Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

A Look At The MDS Cost On Xeon, EPYC & Xeon Total Impact Of Affected CPU Vulnerabilities
ADATA SX6000 Pro 1 TB NVMe Review
Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Review
Asus ROG Ryujin 360 Review
ESR 2018 iPad Pro Yippee Magnetic Smart Case Review
Fractal Design Define S2 Vision RGB Case Review
How to install Mono or dotNET45 on Linux - Tutorial
ID-Cooling SE-224-RGB Air Cooler Review
Noctua NH-U12A CPU Air Cooler Review
Plugable USB-C Cube Docking Station Review
Silicon Power XPower Turbine 16GB DDR4-3200 Memory Kit Review

A Look At The MDS Cost On Xeon, EPYC & Xeon Total Impact Of Affected CPU Vulnerabilities

This weekend I posted a number of benchmarks looking at the performance impact of the new MDS/Zombieload vulnerabilities that also included a look at the overall cost of Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS on Intel desktop CPUs and AMD CPUs (Spectre). In this article are similar benchmarks but turning the attention now to Intel Xeon hardware and also comparing those total mitigation costs against AMD EPYC with its Spectre mitigations.

Read full article @ Phoronix

ADATA SX6000 Pro 1 TB NVMe Review

Priced at a stunning $110, the ADATA SX6000 Pro 1 TB is one of the most affordable NVMe drives on the market, and a heatsink is included, too, to help avoid thermal throttling. In our performance testing we see decent performance that's within a few percentage points of other, more expensive M.2 SSDs.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Review

The new Freezer 34 eSports is priced at around 38 Eur or US Dollars and it is a direct replacement for the previous model. his CPU cooler is affordable and offers a good cooling out of the box.

Read full article @ Tech-Legend

Asus ROG Ryujin 360 Review

The most expensive CPU cooler we've ever tested. We've been impressed with a couple of air coolers this past week - be quiet!'s Dark Rock Slim and Noctua's NH-U12A have both earned rave reviews - but if you have your heart set on an all-in-one liquid solution, what's the best the industry has to offer?

If price is any indication of quality, the award would have to go to the Asus ROG Ryujin 360, a £232 cooler that headlines Asus's foray into the world of all-in-ones and promises to be "the ultimate thermal solution."

Read full article @ Hexus

ESR 2018 iPad Pro Yippee Magnetic Smart Case Review

Planning to buy Apple's very own Smart Folio case for the new iPad Pro? Stop right now and go for this case from ESR instead which offers insane value for money and practically all the same features, too.

Read full article @ Wccftech

Fractal Design Define S2 Vision RGB Case Review

Fractal Design released it highly acclaimed Define S2 case a little over seven months ago and they are already back with a new iteration, the Fractal Design Define S2 Vision RGB. That's a mouthful, but even if the name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, this DIY PC chassis is easy on the eyes.

The Fractal Vision S2 RGB takes everything that made the Define S2, and the Fractal R6 before it, great but it but now it brings RGB lighting and tempered glass panels into the mix. We aren't talking just a single tempered glass panel here, however. Fractal has literally surrounded the case with tempered glass...

Read full article @ HotHardware

How to install Mono or dotNET45 on Linux - Tutorial

It can't be all fun and games. We also need to fix things when they don't work. Ergo, this tutorial showing how to install and configure Mono (dotNET) in Linux through WINE, including wine uninstaller & MSI package method, winetricks setup, some other suggestions, and more. Looksie.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

ID-Cooling SE-224-RGB Air Cooler Review

ID-Cooling SE-224-RGB While ID-Cooling may have more recently been focusing on their AIO liquid cooler designs, that doesnt mean to say that they have forgotten their more basic roots of proving a cost-effecting solution via the air-cooling category.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Noctua NH-U12A CPU Air Cooler Review

On the test bench today, we have the 5th generation of the multi award-winning NH-U12A CPU air cooler from Noctua. Will it live up to its heritage?

Read full article @ Play3r

Plugable USB-C Cube Docking Station Review

Docks are amazing devices that can transform a PC or Mac into a much more powerful appliance adding USB, DisplayPort, and HDMI to a system that is otherwise constrained. More often than not, these "docks" will have some sort of wired ethernet port as well and the Cube from Plugable falls right in line. This solution while offering a very modest design comes in at 2.5" square and only 1.5 inches tall packing gigabit ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports, a single USB 3.0 and 4K supported HDMI port; all while being bus powered.

Compatibility includes macOS and Windows platforms with USB-C or Thunderbolt 3. MSRP of the Plugable Cube Docking Station comes in at $109.99 with a one-year warranty.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Silicon Power XPower Turbine 16GB DDR4-3200 Memory Kit Review

Today we will take a look at the XPower Turbine DDR4-3200 memory kit which arrived from Silicon Power. The kit has the 16GB capacity, so is perfect for gamers and for them is dedicated.

Read full article @ FunkyKit