Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme Assembly Review
Best CPUs: Q1 2016 @ Anandtech
Buffalo TeraStation 3200 Review
Cooler Master V Series 650 W
Deepcool Genome Chassis Review
Fnatic Gear Rush Backlit Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review
Linksys MAX-STREAM EA7500 Router Review
Mushkin IMPACT 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review
NASA ISS Resupply Mission Tour Shows Swamp Works Tech, A Roaring Crawler Demo And Nighttime Fireworks Launch
OCZ Trion 150 480GB Solid State Drive Review
Samsung 850 EVO With 3rd Gen 48 Layer V-NAND SSD Performance Comparison
Swann Xtreem Gravity Pursuit Video Drone Review
Synology RT1900ac High Speed Wirless AC Router Review
Zotac SONIX 480GB PCIe SSD Review

ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme Assembly Review

The Maximus VIII Extreme Assembly, is ASUS's new flagship overclocking and gaming motherboard regarding Intels latest Z170 chipset. Next to a never-ending feature list there is the new ROG design with black and orange color scheme like the GTX 980 Ti Platinum. Unlike the Extreme, the Extreme Assembly includes also a super-fast Ethernet card able to reach 10Gbps and a new Supreme HI-FI sound card. Meanwhile we're curious to find out more about all the different components ASUS has put on this motherboard and how this beast performs.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Best CPUs: Q1 2016 @ Anandtech

When building a custom PC, especially on the consumer side, the processor is typically second or third down the list of priorities, behind graphics, storage or specific motherboard features depending on the use case. A lot of choosing a processor starts with the budget, if there is a preference for one brand or the other, or if the performance is similar enough that the money saved on a cheaper model can be spent elsewhere. By contrast, when it comes to workstations or enterprise situations, it helps to have an accurate profile of the intended workflow in order to choose which platform is needed, how much memory or how many expansion cards will be used, and if the software can prioritize cores over frequency or vice versa.

In our CPU Guide for Q1 2016, we’ll consider certain environments and budgets and give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data from our Benchmark Database where possible.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Buffalo TeraStation 3200 Review

A 2TB NAS aimed at the office and priced at £320. The IT industry is about as competitive as they come, and even if you do make it to the top, there's no guarantee you'll stay there. Buffalo was once a go-to provider of network-attached storage solutions, but in recent years the firm's products have been overshadowed by competing solutions touting an ever-growing array of features and greater performance.

The likes of Synology and Qnap have stolen a march on what Buffalo has to offer, but the Japanese firm is hoping to claw-back lost market share with revamped additions to the LinkStation and TeraStation product lines. Having covered the former late last year, we're now turning our attention to the new TeraStation 3200.

Read full article @ Hexus

Cooler Master V Series 650 W

The Cooler Master V650 is a high-grade PSU with ultra compact dimensions and a fully modular cabling design. It uses nothing but Japanese caps and a quality fan, and CM backs it with a pretty long warranty. The only downside so far looks to be its price.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Deepcool Genome Chassis Review

The integrated nature of Genome speeds up the process of your PC build however that is only part of the story as the helix liquid reservoir is clearly visible at the front of the case and helps Genome stand out from the crowd of ATX cases on the market.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Fnatic Gear Rush Backlit Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review

Fnatic, one of the biggest and longest operating competitive gaming organizations in Europe and famous amongst gamers around the world, has entered the hardware business with Fnatic Gear. The acquisition of gaming peripheral company Func has given Fnatic access to a team and process to develop products for professional gamers who demand responsiveness, control, and reliability. The announcement of Fnatic Gear last year during November also quietly marked the end of a long partnership Fnatic had with SteelSeries.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Linksys MAX-STREAM EA7500 Router Review

With high bandwidth 802.11AC enabled wireless mobile devices becoming almost commonplace these days, home users are starting to demand higher performance abilities from their wireless networks. With multiple devices from tablets to phones to notebooks demanding an increasing amount of bandwidth, those networks now need to satisfy some insatiable needs for speed. As a result, router manufactures have moved towards Multi-User Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (‘MU-MIMO’) configurations which combine multiple transmission streams into mega-sized connections that are aimed with a narrow focus at precise locations via advanced Beamforming.

This situation of rapidly expanding needs has had the side-effect of requiring the average router to have more and more processing power on tap. Sadly most first generation (Wave 1) 802.11AC routers are unable to keep up with these increased demands of transmission, reception, and packet collision avoidance. This is why ‘Wave 2’ 802.11AC controller chipsets were created, and why much more robust SoC’s are required for signal processing. On the positive side the new Wave 2 routers promise better speeds, better long range performance, and better overall return on investment, even when comparing more mainstream Wave 2 models to older Wave 1 enthusiast-grade models.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Mushkin IMPACT 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

With the latest IMPACT 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Mushkin has made it possible for all consumers to get a crazy fast compact drive for the same price as others (equally fast) with just half its capacity.

