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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 & 2080 Ti

Tech Spot have reviewed the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 & 2080 Ti graphics cards, and here's a snippet:

After a month-long wait since Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 20 series, we can finally bring you our performance review. As you all know by now, we have a new flagship graphics card in the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with pricing starting at $1,000 for partner cards and $1,200 for the Founders Edition version, we're talking Titan X money here.

Meanwhile the vanilla RTX 2080 is landing at $700 for partner models and $800 for the Founders Edition. Later next month we'll also get the RTX 2070 at $500 or $600 for the FE card. This means gamers are looking at somewhere between $100 and $300 more for an equivalent model from the previous generation. On top of that, the Founders Edition models carry a further $100 to $200 price premium, and just know these will be the only models in stock from time to time.
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by Becky, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:23 PM

Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS HDD

eTeknix have reviewed the Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS HDD, and here's a snippet:

Seagate created the IronWolf series with multi-user environments in mind. NAS (Network Attached Storage) is such an environment and they’re perfect here. The series allows a workload rating of up to 300TB per year, just to name one great aspect.

The intelligent power behind the scenes is the AgileArray firmware. That isn’t just a fancy name, there are a lot of useful features hidden behind it. Those include improved RAID performance, dual-plane balance, rotational vibration (RV) sensors, advanced power management, and error recovery control.

On top of that, Seagate also came up with their IHM. IHM stands for IronWolf Health Management and it is an addition on top of the default SMART functions.
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by Becky, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:12 PM

Sennheiser HD 660 S

Tech Power Up have been taking a look at the Sennheiser HD 660 S headphones, and here's a snippet from their review:

This review will focus on the recently launched Sennheiser HD 660 S, essentially a spiritual successor to the HD 600 and the literal successor to the HD 650. If you venture on to Sennheiser's official website, you'll find the HD 660 S in the "High-End Headphones" category. That might scare you into thinking that there's no chance you'll ever be able to afford it. However, things aren't as grim since the HD 660 S is priced at $499/€499. It's a hefty sum of money, but if the HD 660 S performs even better than its older siblings, then it too can be declared as "endgame-worthy", and I'll have no problem recommending it wholeheartedly. Heck, I'll even urge you to try to save up for it!
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by Becky, Sep 18, 2018 at 5:47 PM

noblechairs Hero Gaming Chair

Hard OCP have reviewed the noblechairs Hero Gaming Chair, and here's a snippet:

We changed up our format a bit on these chair reviews. As you know we like to use the chair for at least a month before we do a full review. We built the noblechairs Hero a week ago and have been using it for that week, so we have a bit of a "mini-review" at the end of our video today. We are going to call it "First Impressions." This Hero Gaming Chair sells for a whopping $440. That said, the noblechairs Icon has been our favorite chair we have used in the past year, and seems to be incredibly well built.
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by Becky, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:09 PM

CyberPower Tracer III 15 GTX

Hardware Heaven have been taking a look at the CyberPower Tracer III 15 GTX gaming laptop this week, and here's a snippet from their review:

The CyberPower Tracer III 15GTX one of the most interesting gaming laptop offerings we’ve seen recently – and, for once, it’s not because of the hardware inside. Instead, this machine is notable because of what you see when the lid is eased open. The CyberPower Tracer III 15 GTX is one of the only gaming laptops we’ve ever seen with a mechanical keyboard. That’s a big change from the shallow keyboards that never seem to fit the bill on gaming laptops – but can it convince us to part with £899 or $799? Read our CyberPower Tracer III 15 GTXreview to find out.
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by Becky, Sep 14, 2018

Gaming on a budget with EasySMX

Kit Guru have reviewed the Easy SMX wireless controller and Cool 2000 headset, here's a snippet from their review:

Not all gamers can afford to splash the cash on high end peripherals and thankfully there are plenty of budget models on the market to choose from. In this review we take a look at EasySMX’s offering in the form of a £19 wireless controller and the £20 Cool 2000 headset. EasySMX is a Chinese company based in Shenzhen that have been around since 2012 and have focused on creating affordable peripherals since 2014. The big question needs answered though — are they any good?
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by Becky, Sep 12, 2018

HyperX Alloy FPS RGB Gaming Keyboard

Benchmark Reviews have been testing out the HyperX Alloy FPS RGB Gaming Keyboard, and here's a snippet from their review:

HyperX is the “high performance product division” of Kingston Technology– that is, they make the gamer-centric stuff. They have a complete line of gamer-oriented mice, keyboards, headsets and the like, but with the fierce competition in the field these days, they’re constantly expanding their product line. Their HyperX Alloy series of keyboards boasts a solid steel frame, anti-ghosting and N-key rollover, and Cherry MX key switches. Well, most of them use Cherry key switches: today, Benchmark Reviews has in hand the new HyperX Alloy FPS RGB keyboard with ultra-responsive RGB-lit Kailh Silver key switches. With a shortened actuation distance compared to other switches, the Kailh Silver switches should help amp up the responsiveness of this keyboard for the most hardcore gamers.
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by Becky, Sep 10, 2018

Samsung Portable SSD X5

Legit Reviews have been taking a look at the Samsung Portable SSD X5, and here's a snippet:

Samsung is entering the Thunderbolt 3 market today by unveiling their first-ever NVMe-based portable solid state drive (SSD) – the Samsung Portable SSD X5. The X5 series features speeds of up to 2,800 MB/s read and 2,300 MB/s write, making it an ideal portable storage device for content creators, enthusiasts or anyone that wants access to their files quickly while on the go. Supporting both Mac and Windows PC systems, the X5 is available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities for $399.99, $699.99 and $1399.99, respectively.
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by Becky, Aug 31, 2018

Lian Li Strimer

Vortez have reviewed the Lian Li Strimer RGB computer lighting kit, and here's a snippet:

If you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you may not know that the computer tech industry has been overwhelmed by the introduction of RGB LED lighting. Cases, graphics cards, memory, coolers and more are now all capable of delivering 16.8 million colour illumination and, for those who just simply can’t get enough of this glitzy customisation, Lian Li has now created the Strimer – an RGB ready 24-pin cable extension kit.
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by Becky, Aug 29, 2018

Kingston UV500 480GB M.2 SSD

Nikk Tech have reviewed the Kingston UV500 480GB M.2 SSD, and here's a snippet:

Solid state drives (SSDs) may be best known for their far superior read and write performance, reduced electrical requirements, lower temperatures and no moving parts compared to regular hard disk drives (HDDs) but they actually introduced something else to the masses which is equally important for some people (if not more), hardware encryption. True it took some time for that specific feature to hit the market (especially the consumer oriented one) but still as we speak there are far more SSD models (both enterprise and consumer models) with that feature than HDD ones (including both 3.5" and 2.5" form factors). Kingston alone has released several 2.5", mSATA and M.2 enterprise-grade SSD models over the years that feature hardware encryption but it wasn't until very recently that they released their very first consumer oriented one which also happens to use their new 3D TLC NAND Flash memory. We are of course talking about the UV500 line and today we'll be taking a look at the 480GB M.2 2280 variant.
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by Becky, Aug 24, 2018

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