Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AKiTiO Thunder3 PCIe SSD Thunderbolt DAS Review
EKWB EK-XLC Predator 360 (incl QDC) (EAN: 3831109863350) Review
Entry-level PC - June 2016
FOBO Tire Plus All Bluetooth Smart Tire Pressure Monitoring System Review
From Colemak to C'HWERTY: A Gallery of Weird Keyboard Layouts
Hands-on with Windows 10 Mobile build 14356
Kingston UV400 480GB TLC SSD Review
Noble Chairs Epic Real Leather gaming chair review
Noctua NH-C14S
Nvidia GTX 1070 Founders Edition Graphics Card Review
Total War WARHAMMER DirectX 12 PC Graphics Performance Review
You better disable update checks in KeePass 2

AKiTiO Thunder3 PCIe SSD Thunderbolt DAS Review

The benefits of Thunderbolt 3 and its 40 Gbps link are best realized in a daisy-chain configuration involving multiple high-bandwidth I/O peripherals. The Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt 3 controller in a host connects to the CPU using a PCIe 3.0 x4 link. From the perspective of a single device that is not a huge drive array, it is likely that a PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD is best suited to fully utilize the available bandwidth. AKiTiO recently started selling their Thunder3 PCIe SSD. It puts a 1.2TB Intel SSD 750 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe add-in card in a standard two-port Thunderbolt 3 aluminum chassis along with a dedicated DisplayPort output. This review will look at the hardware design and performance aspects of the Thunder3 PCIe SSD.

Read full article @ Anandtech

EKWB EK-XLC Predator 360 (incl QDC) (EAN: 3831109863350) Review

With processors running faster, and overclocking an everyday event for a lot of enthusiasts, the use of watercooling to cool processors is becoming a more common method than ever before. EKWB builds some of the best kits and AIO watercoolers in the business. While other manufacturers tie you to a non-expandable AIO kit, EKWB is busy building expandable kits that allow you to add VGA loops, larger pumps and customize the watercooling loop to your needs.

Read full article @ Bjorn3D

Entry-level PC - June 2016

Our guidelines for the Entry-level PC category are as follows. The entire computer system, excluding OS, should not exceed £420. Its primary, but not only, function is to provide a smooth and enjoyable online experience. This means that the cheapest processors won’t be enough, as modern web pages and internet applications do demand some processing power.

Additionally, the system has to be able to efficiently perform internet-related tasks. This includes basic photo editing (cropping and resizing to upload or send a photo) and extracting compressed files. At the same time the necessary background programmes need to be active, such as a virus scanner, a firewall, and anti-spyware software. The computer also needs to be able to efficiently run word processing software and administrative programmes.

The cheapest PCs that you can currently buy are good enough for internet use. If you want to do other things, however, then you will quickly notice the limitations of the CPU and graphics processor. More powerful pre-assembled computers often turn out to have one weak component that becomes a bottleneck. Maybe it has a very fast processor, but lacks enough RAM, hard disk space, or a good enough graphics card.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

FOBO Tire Plus All Bluetooth Smart Tire Pressure Monitoring System Review

The FOBO Tire Plus is the ideal device for people who'd like to have real-time tire-pressure and temperature information in their cars or on their bikes and the factory units are simply not delivering.

Read full article @ NikKTech

From Colemak to C'HWERTY: A Gallery of Weird Keyboard Layouts

There’s no place like home row, am I right? We have all undoubtedly come a long way from typing our very first letters to the point it becomes second nature, but it’s probably safe to say that many of us don’t know much about what lies beyond the standard QWERTY keyboard. Well, there’s so much more. Let’s take a look at some popular and regional keyboard layouts.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Hands-on with Windows 10 Mobile build 14356

Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview build 14356 was released earlier this week and it contained a few interesting new features, along with a long list of fixes. Here's our hands-on video.

Read full article @ Neowin

Kingston UV400 480GB TLC SSD Review

Last year Kingston Digital released the UV100 SSD series in emerging markets like India, Mexico and Russia. The UV100 series was the first TLC NAND drive for Kingston and was designed to be their low-cost budget friendly Solid-State Drive (SSD). The UV100 series wasn't anything stellar on the performance front, was only available in 60GB and 120GB capacities and had a 2-year warranty. Thanks to advancements in controller technologies and improvements in TLC NAND Flash, Kingston was able to design the UV400 series drives with much faster speeds, capacities ranging from 120GB to 960GB and offer a longer 3-year warranty period. These chanages have allowed Kingston to mass-market the UV400 series of SSDs and it is now the companies entry-level SSD....

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Noble Chairs Epic Real Leather gaming chair review

We are back with another gaming chair review! This time around we are taking a look at the Epic Real Leather Gaming Chair from Noble Chairs. This is pitched as the first gaming chair in the world to use real leather but is it worth its considerable £450 asking price? Let’s find out.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Noctua NH-C14S

Noctua is resurrecting the down-draft coolers of old with the new NH-C14S. Featuring an offset design for better PCIe clearance, this cooler also brings extra versatility to the table, including great memory clearance and a low-profile option, which appears to make it an interesting jack of all trades.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Nvidia GTX 1070 Founders Edition Graphics Card Review

Back on May 17th Nvidia released their flagship, cutting edge GTX 1080, and today we look at the second card based on their Pascal architecture. The GTX 1070 Founders Edition is built on the 16nm FinFET manufacturing process and is priced to target a wider audience. That said, at around the £400 mark gamers will still demand high levels of performance, particularly as the adoption of 1440p gaming panels continues to increase.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Total War WARHAMMER DirectX 12 PC Graphics Performance Review

In this article we'll examine Total War: Warhammer in our usual geeky fashion. We'll test the game on the PC platform relative towards graphics card performance with the latest AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers. Multiple graphics cards are being tested and benchmarked with the latest cards such as the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 included.

With the newest graphics cards and technologies we'll try and see how well performance in DirectX 12. We test with the game based on the release last week, all patched up combined with AMD Radeon Software Crimson 16.5.3 drivers and for Nvidia their GeForce 368.22 and 368.25 (Pascal) WHQL driver. This article will cover benchmarks in the sense of average framerates, we'll look at all popular resolutions scaling from Full HD (1920x1080/1200), WHQD (2560x1440) and of course that big-whopper of a resolution Ultra HD. UHDTV (2160p) is 3840 pixels wide by 2160 pixels tall (8.29 megapixels), which is four times as many pixels as 1920x1080 (2.07 megapixels). We'll also briefly look at multi-GPU scaling as well as frametime performance and latency issues as measured with FCAT and look at CPU scaling.

Read full article @ Guru3D

You better disable update checks in KeePass 2

A security vulnerability in the popular password manager KeePass 2 was disclosed recently affecting all versions of the password manager but only if automatic update checks are enabled. KeePass 2 ships with an option to check periodically for program updates.

Read full article @ gHacks