Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Case Mod Friday: ROG Wall
Crucial BX200 960 GB SSD Review
Das Keyboard 4C Professional Review
EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 T2
G.Skill Ripjaws KM780 RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review
Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 Ultra Durable Motherboard Review: Affordable, Uncompromising
Razer Black Widow Ultimate 2016 Edition Review
Razer Nabu Smart Band
Rollei Actioncam 420 Review
SilverStone Raven RVX01 Review
Six 3D printers from 400 to 2500 Euros reviewed
Ubuntu 6.06 To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Performance Benchmarks: 10 Years Of Linux Performance
Vibox Rapture-Chaos MX2 System Review

Case Mod Friday: ROG Wall

Welcome to another Case Mod Friday showcase! This week we have Malik Customs “ROG Wall” build. Designed to be shown off at the Poznan Game Arena 2015 Malik Customs created this custom ASUS Republic of gamers themed build. What makes this build very unique is that it is not done in a traditional case, but on a vertical wall mount. Besides matching the ROG theme perfectly Malik Customs also made use of EK Water Blocks components.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Crucial BX200 960 GB SSD Review

Today on OCinside.de, we have tested the Crucial BX200 1TB SSD or be more specific the BX200 960GB with original firmware MU01 and firmware MU02, which is published a few days ago. The previously tested BX200 500GB is already well priced, but could not fully convince us. What are the results of the Crucial CT960BX200SSD1 960GB BX200 SSD ? We will show the results on the following pages and compare them with the Crucial BX100, Crucial MX200 and many other SSDs.

Read full article @ OcInside

Das Keyboard 4C Professional Review

We review the Das Keyboard 4C Professional, a straightforward tenkeyless keyboard with Greetech Brown switches.

Das Keyboard has a reputation for simple and clean-looking, high-quality keyboards. But there was some confusion when the company announced its new 4C Professional and 4C Ultimate models. The marketing materials were vague about which switches the keyboards used, and many of us erroneously jumped to the conclusion that they were Cherry switches.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 T2

We have on our test bench today EVGA's flagship PSU with an enormous capacity and Titanium efficiency. We expect it to preform incredibly well because it uses Super Flower's high-end Leadex platform and comes with some formidable specs.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

G.Skill Ripjaws KM780 RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review

Is it possible to live without a car in places like Calgary? In my personal opinion, it is not. The truth is, once you are past a certain hour, and want to get to a place far away from a train station, there are literally more flights to Toronto per hour than buses running to the neighborhood next to you. However, I have a few friends who managed to live without a license even up until this point, and it sort of blows my mind. To see how it is to live like them, about a month ago, I decided to go a whole day without my car. In the morning, I hitched a ride with my dad, who dropped me off at the university. I stayed until evening, where I was to attend an event. After the event, I got a ride with my friend to church, where we met with a few other friends. From there, we decided to go out for food, so I got a ride there as well. When we were done, someone drove me home. What can I say? I was successful, although some of my friends were a bit skeptical at first, because they explained to me I was not a girl, like my friends without licenses. Of course, this brings about the question: Why were my friends skeptical about my plan, because I was not a girl? Clearly, although the ability to hitch a ride with others is probably more dependent on other people's willingness rather than your gender, your gender will certainly play a role in their willingness. Projecting into the keyboard world, what makes a keyboard desirable? The intrinsic factor is probably the typing experience, but nowadays, I think it is more than that. With the popularity of RGB backlights and epic illumination effects like the SteelSeries Apex M800, your keyboard's ability to put on a light show is no longer a tertiary factor. Today, we will take a look at the G.Skill Ripjaws KM780 RGB mechanical keyboard. With some pretty cool lighting effects under the hood, here is my proposition: Although the desirability of a keyboard is probably more dependent on its typing experience rather than its lighting effects, its lighting effects will certainly play a role in its desirability. Let us see if G.Skill's first foray into the keyboard market is a winner on both fronts!

Read full article @ APH Networks

Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 Ultra Durable Motherboard Review: Affordable, Uncompromising

To expand on our coverage of Intel’s Z170-chipset, we now turn our focus to another Gigabyte motherboard for Intel Skylake CPUs. The Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 Ultra Durable motherboard is up at the plate and has the budget-builder firmly in its sights. Conversely, the company’s pricey Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard, which we previously reviewed, is loaded with premium features that enthusiast gamers crave. Features such as Bluetooth, WiFi, 4-way CrossFire and SLI support, baked-in liquid cooling accommodations, and the like, are all absent on this more svelte GB product.

With much of the fat trimmed, Gigabyte is able to offer a formidable platform for Skylake at a more aggressive price point...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Razer Black Widow Ultimate 2016 Edition Review

The Razer Black Widow has become very popular over the years, often being touted as one of the finest gaming keyboards around. Today, we are looking at the brand new 2016 edition, using Razer’s own high specification mechanical switches – could this be the best option for gamers in 2016? Let’s find out.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Razer Nabu Smart Band

The Razer NABU is a Smartband which is a cousin of a smart watch, it offers more than just your ordinary watches functions. You can set it to (among other things) to relay your email, your private messages, texts and some heath stuff like how far you walked, how many calories you burned, and how you slept. The Razer Nabu sports a host of features best given in a list form.

Read full article @ Bjorn3D

Rollei Actioncam 420 Review

Rollei's Actioncam 402 is in essence an oversized GoPro with the familiar box design encased in a waterproof housing. Making sure the 420 stands out in a crowded market, Rollei offers the camera in three colours: black, blue or white. It is also one of the only budget cameras to offer a flat lens on the housing with no screws or indents, which means that it's easy to clean and instantly wins affection.4K is the big headline feature and this is joined by plenty of other resolutions and frame rates, including full HD at 60fps and 720p at 120fps; perfect for capturing slow motion footage. The front of the camera features a small f/2.5 lens with a 170-degree field of view. The 420 also offers a variety of modes alongside video. including Photo, time-lapse, slow motion, Driving and Motion detection, giving you plenty of options. Wi-Fi is supported by an app for Android and iOS and this is very neat and simple, enabling the usual live view and settings adjustments. The larger size of the 420 also means that it has a decent-sized 2-inch LCD on the back. Powering the camera is a 3.7v 1180mAh battery that supplies enough charge for almost two hours of continual use, though this battery is sealed and is not interchangeable. The base also features a very handy standard tripod mount so the camera can easily be removed from the case and mounted on a tripod without the need for additional accessories.

Read full article @ Techradar

SilverStone Raven RVX01 Review

A 90-degree-rotated chassis for the mainstream. Those of you who have followed the DIY PC scene for the last decade or so will be well aware of SilverStone's "stack-effect" Raven chassis. Introduced way back in 2008, the first Raven - RV01 - turned chassis design on its head by installing the motherboard at a 90º angle.

Back then, when hot-and-thirsty components ran like small power stations, the rotated layout offered plenty of intrigue. Raven was something different, and the premise made perfect sense: hot air rises, so why not point all your components in that general direction? But there were inevitably a few trade-offs. Raven enclosures were typically big and expensive, they weren't always easy to work with, and installing your components the wrong way up always felt... well, a little bit weird.

Read full article @ Hexus

Six 3D printers from 400 to 2500 Euros reviewed

3D printers are slowly becoming more mainstream. Over the past few years, prices have dropped and now you can buy a ready-to-go 3D printer for 400 Euros. That's a good reason for us to test six different 3D printers.

Earlier this year, we wrote an extensive article about the rise of 3D printers. We looked at different printing techniques, and how to make, edit and download 3D models. We also looked at the practical uses of 3D printers. In this article, we're going to be looking at the practical uses of six printers in particular. They are all Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) printers, which means that they work by feeding a thread of plastic through a heated nozzle onto a flat surface. The heat causes the plastic to melt, and the printer can then build up a 3D object one layer at a time.

FDB 3D printers are actually quite simple machines. A roll of plastic thread, usually PLA or ABS plastic, is heated up to around 200 degrees Celsius, This causes the plastic to melt, and then the nozzle on the printer moves back and forth above a flat surface, and the melted plastic is ejected. It cools down and solidifies, and by adding more layers of plastic, the printer slowly builds up a 3 dimensional object.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Ubuntu 6.06 To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Performance Benchmarks: 10 Years Of Linux Performance

As I'm in the process of retiring an old AMD Opteron dual-socket system, prior to decommissioning it, I figured it would be fun to go back and re-benchmark all of the Ubuntu LTS releases going all the way back to the legendary 6.06 Dapper Drake release. So here are some fresh benchmarks of this AMD Shanghai system with eight cores and 16GB of RAM when re-benchmarking the releases from Ubuntu 6.06 through the latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS development state.

Tested for this comparison were Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, and the latest development state of 16.04 LTS as of this week. While Ubuntu 16.04 LTS isn't being officially released until April, this upcoming "Xenial Xerus" release already has GCC 5.3 and Linux 4.4 as will be present in the final build. Testing wasn't delayed until April since as mentioned I'm in the process of decommissioning this power-hungry system.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Vibox Rapture-Chaos MX2 System Review

Vibox has created a gaming PC called Rapture-Chaos MX2 that uses a long list of high end components. The result is an overclocked powerhouse that storms through games at 1080p, with the added bonus that it looks superb.

Watch our video and you will see that Rapture-Chaos MX2 lives up to its name in more ways than one as it also suffers from some unfortunate problems.

Read full article @ KitGuru