iiyama's first OLED monitor, the G-Master GOB2701QSC, lands at a steeply discounted £299 for its 10th anniversary, offering a 280Hz Tandem WOLED panel that undercuts rivals running the same LG panel. Control Resonant split TechPowerUp's attention with both a handheld optimization guide and a 35-GPU desktop benchmark, revealing a game so demanding even an RTX 5090 needs upscaling. The be quiet! Dark Power Pro 14 IO 1300W earned better ratings than its 1600W sibling thanks to Titanium efficiency and software-controlled rails, while Prusa's CORE One L+ picked up an Editor's Choice with a small but meaningful quality upgrade. At the enterprise end, KIOXIA's CM9-R SSD set new 1-DWPD performance records for a perfect-scored win, though its ~$10,347 price keeps it out of reach for most.
Reviews Roundup: a £299 Tandem OLED leads a day of sharp deals and sharper benchmarks
Today's six reviews run the gamut from a £299 OLED monitor to an enterprise SSD that out-races everything, including, it seems, an RTX 5090. There's an upgradeable 3D printer, a software-controlled power supply, and a game that leaves even top-tier hardware breathless.
iiyama's first-ever OLED monitor is temporarily £299, and it's the sharpest-looking value on today's list. The G-Master Titan Falcon GOB2701QSC rides on a fourth-generation LG "META3" Tandem WOLED panel: a 27-inch 1440p screen, 280Hz refresh, 0.03ms GTG response, 1500 cd/m² peak HDR brightness, and a very good 1,500,000:1 contrast ratio.
KitGuru handed it 7 out of 10. That's a respectable score, but not a rave, so don't expect a masterpiece on screen. The real story is the price. This £299 is a temporary 10th-anniversary cut from a £420 MSRP, and the window closes on September 27. Even at full price the iiyama still undercuts rivals on the same panel, like the Gigabyte MO27Q28G and the ASUS ROG Strix XG27AQWMG.
KitGuru: iiyama G-Master GOB2701QSC Review (£299 Tandem WOLED)
We always love it when a company tries something new, and today we are reviewing iiyama's first ever
iiyama G-Master GOB2701QSC Review (£299 Tandem WOLED) - KitGuru
Connectivity is thorough. Two HDMI 2.1 ports both push 1440p at 280Hz, with DisplayPort 1.4 and DSC, a 65W USB-C port, and a KVM switch on top. The stand handles height, swivel, tilt, and pivot. G-SYNC works over DisplayPort only, and you get HDR TB400 plus the usual OLED burn-in protections. It's a genuinely capable high-refresh OLED at an aggressive price. Grab it while the anniversary deal holds.
Control Resonant proves the next-gen handheld grind is real
Remedy's Control sequel arrived roughly seven years after the original, and it clearly wants to earn its keep. TechPowerUp split its coverage in two, and both arrive at the same conclusion: this is a demanding game. One review from 17th Dimension runs Control Resonant across popular handhelds like the Steam Deck, Xbox Ally X, and MSI Claw 8 Ex. You play as Dylan Faden, brother of the original's Jesse, swinging a melee weapon called the Aberrant through a Hiss-infested Manhattan.
TechPowerUp: Control Resonant Handheld Performance Review
Control Resonant comes seven years after the original game, putting you in the boots of Dylan Faden, the brother of Jesse Faden who's gone missing after The Hiss breached the Oldest House and started wreaking havoc all over Manhattan. The original Control was a visual spectacle with steep hardware requirements, so let's see how the sequel fares on the most popular handheld PCs on the market.
The second review, from W1zzard, tests 35 GPUs on the desktop side. It's DirectX 12 only with no native rendering path, so you'll need DLSS or FSR just to get around. There's no XeSS support, which leaves FSR as the fallback for Intel chips. And here's the kicker: even an RTX 5090 struggles to hold 60fps without upscaling.
TechPowerUp: Control Resonant Performance Benchmark Review - 35 GPUs Tested
Control Resonant is Remedy's long-awaited sequel to Control, built on an evolved Northlight engine with ray tracing, path tracing and DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction. In our performance review, we examine graphics quality, VRAM usage, upscaling options, and how well it performs across a wide range of modern GPUs.
Control Resonant Performance Benchmark Review - 35 GPUs Tested
Control Resonant runs on Northlight with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, and it shows its age in the hardware demands. The handheld guide hands you device-specific settings, while the 35-GPU benchmark tells you exactly which cards can handle path tracing. Neither is a knock against the game. It's just a lot to run.
