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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Cases: Thermaltake The Tower 100 Review: Affordable ITX Weirdness
Cooling: G.Skill Enki 280 AIO
Displays: AOC 27P2C 27" KVM IPS Monitor Review
Graphics Cards: MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X Video Card Review, PCIe Resizable BAR Performance AMD and NVIDIA benchmarks
Headphones: Ikko OH10 In-Ear Monitors Review - Punches above Its Weight Class, Razer Kraken X USB Review
Memory: Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG RGB 16GB 3600MHz Memory Review
Mobile: Luxury & Precision W2 Review - Best Portable USB DAC AMP for Smartphones?, Twelve South MagSafe charging stand review
Motherboards: Gigabyte Z590 Vision G Review: A New Vision for Creators, This is the best X570 ASUS motherboard for value and performance
Storage: Acer FA100 1 TB Review, The ADATA GAMMIX S50 Lite 2TB SSD Review: Mainstream PCIe Gen4, PNY CS2130 1TB NVMe SSD Review Cannot Recommend, Project Data Hoarder – FreeNAS Build Part 2
Video: Blackmagic ATEM Mini Extreme Review





Cases:

Tom's Hardware: Thermaltake The Tower 100 Review: Affordable ITX Weirdness

Why is there a GPU in my fishtank?



Thermaltake The Tower 100 Review: Affordable ITX Weirdness

Cooling:

Hexus: G.Skill Enki 280 AIO

Taiwanese memory specialist tries its hand at all-in-one liquid cooling.



G.Skill Enki 280 AIO

Displays:

eTeknix: AOC 27P2C 27" KVM IPS Monitor Review

AOC is one of the biggest names in the monitor world, and Ive certainly reviewed a fair few of their models over the years! However, while many of the ones we focus on tend to be gaming monitors, today is a change of pace. The AOC 27P2C is a monitor built for the office.



AOC 27P2C 27" KVM IPS Monitor Review | eTeknix

Graphics Cards:

The FPS Review: MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X Video Card Review

Check out what a retail custom-built MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X video card can do in gaming and overclocking compared to the competition.



MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X Video Card Review - The FPS Review

The Guru of 3D: PCIe Resizable BAR Performance AMD and NVIDIA benchmarks

A couple of months ago AMD introduced SAM aka Smart Access memory, which really is PCI-Express Resizable BAR. An easy option that possibly can bring extra performance. We test and benchmark this feat...

PCIe Resizable BAR Performance AMD and NVIDIA benchmarks

Headphones:

TechPowerUp: Ikko OH10 In-Ear Monitors Review - Punches above Its Weight Class

Ikko is a relatively new brand to the audio space with a focus on in-ear monitors. Today, we take a look at their $200 OH10 IEMs, which are of superb build quality. Sound quality is excellent as well, and price-to-performance can easily compete with much bigger brands.



Ikko OH10 In-Ear Monitors Review - Punches above Its Weight Class

OCInside.de: Razer Kraken X USB Review

Today, we are testing on OCinside.de the Kraken X USB, a really stylish gaming headset from Razer, a brand that should be well known among gamers. The Kraken X USB headset is a very affordable entry-level headset, but can it convince us?



Razer Kraken X USB Review

Memory:

eTeknix: Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG RGB 16GB 3600MHz Memory Review

The Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG RGB 3600MHz kit of RAM is an absolute overclocking beast that helps give it massive performance gains!



Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG RGB 16GB 3600MHz Memory Review | eTeknix

Mobile:

ThePCEnthusiast: Luxury & Precision W2 Review - Best Portable USB DAC AMP for Smartphones?

The Luxury & Precision W2 is a small USB dongle that turns your smartphone into a HiFi/Hi-Res DAP. Check out our L&P W2 DAC/AMP review here.



Luxury & Precision W2 Review - Best Portable USB DAC AMP for Smartphones? - ThePCEnthusiast

9to5Toys: Twelve South MagSafe charging stand review

The new Twelve South MagSafe charging stand launched this week, so it's time to go hands-on. Head below for our Twelve South Forté review.



Twelve South MagSafe charging stand review - 9to5Toys

Motherboards:

Tom's Hardware: Gigabyte Z590 Vision G Review: A New Vision for Creators

Four M.2 sockets and VisionLINK/Thunderbolt, designed for Creators



Gigabyte Z590 Vision G Review: A New Vision for Creators

Windows Central: This is the best X570 ASUS motherboard for value and performance

There are many motherboards out there that can be used with the latest AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors, so long as they have an A520, B550, or X570 chipset. ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming is a compelling foundation for a PC build, rocking a solid UEFI BIOS, impressive power delivery for stable overclocking, and plenty of PCIe 4.0 for speedy M.2 storage.



Review: This is the best X570 ASUS motherboard for value and performance

Storage:

TechPowerUp: Acer FA100 1 TB Review

The Acer FA100 solid-state drive is an entry-level M.2 NVMe SSD. In our extensive testing, we saw decent performance that matches competing SSDs. The SLC cache is also big enough to soak up the largest write bursts, and there's no thermal throttling.



Acer FA100 1 TB Review

Anandtech: The ADATA GAMMIX S50 Lite 2TB SSD Review: Mainstream PCIe Gen4

Today were taking a look at ADATAs XPG Gammix S50 Lite, a mid-range consumer NVMe SSD based on Silicon Motions new SM2267 controller. Among other notable features, the Gammix S50 Lite is the first mainstream-focused SSD that supports PCIe 4.0 – though as well see in our benchmarks that support is largely incidental, as the drives performance is mostly the same as high-end Gen3 SSDs.



The ADATA GAMMIX S50 Lite 2TB SSD Review: Mainstream PCIe Gen4

ServeTheHome: PNY CS2130 1TB NVMe SSD Review Cannot Recommend

In our PNY CS2130 1TB NVMe SSD review, we find a drive we cannot recommend due to its price, performance, and lack of transparency



PNY CS2130 1TB NVMe SSD Review Cannot Recommend

LanOC Reviews: Project Data Hoarder – FreeNAS Build Part 2

Late last fall I set out to finally make a few big upgrades to our network and storage which was long overdue. In fact, around that time and over the winter I have had one NAS die and I’ve had 4 different hard drives and one SSD die. So saying it was overdue is an understatement and frankly dealing with each of those drives has been a big reminder that no matter how safe you might think you are being with your data that you most likely should be doing more if you don’t want to lose it. Anyhow our FreeNAS build saw a big delay while waiting on the final parts. There are shortages all over the place, not just on the CPU and GPU side of things but today I can finally get back to work on the build. Today I want to go over all of the storage components. These are the most important part of a NAS and depending on how many drives you have planned they are most likely also going to be the most expensive part as well. So let’s check out what I went with for data storage and the OS drive.

Project Data Hoarder – FreeNAS Build Part 2 - LanOC Reviews

Video:

MMORPG.com: Blackmagic ATEM Mini Extreme Review

The ATEM Mini Extreme from Blackmagic Design is an absolutely incredible tool for content creators looking to add more than one camera to their setup. It's a self-enclosed HDMI video switcher and streamer able to take your productions to the next level and then some. Find out more in our review!

Blackmagic ATEM Mini Extreme Review | MMORPG.com