Pros: * Benchmarking this drive using several different programs showed excellent results and it feels a bit faster than my Samsung 980 Pro. * PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 is the latest greatest in the storage market. * Ran cooler than my Samsung 980 Pro. * The P44 Pro is their flagship model using a fast DRAM cache. * Comes with a Five-year warranty * I would definitely recommend this drive for your PC!

Cons: I could find NO CONS! This drive is great!

Overall Review: So who and what is a Solidigm drive? In short, its an Intel drive. Intel has sold their SSD business to a company called Sk Hynix and they named this business Solidigm which is now their Subsidiary company based in California. SK Hynix is a South Korean semiconductor company that used to be called Hyundai Electronic Industrial Co. They started making 256K DRAM chips way back in 1985. This drive was manufactured in Intels old fab using Intels technology and patents so thats why is basically an Intel drive and thats a good thing. I currently have a Samsung 980Pro 1TB M.2 drive in my PC. In comparing synthetic benchmarks I was surprised to see that this Solidigm drive was significantly faster than my trusty Samsung. 980 Pro Random Read = 65,451 IOPS 980 Pro Random Write = 66,905 IOPS Solidigm P44 Pro Random Read = 74,805 IOPS Solidigm P44 Pro Random Write = 80,457 IOPS However, in real life usage, I could feel just a little difference between the two drives. Boot times seemed the same, as did file transfers. But the Solidigm drive did feel a tiny bit quicker in general, and this could be due to it being a brand new drive while my Samsung has over a years worth of data on it. During a stress test, the drive (based off its own internal sensor) reported 88°C at its warmest. This was 4 degrees cooler than my Samsung drive. It ran much cooler during normal operation. Tested using this PC: (Pictured above under the Asus M.2 drive heatsink) Asus ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Dark Hero motherboard AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Royal RAM Windows 10 I remember back in 1991 when I was in college, my university had accumulated a total of one terabyte of storage capacity. My first thought was How much is a terabyte? My second thought was No individual will ever need that much storage space! Throw in the comical LOL as we realize how shortsighted we all were back then. So we went from 1991 to the present, where we are now looking at a hard drive the size of a stick of gum with the capacity of that of an entire 1991 universitys server farm, and probably speed increases nobody could ever foresee. Technology continues to amaze me.

Pros: * These headphones feel like and appear to be manufactured with high quality materials and engineering. The headband is a nice wide solid metal structure with a lot of flexibility. I took these headphones and straightened them completely flat for an hour (trying to make them looser fitting on my head) and nothing broke. They just sprung back to their original form. When you fold and unfold them at the joints, they snap firmly into place. The cups have a slight swivel to adjust to your head. The cable is indeed tangle resistant due to its somewhat stiff rubber coating (though I wouldn’t say its “tangle free” as advertised) and aluminum is used instead of plastic everywhere it would matter for strength. * Comes in a nice hard shell zipper case. Nothing fancy, and I won’t ever use it, but it’s there if you want it. * Bass response (See Bass response in CONS below). I spent several hours comparing the bass output of these headphones to my V-Moda Crossfade LP headphones using different styles of music, particularly hip hop music and subwoofer testing music. These use 40mm speaker drivers vs V-Moda’s 50mm drivers. The difference in how the bass sounds is the same difference in how a sealed subwoofer sounds verses a ported subwoofer. The iX1’s bass is very tight and clean like a sealed subwoofer. The Crossfade’s are like a ported subwoofer, boomy, loud and punchy. The iX1’s bass to my surprise, hits the very bottom of the audible frequency without any drop off and no distortion whatsoever. I did find though that I had to adjust my equalizer to maximum bass to get it to where I like to listen to hip hop best. Rock, pop, and techno sound amazing. * Mids and highs. This, if anything is what might justify these headphones being $200. Crisp, Clean, and Clear. The three C’s. While I preferred the Crossfades for bass emphasized music, I prefer the iX1’s for everything else. The clarity and musical separation difference is quite noticeable between the two. MTX wins here, big time. Even at very loud volumes, there was no noticeable distortion and Billy Currington sounded like he was singing right in front of me. * Two 3.5mm, daisy chainable input/output jacks is really a cool little feature, and works great. I was skeptical, thinking that adding a 2nd set of cans to the same output line would affect the quality or power of the audio, but I was wrong. When chained, both headsets sounded the same as using them unchained. It also doesn’t matter what plug you use to for your source. My daughter will have a blast listening like this with her friends. * The noise isolation works better than on any other headphones I’ve used.

