Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

4GB Radeon RX 480 A Better Deal After 8GB Price Hike
AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB versus Radeon RX 480 8GB
be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Review
Drobo 5N review: Protection with BeyondRAID
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X Review
SilentiumPC Air Cooler Challenge – 6 Way Round-up
The OpenGL Speed & Performance-Per-Watt From The Radeon RX 480 To HD 4850/4870
Toshiba HK4R Enterprise SSD Review (1920GB)
Umi Touch Review: All specs, no polish
Yuxiang 668-A3 Quadcopter Drone Review

4GB Radeon RX 480 A Better Deal After 8GB Price Hike

AMD hiked the final price of the 8GB Radeon RX 480 yesterday. This makes the 4GB Radeon RX 480 a better deal. Find out why we think so!

Read full article @ Tech ARP

AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB versus Radeon RX 480 8GB

Yesterday we took an in-depth look at the new AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB reference card and found that it was a great card for gamers running 1920 x 1080 or 2560 x 1440 displays. The performance was pretty good for a $239 graphics card, but most gamers know that 8GB of GDDR5 memory is overkill if you are just going to be doing 1080P gaming. We had a number of people ask us about how the 4GB card performs since it costs less and $199 is more appealing to them. Let's find out together!

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Review

A full-tower case that stands out from the crowd. Introduced as a flagship offering, the Dark Base 900 is available in standard or Pro variants, priced at £169 and £209, respectively. Both are stylish full-tower solutions brimming with an intriguing array of features, but the latter ups the ante with a tempered glass side panel, a PWM fan-hub, colour-changing LED strips and, to top it all off, an integrated Qi wireless charging pad.

We have the range-topping model in for review in black/orange livery (black/silver and all-black are also available) and first impressions are very much favourable. £209 is no small amount, but then, this is no small chassis and when you lift the 14.4kg frame from the packaging, you're instilled with the feeling you're getting what you paid for. What's clever is that be quiet! has managed to produce a big, hulking box while retaining a sense of elegance. Dark Base Pro 900 measures 242.7mm x 585.5mm x 577.2mm in size, yet subtle angles and tapered edges make it an attractive proposition.

Read full article @ Hexus

Drobo 5N review: Protection with BeyondRAID

It is pretty easy to get lost in the vast sea of storage devices. Personal storage really picked up about 10 years ago and ever since been growing at an alarming rate. I am not saying it’s a bad thing in fact, I think it’s great! Users are demanding more from storage appliances and the manufactures have really stepped up … Read more.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X Review

In this review we'll fire up some GeForce GTX 1080 testing from MSI with a Hydro cooler from Corsair, yes join us as we test the symbiosis called MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X . This is the gear that everybody in the enthusiast crowd is waiting to see; board partner cards, all custom, tweaked and cooled better and the SEA HAWK X certainly fits that description with its AIO liquid cooler mounted on top of that Pascal GPU. The GPU industry has been on hold, waiting for a smaller GPU fabrication process to become viable. Last generation GPUs were based on a 28 nm fabrication, an intermediate move to 20 nm was supposed to be the answer for today’s GPUs, but it was a problematic technology. Aside from some smaller ASICs the 20 nm node has been a fail. Therefore the industry had to wait until an ever newer and smaller fabrication process was available in order to shrink the die which allows for less voltage usage in the chips, less transistor gate leakage and, obviously, more transistors in a GPU. The answer was to be found in the recent 14/15/16 nm fabrication processors and processes with the now all too familiar FinFET + VLSI technology (basically wings on a transistor). Intel has been using it for a while, and now both Nvidia and AMD are moving towards such nodes as well. Nvidia is the first to announce their new products based on a TSMC 16 nm process fab by introducing Pascal GPU architecture, named after the mathematician much like Kepler, Maxwell and Fermi. That stage has now passed, the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 have been announced with the 1070 and 1080 cards slowly becoming available in stores as we speak. Both models are equally impressive in its product positioning, though I do feel the 1070 will be the more attractive product due to its price level, the 1080 cards really is what everybody want (but perhaps can't afford). The good news though is that the board partner cards will offer SKUs for less opposed to the Nvidia reference / Founder edition cards. Obviously the higher-end all customized SKUs will likely level with that founders edition card price level again, but I am pretty certain you'd rather spend your money on a fully customized AIB card that is already factory tweaked a bit opposed the the reference one.

