Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

Cougar 700K Mechanical Keyboard Review
Debian 8.0 Jessie - GNU/Linux vs. GNU/kFreeBSD Benchmarks
Kingston SSDnow M2 SATA 120GB Solid State Drive Review
Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs
MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G Review
NZXT Kraken X61 & X41 CPU Coolers Review
Ubuntu 15.04 to Include GNOME 3.14, Updates to Default Apps
What is good audio editing software on Linux
Yoga Tablet 2 Pro review: So close to being good

Cougar 700K Mechanical Keyboard Review

Cougar has raised the standards for computer peripherals with one of the most current offerings, the Cougar 700K mechanical keyboard. This is a top-tier Cherry MX Mechanical keyboard with not only full backlighting capability, but a slew of options specifically aimed toward gamers. In this article Benchmark Reviews investigates and unveils the features included with the Cougar 700K mechanical gaming keyboard.

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Debian 8.0 Jessie - GNU/Linux vs. GNU/kFreeBSD Benchmarks

Here's our latest benchmark results comparing the performance of Debian Jessie GNU/Linux vs. GNU/kFreeBSD -- the Debian port that uses the FreeBSD kernel rather than Linux...

Read full article @ Phoronix

Kingston SSDnow M2 SATA 120GB Solid State Drive Review

Kingston has a long line of storage options for about every usage you could have. Today I’m taking a look at the SSDnow M.2 SATA Solid State Drive with a capacity of 120GB.

The M.2 modules are also known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF) and these thin and compact modules save space in small and embedded systems, ultra-thin devices, or it will just fit snuggly into your motherboards M.2 slot in your desktop system. The caseless design allows easier integration as well as keeping the weight as low as possible; a big factor when used in Ultrabooks and similar devices.

The 2280 module (22mm width, 80mm length) supports advanced garbage collection, wear-levelling and TRIM to keep up the performance over the entire lifetime of the drive; so we should see very stable performance in our tests on the following pages. S.M.A.R.T. is also supported for peace of mind and health monitoring.

Read full article @ eTeknix

Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs

Enthusiasts have been pushing the limits of silicon for as long as microprocessors have existed. Early endeavors involved soldering and replacing crystal clock oscillators, but evolving standards brought options for changing system bus speeds via motherboard DIP switches and jumpers, while some of the most daring would gain boosts through hard modding. These are but a few of the landmark processors revered for their overclocking prowess.

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MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G Review

MSI have long been a stalwart of quality products which has made them a firm favourite for both enthusiasts and system builders alike. Performance users love the brand not only because of the quality of components used but because they are silent and very well cooled. The MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G is one such product that encompasses these values, especially with regard to the cooling with the near silent, redesigned TWIN FROZR V which as the name suggests is the fifth incarnation of their custom heatsink/cooling assembly which we have lauded over in the past. As you will see, this version is no different in this respect.

Read full article @ Vortez

NZXT Kraken X61 & X41 CPU Coolers Review

NZXT’s Kraken series of prebuilt CPU water coolers has been around since early 2013 and when they were released, they took the All in One market by storm. Since then, the original X60 and X40 are still among some of the better solutions around but the competition has been fierce with new or updated units from Corsair, Silverstone, Antec, Thermaltake and many others. Now NZXT is launching the Kraken’s next generation while consists of three new Asetek-supplied closed loop liquid coolers: the X31, X41 and X61.

In order to top of the performance abilities of their first attempts, NZXT went back to the drawing board. The result is a brand new waterblock and pump design that was handed down to Asetek for mass manufacturing. This update promises to be even more efficient at whisking away heat from even the hottest running of CPUs.

While absolute CPU cooling performance is first and foremost the primary task of NZXT’s redesign, the pump plays a key role as well. In previous AiO designs fan speeds could be controlled so a user could have some control over their system’s noise levels but the pump itself remained at a constant operating speed. This proved to be a bone of contention since achieving truly quiet acoustics proved to be a challenge with the pump chugging away. With the X41 and X61 NZXT is introducing a technology that’s long since been available on custom water cooling setups: a variable speed pump which can scale its speed from 2400RPM to 3600RPM depending on load conditions.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Ubuntu 15.04 to Include GNOME 3.14, Updates to Default Apps

A small update, but one that should have a big impact on the lives of app developers and users alike: Ubuntu 15.04 will ship with GTK 3.14.

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What is good audio editing software on Linux

Whether you are an amateur musician or just a student recording his professor, you need to edit and work with audio recordings. If for a long time such task was exclusively attributed to Macintosh, this time is over, and Linux now has what it takes to do the job.

Read full article @ Xmodulo

Yoga Tablet 2 Pro review: So close to being good

Bulky and underpowered, but multitasking and projector gimmick get our attention. Twice this year, we at Ars declared that Lenovo was onto something with its Yoga Pro laptop line, offering conditional praise for both the Yoga 2 and Yoga 3 flavors of that ultra-thin, reasonably powered, fold-and-bend model. However, at starting prices at or over $1,000, they didn't necessarily feel powerful enough to deplete someone's gizmo budget just because users wanted a 13-inch touchscreen.

Someone at Lenovo must have agreed, as the company has found a way to get that giant touchscreen onto a more reasonably priced device. If the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro had been nothing more than a 13.3-inch Android tablet with an Intel Atom chipset and 2GB of RAM, we'd have called it a day. Here, have a giant, so-so Android device for $500, we might have said, otherwise not giving the thing much consideration.

Read full article @ ArsTechnica