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Happy Sunday! We got Gainward GTX 760 from Technic3D, Gigabyte GTX 780 OC Windforce X3 from Vortez, Prolimatech Samual 17 cooler at Eteknix, Bitfenix Prodigy at Hardware-Factory, Seagate Laptop Thin SSD at Nikktech, and Silverstone ARM11SC Arm One Monitor Mount at Phoronix.

Today, we got MSI GTX 760 HAWK from Tweaktown, Steelseries Siberria V2 Red Gaming Headset from Eteknix, Corsiar Raptor M30, and more.

Today, we got Galaxy S4 Active from Hothardware, Seagate 1.2TB Enterprise Performance 10Kv7 Hard drive from Tweaktown, Patriot EP Series 128GB SDXC from TechnologyX, and more.

Introduction – ASUS Z87-PRO ASUS along with its ROG boards also released the more mainstream channel series of boards one of which we actually looked at already in the Z87-A. The color seems to be the big topic in the community and for good reason since ECS did a similar …

For a week I have had a imported Nvidia Shield at home. I’ve been busy playing games and testing it but today I finally got around to testing the PC game streaming. After some initial hickups (it IS beta) I finally got it working and I got to say I …

Today, we got Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI from Tweaktown, Asus Maximus VI Hero from Kitguru, MSI GTX 760 HAWK from PureOverclock, Lian Li PC-TU100 M-ITX from Eteknix, and more.

Today, we got MSI N760 HAWK from Legit Review and LanOC, OCZ Vertex 450 at Vortez, AMD Radeon RG2133 Gamer 16GB Memory Kit from Neoseeker, and more.

Introduction – ASUS Z87-A When new chipset launches happen all of the attention is given to the big boys of the group or the high end behemoth that is the top clocking boards. All the while, there is a whole bunch of other boards that may not have all of …

ARCTIC launched S113 BT, a portable Bluetooth speaker with NFC pairing. The colorful portable Bluetooth speaker  comes in six variety of colors that fits your taste. It supports AAC and Apt-X codec and NFC pairing for simple tap and connect. The speaker outputs audio through two 3W RMS with rated …

Today, LanOC Reviews takes a look at the Sapphire HD 7790 Dual-X, OCC reviews the CM Storm SF-17 Gaming Notebook Cooler, techPowerUp reviews the Synology DS713+, Benchmark Reviews takes a look at the MSI GK-601 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, and more.

Today, HotHardware takes a look at the Nokia Lumia 1020, Tweaktown reviews the Lian Li PC-TU100 B chassis, Hexus has the AOC Q2963PM 29 inch UltraWide IPS LED monitor, Kituru reviews Hauppauge HD PVR2 Gaming Edition Plus, and more.

 Introduction – Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H   Just a short time ago we looked at the Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H and now we grabbed up its little brother, the UD3H. This board offers similar feature sets as the UD4H but a little more on the value side which means it will omit small bells …

Hope you all have a great weekend so far. Not much news today, we got Avexir Core Extreme 3000 MHz 8GB Memory Kit from Kitguru, Corsair Carbide Air 540 case and CX430M PSU reviwe from Technic3D, Razer Naga from HardwareHeaven, and ZOWIE G-TF Rough from DVHardware.

Today, TechwareLabs takes a look at the Asus ROG G750 Gaming laptop, Eteknix takes a look at the Alpenfohn Brocken CPU Cooler and Aerocool Strike-X Xtreme Black Edition, TestGreaks reviews Kingston MobileLite Wireless, and more.

On Aug. 2, 2013, we got Asus ROG G750 Gaming laptop from TechwareLabs, Gigabyte GSmart Maya M1 v2 Quad Mobile Phone from Madshrimps, Brix Mini PC Review at Techspot, Thermaltake MEKA G1 keyboard at Tweaktown, and more.

AMD has released a beta of their latest Catalyst-drivers: Catalyst 13.8 Beta. One of the big fixes in this driver is that AMD has added frame-pacing to help get rid of or at least minimize the micro-stuttering a lot of people have experienced when running more than one GPU.

Magic might be an exaggeration but when iFixit did their regular “new-gadget tear-down” they found a product that is surprisingly repairable. 

While USB 3.0 might not be as fast as Thunderbolt is has one huge advantage: it actually is rolled out and used by tons of computers and peripherals. Now the USB Alliance has finalized the specifications for the next update of USB: USB 3.1. As always the standard is backward …

On the first day of August, we got Supermicro C7Z87-OCE review from Tweaktown, PowerColor HD 7870 Devil at techPowerUp, Western Digital 1TD Velociraptor and 2TB Caviar Black at Futurelooks, and more.

On the last day of July, we got Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5 motherboard from Madshrimps, NVIDIA Shield from Hothardware, Diamond Multimedia GC1000 1080 HD USB Game Capture from MEGATech, Asus U7 USB Sound card, and Asus PB278Q monitor from Tweaktown, and more.