Cons: * Short cable. Being short helps it not get tangled, and stores easily. This could be a pro for you, but for me it’s more of a con. You can always fold up a cable to make it shorter if you need it to be, but you can’t lengthen it to become longer (without adding another cable). * The remote cable is supposed to be for Apple devices only. It works fine when used on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and the pause/play button even worked but the volume did not. If you are using an Android device, realize that you are paying a little more for a little less. If you are using an ipod, well, there is no con here. * Bass response (See Bass response in PROS above). Listening to hip hop, I preferred my V-Moda headphones. At all volumes, the V-Moda’s bass was louder, more pronounced, and could actually be physically felt. MTX is a car audio company but the iX1’s don’t have that car audio bass punch like the Crossfades do. In any music style other than hip hop or rap, this doesn’t matter as much, but I’m mentioning this here because these iX1’s are specifically advertised as “Bass Headphones”. While they have great bass, IMO, they are not “Bass Headphones”. * On the ear versus over the ear. This is only a con for me because I prefer over the ear style headphones. They are much more comfortable to me. On the ear phones make my ears sore and sweat more, and noise isolation is no better. I have a pair of Grado SR-80’s which are on the ear style, and I use and prefer them for listening to classical music, television and movies due to the open airiness, and undeniably clean detail Grado is known for. They are extremely light and the open cell foam used to cover the speaker pieces let my ears breath and stay cool over the course of a 2 hour movie. The MTX iX1s really start distracting me after about 30 minutes of use. * Comfort. Strong quality construction comes with a price. These phones are a little on the heavy side. The rubber cushion on the inside of the headband isn’t really much of a cushion, and is uncomfortable where they rest on top of my head after a while. I’m 6 feet tall at 200lb. The ear pieces don’t come down far enough to fit comfortably even when extended to the maximum. The headband also squeezes the earpieces a little too tightly to wear on the ears comfortably for very long. * Price. At $200 these seem a little expensive to me. You could probably argue that the price is about right thanks to the quality sound and construction, but I have listened to headphones very similar to these for half that. If the MTX iX1 could be purchased for between $99 and $139, I would add another star to this review.

Overall Review: Something like how music sounds is as subjective as it gets. You can take a great pair of headphones, and put them on a deaf person and watch them drop to a 1 star rating, but does that really make them 1 star headphones? Add other factors that can influence someone’s opinion while listening to headphones like music source, equalizer settings, frequency detection capability, comfort, style, preference of music genera, price, and even social influence, and you end up with a wide array of opinions and ratings that seem to contradict or even outright confuse a potential buyer. This is one of those products, if at all possible, that you really need to try before you buy. Two hundred bucks is a lot of money to gamble on headphones for most people so why do it? So would I buy or recommend these? I would not buy them for the singular reason that they are just a little too small, and uncomfortable for my big head. I think they sound really good, and have many quality features, but I would not tolerate the ear soreness that these brought out in me after an hour or so of using. Would I recommend these? If they fit you, if you listened to them and liked the sound, if you liked the style, if your ears did not get sore, and if the price is acceptable, of course I would. Again, it all comes down to individual subjectivity‎. My opinion gives these headphones 3 stars, minus 2 stars for the listed cons above. If I had a smaller head, and didn’t like bass dominate music they would probably get 4 stars. Then lower the price and I would likely give them 5 stars. My twelve year old daughter gives these headphones 5 stars, because “they are awesome, they feel better, and sound clearer”. My wife wouldn’t buy them at all because of the high price, and she prefers over the ear, open headphones. I would for sure recommend trying them out though. I believe they offer enough quality features, and function to end up being strong 5 star headphones for many people!

Pros: Pretty RGB Fast timings Flowing movement Good brand name Compatibility with my motherboard

Cons: None

Overall Review: I used these two 16GB sticks in a new build paired with an AMD 5900X and Nvidia 3080 Ti on an Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero motherboard. It immediately worked with it's advertised timings of 16,16,16,36 at 3600MHz and the RGB synced perfectly with the Asus Aura software. I haven't tried overclocking it beyond that (yet) but at only 1.35 volts default I think I'll probably have some good luck. I think these are the best looking RGB RAM sticks out there.

Pros: Solid quality feel, more metal than plastic with no sharp edges This case has a clean, contemporary style Decent screw pack Includes four quality Seasonic branded fans Quality name brand Reverse ATX means possibly better thermals and cleaner looking build Big, easy access, magnetic air filters and eight fan spots I appreciated that they included thick foam blocks that the power supply can rest on and thin flat rubber feet on the bottom of the case

Cons: Included fans are 120mm fans when they should be 140mm fans Reverse ATX means possible compatibility issues and upside down words Inconveniently placed USB/audio/power plug location. I have to stand up and look where Im plugging things in. They included rubber plugs to prevent dust from getting in to these holes but we all know those things will be lost in a week as theyre not attached to the case. No 1000 watt power supply model (850W is max)

Overall Review: Ok, so let me address the first and most obvious feature of this case. The motherboard placement is designed to be upside down so that the graphics card is at the top of the case. I guess this makes sense as the GPU is the primary heat source inside a PC case and heat rises. If you place it up to next to the top exhaust fans, theoretically, you remove the heat more efficiently. However, I have no way to actually test this theory so Ill have to give the benefit of the doubt to the engineers. This orientation also makes cable management a little cleaner with shorter cable runs and close access to the connect module. Otherwise, it was kind of weird to get my brain to adjust to the upside down, left side mounted motherboard. The glass side is on the right of the case so it may not work to just replace your old case with this one in the same location as it might be up against a desk or wall or something and you wont get to see inside. The case is supposed to be used with Seasonics Syncro labeled proprietary power supplies. This is because they come with a connecting module that mounts on the back side where you connect all your cable runs into it. I suppose it makes it easier and cleaner to run your cables this way, but enough to justify its existence? Im not totally sure about that. I didnt use any of the fan connectors, (more on the fans below), and I feel Im pretty experienced at standard cable management anyway so while this was a nice feature, its didnt end up feeling like a NICE feature for what I imagine must be a significant portion of the cost of the power supply. Also, in my experience, more connections, more problems. That said, Seasonic makes top notch, AAA+ power supplies, so the brand alone is a huge plus. You can though, use any standard power supply but you wont be taking advantage of the unique cable management the whole case is built for. Now this case comes with four very nice non-RGB fans. That is great, except upon further examination, I noticed that the case also accepts 140mm fans. Oh well right? Bah. The drilled holes in the frame where you mount the fans will create airflow eddies using the included 120mm fans because of the open space around the fan mount. Instead what you want is a perfect laminar air flow that you would get from larger 140mm fans. Laminar flow is a flow regime characterized by high momentum diffusion and low momentum convection. What you dont want is turbulent flow, a less orderly flow regime that is characterized by eddies or recirculating air, which results in lateral mixing. So what Im saying is that, especially in a positive pressure setup, cold air will be drawn in from the front, then pushed back out the sides where the 120mm fans are mounted and then sucked back into the fan in a constant recirculating motion. Youll be reusing warm air and pushing it back into the case. Larger 140mm fans will cover the vent holes completely preventing this. So the first thing I did was remove all four included 120mm fans and replace them with Corsair ML140 Pro fans. [I included a picture of one of each fan mounted in the case to give you a visual example of what Im talking about]. Not only do they look better but they are twice as powerful (amps) with better air flow (size), and I like an RGB option anyway. No more eddies, cooling improved. There is a 5th spot that you can place a fan and thats right behind the power supply. It only accepts a 120mm fan so I installed one of the four fans I removed in that spot, sucking fresh air in and upwards into the case. Im so disappointed that Seasonic cheaped out and shipped this case with 120mm fans instead of 140mm fans, its going to cost a star. Im sure theyre baked into the price and Id be bothered using the case without replacing them. Its really not that big a thing probably to most people but it was to me /shrug. Theres nothing wrong with the 120mm fans themselves, they are quite nice, they are just the wrong size for this case! I put a 360 AIO CPU cooler radiator on the top inside of the case with plenty of room to spare pushing air out the top. This gives me 3 fans blowing air out, four blowing in, five if you count the 120mm I put near the bottom behind the power supply which should draw in some amount of fresh air from the bottom of the case, to maintain a slight positive pressure which will allow the dust filters (sans the top filter) to do their job efficiently. If you can adjust to a left sided, upside down motherboard with upside down words on your mobo and GPU, this should be pretty close to a 5 star case. I really couldnt find anything major that I disliked. A few more 3.5 hard drive spaces would have been nice (there is only room for two). Is this case recommendable? With so many other choices available Im not sure I would recommend it, but I also wouldnt not recommend it. Its a good quality case and Im happy that Seasonic is trying new things.

Pros: Fast CPU Thin and light profile Responsive and accurate finger print sensor Hard drive is an SSD Clear, sharp and bright screen Decent battery life Well built. Advertised to be built with “military-grade durability”. Asus is a quality brand with good customer support

Cons: Mouse pad is just OK, stiff Quiet and tinny sounding speakers. My smart phone’s speakers are much better sounding. While sporting a top end integrated GPU, it’s still not a strong choice for gaming. Built in camera isn’t great quality.

Overall Review: OK, so the most important thing I want to convey about how I’m rating this laptop (Asus VivoBook14 S403JA-BH71) is that I’m doing so with the viewpoint that this is NOT a gaming centric laptop, rather a general purpose productivity laptop. If I were to rate it as a gaming laptop, it would receive much more criticism and way less stars. I’m rating is as such because that is how it is being marketed. Asus isn’t claiming it to be capable of playing the latest AAA 3D games out there, and the price reflects that. So can it play games at all? Yes, of course it can. In fact, the integrated CPU inside (i7-1065G7) is one of Intel’s top end laptop chips and contains Intel’s best integrated graphics to date, the Iris Plus G7 chip. This allows me to play pretty much any older title at the same framerates as the top end graphics cards could at the time of the title’s release. For instance, the game, Portal 2, runs at 60 frames per second very nicely. As does the game StarCraft 2. However, some graphical features need to be disabled to maintain good framerates, like antialiasing. In Starcraft 2, high quality textures aren’t even an option to enable. I can still play these games just fine, but without some of the graphical frosting. The laptop can also play newer games, but only by drastically turning down most of the game settings and even then, their frames per second suffer to the extent that it becomes frustrating to play. In short, even Intel’s best integrated graphics do not make this a good choice for gaming. If you want to game, you need a laptop with a dedicated GPU designed for gaming. The CPU and GPU in this laptop do however handle everything else that I’ve been able to throw at it very well. MS Word and Publisher are flawless. Browsing the web with Chrome and MS Edge is fast and responsive. It sports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) if you have a router that supports it so if your internet service provider can give it to you (it can’t, as the fastest ISP packages only to up to 2Gbps), you could theoretically get up to 14Gbps internet speeds. It’s 8GB of ram is sufficient for most every application The hard drive is a solid state drive which is great, but it’s only 256Gb so you’ll run out of room pretty quickly if you download a lot of videos or movies. The efficient 15 watt 10nm CPU inside is very fast, only being outdone by Intel’s own i9 series of laptop CPUs and not by much. Despite the gaming drawbacks, it still contains one of the fastest integrated GPUs on the market. Staying integrated adds tons of battery life, 24 hours’ worth, compared to other gaming laptops advertised with 2-6 hours of battery life. The screen looks good with good brightness. The speakers are pretty horrible though. They are very quit even at maximum volume. I found myself missing words at times while watching YouTube movies because the speakers stink. The only way to listen to audio is to use the headphone jack. The track pad is decent, but a little stiff. The fingerprint sensor is a great thing to have and it works really well and fast. The keyboard feels mushy and unsatisfying