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Fractal Design Focus G ATX Case

Kit Guru have been taking a look at the Fractal Design Focus G ATX Case - here's a snippet from their review:

Fractal Design Focus G is a new family of budget cases from the Swedish hardware company. This Focus G model is an ATX design while Focus G Mini is Micro-ATX and unusually both cases are priced at US$50/GBP£48.

These are budget cases with an open interior design and a massive acrylic window that shows off your PC build to an amazing extent. To add to the visual bling you get two front 120mm case fans with white LEDs that give you a certain amount of illumination inside the case so if you’re thinking about using Focus G in your next build you’d better make it a tidy one.
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by Becky, May 24, 2017 at 6:13 PM

Tesoro Excalibur SE Spectrum Keyboard

Benchmark Reviews have been checking out the Tesoro Excalibur SE Spectrum Keyboard, and here's a snippet:

Most of us are familiar to standard mechanical switches found in popular gaming keyboards. Standard Cherry, Kailh, and TTC switches share similar designs using physical metal on metal contacts to register a keystroke. With the Tesoro Excalibur SE Spectrum, this keyboard utilizes optical key switch technology. Each key uses an infrared sensor to detect when the key is registered. This design eliminates metal on metal contacts and boosts the keystroke life cycle from 50 million to an insane 100 million. It also has per key back lighting, a spill and rust resistant design, and internal drill holes in case of spills. In this article for Benchmark Reviews, let’s a look at the Tesoro Excalibur SE Spectrum with blue optical switches.
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by Becky, May 23, 2017 at 6:02 PM

ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1050 Ti STRIX Video Card

Legit Reviews have been taking a look at the ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1050 Ti STRIX Video Card - here's a snippet:

Since the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti was released in October 2016 it has become one of the most desirable cards to have for 1080P gaming due to be priced around $150. Over the past the past seven months there have been many driver updates, so we wanted to take a fresh look at a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB graphics card to see how they perform. We managed to get our hands on an ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB ROG STRIX OC Edition graphics card that retails for $169.99 shipped on Amazon or $154.99 shipped on Newegg (after a $10 rebate card). Not everyone wants to spend $200+ on a graphics card nor do they plan on doing Virtual Reality gaming or anything other than gaming on a 1080P display, so a an affordable mainstream card like this could be a good fit. If you play on a 1080P monitor and play game titles like Overwatch, Skyrim or CS:GO a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has enough power to get you over that 60 FPS threshold with respectable image quality settings. You also get all the latest NVIDIA technologies like Ansel, G-Sync and more.
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by Becky, May 22, 2017 at 6:30 PM

Corsair's Force Series MP500 240GB NVMe SSD

Tech Report have reviewed Corsair's Force Series MP500 240GB NVMe SSD - here's a snippet:

With the notable exception of Intel's long-prophesied Optane products, there hasn't been much new or exciting happening in the storage scene of late. But the market marches on regardless, and many new drives have launched without novel technological underpinnings. The NVMe competition has continued to heat up, as more of the smaller manufacturers get their hands on capable commodity controllers and NAND from the actual OEMs.

Last time around we examined Patriot's Hellfire SSD, which blended Toshiba's 15-nm MLC with Phison's PS5007-E7 NVMe-enabled controller. Today, we've got a drive built on the same basic chassis: Corsair's Force Series MP500 240GB.
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by Becky, May 19, 2017

AMD Ryzen R5 1400 Quad-Core AM4 Processor

eTeknix have been checking out AMD's Ryzen R5 1400 Quad-Core AM4 Processor - here's a brief snippet from their review:

2017 has been a busy year for AMD and we’ve already had the release and reviews of many of their new CPUs. Of course, the Ryzen R7 1700, Ryzen R7 1700X, and the Ryzen R7 1800X certainly left us impressed. Also, their mid-budget Ryzen R5 1600X and 1500X offered incredible price vs. performance ratios. However, today we’re taking a look at their most affordable R5 series CPU to date; the Ryzen R5 1400.

