We review the ASUS Maximus V Extreme. There is a kind of people that feel enough is not enough, they want moar' and for exactly that kind of enthusiast end user ASUS creates ROG EXTREME products. This is a ROG (Republic of Gamers) motherboard, and that means extra enthusiast features alright, as for overclockers, here's where things start to get serious, the board is designed with a 12-phase Digi+ VRM, Subzero Sense, has voltage-measurement points and the ROG Connect technology (overclock the board via Bluetooth from their phone). And yes there's still more, ASUS throws in the OC Key as well, which creates an overlay on the active DVI monitor to adjust overclock settings in real-time without using additional software or hardware (it connects to the graphics card DVI port). The ASUS Maximus V Extreme just breathes overclock potential.

Galaxy and thus in Europe, KFA2 are prepping a 4 GB overclocked version of GeForce GTX 670 and they are calling it GTX 670 4 GB GC Edition.

The product will have a big dual fan cooler, custom PCB and a new power delivery design with five phases for GPU and two for memory.

The cooler has two 92mm fans, four copper heatpipes and a large aluminium fins array. Core clock and boost clock is also given a considerable boost. Cores run at 1006 MHz as compared to 915 MHz on reference models while boost clock is upped to 1084 MHz from reference 980 MHz. Memory clock remains reference.

The acrd will make use of a 8-pin and one 6-pin PCI Express power connector.  For display connectivity, it comes with dual DVI ports, HDMI port and DisplayPort. Take a peek at the photo's:

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Silicon Power announced a new line of SSDs, the Velox V70. Coming in 60GB, 120GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities, these 2.5-inch SSDs feature a brushed aluminum metal body in metallic gold finish, Toggle/Synchronous NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a SandForce SF-2281 controller, TRIM support and can deliver read and write speeds of up to 557MB/s and 507MB/s, respectively. Prices unannounced yet.

Lian Li again expanded its line of full-tower PC cases by bringing you the PC-X2000FN. Featuring an all black color coating (inside and outside), this slim aluminum case supports for micro-ATX, ATX and E-ATX motherboards, and features a top-placed I/O panel with 4x USB 3.0, 1x eSATA and 2x audio ports, two 5.25-inch drive bays, an HDD cage that supports up to seven 3.5-inch HDDs, ten expansion slots and has five fans (3x 140mm fans

Just a few minutes ago, Steven Sinofsky announced at Microsoft

Micron announces the availability of phase change memory for mobile devices.

Micron Technology announced high volume availability of its 45nm phase change memory (PCM) for mobile devices. The company is supplying a 1Gbit PCM die and a 512Mbit LPDDR2 device in a multichip package.

Micron's 45nm PCM solution is currently targeted at feature phones, with a future roadmap aimed at addressing smartphones and media tablets.

"Our commitment to innovation and continued development of advanced products to address the voracious demands of the wireless industry is clear and strong," claimed Tom Eby, vp of Micron's wireless solutions group. "We are determined to evolve and innovate by continuing to offer the best tailored solutions for today's and tomorrow's market requirements."

PCM has been many years in development and Micron is currently the only company offering the technology in volume. Originally intended to be a unified memory

The Verge reports that Microsoft is developing a new line of "Wedge" keyboards for its Windows 8 operating system. The Wedge Mobile keyboard seems to be a small keyboard designed for mobile use and appears to come with some type of cover.

The Wedge keyboard will be "introduced very soon" according to the site, and will be sold together with Windows 8. Microsoft previously revealed that its hardware partners will start to use the new Windows logo on PCs and phones later this year, with the company's Surface device adopting it too.

It's not the first time we hear something like this. But A TAIWAN teenager has collapsed and died at an internet cafe after playing Diablo 3, a popular online video game, for 40 consecutive hours, local media say.

The 18-year-old identified by only his surname, Chuang, booked a private room at the cafe in Tainan, southern Taiwan, around noon on July 13 and played for nearly two days without eating, the United Daily News broadsheet reported on Tuesday. On the morning of July 15, an attendant entered the room and found Chuang resting on a table. After the attendant woke him, he stood, took a few steps and then collapsed, the report said. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a local hospital.

We review the Corsair GS800 power supply. The power supply is on the market for a while now already and it one of the more popular models. It offers Bronze efficiency, a single 12V rail and comes with a fan that doesn't activate until you use 20% of PSU load.

