Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Aorus Radeon RX 570 4G Video Card Review
Asus Strix RX 570
EwinRacing Champion Series Gaming Chair Review
Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake X processor spotted in database
MSI GeForce GT 1030: A $70 Passively-Cooled Graphics Card
NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Powered In-Car Infotainment System DIY Project Guide
Nvidia Titan Xp 12GB Review
Qnap TS-453Bmini Review
Serious Statistics Review
The New Microsoft Surface Pro – More Power, More Speed & More Battery Life
Thecus W5810 5-bay NAS Review
Tt eSPORTS X COMFORT (XC500) Gaming Chair Review

Aorus Radeon RX 570 4G Video Card Review

The year of AMD Ryzen continues with a much need refresh in the AMD mid-range GPU market. Some of you may remember the RX 400 series launch around this time in 2016 which helped solidify AMD with support for 1080p gaming and gave them an affordable GPU to compete against NVIDIA. Of course the NVIDIA cards were still faster but, that wasn’t really the point.

In this review I’ll be looking at the Aorus Radeon RX 570 graphics card. As the name suggests this card is based on the AMD Radeon RX 570 GPU which many are calling a refreshed RX 470 with a higher clocks for better performance. GPU architecture aside the new Aorus Radeon RX 570 comes equipped with a whole list of features to improve both style and performance.

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

Asus Strix RX 570

Well the Strix RX 570 isn’t the first RX 570 that has come into the office but it is the first Asus video card that we have had in a while. Today I want to check out what Asus is doing to set themselves apart from everyone else, compare the performance of this card to the XFX 570 as well as the rest of the competition, and see how it compares in value. I’ve been impressed with the Asus Strix styling on motherboards recently and it looks like some of that has carried over to the GPU market so it should rate high but the only way to find out is to get to it so let's do that.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

EwinRacing Champion Series Gaming Chair Review

Since reviewing our first gaming chair we’ve come to the realization that these things are not just hype. They actually are comfortable, offer better support than normal offer chairs, and let’s face it look pretty damn awesome too! Today we have our second gaming chair, this one comes from EwinRacing. EwinRacing solely makes gaming chairs and offers quite a few different variants. Today we are taking a look at their Champion Series gaming chair, more specifically the CP-BR1B version which is black with blue trim and has a pillow and lumbar support. Will this gaming chair match up to our high expectations after our review of the Tesoro Zone Balance gaming chair? Read on as we find out!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake X processor spotted in database

SiSoft Sandra entry shows this 175W 10C/20T chip will Turbo Boost to 4.5GHz.

Read full article @ Hexus

MSI GeForce GT 1030: A $70 Passively-Cooled Graphics Card

If you are looking for a low-profile, passively-cooled graphics card, the GeForce GT 1030 launched last week and MSI is out the door with such a capable graphics card while only costing around $70~80 USD. Here are some Linux OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL, and VDPAU video acceleration benchmarks of the MSI GeForce GT 1030 compared to various other Radeon and GeForce graphics cards under Ubuntu.

Read full article @ Phoronix

NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Powered In-Car Infotainment System DIY Project Guide

I've had my share of blunders when it comes to car audio modifications, including rigging a Logitech Z-560 subwoofer and a touchscreen PC powered by a Via EPIA motherboard in my first car, but that was half a lifetime ago and I’ve grown wiser through the years -- or at least I like to think so.

Join me on my latest journey to embrace my inner-geek and upgrade an old car with new technology using a trio of NVIDIA SHIELD Tablets and some new Clarion audio gear...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Nvidia Titan Xp 12GB Review

Titan Xp boasts a complete GP102 GPU, with 3840 CUDA cores at similar GPU Boost frequencies as GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Does that warrant a $1200 price tag, though?

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

Qnap TS-453Bmini Review

Space-saving vertical NAS now available with an Intel Celeron J3455 processor. There's no shortage of choice when it comes to network-attached storage (NAS), yet given the multimedia requirements of the modern user it is no surprise to find that refreshed models are being launched at regular intervals.

Wanting to make use of the most current processor technologies, top-tier NAS manufacturers are quick off the mark in providing upgrades and it is common to see existing models refreshed with new internal components. That's exactly what Qnap is doing with the TS-453Bmini, a four-bay unit that takes over the mantle from 2015's TS-453mini.

Read full article @ Hexus

Serious Statistics Review

After some more experimenting with R, and remembering that box plots exist (as I said, I am not a statistics guy), I put together the following graphs. They are boxplots of the frame time data for each of the runs on each of the graphs. For those of you not familiar, boxplots show the quartiles of the data, letting us see how the data is distributed. The lower line of the box represents the first quartile (25th percentile), the middle line is the median (50th percentile), and the top line is the third quartile (75th percentile). The two lines sticking out from the box are the whiskers, and show where the data outside of the first and third quartile fall, though the outliers are still shown as dots. These percentiles might not line up with those I was finding earlier in the data, but editing the boxplots to reach to the 1st and 99th does not look as good. (This also removes the outlier dots from the graph, and I think showing them outside the boxplot is valuable.) I should also mention that I did impose a limit on the y-axis of 50 ms, and that there were some runs that had outliers reaching past that, but allowing the graphs to stretch enough to show those points scales down the plots too much to be of any value. Also this ensures the vertical scale for all of the graphs is the same.

Read full article @ OCC

The New Microsoft Surface Pro – More Power, More Speed & More Battery Life

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro tablet is a vast improvement over the Surface Pro 4. You get the power and speed you need with a battery life that keeps you going all day long.

Read full article @ DailyTech

Thecus W5810 5-bay NAS Review

Compared to Linux-based devices, NAS boxes using Windows OS are pretty thin on the ground. One company that has kept the Windows flag flying with a range of devices is Thecus. The Thecus Windows Storage Server range is split into two camps, Large Business and SMB/Home, and it's from the latter one that the 5-bay W5810 is the current flagship model.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Tt eSPORTS X COMFORT (XC500) Gaming Chair Review

The top of the line X COMFORT (XC5) Gaming Chair by Tt eSPORTS is a statement that they also plan to dominate that industry and they may be on to something.

Read full article @ NikkTech