Equipped with a quad-core eight-thread design, the R5 1400 represents a lot of mass-appeal. When you consider that you can pick one up for little over £150, its easy to understand why we’re excited to see what kind of performance it offers. Not only concerning what it can compete with from Intel but also how much lower the performance is compared to all the other Ryzen chips we’ve tested so far!
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by Becky, May 17, 2017

Corsair Glaive RGB

Vortez have been checking out the Corsair Glaive RGB mouse, and here's a snippet from their review:

The high performance PC components and peripheral manufacturer, Corsair, has released the Glaive RGB, a mouse aimed heavily towards the FPS gamer looking for comfort and performance. Featuring a custom PixArt 16,000 DPI sensor, a trio of interchangeable magnetic thumb grips, OMRON switches and 3-Zone RGB, the Glaive certainly promises a lot.

The Glaive is available in two flavours, black plastic or aluminium, resulting in a different weight and appearance.
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by Becky, May 16, 2017

AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Processor

Mad Shrimps have been testing out the AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Processor - here's a snippet from their review:

Ryzen 5 1400 SKU is the least expensive processor from the series you can get right now, which does come with half of the L3 cache, a base clock of 3.2GHz, an all-core clock of the same 3.2GHz, a 2-core boost of 3.4GHz while the single-core boost does add 50MHz over this frequency. The processor does still feature a 65W TDP, is overclocking unlocked and on retail we can see it shipped along with the Wraith Stealth CPU cooler.
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by Becky, May 15, 2017

AZiO MK Retro Typewriter Mechanical Keyboard

Nikk Tech have been taking a look at the AZiO MK Retro Typewriter Mechanical Keyboard - here's a snippet from their review:

The MK Retro typewriter mechanical keyboard by AZiO focuses solely in bringing back memories from the past so if you were expecting backlight RGB illumination, extra macro keys, detachable wrist rests and other features found in today’s gaming keyboards you will probably be disappointed (although AZiO is about to revamp the MK Retro with illumination for its keys). What you are getting however is a keyboard that features a water and dust resistant elegant housing with pillar style feet, handcrafted round key caps, tactile/clicky mechanical switches developed by AZiO themselves (OARMY Olive - 50 million clicks - probably made by Kailh) and 6-key/NK rollover. Before we move on with our review this list may indeed sound a bit lacking but let’s not forget that the target audience of the MK Retro typewriter mechanical keyboard is not gamers.
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by Becky, May 11, 2017

Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP! Extreme 11GB

Tech Power Up have reviewed the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP! Extreme 11 GB graphics card, and here's a snippet:

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is a mean machine based on NVIDIA's second biggest implementation of its "Pascal" architecture, the 16 nm "GP102" silicon. This is the same chip that drives the TITAN X Pascal. The GTX 1080 Ti features the same number of CUDA cores as the latest TITAN, at 3,584 spread across 28 streaming multiprocessors. There is some cost-cutting here, but none that is designed to lower performance - the chip has a slightly narrower memory bus at 352 bit; that's one memory chip less than what you'd find on the TITAN X Pascal. The total memory amount is hence 11 GB. A cluster of ROPs is also disabled, so you now get 88 ROPs (as opposed to the 96 ROPs on the TITAN). The memory chips are, however, clocked 10% higher to make up for the 8.3% narrower memory bus. This move also translates into cost savings due to the lack of a 12th memory chip and probably better yields for the GP102 chip.
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by Becky, May 10, 2017

MSI X370 Krait Gaming Motherboard

Tom's Hardware have been testing out the MSI X370 Krait Gaming Motherboard - here's a snippet from their review:

AMD is certainly making a splash these days. First, we had the Ryzen 7 launch, which drew mixed reviews of the CPU's gaming performance. Next came Ryzen 5, which elicited a collective sigh of relief, because AMD had released a proper value-based CPU. CPUs took a break for a moment, giving way to new Polaris GPUs (the 500 series).

Over in my neck of the woods X370 is still the king of the AM4 world, despite B350 hitting the ground running. So let's continue with this X370 motherboard review series.
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by Becky, May 9, 2017

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