Here a roundup of todays review's and articles:

Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit In Use From Hacking Team Breach
Anime Expo 2015 – Part 3: Overstuffed Cosplay Album
ASUSTOR AS-5102T 2-bay NAS Review
GTA V performance review take 3: how well does the game perform with an AMD CPU?
GTA V performance review: tested with 23 GPUs
Lian Li PC-T80 Test Bench Review
Makeblock mBot Educational STEM Robot
MSI GTX980 Ti Gaming 6G Review
Razer Seiren Pro
Seasonic Snow Silent 750 W
TteSports Shock 3D 7.1 PC Gaming Headset Review
Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP! Extreme Card Review

Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit In Use From Hacking Team Breach

In only a days time, malicious users have started using the yet-to-be-patched Adobe Flash Player exploit that came out of the 400GB of leaked data just a day ago from the Hacking Team breach. The exploit was found by security experts yesterday within the breached data files that were stolen from the Italian security company, the Hacking Team.

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Anime Expo 2015 – Part 3: Overstuffed Cosplay Album

Anime Expo 2015 is now over, with this year’s event officially setting a record number of unique attendees at 90,500, an increase of 10,500 attendees from last year. We’ve still got the biggest attraction to share – No major anime or comic fan event is without cosplayers! Anime Expo is the largest of its kind in North America and we’ve put together a colossal photo album of some of the cosplays at the convention. At over 450 photos, this album might be tough to handle, though our browser-friendly and mobile-friendly website won’t have you loading and crashing through finicky web scripts. We’re also making available some HD photographs which are featured on the first two pages. Clicking the image will open full-sized versions. If you can’t get enough of what you see here, check out our past album at Anime Expo 2014 which can be viewed here. Please appreciate the hard work and devotion the cosplayers put into crafting their works. We hope to see more in the future including next year’s milestone 25th Anime Expo.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

ASUSTOR AS-5102T 2-bay NAS Review

AS5102T 2-bay NAS from ASUSTOR is undoubtedly the AS5104T little brother and while it loses the LCD display and two extra bays, most of the other features are included like the solid chassis, the Intel Celeron J1900 CPU, upgradeable memory feature from the included 2GB (up to 8GB), lockable trays with the help of a screwdriver or plenty of expansion ports. The metallic chassis is also present here for extended durability, while the drives and motherboard are cooled by a single silent 70mm fan. Thanks to the included HDMI port, the product can be used without a PC by simply using the ASUSTOR remote or a keyboard/mouse combo which can be plugged via USB.

Read full article @ Madshrimps

GTA V performance review take 3: how well does the game perform with an AMD CPU?

Grand Theft Auto V, also known as GTA V, appears to be turning into the most popular PC game of 2015. Back when we first published our performance review featuring 23 GPUs, we immediately received the request if we could also publish scores that one would obtain when using mid-range CPUs, which we did in a second performance review. Comments on this review led to yet another question: how well does the game run on an AMD FX processor? To answer this question, we once again instructed the Hardware.Info Test Lab crew to work their magic on this game for a couple of days.

For this third GTA V test, we used an AMD FX-8350 processor. This is an 8-core model from the FX series that is based on Vishera cores, has a base clock frequency of 4.0 GHz, and a Turbo frequency of 4.2 GHz. While this processor already hit the market in 2012 (our original review can be found here), AMD has not released a newer generation of FX processors since: more recent FX CPUs only feature higher clock speeds or increased efficiency. The FX-8350 is squarely in the middle of the FX pack. We combined the CPU with an MSI 990FXA Gaming motherboard, 8 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 memory, and a Samsung 840 Evo 1TB SSD. We ran the tests under Windows 8.1 x64, using the most recent AMD and Nvidia drivers.

Those who have a mid-range configuration will primarily be playing at the Full HD resolution (1920x1080), which we have tested using both Medium and Ultra settings. Additionally, we also tested Ultra HD (3840x2160) with Medium settings. Given the results from the previous test, we didn't bother testing Ultra HD with Ultra settings this time around.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

GTA V performance review: tested with 23 GPUs

Around two months ago, the PC version of GTA V was released at long last. Where owners of a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360 have been able to play this game since September 2013, PC gamers had to wait no less than nineteen months for their turn. Admittedly, GTA V for PC is much more than just a simple console port: the game's graphics have been upgraded substantially, and as a result, the game looks much better on PC than it does on any console. Assuming you have the right graphics card, that is. As you're no doubt used to by now, we've once again extensively tested which graphics card you need to play this game with all bells and whistles enabled. 23 graphics cards, 3 resolutions, and 2 quality presets: everything you need to know!

Those who compare GTA V for PC with the original Xbox 360 and PS3 versions may have a hard time believing they're looking at the same game, and even compared to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions that were released near the end of last year, there are some substantial differences. First of all, there's the available resolutions: on the two modern consoles, GTA V runs at the Full HD resolution (1080p) at 30 fps. When using a PC, you can of course play in higher resolutions, including WQHD or even Ultra HD / 4K, and at higher framerates to boot. No matter what console players may claim: 60 fps does result in a much smoother gaming experience than 30 fps!

Because the GPUs incorporated in gaming PCs are typically much more powerful than those found in consoles, other things have been adjusted as well. For starters, the PC version uses far more detailed textures. Furthermore, the distance at which objects will be rendered has been increased significantly: where the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 already feature double the draw distance of the last generation version, the PC version will render objects that are even further away. Numerous 3D effects have been enhanced as well: water looks more realistic, tessellation is used more generously to give objects more detail, there are more reflections, and the settings also contain a city density slider, which allows you to configure how busy the streets of Los Santos will end up being. Rendering more people and cars requires more processing power, but does result in a better looking and more realistic game. Unlike the console versions, the PC version offers support for up to three displays and – for the small amount of people who have invested in them – also offers support for 3D monitors.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Lian Li PC-T80 Test Bench Review

The illusive PC Test Bench, something that if you are reviewing or testing PC hardware is a must have. Test benches make it extremely easy to swap out hardware compared to a traditional PC case. This not only makes things easier, but saves you quite a lot of time and frustration as well. Surprisingly there are not that many companies that offer PC test benches, but Lian Li is one of them. They first released the PC-T60, which supported ATX motherboards, but lacked room for AiO watercooling. The Lian Li PC-T80 is now here and supports motherboards up to XL-ATX and has room for radiators up to 360mm. We will be using this test bench for our new graphics card test rig, will it fit the bill? Read on as we find out!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Makeblock mBot Educational STEM Robot

Inspiring future generations to learn, never mind learn computer programming, at a younger age, provides a great outlook as to what we can expect in the years to come. It’s also interesting to read stories of children who, at such young ages, have taken an interest in such, and are already doing mind-blowing things with robotics and computers. Its easy to remember our younger days, when the most excitement we got out of using a computer was playing the metal tab on a floppy disk!

Read full article @ TechnologyX

MSI GTX980 Ti Gaming 6G Review

We have reviewed many GTX980 Ti partner cards in recent weeks and today the MSI GTX980 Ti Gaming 6G makes a somewhat belated appearance in our labs. This high end board is actually one of the cheapest flagship, overclocked Ti’s currently available – hitting the £599.99 inc vat point – £30 less than the Gigabyte G1 Gaming and £60 less than the Asus STRIX Gaming Direct CU 3.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Razer Seiren Pro

I’m not sure if you guys have noticed, but the streaming market has been growing almost daily. Amazon invested over a billion dollars in buying Twitch last fall and even Google is expanding and doing their own game streaming service. It’s popular with people watching obviously, but that expansion has also meant a lot of people have been streaming, including a lot of the members of our community. We have even been streaming our LAN events as well. Razer recognized this and introduced their own USB desktop microphone the Seiren and more recently they followed that up with the Seiren Pro. Both get a high quality microphone into streamers, artists, and gamers hands. The Pro model does have a few improvements like the built in XLR port for anyone who later wants to move from USB to a proper mixing setup. Well Razer isn’t the only company with microphones focused on streaming and podcasts, so today I’m going to take a look at the Seiren Pro and see what it’s all about.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Seasonic Snow Silent 750 W

Seasonic recently released another Snow Silent unit, this time with less capacity to address a wider range of users. The Snow Silent 750 W is smaller than its big brother, but comes with many of its features like low noise and high quality capacitors.

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TteSports Shock 3D 7.1 PC Gaming Headset Review

TteSports products have been a popular choice with gamers around the world for many years now, the companies unrelenting focus and dedication to the gaming scene has seen them produce some of the best performing and some of the most competitively priced peripherals on the market today and hopefully, we’ll be seeing a repeat of that again today. I have in my hands the new TteSports Shock 3D Gaming Headset, which comes with all the usual bells and whistles you would associate with a gaming headset. There’s virtual 7.1 surround, customizable EQ, built-in volume controls, a fold away auto-muting microphone and more; all of which should appeal to both casual at home gamers and the eSports community alike.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP! Extreme Card Review

We have already reviewed two Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti cards at Bjorn3d, both from eVGA (the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Superclocked and the EVGA GTX 980 Ti SuperClocked ACX 2.0+). Both cards performed very well and earned theirBjorn3D Gold Award. We have though eagerly been awaiting our firstZotac GTX 980 Ti card to review as we have been very impressed with their earlier offerings including the Zotac GeForce GTX980 AMP Omega Edition card. And today it arrived in our office! The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP! Extreme card.

So what is so special about this card which makes us salivating at the thought of putting it in our computer?

Read full article @ Bjorn3D