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AORUS XTREME Z390 Gaming Motherboard Review
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey Review
ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti Video Card Review
AZIO ATOM Review
Building a custom Xbox Adaptive Controller peripheral, part five
PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset (2018) reviewed
Rig of the Month - October 2018
Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Review
Samsung X5 1TB Review
Xubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish - Super green?



AORUS XTREME Z390 Gaming Motherboard Review

AORUS XTREME Z390 The latest motherboard from AORUS is designed to do one thing, take down any competition and become king of the Z390 motherboards. Its big, its loud, and its built to go fast.

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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey Review

For the longest time, I've wanted two things in the Assassin's Creed franchise: a game centered around the splendor of ancient Hellenistic Egypt, and a game that tapped the wonders of ancient Greece. Those dreams came to be in the form of some of the best-designed and purely enjoyable entertainment experiences in today's modern landscape, and it's the latter we'll be talking about today.

There's magic in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey--so much in fact that I'm starting to think Ubisoft employs mystical wizards instead of developers. Odyssey is in-fact an odyssey. The very word conjures up a grand sweeping adventure across the exotic and craggy isles of Greece itself, sails high and ship cutting through the blue Aegean, with gods, psirens and terrifying minotaurs laying in wait. That's really what Odyssey is; your personal journey across a veritable playground that blurs history with myth and fact with legend to create this mystifying expedition. The game stimulates your imagination in so many ways (at least it did mine) and really taps that inner curiosity that's sparked by museums or universities. There's a very real hunger to know and see more and Ubisoft has provided a sumptuous banquet for our minds.

Read full article @ TweakTown

ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti Video Card Review

We've put the new ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti video card to the test, pushing the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU at 4K in twelve games default and overclocked against an MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X TRIO also default, and overclocked to find the real value. All real-world gaming, no canned benchmarks.

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AZIO ATOM Review

Top-of-the-line optical sensor, fully ambidextrous form factor, an extra wide scroll wheel for maximum comfort and, of course, RGB lighting—270 degrees around the mouse. All this without software! These are the main features of the AZIO ATOM. However, the devil is in the details.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Building a custom Xbox Adaptive Controller peripheral, part five

New to this series? Parts one, two, three, and four are worth catching up on before continuing.Theres a lot of ground to cover with this weeks installment of Xbox Adaptive Controller hacking, so lets dive right in. First up, I recruited some professional help with soldering.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset (2018) reviewed

The PlayStation Gold headphones really come into their own when used with the PSVR. The headphones feature 3D audio, meaning that when you turn your head the sound changes accordingly. This really does make the whole experience so much more immersive. We tested the headphones with a number of games, but our favourite was Superhot...

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Rig of the Month - October 2018

We just adore PC related hardware & think you do too. And sometimes you guys really make a PC that really stands out. We ask you to answer a few simple questions and send in photos of your rig. Each month we'll have a look at the entries and perhaps pick you and post your PC with photos and everything here at Guru3D.com. Here you can find out what you need to do and win a nice prize courtesy of Corsair.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Review

Last year Samsung released the premium Galaxy Tab S3 tablet as an alternative to Apple's IPad Pro, but with its optional keyboard an additional software magic it also set its sights at some lower-end 2-in-1 laptop offerings as well. Samsung is trying to gear the Galaxy Tab series as the go-to option for anyone looking for an ultra-portable computing device, and this year's model ups the ante with a larger display, longer battery life, and a new desktop-like user interface called "DeX". In fact, you have probably heard of DeX before, if you've checked out our coverage of the Samsung Galaxy S9 and again with the Galaxy Note 9 but now it's available with the Tab S4 as well.

When comparing the new Galaxy Tab S4 to its predecessor there are a few things that immediately standout. The Super AMOLED display on this new model is nearly a full inch larger...

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Samsung X5 1TB Review

The X5, is one of their fastest external products to date. Samsung’s latest external drive, the X5, is one of their fastest external products to date. It is an NVMe SSD which connects over the Thunderbolt 3 interface. Samsung’s X5 drive comes in three capacities, 500GB, 1TB (the one that Samsung kindly supplied for review) and the flagship 2TB model. Although the Samsung spec sheet doesn’t state which model of NVMe SSD is inside the X5, the fact that the drive supports the NVMe 1.3 standard and uses 3D TLC V-NAND makes it a variation of Samsung’s SSD970 EVO drive.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Xubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish - Super green?

Intergalatic Linux Insane! Bam, bam, ba-ba-bam. Here's a long, thorough review of Xubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish, tested in a multi-boot Windows and Linux setup on a machine with UEFI/GPT and Intel graphics, covering live session, installation and post-install use, including look & feel, networking - Wireless, Bluetooth, Samba sharing, printing, smartphone support - Android and Windows Phone, multimedia support - HD video and MP3 playback, partitioning, slideshow, package management and updates, hardware compatibility, applications, performance, responsiveness, resource utilization, battery life, customization, various problems, other observations, and more. Commence to read.

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