Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:
Computers: XPG's Xenia 14 is the best laptop so far from the new PC brand, I Built The Smallest Ryzen 5600G Gaming PC And It’s Incredible
Cooling: be quiet! Dark Rock TF 2 Review - Top Cooler with a top Flow
CPUs: Intel Core i9-11900K and Intel Core i5-11600K Review
Displays: Desklab 4k Portable Touchscreen Monitor Review
Gaming: Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (I, II, III) Review - The Power of Nostalgia
Input: Corsair K60 RGB PRO Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review, Epomaker GK61 + SK21 Red Review - Red Wine on Your Desk
Interview: Open Compute Project: An Interview with Intel's Rebecca Weekly
Mobile: M1 iPad Pro Review After 2 Months: Did Apple FIX IT?!
Motherboards: ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial Review
Networking: Netgear GS305EP Review PoE+ 63W Switch with L2 Management
Storage: Mushkin Gamma M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Fast, Cool and Affordable, Quick Look: ICY DOCK EZ-Adapter MB031U-1SMB
Computers:
Windows Central: XPG's Xenia 14 is the best laptop so far from the new PC brand
It's lighter than LG's gram and it has a very competitive price. The Xenia 14 is an all-around impressive 14-inch Ultrabook that shows XPG isn't going away.
Review: XPG's Xenia 14 is the best laptop so far from the new PC brand
Max Tech: I Built The Smallest Ryzen 5600G Gaming PC And It’s Incredible
I built the smallest AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Gaming PC possible using the ASRock DeskMini X300 and is Amazing!
I Built The Smallest Ryzen 5600G Gaming PC And It’s Incredible!
Cooling:
IgorsLAB: be quiet! Dark Rock TF 2 Review - Top Cooler with a top Flow
On the update roadmap from be quiet! a cooler has not only received a makeover this time, but even an upgrade to a higher product segment. We are talking about the successor of the popular SHADOW Rock TF 2, the new DARK Rock TF 2.
be quiet! Dark Rock TF 2 Review - Top Cooler with a top Flow
CPUs:
OCInside.de: Intel Core i9-11900K and Intel Core i5-11600K Review
Intel Core i processors are now in their 11th generation and despite difficulties with 10nm or smaller chip production, Intel still wants to improve performance and sends the Intel Core i5-11600K and the Intel Core i9-11900K from the Intel Rocket Lake-S series into the race today on OCinside.de! As a platform, we have chosen the brand new ASRock Z590 Steel Legend LGA1200 high-end motherboard with Z590 chipset. RAM and NVMe SSD are also pretty fast and come from Crucial, so we are looking forward to an exciting benchmark session including overclocking. Whether Intel's 11th generation can convince and how well the Crucial Ballistix Gaming 16GB DDR4-3600 RAM and the Crucial P5 SSD 2TB perform on the ASRock Z590 Steel Legend will be shown in the following review.
Intel Core i9-11900K and Intel Core i5-11600K Review
Displays:
NikKTech: Desklab 4k Portable Touchscreen Monitor Review
Portable monitors have been gaining ground lately over their full-size cousins and today with me i have one of the most popular ones, the 4k portable touchscreen monitor by Desklab.
Desklab 4k Portable Touchscreen Monitor Review
Gaming:
Wccftech: Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (I, II, III) Review - The Power of Nostalgia
The Final Fantasy I, II and III Pixel Remasters play exactly like the originals did, complete with a visual overhaul that can be hit and miss.
Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (I, II, III) Review - The Power of Nostalgia
Input:
TweakTown: Corsair K60 RGB PRO Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Corsair's K60 RGB PRO mechanical gaming keyboard is one to add to your shortlist. Why? Join us as we thoroughly check it out.
Corsair K60 RGB PRO Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
TechPowerUp: Epomaker GK61 + SK21 Red Review - Red Wine on Your Desk
We look at two new keyboards from Epomaker today which follow a "red wine" color scheme. The SK61 is a 60% keyboard designed purely for typing with layers in mind, and the SK21 is an add-on numpad for when you need to do some number crunching.
Epomaker GK61 + SK21 Red Review - Red Wine on Your Desk
Interviews:
Anandtech: Open Compute Project: An Interview with Intel's Rebecca Weekly
When Facebook was scaling its technologies and pivoting to completely public use in the late 2010s, it started an internal project around data efficiency and scalability. The goal was to end up with a solution that provided scalable resources, efficient compute, and enabled cost savings. In 2011, combined with Intel and Rackspace, the Open Compute Project was launched to enable a set of open standards that could benefit all major industry enterprise players. OCP is also a fluid organization, providing its community a structure that is designed to enable close collaboration on these evolving standards, pushing for commodity hardware that is more efficient, flexible and scalable, throwing off the shackles of proprietary one-size-fits-all gear. OCP also has a certified partner program, allowing external customers to be part of the ecosystem that covers data center facilities, hardware, networking, open firmware, power, security, storage, telecommunications, and future technologies.
Open Compute Project: An Interview with Intel's Rebecca Weekly
Mobile:
Max Tech: M1 iPad Pro Review After 2 Months: Did Apple FIX IT?!
Here's What's Changed after 2 Months of Real-World use!
M1 iPad Pro Review After 2 Months: Did Apple FIX IT?!
Motherboards:
TechPowerUp: ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial Review
Top-tier VRM design, Thunderbolt, 10G LAN, and even a massive monoblock—the ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial leaves nothing in reserve. ASUS also includes everything but the kitchen sink in the box. This motherboard is the pinnacle of ASUS motherboard design, so let's see just how far it can go!
ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial Review
Networking:
ServeTheHome: Netgear GS305EP Review PoE+ 63W Switch with L2 Management
The Netgear GS305EP is a 5-port 1GbE switch with four PoE+ ports and basic L2 management with a 63W PoE power budget
Netgear GS305EP Review PoE+ 63W Switch with L2 Management
Storage:
Tom's Hardware: Mushkin Gamma M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Fast, Cool and Affordable
A high-end value
Mushkin Gamma M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Fast, Cool and Affordable
TechPowerUp: Quick Look: ICY DOCK EZ-Adapter MB031U-1SMB
The Icy Dock EZ-Adapter MB031U-1SMB combines both M.2 SATA and 2.5" SATA connectivity via a USB 3.1 interface to access those types of drives quickly externally. With its compact size and detachable cable, it can be quite the little helper if dealing with these SATA drives on an ongoing basis.
Quick Look: ICY DOCK EZ-Adapter MB031U-1SMB