Noctua announced three new 92mm class CPU coolers. Whereas the NH-U9S and NH-D9L are retail models that suceed the popular NH-U9B SE2, the NH-D9DX i4 3U targets Intel Xeon LGA2011 based workstations and servers. All three models use the recently announced NF-A9 PWM 92mm premium fan to achieve class-leading quiet cooling performance.

Landing on the moon was historic, but landing a satellite on a comet, that's pretty special and a new milestone as well. The Rosetta Satellite launched back in 2004 from ESA (European Space Agency) is on its way to becoming the first spacecraft to touch down on a comet (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko). ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 6 August after a ten-year journey through the Solar System.

The mud fight has started. Two months ago Nvidia filed lawsuits against Samsung and Qualcomm alleging that they’ve used Nvidias patented GPU technology without proper compensation to them. Samsung now filed a lawsuit against Nvidia. Included in the filing is a false advertising claim against NVIDIA. It alleges that their statement that the SHIELD tablet, with its Tegra K1 processor, has “the world’s fastest mobile processor” Samsung deems that to be false and misleading and finds that enough ground to sue Nvidia.

A patch for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has started to roll out today for the PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Xbox platforms. The patch fixes a good number of issues present with the game. 

EK Water Blocks, Ljubljana based premium computer liquid cooling gear manufacturer, is proud to introduce a new Full-Cover water block for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 series graphics cards, powered by the GM204-200 Maxwell generation GPU.

SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., a global leader in specialty memory solutions, today announced its M.2 SATA XR+ product family equipped with SafeDATA power loss protection technology. These new NAND Flash memory based solid-state drives (SSDs) are SATA-III compliant and are optimized specifically for high-reliability in networking, telecom and industrial applications.

You can download the Nvidia Maxwell Apollo 11 Technology Demo. A GeForce GTX 970 or 980 (Maxwell GPU) is required to run this demo though. 

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Here you can download the Nvidia Maxwell Apollo 11 Technology Demo. A GeForce GTX 970 or 980 (Maxwell GPU) is required to run this demo though.

ASUS today announced TUF Sabertooth Z97 Mark S, a Z97 ATX motherboard with a strikingly-white, irresistibly-tough arctic-camouflage design and a limited-edition production run.

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Poseidon GTX 980 with DirectCU H2O, a new graphics card with an exclusive hybrid thermal solution that enables extremely efficient cooling by either air or water.

Cooler Master now releases the product in the EU, we are talkiing about the NovaTouch TKL, a hybrid capacitive keyboard designed for high speed, extreme accuracy, and total comfort in the ultimate typing experience. 

Zauba is an import and export shipment manifest tracking system, in the past we already have seen numerous specs leaked as the shipping manifest lists some intersting stuff. Below the break you will see a screenshot of a manifest showing a GTX 960 being shipped at the 19th of September.

We review the new Corsair Gaming H1500 Dolby 7.1 headset. Armed with that boom-stick, good looks a comfortable feel and pretty great audio quality this product is bound to impress. It has big 50mm neodymium drivers and newly revised USB drivers that include Dolby 7.1 surround sound. All that and a new and a new color theme as well, Corsair Gaming is back baby.

Check out the review here.

With the launch of the professional Corsair Gaming line, the H1500 is headset has been revamped and reintroduced onto the market. Armed with good looks a comfortable feel and pretty great audio quality this product is bound to impress. it has big 50mm neodymium drivers and newly revised USB drivers that include Dolby 7.1 surround sound, it is capable of offering 16-bit/48 KHz playback and has an excellent frequency response of 20Hz to 20kHz. In stereo you can apply Dolby Pro Logic IIx certification and in 5.1 and 7.1 you get to fool around with Dolby 7.1 surround. All that and a new and a new color theme as well, Corsair Gaming is back baby.

Interesting news, over at the ranking system of SiSoft Sandra new entries have been spotted of what seem to be GPUs that we don't know of. And the specs are pretty appealing. Let's call the two entries the Radeon R9 390 and 390X for now (complete speculation of course). But the 390X entry would be a GPU with 4096 Shader Processors running / 64  Compute Units at 1GHz with 4GB of graphics memory running at 1.25GHz (= 5Gbps).

Will this ever reach retail ? I don't know. But it has a valid SKU code, N980X3WA-4GD. At computex Gigabyte already was showing this a bit but it seems that they are releasing a GeForce GTX 980 WaterForce. The kit would consist out of three GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards that come with pre-fitted liquid cooling connected to a radiator and reservoir box. 

Download AMD Catalyst 14.11.1 BETA driver. The latest version of the AMD Catalyst Software Suite, AMD Catalyst 14.11.1 supports Windows 8.1 (64-bit version), Windows 7 (64-bit version with SP1 or higher). We have a discussion thread open on this driver right here.

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Download AMD Catalyst 14.11.1 BETA driver. This beta driver works with Windows 7 and 8.1.

The new GeForce Game Ready Assassin's Creed Unity 344.65 WHQL drivers are now available to download. With performance enhancements and a SLI profile, the new GeForce Game Ready Assassin's Creed Unity drivers are a recommended update for players of the highly anticipated third-person action adventure game.

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Download the Nvidia GeForce 344.65 WHQL driver as released by NVIDIA. 

Last week we held a contest in which we would give away a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 Gaming graphics cards. It is now time to announce the winner, see after the break.

Last week the news hit the web that the main company behind Zalman, Moneual, is caught in a massive fraud and that Zalman filed Bankruptcy. Right now the company claims otherwise. Zalman USA denied the rumors.

Alright, it should be no surprise as to what title is topping the charts this week. And you know what, I dare say it, COD AW is a darn nice title, good gameplay and nice graphics ! Here's Valve's report on the top 10 bestselling titles on Steam for the past week:

1.Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
2.Football Manager 2015
3.The Binding of Isaac Rebirth
4.Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Digital Pro Edition
5.Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
6.Farming Simulator 15
7.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
8.Wolfenstein: The New Order
9.Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
10.Banished

Good news for Synology NAS users, Synology releases DiskStation Manager (DSM) 5.1, the latest version of its NAS operating system. After 6 weeks of intense beta testing, the beta was a resounding success, thanks to the valuable feedback from individual users.

EK Water Blocks, Ljubljana based premium computer liquid cooling gear manufacturer, is proud to introduce a new Full-Cover water block for reference design AMD Radeon R9 285 series graphics cards, powered by Tonga Pro GPU.