A 1300W PSU that beats its bigger sibling
be quiet! has pushed its flagship Dark Power Pro line into software-controlled territory with the new 1300W IO model, and Hardware Busters working from crmaris's testing found this smaller unit actually earns better ratings than the 1600W version it's built from. That's a comfortable place to end up.
It's a digitally controlled CWT platform with interleaved PFC and a full-bridge LLC resonant converter. Cybenetics crowned it Titanium, scoring 91.82% at 115V and 93.44% at 230V, and it's also 80 PLUS Titanium certified. Noise barely registers: Cybenetics LAMBDA rated it A+ at 115V and A++ at 230V, landing near 15dB either way. A 135mm Silent Wings fan does the rest.
Hardware Busters: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 14 IO 1300W ATX v3.1 PSU Review
be quiet! Dark Power Pro 14 IO 1300W review: we test its CWT platform, IO Center software, efficiency, noise, transient response and ATX 3.1 compliance.
be quiet! Dark Power Pro 14 IO 1300W ATX v3.1 PSU Review - Hardware Busters
The IO Center app is where it gets interesting. It reports real-time efficiency, fan speed, and power draw, and lets you reconfigure the six 12V rails down to a single one. You can also flip between semi-passive and active fan modes over a USB 2.0 header. Two native 12V-2×6 connectors, fully modular individually-sleeved cables, and a 10-year warranty round it out. At $479.90 (or €439.90) it's not cheap. Though the ongoing memory and storage crunch seems to be pushing premium components everywhere right now, this one's among the strongest 1300W units Hardware Busters has tested, so the price feels earned.
Prusa CORE One L+ is the update we actually wanted
Prusa Research just finished upgrading its "big three" printers, and the CORE One L+ is a refresh rather than a rewrite. Tom's Hardware says it earned Editor's Choice with only a ~$25 tweak kit layered on top of the existing CORE One L. The older design simply didn't need a full overhaul.
Two genuine annoyances got fixed. A new silicone nozzle wiper cleans the nozzle before bed leveling, killing the failures that used to leave filament dots and force shutdowns during high-temperature runs. And GT1.5 timing belts with tighter tooth spacing make an already precise CORE XY system even more precise, yielding smoother surfaces.
Tom's Hardware: Prusa CORE One L+ review: More precise
Prusa updates one of its best.
The CORE One L+ ships 99% assembled with factory calibration, so your first print lands in roughly five minutes. It runs quietly, works fully offline for secure environments, and can be upgraded to the Prusa INDX conversion kit for $799 to $1,079. Both a .4mm brass high-flow nozzle and a hardened steel one ship inside. The cons are minor but real: $1,999 isn't free, max nozzle temperature tops out at 290°C, and the included "Buddy" camera is a touch awkward for timelapses. Still worth it.
KIOXIA CM9-R sets records and quietly wins everything
If you don't run a data center, the KIOXIA CM9-R isn't your drive, but it's still worth a glance for what it says about where NAND is heading. TweakTown scored it a perfect 100% and handed it Editor's Choice, branding it the "King of 1-DWPD performance." The 15.36TB read-intensive E3.S drive stacks BiCS 8 TLC NAND over a 16-channel controller on PCIe Gen5 x4.
The numbers do most of the talking. Sequential read in the lab hit 15,044 MB/s, clearing KIOXIA's own 14,800 spec. FourK random write hit 600K IOPS, a new mark for 1-DWPD drives, and a database-style 8K workload reached 763K IOPS. TweakTown called the mixed-workload performance "unprecedented" for the class. It stayed cool at roughly 56°C under air cooling and hit steady-state after just one fill.
TweakTown: KIOXIA CM9-R 15.36TB E3.S Enterprise SSD Review - Performance King at 1-DWPD
KIOXIA's CM9-R 15.36TB E3.S SSD delivers record-setting PCIe Gen5 performance and stands out as the strongest 1-DWPD drive we've tested.
KIOXIA CM9-R 15.36TB E3.S Enterprise SSD Review - Performance King at 1-DWPD
Keep in mind that this is an enterprise drive. The ~$10,347 price on Amazon says as much, and it's out of stock across much of the world. Not something you'll wire into a home system. But as a statement of what BiCS 8 flash can deliver, it's a strong one.
