Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:
Computers: Alienware x14 Laptop Review: Potent, Petite Gaming Prowess, Alienware x14 Review: Slim, Sleek and Solid, Dell OptiPlex 7090 Micro Review Slightly Updated Iteration
Cooling: Noctua NH-U12A chromax.black, Thermaltake UX210 ARGB Review
CPUs: Intel Core i3-12300 Review - The Fastest i3
Gaming: CrossfireX review: A decent but unfinished shooter, and nothing more
Graphics Cards: The RTX 3050 Entry-Level VR Review
Input: ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate Review
Memory: Asgard Aesir DDR5 32GB 4800MHz Kit Review
Storage: Neo Forza eSports NFP425 M.2 2280 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD Review, Neo Forza NFP400 Series NFP455 1 TB SSD Review, Quick Look: iStorage datAshur SD Encrypted USB Drive
Computers:
HotHardware: Alienware x14 Laptop Review: Potent, Petite Gaming Prowess
The Alienware x14 is a slick, sexy and powerful pint-sized gaming laptop that packs solid gaming firepower to match its space-age good looks.
Alienware x14 Laptop Review: Potent, Petite Gaming Prowess
Tom's Hardware: Alienware x14 Review: Slim, Sleek and Solid
A capable, compact spaceship
Alienware x14 Review: Slim, Sleek and Solid
ServeTheHome: Dell OptiPlex 7090 Micro Review Slightly Updated Iteration
We take a look at the Dell OptiPlex 7090 Micro, the company's top-end 1L corporate desktop PC, and get into some TinyMiniMicro comparisons
Dell OptiPlex 7090 Micro Review Slightly Updated Iteration
Cooling:
LanOC Reviews: Noctua NH-U12A chromax.black
When it comes to air cooling and fans Noctua has been extremely reliable over the years and has been an easy go-to when doing builds. Especially because noise is very important to me. Keeping noise down in the office helps with testing and more importantly helps with my sanity. So with builds it's not unusual for me to change fans over to Noctua. With them having nice blacked-out fans has helped with that as well. For my wife's last PC I went with a crazy custom water cooling loop which looked amazing. But I would have to take it all apart and clean everything multiple times a year and performance would drop as the “show” coolant would fall out and clock things up. That’s fine for my PC maybe, but when it's my wife’s PC it needs to just work. So this time around I went with an air cooler, Noctua’s NH-U12A chromax.black. It was the largest cooler I could fit in her system and I knew it would meet our needs for cooling and noise performance and it has. But before doing that I did bring the NH-U12A over on to our test bench to see how it performs in an even more demanding situation. Let’s go see what the NH-U12A is all about and how it performed.
Noctua NH-U12A chromax.black - LanOC Reviews
OCInside.de: Thermaltake UX210 ARGB Review
Thermaltake has released the UX210 CPU cooler, a compact high air flow cooler with a heat management of max. 150W TDP, slim design and an ARGB 120mm high speed fan. The UX210 has to stand its ground against strong competition among CPU coolers. Positive features are the good cooling performance, simple and universal mounting and the bright ARGB fan at a very reasonable price.
Thermaltake UX210 ARGB Review
CPUs:
TechPowerUp: Intel Core i3-12300 Review - The Fastest i3
Intel's Core i3-12300 is reasonably priced at $160 and offers the best i3 performance yet. In our review, we found this 4c/8t processor to offer good application and gaming performance thanks to the new Golden Cove cores, and the lack of E-cores can actually be a good thing as it eliminates compatibility issues completely.
Intel Core i3-12300 Review - The Fastest i3
Gaming:
Windows Central: CrossfireX review: A decent but unfinished shooter, and nothing more
CrossfireX, developed in tandem by Smilegate Entertainment and Remedy Entertainment, is a first-person shooter with potential, but it ultimately feels unfinished, messy, and dull.
CrossfireX review: A decent but unfinished shooter, and nothing more
Graphics Cards:
BabelTechReviews: The RTX 3050 Entry-Level VR Review
The EVGA RTX 3050 XC Black edition Entry-Level VR video card Review using the Vive Pro versus the GTX 1660 Super
The RTX 3050 Entry-Level VR Review
Input:
MMORPG.com: ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate Review
The ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate is expensive but easily one of the best gaming keyboards you can buy today. Find out why in our review.
ASUS ROG Strix Flare II Animate Review | MMORPG.com
Memory:
PCTestBench: Asgard Aesir DDR5 32GB 4800MHz Kit Review
The launch of a new platform is always fun, even if it has been marred by supply chain constraints and the ‘scalper apocalypse’ over the last couple of years.
Asgard Aesir DDR5 32GB 4800MHz Kit Review | PCTestBench
Storage:
Mad Shrimps: Neo Forza eSports NFP425 M.2 2280 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD Review
The 2TB version of NFP425 from Neo Forza impresses in terms of performance and trades punches only with the 1TB version of the same drive. Thanks to the Phison PS5018-E18 controller with eight channels, 2GB of fast DDR4 RAM and no less than eight 256GB Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND, the NFP425 can...
[M] [M] Neo Forza eSports NFP425 M.2 2280 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD Review
TechPowerUp: Neo Forza NFP400 Series NFP455 1 TB SSD Review
Priced at $130, the Neo Forza NFP455 1 TB is one of the most affordable PCI-Express 4.0 drives. It uses the Innogrit IG5236 controller paired with 128-layer YMTC TLC flash, and 1 GB of DRAM cache is included, too. In our review, we saw excellent performance that's very similar to the Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850.
Neo Forza NFP400 Series NFP455 1 TB SSD Review
TechPowerUp: Quick Look: iStorage datAshur SD Encrypted USB Drive
iStorage is back at it with another novel portable encrypted storage solution. The all-new datAshur SD is the world's first USB flash drive with both onboard hardware encryption and removable microSD card storage, which increases flexibility when scaling since sharing security settings between drives is easily done via software.
Quick Look: iStorage datAshur SD Encrypted USB Drive
