Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

10TB WD Red (WD100EFAX) Hard Disk Drive Review
Alphacool Eisbaer 360 CPU Cooler Review
AMD’s New Mining Block Chain Optimized Driver Tested
ASRock X399 Taichi Threadripper TR4 Motherboard Review
Cooler Master MasterSet MS120 Gaming Keyboard & Mouse Combo Review
Cooler Master MM520, MM530, and MasterMouse Pro L
Corsair K95 Platinum review: hail the new king
Deepcool Captain 240EX RGB AIO CPU Cooler Review
Experiment: Build a (Profitable) Ethereum Mining Rig From Spare Parts
Field Test: Fujifilm GFX 50S
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Lightning X OC 11 GB Review - The Thunderous GeForce Gaming Graphics Card
Samsung Portable SSD T5 Review: 64-Layer V-NAND Debuts in Retail
Samsung Portable SSD T5 Review: Speedy, Durable External Storage
Samsung T5 Portable SSD Review
SAMSUNG T5 SSD Review
Toshiba EXCERIA PRO M501 MicroSDXC Card Review
Ubuntu Budgie Distro: Simple, Clean and User-Friendly

10TB WD Red (WD100EFAX) Hard Disk Drive Review

Here is our comprehensive review of the first helium-filled WD Red model - the *10TB WD Red (WD100EFAX)*! Find out why we gave it our Reviewer's Choice Award!

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Alphacool Eisbaer 360 CPU Cooler Review

We get hands-on with Alphacool’s factory-filled 3x 120mm liquid cooling system. Alphacool joined the liquid cooling party a few years ago, but it wasn’t until last year that we started to see complete, factory-filled loops from the company. Filled systems allow neophytes to build without worries of leaks or purging, and then add components later as they become more comfortable mixing water and electricity . Alphacool’s filled kits go a step further towards inspiring that confidence by including a leak free, quick-coupling that lets you add a component without draining the loop. Designed for three 120mm fans side-by-side, Eisbaer 360 is the company's largest model to date.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

AMD’s New Mining Block Chain Optimized Driver Tested

AMD Helps Ethereum Miners Keep Hashing Performance Stable AMD has finally released a video card driver for Radeon graphics cards that improves block chain performance!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

ASRock X399 Taichi Threadripper TR4 Motherboard Review

AMD's Threadripper CPUs dropped onto the market last week and with it a handful of motherboards built with the AMD X399 chipset. The chipset itself is similar to the X370 chipset, as in it acts as a south bridge, with the CPU providing a large amount of IO. While the CPU SoC offers 60 lanes of PCI-E 3.0 (four other lanes connect to the X399 chipset) for up to seven devices, it also provides HD audio, eight USB 3.0 ports, and the SPI bus (BIOS communication). The X399 chipset offers eight SATA 6Gb/s ports, eight PCI-E 2.0 ports, two USB 3.1 ports, five USB 3.0 ports, and six USB 2.0 ports. There are also two PCI-E 3.0 ports in the X399 chipset that can be used for an extra four SATA ports or two SATA Express ports.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Cooler Master MasterSet MS120 Gaming Keyboard & Mouse Combo Review

I’ve done some pretty awesome builds for friends over the past year and most of them do not even think about a keyboard and a mouse. For most people a keyboard, mouse, and even a headset is a complete afterthought. If you are a gamer and want gaming-specific PC accessories prepared to shell out some serious cash. Each of these products can easily cost over $100, which if you do the math can easily add an extra $300 to the overall cost of your build. Well Cooler Master has your back and this week they have released a keyboard / combo and a gaming headset which shouldn’t break the bank. In this review we will be checking out the keyboard / mouse combo, which is the MasterKeys MS120 and features a pretty nice 104-key keyboard with mem-chanical switches and RGB backlighting, and a claw-grip style mouse with a PixArt optical sensor. You get all of this for $89.99, let’s jump in!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers

Cooler Master MM520, MM530, and MasterMouse Pro L

It must be that time of year, everyone is introducing their new and updated mice. It just so happens that I haven’t had a Cooler Master mouse in the office for a while now. Well, they are introducing two new mice today, the MasterMouse MM520 and the MasterMouse MM530. I went ahead and had them include the MasterMouse Pro L as well so we could take a look at the whole range. They all are similar in that they are all 3360 sensor based with Omron 20 million click switches, so they already have a few things going for them. Let's see what else they have going on.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Corsair K95 Platinum review: hail the new king

It's been nearly four years since the release of Corsair's Vengeance K70 and Vengeance K95. Corsair was the first big manufacturer to use the floating key design with these keyboards. With this design the aluminum base plate is also used as a top panel, which means that part of the switches is laid bare and the keycaps seem to float above the keyboard.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Deepcool Captain 240EX RGB AIO CPU Cooler Review

Deepcool’s product line has been incorporating several formerly disparate products into one convenient package. This was seen before with their Deepcool Genome case which integrates a chassis with an all-in-one liquid cooler. The new Captain 240EX RGB on the other hand, is an AIO liquid cooler which comes with an RGB LED controller and RGB LED strip.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

Experiment: Build a (Profitable) Ethereum Mining Rig From Spare Parts

Ethereum’s mining difficulty is on the rise, & the crypto-currency's value is on the decline. Is it too late to get into crypto mining just to make a few bucks?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Field Test: Fujifilm GFX 50S

Landscape pro Mark Bauer tells TechRadar why he ditched his full-frame Canon DSLR for Fujifilm's GFX 50S.

Read full article @ TechRadar

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Lightning X OC 11 GB Review - The Thunderous GeForce Gaming Graphics Card

Last year, NVIDIA introduced to the world, their latest and greatest GPU architecture, codenamed Pascal. The new Pascal GPU powered everything from enterprise level supercomputer chips to blazing fast GTX 10 series graphics cards. Utilizing the 16nm FinFET architecture, NVIDIA unleashed a new generation of graphics cards that delivered the highest clock speeds on any consumer GPU to date, the fastest graphics processing capabilities and a wide range of memory technologies that were supported by these chips like HBM2 and GDDR5X.

A year has gone by since NVIDIA launched the fastest consumer graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1080, but NVIDIA is not stopping there. This year, NVIDIA introduced their latest flagship product, one that offesr even higher performance than the GeForce GTX 1080. Meet the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, a juggernaut GPU that is in a class of its own. What I have written above about the card being a juggernaut is true as months have gone by and the card still remains the undisputed king of the GPU throne, featuring the best in class price, performance and efficiency.

Read full article @ Wccftech

Samsung Portable SSD T5 Review: 64-Layer V-NAND Debuts in Retail

​Samsung has been an active participant in the high-performance external SSD market with their Portable SSD series. The T1 was introduced in early 2015, while the T3 came out in early 2016. The T3 was the first retail product to utilize Samsungs 48-layer TLC V-NAND. Today, Samsung is launching the Portable SSD T5. It is a retail pilot vehicle for their 64-layer TLC V-NAND as they ramp up its production. The Portable SSD T5 also moves up to a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C interface, while retaining the same compact form factor and hardware encryption capabilities of the Portable SSD T3. Read on for our analysis of the products performance and value proposition.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Samsung Portable SSD T5 Review: Speedy, Durable External Storage

The Samsung Portable SSD T3 was a compact, durable, lightweight, and fast external solid state storage device, that offered killer performance when it launched. The T3 has been out for quite a while, however, and Samsung has since released a few newer types of flash memory, which are better suited to low-power, portable storage devices. As such, the company decided to tweak the T3’s design, update it with newer TLC V-NAND flash memory, massage the firmware, and the brand-new Samsung Portable SSD T5 was born.

We’ve got one of the new Portable SSD T5’s on-hand and have some benchmarks to share with you on the pages ahead...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Samsung T5 Portable SSD Review

We review the Samsung T5 Portable SSD (500GB), moving towards 64-layer V-Nand and USB 3.1 gen 2 (10 Gbps) is combines the DNA of an SSD and can reach 500 MB/sec on both reads and writes - making this a fast storage unit.

Read full article @ Guru3D

SAMSUNG T5 SSD Review

Today has seen the release of the SAMSUNG Portable SSD T5, their latest within the T series of external drives using solid state memory. The T5 comes in two different aluminium finishes - a bright blue representing 250GB and 500GB, and a deep black for the 1TB and 2TB models. The T5 utilises the USB 3.1 Gen. 2 (10Gbps) interface to achieve speeds of 550MB/s read and 515MB/s write; both drives arrive with a USB-C to USB-A cable, as well as a USB-C to USB-C.

Read full article @ Vortez

Toshiba EXCERIA PRO M501 MicroSDXC Card Review

The EXCERIA PRO M501 card from Toshiba has proven itself as being one of the speediest from the bunch we have tested so far, succeeding to even surpass the Lexar Professional 1800x read speeds in some usage environments. Write-wise however, the Lexar Professional distances itself quite a bit, offering speeds around 197MB/s, while the EXCERIA PRO M501 can go up to 130MB/s when writing large files, very close to the rated manufacturer speeds.

Read full article @ Mad Shrimps

Ubuntu Budgie Distro: Simple, Clean and User-Friendly

Ubuntu Budgie is one of the few Linux distros to offer integration of a Budgie desktop-only edition, other than Solus OS, whose developers created it. Ubuntu Budgie is classy and user-friendly. It does not sacrifice performance for reliance on a simple design. Although based on the Ubuntu Linux family, Ubuntu Budgie is not from Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company.

Read full article @ Linux Insider