Friday Review Roundup

Cooling: DEEPCOOL CASTLE 240R @ TweakTown, NZXT Kraken X53 RGB AIO @ NikKTech

Memory: Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine RGB @ PCTestBench, Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL DDR4-3600 @ TweakTown, Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4-3200  @ TweakTown, Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL @ Neoseeker

Monitors: AOC CU34G2X @ Guru3D, Aorus FI27Q-X @ Hexus

Graphics: ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 6800 OC Edition @ TweakTown

Storage: WD Black SN850 1TB @ TechPowerUp

CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Ryzen 7 5800H @ TechSpot

WD Black AN1500 2TB & Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB

WD Black AN1500 2TB

WD Black has been the enthusiast and gaming brand for WD for the last decade. More recently, WD has lit a fire under the brand, releasing new products to the portfolio, namely the SN850, which out of nowhere, no hype involved, became the best drive you can buy without question.

Another part of that portfolio release was the AN1500 alongside the D50 Game Dock. The AN1500 is your traditional AIC (Add-in Card) sporting a PCIe 3.0 x8 interface offering increased throughput up to 6500 MB/s read and 4100 MB/s write with several capacity options including both 1TB and 2TB, along with a 4TB part at the high-end.

Read more @ TweakTown

Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB

Naturally, enthusiasts are all over this drive, but Sabrent’s latest and greatest deserves a close look from prosumers and professionals as well. If you are processing write-intensive data by the terabytes, then the Rocket 4 Plus is the drive for you. It offers unparalleled write performance, class-leading endurance, and will be available in capacities of up to 4TB.

Speaking of capacity, we have for your viewing pleasure the capacity point that we consider the current sweet spot for enthusiasts/gamers – 2TB. We will have a 1TB Rocket Plus review coming soon. Also, this review marks the debut of our next Gen SSD test system based on AMD’s 5900X CPU and our Gen4 only chart.

Read more @ TweakTown

Weekend Review Roundup – 11/9

Storage
Team Group EX2 Elite @ ThinkComputers
Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 500GB M.2 SSD @ TweakTown
WD Black SN850 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD @ TweakTown
Silicon Power UD70 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD @ NikKTech
Team T-Force Vulcan G 1TB SATA SSD @ TweakTown

Memory
Patriot Memory Viper Steel Series DDR4 32GB 3200MHz Memory Kit  @ [M]adShrimps

Cooling
Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML280 @ ThinkComputers

Western Digital SN550 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD

The performance of this drive is fantastic, and we saw that in testing with CDM pushing past marketing numbers at ~2400 MB/s read and ~1800 MB/s write. ATTO showed the amazing consistency of the drive holding both read and write performance solid through 64M while PCMark System Drive put it to the test, and it came away second only to the MP9+.

Read more @ TweakTown