Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

ADATA 1 TB SU750 2.5" SSD Review
Adata Ultimate SU750 SATA SSD Review
ASUS TUF FX505DV Laptop Review
Ballistix Elite DDR4 16GB 4000MHz Review
Borderlands 3 Benchmarked at 8K: also eats up $2499 NVIDIA TITAN RTX
CLX Ra Review
Deepcool Assassin III Review
DJI Ronin-SC Pro Combo Stabilizer Review
Fractal Design Ion+ Series 760 W Review
Intel's Cascade Lake-X CPU for High-End Desktops: 18 cores for Under $1000
iStorage datAshur PRO2 256GB Secure USB 3.2 Gen 1 Flash Drive Review
Jaybird Vista True Wireless Earbuds Review
Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 Review
Micron 5210 Ion Enterprise SSD Review
Origin USB-C and Triple 4K Docking Stations Review
Patriot P200 1 TB Review
Take NVMe speed anywhere with Asus ROG’s M.2 enclosure

ADATA 1 TB SU750 2.5" SSD Review

Gone are the days where an SSD was purely a luxury. With advances in NAND technology, prices have drastically reduced, making an SSD more of a standard in most pre-built desktop, laptop and especially in custom built PCs. Now, with the emergence of cheaper NVMe drives, the question today is no longer should I get an SSD, but rather should …

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Adata Ultimate SU750 SATA SSD Review

Adata’s Ultimate SU750 has decent performance for a SATA drive, but it slurps power and competitors give you a lot more for the same price.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

ASUS TUF FX505DV Laptop Review

With the success seen in recent years with the AMD Ryzen processor platform, we had long heard that many laptop manufacturers were starting to turn their attention towards them as a more cost-effective solution to the largely prevalent (and harder to obtain) Intel brand. Well, it may have taken a while, but we’ve finally got one. Courtesy of ASUS we have their brand new TUF Gaming Alliance FX505DV laptop complete with an AMD Ryzen 7 processor!

ASUS is a brand that, of course, hardly requires any introduction. They are, without a doubt, one of the biggest names in PC component and laptop designs and we have never failed to be impressed with what comes out of their factory doors.

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Ballistix Elite DDR4 16GB 4000MHz Review

Earlier this year I had the chance to check out the Ballistix Elite 3600MHz 4X8GB kit and I was impressed with the kit. The aesthetics were great while not going with RGB lighting or anything flashy. The Ballistix Elite kit has a military styling and that kit specifically ended up being solid in performance. Well, Crucial has a new SKU for their Elite lineup with a higher clock speed and they sent them over. I already know what to expect for aesthetics but the 16GB 2x8GB kit they sent is running at 4000MHz with timings that are a little loose. Today I’m going to check the kit out, test its performance, and play around with overclocking and see how the new kit holds up.

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Borderlands 3 Benchmarked at 8K: also eats up $2499 NVIDIA TITAN RTX

I first started benchmarking Borderlands 3 at the traditional resolutions of 1920 x 1080, 2560 x 1440, and 3840 x 2160 -- but now it is time to really stretch the resolutions legs with 8K at a huge 7680 x 4320. It was only last week that I published a benchmark piece looking at the newly-released Gears 5 at 8K, which really took our graphics cards to our knees. This included the $2499 beast in the NVIDIA TITAN RTX with 24GB of GDDR6, and AMD's flagship card from 6 months ago in the Radeon VII and its 16GB of HBM2. Well, Borderlands 3 kicks our graphics cards' asses as well -- hell, even more so than Gears 5. We're looking at single-digit performance at Bad Ass level graphics, where Medium graphics settings return to normalcy and see (close to) 30FPS or so on at least one of our graphics cards.

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CLX Ra Review

CLX harnesses the power of Ryzen with its Ra desktop. It’s a splashing, expertly assembled rig that’s able to handle most high-end tasks with ease.

