Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

Case Mod Friday: Luna
Haswell-E X99 Micro-ATX Motherboards
Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 380X Review
The ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ Review: When You Need Triple M.2 x4 in RAID
Thermaltake Suppressor F31 Silent Mid-tower Chassis Review
TP-LINK Touch P5 AC1900 Wi-Fi Gigabit Router Review
Western Digital Black WD6001FZWX 6TB Hard Drive Review

Case Mod Friday: Luna

Welcome to another Case Mod Friday showcase! This week we have Laine's “Luna” build. Here is what they had to say about it, "At Dreamhack I met Ted at Gigabyte, at their stand. “Hi, can I watercool a Brix” was an ongoing joke with us during the event, just because it’s such a weird thing to put watercooling on that tiny of a form factor."

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Haswell-E X99 Micro-ATX Motherboards

With the launch of the new Intel socket LGA 2011-3 all large motherboard vendors also updated their micro-ATX models. At the moment there are nine different models available and prices span from 200 up to 290 Euro. This article will allow you to compare all these boards in order to find the one most suitable for your needs.

Read full article @ ocaholic

Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 380X Review

Last week AMD released their mid range R9 380X and today we supplement our launch review by taking a look at the Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 380X. Right now AMD have no directly competing card at the same price (£200) so partners are able to offer up some competitive solutions to tempt the enthusiast gamer.

Read full article @ KitGuru

The ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ Review: When You Need Triple M.2 x4 in RAID

When we first analyzed the Z170 chipset from Intel, we were pleased to see that it offered 26 high speed input/output ports, which included 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes and support for up to three PCIe storage devices in RAID. Although there are some limitations with the PCIe lanes (networking is limited to five specific lanes), this development opened up the landscape for motherboard manufacturers to develop interesting products and stretch their engineering muscle. In typical fashion, ASRock has gone straight in the deep end and taken like a duck to water with this Z170 Extreme7+. For $240 it offers three M.2 ports, all capable of PCIe 3.0 x4 and with RAID in mind, as well as some other interesting add-ons for USB 3.1.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Thermaltake Suppressor F31 Silent Mid-tower Chassis Review

Thermaltake is one of the biggest names in the PC component market, with a huge range of products that range from water coolers to power supplies. We’ve seen a lot of great products from Thermaltake over the years, and today we hope to see another great addition to their already featured packed range.

“The Suppressor F31 Window mid-tower chassis is the new addition to the Suppressor Series to the Thermaltake case line. Featuring the first chassis with 250mm wide and leading-edge sound reduction panels on all sides, expand your cooling options with removable panels for the perfect balance in silent operation and cooling performance. Supporting a range of motherboard platforms from Mini-ITX to ATX solutions, unrivaled liquid cooling expansion and expandability for all high-end GPU solutions users can expect an enthusiast built design they can trust.”

The Thermaltake Suppressor F31 is their latest full-tower, following on from their F51 chassis which launched earlier this year, designed with a relentless focus on silent performance. It’s been kitted out with thick panels, vast amounts of sound dampening materials, a front panel door and extensive air and water cooling support, giving you all the tools you need to build a power and super quiet system.

Read full article @ eTeknix

TP-LINK Touch P5 AC1900 Wi-Fi Gigabit Router Review

The touch-screen Touch P5 employs is not a marketing gimmick but a useful feature since we can perform the initial configuration steps with its help but also access the main configuration areas during operation; in order to avoid unauthorized access, the router will ask us for the administrator password and its desktop area will show as an intro screen the Guest network details. We do also get other useful information displayed on the screen like which Wi-Fi networks are running (2.4GHz or 5GHz or both), the current product operation mode (Router, Access Point or Repeater), time/date and the number of connected stations.

Read full article @ Madshrimps

Western Digital Black WD6001FZWX 6TB Hard Drive Review

A few weeks ago, I went to eat with a bunch of people after church. As we approached the restaurant, one of my friends decided to open and hold the door to let me in first -- so I did. As I walked through the door, I heard my other friends say, in a not very subtle manner, "What a douche!" Why would they make such a comment? Well, the person who held the door open for me was a girl. But before you dismiss me as some misogynist man living in the wrong era and continent (This is 2015 North America, after all), let me give you a bit of context. I am the kind of guy who normally holds the door for everybody, male or female, every day of the week. I also agree it is pretty weird -- and "douchey", so to say -- when a girl opens a door for a guy, but this is a bit of a special case. There has been a long running joke between us about how she always like to open doors, and because she does it every time we are together, I eventually gave up, and just let her do her thing. What we can see here is, despite the fact some people say chivalry is dead nowadays in Western culture for whatever reason, many of us still share some common values and social protocols when it comes to things like these. I do not believe this is too different when compared to the results of the SSD revolution that began near the end of the last decade. The role of a hard drive switched from being the primary storage medium in your computer to a complementary component that works in the presence with a solid state drive; where the SSD is used to store your operating system and programs, and the HDD is used to store large files and folders. Does this mean performance HDDs are irrelevant nowadays? I do not think so, and neither does Western Digital. Equipped with a dual core processor and 128MB of cache, the Black WD6001FZWX 6TB aims to be at the forefront of speed and reliability for professionals and enthusiasts alike. Just like how we do not normally expect girls to open doors for guys, the purpose of this product is not to be your boot drive, but rather to give you a bathtub of capacity to store your entire library of videos and photos without slowing down your workflow. Will it live up to our expectations? Read on to find out!

Read full article @ APH Networks