That fan BTW can be lit with three led colors. The PSU itself is non-modular, not a biggy for most, but most of you with a side panel window in their chassis really want modular cables. Being 800W and with all the aforementioned features the PSU is priced in the 90 EUR range here in the Netherlands, and that's not a bad price as you are about to find out. Read the article here.

The new ASUS ROG Vulcan PRO gaming headset features the ROG Spitfire USB audio processor, which amplifies any audio signal without the need to install any additional software drivers. The headset features a pair of 40mm neodymium drivers that produce a 20Hz-20KHz frequency response, a 32-ohm of impedance, a 2.5 meter braided cable, an unidirectional microphone and active and passive noise-cancelling technologies. No word on pricing at this time. [ASUS]

Intel has just added a new storage capacity to its SSD 330 Series by launching the 240GB model. Just like the 60GB, 120GB and 180GB models, the 240GB model is also equipped with 25nm MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a SandForce SF-2281 controller and capable of delivering read and write speeds of up to 500MB/s and 450MB/s, respectively. Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. [Intel]

EVGA is celebrating its 13th Anniversary and the way we like to do that is by thanking our community and giving away tons of prizes for participating in tons of games. We have so many prizes to giveaway that the list is too long to include here

ADATA Technology Co., Ltd. today announced the start of shipments of the XPG Gaming v2.0 Series DDR3 2400G DRAM modules. These dual channel kits are designed and engineered to bring optimum performance to third generation Intel Core processors and the Z77 platform.

XPG DRAM modules signify Xtreme Performance Gear, providing the extreme speed and performance required by advanced users. The XPG Gaming series v2.0 is targeted specifically at the distinct performance and cooling needs of the worldwide gaming community. These latest DDR3 2400G modules offer new levels of data transfer speed, along with the many features that are hallmarks of the XPG series.
 

With speed up to 2400Mbps (2400MHz), and transfer bandwidth reaching 19,200 MB/s, the XPG series once again pushes gaming to the next level. The modules support Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) version 1.3, and use ADATA

OCZ stated it taped out the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller, the chip is in production and solid state disks powered by the new chip will be out in August or September. The company announced the Barefoot 3 controller will offer significantly better performance than the current lineup, and that it will cut the company's costs.

"We have recently gave out our next generation Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller [to production] and expect to receive sample silicon back from our foundry partner TSMC in coming weeks. We expect to begin sampling SSDs on this controller in the August to September timeframe. We expect to have SSD sales related to Barefoot 3 in the third fiscal quarter," said Ryan Petersen, chief executive officer of OCZ, during a conference call with financial analysts.

The OCZ/Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller utilizes internally designed - the first time for OCZ - Aragon 400MHz 32-bit processor. The Aragon core supports an SSD specific RISC instruction set, allowing most instructions and branches to be executed in a single cycle, OCZ claims. The chip is set to be made using 65nm process technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. OCZ believes that the new Barefoot 3 SoC will significantly boost performance of its SSDs.

NVIDIA will ship an Icera 4G LTE chip for an upcoming ASUS Windows RT based tablet. NVIDIA acquired Icera last year, the company's first Tegra chip with integrated LTE is expected in 2013.

Asustek Computer Inc. (ASUUY, 2357.TW) plans to release a version of its Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Windows RT tablet that uses an Nvidia 4G Long Term Evolution chip, said Mark Aevermann, an Nvidia product manager overseeing the chip maker's notebook graphics chip business and its Windows RT push.

The tablet will use a standalone chip for cellular connectivity, as well as Nvidia's mobile application processor, Mr. Aevermann said in an interview Monday. He noted the company plans to eventually integrate its Icera cellular chips with its Tegra application processor.

Mr. Aevermann said the LTE and WiFi versions of the Asus tablet, currently dubbed the "Tablet 600," will likely be available at the same time Windows is released. It will be one of the first devices, if not the first, to use Nvidia's 4G chips from its Icera acquisition.

Intel announced a second-quarter profit of $2.8 billion, or 54 cents per share, on revenue of $13.5 billion. For the full year 2012, Intel now anticipates revenue will be between 3 to 5 percent higher than 2011, down from previous expectation for high single-digit growth.
Intel Corporation today reported quarterly revenue of $13.5 billion, operating income of $3.8 billion, net income of $2.8 billion and EPS of $0.54. The company generated approximately $4.7 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $1.1 billion and used $1.1 billion to repurchase stock.

