Here a roundup of the latest reviews and articles:

Arcade Machine DIY Guide
Dream Machines DM3 Mini Gaming Mouse Review
EVGA Z370 FTW Motherboard Review
Holiday Gaming Survival Guide
How To Choose The Best Drive For Your PC
Kingston DCP1000 1,6TB review: lightning-fast SSD reaches 7 GB/s
Microsoft Surface Laptop Review: Plush, Premium Design In A Competitive Category
MSI GV62 7RC Review
Seagate Barracuda Pro 12TB SATA III HDD Review
Synology DiskStation DS118 1-bay NAS Review
TechPowerUps Best of 2017
TerraMaster D5-300C USB Type-C 5-Bay RAID Enclosure Review
What wireless NIC is best in todays market?

Arcade Machine DIY Guide

Today we have published something very special on OCinside.de: A guide how to build an arcade machine or a worklog to do so. Daniel, one of our longtime PC forum members built a fully fledged 24-inch arcade machine construction using Raspberry Pi 3. As always, we wish you a lot of fun reading this new arcade machine diy guide and of course to copy the Retro arcade machine.

Read full article @ OCinside.de

Dream Machines DM3 Mini Gaming Mouse Review

Dream Machines is a Polish company that has been around for a couple of years now, starting off producing gaming laptops and expanding into other territories like speakers and gaming mice. The team at Dream Machines has a real focus on PC gaming and I am always one to welcome a new company to the mix, as competition and innovation is what keeps covering the PC scene so fun and exciting. Dream Machines has recently begun expanding into other territories and wants to make their presence felt here in the USA. While many gaming mice feature over the top designs with multiple buttons, the DM3 Mini is a minimalist mouse, featuring just two main buttons on a smaller, traditional ambidextrous shaped frame. Read on to learn more!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

EVGA Z370 FTW Motherboard Review

EVGA joins the Coffee Lake fray with a non-RGB board. Is this the serious performance board that anti-bling enthusiasts have been clamoring for?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Holiday Gaming Survival Guide

Christmas just happened and for many of us we have at least a week or so off of work. Now what to do with that time? Well for us here at ThinkComputers and most of the PCMasterRace it means hours upon hours of gaming! For that reason we have decided to compile a list not only of games, but some pretty awesome gaming hardware that you can pickup to make the most out of your time off!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

How To Choose The Best Drive For Your PC

Every drive has a purpose, and it is important to use the right drive for the job. Let us show you how to choose the best drive using the WD drive colours!

Read full article @ TechARP

Kingston DCP1000 1,6TB review: lightning-fast SSD reaches 7 GB/s

Earlier this year, Kingston introduced a PCI-Express 3.0 x8 SSD with very impressive specifications such as a maximum read speed of nearly 7GB per second (!) and a write speed of 6GB per second. That piece of machinery costs a whopping 1700 euro and it is, on paper, the fastest SSD we have ever tested. Let’s see how it does in reality.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Microsoft Surface Laptop Review: Plush, Premium Design In A Competitive Category

When Microsoft released the original Surface Pro five years ago, the mobile market was completely different – Windows tablets were an afterthought and weren’t the svelte and snappy performers you can buy today. The first-generation Surface Pro wasn’t perfect, but it was a huge step in the right direction for Windows 2-in-1’s and tablets. Today’s mobile computing device landscape is completely different versus five years ago and one could argue it was significantly re-shaped by the success of the Surface Pro.

Each notebook manufacturer has its own interpretation of mobile nirvana. Whether it’s the HP Envy, Dell XPS, Lenovo Yoga or ASUS Zenbook, there are plenty of excellent ultra-portable notebooks you can buy today. But that didn’t deter Microsoft from entering the fray, when it added a traditional-style Surface Laptop to its product line-up last May...

Read full article @ HotHardware

MSI GV62 7RC Review

In the spotlight today is a new gaming laptop which sits within MSI's newly created GV Series. GV tackles the lower end of the market and seeks to offer users with entry-level options for those on a tighter budget. Today we'll be looking specifically at the GV62 7RC which utilises a quad-core CPU, 8GB DDR4 and the NVIDIA MX150.

Read full article @ Vortez

Seagate Barracuda Pro 12TB SATA III HDD Review

Just like the IronWolf and IronWolf Pro 12TB hard disk drives the latest Barracuda Pro 12TB model by Seagate combines impressive read and write performance, high endurance and a massive data storage capacity.

Read full article @ Nikktech

Synology DiskStation DS118 1-bay NAS Review

Synology’s latest single bay NAS is the DiskStation DS118. Part of the company’s Value Series, the DS118 is equipped with a quad core 64-bit processor and DDR4 memory and is marketed as a high performance single bay NAS for small offices and home users. It also has the ability to perform 10-bit 4K H.265 video transcoding on the fly.

Read full article @ KitGuru

TechPowerUps Best of 2017

Before we say farewell and adieu to 2017, join the editors of TechPowerUp on a trip down the memory lane as we look back at each of our specific review categories. The first annual TechPowerUp Best of article aims to recognize products that held up to the hype, and in some cases even managed to surprise and over-deliver.

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TerraMaster D5-300C USB Type-C 5-Bay RAID Enclosure Review

The TerraMaster D5-300C 5-Bay Direct Attached Storage (DAS) device is a diskless model that is priced at $229.99 shipped and backed by a 2-year warranty. This device has five drive bays that are compatible with 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives or SATA SSDs that are up to 10TB in capacity. The first two drive bays can be run as single disks or as 2-disk RAID 0 or RAID 1 array and the others act as single disks. Setup is simple and TerraMaster claims that you can get speeds of up to 410 MB/s with some drive configurations when a pair of drives are run in RAID 0. Read on to see what we can get!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

What wireless NIC is best in todays market?

I've been pondering an article like this for a while but the logistics of getting everything in-house and testing never really came together. After completing my last round of articles, I suddenly realized I had all of the wireless NICs in-house that come in modern motherboards and laptops, apart from the Killer 1535, which easily enough was sent over to be included after emailing Rivet Networks. Like you, I too am a member of a few tech forums, some I frequent more than others but alas many have a thread titled "best Wi-Fi for laptop" or "upgrade laptop Wi-Fi." It's no secret, not all Wi-Fi NICs are created equal - some notebook and motherboard vendors choose to take a cheaper route with 1x1 solutions while you will find the majority using 2x2 solutions from Qualcomm or Intel. Since breaking away from Qualcomm, Rivet Networks has reinvented the Killer brand to be more than a marketing slogan on a box, pushing their Prioritization engine into routers with the WRT32x.

Read full article @ TweakTown