Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

808 HEX XS Bluetooth Speaker Review
ARM Tapes Out Next-Gen 64-Bit Artemis Mobile Chip On 10nm TSMC FinFET Process
GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition Overclocking Preview
Jide Technology Remix Mini (£50 Android PC) Review
Mushkin Atom 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review
Philips 65PUS8901 TV with Ambilux: a new dimension?
Radeon Linux 4.6 + Mesa 11.3 vs. NVIDIA Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt
Thecus N2810 NAS Review
Thermaltake Suppressor F1 mITX Cube Review
UE BOOM 2

808 HEX XS Bluetooth Speaker Review

In this article Benchmark Reviews inspects the new 808 HEX XS and tests to see where it fits into this wide audio spectrum of wireless Bluetooth speakers. The 808 HEX XS will receiver or critique on audio quality, and overall performance in this review.

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ARM Tapes Out Next-Gen 64-Bit Artemis Mobile Chip On 10nm TSMC FinFET Process

ARM has been working closely with TSMC – the Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company – for a number of years now. Over the last six years or so especially, ARM and TSMC have collaborated to ensure that the latter’s cutting-edge process technologies work well the former’s processor IP. So, with every generation since 2010, the companies have built ARM’s most advanced processor cores on TSMC’s most advanced emerging process nodes.

The collaboration successfully began with a test chip produced at 28nm, but today ARM is announcing the successful tape-out of a test chip featuring next-generation, premium 64-Bit ARM v8-A mobile processor cores, codenamed Artemis, and manufactured using TSMC’s upcoming 10nm FinFET process technology...

Read full article @ HotHardware

GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition Overclocking Preview

We take the new GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition video card and find out what is the highest sustained real world gaming GPU clock speed that can be obtained. We also find the combined highest GPU and memory overclocks. If you want to see how high and how cool this video card can be pushed, we have the answer.

Read full article @ HardOCP

Jide Technology Remix Mini (£50 Android PC) Review

Last year, the Remix Mini was one of the most successful campaigns on Kickstarter, with 21,975 backers pledging $1,647,155 to fund the innovative mini-PC. Today, we look at the Remix Mini as it is now available for general purchase and assess whether it is worth the £50 asking price.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Mushkin Atom 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

The new atom 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive by Mushkin is not only tiny but it also offers plenty of available capacity with relatively good read/write performance at a bargain price.

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Philips 65PUS8901 TV with Ambilux: a new dimension?

Ambilight has become a familiar sight on Philips televisions, and the manufacturer introduced a new upgraded version of its system at IFA last year. No more LEDs, but true pico-projectors, now show the image shown on the television on the wall behind it. We will test the 65 inch Philips 65PUS8901 with Ambilux.

Philips has been bringing televisions with the Ambilight feature to the market since 2004. Through the use of lightstrips mounted on the rear of the television, the atmosphere of the image presented on the television is also visible on the wall. The first generation of Ambilight used CCFl lamps on either side of the display, but soonthereafter the switch was made to leds and alternate variations of the Ambilight system were brought to market that not only had strips on either side, but also on the top and the bottom of the television.

At the end of last year, Philips TV - a brand name which currently belongs to TP Vision - announced the next generation to this system. Ambilux no longer uses leds that provide a continuation of the ambiance image on the wall through a few sections, but chooses to opt for a system that uses a whopping 9 pico projectors, that project the actual image displayed on the television onto the wall. We gave the Philips 65PUS8901 a look.

Read full article @ Hardware.Info

Radeon Linux 4.6 + Mesa 11.3 vs. NVIDIA Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt

Last week I published a 16-way NVIDIA GeForce performance comparison on Linux looking at the OpenGL performance evolution from the GeForce 9800GTX to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti / TITAN X, in getting ready to compare the long-term NVIDIA Linux performance to Pascal. This week I've done similar tests on the AMD Radeon side and compared these OpenGL performance and power consumption / performance-per-Watt numbers to NVIDIA.

For this round of testing I was using the very latest open-source AMD support: the Linux 4.6 kernel and Mesa 11.3-devel from this week. The Mesa 11.3-dev deployment was via the Padoka PPA atop Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64. The DDX drivers were also up to date for the testing process via the Padoka archive. The rest of the Ubuntu 16.04 stack with Unity 7.4, X.Org Server 1.18.3, GCC 5.3.1, etc, were maintained the same as last week's NVIDIA GeForce test results done using the 364.19 proprietary driver. The same test system was obviously used with the Xeon E3-1280 v5 Skylake CPU, MSI C236A Workstation motherboard, 16GB of DDR4-2133 EUDIMM memory, and 120GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Thecus N2810 NAS Review

We review the N2810 from Thecus, a Linux powered NAS unit that is price competitive while offering proper performance. Armed with a dual-core Intel Celeron processor and 2GB of memory with the ability to upgrade, this unit rocks and offers a lot in a crowded NAS channel. The N2810 can take 2 HDDs, has low power consumption, but most of all can be used for 1080p / 4k HTPC accelerated media playback as it has HDMI out and sports a custom version of XBMC (Kodi).

While the dynamics have changed rapidly over the past few years, our demand for massive volume storage capacity has increased. With the help of WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet in general in our homes we started evolving in our lifestyle and thus requirements. It's exactly in the lifestyle segment where the latest NAS units come in. NAS units are really small handy servers that not only function as storage devices, they are getting more functionality combined with ease of use as well. With prices going down, and everybody having high-speed Gigabit LAN Ethernet at home, the market is slowly adapting and targeting NAS devices at a hard-to-convince and very money attentive consumer. One of the companies out there making a really good effort in offering you a handy and more affordable NAS unit is Thecus. We armed the N2810 with new (non-public) Beta ThecusOS 7.0 firmware and get a massively updated GUI in return. So yes, we are testing a unit priced competitively against the big guns in the industry like Qnap, Synology and Netgear. We went blank into this review as we had never tested their Linux version before, but armed with very good hardware and an excellent software suite the NAS is not only a fast file server, it's loaded with applications and media functionality as well. Today's tested NAS unit model has two swappable HDD bays, full RAID functionality, Gigabit Ethernet, USB (2.0/3.0) and then a heap of software functionality that blows you away completely. I mean this puppy can download torrents, has an FTP server, a MySQL server, a WWW server and well, anything with the word 'server' mentioned in it. It's compatible with major OSes including APPs you can use on your smart-phone, all combined with user and group based management, yeah, a proper NAS. As you will observe, the Thecus N2810 is the little brother of the Thecus N5810 and N5810 PRO.

Read full article @ Guru3D

Thermaltake Suppressor F1 mITX Cube Review

Thermaltake released a new version of its case Core V1 now called Suppressor F1. This is a roomy mini-ITX cube. The front has been reworked completely, the dust-collecting mesh front with its big eye-catching logo has been replaced with a simple matt plastic front.

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UE BOOM 2

Ultimate Ears' line of BOOM speakers recently got updated with the arrival of the BOOM 2 speaker. The BOOM 2 shares the same footprint as the original BOOM, but has been updated with a few nifty features. Among these is wake-by-bluetooth and stop/start/pause slapping capability.

Read full article @ techPowerUp