Business Outlook
Intel's Business Outlook does not include the potential impact of any business combinations, asset acquisitions, divestitures or other investments that may be completed after July 17.

Q3 2012 (GAAP, unless otherwise stated)

Revenue: $14.3 billion, plus or minus $500 million.

• Gross margin percentage: 63 percent and 64 percent Non-GAAP (excluding amortization of acquisition-related intangibles), both plus or minus a couple of percentage points.
• R&D plus MG&A spending: approximately $4.6 billion.
• Amortization of acquisition-related intangibles: approximately $80 million.
• Impact of equity investments and interest and other: approximately zero.
• Depreciation: approximately $1.6 billion.

Full-Year 2012 (GAAP, unless otherwise stated)

• Revenue up between 3 percent and 5 percent year over year, down from the prior expectation for high single-digit growth.
• Gross margin percentage: 64 percent and 65 percent Non-GAAP (excluding amortization of acquisition-related intangibles), both plus or minus a couple points.
• Spending (R&D plus MG&A): $18.2 billion, plus or minus $200 million, down $100 million from prior expectations.
• Amortization of acquisition-related intangibles: approximately $300 million, unchanged.
• Depreciation: $6.3 billion, plus or minus $100 million, down $100 million from prior expectations.
• Tax Rate: approximately 28 percent, unchanged.
• Full-year capital spending: $12.5 billion, plus or minus $400 million, unchanged.

Intel's Business Outlook is posted on intc.com and may be reiterated in public or private meetings with investors and others. The Business Outlook will be effective through the close of business Sept. 14 unless earlier updated; except that the Business Outlook for amortization of acquisition-related intangibles, impact of equity investments and interest and other, and tax rate, will be effective only through the close of business on July 24. Intel's Quiet Period will start from the close of business on Sept. 14 until publication of the company's third-quarter earnings release, scheduled for Oct. 16. During the Quiet Period, all of the Business Outlook and other forward-looking statements disclosed in the company's news releases and filings with the SEC should be considered as historical, speaking as of prior to the Quiet Period only and not subject to an update by the company.

The publisher confirmed this morning those early rumblings of a Battlefield 4 beta tied to pre-orders of Medal of Honor Warfighter Limited Edition.

All players who pre -order that game, due out on Oct. 23, will receive exclusive access to the fall 2013 Battlefield 4 beta, according to the press release.

We review the Corsair GS800 power supply. The power supply is on the market for a while now already and it one of the more popular models. It offers Bronze efficiency, a single 12V rail and comes with a fan that doesn't activate until you use 20% of PSU load. That fan BTW can be lit with three led colors. The PSU itself is non-modular, not a biggy for most, but most of you with a side panel window in their chassis really want modular cables. Being 800W and with all the aforementioned features the PSU is priced in the 90 EUR range here in the Netherlands, and that's not a bad price as you are about to find out.

Personally I fail to see why you would need 6GB of graphics memory being tied to one GPU, the regular 3GB already should be aby far sufficient enough. That didn't stop Sapphire to release a 7970 6GB TOXIC.

The card boasts 6GB of the latest GDDR5 memory, a powerful 10-phase power supply known as the Lethal Power.

By default, the HD 7970 6GB TOXIC Edition runs at 1050 MHz and with PowerTune Dynamic Boosts rises to 1100 MHz on the engine with the memory clock at 6000 MHz effective. By pressing the new SAPPHIRE exclusive Lethal Boost Button, the beast is unleashed, boosting the core clock speed to 1100 MHz with PowerTune Dynamic Boost to an industry first of 1200 MHz on the engine while the memory is further overclocked to 6400 MHz effective.

ViewSonic is offering you their newest eco-friendly LCD monitor, the VX2703mh-LED. This new 27-inch LED-backlight monitor is an energy efficient display, reducing power consumption by almost 40% when compared to a regular 27-inch LCD monitor.

