Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB is BIOS unlockable to 8GB says report
AMD Radeon RX 480 Power Measurements Repeated And Clarified
AMD Radeon Software 16.7.1 fixes PCI-e power draw issues
AMD's Tuesday Radeon RX 480 Status Update: New Driver By Late Thursday
ASUS ROG Strix GL502VT-GS74 Gaming Laptop Review
be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Review
Evaluating the Toshiba OCZ RD400 M.2 NVMe SSD on a Skylake NUC
Fitbit Blaze
Gigabyte, Intel and Corsair Summer Press Event Highlights
How Upgrades to Windows 10 Will Change After the Free Upgrade Offer Ends
HP Spectre Laptop Review
Micron 9100 Max NVMe 2.4TB SSD Review
PC Specialist Hyperion Master Review
Sony Smartwatch 3 Review
Sound Blaster ZxR Studio-Grade Sound Card, Hear The Blaster Roar
Tesoro Gram Spectrum Review
The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge Review: Part 2
Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD  Review
Viewsonic XG2700-4K 27-inch Gaming Display Review

AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB is BIOS unlockable to 8GB says report

Furthermore, the BIOS upgraded card will perform on a par with the 8GB retail one.

Read full article @ Hexus

AMD Radeon RX 480 Power Measurements Repeated And Clarified

It’s not often that a graphics card launch is as polarizing as AMD’s Radeon RX 480. The graphics from our review were interpreted incorrectly, causing some havoc and debate. It's time to set the record straight.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

AMD Radeon Software 16.7.1 fixes PCI-e power draw issues

Driver will be released to the public within the next 48 hours.

Read full article @ Hexus

AMD's Tuesday Radeon RX 480 Status Update: New Driver By Late Thursday

Following up on this weekends statement from AMD about a potential power issue with the reference Radeon RX 480, AMD has just sent over their previously promised update on their progress dealing with the issue.

In short, they are nearly finished preparing their updated driver, 16.7.1, which will be posted "within the next 48 hours" (which at this point is late Thursday). The new driver will offer two solutions to the power problem.

Read full article @ Anandtech

ASUS ROG Strix GL502VT-GS74 Gaming Laptop Review

ASUS takes gaming seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it has two sub-brands dedicated to hardware for gamers. One is the Republic of Gamers (ROG), a brand ASUS created in 2006 to designate products that deliver "innovative hardcore PC performance," and the other is Strix, a more recent creation that's taken from the ancient Roman and Greek word for owl. No, we're not kidding.

"Strix means the keenest hearing and sharpest eyesight. Strix means feeling your environment so that you detect and react to the slightest movement. Strix means survival on the very edge of instinct. Strix is in your blood, as it is in ours," ASUS explains. Though the two brands exist separate from one another, ASUS has begun creating a line of ROG Strix products, including the ROG Strix GL502, a 15.6-inch gaming laptop that aims to strike a balance between gaming prowess and portability...

Read full article @ HotHardware

be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Review

When be quiet! told us its new Dark Base Pro 900 case was larger than the previous 600 and 800 models, just as the numbers suggest, we felt this was a bold move as the trend is towards smaller PCs. Our feelings changed when we saw the specification and list of features which is absolutely epic as the Dark Base Pro 900 is very sophisticated and comes with a tempered glass side panel that looks absolutely gorgeous.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Evaluating the Toshiba OCZ RD400 M.2 NVMe SSD on a Skylake NUC

The Skylake NUCs have faced plenty of issues since their introduction late last year. However, stability has improved with the latest BIOS updates. One of the issues with the early BIOS versions was the M.2 SSD slot being effectively limited to PCIe 2.0 rates despite the chipset supporting PCIe 3.0. The latest BIOS version resolves this issue. We had carried a detailed evaluation of different M.2 SSDs for usage in the Skylake NUC. At that time, the Samsung SSD 950 PRO was the only option for providing maximum possible theoretical performance - a NVMe SSD with a PCIe 3.0 x4 link. Since then, Toshiba has also entered the fray with the Toshiba OCZ RD400. The RD400 has already been put through our rigorous SSD evaluation suite. In this review, we take a look at how the 512GB version fares in the NUC6i5SYK.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Fitbit Blaze

The other day I took a look at the Bose SoundLink Mini II that Verizon had sent over as an example of ways to get more functionality out of your mobile phone. Well, today I’m taking a look at the second product. This time around it’s the new Fitbit Blaze. I’ve taken a look at fitness bands in the past, but not from Fitbit. Fitbit is by far the most popular fitness band manufacture, so I’m excited to see what they do to set themselves apart from everyone else. Not the mention the Blaze looks to be a bit of a departure on their part as well. So let’s dive in and see what it is all about.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Gigabyte, Intel and Corsair Summer Press Event Highlights

For those of us that were not fortunate enough to attend Computex 2016, Gigabyte, Intel and Corsair held a private press event. At this event, they went over many of the items that were shown at Computex, but also provided us a few new pieces of information. Read on to see what we learned!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

How Upgrades to Windows 10 Will Change After the Free Upgrade Offer Ends

We all know the free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer for Windows 7/8.1 ends on 29 July but upgrades will still be different after that date.

