Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:
ASUS ROG Strix XG49VQ Review
Glorious Model O Mouse Review
Lenovo ThinkPad X390 Review
Logitech G502 Lightspeed Review
The Performance Impact Of MDS / Zombieload Plus The Overall Cost Now Of Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS
Turtle Beach Recon 70 Review
ASUS ROG Strix XG49VQ Review
Glorious Model O Mouse Review
Lenovo ThinkPad X390 Review
Logitech G502 Lightspeed Review
The Performance Impact Of MDS / Zombieload Plus The Overall Cost Now Of Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS
Turtle Beach Recon 70 Review
ASUS ROG Strix XG49VQ Review
ASUS reached out to me and asked if I would like to review their new ROG Strix XG49VQ, like it was ever something I'd deny reviewing. It's a great panel that comes in a gigantic 49-inch display with support for AMD FreeSync 2 HDR and 32:9 aspect ratio with native 3840 x 1080 resolution.Read full article @ TweakTown
Glorious Model O Mouse Review
Glorious PC Gaming Race just released their first gaming mouse, which is definitely among the best mice you can currently get. Ambidextrous, extremely lightweight, with a high-end sensor, perfect skates and cable—all this at a friendly price tag. This is the first product ever, to get three awards from TPU!Read full article @ TechPowerUp
Lenovo ThinkPad X390 Review
12% thinner and 5% lighter than its 12-inch predecessor, the ThinkPad X280, the Lenovo ThinkPad X390 weighs in at just 2.6 pounds, packing a Core i7-8565U, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD.Read full article @ Neowin
Logitech G502 Lightspeed Review
The Logitech G502 Lightspeed takes a classic gaming mouse and gives it long battery life and lighter weight, but it’s on the pricey side.Read full article @ Tom's Hardware
The Performance Impact Of MDS / Zombieload Plus The Overall Cost Now Of Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS
The past few days I've begun exploring the performance implications of the new Microarchitectural Data Sampling "MDS" vulnerabilities now known more commonly as Zombieload. As I shared in some initial results, there is a real performance hit to these mitigations. In this article are more MDS/Zombieload mitigation benchmarks on multiple systems as well as comparing the overall performance impact of the Meltdown/Spectre/Foreshadow/Zombieload mitigations on various Intel CPUs and also AMD CPUs where relevant.Read full article @ Phoronix
Turtle Beach Recon 70 Review
We've reviewed a number of Turtle Beach headsets over the years but when they reached out about their new, budget friendly Recon 70, we knew we had to take a look. Interested in a new headset to power your gaming that won?t break the bank? Could this be the answer to that search? Read on for our full review.Read full article @ MMORPG