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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Adrenalin Software Edition 19.7.5 Performance Analysis for RX Vega 56/64
Apple Card: How to manage bank accounts used for payments
ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT Review
ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT ROG STRIX Review
ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT STRIX OC Review
Cooler Master MH751 Gaming Headset Review
Corsair K83 Wireless Entertainment Keyboard Review
Intel Tiger Lake Supports PCIe Gen 4 and Features Xe Graphics, Phantom Canyon NUC Detailed
Logic Pros: Organize your workflow with the Logic Plug-in Link system
Novatech The Reign VIPER MKII Review
ROCCAT Kova AIMO Review
Seagate 16TB IronWolf, IronWolf Pro, and Exos X16 HDD Review



Adrenalin Software Edition 19.7.5 Performance Analysis for RX Vega 56/64

As a BabelTechReviews regular feature, this Adrenalin Software Edition 19.7.5 Performance Analysis will chart the performance of 40 PC games using the latest drivers that released late last month. We will compare these 19.7.5 drivers with 19.6.3 using the the Red Devil RX Vega 56 and the liquid-cooled RX Vega 64.
We benchmark at 1920×1080 and at 2560×1440 resolutions using the latest games, and we also recently added Anno 1800, F1 2019, and Total War: Vermintide II. In addition, Hitman 2 and TW: Warhammer II are run on DX11 and on DX12.

We recently upgraded our testing platform using a Core i7-8700K which turbos all 6 cores to 4.8GHz, an EVGA Z370 FTW motherboard, and 16GB of T-FORCE XTREEM DDR4 at 3866MHz. The games tested, settings, and hardware are identical except for the driver versions being compared.

Read full article @ BabelTechReviews

Apple Card: How to manage bank accounts used for payments

Like nearly every other feature of Apple Card, monthly payments are managed through the Wallet app on your iPhone. Heres how to manage your Apple Card bank accounts.

Read full article @ 9to5Mac

ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT Review

Overall, when compared directly to the NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER, the RX 5700 XT edges it out in almost every game. Once board partners start to roll out custom cards, I feel the RX 5700 lineup will look even better. For now, even though it does beat the competition at this price point, you need to consider if the blower cooler will bother you. That seems to be the biggest complaint I've seen in user reviews for the VEGA cards and this uses the same cooler, just with a new faceplate attached.

Read full article @ OCC

ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT ROG STRIX Review

Meet the ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT ROG STRIX that we review today. It has increased clocks, increased looks and well is just customized all the way. Fabricated at a 7nm node and capable of battling with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 we'll check out how well it holds against the reference card as well.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT STRIX OC Review

The ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT STRIX OC is a huge improvement over the AMD reference design. It comes with an excellent cooler that reduces temperatures and noise levels at the same time, matching NVIDIA's offerings. Idle-fan-stop is included, too, and the factory overclock helps gain additional performance.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Cooler Master MH751 Gaming Headset Review

For those who do not need a USB sound card, the Cooler Master MH751 provides the same excellent wearing feel and sufficient gaming audio quality of the MH752.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Corsair K83 Wireless Entertainment Keyboard Review

There's a huge amount to love about the Corsair K83, but there's also a whole host of crazy features bolted on to it that don't come close to reaching their potential.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Intel Tiger Lake Supports PCIe Gen 4 and Features Xe Graphics, Phantom Canyon NUC Detailed

Intel is working on its next generation gaming-grade NUC, codenamed "Phantom Canyon." When it comes out some time in 2020-21, it will feature Intel's 10 nm+ "Tiger Lake" SoC. Intel detailed this and more in a leaked presentation to industry partners. It describes the launch of of the company's "Ghost Canyon" NUC in Fall 2019 to succeed the current "Hades Canyon" gaming NUC. This box features a Core i9-9980HK processor and discrete graphics options. It will be succeeded in 2020-21 (late 2020 or sometime 2021), by the "Phantom Canyon" NUC that's in development.

The "Phantom Canyon" NUC is powered by a 28 W 10 nm+ "Tiger Lake-U" SoC that features PCI-Express gen 4. The package also implements Intel's "Gen 12" graphics processor that's derived from the Xe architecture it's currently working on, according to Chinese publication PTTWeb. The NUC will also feature discrete graphics options in the price-range of the current GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2060 ($299 to $349).

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Logic Pros: Organize your workflow with the Logic Plug-in Link system

If you’ve ever wondered how the Logic Plug-in Link system works, you’re in the right place. This is something we briefly touched on in the understanding plug-ins section of our Logic Pro X 101 series, but today it’s time to link it all the way up. This easily overlooked feature — designed to accomodate customized workflows and to help organize that collage of plug-in windows currently burying your musical masterpiece — has been staring you right in the face this entire time.

Read full article @ 9to5Mac

Novatech The Reign VIPER MKII Review

Providing the processing grunt is a 9th generation Intel Core i7 9700K CPU with 8 cores at up to 4.9GHz. That processor is paired to 16GB of Corsair memory and an NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 with full real-time ray-tracing support.

Read full article @ Vortez

ROCCAT Kova AIMO Review

Like its predecessor the Kova AIMO is an ambidextrous, symmetrical mouse that ROCCAT claim has been designed to offer exceptional comfort & performance regardless of if you are left or right-handed. Other returning features include two additional top buttons, an illuminated "Titan Wheel" which can be personalised within the ROCCAT Swarm software.

Read full article @ Vortez

Seagate 16TB IronWolf, IronWolf Pro, and Exos X16 HDD Review

Seagate's hard disk drive division has seen a winning streak for the last several years. Capacity ramped up faster than the competition since the 8TB models came to market. Around the same time, the company took a bold step in the feature category by synchronized platter rotation to 7,200 RPMs across the NAS-optimized product line (starting with the 6TB IronWolf). A strong roadmap featuring dual independent actuator arms and even lasers mounted to heads that heat the platters prior to writing data show Seagate doesn't plan to slow innovation.

Before we images of Austin Power's laser sharks dancing in our heads, we get to talk about the current product lines that just expanded capacities to 16TB. Seagate's three NAS-optimized series, IronWolf, IronWolf Pro, and Exos X now ship in the new capacity. Other than the label, the three series look identical and often times pricing is similar. Today we will look at what differentiates the three and then see each in action over in the native environment, over a network.

Read full article @ TweakTown