Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

HAVIT HV-KB378L RGB Backlit Mechanical Keyboard Review
Mionix Naos QG Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Linux Benchmarks
Solus review - The distro that could not

HAVIT HV-KB378L RGB Backlit Mechanical Keyboard Review

Featuring an aluminum body, Outemu blue mechanical switches, RGB key illumination and all that at a fraction of what most of the competition asks the HAVIT HV-KB378L could be your first/next mechanical keyboard.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Mionix Naos QG Review

Mionix created the Naos QG (Quantified Gaming) in association with thousands of Twitchcon viewers and received the backing of more than 800 people via kickstarter. Quite an impressive level of support for the humble hand-held device. So what makes the Naos QC different? Well it isn't the advanced 4 layer rubberised surface, or the awesome 12,000 DPI Pixart PWM3360 sensor. It isn't even the use of the latest ARM Cortex M3 processor. What is interesting is the addition of a Pixart PAH8001EI -2G heart rate sensor that can measure the users heart rate and be displayed live via a special overlay courtesy of the Overwolf app. It also has a GSR (Galvanic Skin Response) sensor that measures the electrical conductivity of the surface of the skin which changes in nuances based on human emotion. Strong emotions, either happiness, joy or fear tend to show dramatic changes. This information, along with advanced tracking and usage information can be recorded and shared via the new Mionix Hub software.

You can expect other features commonly found in gaming mice also including on-board memory to save profiles, OMRON and TTC switches with a total of 7 customisable buttons. The price tag seems steep but for such technology to be implemented for a new way for visual interaction specifically with viewers, or even for sake of curiosity is something rather interesting. Those that have watched the latest season of Black Mirror will also be rather paranoid should game makers start using this information being measured to develop horror games, fortunately you can turn the heart monitor off.

Read full article @ Vortez

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Linux Benchmarks

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti makes use of 4GB of GDDR5 video memory and 768 CUDA cores over 640 on the GTX 1050 but the boost frequency comes in at 1392MHz rather than 1455MHz with the GTX 1050. The base clock is similarly lower at 1290MHz for the GTX 1050 Ti versus 1354MHz for the GTX 1050. With the EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC GAMING being benchmarked today, it offers a core clock of 1354MHz with a boost of 1468MHz. This EVGA graphics card model (04G-P4-6253-KR) ships for $149 USD.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC GAMING is a petite graphics card like the other GTX 1050 models and should fit nicely in a SFF PC / HTPC. Like the other GTX 1050 cards, no external PCI-E power source is required. The GTX 1050 Ti SC GAMING has one dual-link DVI port, one HDMI 2.0b port, and one DisplayPort 1.4 connection.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Solus review - The distro that could not

High hope, low cope. Here's a review of Solus, a Linux operating system with the Budgie desktop environment, tested on a laptop with UEFI, Secure Boot, GPT, 16 partitions, and a multi-boot setup with Windows 10 and Linux distributions, covering only live session and a failed installation, including look & feel, networking - Wireless, Samba sharing and printing, multimedia support - MP3 playback, HD video, installer options, partitioning, bootloader problems, and more. Started majestic, and then it died on me. So sad. Glimpse hither.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo