HCW posted a review on the DIAMOND Xtreme Sound 7.1 XS71HD Soundcard

TechReviewSource posted a review on the Lenovo IdeaCentre Flex 20

HardOCP checked out the SAPPHIRE TOXIC R9 280X Video Card

Anandtech published Best Desktop Video Cards - Holiday 2013

Overclockers Club published a review on the ROCCAT Tusko Across-The-Board Widescreen Bag

Hardware Asylum checked out the Enermax iVektor Casemod

Nikktech tried the Thecus N2560 NAS Server

KitGuru tried the Buffalo LinkStation LS421DE Enclosure

Hardware.Info posted Western Digital Black 120GB+1TB review: combined SSD and HDD

gHacks posted Bulk Image Downloader 4.65 Review

Ocaholic posted AMD A10-5800K vs A10-6800K Gaming-Performance

The Guru of 3D published a review on the Gigabyte Radeon R9-290X

KitGuru tried the ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer Motherboard

Nikktech tried the SteelSeries 5Hv3 Gaming Headset

gHacks posted How to pick the right Usenet provider

Hardware.Info posted Corsair Obsidian 750D review: the real flagship

LinuxBSDos.com posted a review on OpenMandriva Lx 2013

TechPowerUp posted a review on the ASUS R9 270X DC II TOP 2 GB

Overclockers Club published a review on the NVIDIA SHIELD

We're in the midst of updating all of our best of guides for the holiday season, and we've already covered what is likely the most popular category: Budget Laptops. Some of what we said there also applies to gaming laptops, and our budget gaming recommendations in particular will be rehashed here, along with any other potential candidates. But here we'll also be looking at higher performance offerings that can handle all of the latest games, perhaps even at maximum details. To be clear, not everyone needs or even wants a gaming laptop, and the presence of a discrete graphics chip pretty much requires that laptops include better cooling, which means they're also likely to weigh more and be bulkier. However, where other laptops can do most tasks except gaming, gaming laptops can actually handle pretty much everything a laptop that's fast enough for gaming is also fast enough for office work, image and video editing, etc. About the only area where gaming laptops sometimes struggle and this is more due to the notebook manufacturers not taking time to properly optimize for power draw is battery life.