Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

ARCHEER QC 2.0 Car Charger USB Adapter Review
EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC Gaming Review
Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming 4GB Video Card Review
HyperX Alloy FPS Review
M.2 & PCIe SSD Charts: 7 SSDs - Intel SSD 600p M.2 NVMe 256GB
MSI GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti Gaming X Review
MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB and GeForce GTX 1050 2GB Video Card Review
MSI GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti
MSI GTX 1050 Gaming X 2 GB
MSI GTX 1050 Gaming X 2G Review
MSI GTX 1050 Ti Gaming X 4 GB
Netgear launches Nighthawk X10 – claims world speed record
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Review
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Review: Low Power, Low Price Pascal
NVIDIA GTX 1050 Roundup Featuring EVGA MSI and Zotac
Nvidia releases hotfix after breaking Windows 10
Nvidias GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card reviewed
PC component shortages predicted for Q4 2016
Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass Edition Case Review
Riotoro CR1080 Case Review
The NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti & GTX 1050 Review
Top Wi-Fi Information and Optimization Utilities

ARCHEER QC 2.0 Car Charger USB Adapter Review

Practically every vehicle has a 12V cigarette lighter receptacle, but most lack sufficient USB power outlets. That’s where Archeer car chargers come in, utilizing Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 technology on adapters with as many as three USB ports and power output up to 5 volts/3.0 amps. In this article for Benchmark Reviews, we test a pair of Archeer QC 2.0 chargers for fast-charge functionality while on a week-long road trip.

Read full article @ Benchmark Reviews

EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC Gaming Review

Nvidia Pascal invades the mainstream. At some point in the future, Nvidia will reminisce over past architecture generations and recall 2016's Pascal with fond memories. The firm's latest technology made its consumer debut as part of the formidable GeForce GTX 1080 way back in May and has since filtered through to the GTX 1070 and GTX 1060, as well as the all-singing, all-dancing Titan X.

Each Pascal GPU has hit most of the right notes, and though AMD's competing Radeons continue to serve as a viable alternative, the GeForce 10-series line-up has become the favoured high-end solution. The last piece in the Pascal puzzle is an entry-level card to tempt the masses, and it just so happens Nvidia has not one offering, but two, in the form of the GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti.

Read full article @ Hexus

Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming 4GB Video Card Review

One of the side effects of running a tech website is that people always ask me for advice when building or upgrading a PC. Being the performance minded individual I am my recommendations are often to the upper end of the performance spectrum where cost is less of a concern and always get concerned looks because while I might look past cost that isn't the case for everyone. Thing is building a PC is an expensive endeavor and in an attempt to keep costs low you may cobble together parts from previous builds or look for lower performing components to leave you budget for a better motherboard or video card.

Whatever path you take the idea is that you should always have an upgrade option provided what you have will do what you need.

In this review I’ll be looking at the Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming video card. This is the latest NVidia offering based on the Pascal architecture and is one of two GPUs to be released for the “Discover GeForce Gaming” market. NVidia has targeted this release at users who may have never installed a dedicated graphics card or are upgrading a low-end machine.

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

HyperX Alloy FPS Review

Looking to quell the demand for high quality gaming peripherals that have a no-nonsense plug-and-play experience, the HyperX team present the Alloy FPS mechanical keyboard. It has a compact solid steel frame that features Cherry MX Blue switches and red backlighting. Beside the features you would expect from a gaming keyboard, such as full anti-ghosting and 1000Hz polling, the HyperX team throw in a selection of FN media keys and customisable lighting.

The Alloy FPS features a detachable USB cable and a mesh travel bag, ideal for transportation, and despite the minimalistic design, the HyperX team also manage to squeeze an additional USB port specifically for charging your mobile devices.

Read full article @ Vortez

M.2 & PCIe SSD Charts: 7 SSDs - Intel SSD 600p M.2 NVMe 256GB

If you looking for a new M.2 or PCIe SSD this article helps you in getting an overview. So far we've tested 7 different drives and the list will grow whenever a new and relevant drive is released.

Read full article @ ocaholic

MSI GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti Gaming X Review

Last week Nvidia announced the GeForce GTX 1050 series, with two primary models. In this article we'll review the MSI GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti Gaming X, two graphics cards aimed at the budget minded consumer. We say budget minded as these cards are very affordable and positioned in an attractive 109 and 139 dollar (US) segment. The 1050 series is Nvidia's answer to the Radeon RX 460 with the Ti models perhaps winking and waving at the Radeon RX 470 from AMD.

These new GeForce GTX 1050 graphics cards are once again based on Pascal, fabbed with fins (FinFET) on an even smaller node, 14nm. As it turns out, the smaller fabrication process works out really well for Nvidia as they have been able to cram 3.3 Billion transistors into a very tiny 132 mm² chip. The 1060, 1070 and 1080 have been a high-clocked success story ever since their launch. The new GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should suit gamers on a budget. Please note that there is no Founders Edition of the GTX 1050 (2GB) or 1050 Ti (4GB), you will only see board partner models. Based upon a GP107 GPU the top model "Ti" SKUs will get 768 shader processors. The entry-level "regular" 1050 model will get 640 shader processors. By itself it's nothing to dream about when you read the specs, but 16 and now 14 nm has been treating Nvidia well, and as such you are going to notice fast clocked models and if you tweak a little, you should be able to reach that 1.9, maybe 2.0 GHz marker on the GPU Boost frequency. The cards will cost 109 and 139 dollars (US) respectively.

Read full article @ Guru3D

MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB and GeForce GTX 1050 2GB Video Card Review

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce GTX 1050 both go on sale today, October 25th. The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB graphics cards will be priced from $139.99 and the GeForce GTX 1050 2GB will be priced starting at $109.99. The GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti both are built using the cutting edge NVIDIA GP107 ‘Pascal’ GPU and were designed to be the perfect solution for gamers looking to discover casual PC gaming.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

MSI GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti

So we may be past most of the exciting launches that sit at the top of the price range but both Nvidia and AMD have been slowly releasing all of their price point cards. Most recently AMD launched the RX 460. At that spot in the market, Nvidia hadn’t responded until today. Today they are announcing the GTX 1050 and the GTX 1050 Ti. Well really most of you saw all of the PR launch last week, but today is the official end of the NDAs. That means I can finally dive into the cards and see what Nvidia has going on. While I’m doing that I’m going to add a new game into our benchmark suite and retest the RX 460 to see how they compare. Then we can find out what cards will be the best performers for those of you who don’t have PCI power connections or for those looking to keep the budget way down on their latest build. To keep things really easy, Nvidia sent over MSI cards for both the 1050 and the 1050 Ti so they should be perfect for comparing the two.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

MSI GTX 1050 Gaming X 2 GB

GTX 1050 is optimized for budget gaming thanks to its starting-at $110 price. MSI has designed a completely custom version using their famous TwinFrozr cooler, which is nearly inaudible and has the fans stop in idle. The card is also overclocked out of the box and is highly power efficient.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

MSI GTX 1050 Gaming X 2G Review

What I found while overclocking the GTX 1050 Gaming X 2G from MSI is that it is one hell of an overclocker, delivering solid overclocking with very little work involved to reach my final results. Finding the maximum overclock on the GP107 core was as simple as increasing the GPU boost clock speed to +125MHz and testing the card's stability. No matter how much higher I would go, the core would not boost any higher than 1911MHz. Bumping the voltage did not show any higher of an increase, but 1911MHz was rock stable and did not fluctuate under load. That's 335MHz worth of core clock speed for five minutes worth of work. The memory was a little picky in that it would run as high as 1950MHz through most of the tests, but would start peeling off FPS performance as the clock speed increased. The highest clock speed that delivered improved performance was 1935MHz or an effective 7770MHz out of 7Gbps memory. If you want to overclock, this card has potential and the cooling to make sure you do not overheat your components.