with poor tactile feedback. This probably has to do with keeping it thin and light, which it is. It does have backlit keys though. It’s very comfortable and easy to carry around. The cooling fan is pretty annoying as it vents out the top of the keyboard so you can really hear it but it doesn’t turn of much unless you are playing a game or charging (which it does pretty quickly). The built in camera works just fine, but it needs lots of light and isn’t very sharp with very dull colors. Running the Novabench benchmark utility, I got an average score of 1800. Below are the PassMark benchmarks I ran on it. Remember, this is comparing this laptop to all computers out there, including desktops, overclocked PCs, laptops with desktop hardware, etc. Asus makes pretty good hardware in general and I have never had any big issues with their products. If you are in the market for a pretty good general purpose laptop that is thin and light, and are willing to compromise foregoing any serious gaming, I would definitely recommend this one for its intended purposes and price category.

Pros: * Mostly modular cables. (The ATX, EPS and a PCIe cable are fixed... but really, when do you not need these cables anyway?) * Semi-passive fan control ensures quiet operation. The fan didn't even have to turn on until I hit a 150 watt power draw. * Compact in size at 150mm x 140mm x 85mm * Japanese capacitors. Who doesn't like Japanese capacitors?! * Price/Performance ratio is very good. With this brand name, wattage and efficiency it should sell well. * Silver certified (It's not gold or titanium, but silver is pretty good for the price!) Besides silver certification is so close to gold certification you likely would never tell the difference. * The unit has a fuse that for almost every single cable in the framework. In general, Corsair attaches great importance to optimally protect functioning circuits in the series. * 5 year warranty

Cons: * The total cable lengths are quite good, but the distances between the individual plugs with 10-11 cm are rather short, especially with the SATA and Molex connections, where I prefer a little longer distance. * I can hear some electronic noise under high load.

Overall Review: Corsair's Vengeance 750M (and 650M) are marketed to the upper entry-level segment of power supplies. With the high performance and decent price, users will be getting more for their money. This power supply is "80 plus silver certified", a step above last years models of the Vengeance series which were Bronze certified. I believe by staying below gold and not being fully modular, you are saving a lot of money for not getting nearly insignificant features, again, giving this supply more bang for your buck. The 750M can run in single as well as multi-rail mode. On the 12V rail, it delivers 750 watts at 62.5 A and 648 watts at 54A, respectively. If you switch to multi-rail mode, the overall performance remains the same, of course, but the power supply then splits the 12V line into five rails in order to be able to better absorb overloads on individual cables. In order to perform the switch over, only a small slide switch (from single to multi) must be switched on the cable side of the power supply unit. Then the cables ATX, EPS, and the three PCIe cables are separated to 30 A separately. The cables for the peripherals are assigned to the modular PCIe cables. The exact assignment is shown on a small slip attached to the power supply.Getting my nerd on now! I can't see any good reasons to not recommend this power supply unless you are looking for more wattage or more efficiency. I would call this a top tier budget supply.