Astonished. Overwhelmed. Unable to think. Refusing to believe. All of that. I was up for less than an hour today when I found out a friend, mentor, fellow board member, leader, teacher, and political ally (but most of all…friend) passed away in his sleep last night. That’s all we know for now, but it’s more than plenty to try to wrap my head around. Sure, we definitely had our differences, but as a mutual friend put it, the definition of a good friend is one you can be standing nose to nose with in a screaming argument about something, and then shortly thereafter chuckling softly over a beer. Calm seas, Rikk. You’ve earned the rest.
eTeknix starts us off with the MSI Big Bang XPower II (X79) Motherboard
TechRadar focuses on the Olympus PEN Mini E-PM2
Benchmark Reviews goes inside the Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced Mini-ITX Case
TweakTown shares its thoughts on the Zalman F1 240GB SSD
KitGuru weighs in on the Sapphire HD7770 GHZ FleX Edition
Legion Hardware examines the Gigabyte X79S-UP5 WiFi
Phoronix reports on NVIDIA FXAA Anti-Aliasing Performance
TechwareLabs gets its hands on the Esoterism Moat-2 and Wand Stylus
Hardware Canucks takes a look at the Dell Ultrasharp U2713 27 AH-IPS Monitor
TechReviewSource sits down with the Dell Inspiron 13z
Finally, BigBruin taps away at the Cooler Master CM Storm Trigger Gaming Keyboard