Read full article @ OCC

MSI GTX 1050 Ti Gaming X 4 GB

MSI's GTX 1050 Ti Gaming X is an overclocked, custom-design variant of the GTX 1050 Ti. The board impresses with extremely low noise in gaming, and the fans stop completely in idle. Our test also revealed super low non-gaming power consumption and cool temperatures.

Read full article @ techPowerUp

Netgear launches Nighthawk X10 – claims world speed record

KitGuru was invited to meet with David Henry, Netgear Senior VP, in London recently. As well as an update on the new Orbi mesh WiFi product, we were also briefed on the latest iteration of the Nighthawk, the X10. Promising to be the fastest WiFi router available is a serious claim in such a highly competitive market, but if any company has the right to make that claim, then Netgear is certainly one of them. David was kind enough to take us through the featureset that, he believes, will make the Nighthawk X10 a world-beater.

Read full article @ KitGuru

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Review

It isn't often that we see Nvidia being so aggressive in the entry-level segment and historically they've seemed happy to let AMD take the hit on margins here. Driving the sub-$150 GeForce GTX 1050 is the newly developed GP107 GPU that is more powerful than anything we've tested before on this price range.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Review

Nvidia's Pascal-based GPUs are finally colliding with AMD's Radeon RX portfolio. Do the GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti rival Polaris' value proposition? Nvidia owns the high-end graphics space with its Pascal-based GPUs. AMD is making a big splash in the mainstream market with its Polaris-based cards. Inevitably, the companies’ 14/16 nm processors were bound to overlap. The PC world is perhaps most transfixed by the coming of AMD’s Vega GPUs, which promise performance to rival the top tier of GeForce cards. But that won’t happen until the first half of 2017 (presumably closer to mid-year).

In the nearer term, Nvidia is ready to battle AMD’s 2 GB and 4 GB Radeon RX 460 with its GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti, announced earlier this month. Both models utilize a new GPU called GP107. It’s composed of 3.3 billion transistors and manufactured on a 14 nm FinFET process—notably not TSMC’s 16FF+ node. Although the processor originates from a different foundry, GP107 continues to reflect the Pascal architecture’s basic resource allocation.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Review: Low Power, Low Price Pascal

Although rumors had been circulating for a while, NVIDIA went ahead and made the GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti official last week with an announcement featuring a number of details about the cards. In the announcement, NVIDIA covered some of the speeds and feeds, revealed a number of partner board designs, and revealed expected pricing. Performance, however, was not discussed much.

Today we’re able to tell all, with a trio of GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti cards from MSI and EVGA. We’ve got two cards from MSI – in both plain vanilla and Ti flavors – along with an EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SuperClocked Edition...

Read full article @ HotHardware

NVIDIA GTX 1050 Roundup Featuring EVGA MSI and Zotac

When the GTX 1050 was announced NVidia claimed they were targeting users to help them Discover GeForce Gaming. The target market was those who may have never installed a discrete graphics card and were gaming on integrated graphics. They were careful not to mention the competition (read: AMD) or focus on users looking to upgrade an aging computer with some fresh graphics. Of course all of those are legitimate reasons to upgrade your graphics processor and is the story I'm sticking with.

In this review I’ll be looking at three different GTX 1050 graphics cards from three popular manufacturers, EVGA, MSI and Zotac. They are all based on the same GPU and aside from their physical appearance, PCB design, Memory chips and clock speed they are all basically the same card.

Read full article @ Hardware Asylum

Nvidia releases hotfix after breaking Windows 10

Beware version 375.57. The GPU maker with the same name as a Roman vengeance demon, Nvidia, has rushed out a hotfix after an earlier driver update broke Windows 10.

