Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Antigraviator Review
Aten Thunderbolt 3 Multiport Dock Review
BIOSTAR B360GT5S Motherboard Review
Cooler Master ML240R RGB AIO CPU Cooler Review
Cooler Master ML240R RGB Liquid Cooler Review
Corsair K70 RGB MK2 Review
Corsair Strafe RGB MK.2 Keyboard Review
EVGA Supernova 750 G3 Gold Power Supply Review
How To Setup Folding@Home: 2018 Edition
Intel Hades Canyon NUC8i7HVK Review
Intel Optane SSD 905P Series (480GB) Review
Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns, CFO Robert Swan as Interim CEO
Synology DS718+ 2-Bay NAS Review
Toshiba TransMemory U365 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review
Vampyr Review
What is Vcore and How Does It Help with Overclocking?

Antigraviator Review

Antigraviator is an anti-gravity racing game set in a future where racing has exploded in popularity due to breakthroughs in terraforming and anti-gravity technology. As a result of this global phenomenon, the antigraviator tournament was born. This is where the game’s single player campaign takes place. Spanning seven Grand Prix (GP), each with four tracks, players are able to experience all fifteen tracks Antigraviator has to offer.

These tracks take place across five environments: urban, desert, arctic, space and island, with each environment featuring three unique tracks. Throughout the campaign, players will see all three of Antigraviator’s game modes: Single, the normal lap-based racing you see in every game; Deathrace, last car left on the track wins; and Countdown, drive through the checkpoints to add more time to your constantly depleting clock.

Read full article @ Wccftech

Aten Thunderbolt 3 Multiport Dock Review

Aten has quite a large portfolio with products ranging from KVM, Professional AV equipment, Rack PDU along with all sorts of cables. Lately, they have been investing in their USB-C and Thunderbolt lineups and part of that is today's UH7230 Multiport Dock.

The UH7230 is an all-out connectivity slinging solution allowing 8 devices to be connected at any one time. It takes advantage of 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 and the USB-C connector while also being backwards compatible with Gen 2 USB 3.1.

Read full article @ TweakTown

BIOSTAR B360GT5S Motherboard Review

Many of our readers will know we love our extreme motherboards, but they’re certainly not for everyone. Although, I’m sure some people would spend hundreds on a motherboard just because they can. However, for most, affordability is just as important as performance. The BIOSTAR B360 range is built for low-cost but still promises some competitive features. For a mid-budget gaming PC, or just a decent home computer, the B360 range is certainly appealing. Z370 is still there for the enthusiast, and H370 close behind that. B360 is the budget end of the chipset, but still offers support for 8th Gen CPUs, M.2 storage, and more. The main missing feature is a lack of overclocking; if you don’t overclock, why bother with a more expensive motherboard anyway?

Read full article @ eTeknix

Cooler Master ML240R RGB AIO CPU Cooler Review

Cooler Master's claim to fame with the ML240R RGB is, you guessed it, "THE MOST COLORFUL WAY TO COOL." Its Master Liquid series has recently gotten high praise from us when it comes to keeping your CPU cool using an All-In-One cooler. Cooler Master has taken its successful model and adorned it with lots of Frag Harder Disco Lights.

Read full article @ HardOCP

Cooler Master ML240R RGB Liquid Cooler Review

It has been a fair while since we last reviewed a CPU cooler from Cooler Master. Well, that changes today as we are looking at the ML240R RGB liquid cooler, with addressable RGB lighting on both the pump and the fans. Priced at just under £110, can this strike a balance between good looks and impressive performance? Let’s find out.

As the name suggests, the ML240R is a 240mm liquid cooler from Cooler Master. The ‘ML’ stands for ‘Master Liquid’ and is nothing to do with magnetic levitation fans, while the ‘R’ stands for ‘regular’ as Cooler Master products are now split into three tiers – lite, regular and pro.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Corsair K70 RGB MK2 Review

With their K70 RGB MK2, Corsair has a high-end keyboard in its portfolio, which can be ordered with all the different types of Cherry MX RGB switches. Therefore there is going to be a good looking backlight in combination with the typical typing feel the mechnical Cherry switches are so well-known for. Like with the previous model, with the K70 RGB MK2 you will get a solid gaming keyboard made out plastic and aluminum.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Corsair Strafe RGB MK.2 Keyboard Review

Corsair has updated its Strafe RGB keyboard - is the new MK.2 worth it? Corsair has recently updated two of its popular gaming keyboards – the K70 RGB & the Strafe RGB – with the new boards adopting the ‘MK.2’ moniker. In this review we take a look at the improvements made to the Strafe, which is one of Corsair’s more affordable high end keyboards. Has Corsair listened to user feedback and made some worthwhile changes?

Read full article @ KitGuru

EVGA Supernova 750 G3 Gold Power Supply Review

Between their power supplies, cooling options, and graphics card ranges, EVGA has built a reputation as being one of the best in the business. Their products speak of a quality design, performance, and reliability. Three key points that should be top of your list when it comes to choosing your next power supply.

Given the importance of your power supply, it is perhaps one of the best value for money decisions to get the best you can afford that meets the demands of your system. One of the key factors in this is efficiency. Bad efficiency means more energy required to power your PC. Going cheap in this regard will ultimately risk your PC and, at the very least, cost you at the electric meter.

Read full article @ eTeknix

How To Setup Folding@Home: 2018 Edition

Below is a two-part video guide covering this whole article. The first one is simply setting up Folding@Home for the OCC Team, while the second part covers everything that has to do with cryptocurrency. Please if you enjoy the content make sure to leave a comment and let us know how we are doing because we are always trying to improve the quality of our video content.

Read full article @ OCC

Intel Hades Canyon NUC8i7HVK Review

From time to time in the hardware market, there are weird and interesting products that come out that seem to break the norm. In the past, you used to see them all the time. For example All in One video cards with capturing built in, crazy multi CPU boards like the SR-2 and SR-X, Asus’s crazy dual GPU MARS and Ares cards and so on. Well right there along with them are the Hades Canyon NUCs from Intel. Okay, NUCs are cool, but what makes these so crazy and special. Well Along with the Intel CPU inside, they actually have AMD Vega graphics. Now lots of PCs being sold these days have Intel CPUs with an AMD dedicated GPU, but what they did here is different. They are both on the same chip! So it's not a big surprise they went with the Hades Canyon name, Hades is another word for Hell and its clear things have frozen over there for these two to be working together like this. So before things thaw out I’m going to check out its features, software, and performance then figure out if this SFF PC has a place in the market or my LAN bag.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Intel Optane SSD 905P Series (480GB) Review

The fastest consumer SSD in the world? How do you go about creating the best, most responsive solid-state drive on the market today? Though NAND-based drives can claim super-impressive sequential speeds, responsiveness, which is key to excellent performance in the workstation and high-end desktop market, requires technology that has fundamentally lower latency. Enter Intel's Optane, powered by 3D XPoint memory.

The first question that needs answering is how 3D XPoint technology is better than ubiquitous NAND with respect to latency and, therefore, responsiveness and small-file performance. The answer rests with the way in which memory is accessed. With normal NAND, common in the vast majority of SSDs, data is stored in cells but is accessed in a collection of rows that are known as a page. These pages are usually between 2KB and 16KB in size, and a number of pages make up what is known as a block.

Read full article @ Hexus

Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns, CFO Robert Swan as Interim CEO

This morning Intel made a formal press release to state that Brian Krzanich, now former CEO, has resigned. Current CFO Robert Swan is named as CEO in the interim while the company looks for a replacement. As Intel does not have an immediate replacement, the resignation seems to be a snap decision relating to what Intel calls ‘a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee’, and an expectation that employees adhere to a code of conduct.

Sources told CNBC that Krzanich violated a policy that said he could not have a relationship with an employee who directly reported to him. The relationship ended and took place "some time back," the people said. Its unclear with whom Krzanich had the relationship. The company was only recently made aware of the relationship, at which point they began probing and Krzanich was asked to resign. 

Read full article @ Anandtech

Synology DS718+ 2-Bay NAS Review

The Synology DS718+ is a high-end 2-bay NAS with good performance, silent operation, and low power consumption. Its strong advantage is that its storage capacity can easily be expanded with five additional drives (seven in total) since it is compatible with the optional DX513 expansion unit.

The DS718+ is a high-end NAS featuring two bays, which looks like very little when it comes to its capacity; however, this NAS is compatible with Synology's DX517 expansion unit, so you can turn it into a NAS with seven bays if more storage is required. The only problem is that the DX517 isn't cheap since it actually costs more than the DS718+, but what matters is that this NAS server's storage space can be expanded upon when the need to do so arises.

Thanks to its quad-core CPU, the DS718+ supports real-time 4K video transcoding, which makes it ideal for users wanting a NAS for high quality multimedia content streaming. Priced at $400 as I write this review, it surely isn't an affordable 2-bay NAS servers, but its feature set is rich and among others includes support for both Btrfs and ext4. The Btrfs filesystem offers better data protection than ext4, so Synology recommends formatting the server's drives to Btrfs instead of ext4. Btrfs also supports a maximum file size of 16 EiB instead of the 1 EiB in ext4 and includes other interesting features, like snapshots, pooling, and checksums.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Toshiba TransMemory U365 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

The TransMemory U365 drive comes with fast read speeds, even higher than the advertised “up to 150 MB/s” and is quite easy to operate thanks to the sliding retractable design. Depending on the capacity we do choose to go with (32GB, 64GB, 128GB or 256GB), we can fit quite a bit of content on it, in order to transfer to other PCs/Laptops. This model is also backed by a 5-year warranty from the date of purchase, which says a lot of the quality components inside the unit.

Read full article @ Mad Shrimps

Vampyr Review

Vampyr is a very interesting game, but I must admit when I first played it I hated it. The combat was finicky, the NPCs just didn't catch my fancy, and the world seemed bunched up and confusing. But I stuck with it because despite my frustrations there was something there, something dark and mysterious, something that kept pulling me back in. I'm very glad I didn't give up because Vampyr has become one of my new favorite games of 2018. How did this switch happen? Not fast, but gradually: slowly over time the game opened up to me and ultimately changed my perspective.

As I played I learned the ins and outs and combat tricks like exploiting the biting animation that makes you invincible, or how important stamina really is. I learned how to navigate London's dark, foggy streets and properly maintain the districts I really cared about.

Read full article @ TweakTown

What is Vcore and How Does It Help with Overclocking?

Vcore, or core voltage, is the voltage that is supplied to power your CPU. The amount of power the CPU uses and the amount of heat generated are tied to the amount of voltage it draws. The voltage identification definition, or VID, determines the amount of voltage your CPU needs to maintain stability at the default clock speeds.

Read full article @ TechSpot