Read full article @ NikKTech

NASA ISS Resupply Mission Tour Shows Swamp Works Tech, A Roaring Crawler Demo And Nighttime Fireworks Launch

HotHardware had the incredible opportunity to be invited down to Cape Canaveral to witness a rocket launch that is carrying both supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station (ISS). In our initial write-up, we talked a bit about the experiments carried aboard Cygnus, took a look inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and got an up close and personal look at the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Crew Access Arm that will eventually be installed at Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC 41).

But as we would soon find out, our first day was just a small primer, because day two was even more action packed (including the actual launch of CRS-6). We started Tuesday off with a tour of NASA’s Swamp Works, which is an incubator of sorts for testing next generation tools and devices that could be used in future space missions...

Read full article @ HotHardware

OCZ Trion 150 480GB Solid State Drive Review

Back in January at CES OCZ introduced their Trion 150 solid state drive and now the drives are finally making it to market. OCZ’s Trion line of solid state drives are aimed at consumers who are looking for an affordable solution to upgrade their hard drives in their PC or laptop. The Trion 150 is of course the successor to the Trion 100, which we took a look at this past year. The Trion 150 features a rather mysterious Toshiba controller which is backed up by Toshiba 15nm TLC NAND. OCZ will be offering this drive in 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB versions. Today we will be taking a look at the 480GB which features max read and write speeds of 550 MB/s and 530 MB/s respectively. Let’s get this drive in our test system and see what it can do!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Samsung 850 EVO With 3rd Gen 48 Layer V-NAND SSD Performance Comparison

Out with the old, in with the new is how the saying goes! Although, in this case, the old really isn’t that old and is still quite bleeding edge technology. This doesn’t stop Samsung though. Today we are going to take a look at the performance of Samsung’s 3rd generation 48-layer 256Gb TLC V-NAND. That is right, Samsung has now transitioned over to yet another generation of 3D NAND when other manufacturers have yet to even release any products with their 3D NAND, although, they are right around the corner.

Read full article @ The SSD Review

Swann Xtreem Gravity Pursuit Video Drone Review

One of the biggest and quickly rising trends we have seen in the past couple of years, especially at the Consumer Electronic Show, (http://technologyx.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3d9b6193ffd32dd60e84fc74b&id=bca48e5693&e=312ec141fb) has been ‘Drone-This’ and ‘Drone-That’. Even this past holiday season may have brought you your own four-prop, remote-controlled, 1080p capturing, flying machine. Today, Technology X has the privilege of reviewing the Swann Xtreem Gravity Pursuit 1080p Video Drone.

Read full article @ TechnologyX

Synology RT1900ac High Speed Wirless AC Router Review

You read the headline correctly – this is not a review of a Synology NAS, but instead a wireless router. If this sounds unusual to you, you are not alone. Synology is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) company, or at least it used to be, as it's now taking all its networking expertise and jumping into the router market. Plainly named, the Synology RT1900ac Router, the company’s fledgling entry into this crowded market, is a dual-band AC unit. As you might have guessed, it’s capable of 1,900Mb/s of bandwidth across its 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, offering up to 600Mb/s on the 2.4GHz spectrum, 1,300Mb/s on the 5GHz spectrum and it's 802.11ac compatible and compliant.

Though that all sounds pretty good, Synology isn't looking to innovate in this market on the hardware side, but rather on the software side, as the company is offering its router with a totally new interface powered by its NAS software IP that's unlike anything we've ever seen before, for a router at least...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Zotac SONIX 480GB PCIe SSD Review

We'll be testing the all new UEFI based Zotac SONIX PCI-Express SSD today. Let me just quickly throw some numbers at you that will get a smile on your face, so how does 2,600 MB/s maximum read and 1,300 MB/s write performance sound?

We are experiencing interesting times as developers have a hard time deciding what form factor to go for: M.2., U2, Sata Express and PCI-Express based designs all remain undecided. For the interim moment however M.2. seems to become the most appealing storage unit and form factor, and next to that PCI-Express solutions based on the very same interface. Smaller form factors are now evolving from being "just as fast" as a regular SSD towards double, tripling, and even quadrupling performance. Thanks to clever protocols (nVME) and PCI-Express lane based solutions we are homing in on massive bandwidth NAND based storage solutions. These new M.2 and PCI-Express units use the NVMe protocol and that means storage technology at hyper fast speeds while remaining competitive in pricing. Samsung recently shocked and awed us with the 950 PRO series, capable of up-to 2,500 MB/s for reads and 900MB/sec (256GB model) or 1,500 MB/sec (512GB) for writes.

Read full article @ Guru3D