Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Acer Predator Z35 200Hz Gaming Monitor Review
Antec Signature S10 Premium Tower Review
ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/AC Motherboard Review
Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro L
Cooler Master's MasterKeys Pro L and Pro S keyboards reviewed
Das Division Zero X40 Pro Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review
Fractal Design Define Nano S Case Review
How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing With AMDGPU/Radeon Graphics Compared To Ubuntu 14.04 With FGLRX
Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 review: a flexible business laptop
LG V10 Review
MyDigitalSSD BP5e Low-Cost TLC SSD Review
Olympus PEN-F Review
Ozone Tri-FX Review
Philips 276E6 27-inch Quantum Dot Monitor Review
SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick Review
SilverStone Strider Titanium 800W review
The Corsair Strafe RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review with MX Silent (Red) Switches
The Nyko Data Bank hard drive enclosure for Xbox One

Acer Predator Z35 200Hz Gaming Monitor Review

The Predator series of gaming monitors has been expanding at the speed of light as Acer attempts to cover every single possibility and price point with extremely capable and specifically targeted options. We already seen what they can accomplish with the G-SYNC equipped X34 and XR341CK, an awesome option for folks who need FreeSync. Both of those massive 34” IPS panels had an impressive yet challenging-to-drive resolution of 3440x1440 and refresh rates of 100Hz alongside suitably high price tags. The new Predator Z35 on the other hand has a much more uses a more reasonable 35” 2560x1080 A-MVA panel, an insane refresh rate of 200Hz and a price just north of $1000. Think of this as a more budget friendly option but one that’s extremely capable of delivering a superlative gaming experience.

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Antec Signature S10 Premium Tower Review

As we've already mentioned in several previous reviews the market is flooded with PC cases of all shapes and sizes and with enough features to cover even the most demanding users. Still with just a few exceptions like the original Level 10 by Thermaltake, Obsidian 900D by Corsair, TJ11 Temjin by SilverStone, H-Tower by In Win, Cosmos II by Cooler Master and the PC-888 by Lian Li we haven't seen many special full towers in the market with build quality as their primary focus (followed closely however by design). We do of course realize that most manufacturers out there focus in catering the needs of the mainstream consumer base since that's where the serious bucks are but we strongly believe that they should all offer products for every single one consumer out there. Antec is among the manufacturers that didn't rush to offer something on par with all the cases we mentioned so when they launched the Signature S10 Premium Tower we asked for one and finally after quite a few months it reached our lab.

Antec, Inc., is the leading global brand of high-performance computer components and accessories for the gaming, PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) markets. Founded in 1986, Antec is recognized as a pioneer in these industries and has maintained its position as a worldwide market leader and international provider of efficient, quiet, and reliable products. Antec has also achieved great success in the distribution channel, meeting the demands of quality-conscious system builders, VARs and integrators. Antec’s offering of enclosures includes a large range of cases, such as its technically advanced Performance One Series, cost-effective New Solution Series and server grade cases designed for the needs of all workstation and server markets. Antec’s products also include front line power supplies such as its TruePower Quattro Series and EarthWatts, the most environmentally friendly power supplies available. PC gamers are an increasingly significant consumer of performance components, and many Antec products are geared toward the gaming demographic, like the Nine Hundred, the premier gamer enclosure. Antec also offers a computing accessories line comprised of many original products, including its patented LED Fans and Notebook Cooling solutions. Antec is headquartered in Fremont, California, with additional offices in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, as well as in Germany, China and Taiwan. The company’s products are sold in more than 40 countries throughout the world.

Much like the Obsidian 900D or the Cosmos II the Signature S10 is aimed towards people who'd like to use one of the larger XL-ATX mainboards so that alone means you can expect lots of interior space. Unfortunately the interior of the Signature S10 may not be just as spacious as the one of the Obsidian 900D (or the Cosmos II) but even so it's three chamber design (separates the enclosure into three thermal zones) should be more than enough for most people so aside the 4 long graphics cards (up to 317.5mm in length) you can also use pretty much every CPU cooler around (as long as it’s up to 165mm tall), can outfit it with a total of eight 120/140mm fans (7 are already present) or 3 radiators (top 280mm, front 360mm and rear 120mm) and can mount up to a grand total of 14 drives (six 3.5" and eight 2.5"). In terms of quality almost the all of the exterior is made out of anodized brushed aluminum (the doors are 4mm thick) while the interior is made out of regular aluminum (rubber and hard plastic are also present in some areas). So the time has come for us to find out whether or not the S10 is worthy to bear the Signature name.

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ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/AC Motherboard Review

It used to be that small form factor meant you would have to trade performance for size. Over the last few generations of motherboards and CPUs that stigma is changing. The Mini-ITX or ITX is one of the smallest form factor boards you can purchase. The ASRock Z170 Gaming-ITX/AC motherboard is part of the Fatal1ty (fatality) line of products and … Read more.

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Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro L

As most of you guys have most likely noticed, I get a wide variety of keyboards coming into the office. Especially now that everyone and their mom has gotten into the mechanical keyboard market. With that the list of keyboards that make it into heavy use as a keyboard my wife and I take to events, test rigs, or my main PC is actually much smaller. Cooler Master has been one of the main brands you would find on that list and that is because from the day they introduced the original QuickFire Rapid I have loved their keyboards. They keep their keyboards simple with nothing flashy but the quality for the most part has been there. When they moved on to the Rapid-I I really started to get excited about the features they were introducing but with the XTI I was a little disappointed. Not because it was a bad keyboard, in fact it’s a great keyboard, I just really wanted it to be full RGB or have white backlighting like the Rapid-I. Well all of the waiting is finally over. For the past few weeks I’ve been using their new MasterKeys Pro L full RGB keyboard and today I’m finally allowed to unzip my lips and talk about it. So I’m going to run down through its features, talk about how it performed, then break down where it fits in the market. All of that will hopefully help you find out if this is the keyboard for you, check it out!

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Cooler Master's MasterKeys Pro L and Pro S keyboards reviewed

Cooler Master's MasterKeys Pro L and Pro S keyboards put Cherry MX RGB switches in no-nonsense chassis. They also expose most of their customization mojo through on-board shortcuts. We put our fingers to the keycaps to see how these boards perform.

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Das Division Zero X40 Pro Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review

Metadot, now more commonly referred to as Das Keyboard, has released numerous mechanical keyboard models, both with and without labeled keycaps. They remain popular options because of Das Keyboard's reputation for quality, though by neglecting the gaming category, Das Keyboard left the door wide open for the competition, and they've rushed through it like a crowd lined up at Walmart on Black Friday.

While once a niche category, every peripheral maker on the planet seems to be releasing mechanical keyboard models to gamers at this point. You can now count Das Keyboard among them. The pioneering company created a new gaming division called Division Zero, and its first mechanical keyboard to come from that division is the Division Zero X40 Pro...

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Fractal Design Define Nano S Case Review

At first glance you may well think the Fractal Design Define Nano S mini tower case supports a Micro-ATX motherboard but in fact it is Mini-ITX. This is a little unexpected, partly because it stands 344mm tall, but also because a quick look inside reveals a massive amount of space.

This is a visual trick as the Fractal Design Define Nano S follows the same approach as the ATX-sized Define S and does not use traditional drive bays or a power supply cover, so there is nothing to break up the interior space. It’s a different story once you have installed a graphics card and power supply but the starting point with Fractal Design Define Nano S is that you have a lovely blank canvas for a PC build.

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How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing With AMDGPU/Radeon Graphics Compared To Ubuntu 14.04 With FGLRX

With Ubuntu dropping support for the AMD fglrx/Catalyst driver in their upcoming 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" release and manually installing the driver doesn't sound like an option, many have renewed interest in how the open-source Radeon driver stack is performing for Ubuntu 16.04 that's due out next month. In this article are benchmarks comparing the performance of Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (on both the open and closed drivers) to that of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the sole AMD Linux driver option on a variety of graphics cards.

Canonical had to resort to deprecating the fglrx Catalyst (or now known as Radeon Software) driver support since AMD is no longer actively maintaining that Linux driver and doesn't even have mainline support for the latest Linux kernel and X.Org Server releases, which means it won't work on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. AMD is replacing the driver later in the year with their AMDGPU kernel based hybrid driver for GCN 1.2+ GPUs and whatever GCN 1.0~1.1 GPUs that end up getting enabled for this newer DRM driver that succeeds the Radeon DRM driver. That new hybrid driver is expected around the middle of the year, likely to be timed with the Polaris launch. AMD's forthcoming Vulkan Linux driver is also contingent upon this AMDGPU driver.

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Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 review: a flexible business laptop

The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga doesn't look as elegant as the company's flagship Yoga 900, but this business laptop has several practical features that make it a smart purchase. Lenovo's Yoga laptops are known for their 360-degree hinges while the ThinkPad name is known for business. Combine the two together, and you get a business laptop that can bend, flip, or fold. The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 doesn't look flashy at all, and most people in the business world prefer that, but it's what it can do for you that makes it worth your consideration. Should you buy the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260? The answer might surprise you.

