Toshiba XG5 1TB NVMe SSD Review Toshiba’s XG5 NVMe SSD is shipping to the company’s OEM partners now. We run it through our test suite to see if the company’s newfangled 64-layer BiCS NAND helps it compete with the best in the business… @TechReport
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Thermaltake Contac Silent 12 CPU Cooler Review
Thermaltake Contac Silent 12 CPU Cooler Review Many air and liquid CPU coolers have come out recently for builders exploring an AMD Ryzen system. To capitalize on this renewed interest in AMD-compatible heatsinks, Thermaltake cooked up the Contac Silent 12, a Socket AM4-ready cooler that can snap onto Ryzen motherboards right out of the box… …
Asus RT-AC1900P Wireless Router Review
Asus RT-AC1900P Wireless Router Review Remember when all home routers looked pretty much the same? Without fail, they were rectangles that sat mostly flat on our desks and blinked quietly at us while we worked and played. Nowadays they look like anything from dangerous weapons to art pieces. Asus’s RT-AC1900P sits somewhere in the middle of those …
Adata Ultimate SU900 256GB SSD Review
Adata Ultimate SU900 256GB SSD Review When we visited Adata at Computex just a few weeks ago, it was clear that the company’s focus was on M.2 and PCIe storage. A representative even went as far as to say that Adata may phase out SATA drives entirely, replacing them with PCIe x2 drives to sate the budget …
Corsair Hydro GFX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Card Review
Corsair Hydro GFX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Card Review ALL-IN-ONE LIQUID COOLERS ARE COMMONPLACE for CPUs these days, but slapping a closed-loop cooler on one’s graphics card still takes a bit of elbow grease. Finding the right third-party cooler bracket and a compatible graphics card can require a fair bit of research, and disassembling a …
Noontec Zoro II Wireless Limited Edition Headphones Review
Noontec Zoro II Wireless Limited Edition Headphones Review WIRELESS DEVICES ARE on the rise as ports shrink in both size and number on our PCs and phones. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices are on their way into the market to take the place of their wired counterparts. With the headphone jack being threatened by multiple phone …
Intel Core i7-7900X CPU Review
Intel Core i7-7900X CPU Review Intel’s Core X CPUs are here, and we’re kicking off this new era with the highest-end chip in the lineup so far: the Core i9-7900X. As it traditionally does for its high-end desktop platform, the company is repurposing silicon from its upcoming Skylake Xeons to serve as Skylake-X chips. That …
G.Skill Ripjaws KM570 RGB Gaming Keyboard Review
G.Skill Ripjaws KM570 RGB Gaming Keyboard Review LAST YEAR, I reviewed the Ripjaws KM780R RGB gaming keyboard, G.Skill’s first foray into the keyboard market. The KM780R attempted to capture gamers’ imaginations with aggressive styling, but those touches made the board unnecessarily bulky. I also took issue with the rather gritty feel of the key switches …
Corsair Force Series MP500 240GB NVMe SSD Review
Corsair Force Series MP500 240GB NVMe SSD Review Howdy, gerbils. It’s been awhile since our last full-fledged SSD review. With the notable exception of Intel’s long-prophesied Optane products, there hasn’t been much new or exciting happening in the storage scene of late. But the market marches on regardless, and many new drives have launched without …
Corsair Dominator Platinum Special Edition Torque Memory Review
Corsair Dominator Platinum Special Edition Torque Memory Review Although one can now buy peripherals, cases, audio gear, or even an entire PC from Corsair now, the company’s roots are in RAM. We’ve been using the company’s memory in our personal systems and test rigs for nearly as long as TR has existed, so when Corsair …
Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G Graphics Card Review
Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G Graphics Card Review NVIDIA’S GEFORCE GTX 1080 TI sets a new high-water mark for single-card graphics performance, but the company’s Founders Edition cooler might leave some wanting in the noise, vibration, and harshness department. The centrifugal fan on that relatively compact heatsink sounds nice for a blower, …
Corsair One Pro Small-form-factor Gaming PC Review
Corsair One Pro Small-form-factor Gaming PC Review Small-form-factor PCs are all the rage these days. It seems like you can hardly open the front page of your favorite hardware news site without seeing another story about a little-bitty PC destined for an entertainment center or in a living-room near you. These systems can offer a …
HyperX Pulsefire Gaming Mouse Review
HyperX Pulsefire Gaming Mouse Review The mainstream desktop computer mouse has evolved from the roller-ball, single-button affair on the original Macintosh to an entire genus of rodents with and without cables, studded with anywhere between one and a couple dozen buttons, and relying on input from several different varieties of sensors. High-performance hardware maker HyperX …
