Here a roundup of todays review's and articles:

ADATA XPG SX930 Gaming SSD Review
ASUS Announces A 144Hz WQHD Gaming Monitor With FreeSync
Azio MGK1 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
be quiet! Shadow Rock LP
Cooler Master MasterCase 5
DinoPC Raptor Watercooled System Review
Element Gaming Hyperian Micro-ATX Chassis Review
Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming G1 Motherboard Review
GT Omega Pro Blue Gaming Chair Review
Intel looking into support for VESA Adaptive-Sync displays
QNAP TVS-471-4G (TVS-x71): High Performance NAS with Intel Processor
Rosewill WolfAlloy Review Case Review
Sapphire Nitro R7 370
The Moto G (2015) Review

ADATA XPG SX930 Gaming SSD Review

With SSD prices falling under intense competition, and most consumer-level drives bumping up against the bandwidth limitations of SATA 6, how does a vendor distinguish their product? ADATA thinks their SX930 “Extreme Performance Gaming” (XPG) drive can do it, bolstered by features like enterprise-grade NAND, a JMicron JMF670H controller, hardware-based BHC error correction, pSLC cache technology, all supported with free application software and a five-year warranty. Benchmark Reviews runs the ADATA XPG SX930 Gaming SSD through our test suite to see how it performs.

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ASUS Announces A 144Hz WQHD Gaming Monitor With FreeSync

Today ASUS announced a new monitor targeted at the gaming market. The ASUS MG278Q is a 27" TN panel with a resolution of 2560x1440 and a 144Hz refresh rate. In the chart below you can see further information about the monitor and its specifications.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Azio MGK1 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

Over the past 15 years Azio Corporation has provided the computing community with innovative peripherals based on three core design elements: convenience, entertainment and accessibility. One such peripheral is the MGK 1 backlit mechanical gaming keyboard on our review bench today that features an aluminum top plate for durability, a controllable backlight for low light and night time use, and an array of shortcut keys for multimedia controls and quick OS application access.

The MGK 1 gaming keyboard uses a red plastic bottom case enclosed with a brushed aluminum top plate anodized in gunmetal gray, hopefully making for a nice desktop statement. The snap-on palm rest is dimpled and feels like it could give your palms a massage as they slide over the surface.

The mechanical keys for the MGK 1 use the Kailh Blue version switches with a 50 million cycle life span and 4mm travel for an audible and tactile feedback. The keys are backlit with a white LED that you can adjust by using the Fn + 12 key to toggle between ON / OFF / REACTIVE settings, and the Fn + F10 or F11 keys for the illumination level.

Read full article @ Neoseeker

be quiet! Shadow Rock LP

With Mini-ITX becoming ever more popular, the demand for low-profile heatsinks has exploded. Enter be quiet!'s Shadow Rock LP with a maximum height of just 75.4 mm. Its low-profile design allows it to fit where traditional tower coolers cannot.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Cooler Master MasterCase 5

Cooler Master spent considerable time and effort on presenting the Mastercase series to journalists and the media at Computex 2015. As the product is at the core of their brand refresh and new alignment, it aims to be the driving factor to regaining some lost ground in this competitive market by offering a fresh new approach to differentiate it from the competition.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

DinoPC Raptor Watercooled System Review

The Raptor is a watercooled gaming system from DinoPC that combines an unlocked Haswell-E Core i7 with dual GTX 980Ti graphics cards. That’s an overclocked CPU with an extra Gigahertz of grunt and two overclocked graphics cards, each running at 1220MHz instead of the usual 1000MHz.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Element Gaming Hyperian Micro-ATX Chassis Review

Today is a special day, as it’s the first time we’ve featured Element Gaming on eTeknix! This won’t come as much of a surprise to Element Gaming though, as they’re a relatively new brand, but they’ve already launched a wide range of gaming peripherals and chassis products to market, so we thought it would be great to see what all the fuss is about!

“Built from aluminium, steel and acrylic this high-quality case is ideal for small form factor enthusiasts. Specifically designed for ITX system boards the case nevertheless has enough room to build a high spec PC. Fast USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports along with audio inputs are positioned on the top of the case with the on/off button to the front. The rear of the Atomic has two PCI expansion ports whilst internally there is a 3.5” HD bay or room for two 2.5” SSDs. The case supports 120mm radiators and a 120mm LED fan is mounted to the rear. There is also support for 265mm VGA card and 165mm CPU cooler. As an added feature the right panel is made from clear acrylic to allow viewing of the components and the lit fan.”

