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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Antec Dark Fleet DF-500 Review
ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming SLI/ac Motherboard Review
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2070 OC Edition Review
Asus ROG Thor 1200W PSU Review
Chuwi Hi9 Air Gaming Tablet Review
Cougar Surpassion Review
EasySMX COOL 2000 Gaming Headset Review
Enermax LIQFUSION 240 RGB AIO CPU Cooler Review
Huawei Mate 20 Lite Review
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Linux Gaming Benchmarks
Solder vs. Paste on the Core i9-9900K
System76 Oryx Pro Linux Laptop Review
Thermaltake Pacific W4 Plus RGB Watercooling Block Review
Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 Headset and SuperAmp Review



Antec Dark Fleet DF-500 Review

The Antec Dark Fleet DF-500 revives the Dark Fleet family of cases, which saw its last chassis introduced around a decade ago. With a new, modern look, the DF-500 offers three fans, a tempered glass side and more to bring the Dark Fleet series into 2018.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming SLI/ac Motherboard Review

With the launch of Intel’s 9th Generation Core processors, including the Core i9-9900K, Intel has also introduced the Z390 chipset. Since Intel’s official announcement we’ve already seen quite a lot of motherboards Z390 motherboards announced. Today we are taking a look at our first Z390 motherboard, which happens to be the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming SLI/ac. It sits right in the middle of ASRock’s Phantom Gaming line and features a 10-phase power design, 2.5 Gigabit LAN, SLI and CrossFire support, and much more. Let’s get this board on the test bench and see what it can do!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2070 OC Edition Review

NVIDIA kicked off their newest Turing generation of cards with the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. Gamers have had to wait some time for the RTX 2070, and naturally, we have as well. How will this card fare? This is our review of Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2070 OC Edition.

Read full article @ MMORPG

Asus ROG Thor 1200W PSU Review

This is ASUS first entry into the PSU market -and cor blimey what a unit it is too! The moment has come – Asus have entered the PSU market for good, through its ROG sub-brand. Today we find out if the Thor unit has what it takes to go after marketing leading products such the Seasonic Prime 1200 Platinum and the much older, but still top-notch, Corsair AX1200i. With the decline of GPU mining, the market for power supplies is finally becoming more competitive, so we find out today if the new ASUS THOR 1200W has what it takes to attract an audience of buyers.

Read full article @ Kitguru

Chuwi Hi9 Air Gaming Tablet Review

If you?re in the market for a gaming tablet, the odds are good that you've seen just how widely prices vary. We had to know: can you get a good second screen experience without breaking the bank? That's exactly what we're out to find out in today?s review of the Chuwi Hi9 Air tablet. Coming in at only $179, it offers impressive specs but is there a hidden catch? Join us as we find out.

Read full article @ MMORPG

Cougar Surpassion Review

Top optical sensor, Omron switches rated for 50 million clicks, an LCD display, and, of course, RGB lighting. All of these fit into a relatively small mouse shell that is mainly meant for palm gripping. This is the Surpassion, one of Cougar's high-end mice to compete in the sub-$40 price category.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

EasySMX COOL 2000 Gaming Headset Review

Here at Play3r we are regularly approached by readers and viewers asking how they can break into the industry and start reviewing products, helping to shine a light on gems or warn against a horrendous item. The simple answer is to just start doing it – listen to any feedback you get from people who read your product reviews on shopping sites like Amazon and Newegg and forever refine and improve your presentation. Another route to publication is by submitting your review to established companies, rather like the EasySMX COOL 2000 Gaming Headset review we have here for you today.

In what we hope will inspire our audience to contribute their experiences of products, we have our first Community Submitted Review. Please remember as you read through any CSR articles that not everyone is born with amazing camera skills (or an amazing camera) and that writing is something that takes practice. If you would like to provide feedback that will help the author improve their writing or photography then please do, but do so respectfully! For example, instead of flaming an author for grainy images you could suggest ways to improve use of natural light if they don’t have access to professional equipment.

Read full article @ Play3r

Enermax LIQFUSION 240 RGB AIO CPU Cooler Review

Today we will present Enermax LIQFUSION 240 AIO cooler which gives me high expectations considering how well was performing Enermax LIQTECH TR4 280 reviewed some time ago. We will test the LIQFUSION cooler on the Intel Coffee Lake platform so less demanding than the AMD Threadripper but still not so light for coolers.

On the market where everything has RGB lighting, we can’t forget about CPU coolers. Enermax not only promises high performance but also great looks with RGB lighting. Of course, we will check both the key features in our review.

Stay with us to find out how much to offer has the LIQFUSION 240 AIO cooler.

Read full article @ FunkyKit

Huawei Mate 20 Lite Review

It's the first phone from the new Mate 20 series - is it worth buying today? Following on from the success of Huawei’s P20 series, the Chinese smartphone giant made the unusual decision to release the budget model from its new Mate 20 series first. The Mate 20 Lite retails for £379 – putting firmly in mid-range territory – and boasts features including a 6.3in display, premium design and AI-enhanced cameras. Can it stand out in a crowded market?

Read full article @ KitGuru

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Linux Gaming Benchmarks

Last week following the launch of the RTX 2070 Turing graphics cards, I carried out some initial RTX 2070 compute benchmarks including of TensorFlow and more common OpenCL/CUDA workloads. The GPU compute performance for this $499+ Turing GPU was quite good and especially for INT16 test cases often beating the GTX 1080 Ti. Available now are the Linux gaming benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 2070 compared to an assortment of other NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards on Ubuntu 18.10.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Solder vs. Paste on the Core i9-9900K

Having reviewed Intel's latest Core i9-9900K and Core i7-9700K processors, we saw very high stock temperatures using high-end coolers, basically killing their overclocking potential. We know that soldering CPUs works a lot better than the paste method Intel's been using to cut costs, so we wanted to know how much better is the solder method used by the 9900K than the paste of the 8700K/8086K?

Read full article @ TechSpot

System76 Oryx Pro Linux Laptop Review

System76 is a Denver-based firm with a "by hackers, for hackers" ethos. It's not the first outfit to have tried to deliver on this promise, nor will it be the last. It follows in a long line pioneered by Red Hat and VA Research, and it will continue in the future with businesses yet to be founded. At this moment in history though, System76 seems to be doing a pretty good job of maintaining that standard.

Read full article @ Linux Journal

Thermaltake Pacific W4 Plus RGB Watercooling Block Review

RGB is no longer a unique selling point these days. Thermaltake tries to set itself apart with addressable RGB lighting from the mass and sets up with the Pacific W4 Plus a very chic water cooler, which we will take a closer look today. Of course again with a video in the OCinside YouTube Channel.

Read full article @ OCInside.de

Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 Headset and SuperAmp Review

Turtle Beach is one of the most well-known companies in the world of gaming headsets. They’ve got an entry for virtually every price range, and today we’re looking at their highest-end model yet: the Elite Pro 2. Retailing for $249.99, this new flagship has a lot to prove to justify its price point, but comes to market rich in features, compatible with Xbox One/PS4 and Windows 10, and packing its own sound card and amplifier, the SuperAmp. Let’s take a closer look and see how it fares.

Read full article @ PC Perspective