In terms of performance, the VX2703mh-LED delivers 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 10,000,000:1 MEGA Dynamic contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness and 3ms response time, and features D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI connectors. The VX2703mh-LED retails for $299. [ViewSonic]

Point of View the leading European manufacturer of an exclusive range NVIDIA based 3D processor boards, advanced netbooks as well as fancy 7

Looks like the guys that hacked the NVIDIA forums posted a dump of the database on pastebin. You can read that here. Not only the forums are compromized, shop.nvidia.com apparantly as well.

The group behind the hack is Apollo project:

But let's put this in perspective, this is only a forum hack. I am actually suprised nVidia decided to even disclose that they'd been hacked quite a few weeks ago.

It did take them a while though. We aren't acting extremely maliciously, we've used this database to target disgusting corporations who deserve to be brought to justice.. and we are getting there, slowly but surely.

I know one day it will all change, but for change to happen.. You have to make the change. I was always raised to believe that the only person anyone can change is themselves, but I think that's absolute bullshit, and you should to. I guess you should consider this a call to arms. We are riding as one now. I don't have any other name, I don't want one, and neither should you. I don't have all the answers, but if you take one thing from me.. Wake the fuck up and start looking at things.

Oh, and nVidia forgot to tell you that shop.nvidia.com has also been compromised. nVidia minimizing the affect that the hack will have on its stock price? SHORT SELL, SHORT SELL.

Intel's latest roadmaps show that the next-gen Valleyview Atom SoC and the corresponding BayTrail platform are delayed until the end of 2013, and won't see widespread availability in products until 2014.

On paper, the whole platform looks promising. We have Bay Trail-T and Valleyview-T for mobile phones (until then, you're stuck with Oak Trail-based Atom Z6xx processors) which will support LPDDR3 memory from Day 1. Valleyview-T will be available in quad-core format as well, which means that by Q4 2013 both Qualcomm and TI need to have their processors candy-dandy, given the lead from HiSilicon, NVIDIA and Samsung.

The only problem is that taking a look at competitor's roadmaps, they seem to be more than ready for continuously-delayed "Intel chips that will change the world". Ultimately, Intel plans to utilize its 22nm fabs to the full extent, with the future migration to 14nm, but the mobile platform is looking to lag one process node behind the traditional desktop/notebook/server processors. The official line is that the company still prepares 22nm mobile node, but that node slipped deep into the 2013 and as we all know, you can buy 22nm processors from Intel

Prolimatech has introduced a blue edition of its Megahalems Rev. B CPU cooler. The cooler has the same specifications as the original model, but will likely cost a little bit more than the original's $70 price tag. 

As another site mentioned it is alomost the same color as Gigabyte uses on its motherboards. Most of the cooler's 88 stainless steel fins are blue, with the top fins on each of the two stacks retaining a chrome finish. The six 6 mm-thick heat pipes passing through them are made of nickel-plated copper, while most metal parts of the retention modules are colored black.

We wrote about this before, but it seems to be a bit more substanciated right now. As it seems NVIDIA plans to introduce its GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card in the third week of August, which is between August 13th and 19th.

This new card is expected to cost $229, it reportedly has 1152 or 1344 CUDA cores, 192-bit memory bus and 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory. The PCB will be pretty short and the card will require just a single 6-pin power connector. 

Changes in version 0.6.3:

• Added support for NVIDIA GT 620, GT 630, GT 640, GTX 660, Tesla M2090, Quadro 1100M, Quadro 5000M, NVS 5400M, G610M, GT 620M, GT 630M, GT640M LE, GT 660M
• Added support for AMD Trinity, HD 7570, HD 7670, HD 6610M, HD 7550M, HD 7850M, HD 7520G, HD 7640G
• Added warning when OpenCL detection crashed (usually caused by buggy Intel Ivy Bridge GPU drivers)
• Fixed OpenCL detection for Intel, AMD Cape Verde
• Improved NVIDIA Kepler boost clock detection
• Shader clock readout will now be "N/A" when not available
• Bus interface for Fusion and Intel SB/IB will now be "N/A"
• Fixed crash on ATI related to BIOS reading
• Added GPU Power consumption monitoring for Sandy Bridge & Ivy Bridge
• Added voltage monitoring for HD 7700 Series
• Fixed crashes on Windows 8
• Installer will not be launched when GPU-Z is started using -dump
• Added Icon and Publisher name to Installer
• Sensor log checkbox will uncheck properly

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