So merely a few weeks after launch, I think this is our 6th Geforce GTX 1080 review already ? This time we revert back to team at MSI who partnered up with Corsair to release something rather unique and more diverse. Now overall cooling on the 1080 is not an issue, I mean face it the TwinFrozr VI coolers already do a terrific job temps wise whilst remaining brutally silent. But the board temperature stil is close to 70 Degrees C, and yeah it can be better when you slap some liquid cooling on top of it. As such MSI and Corsair are extending an idea that got first introduced back at Computex 2015 with a 980 Ti. They however skipped a beat to time the product series a bit better, and it seems that Nvidia Pascal GPUs are a perfect match for hybrid cooling.

Read full article @ Guru3D

SilentiumPC Air Cooler Challenge – 6 Way Round-up

For this review today, SilentiumPC sent us 6 different air coolers from their product catalogue. We decided to put them head-to-head and see which cooler comes out on top in regards to performance and value for money. The coolers range greatly in terms of size and weight, while some have 2 heatpipes and a single 100mm fan compared with others that have 6 heatpipes and dual-120mm fans.

Read full article @ KitGuru

The OpenGL Speed & Performance-Per-Watt From The Radeon RX 480 To HD 4850/4870

With the Radeon RX 480 Linux review now being out of the way and our various other RX 480 Linux benchmarks, the latest results I have to share with being a benchmarking fanatic are RX 480 results with high-end AMD GPU tests of each generation going back to the Radeon HD 4850/4870 (RV770) days. This article has high-end GPUs from the RX 480 to RX 200, HD 7900, HD 6900, HD 6800, HD 5800, and HD 4800 series compared side-by-side with the latest open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver code. Not only is the raw performance being looked at but the system power consumption was also being polled in real-time for looking at the performance-per-Watt too. For any other benchmarking fanatics curious about the Radeon GPU evolution over the past eight years (RV770 launch in 2008), here are the numbers to enjoy.

All of these tests were done with the latest open-source AMD Linux driver stack: Linux 4.7 Git and Mesa 12.1-dev git-6b0ac95 along with the latest user-space components (and LLVM 3.9 SVN) via the Launchpad Padoka PPA. Compared to the proprietary driver that has long abandoned older generations of GPU support, the latest open-source code continues to be maintained for all of these legacy GPUs going well before the Radeon HD 4000 series. The Radeon HD 4000 series was used as far back as testing for still providing reasonable OpenGL 3.3 support and not being too weak for comparing to modern GPUs.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Toshiba HK4R Enterprise SSD Review (1920GB)

SATA SSDs are all the rage in data centers. Unlike their PCIe bothers, these SATA SSDs don’t often need to have high endurance figures and lightning fast IOPS performance. Instead, they typically just need to be cheap, reliable, and what is becoming more important lately, high capacity. With 1-3 DWPD ratings, they are the perfect medium for read intensive applications in web and file servers that do media streaming, video on demand, and warm data storage. Likewise, they need to have consistent performance and low operating power. This is where Toshiba’s latest enterprise grade SATA SSDs come in to play.

The Toshiba HK4R is a high quality, power-efficient, and cost effective SATA SSD designed for these read intensive workloads. It boasts all the enterprise features you can ask for, such as end-to-end data protection and SED options, and it offers some decent performance numbers with its state of the art 15nm MLC NAND flash memory. But, just how well does it perform in this very competitive landscape? Read on as we dive into our review of the 1920GB Toshiba HK4R!

Read full article @ The SSD Review

Umi Touch Review: All specs, no polish

Umi is a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer with a mission to make affordable devices with compelling feature sets. Priced at $160, the Touch carries a respectable list of specs including a 5.5-inch 1080p display, 13-megapixel Sony IMX328 camera, a huge 4,000 mAh battery, a metal design, and even a fingerprint sensor.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Yuxiang 668-A3 Quadcopter Drone Review

Today continues ModSynergy's look into Drones with the YUXIANG 668-A3 Quadcopter! Find out what I think of it and see the unique Spinning Top/Captain America look YUXIANG 668-A3 in action with insane spinning yaw mode. Did I mention this can be purchased for under $25 USD? Let's get this review started!

Read full article @ ModSynergy.com