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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Adata Portable SSD Roundup
Arozzi Arena Gaming Desk
Case Mod Friday: 780T Taichi
Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro M Mechanical Keyboard Review
Kaby Lake Core i7-7500U Versus Skylake Core i7-6500U on Dell XPS 13
PNY Riot 01 gaming mouse review
Quadro P6000 And P5000 Review: NVIDIAs Most Powerful Pascal GPUs
Seagate Backup Plus 5TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review
Ultrabooks - Dell XPS 13 VS MacBook Pro 13”

Adata Portable SSD Roundup

Adata launched several portable SSD products that deliver flash reliability on the go. Three product announcements hit our inbox, and the company even made a follow-up announcement for a fourth. We have the original three, but not all is as it appears.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Arozzi Arena Gaming Desk

It’s funny how we spend sometimes thousands of dollars on our PCs and peripherals but at the end of the day don’t give much thought to our actual desk setups. I bet a lot of you are using the same desk that you used years ago, I know I did. But a few years ago I started thinking about options for new desks and frankly there really aren’t that many out there. Sure you can pick up the cheap desks at your local discount store, but is there anything out there that’s better. Are there any options focused on gamers? Well if you search around you will find a few options that are “gamer” focused, but none were very good. So when I saw the Arozzi Arena Gaming Desk online it caught my eye. They didn’t just add colors and call it a gaming product, it actually has a cloth mouse surface over the entire top of the desk. With all of the people buying large desk pads and putting them under their keyboard and mouse, the Arena seemed like an extension of that so I reached out to Arozzi to take a closer look.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Case Mod Friday: 780T Taichi

This week’s build comes from Hanoicomputer once again. This build is done inside of the Corsair 780T case and makes use of the very interesting ASRock X99 Taichi motherboard. They have continued the styling of the motherboard throughout the case and have outfitted the system with a pretty awesome watercooling setup! Be sure to check this build out!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro M Mechanical Keyboard Review

This Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro M would not only catch your eye, it will catch every keystroke you can throw at it.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Kaby Lake Core i7-7500U Versus Skylake Core i7-6500U on Dell XPS 13

We recently got our hands on the Dell XPS 13 9360 laptop with a 7th Generation Intel Core i7-7500U Kaby Lake processor that is the direct replacement for last years Dell XPS 13 9350 laptop with the 6th Generation Intel Core i7-6500U Skylake processor. Both laptops have 8GB of LPDDR3 1866MHz memory and 256GB PCIe NVMe SSDs, so it gave us a great opportunity to compare the performance of Kaby Lake versus Skylake on a laptop!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

PNY Riot 01 gaming mouse review

PNY might be a new comer to the world of peripheral making, but it is gunning hard for the competitive market of gaming mice with its first effort: the Riot 01. It has an eye catching colour scheme, an ergonomic shape and some neat lighting options that are rather impressive for such a budget mouse.

Priced under £30, the Riot 01 is looking to undercut a lot of the competition, but it will need to stand up to our vigorous gaming and general usage testing to get the thumbs up.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Quadro P6000 And P5000 Review: NVIDIAs Most Powerful Pascal GPUs

NVIDIA’s Pascal architecture has been wildly successful in the consumer space. The various GPUs that power the GeForce GTX 10 series are all highly competitive at their respective price points, and the higher-end variants are currently unmatched by any single competing GPU. That may change when AMD launches GPUs based on its next-generation Vega architecture, but that won’t happen for a few more months, so cards like the GeForce GTX 1080 and TITAN X will continue to dominate benchmark charts at least for a little while longer.

NVIDIA has since retooled Pascal for the professional workstation market as well, with products that make even the GeForce GTX 1080 and TITAN X look quaint in comparison. We're speaking of the beastly Quadro P6000 and Quadro P5000 -- Pascal powered behemoths, packing up to 24GB of GDDR5X memory and GPUs that are more capable than their consumer-targeted counterparts...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Seagate Backup Plus 5TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review

The brand new Backup Plus 5TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive by Seagate doesn't only offer plenty of storage capacity and impressive performance for when on the go but it also comes bundled with a 2-year OneDrive 200GB subscription. Oh and did we mention that it's priced just right?

Read full article @ NikKTech

Ultrabooks - Dell XPS 13 VS MacBook Pro 13”

Here are two Ultrabooks that offer great features for this classification of laptops. They are both highly portable, very thin and light, and boast excellent battery life. But let’s see how they compare.

Read full article @ DailyTech