Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

A closer look at Opera’s Browser VPN
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Preview
Asus MG248Q Review
Asustor AS3204T NAS Review
Azio MGK 1 RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review: Less Is More
CM STORM QuickFire XT Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Corsair K70 RAPIDFIRE RGB keyboard review
Enermax Revolution XtII 750W PSU Unboxing & Overview
Fallout 4 DLC Discussion and How to Bend Hardline
Fractal Design Core 500 Case Review
Gigabyte X170 Extreme ECC and Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 Review
Raidmax Monster RX-700AT Power Supply Review
Report: AMD to revive Project Quantum with Zen CPU, Vega GPU
Riotoro CR1280 Prism Full Tower Case Review
The History Of AMD CPUs
Windows 10 build 14328: Everything you need to know

A closer look at Opera’s Browser VPN

Opera Software launched what it calls a Browser VPN or just VPN depending on where you find it in the browser in a recent developer edition of the web browser.

Read full article @ gHacks

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Preview

AMD is signing off the current-generation of graphics cards with the new Radeon Pro Duo, a dual-GPU monstrosity that packs a pair of "Fiji" GPUs, in the same configuration as the company's current flagship, the Radeon R9 Fury X. In the absence of any competition from the GeForce "Maxwell" family, it could end up being the fastest graphics card money can buy for some time. Although AMD is pricing the card at the same US $1,499 it asked for the Radeon R9 295X2, it's marketing the card in a category that's between the Radeon "consumer" and the FirePro "professional" lineup. Its marketing tagline reads "for creators who game, and gamers who create."

By "creators," AMD isn't necessarily referring to content creators in general, those who use top-of-the-line FirePro cards for their top-dollar visual effects production, but VR content creators. AMD, like NVIDIA, is betting heavily on virtual reality (VR) to become a mass-medium. Unlike TVs and other screens, VR adds a new element - the user's ability to choose which part of the content to consume by simply moving their head around.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Asus MG248Q Review

FreeSync and a high refresh rate for £250. Asus has carved out a reputation for itself as a provider of gaming-focussed monitors. Most enthusiasts are abundantly familiar with the Republic of Gamers range, currently headlined by the impressive PG348Q, yet there is a significant number of options lower down the financial scale.

Catering for the gamer that understands the importance of frame-refresh synchronisation between graphics card and monitor for super-smooth action, Asus launched a trio of compatible displays just the other week. Augmenting its ever-burgeoning catalogue of displays for the gamers amongst you who also want really high refresh rates as well as adaptive sync, there's the MG248Q that, handily, is in for review today.

Read full article @ Hexus

Asustor AS3204T NAS Review

Join us as we review the Asustor AS3204T NAS. The 4-bay NAS server was designed to be extremely price competitive with a low price, yet offering serious performance as Asustor embedded an Intel Celeron 1.60 GHz Quad-Core Processor with turbo to 2.24 GHz. Combined with 2 GB of system memory and the latest Asustor management software and app suite this product is bound to impress. The AS3204T is not only a fast file server, it's also loaded with applications and features as well. Heck you can even connect it towards your HDTV and run KODI from it. The new ASUSTor series is called 32 series and runs an Intel Celeron 1.6 GHz Quad-core processor tied towards 2 GB RAM built-in (non-upgradable). Key usability for this product would be centralized storage, professional grade backup availability and hey, it is a viable H.265 1080P and 4K multimedia solution as well with its HDMI 1.4b Port. Armed with the latest firmware and an updated GUI + priced competitive against the big guns in the industry like Qnap, Thecus, Synology and Netgear a year or three ago Asustor entered the market.

Today's tested model NAS unit has four HDD bays (not hot-swappable though), RAID functionality, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 connectors and then a heap of software functionality that remains to be really impressive. You could use this four bay AS3204T to download torrents or usenet (sickbeard, couchpotato and other popular software is supported), it has its own FTP server, a MySQL server, a WEB server including support for virtual hosts, built-in Kodi media center and well anything you could wish for on a low power server. You can use Android and IOS Apps to control or monitor the NAS and next to all that luxury, it remains a user and group based management based proper NAS as well. Basically whatever you need is ticked in some sort of way on a list of necessities anno 2016 for a modern age NAS, and it's doing so with an Intel Celeron 1.60 GHz Quad-Core Processor (Automatic Overclocking to 2.24 GHz) and 2 GB of memory. It does all that while remaining completely silent, well as silent as your HDD is really. Next to that by using that Intel Celeron 1.60 GHz Quad-Core Processor processor, this NAS unit in IDLE consumes incredibly low amounts of power. Power consumption sits at just 7 in idle (one HDD) to 10 Watts with one HDD when in usage (depending on the HDD brand that number may vary a bit).

Read full article @ Guru3D

Azio MGK 1 RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review: Less Is More

Mechanical keyboards have been around since we started using keyboards as input devices for the PC. Early (1970's era) mechanical keyboards were heavy and loud which eventually led manufactures to produce membrane based keyboards. PC gaming helped lead a resurgence in the reintroduction of the mechanical keyboard. Azio's MGK 1 RGB mechanical keyboard contains the Kailh mechanical switch and … Read more.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

CM STORM QuickFire XT Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

If you are currently in the market for a new keyboard we have a treat for you from the engineers of CMStorm. The QuickFire XT Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is our specimen of review today and we are pleased to have it in the lab as we can feel it most likely become our dedicated go-to keyboard for random lab testing.

The CMSTORM QuickFire XT is a keyboard we could see agent 47 having interest in, with a sleek no nonsense design combined with a hardware and feature list that is sufficient to get the job done with Silent Assassin efficiency. Equipped with the legendary CHERRY MX switches (Blue in ours), rated for 50 million+ keystrokes and a design based upon an embedded steel backplate the QuickFire XT is one tough mama jama.

Read full article @ Bjorn3D

Corsair K70 RAPIDFIRE RGB keyboard review

Corsair was the first keyboard maker in the world to hit the market with Cherry’s MX RGB switches and now, they are teaming up once again with the brand new Corsair K70 RAPIDFIRE RGB keyboard featuring Cherry’s all new MX Speed switches – designed to actuate faster than any other switch on the market.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Enermax Revolution XtII 750W PSU Unboxing & Overview

The unsung hero, the one without praise yet possessing the knowledge that those who shine above them are nothing without them. The foundation of every build is the PSU and whether is often overlooked in the long run or just simply out-shined by it's fancy counter-parts, it's presence is essential and it's performance is priority.

Today we are going to introduce and unbox with you the Enermax Revolution XtII 750W PSU.

Read full article @ TechnologyX

Fallout 4 DLC Discussion and How to Bend Hardline

A growing trend in video games is the “buy now and later buy all the DLC”. Game developers got wise to this and started offering all of the DLC as a Season Pass package giving you an incentive to overpay for the game and pay more for the rest of the game when it’s released. Funny thing is the Season Pass prices are generally the individual DLC prices all added up so it makes you wonder why anyone would bother.

Well, we now have a reason. Earlier this year Techland, the developers for Dying Light was set to release their DLC expansion for the game and made the bold decision to raise the price of the Season Pass to cover the new game content claiming it was bigger than they had expected.

Turns out Bethesda has taken a page from Techland and is doing the same for their upcoming DLC packages that haven’t even been released. In this first segment Darren talks about the new DLC coming out for Fallout 4 and gives you his impressions on if the DLC price increase is worth it.

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

Fractal Design Core 500 Case Review

Fractal Design’s Core Series has been very solid. We’ve reviewed quite a few cases from the Core Series and they have proven to be very reliable, loaded with features, and have a very simplistic design. Fractal Design recently released their first mini-ITX case in the Core Series, the Core 500. This case is quite small, but still offers many features you would find in full-size cases. Inside you have room for long graphics cards and normal ATX power supplies up to 310 mm, CPU coolers up to 170 mm tall, six hard drives, and even water cooling support for radiators up to 280 mm! Yet the case remains small and compact. Let’s jump in and see what the Core 500 is all about!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Gigabyte X170 Extreme ECC and Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 Review

We review the Gigabyte X170 Extreme ECC, an Xeon compatible 'Intel X170' (we'll explain the quotes later) chipset based product that is loaded with kit, ECC memory support (if you use a Xeon) and features. Though it is a chipset and processor series intended for the server platform this motherboard was made all consumer grade with all whistles and bells. It is SLI/Crossfire capable. Combined with a few extras and an overall high class build Gigabyte is showing a mighty fine offering.

This release is a little unusual as being an expensive platform there is no real valid reason as a consumer to opt a Xeon processor. ECC memory indeed is handy, but mostly if you are running database stuff or perhaps virtualize a lot of operating systems. This chipset should be paired with relatively expensive Xeon E3 series (v5) processors, intended as server processor these are clocked lower which also is not something your average consumer is after. So why then would a four-core Xeon motherboard and platform be interesting ? Well, the Xeon processors have been binned and run incredibly stable, with a lower power consumption and lower temperatures as well. These processors are design to run 24/7/365. The same can be said for the chipset.

The direct downside, processor wise there will be no unlimited/unlocked multipliers available, so you are pretty fixed at your maximum turbo cap when it comes to overclocking (or the lack of it). But sure, if you do like to own a gaming system that can do stable virtulization or run server related databases and or LAMP distributions, it could make sense. But performance and price wise this as a hole does not make a lot of sense. Or does it ?

Read full article @ Guru3D

Raidmax Monster RX-700AT Power Supply Review

Raidmax is the first company to utilize Andyson's new Titanium platform with its Monster RX-700AT PSU. This is a semi-modular unit with a double ball-bearing fan and Japanese capacitors, promising high performance and exceptional efficiency.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Report: AMD to revive Project Quantum with Zen CPU, Vega GPU

These choice components would provide a desirable all-AMD solution.

Read full article @ Hexus

Riotoro CR1280 Prism Full Tower Case Review

Founded in 2014, Riotoro's mission statement is to provide high-end, enthusiast grade products at reasonable prices through a team of talented personnel catering to the PC community. Riotoro’s initial entry was the Latin America market, but has since moved into the US along its CR1280 Prism full tower RGB case announced back in January 5th, 2016.

Without any external drive mounting trays, the front panel of the CR1280 Prism is setup for maximum air flow into the case, with two 120mm LED fans pre-installed. The pattern of holes in the front panel is backed with a filter to reduce dirt and dust infiltration into the case that is easily removed from the bottom for cleaning.

The "Prism" in the product name probably refers to the LED backlight around the I/O control panel, Riotoro logo at the bottom of the front panel, and the two 120mm LED front fans which can be set to one color (red, green, blue, cool white, yellow, pink) or automatically sequence through a 256 color "rainbow" palette. The two LED fans lighting the case interior should make the black case glow with a myriad of colors, pleasing many computer enthusiasts. Users can also settle on a particular color from the sequencing with a push of the RGB button; wait for the color choice to appear, then press RGB button on the I/O control panel. There is no LED light level adjustment, but you can toggle the LED lighting by the holding RGB button for three seconds to switch between on and off.

Read full article @ Neoseeker

The History Of AMD CPUs

We take a look through AMD's history in the CPU market.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Windows 10 build 14328: Everything you need to know

Don't settle for partial changes, we dive deep and show you everything there is to know about build 14328 of Windows 10 including things not in the official changelog.

If you thought you've seen big changes in the last preview of Windows 10 think again. On Friday, Microsoft dropped Windows 10 build 14328 to the Fast ring for PC and Mobile with significant changes, improvements, and a bunch of new exciting features that perhaps makes build 14328 the biggest release tester have received so far.

In the new pre-release version of the operating system, we're seeing Windows Ink for the first time and a new improved version of the Start menu. Cortana also gets smarter with new ways to create reminders. You can now also ask Cortana questions even when your computer is locked. The new Action Center begins to take shape with new features and an updated user interface. The Settings app shows new user-interface improvements, and Microsoft migrates more Control Panel settings to the new experie...

Read full article @ Windows Central