Read full article @ WinSupersite

HP Spectre Laptop Review

The Spectre is a thing of beauty. At 10.4mm, it's the world's thinnest laptop. It's also very light for a 13-inch device, at just 2.45lbs, making it a perfect companion for the businessman on the go. But the design... it's truly unlike any Windows laptop I've seen before, thanks to a breathtaking hinge and use of premium materials.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Micron 9100 Max NVMe 2.4TB SSD Review

Micron brings its A-game with the 9100 Max, which utilizes the NVMe connection and 16nm MLC NAND to provide the fastest random write performance on the market.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

PC Specialist Hyperion Master Review

PC Specialist has broken a speed record to hustle a budget gaming PC out of the door that uses the latest AMD RX 480 graphics card based on the new Polaris GPU. When you spend £799 you generally get a Core i5 with GTX 960 4GB graphics so the prospect of an RX 480 8GB is highly appetising.

Based on KitGuru reviews of RX 480 the stock GPU can be expected to perform as well as GTX 970 and if you work hard on the overclocking you can may even approach the levels of GTX 980. By that reckoning PC Specialist Hyperion Master sounds like it might be a cheap gaming PC that performs well in 1080p, which is a pretty darned exciting prospect.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Sony Smartwatch 3 Review

The wait for the Sony SmartWatch 4 has been longer than we anticipated, but could make its debut appearance at the upcoming IFA 2016. Unfortunately, if you're looking to purchase the Sony Smartwatch 3 while you wait, you'll have to look elsewhere than the Google Store. If that's no problem for you, it remains a well-rounded (even though it's a square) Android Wear smartwatch that you can now find for cheaper than ever. Sure, competitors like the Moto 360 and the Huawei Watch may have it beat when it comes to looking like a more traditional timepiece. But, Sony's wearable boasts a few stand-out benefits over each, and at that, most of the Android Wear device portfolio available today, too. Its battery can last up to two days with light to medium use, a bar that many smartwatches struggle to reach.

Read full article @ TechRadar

Sound Blaster ZxR Studio-Grade Sound Card, Hear The Blaster Roar

Sound Blaster has been around since the inception of sound card technology. Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was “The Adlib Multimedia PC Upgrade Kit” and the “Sound Blaster Multimedia Upgrade Kit”. It consisted of a sound card, a CD-ROM drive and a small set of speakers for a mere $369.00, and the CD-ROM drive was 1x speed. Fast forward to today and the Sound Blaster ZxR is light years ahead of its ancient cousin, and by yesteryear standards, barely recognizable as a sound card.

In reality, one would have to specify that this is actually a sound card system, as the Sound Blaster ZxR consists of a mother card, a daughter card and a front dock that lets you plug in speakers and headsets and switch between them without having to plug and unplug devices.

Read full article @ Bjorn3D

Tesoro Gram Spectrum Review

Quite some time has passed since we've last reviewed a keyboard from Tesoro. Already at a first glance it becomes very clearly visible that a lot must have changed in the past, since this is actually the first keyboard from Tesoro we see, which features a simple and sleek design. Apart from that the combination of mechanical low-profile switches and RGB backlight sounds intersting. At this point we're definitely curious to find out whether this product is capable of convincing us or not.

Read full article @ ocaholic

The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge Review: Part 2

With part one of our Galaxy S7 review, it was clear that the Galaxy S7 was at least a mild improvement to the Galaxy S6 in some ways, but there were still many areas to investigate. At the time, we were in the middle of transitioning to our new 2016 benchmark suite, which meant that it was necessary to re-test the Galaxy S7.

Our 2016 benchmark suite attempts to really push our testing in general to a new level of depth and more importantly, more focused on the overall user experience. When reflecting upon the value of AnandTech from a testing perspective, it’s clear to me that while part of our value is running benchmarks across a wide range of phones, another part of our value is being able to run tests that others wouldn’t be able to run at all. To see how the Galaxy S7 performs in our new benchmark suite, read on for the full review.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD  Review

Since then, we’ve come quite a ways away thanks to industrywide adoption of PCIe and NVMe, finally paving the way for mass market adoption of PCIe SSDs. Although during the course of the journey OCZ has gone through a bankruptcy and a subsequent acquisition by Toshiba, they’re still continuing to innovate in the PCIe arena...

Read full article @ Custom PC Review

Viewsonic XG2700-4K 27-inch Gaming Display Review

The XG2700-4K is a brand new 4K gaming monitor from Viewsonic that offers both excellent image quality and good gaming performance, with full AMD FreeSync support.

Read full article @ KitGuru