Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles, including Cooler Master Silencio 550 PC Case Review, QNAP TS-879U-RP High Performance SMB NAS Review, and Kingston HyperX 240GB Solid State Drive Review



Cooler Master Silencio 550 PC Case Review
ocinside.de posted a review on the Cooler Master Silencio 550 PC Case

A loudless PC or at least a very silent PC is for sure a dream for many users.
For this reason Cooler Master developed the Silencio 550 Mid-Tower PC enclosure with sound absorption, which has a polished front panel surface and offers an integrated SD-Card reader additionally to a lot of more useful features.
In the current review we test the sound proofed Cooler Master Silencio 550 more detailed.

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QNAP TS-879U-RP High Performance SMB NAS Review
Computing on Demand has posted a new article, 'Review: QNAP TS-879U-RP High Performance SMB NAS'

QNAP is no stranger to the storage world and with the introduction of their latest 8 bay NAS, QNAP is also hoping to be no stranger to your server room.The TS-879U-RP, much like other QNAP offerings, serves as both an IP-SAN (iSCSI) and a NAS.  QNAP had already impressed us with their home or SOHO NAS, the TS-419P+.  Let's see if they can keep the magic going with their SMB NAS, the TS-879U-RP.

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Synology DiskStation DS712+ NAS Review
TechwareLabs posted Synology DiskStation DS712+ NAS Review

In a post desktop world its important to have a centralized storage of all your critical documents and files. Synology has released the DS712+ able to handle all your NAS needs. The DS712+ features a small but powerful set of software tools to help you get the most out of this powerful hardware without breaking the bank.

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Toshiba Portege Z835 Review
TechReviewSource.com posted a review on the Toshiba Portege Z835

The Toshiba Portege Z835 is another "ultrabook" laptop that has a 13.3-inch display that is a lightweight, comfortable laptop to use, especially if you need a computer to carry around with you daily. It has a competitive price and decent specifications, but the available configurations are limited to just one and the display could be better.

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CM Storm Sirus 5.1 Headset Review
Vortez posted a review on the CM Storm Sirus 5.1 Headset

CM Storm is the gaming peripheral arm of Cooler Master. Join us as we take a look at their first 5.1 headset and try it out on today's most popular gaming titles.

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Icy Dock MB981U3-1SA 2.5"/3.5" USB 3.0 SATA & IDE Hard Drive Docking Station Review
eTeknix.com posted a review on the Icy Dock MB981U3-1SA 2.5"/3.5" USB 3.0 SATA & IDE Hard Drive Docking Station

Once upon a time, IDE Hard Disk Drives were all the rage, and if you do still have some of these, soon to be, legacy drives then you will be surprised to see a company creating products that allow you to dock an IDE drive, on top of that, this dock also allows you to use SATA drives too.

While this product in itself is not unique, it is certainly a rarity and something we were very interested to take a look at. Most docks that are readily available on the market currently can usually fit 2.5" or 3.5" SATA drives only and sometimes only one or the other of these sizes. This Icy Dock creation takes both IDE and SATA drives of both sizes due to a very cleverly designed adapter.

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Samsung SyncMaster SA950 27 Inch 3D LED Monitor Review
Tweaknews posted Samsung SyncMaster SA950 27 Inch 3D LED Monitor Review

The Samsung SyncMaster SA950 27 Inch 3D LED Monitor is definitely not the monitor for the miser looking for a budget monitor to "get the job done". The SA950 is a monitor designed for a consumer that wants only the best and doesn't want to settle and lose out on some of the features they might find interesting and/or useful.

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Kingston HyperX 240GB Solid State Drive Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the Kingston HyperX 240GB Solid State Drive

If you know anything about Kingston you know their HyperX line. HyperX is the name they give all of their high-end products. Kingston entered the solid state drive market with the SSDNow series of drives, but it was about time the put the HyperX name on a solid state drive. The HyperX solid state drive is a SATA 6GB/s drive powered by the SandForce SF-2281 controller, 25nm Intel NAND and boasts speeds of 555MB/s read and 510MB/s write. Kingston sent us the upgrade kit that includes a USB enclosure, 3.5-inch mounting bracket, SATA data cable, screwdriver and hard drive cloning software. Let’s take a look…

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Lian Li PC-Q25 Mini-ITX Case Review
TechSpot posted Lian Li PC-Q25 Mini-ITX Case Review

The PC-Q25 vows to be Lian-Li's most advanced Mini-ITX offering yet. The case has plenty of room for high-end hardware, including full-length graphics cards such as the Radeon HD 6990 or GeForce GTX 590. Besides catering to gamers, the chassis also attempts to woo media buffs with support for five 3.5" hard drives and some impressive cooling options.

The PC-Q25 has received hot-swap connectors to quickly load hard drives, tool-less side panels for faster access and it lost the 5.25" optical drive bay. The new arrival certainly appears to be a more modern enclosure, but it also seems to have a few drawbacks that we'll flesh out right up next...

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Xclio Touch 320 Review
PureOverclock has published a review of the Xclio Touch 320 mid-tower case.

We are looking at Xclio's Touch Concept case design, the Xclio Touch 320 Mid Tower case. The unique feature here is the touch fan and LED lighting controls. Some of us may obsess about monitoring and tweaking such things, so let's take a closer look at the Touch 320 and see what this new case brings to market.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 TI 448 Core Video Card Review
Legit Reviews posted NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 TI 448 Core Video Card Review

This morning NVIDIA released a new graphics card called the GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores. This is a limited edition graphics card, and as its name implies, the GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores is outfitted with 448 CUDA cores. Read on to see how this GF110 GPU performs as we compare it to the GTX 560 Ti, GTX 570 and the AMD Radeon HD 6950 to see which card is the best for your gaming needs.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores has proven to be a very interesting graphics card from both a price and performance perspective. This card performs nearly the same as a GeForce GTX 570, but costs significantly less. In some of the games we tested the overclocked MSI N560GTX-448 Power Edition actually performed better than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 reference design card, which was impressive...

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 FleX Battlefield 3 Edition Graphics Card Review
eTeknix.com posted a review on the Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 FleX Battlefield 3 Edition Graphics Card

With lots of rumours about AMD and Nvidia releasing new cards in 2012, we find a lot of graphics card manufacturers clinching on to the life of the current cards and trying to spice things up to give a breath of fresh air to an already old card.

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