The case couldn’t be better timed, as more and more people are building ultra-compact gaming systems and with more graphics cards manufacturers now making ITX graphics cards, as well as some incredible Mini-ITX motherboards hitting the market in recent years, a powerful gaming system doesn’t need to be in a mid or full tower form factor anymore.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming G1 Motherboard Review

Gigabyte’s G1 Gaming series motherboards have been some of the company’s most popular over the past few years, especially with the X99 and Z97 chipsets. Skylake and the Z170 chipset are here and that means an entire new line of G1 Gaming motherboards from Gigabyte! The board we are taking a look at today has been on radar ever since it was first revealed at Computex earlier this year. The Z170X-Gaming G1 sits as Gigabyte’s top of the line or flagship gaming motherboard. It has everything that a gamer and an enthusiast would want, and Gigabyte has pulled it off in style too! The board has RGB LED clusters in 3 different places on the board and on the rear I/O shield. Gamers will appreciate the 4-way graphics support, Killer DoubleShot X3 Pro gaming networking, and professional-grade audio. This is just the tip of the iceberg too, let’s jump in and see what the Z170X-Gaming G1 is all about!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

GT Omega Pro Blue Gaming Chair Review

After our first review of a gaming chair was quite a success, we're going to have a close look at another model. This particular chair is a little bit cheaper than the first one, but it should still offer decent quality and good comfort

Read full article @ ocaholic

Intel looking into support for VESA Adaptive-Sync displays

In a Q&A session this afternoon, I asked Intel Fellow and Chief Graphics Software Architect David Blythe about Intel's position on supporting the VESA Adaptive-Sync standard for variable-refresh displays, and he had an intriguing answer for me: Intel is positively inclined toward standards-based solutions like Adaptive-Sync.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

QNAP TVS-471-4G (TVS-x71): High Performance NAS with Intel Processor

QNAP TVS-x71 is designed specifically for the small and medium business. Available in 4 bay (TVS-471), 6 bay (TVS-671), or 8 bay (TVS-881) model, they come with high performance Intel processor, minimum 4GB of RAM, two USB 2.0 ports, three USB 3.0 ports, one HDMI port, and four Gigabit Ethernet port. The overall design and the feature across the entire NAS stayed the same. Thus, the only decision we got to make besides the number of drives is the processor and the amount of RAM.

Read full article @ Bjorn3D

Rosewill WolfAlloy Review Case Review

When selecting a case we all want style and features without breaking the bank. The Rosewill WolfAlloy case strives to be the answer to your search. We first saw the WolfAlloy and its stone textured brother the WolfStone at CES thanks to the vivid claw marks and couldn’t wait to see more.

Targeted squarely at enthusiasts while maintain a price tag well under most of the competition, the WolfAlloy will certainly make the short list for a lot of builders looking to maximize their build dollars. Let’s see if Rosewill has hit the mark!

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

Sapphire Nitro R7 370

While it is fun to get excited about the $1000 CPUs and video cards, PCI Express SSD’s, and all of the other cutting edge tech that we see coming through the office from time to time. The reality of life is that when you are building your new gaming PC you will move likely set a realistic budget and you have to work around that. A lot of people ask for feedback on their builds for helping putting together a parts list and a lot of those people are looking at a budget of around $600 for their new PCs. So at that price point typically an ideal video card is the main purchase as everything else is as cheap as you can get but the card budget comes in around $175 to $200. So today I wanted to take a look at what AMD and more specifically Sapphire has to offer at that price point. That is their new Nitro series R7 370.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

The Moto G (2015) Review

Motorolas original Moto G was one of the first Android devices to offer what one could honestly call a good user experience at a price of around $200. It had a 4.5" 720p display, Qualcomms Snapdragon 400 SoC, a 5MP rear camera, 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of memory. Since that time, Motorola has adopted a structure where their Moto E fills in the sub $150 range, the Moto G hovers around $200, and the Moto X acts as a several hundred dollar flagship device, although the dual Moto X launch for 2015 changes this slightly. In early 2014 we saw Motorola refresh the Moto G with support for LTE, and later in the year they did a more major refresh which bumped the display size to 5", the camera resolution to 8MP, and added the microSD slot from the LTE model of the original version.

While Motorolas 2014 refresh of the Moto G was technically a major update as far as their yearly cadence was concerned, many aspects of the phone remained the same. There was no change to the SoC or the amount of RAM, no change to the display resolution or connectivity, and no change to battery capacity. The early 2015 launch of the Moto E made things even stranger, as it shipped with some specifications that actually outclassed the Moto G, such as Qualcomms Snapdragon 410 SoC. This put Motorola in a strange situation, which has finally been resolved with the new 2015 model of the Moto G. In my view, this is the first truly major update that the phone has seen since the original version, and you can see what improvements Motorola has made to their new mid range smartphone.

Read full article @ Anandtech