Read full article @ Windows Central

LG V10 Review

The LG V10 has me convinced that Dr. Ram-chan Woo and his design team really are a bunch of mad scientists determined to bend and shape unique smartphones. This is their latest and, by far, most Frankensteinian creation yet.It's a bold mutation of the standard Android phone that I think looks like a three-eyed, two-headed monster thanks to its three cameras and second screen. My review handset is opal blue, but actually looks closer to pale green, which just further solidifies its ogre-like origins in my mind.

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MyDigitalSSD BP5e Low-Cost TLC SSD Review

Are you looking for reliable high-capacity flash storage at a value-oriented price? The MyDigitalSSD Bullet Proof 5 Eco 960GB currently sells for $240 and delivers acceptable performance.

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Olympus PEN-F Review

Olympus has two lines of Micro Four Thirds compact system camera (CSC); PEN and OM-D, with the OM-D series being the more 'serious' of the pair and aimed at enthusiast photographers. Both ranges have a distinct retro style with the OM-D cameras resembling traditional SLRs and the PEN models having a more rectangular shape like the 1960's series of Olympus PEN film cameras. The PEN-F comes in at the top of the current PEN line-up and has a 20 million pixel Four Thirds type sensor – 4million more pixels than previous PEN models like the E-PL7 and E-P5.Until now, one of the most distinguishing features between the two lines has been that the OM-D cameras have a viewfinder built-in whereas the PEN models don't.

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Ozone Tri-FX Review

The Tri-FX is the latest in-ear headset from Ozone and the product has been designed for gamers and others who'd also like to listen to music or make phone calls with their smartphone/tablet. This headset features an aggressive design and a practical dual-function in-line remote control as well as a red/black flatband cable. In order to please the taste of a wide variety of users, Ozone has added three interchangeable EQenhancers that either emphasize heights, mids or bass.

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Philips 276E6 27-inch Quantum Dot Monitor Review

We've been hearing about Quantum Dots for a while but Philips' 276E6 is the first computer monitor to use the technology. It's a 27-inch IPS-ADS screen with FHD resolution and an Adobe RGB color gamut. Today, we check it out in our labs.

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SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick Review

USB flash drives have been making it easy to add storage to our computers for quite a long time now. These days we have multiple devices, so not only do we have our PC, we have a smartphone, and more than likely a tablet too. Adding extra storage to these devices is not the easiest most of them are locked down and do not have USB ports or expandable storage. This is where the SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick comes in. It is a USB flash drive giving you extra storage for your PC and laptop, but on top of that it is wireless allowing you to access, stream, and backup files to it using your mobile device. SanDisk calls the Connect Wireless Stick the, “flash drive reinvented to work with both your computer and your mobile devices.” Let’s take a look and see if that is true.

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SilverStone Strider Titanium 800W review

Meet a new level of efficiency. SilverStone is a company that likes to do things a little differently. Boring chassis are circumvented for more premium models where some real thought has gone into the design. Those in the market for quality chassis can do a lot worse than go for any one of a number of cases from the Taiwanese outfit.

But what can any manufacturer do to spice up life in the staid, boring PSU? Well, some have gone for the bling factor with RGB lighting, but that's not how SilverStone rolls. Instead, headlining its 80 PLUS range is the Strider Titanium PSUs between 600W and 800W. So what's special other than the upgraded specification in line with other guys plying the same market?

The answer is that, other than the crazy-high Titanium efficiency, SilverStone shoehorns each supply into a chassis smaller than the competition, ostensibly for enthusiasts looking for the best performance in more compact cases. The trio of new Striders measure 150mm wide, 86mm high and, crucially, only 150mm deep. Sure, most modern chassis are designed for full-ATX supplies, yet SilverStone gives you some wiggle room for better cable management. Best of all, there's no obvious price premium for going a little shorter, as is the case here.

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The Corsair Strafe RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review with MX Silent (Red) Switches

Cherrys MX Silent switches are making their debut on the Corsair Strafe RGB gaming mechanical keyboard. Corsair has the exclusive on the MX Silent for the first year, and in this review we are examining the quality and features of the Strafe RGB keyboard as well as the performance of the new switches.

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The Nyko Data Bank hard drive enclosure for Xbox One

One of the Xbox One's nicer features is its support for external hard drives. Launch consoles didn't include all that much storage space, and even the 1TB internal drives on newer consoles are bound to fill up with games eventually. When storage space gets low, you don't stop buying games – you get an external hard drive. Pairing an internal hard drive with an external enclosure like the Nyko Data Bank is another option. The Nyko Data Bank is an enclosure that turns any 3.5-inch hard drive into an external drive for Xbox One. It sits right on top of the Xbox and even matches the looks of the console. Read our detailed review with video installation guide to find out whether Nyko's Data Bank will meet your Xbox One storage needs!

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