Read full article @ Fudzilla

Nvidias GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card reviewed

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 brings the Pascal architecture to the $200-$250 price point, but there are more differences between the GTX 1060 3GB and the GTX 1060 6GB cards than a simple halving of RAM capacity. We put these cards to the test to see just how those differences play out in practice.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

PC component shortages predicted for Q4 2016

Semiconductor manufacturers happy but PC enthusiasts could feel extra wallet pain. PC industry news journal DigiTimes has flagged up the likelihood of component shortages in the PC market from November onwards. The issue for PC makers seems to simply stem from an increase in demand from smartphone makers. Thus "several component suppliers have been delaying their shipments to PC vendors," says DigiTimes.

Read full article @ Hexus

Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass Edition Case Review

Just over 2 years ago we took a look at the Phanteks Enthoo Luxe case. At the time we thought it was one of the best cases out there and gave it a 10 out of 10 score. Now Phanteks has given the case its tempered glass treatment, added a full tempered glass side panel. Other new features include SSD mounts in the main compartment to display your drives, the front 200 mm has been replaced by dual 140 mm fans, and there is a new color variation of grey, which we are taking a look at today. Besides that the case is the same as the one we reviewed two years ago so it is a full tower with support for large motherboards like E-ATX and SSI EEB, a good amount of room for watercooling, RGB lighting and much more. Let’s take a look!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Riotoro CR1080 Case Review

Riotoro introduced the CR1080 mid-tower case in early April, and back then I really wanted to see how they could fit an ATX motherboard into what is essentially a mini-tower height case while still allowing for tall heatsinks and full height video cards. I have seen implementations of this concept in other cases of course, but they either restricted cooler and video card size or they were very wide.

With a dual compartment design, the area normally used to mount the motherboard is instead occupied by drive bays - two 3.5” and one 2.5” (or three 2.5” drives) - and the power supply area, all mounted vertically with room to run cables and even space for a lower front mounted 80mm fan. Moving to the normal cable management side of the case, we find the motherboard mounting area with the I/O panel at the bottom and the PCI card slots at the top. What makes this setup intriguing are the two 120mm fan mounts at the front and an 80mm fan mount at the rear that should make for a direct air flow path across the motherboard. The case includes one 120mm fan out of the box to provide good cooling potential.

The front panel only has one very thin foam filter, which means more cleaning of the case panels and interior could be required compared to other cases that come with dust filters. On the bright side, the Riotoro CR1080 is lightweight and the side panels are easy enough to remove that keeping your computer system clear of dust and dirt shouldn't prove to be a chore.

Read full article @ Neoseeker

The NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti & GTX 1050 Review

Much like AMD though to a significantly lesser extent, NVIDIA’s lower cost GPU lineup was made up almost entirely of previous generation offerings. While both the Maxwell and Pascal architecture benefited from high end refreshes, the GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti have remained untouched in their positioning for the better part of two years. Indeed, even those highly competitive –for the time- cards were launched at $150 and $120 respectively and NVIDIA’s options below that were relegated to OEM-focused options like the GT 740. That’s about to change since the new GeForce lineup is about to add two new entrants which fight to reduce the cost of entry-level GPUs while taking performance per dollar to a whole new level.

Typically the under-$150 market segment sees a race to the bottom of the performance barrel with cards offering truly pathetic value. The GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 aim to change that by leveraging the Pascal architecture’s inherent strengths of efficiency, performance and broad-scale optimizations into something that approaches acceptability for budget conscious gamers.

Efficiency will continually play a large role in this review since it is actually the largest contributing factor to the GTX 1050-series’ success and pricing. You see, the new GP107 core produces such a small amount of heat and requires so little power that board partners don’t’ need to install extravagant heatsinks to keep it cool or even add a PCI-E power connector since the cards will draw all they need directly from the motherboard. This effectively lowers BOM costs and allows these two new cards to sell for less than they otherwise would.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Top Wi-Fi Information and Optimization Utilities

Wi-Fi information and optimization tools can help you assess your network for optimal performance and top speeds. The apps detailed in this article all offer network details like signal strength, addresses, and channels, while some offer extra features like network troubleshooting and security options.

Read full article @ TechSpot