Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD Zen and Intel Kaby Lake to go toe-to-toe at end of 2016
be Quiet Dark Rock TF Review
BitFenix Alchemy 2.0 Review
Crucial BX 200 480 GB
EC Technology 2nd Gen 22400mAh External USB Battery Review
Logitech G410 Atlas Spectrum Tenkeyless RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Phanteks Eclipse P400 ATX Case Review
Rise Of The Tomb Raider PC Gameplay And Performance: A Graphics Stunner
Samsung launches 15.36TB SSD for enterprise customers
Sony PSZ-HB2T External Rugged HDD Review
Video Capture & Edit Guide

AMD Zen and Intel Kaby Lake to go toe-to-toe at end of 2016

Intel Kaby Lake volume production target slips to clash directly with AMD Zen rollout.

Read full article @ Hexus

be Quiet Dark Rock TF Review

One word really sums up this cooler - Wow! Just a simple wow! Designed for low profile case applications, the Dark Rock TF hits the mark for a case of any size. You get style and performance in a fairly compact package. It looks good from any angle, and really begs to be shown off in a case with a large side window. It would be a shame to cover it up! Performance was impressively in the range of a few larger dual-tower air coolers, and not far from a few higher-end liquid coolers. The Dark Rock TF is perfect for your daily driver or an overclocked gaming rig. It easily tackled the heat generated from overclocking in my Phanteks Enthoo Primo test case, which is a very large case with plenty of airflow. I would expect to add a couple degrees for a small case with less airflow. Regardless, the Dark Rock TF proved that it is a worthy opponent in the battle against heat.

Read full article @ OCC

BitFenix Alchemy 2.0 Review

BitFenix is not only a case manufacturer. The company also sells fans and power supplies as well as a selection of modding products. Today we're going to have a closer look at the Alchemy 2.0 cables, a new set of sleeved cables, which are compatible with a great amount of power supplies. Furthermore the Alchemy 2.0 cables are available in a few differents colors.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Crucial BX 200 480 GB

Crucial's BX200 SSD comes at an incredible price point which is made possible by Micron's new triple-layer-cell (TLC) flash chips. In our testing the drive delivers decent performance, which, combined with pricing, results in a leading price/performance position for the BX200.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

EC Technology 2nd Gen 22400mAh External USB Battery Review

If you are tired of your mobile devices dying when you travel you might be online right now searching for a large external battery pack to keep everything charged. The EC Technology 2nd Generation 22400mAh 3-port USB portable battery charger for $34.99 with free shipping might be just the solution that you need. This particular model is rather inexpensive and has a massive battery capacity rating.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Logitech G410 Atlas Spectrum Tenkeyless RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

2015 was a great year for gamers not only because we all witnessed the release of many interesting game titles for the PC (such as the Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Mortal Kombat X, Star Wars Battlefront, Mad Max, Just Cause 3, Batman Arkham Knight, Dying Light and many more) but also because there was a significant spike in the number of gaming peripherals released. That however was not as interesting as the fact that several manufacturers released mechanical gaming keyboards featuring their very own switches one of which was Logitech with their ROMER-G. The G910 Orion Spark was their very first mechanical gaming keyboard to feature their switches (co-developed with OMRON) and although it scored very high in all our tests it wasn't exactly what we'd call a compact keyboard. Well with so many manufacturers reducing the size of their keyboards just by removing the numpad (tenkeyless design) Logitech decided to take the same path and the result is the G410 Atlas Spectrum Compact Mechanical Gaming RGB Keyboard.

Focused on innovation and quality, Logitech designs personal peripherals to help people enjoy a better experience with the digital world. We started in 1981 with mice, which (new at the time) provided a more intuitive way of interacting with a personal computer. We became the worldwide leader in computer mice, and have reinvented the mouse in dozens of ways to match the evolving needs of PC and laptop users. Since those early days, we have expanded our expertise in product design beyond the computer mouse, with a broad portfolio of interface devices that are the “last inch” between you and your computer or your console game, digital music or home-entertainment system. With products sold in almost every country in the world, Logitech’s leadership in innovation now encompasses a wide variety of personal peripherals (both cordless and corded), with special emphasis on products for PC navigation, gaming, Internet communications, digital music and home-entertainment control. For each of our product categories, we study how our customers use their digital devices, and then our designers and engineers set their sights on how we can create a better experience with those devices – richer, more comfortable, more fun, more productive, more convenient, and more delightful.

As already mentioned the G410 Atlas Spectrum is basically a cut-down version of the G910 Orion Spark so aside the lack of a numpad and dedicated macro keys it pretty much shares the same features as its larger brother. So leaving out the obvious feature which are the ROMER-G switches (require 25% less actuation force compared to regular mechanical switches and are consider among the fastest ones in the market today) the G410 Atlas Spectrum offers individual RGB illumination for its keys, several lighting effects, anti-ghosting for all keys, media control keys and of course Logitech’s unique Arx Control Display which makes use of your smartphone or tablet to display various information screens. Once again Logitech decided to skip on placing USB ports on the keyboard (and we forgot to mention that unlike the G910 the G410 has no swappable wrist rests) but depending on the how good the end result is this may not impact our final results much (just like it didn't with the G910).

Read full article @ NikKTech

Phanteks Eclipse P400 ATX Case Review

As time passes, case makers seems to invent new ways to make system builds easier. Some cases feature motherboard trays that slide out, others offer easily removable dust filters, thumb screws, or a combination of other features.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Rise Of The Tomb Raider PC Gameplay And Performance: A Graphics Stunner

Rise of the Tomb Raider has hit the PC lining it up in our gun sights for graphics, gameplay and performance analysis. The game launched on the Xbox family of consoles a few months back and has since been ported to PC thanks to NIXXES Software. It’s a competent console to PC port updated with many graphics settings and effects to tweak and dial to your particular tastes and system capabilities...

Rise of the Tomb Raider is the sequel for the 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise. The reboot took protagonist Lara Croft back to her explorative “tomb raiding” roots in a prequel-style origin story, while greatly enhancing the series with new gameplay and combat mechanics...

This year’s sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider continues with much of this. That said, there are some key technical differences, with a new game engine and a slightly more open-world setting, which significantly expands the scope of gameplay and the overall experience.

Read full article @ HotHardware

Samsung launches 15.36TB SSD for enterprise customers

Claims it's the world's largest capacity SAS SSD currently shipping.

Read full article @ Hexus

Sony PSZ-HB2T External Rugged HDD Review

Sony has a new line of portable, rugged storage products to complement the company's professional imaging products. Today, we look at a 2TB single-drive model designed to go where traditional storage cannot.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Video Capture & Edit Guide

I covered quite a bit and there is even more I could cover. I also have a batch file for making GIFs, renaming, scaling, and converting the screenshots I take, cropping videos, burning arbitrary text onto a video, burning the timecode, concatenating videos, changing the volume, and the terrifying SplitScreen.bat file. (I pass it two videos, tell it if I want the split to be horizontal or vertical and if I want the 'screens' to mirror each other or be half-and-half, and by magic it actually works.) I think this is enough for you to get started with your own capturing and editing experiments, so have fun!

Read full article @ OCC