Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

17 32-inch QHD monitors Review
AMD ZEN 2 7nm CPUs on Track
ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate Review
BenQ ScreenBar e-Reading Lamp Review
DeepCool NEW ARK 90 Tower Chassis Review
EasySMX EG-C3071W Review
Fnatic Gear Clutch 2 Optical Gaming Mouse Review
Huawei MateBook X Pro Review
Microsoft Windows 10 April Update Review
Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3 AMD Threadripper CPU Cooler Review
Phanteks P350X Review
Seasonic PRIME 1200W Platinum Power Supply Review
TEAMGROUP T-Force VULCAN TUF Gaming Review
Toshiba OCZ RC100 240GB M.2. SSD Review
Toshiba RC100 SSD Review
Unravel Two Xbox One Review
WD My Passport 1TB Review

17 32-inch QHD monitors Review

Presumably you've made up your mind: your next monitor will be a 4K model. But still, if you want to buy a new screen right now, you shouldn't forget WQHD models. We tested 17 screens with a diagonal of 32 inches.

The monitor manufacturers are focusing on 4K on a massive scale, resulting in continuous price reductions. A 27-inch copy with IPS panel can be found for well under 350 pounds. Of course, four times as many pixels as full HD sounds like a nice upgrade, but you may wonder if ultra HD is the best choice at the moment.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

AMD ZEN 2 7nm CPUs on Track

AMD just confirmed to us that EPYC ZEN 2 CPUs are well on the way to being sampled into datacenters in the 2nd half of 2018. Forrest Norrod assured us that Zen 3, Zen 4, and Zen 5 were steadily being worked on and would bring performance and feature upgrades certainly. He explained that the 7nm ROME CPU silicon is "looking very good." The ZEN 2 ROME CPUs will be fully launched in 2019. It will be socket compatible with current EPYC CPUs. "We are on track with 7nm, and we are delivering."

Read full article @ HardOCP

ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate Review

The second generation of AMD Ryzen CPUs have hit the market, and with them comes a wave of new motherboards. The ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate aims at a top spot among them. Has ASRock brought enough to the table to make this board the Ultimate?

ASRock is a motherboard manufacturer that formed in 2002. The Taiwan-based company with branches in Europe and the USA has quickly risen to become an industry leader, placing 3rd in motherboard sales worldwide. With AMD's launch of the 2nd generation of Ryzen processors and the subsequent launch of the X470 chipset to support them, ASRock is launching the latest in their "Taichi" line of motherboards. Today, I am looking at the flagship of that line: the ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate. Before we take a look at what the ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate has to offer, let's first look at what has changed with the X470 chipset from last year's X370.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

BenQ ScreenBar e-Reading Lamp Review

It's a pretty nifty desk lamp that mounts onto your monitor - but is it worth £89? The BenQ ScreenBar claims to prevent eyestrain if you’re staring at your monitor for long periods of time, while it also saves desk space since it mounts to the top of your monitor. This above monitor mounting and rotatable design also prevents glare as the lamp doesn’t shine directly on your screen, while the ambient light sensor enables the ScreenBar to automatically adjust its brightness to your surroundings.

The list of features looks really promising, but for £89, does this blow all other desk lights out of the water, or is it simply over-engineered?

Read full article @ KitGuru

DeepCool NEW ARK 90 Tower Chassis Review

We review the new NEW ARK 90 from DeepCool, a product series that not only looks really good with a nice dark tempered glass design, it is also factory fitted with a 280mm triple fan (we'll explain how that works later) based liquid cooling solution. You read that right, it's integrated into the chassis. The chassis offers terrific looks and sure, also has RGB fans factory installed, configurable with a handy controller. DeepCool has been on a roll lately, their new QuadStellar series became hugely popular. Combined with the earlier Tristellar release, which gave them a more secure name/branding in the USA and EU channels, DeepCool typically was mainly known for their cooling solutions, these days they offer proper AIO liquid cooling kit and a number of chassis. All new is the ARK 90 series, which is a bit of a hybrid of a chassis with included cooling, a new design chassis series combined with a factory fitted and integrated liquid cooler based on their 'Captain' AIO kits. DeepCool decided to do it properly and fits the ARK 90 with a custom 280mm model. Aesthetics are important as well, at the front-side you'll notice part of the reservoir tubing visible. The chassis is your modern age design that comes with all the whistles and bells you may expect from it, we'll show it all of course. As a package, you open it up, install your components and you are good to go as everything LCS wise is pre-fitted and thus the kit is easy to use and install.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

EasySMX EG-C3071W Review

EasySMX is a relative newcomer to the gaming market, but with them driving focus towards making affordable gaming products, they are quickly becoming quite popular in the budget gaming scene. Today we'll be testing out their EG-C3071W gaming controller and putting it through its paces.

