bottom. It's a compact L-shaped unit built for dual-chamber cases, extremely quiet and Platinum-efficient. But its protection settings barely separate hot from cold, so you can't fully trust it to bail you out during a bad moment. There's a wiring wrinkle too: the first sample shipped with a 12V-2x6 cable using 18AWG wire when ATX v3.1 calls for 16AWG. Lian Li says production units use the thicker gauge, but verify it on yours before you plug in a top-end GPU.
Hardware Busters: Lian Li EG0850Gv2 850W ATX v3.1 PSU Review
Lian Li EG0850Gv2 (EDGE Gold V2 850W) review: a quiet L-shaped ATX v3.1 PSU tested against 22 rivals for efficiency, ripple, transients and protections.
Lian Li EG0850Gv2 850W ATX v3.1 PSU Review - Hardware Busters
The bigger picture
The through-line here is that enthusiast features keep filtering down to the budget tier. Hot-switchable switches, QMK and VIA firmware, and a rotary knob show up on a sub-£100 keyboard. A 98W laptop charger and a KVM land on a mid-range OLED. The winners this week simply got premium functionality without the premium price tag. The chair and the PSU remind you that a lower price doesn't always mean a better deal.