Corsair K95 RGB Platinum Gaming Keyboard Review
Corsair K95 RGB Platinum Gaming Keyboard Review CORSAIR’S K70 keyboard has been reviewed on TR three separate times in three different configurations, and it’s won two TR Editor’s Choice awards. If there’s a TR keyboard all-star list, the K70 is definitely on it. The K70’s bigger brother, the K95, has never starred in a single …
EpicGear Defiant Modular Gaming Keyboard Review
EpicGear Defiant Modular Gaming Keyboard Review Reviewing keyboards is tricky business. Every time I sit down to review a keyboard, my first impulse is to write “well, it’s a keyboard,” and call it done. Of course, for the very same reason, keyboard manufacturers work hard to make their products stand out from the crowd. Whether …
EpicGear Morpha X Modular Gaming Mouse Review
EpicGear Morpha X Modular Gaming Mouse Review TR gerbils may not have heard of EpicGear, a division of Golden Emperor International Limited (better known as GEiL). On top of its various memory offerings, the company sells a full range of gaming gear under that EpicGear brand, including keyboards, mice, and headsets. I’ve got both a …
SteelSeries Rival 700 Gaming Mouse Review
SteelSeries Rival 700 Gaming Mouse Review GAME CONTROLLERS have used rumble motors to provide gamers with physical feedback for decades. This technology has not only persisted over the years, it’s evolved. Haptic feedback is growing in popularity and becoming more fine-tuned and precise than ever before. A number of intriguing products taking advantage of advanced …
HyperX Alloy FPS Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
HyperX Alloy FPS Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review At least one mechanical keyboard seems to exist for every conceivable taste these days. Need a clicky keyboard with key caps that look like old-timey typewriter keys? Pick one from Massdrop. Want something that lights up the room with every color under the rainbow? Dozens of options are …
Intel Optane DC P4800X SSD Review
Intel Optane DC P4800X SSD Review Intel’s high-performance 3D Xpoint (say crosspoint) memory technology promised far-reaching changes for storage, memory, and computer architecture when the company first took the wraps off the technology in mid-2015. Of course, big promises begot high expectations, and despite a hunger for more information, we’ve heard relatively little about how …
Synology RT-2600ac Wireless Router Review
Synology RT-2600ac Wireless Router Review A few years back, I moved from a house to an apartment. The Asus RT-N66U wireless router that had served me for a couple years began to suffer. What had once reached with ease from my basement to my second floor now struggled to provide a reliable connection across 20-some …
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Card Review
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Card Review Sometimes at TR, we do funny things for major product launches. We’ve asked chips to review themselves. We’ve had the NSA monitor our testing labs. With the advent of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Nvidia’s fastest consumer graphics card ever, I felt like it was time to …
MSI Trident 3 Compact Gaming PC Review
MSI Trident 3 Compact Gaming PC Review If you’re reading this site, it’s pretty likely that you either are or once were a PC gamer. If that’s the case, you likely have a gaming PC already, but with the relatively recent release of Intel’s Kaby Lake processors and the forthcoming Ryzen CPUs from AMD, a …
Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G Graphics Card Review
Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G Graphics Card Review If you’ve followed Intel’s Kaby Lake launch, you’ll already be familiar with Gigabyte’s Aorus sub-brand. Much as Asus’ Republic of Gamers products are meant to put a more gamer-friendly face on products like motherboards, laptops, peripherals, and more, Aorus is where builders will find Gigabyte’s …
SteelSeries Apex M500 Keyboard Review
SteelSeries Apex M500 Keyboard Review SteelSeries’ Apex M500 keyboard ditches RGB LED backlighting and complicated software for a simple look and feel pinned on the quality typing experience of Cherry MX Red or MX Blue switches. We got in many hours of gaming on this board to see whether it lives up to its $100 …
Patriot Hellfire 480GB NVMe SSD Review
Patriot Hellfire 480GB NVMe SSD Review Just a few weeks ago, we were bemoaning the dearth of affordable NVMe drives. For a long time, NVMe products have commanded around double the per-gigabyte cost of more pedestrian AHCI drives. That premium had a lot to do with how few players there were in the market. Since …
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