Read full article @ Vortez

Fnatic Gear Clutch 2 Optical Gaming Mouse Review

Fnatic Gear has dropped their second generation of mice upon the globe, with the intent to not only offer something for their eSports players, but to involve the typical users as well, and give them a mouse to be proud to own. Typically when a new generation of a previous product is released, we see a few minor changes, possibly fixing things missed in the original run, but it is more likely they are merely adding features that have come to market since the original was offered. However, Fnatic Gear appears to keep only the name, with what is essentially a, from the ground up, redesign of all parts and components of the mouse.

Comparing what we have now to the original Clutch mouse, just by spending a minute or two in comparison to them, we found that there are over a dozen obvious changes to be had. Internal layout and components used are swapped out for better ones, the CPI has increased due to this, as Fnatic Gear is offering the best optical sensor on the market this time. The dimensions have changed, the weight has changed, and even the styling and grip surfaces have been modified. No matter which part of the mouse you are looking at, it is easy to spot that Fnatic Gear is not ones to put lipstick on a pig and call it a new product.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Huawei MateBook X Pro Review

Had someone asked us a year ago what we thought the top laptop brands would be heading into the summer of 2018, one name that would probably not have been mentioned is Huawei. It's not that laptops are a foreign product category to the Chinese manufacturer, it is just that Huawei is better known here in the U.S. for its smartphone lineup. It would be a mistake to overlook Huawei's new MateBook X Pro, however.

Cutting right to the chase, the MateBook X Pro challenges the notion that you have to pay a hefty premium for a high-end ultraportable...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Microsoft Windows 10 April Update Review

I remember at one point in my life being so excited that I finally had Windows XP! No more boring Windows 98 grey taskbar uglying up my sweet desktop made up of bright neon colors with low-res bitmap images copy-pasted onto them! Those were the heady days of the post-2000s, when I was a teenager with a Pentium II desktop with Windows XP and Starcraft. How times have changed. Now I'm a fat old man with a faster desktop, still banging away on Windows playing similar games.Windows 10 launched roughly three years ago in the summer of 2015. Microsoft later announced that the operating system would receive regular bi-annual feature updates. We've just witnessed the launch of one of them for 2018.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3 AMD Threadripper CPU Cooler Review

The second review of the Noctua’s Threadripper coolers will cover the NH-U12S TR4-SP3 so a bit larger cooler which is using a single 120mm fan. Even though is a bit larger then also designed for maximum TDP of 180W. It’s a lot but considering AMD Ryzen design, we should be able to have some headroom for overclocking and keep our CPU to run quietly.

Let’s take a look at our review to find out if our expectations are true.

Read full article @ FunkyKit

Phanteks P350X Review

Ticking all the right boxes: lights, glass, flexibility, and affordability.

Getting the right case for your PC build is one of the most important decisions you can make. Not only do you want something that you like the look of, but you need to account for other more mundane things. How easy is it to build in, what's the cable management like, its airflow and so on.

On paper, the new Phanteks P350X ticks all the right boxes. It's a good looking mid-tower with a tempered glass side panel, a very attractive price of $75, supports full ATX motherboards, has pre-installed RGB lighting and has a ton of space to use for your build.

Read full article @ Windows Central

Seasonic PRIME 1200W Platinum Power Supply Review

With BIG Power comes BIG Responsibility! How does Seasonic go about handling all that power with its new PRIME 1200W PLATINUM PSU Given Seasonic's excellent track record when it comes to high-end PSUs, we have high-end expectations. Once you see the incredible price you will almost have to buy one. Really.

