A SOHO essential NAS with plenty of extras. Synology has just about perfected the NAS solution for small businesses and ‘prosumers’. Its DiskStation 412+ range was hailed as being one of the best examples of a NAS unit around for the pro user and business workgroup. It’s since stepped up a gear, though, and has … Read more

A monitor that lays the foundations for new an interesting technologies. AOC has adopted a number of technologies over the years to better improve its already impressive range of monitors and to offer that little something different from the competition. It’s a gamble but one that more often than not pays off -partly due to … Read more

Can Synology’s new four-bay drive for SMBs safely serve your entire office’s backup and storage needs? Huge increase in RAM. CPU and number of users, shared folders and groups over DS412+. Fast, even with encryption. 2GB RAM is not upgradeable without voiding your warranty. 1080p video transcoding not officially supported either. Directly replacing the now … Read more

It’s a micro-ATX board based on the AMD A58 chipset, and it supports socket FM2+, which goes all the way up to the A10 4.1GHz processor. There are a pair of dual-channel DDR3 DIMM slots for up to 1866MHz, 32GB system memory and three PCI expansion slots of PCIe 3.0 x16, PCIe 2.0 xl and … Read more

Mark discovers those customers Viewsonic’s new 4K screen is going to impress. The number of monitor makers that includes 4K offering in their ranges is expanding rapidly, and ViewSonic has joined their ranks with the VX2880ml. Its VX series consists of primarily consumer focused products. However, I can see this particular design being favoured by … Read more

Samsung brings 3D flash memory to its EVO series. About a year ago, Samsung launched its 840 EVO SSD, and I recall being very impressed by its excellent combination of relatively low cost and high performance. Since then, Samsung has been working hard on its 3D V NAND flash technology that first appeared in its … Read more

The durable and stylish mid-range smartphone is stuffed with top-notch features and built with 6-layer high composite technology. KEy SPECS: 5-inch, 1920×1080 pixel display, Huawei Hisilicon Kirin 920 chipset, octa core (Quad-core 1.7 GHz Cortex-A15 & quadcore 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7) processor, 3 GB RAM, 16GB ROM (11.55GB available to user), 13.0 MP rear camera with … Read more

Stunning visuals killed by technical failures. Paris in 1798.What a time to be alive. The  streets are filthy with mud, blood, and gunpowder smoke. Starving citizens bully perceived enemies to guillotine stands. Guards  grapple with anarchists. Above burn spiked  heads. Below, French Tricolor flags lie  stamped into the dirt. Assassins Creeds Unity recreates all of … Read more

Rivaling desktop graphics is tough for any notebook, but in a thin ’n’ light? When nvidia pul LED the wraps offits GeForce GTX 980M mobile graphics chip, the  Internets burst alive with much rejoicing.  At last, here was a laptop GPU that could  give the best desktop graphics cards a run  for their money. Well, … Read more

Cool, quiet, and deliciouslY quick, Gigabytếs overclocked GTX 970 nails it. One of the new GeForce GTX 980 is a killer with a steep price. the I much cheaper GTX 970 looks one hell of a card. Unlike with the 980, the first iterations of which are mostly stock-clocked reíerence boards. there won t be … Read more