Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

2014 Catalyst Linux Graphics Benchmarks Year-In-Review
Fedora 21 review - Uh, not again
Mini-ITX Game PC - December 2014
Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 V4 6TB SAS 12Gb/s HDD Review
Silverstone SFX Series 600W SST-SX600-G
The Best PC Cases of 2014

2014 Catalyst Linux Graphics Benchmarks Year-In-Review

With the year quickly coming to an end, it's time to do our year-end driver recap benchmarks from the year for the proprietary AMD and NVIDIA graphics drivers as well as the open-source drivers. To get things started, here's benchmarks done of the official AMD Catalyst Linux releases of 2014 and testing these drivers on three different graphics cards.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Fedora 21 review - Uh, not again

Oppan Red Hat style. I mean Fedora. So there it is, a long, mostly unfavorable review of Fedora 21 KDE 64-bit edition, tested in a quad-boot setup on a laptop with Intel graphics and SSD, covering live session, install and post-install use, including look & feel, network connectivity - Wireless (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Samba sharing, partitioning and problms with BTRFS, bootloader issues, easyLife configuration and bogus error messages, codecs re-installation, multimedia playback - Flash and MP3, applications - defaults and extras, desktop effects & screenshots, resource usage, printing, stability, suspend & resume, other bugs and problems, and more. Have fun. And don't drink too much.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

Mini-ITX Game PC - December 2014

The Mini-ITX Game PC is a desktop computer that is small enough to be portable, but has better performance than a gaming notebook.

Please note: the PC Buyer’s Guide is compiled based on independent component tests performed by Hardware.Info. If no new, superior products are released that should replace one or more of the components, then the component(s) will remain the same as the previous month.

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Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 V4 6TB SAS 12Gb/s HDD Review

Hard disk drive capacities have increased more (skyrocketed is more like it) in the past 5 years than in the 20 years prior and although we've yet to reach the point which I've been waiting for (drives exceeding 20TB in capacity) still we do have models with up to a massive 10TB of available space. Of course although not really a surprise such models are usually equipped with SAS connectivity and are primarily aimed towards business users and professionals who require both capacity and performance. Strangely enough however although the new 12Gb/s standard has been around for quite some time now we haven't really seen many models take that step so most in the market still support the previous generation 6Gb/s standard. Today we will be putting through our usual tests one of the latest HDDs to hit the market by our friends over at Seagate, the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 V4 6TB SAS 16Gb/s (ST6000NM0034) model.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Silverstone SFX Series 600W SST-SX600-G

Over the past few years we have really seen the Small Form Factor market grow, especially when it comes to small easy to transport gaming PCs, or what we call LAN Rigs. Early in 2013 I upgraded our Lunchbox 2 by upgrading the cooling and opening up room for airflow with a new SFX power supply from Silverstone. Later when I built Lunchbox 3 I used the same model of power supply. Why didn’t I change it up? Well not only did the first 450 watt SFX power supply perform reliably for me, but also frankly there just wasn’t any other competition. Silverstone had the highest wattage in the form factor not to mention the only SFX power supply with modular cabling. Well today we have the chance to check out the new top dog in SFX power supplies, Silverstone’s 600W SST-SX600-G.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

The Best PC Cases of 2014

ThinkComputers is excited to bring you our own twist on the yearly list. For some people who are putting together a system their PC case is not high on the priority list, but for serious system builders and enthusiasts a PC case is extremely important. Your PC case of course holds your hardware, but it is also something to show off that hardware. We have reviewed quite a few different PC cases this year, I think out of all products we review cases the most. So we present to you 2014’s Best PC Cases as reviewed by ThinkComputers.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org