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Today NVIDIA launch the GTX 780 graphics card and we have the ZOTAC branded version on our test bench. We’ll be putting it through a selection of real world tests against overclocked 680 and 7970 cards to see how it does in titles like Crysis 3, Metro:Last Light and GRID 2. Full story @ HardwareHeaven

After the launch of the Vertex 4, OCZ had a little explaining to do. Initially the SSD was presented as using a controller developed in-house by Indilinx, but that turned out to be a Marvell controller using their firmware. The new Vertex 450 makes up for this, as it really does have a controller developed [...]

The launch of Intel’s Haswell processors is drawing near. The chips, which are the fourth generation of Intel Core processors, will be featured in various devices, including laptops. Acer is already preparing its products, as today’s press event in New York showed. The manufacturer demonstrated the Acer Aspire V5, a touchscreen notebook that was already [...]

Iiyama has announced a new mid-range monitor, the E2773HS-2. Iiyama’s new creation has a 27-inch TN-panel with a 1920×1080 pixel resolution and LED-backlight. The manufacturer claims a 1200:1 contrast ratio and maximum brightness of 300 cd/m². A response time of 3.4 milliseconds is specified. The screen has DVI-D, HDMI, VGA and audio connectors. The latter [...]

Last weekend, it was rumoured that AMD would launch its new dual-GPU flagship on April 22nd. It turns out that the source was off, but only by two days, as the card is now planned to be introduced Wednesday, April 24th. An engineering sample of the new graphics card has already surfaced on eBay. The [...]

Seagate has recently re-branded their consumer storage products, formerly named Barracuda, in time for the launch of their 15th-generation. The 4TB Seagate Desktop HDD (OEM model ST4000DM000, retail kit STBD4000400) features a SATA 6Gb/s interface with Native Command Queueing (NCQ). Eight data heads read and write to four 1GB disc platters which enable 625Gb/in2 areal [...]

After AMD announced a few days ago that the game ‘SimCity’ will be bundled with its A8 and A10 processors, the manufacturer now reveals that the next ‘Never Settle’ bundle is likely to contain the game Battlefield 4. Advanced Micro Devices VP Roy Taylor stated this in an interview with Heise. Battlefield 4 will be [...]

Although we’re closing in on the launch date of Intel’s mainstream ‘ Haswell’  processors, the high-end segment doesn’t move quite as quickly. The current Core i7 Extreme Edition processors are still based on the Sandy Bridge architecture, despite Ivy Bridge making its debut almost a year ago. Before Haswell finds its way to these chips, [...]

An increasing number of notebooks only supports storage devices that are up to 7 mm in height, as opposed to the previous 9.5 mm standard. With conventional hard drives already adapting to the new 7 mm height, it seems only logical SSD manufacturers also make the transition to thinner enclosures. Adata has stated that it [...]

With the economy on the rebound, gamers are coming out of hibernation with a hunger for modern DirectX11 graphics and realism. Since AMD has all but disappeared from the scene, NVIDIA has timed their affordable mainstream video card launch perfectly. Based on the NVIDIA Kepler GK106 architecture, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST delivers 2GB [...]