Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Anda Seat Assassin King Gaming Chair Review
BenQ ScreenBar Review
Corsair Strafe RGB MK.2 (w/ silent switches) Review
Dell G7 15 Laptop Review
HyperX Predator RGB DDR4-2933 4x8GB Review
Kingston A1000 NVMe SSD Review
LibreOffice styles - My style is the bomb didi bom di deng
MSI H370 Gaming Pro Carbon Review
Noctua NH-D9 DX-3647 4U: A High-End Xeon Scalable Heatsink Review
QNAP TS-228A 2-bay NAS Review
SilverStone Argon AR11 Review

Anda Seat Assassin King Gaming Chair Review

Today we take Anda Seat's Assassin King gaming chair for a test drive (seating?) to see what it offers gamers in terms of comfort and ergonomics. It doesn't come cheap at a $330 USD MSRP, but it promises premium quality.

After using the chair exclusively for a few weeks, I can tell that Anda Seat put a lot of thought into comfort and functionality over extreme looks. It offers a full range of adjustments including seat height, back rest angle, chair tilt, and 3d arm rest controls. The various levers have a satisfying resistance to them and feel durable.

Read full article @ Neoseeker

BenQ ScreenBar Review

Many years ago, I used a desk striplight with a clamp. I clamped it to the back of my desk, then adjusted the angle arm so it was just above and in front of my monitor. That way, it lit the desk, didnt cast any light onto my monitor, and effectively took up no space.
It took some time to find a suitable light, and a fair amount of messing around with clamp positions and angles until I had what I wanted. Now BenQ has created a product that achieves the same result in a really neat fashion: the ScreenBar

Read full article @ 9to5Mac

Corsair Strafe RGB MK.2 (w/ silent switches) Review

It has been almost 3 years since Corsair released their first Strafe RGB mechanical keyboard. In our review, it surely deserved that Top Pick award. A quite simple keyboard that served its purpose without too many extras. Overall it was enough to really recommend it. Corsair has a wide variety of keyboard offerings, from low-end all the way up to the K95 Platinum. Now there’s a Corsair’s incoming wave of refreshes in the keyboard line-up. We already reviewed the Mk2 version of K70 RGB Rapidfire, now it is time for the one from non-Kx range, which is the Strafe RGB Mark Two (Mk2). It offers nice blend of performance, usability, and quality. The Strafe is Corsair’s option for people that don’t want to pay the price premium for a full brushed aluminum top plate on the K70 RGB MK.2, although not that I think of it, there’s still some part of aluminum at the top of the keyboard. The previous version was missing a couple of features though, and that has been corrected. There are some aesthetic improvements, but the main changes are the media keys (known from K70/K95) and memory, that can store multiple profiles on-board. You can’t forget about the new iCUE compatibility either. Some things, of course, stay the same, such as per key configurable RGB lighting, which now can be synced with other Corsair gear. Corsair Strafe RGB MK.2 is based on Cherry MX switches, in two variants. One is Cherry MX Red, the other (the one reviewed) os offers with Cherry MX Silent.

This is not the same choice as it was for the original version, as previously also a Cherry MX Brown (one of most popular) and Blue ones were available. Let's head on over to the next page and start up a full review though. Cherry MX Silent is not a new switch on the market. Just to remind you, they deliver the speed and precision of linear mechanical switches with significantly quieter actuation. The noise-suppressing architecture of the keyboard chassis makes the STRAFE RGB Silent 30% quieter than other mechanical gaming keyboards. The actuation force is 45 g, like the Reds (on which they are based on).

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

Dell G7 15 Laptop Review

The Dell G7 15 is a looker and an easily upgradeable gaming laptop, but its display is too dim and the keyboard is shallow.

Dell’s new gaming laptops are going for style. The G7 15 ($849.99 to start, $1,049.99 as tested) is sleek in a fancy white and blue colorway and also sports up to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q CPU and an Intel Core i7-8750H for strong performance. And with just one screw to loosen to get in, it’s even easy to upgrade. But the laptop also suffers from a dim display and the keyboard is shallower than I like. That makes this laptop definitely worth considering for mid-level gamers on the go, but they’ll have to overcome a few shortcomings.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

HyperX Predator RGB DDR4-2933 4x8GB Review

Kingston provided the fastest 4x8GB-kit memory we’ve ever tested under the cover of a DDR4-2933 RGB identity. You’re going to want to see this!

Industry-standard DDR4 RAM speeds go all the way up to a 2666MHz. So labeling an enhanced-performance kit at merely DDR4-2933 hardly seems the best way to get attention in the crowded high-end memory space. But the results we saw from Kingston/HyperX's HX429C15PB3AK4/32 when we dropped the kit into our test bench certainly got our attention--to the point that we can heartily recommend this kit to every overclocking performance enthusiast who can afford it. But at nearly $500 as we wrote this, you're going to have to really crave impressive speeds to splurge on this kit.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Kingston A1000 NVMe SSD Review

If you want speed, NVMe* is where it’s at. NVMe provides significantly faster data transfer than SATA flash-based drives and, in some cases as much as 3 to 4x what SATA III can provide. Flash bases storage has been king in the desktop/laptop markets and how fast you want to do depends on how thick your wallet it. The Kingston A1000 looks to change that a bit.

The Kingston A1000 is an entry level NVMe drive and is aimed at cost-conscious consumers. The A1000 series comes in 240, 480, and 960 GB flavors. The drive boats ~1500 MB/s read speeds and 1000 MB/s writes speeds. The A1000 uses 2 lanes of PCIe vs. 4 lanes of other drives. Solid State Drives (SSD) have really changed some of the was we’ve used our PCs. They are much faster than rotating drives and when used as a boot drive, boot times are reduced from a couple of minutes to a few seconds.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

LibreOffice styles - My style is the bomb didi bom di deng

I've got style, tearing through the code ... Here's a review of LibreOffice 6.0 styles management, including overview of functionality, categories, options, styles modification and export, some annoyances, and more. Enjoy.

Fire up LibreOffice. You can find the Styles menu in many ways. F11 as a shortcut - identical to Microsoft Office. Application menu. The new ribbon-like menu that you can enable in the 5.X branch onwards. Sidebar. Either way, once you open it, you will have a list of existing, default styles at your disposal, and you can start working.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

MSI H370 Gaming Pro Carbon Review

With the H370 Gaming Pro Carbon, MSI has a well equipped mid-range motherboard in its portfolio, which comes with a bunch of interesting features. There are for example two M.2 Gen 3 x4 slots and RGB backlight. Apart from that the Gaming Pro Carbon features a black color scheme with carbon accents. Although this model belong to the H370 series, it comes with plastic covers as well.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Noctua NH-D9 DX-3647 4U: A High-End Xeon Scalable Heatsink Review

Back in March we looked at the cooling performance of Noctua's AMD EPYC heatsinks for cooling these Zen-based server processors. The Noctua heatsinks tested did a wonderful job testing those socket SP3 processors so when the Austrian company announced a few weeks ago their Xeon Scalable heatsink line-up, we decided it would be interesting to see how their latest Intel server heatsinks perform.

Read full article @ Phoronix

QNAP TS-228A 2-bay NAS Review

Recently we’ve looked at a number of QNAP NAS units aimed primarily at the SMB end of the market. This time we take a look at a unit at the other end of the spectrum – the entry-level, two bay TS-228A aimed at home users.

The TS-228A is an update to the previous TS-228 with a faster & more capable processor and more modern memory. The TS-288 used a 32-bit 1.1GHz dual cored Realtek RTD1195PN CPU with 1GB of DDR3 memory, whereas the TS-228A uses a Realtek RTD1295 which is a 64-bit quad core CPU clocked at 1.4GHz. The amount of memory in the TS-228A is the same as the previous drive, 1GB, but is now DDR4-2133.

Read full article @ KitGuru

SilverStone Argon AR11 Review

SilverStone is looking to expand their Argon series of cooler launches with the all new AR11. Featuring four copper heat pipes, a 92 mm fan, and a dense aluminium fin array, it manages to achieve a 95 watt TDP rating with good airflow. Suffice it to say that this dainty cooler packs a punch.

SilverStone Technology has been around for a number of years and has amassed quite a large following thanks to many innovative and exceptional products. With their policy of perfect quality and outstanding design with a desire for customer satisfaction, it's not hard to figure out how they became as popular as they are. With many successful products, such as the Raven, Temjin, and Sugo cases and a solid lineup for CPU coolers, fans, and power supplies, they have managed to stay relevant in a constantly evolving PC market.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp