Here a roundup of todays reviews and articles:

Arctic S111 BT Mobile Bluetooth Sound System Review
BlackBerry Passport Review
Corsair Gaming K70 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Corsair Gaming Vengeance K70 RGB
Cougar 700M Gaming Mouse Review
COUGAR 700M Gaming Mouse Review
Enermax Liqtech 240
Fedora 21 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 Development Benchmarks
Forza Horizon 2 review – Race and explore a vast open world on Xbox One and 360
Gigabytes X99-UD4 motherboard reviewed
iconBIT Toucan 4K Android Mini-PC Review
Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard First Impressions
MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming OC Review
Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Review
Sony Xperia Z3 Review
The NVIDIA GTX 980 SLI Review
Windows 10 Technical Preview hands on
Xigmatek Aquila

Arctic S111 BT Mobile Bluetooth Sound System Review

Today we are going to take a look at the Arctic S111 BT Mobile Bluetooth Sound System which is designed for those who are looking for a pair of wireless speakers to use on the go.

Read full article @ KitGuru

BlackBerry Passport Review

BlackBerry's square-shaped new flagship is here, and it's just as weird in real life as it looks in the promotional pictures. It's a square, boxy little device with a metallic trim and a dumpy physical keyboard attached to the bottom. Ergonomics? Screw 'em.And yet, dig a little deeper and there might just be something there after all. The 4.5-inch slab boasts a 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor and 3GB of RAM.There's 32GB of storage, a microSD slot and a rear-facing 13MP camera. In other words, the Canadian company has thrown everything at this device when it comes to specs.It's not a cheap phone either: it's £529 for a SIM free version ($599, around AU$680) and free on a £30 to £35 a month contract in the UK - meaning it's up there with the iPhones, HTC and Samsung phones of the world.

Read full article @ Techradar

Corsair Gaming K70 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

It’s finally here. After three quarters since being revealed to the world, a certain lineup of keyboards with obnoxiously bright individually backlit keys that spill copious amounts of light from beneath the keycaps are now more gaudy than ever much to our delight. Multicolor RGB lighting for the Corsair Vengeance K70 and Corsair Vengeance K95 keyboards was first shown off at CES 2014 in January to much attention. For years, multicolor backlighting was a highly requested feature for mechanical keyboards. The vast majority of backlit mechanical keyboards only use a single LED color, but individually LED-lit keys have the benefit of luminous and highly visible keyboard lighting even in well-lit environments. Read on to see how the Corsair Gaming K70 RGB performs!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

Corsair Gaming Vengeance K70 RGB

Corsair might have made peripherals before this, but what you and I are looking at today represents a whole new way of thinking for the iconic memory maker. Corsair Gaming has officially been born with the release of the new Vengeance K70 RGB keyboard, a Cherry MX be-switched peripheral with fancy backlighting, soft plastic keys and a brushed aluminium body.

Clearly this a board that takes how it looks very seriously, but does its performance match? That is what we are here to find out.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Cougar 700M Gaming Mouse Review

Cougar, in expanding their line-up of peripherals, has recently added mice and keyboards to the mix.Today Benchmark Reviews examines Cougar’s second mouse released to the market: The 700M. Designed from the ground-up, the Cougar 700M boasts having a solid metal chassis, added functionality while embracing ergonomics, and a top-tier laser sensor. At first it appears that the 700M shares an amalgamation of characteristics from other popular high-end mice such as the Cyborg Rat7 and the Thermaltake Level 10M; however, it is in the execution and design that makes this product different.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

COUGAR 700M Gaming Mouse Review

It doesn't really matter if you're a casual, hardcore or professional eSPORTS gamer since the moment you visit your local electronics superstore and head to the computers section chances are that you will be overwhelmed by the sheer number of available gaming mice. Of course as expected (and i consider this to be right) the eye usually falls on models designed and manufactured by the most well-known and established manufacturers out there but there are certainly exceptions to that rule especially when design and price occupy the two top spots in priority for the interested party. COUGAR became quite the popular name after releasing several high quality PC cases and power supply units which also combined performance and features but it wasn't until just recently that they announced the release of their very first gaming peripherals and today with us we have their flagship gaming mouse model, the 700M.

COUGAR products are designed by COUGAR GERMANY, a professional R&D engineering team and COUGAR is part of the “HEC/COMPUCASE” Group. The unique combination of the world-famous German skills of designing the best products worldwide and HEC/s power and long-time experience to produce the best high quality products created innovative masterpieces in PSU history. The PC upgrading and DIY market is changing rapidly and is growing more and more. Professional user are asking for more than only stable and silent PSU/s, they want efficient and energy saving products without compromises in quality. COUGAR GERMANY created such products! COUGAR GERMANY combines the features of innovation and evolution to create efficient, powerful and unique products like “COUGAR POWER”. The purpose of COUGAR GERMANY is the satisfaction of the customer, reaching it by creating most valuable, advanced products. COUGAR – YOUR POWER!

The 700M laser gaming mouse by COUGAR is not your average mouse since it aside the high quality aluminum frame it also allows the end user to customize all of its 8 programmable buttons, set the weight system by adding up to 18g more and adjust the height of the palm rest to further improve comfort and grip. Once again just like the recently reviewed Rapira Elite the 700M makes use of the very fast and quite popular ADNS-9800 laser sensor by Avago which gives the mouse a resolution of 8200DPI with a framerate of 12000fps, tracking speed of 150IPS and up to 30G acceleration. The specifications of the 700M are completed by OMRON switches (5 million clicks), polling rate of 1000Hz/1ms, onboard 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 CPU and 512Kb of memory used to store and switch between the 3 available profiles. So as you can see COUGAR obviously studied quite a bit prior to releasing the 700M laser gaming mouse, the how much is up to us to find out.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Enermax Liqtech 240

Enermax seeks to make a name for itself in the AIO liquid-cooling market with the Liqtech 240. Taking the top spot in the Liqtech series of coolers, this 240 mm AIO offers adjustable peak-fan-speed options and a unique design. The Liqtech 240 is not all show either as it performs admirably as well.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Fedora 21 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 Development Benchmarks

With the very latest development packages for Ubuntu 14.10 and Fedora 21, here's some new Linux benchmark results when running from the Core i7 5960X platform and using the new MSI X99S SLI PLUS

Read full article @ Phoronix

Forza Horizon 2 review – Race and explore a vast open world on Xbox One and 360

Last year, the Xbox One launched with a graphical tour-de-force racing game known as Forza Motorsport 5. This year, Microsoft and developer and developer Playground Games (plus Sumo Digital, who handled the Xbox 360 version) have returned with the more approachable, open world spin-off Forza Horizon 2. The new Horizon improves upon Forza 5's gorgeous graphics engine and photorealistic cars, creating the best looking racer yet. Players drive across southern Europe solo or online, exploring the countryside and participating in hundreds of events at their leisure.

Read full article @ WP Central

Gigabytes X99-UD4 motherboard reviewed

Buying into Intel's high-end desktop platform doesn't have to be exorbitantly expensive. Gigabyte's X99-UD4 motherboard offers an affordable path to Haswell-E, and it doesn't skimp on quality hardware or extra perks. We've taken a closer look at the board to see if the rest of it measures up.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

iconBIT Toucan 4K Android Mini-PC Review

The Toucan Nano 4K is a powerful mini-PC from iconBIT which houses at its core one Amlogic M8 SoC which has its four CPU cores clocked at 2Ghz and is paired with no less than 8 GPU cores (Mali 450), 2GB of RAM and 8GB of NAND. The device is capable of 4K video playback and runs two pre-installed launchers (iconBIT Media Center, Nova Launcher), but also XBMC.

Read full article @ Madshrimps

Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard First Impressions

It's soooo small. I was perhaps a bit too excited by the Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard, an interesting new accessory that works equally well with Windows, Android and iOS devices. But in unwrapping this new hardware device, I can already see a major flaw: It's going to be far too small for most people.

Read full article @ WinSupersite

MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming OC Review

In this review we test the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming OC edition graphics card. It is the big brother of the GTX 970 Gaming OC edition we tested last week. Armed with some more performance this model comes with that new TwinFrozr V cooler. The GM204-400 chip is plastered onto a custom PCB. The card comes factory clocked faster as well at a 1216 MHz base /1317 MHz boost clock frequency. The card has 4 GB graphics memory, is energy efficient and factory overclocked for you. You will be surprised by how this card looks, how silent it is, how well it performs and how much it can be overclocked.

The PC market is interesting, it has been on a decline for sure, but here at Guru3D.com we've noticed an opposite trend, gaming PCs are getting more and more popular, much like an American muscle car or should we say card. We all want a beast of a gaming rig as, let’s face it, PC gaming as an experience is just so much better than anything else out there. Roughly a year and a half ago it became apparent that Nvidia was brewing a new GPU architecture under codename Maxwell, yes, named after the mathematical physicist. The Maxwell family of GPUs is actually the 10th generation of GPU architecture for Nvidia. With several design goals in mind (higher performance and lower power consumption) Nvidia was hoping to reach 20nm by the time their high-end product would be released. It is now September 2014 and it is abundantly clear that the 20nm nodes are not yet viable for volume production of wafers with huge transistor counts. So Nvidia pretty much had to go with plan B and stuck with 28nm, this makes their silicon sizable, in relative proportions of course. None the less, Nvidia has moved forward and today the 2nd Maxwell based products (GTX 750 was actually the first trial) are being released as GM204 based GPUs. Yes, correct, GM204 and not GM210, meaning Nvidia is once again using the ‘high-end’ and not ‘enthusiast class’ chip to empower the product series we are about to review. Armed with voltage, power and load limiters Nvidia these days can harvest massive performance out of chips when you think about it. They did the very same with Kepler really, GK104 versus GK110 anyone? So Nvidia certainly is doing something right. Today is testimony to that as we see two products performing in the GTX 780 Ti range of performance, but both will consume much less power. That’s actually a primary feature design target for Maxwell, more performance with less power consumption. The GPU used thus is the 28nm GM204, the two derivatives created from it are the GeForce GTX 970 and 980. Ah, you noticed? Yes, correct, Nvidia decided to skip the 800 series to avoid confusion with some of their rebranded mobile parts. Maxwell is a new and sound architecture and as such it is released with a new series name. In this article we will have an extensive look at the architecture behind Maxwell, we will look at gaming performance from Full HD to Ultra HD, we will look at power and thermal characteristics and will serve you that on a silver platter with a nice photo-shoot here at Guru3D.com of course.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Review

Today we take a look at the Phanteks Enthoo Luxe, which is Phanteks' follow-up to the award winning Enthoo Pro and Primo chassis that were launched earlier this year. Established in 2007, Phanteks aims to provide "high-end quality and innovative products in thermal solutions." Known for its CPU and fan coolers, Phanteks has been busy branching into the computer chassis market and enjoying some success at it. With an MSRP of $159 in black or white, the Enthoo Luxe is ideal for anyone who is looking for a step up from the Pro, but still stay within an affordable range. This chassis offers a lot of great features and builds upon what the other two chassis have brought to the market. Without spoiling too much, let's move on to the review.

Read full article @ OCC

Sony Xperia Z3 Review

A slimmer design and a number of updates over its predecessor

Read full article @ The Inquirer

The NVIDIA GTX 980 SLI Review

Here we are almost two weeks after NVIDIA’s GTX 980 and GTX 970 launched and interest hasn’t diminished in any way. With that being said, the availability situation has somewhat improved so these cards are getting into people’s hands after initial bout of utterly insufficient allocation. All in all things couldn’t be going better for NVIDIA’s Maxwell architecture so there’s no better time to start looking at how things are looking when they’re placed in an SLI configuration.

The GTX 980 will be the first card out of our multi GPU testing gates simply because we have two reference samples on hand (remember, the GTX 970 doesn’t have a “reference design” per se) and it’s vying for top-dog status in a pretty competitive segment. To refresh your memory, in a single card configuration it can handily beat the R9 290X and usually remain ahead of NVIDIA’s own GTX 780 Ti despite costing just $549.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Windows 10 Technical Preview hands on

The next version of Windows looks set to fix the flaws of Windows 8, judging by the early preview

Read full article @ V3

Xigmatek Aquila

The Xigmatek Aquila aims to become the compact cube chassis for a mATX board while delivering good quality and timeless looks. Will it manage to float the price / performance boat, or does it end up capsizing by leaning out to far into one direction?

Read full article @ techPowerUp