AMD upto this very moment has been the undisputed winner in terms of miners looking to stock up on new forms of digital currency like Dogecoin and Litecoin. AMD’s Radeon graphics cards possess a secret sauce that allows significantly more powerful compute capabilities, at least the kind required for Scrypt-based mining. That is, until Nvidia released their new Maxwell architecture this week, the watt per hash rate is pretty crazy.

ASUS halts their dual Android Windows 8 Tablet after pressure from Google. This regards the Transformer Book Duet TD300, due to resistance from Google, according to a Chinese-language Economic. Asustek originally planned to start marketing the TD300 in Asia and Europe in the first quarter of 2014, and in the US in the second quarter, the paper said.

British manufacturer Parvum have released their new S2.0 version of the already very successful Parvum case. With new features and improvements, Parvum are releasing another unique looking case. Parvum pride themselves when sourcing materials to ensure they use high-quality European sourced recycled acrylic and minimal waste upon production.

Cougar let loose the latest power supply unit, an update to the GX series, titled the GX V3. These new high-end series of power supplies specifically target demanding gamers and the rugged black coating in combination with the gold vent grill add to the overall robust and aggressive appearance of a computer and at a size of 160mm down from 180mm in length the GX V3 will significantly reduce the space taken up in the system. In fact, for almost all 1000 plus watt models on the market, the GX V3 will be the smallest of compact 1050W products, a major technological breakthrough.

NZXT is pleased to announce the release of the FN V2 series case fans. Today's high-performance PCs require high-performance cooling, but as fan airflow increases, noise is a growing concern. NZXT's new FN V2 fans were redesigned from the ground up to offer better acoustics and even better performance than old-fashioned case fans.

G.SKILL is proud to announce that its Ripjaws SO-DIMM1.35V high performance DDR3 memory series for laptops & small form factor PCs reached a whopping 2600MHz on ASRock’s latest barebone system “M8”. Not bad for laptop memory alright.

ASUS has today announced the launch of two new entry level motherboards - the H81M-K and B85M-K motherboards. Both the motherboards use the LGA 1150 socket for 4th Gen Intel Core processors support; and are based on Intel H81 and Intel B85 chipset respectively. 

We review the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti WindForce located under SKU code GV-N75TOC-2GI. Gigabyte designed their own PCB, tweaked the card a hint and applied a WindForce model cooler on the product. The WindForce cooler works as the temperatures stay at 45 Degrees C under full gaming load. Not bad.

Read the full review right here

Feenix, the premiere boutique peripheral firm for luxury gaming instruments, is excited to debut the Aria; a sleek headset that introduces gamers to audiophile level sound quality. Gamers can now experience their favorite titles the way sound engineers intended; in mesmerizing detail.

Today, LaCie announced the availability of 5 TB, 7200 rpm hard-drive capacities in its 5big Thunderbolt Series, 2big Thunderbolt Series and d2 Thunderbolt Series. Delivering external storage products that range from 5 TB single drive systems to 25 TB RAID solutions boosts storage capacity by 20 percent. This increase showcases the company's commitment to provide the fastest, highest capacity storage solutions on the market. 

The Lugen series are solid ATX chassis with contemporary looks. The Lugen 1603 tower structure is all about style and functionality. The sleek light brushed front panel is minimal and timeless. The internal structure enables flexible and neat assembly. Sufficient cooling through the multiple fan space positions in the front, side and back of the chassis (not pre-installed). 

Today we have two new members of the mainstream Club 3D Radeon R7 family to show you. The new Radeon R7 250 Low Profile and R7 250X. Until now the cards in the R7 series use the Standard Profile. But traditionally there is a strong demand for a capable card in Low Profile form factor, to be used mainly in a powerful HTPC system or a variety of custom applications. For these purposes Club 3D now adds the new Radeon R7 250 Low Profile to the range.

VIA Technologies is rumored to have started shifting its x86 CPU technologies and related personnel to its newly formed IC design joint venture with a China government-owned investment firm, according to market watchers, adding that VIA recently notified clients that it will stop supplying x86 processors temporarily.

MSI debuts its first AMD FM2+ socket based Mini-ITX motherboard, the MSI A88XI AC. The MSI A88XI AC supports the new AMD Kaveri APU and is FM2 backwards compatible (Richland and Trinity). Equipped with a rich feature set including Intel Dual Band Wireless AC WiFi/Bluetooth and PCIe Gen 3.0 support, the MSI AX88XI AC is the ideal small form factor multimedia, office or gaming solution without compromising on features.

In this review we take the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti WindForce for a spin. The card is obviously based on NVIDIAs Maxwell based GTX 750 Ti GPU. Gigabyte designed their own PCB, tweaked the card a hint and applied a WindForce model cooler on the product. The WindForce cooler works as the temperatures stay at 45 Degrees C under full gaming load. Not bad.

Antec present numerous innovations in the course of this year's CeBIT exhibition in Hanover, Germany. From 10th to 14th March 2014, Antec' new products will be showcased at booth D21 in Hall 15 at the joint stand with Pilot Computer. Among the novelties are the latest models from the Performance One and Gaming series of Chassis, the innovative, in-house designed Antec CPU-H2O coolers, the new High Current Pro power supplies and the brand new EDGE PSU range.

Netgear adds two new cable modem routers to its growing family of cable products: the N600 Dual-Band WiFi Cable Modem Router (C3700) and the N300 WiFi Cable Modem Router (C3000). These two-in-one devices integrate a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem for faster Internet access and an N300/N600 high-speed 802.11n WiFi router together in one space-saving device. 

Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers' market share for 2013 4Q. The quarter was the second quarter in a row to show a gain in shipments, up 1.6% quarter-to-quarter, and up 2% compared to the same quarter last year.

The exploit was first discovered and published by the FireEye security firm, which added that it was used by the mystery hackers to compromise the website of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Microsoft has now released a quick "Fix It" patch that will close the exploit in both IE9 and IE10. 

Say goodbye to your free WhatsApp APP. Facebook will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, as the world's largest social network looks for ways to boost its popularity, especially among a younger crowd.

iiyama adds the new XU series to its range. The three XU monitors distinguish themselves with the latest IPS panel and a stylish Ultra Slim Bezel design. The launch covers the following monitors: the 21.5 inch ProLite XU2290HS, 23 inch ProLite XU2390HS and the 27 inch ProLite XUB2790HS.

We review the fastest card available, the Palit GeForce GTX 750 Ti StormX Dual. Palit's offering is the fastest GTX 750 Ti we have seen to date as it has been factory overclocked intensely on the GPU core frequency and memory. Being a Palit product you can expect multiple SKUs of the 750 series, and this is a new one. It is the StormX Dual edition based on a customized PCB and new model cooler cooler that will keep the product nicely chilled down.

Read the review here.

AMD today announced the AMD Rewards program powered by Raptr, giving AMD Radeon graphics and AMD APU-based PC gamers the chance to redeem points earned within the AMD Gaming Evolved application for prizes.

Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of the "HG6 series" of client SSDs integrating NAND chips fabricated with 19 nm second-generation process technology. Shipping will start from March.

More than 2600 North American developers have been surveyed in preparation for the upcoming Game Developers Conference in March. The survey polled which platforms developers are planning on making games for, and how they plan on seeking funding. Perhaps unsurprisingly, PS4 is the most popular console platform for developers, with 20% intending to make games for Sony's new console. To compare, only 17% and 4% of those surveyed said they will work on Xbox One and Wii U respectively.

Intel Corporation today introduced the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 series processors. Using analytics enables businesses to make decisions that improve top-line and bottom-line results. The Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family delivers new capabilities to process and analyze large, diverse amounts of data to unlock information that was previously inaccessible.

Here's a little test sequence on cloth simulation, rendered in real-time via Unreal Engine 4. 

EVGA is releasing five GeForce GTX TITAN Black graphics card models from reference cooled towards HydroCopper cooling aka liquid cooling. The series starts at a whopping $999 GTX TITAN Black base model, which sticks to NVIDIA reference clock speeds of 889/980/7000 MHz (core/boost/memory). 

Galaxy Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of the world's highest performing graphics cards, announced today the Galaxy GeForce GTX 750 GC 1GB and GTX 750 Ti GC 2GB-the 1st graphics cards built with the latest cutting-edge Maxwell GPU architecture. The GTX 750 GC is armed with an impressive 512 CUDA cores and 1GB of GDDR5 at 5 GHz, while the GTX 750 Ti GC is fully loaded for even more intense hi-res gaming with 640 cores and 2GB of 5.4 GHz GDDR5 ram. Both cards are factory overclocked more than 100 MHz beyond stock speeds and feature the new whisper silent Phantom dual fan cooler on an extended PCB of Galaxy's own custom in-house design.

Gigabyte as well is pleased to introduce the mid-range gaming grade graphics cards, GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Overclock Edition (GV-N75TOC-2GI) and GeForce GTX 750 1GB Overclock Edition (GV-N750OC-1GI). GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 700 series utilizes the latest 28nm fabrication process and extends NVIDIA Maxwell - powered family of graphics cards to new levels of affordability while retaining class-leading performance and power efficiency. 

Samsung will be shipping the Galaxy S5 with a fingerprint sensor embedded in the device's home button similar to the one on Apple's iPhone 5s. In order to use the sensor, a user will have to swipe from the top of the home button to the bottom.