Today, we got Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon review from ThinkComputers, Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 7790 from Futurelooks, Gigabyte GTX 780 OC WindForce from PureOverclock, Asustor AS-604T NAS from HardwareHeaven, and more.

Today, we got ASRock Z87 Extreme6 Motherboard from Hardware Secrets, PowerColor HD7870 DEVIL from Legit Review, Nokia Lumia 1020 from Hothardware, SanDisk Extreme II Solid SDSSDXP Review from Benchmark Review, and more.

ASUS GTX 760 DirectCU II OC Graphics Card After the GTX 760 card launched we were quite surprised as to the power on tap, and were more excited to see what exactly can be done when put in the capable hands of some of the board partners. ASUS stepped up …

Today, we got Silverstone SUGO Series SG10 Micro-ATX case review from Eteknix, Rapoo A3060 Bluetooth speaker from Technic3D, SoundWave II Bluetooth Speaker phone from DragonStellMods, Jaybird Bluebuds X Bluetooth Headphone from TechnologyX, and more.

Happy Saturday! Today, we gotEKL Alpenfoeh Brocken 2 Cooler from Technic3D, Silverstone Raven 4 from Vortez, and Thermaltake Urban S21 from LanOC. techPowerUp takes a look at the QNAP TS-421 and QTS 4.0, and more.

Today, Madshrimps got trios of Z87 OC Motherboards and Kitguru got the Gigabyte Z87-D3HP reviews. OCholics got XFX ProSeries 1250W PSU and 3DGameman got EVGA 500B 500W PSU and more.

Today, we got Samsung SSD 840 EVO from Hexus, Tech Report, HardwareHeaven, Vortez, and the SSD Review. In addition, Hardware Secrets review the ASUS Fonepad and Phoronix takes a look at the OpenGL Performance of Haswell under Ubuntu, and more.

As expected Google yesterday announced and showed the new Nexus 7 tablet that will be released end of july in the US and soon afterwards in selected countries. 

Today, Benchmark Review takes a look at Intel DZ87KLT-75K motherboard, OCInside puts the ASRock Z87M OC Formula to the test, and Eteknix tests the Gigabyte Z87X-OC. Also, LanOC Reviews has InWin G7 case, Hexus takes a look at the PNY GeForce GTX 770 XLR8, and more.

 Introduction – Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H   Gigabyte has been making boards forever and honestly, it has been up and down along the cycle. It seems like every board manufacturer has its good and bad times, and Gigabyte seems to have been going through a bit of a rough patch. With that …

Today, we got Lenovo ThinkPad Helix ‘Rip & Flip’ Convertible from HotHardware, Cyberpower Infinity Achilles GT from Hexus, EVGA GTX 760 SuperClocked with ACX Cooling Video Card from Legit Review, SanDisk Extreme 64GB microSDXC memory card from Tweaktown, and more.

Halo is one of those games that will be talked about for many years. Not only did it in many ways help make the first Xbox a success, it also was the game that at least for me proved that you can play a first person shooter (FPS) on a …

Today, we got GAINWARD GTX 780 Phantom ‘GLH’ Review from Vortez, XFX Pro Series 850W Black Edition PSU from Legit Reviews, Lian Li D8000 Review from Techspot, Asus PQ321Q 4K Monitor review from Hexus and more.

MSI just jumped into the extreme Haswell game with the recent release of the Z87 Xpower, today we have one in hand, so let’s see what this beast has to offer.

Four is enough on this Sunday. We got LEPA G850-MA power supply review from Tweaktown, Korg Kaossilator 2 Portable Synthesizer from TestFreaks, OCZ Vertex 3.20 Review from Eteknix.

On July 20, 2013, we got Patriot Viper 3 Mamba DDR3-2133 Memory Kit review from Eteknix, EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC with ACX Cooling from Hothardware, Enermax ELC240 A.I.O liquid CPU cooler from Nikktech, and more.

The juggernaut of elite air-cooling solutions, Noctua unleashes two new heatsinks.  Let’s examine the pair and see how they perform. 

On July 19, 2013, we got ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Professional motherboard, Powercolor Devil HD 7870, Galaxy GeForce GTX 780 GC reviews. The folks at Tweaktown also got the Crucial M500 SSD and the Legit Reviews got the Plextor M5M mSATA SSD review and more. 

AMD announced the first commercially available 5.0 GHz CPU at E3. Today, the FX-9000 series CPU is finally available to the system integrators. You can pick up a PC with either the FX-9590 or the FX9370, which runs at 4.5GzHz and 4.7 GHz respectively. While the lower model is able …

On July 18, 2013, Phoronix tested Intel OpenGL performance and found that it outperforms OSX 10.9 under Ubuntu 13.10. Ocholic tested the Intel HD 4600 vs AMD A10-6800K GPU performnace. Tweaktown puts the MSI GeForce GTX 770 Twin Frozr card through its tests and more.