Anyone with a reasonable amount of PC component knowledge can throw together a collection of compatible parts and build their own gaming rig. If you know what you’re after and have the time, that’s almost always the cheapest option, and the best way to get exactly what you want. But if you don’t want to put in the research and time to build your own rig, going the boutique PC route can give you a similar amount of component granularity, along with (if you’re willing to pay for it) a level of custom aesthetics and polish that’s tough to accomplish on your own--especially if you don’t have a large work space, loads of time, and a reasonable amount of experience with power tools.

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Deepcool Assassin III Review

Attempting to dethrone Noctua's NH-D15. Chinese manufacturer Deepcool is determined to disrupt the CPU cooling landscape by unsettling established players with a wide range of alternative offerings. The firm caught our attention back in 2014 with the aggressively-priced Lucifer and has since gone on to produce an entire catalogue of coolers that includes eye-catching all-in-ones.

What has changed in 2019? Well, Deepcool is now aiming higher and instead of undercutting the competition, it is introducing premium products that are designed to go toe-to-toe with the crème de la crème. That is very much the case with the new Assassin III.

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DJI Ronin-SC Pro Combo Stabilizer Review

Today, we’ll be taking a quick look at the DJI Ronin-SC Pro Combo Stabilizer. The Ronin-SC is a lightweight 3-axis stabilizer for mirrorless cameras, that offers superior stabilization, and a sleek design.

The Pro Combo version comes with a focus motor and focus wheel that delivers precise, smooth focus control with a detachable mounting design.

I’ve been meaning to get a stabilizer for quite a while (or a gimbal as some might call it) for my Sony A6400 mirrorless camera. But I’ve been reluctant to get one because most stabilizers on the market, either lacked some of the essential features I needed, or couldn’t do what it supposed to.

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Fractal Design Ion+ Series 760 W Review

The Fractal Design Ion+ 760P is a very quiet high-performance power supply of fine build quality. Its highly flexible cables, which lack in-line caps, make cable routing and management considerably easier. Costing about as much as PSUs with lower efficiency certifications, it also won't drain your wallet.

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Intel's Cascade Lake-X CPU for High-End Desktops: 18 cores for Under $1000

With someone in the press having broken their embargo earlier today, Intel is lifting the lid earlier than planned on their upcoming Cascade Lake-X family of processors for the high-end desktop (HEDT) market. Similar to the way Intels Cascade Lake based Xeon Scalable processors are a further revision of their Skylake Xeons, offering clock speed increases and security fixes in hardware, the new HEDT processors will grant higher frequencies, more memory capacity, and better protection against side-channel attacks. The key numbers however are the big drop in Intels pricing: Intel will be releasing its 18-core part, the Core i9-10980XE, for under $1000.

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iStorage datAshur PRO2 256GB Secure USB 3.2 Gen 1 Flash Drive Review

iStorage is the trusted global leader of award-winning PIN authenticated, hardware encrypted data storage devices. Delivering the most innovative products to securely store and protect data to military specified encryption levels; safeguarding valuable business information whilst ensuring compliance to regulations and directives.

According to iStorage the brand new datAshur PRO2 line of hardware encrypted flash drives (currently available in 4/8/16/32/64/128/256/512GB capacities - OS & platform independent) not only features an entirely new design but it's also largely improved compared to the previous datAshur PRO line. So leaving out the new USB 3.2 Gen 1 classification which is the latest way of saying USB 3.0/USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB 3.2 Gen 2 is the new name for USB 3.1 Gen 2 and there's also a brand new USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 classification for 20Gbps drives - yes the USB implementers forum has been busy, again) the brand new datAshur PRO2 is not only available in higher capacities (up to 512GB) but it also sports an IP58 certified housing (dust and waterproof beyond 1 meter depth - the datAshur PRO was IP57 certified and thus waterproof up to 1 meter), zinc alloy lanyard, extra shift key (via which you can use special characters for your PIN) and a common criteria EAL4+ ready secure microprocessor (defends the drive against external tamper, bypass laser attacks and fault injections – up until now only the diskAshur line had this feature). Everything else however remains pretty much the same so once again the drive is secured with real-time military grade FIPS PUB 197 validated AES-XTS 256-bit hardware encryption (FIPS 140-2 Level 3, NCSC CPA, NLNCSA BSPA & NATO restricted level certified) via PIN authentication (7-15 digits in length / supports independent Admin, User and even self-destruct PINs) and features a built-in 3.7v lithium-polymer rechargeable battery, tamper-proof super tough epoxy resin coating placed on its internal components and a polymer coated (water resistant) alphanumeric keypad. Of course, the datAshur PRO2 can be set to auto-lock (the drive can be set to lock after a predetermined amount of time) and read-only mode and is protected against brute force attacks so after 10 consecutive incorrect Admin PIN entries all data stored in the drive are securely erased (however after 10 consecutive incorrect user PIN entries you can still use the Admin PIN to access the drive). Just like with the datAshur PRO iStorage also allows you to personalize the datAshur PRO2 by laser etching your name, logo and/or message on the aluminum cover (top/sides) and covers the entire datAshur PRO2 family of secure USB 3.2 Gen 1 flash drives with a 3-year limited warranty and free lifetime support.

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Jaybird Vista True Wireless Earbuds Review

True Wireless headphones have come a long way over the last year. They?ve gotten smaller, offer improved battery life and reliability, and sound better than ever before. Jaybird is out with their latest take on the True Wireless earbud with the Jaybird Vista. I was a big fan of the original Jaybird RUNs when I reviewed them last year but does the Vista worthy of an upgrade? I've spent the last few weeks with them to answer that very question. Let's dive in.

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Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 Review

Rivet Network's new Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 wireless adapter is based on the same Wi-Fi 6 chipset and driver stack as Intel's own module, but on the software side, Rivet Networks amps things up with its own custom features, tweaks, and technologies.

What some may find surprising is the lack of a significant markup on the Killer bundle, despite the advantages it offers over vanilla solutions...

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Micron 5210 Ion Enterprise SSD Review

Flash has already killed the 15,000-RPM "high performance" disk drive and mature 4-bit per cell "QLC" is taking aim at the 10,000-RPM performance tier. micron-5210-ion-enterprise-ssd-review Micron's weapon of choice to disrupt the 10K market is the 5210 Ion 2.5" SATA SSD. The 5210 Ion is the first 4-bit per cell SSD with the full gamut of enterprise features. The series is a direct swap to upgrade existing servers running spinning disks. The upgrade improves performance, power consumption, reliability and capacity. These are the same talking points for flash we've heard through the years. The difference now is even lower cost per gigabyte and improvements in density. The 5210 Ion isn't just an upgrade model for existing servers. Modern workloads such as machine learning have increase data set sizes without increasing the number of writes to the disk. In years past, we saw a four reads to one write ratio as normal in the datacenter but the ratio has significantly changed in recent years. Micron tells us key customers see 5,000 reads to one write with many modern workloads. These workloads ushered in the QLC era.

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Origin USB-C and Triple 4K Docking Stations Review

Is your small laptop hindering your productivity? Then check out these docking stations by Origin!

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Patriot P200 1 TB Review

Priced at just $89.99 for the 1 TB version, the Patriot P200 is the perfect solution for users wanting large affordable storage to keep all their games on SSD. Even though it's based on TLC, sustained write performance is amazing and there is no visible speed drop.

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Take NVMe speed anywhere with Asus ROG’s M.2 enclosure

It feels like it wasn’t that long ago that taking storage with you meant choosing between a chunky enclosure or a thumb drive with little capacity. Nowadays, we don’t have to make that compromise, even on the DIY side. Asus has revealed its new ROG Strix Arion M.2 SSD enclosure to let you achieve those NVMe speeds anywhere.

The Asus Arion M.2 enclosure is a USB device that offers compatibility with all PCIe 3.0 M.2 SSDs up to the 2280 form factor. The enclosure features screwdriver-free installation, so dropping an M.2 SSD in there should be a cinch.

Read full article @ The Tech Report