Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Astro A40 + Mixamp M80 Xbox One Headset Review
be quiet! Silent Base 800 Mid Tower Case Review
Corsair Carbide 100R Silent Review
Hands on with Office 2016 for Mac
HiFiMAN HE-400i Planar Magnetic Headphones
Mid-Tower Shootout: A trio of sub-$70 cases compared
Office for Mac 2016 hands-on: a vital upgrade, with some kinks to work out
Patriot Viper 4 16GB PC4-24000 Review
What the Lumia 640 tells us about Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2

Astro A40 + Mixamp M80 Xbox One Headset Review

I’m very excited about today’s review, as we’ve got another product in from the incredible brand that is Astro. My excitement comes from the fact that every product I’ve tested from the Astro range has quickly stood out as some of the best products in their respective categories and I’m hoping for a repeat performance from their latest product, the Astro A40 (Gen2) + Mixamp M80 for Xbox One.

The Astro product range is designed with eSports in mind, but also tailored towards the enthusiast gamer in general. As such, the Astro product ranges do command a premium price tag. The setup I’ll be testing today will set you back £170, similar in price to premium headsets from Turtle Beach, Tritton, Razer and more. Of course, paying a lot for a headset brings a lot higher expectations; at this price range you’ll want premium build quality, performance and a few bonus features in return for your investment.

The A40 comes bundled with everything you’ll need to get you setup on your Xbox One, including an Astro M80 Mixamp.

Read full article @ eTeknix

be quiet! Silent Base 800 Mid Tower Case Review

We have the be quiet! Silent Base 800 mid tower case on our review bench today. As you will expect from the manufacturer and product name, the Silent Base 800 touts sound insulation during operation as a key feature but it also promises unique airflow control for components inside. We put the case to the test to see how it fares in both noise level and cooling performance.

Read full article @ Neoseeker

Corsair Carbide 100R Silent Review

The Carbide series of PC cases from Corsair have been updated with the budget 100R and 100R silent, Corsair markets the product being entry-level, and with a 50 to 60 USD price-tag, we cannot argue on that. These chassis remain to be good looking but really are feature rich products. Keywords here would be a dark design chassis, tool free, decent space and nice airflow with the help of a small fan controller.

The Carbide series for which Corsair pursues the entry-level and mainstream market, and as we all know that means a cheaper product often resulting in stripped away features, style and functionality that we know and learned to love, from say the Obsidian or Graphite series. Admittedly what Corsair has been doing with the Carbide series works well, as it did convince me in a positive way when they launched the initial series. These chassis remain decent looking and really are feature rich products.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Hands on with Office 2016 for Mac

On Thursday Microsoft released the preview edition of Office 2016 for Mac. Its downloadable here for free, with a final release expected "later this summer" and available for use via an Office 365 subscription.
I spent this morning trying out the new editions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Heres an initial hands-on report.

Read full article @ WinSuperSite

HiFiMAN HE-400i Planar Magnetic Headphones

HiFiMAN has always been known to produce some pretty interesting high-end headphones. Today, we take a look at the new HE-400i. It uses the same magnet array technology HiFiMAN introduced with the critically acclaimed HE-560.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Mid-Tower Shootout: A trio of sub-$70 cases compared

Mid-towers are by far the most popular case form factor, supporting most full-sized hardware including the ever abundant ATX motherboards and power supplies, while typically costing only $50 to $75. In most situations, anything in that range will be adequate for a standard build, but Silverstone, Corsair and In Win have launched new contenders that are said to deliver the build quality, design, features and performance of pricier models without breaking the bank.

Read full article @ Techspot

Office for Mac 2016 hands-on: a vital upgrade, with some kinks to work out

Windows is king in Microsoft Office world, but this beta shows promise.

Read full article @ ArsTechnica

Patriot Viper 4 16GB PC4-24000 Review

After putting the Viper 4 modules through their paces, you can see that clock speed and timings do have an effect on performance when looking at the synthetic scores. Comparing the performance of Patriots Viper 4 3000MHz rated 16GB kit to a pair of 2800MHz rated kits illustrates this perfectly in most of the test cases. When gaming or in the PCMark testing, the additional memory clock speed did not help much in the way of added performance. A key to drive performance upwards with DDR4 modules is to tune the primary timings as tight as you can get them, with the voltage you are comfortable with, and the tune the secondary and third timings to get the most bang for your proverbial buck. Couple that with tuning the cache ratio a bit higher and you continue to increase memory bandwidth to supply the quad channel controller in Intels Latest Xtreme X99 platform and Haswell-E processors.

Read full article @ OCC

What the Lumia 640 tells us about Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2

The update hasn't been officially announced yet.

Read full article @ ArsTechnica