In the power supply realm, when consumers think of quiet and efficient power supplies one of the first companies that comes to mind is Seasonic. Today we our looking at a brand new Seasonic unit that is part of their PRIME Platinum series. In this review, we will specifically be looking at the 1200W model (SSR-1200PD ).

Seasonic is one of the older companies producing consumer power supplies having been founded in 1975 and entering the PC power supply production market in 1980. During that more than 40 years as a company Seasonic has cultivated lines of power supplies that are today some of the standard bearers for efficiency and quiet computing. This focus, and its reputation for quality, has lead to an explosion in production as Seasonic can be found providing OEM services on various model lines for Antec, XFX, Corsair, PC Power and Cooling, and of course under its own Seasonic brand.

Read full article @ HardOCP

TEAMGROUP T-Force VULCAN TUF Gaming Review

In 2018, it's rare to see a product unhindered by RGB LEDs, and so today we're graced by the presence of the modest, yet tasteful T-FORCE VULCAN TUF DDR4 kit. TEAMGROUP has designed this kit to work in conjunction with ASUS TUF GAMING motherboards, marrying up with the overall theme that these boards offer.

Read full article @ Vortez

Toshiba OCZ RC100 240GB M.2. SSD Review

Toshiba has launched its OCZ RC100 240GB M.2. NVMe SSDs, we review the 240GB model. You can look at the product series as the affordable alternative, but on NVMe nothing is slow. This affordable series really fast (relatively speaking) with a rated sequential read speed up to 1600 MB/s and sequential write speed up to 1100MB/s. That's twice to three times as fast as a regular 2.5" SSD, for the same money.

The specs are great, but will this unit deliver what it claims? M2 is the interesting form factor, these small storage units are evolving from being "just as fast" as a regular SSD towards double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuple and perhaps in the future even octuple that performance. It comes in a different package, M.2. Using the PCIe lanes interface it is so much more capable as it can deal with way more bandwidth using PCI-Express lanes. As such, M.2 solutions are intended for high-end and enthusiast class motherboards and laptops.

The RC100 series M.2 SSDs are a fast series of storage technology as they offer premium performance when compared to a regular SATA3 SSD. This product that reads well at 1.6 GB/sec and writes close towards 1 GB/sec. These new M.2 units use the NVMe protocol and that means storage technology at millennium falcon hyper-fast speeds while remaining competitive in pricing.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

Toshiba RC100 SSD Review

The Toshiba RC100 is an NVMe SSD in the smaller-than-usual M.2 2242 form factor and making use of the NVMe Host Memory Buffer to improve the performance of this DRAMless SSD. Toshiba is hoping that this combination of niche features can also produce a decent entry-level NVMe SSD to push NVMe further into the mainstream.

Toshiba's RC100 has arrived as the company's first low-end retail NVMe SSD, and only their second retail NVMe SSD after the aging OCZ RD400. There's nothing else quite like the RC100 in the retail SSD market, but it is part of a broader trend of PCIe and NVMe interfaces being used for cheaper SSDs, and not just the high-end drives that all the first-generation NVMe products aspired to be. Prices on these entry-level NVMe SSDs are now encroaching on the SATA SSDs that still make up the bulk of the market.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Unravel Two Xbox One Review

Unravel Two is a great sequel, and showcases the potential of EA Originals.

When Electronic Arts (EA) began to support indie developers with the EA Originals program, one of the first games from it was Unravel, arguably 2016's best puzzle game. Two years later, developer Coldwood Interactive surprised the gaming community with a sequel, Unravel Two, that became playable following its reveal.

For the most part, Unravel Two perfectly replicates everything that was great about the first game, but also brings back some of what was poor. Even so, it's a great title that any puzzle gamer should have on their radar.

Read full article @ Windows Central

WD My Passport 1TB Review

You guys/girls ever see something that you really don’t need but just have to have in your life? For the most part, I try to keep things like this under control, but a while back during our anniversary contest I happened to see that WD had this bright orange external drive. Now I wish they had a bright orange My Passport SSD like the one I reviewed last year, this isn’t it. This is the larger spinning disk-based model. But its bright bright orange! So I had to check it out. So today I’m going to show you guys the drive, check out its performance, then talk a little about if classic external storage is still a good option these days.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews