MSI apparently is planning a HAWK edition of the GeForce GTX 660 under SKU name N660GTX HAWK. A short while ago some photo's already leaked on this product but now specs have surfaced as well. Expreview claims that the  card will be roughly 15% higher on its core clock speeds compared to the reference products. The PCB will be equipped with an enthusiast grade voltage regulation circuitry and obviously you are going to spot a TwinFrozr IV cooling solution.

Some details, albeit completely unconfirmed, on AMDs upcoming Radeon HD 8800 series have surfaced on the web. The Sea islands HD 8800 series apparently is based on a new silicon codenamed "Oland," which is made using a  28 nm process while packing 3.4 billion transistors all on a 270 mm² die-area. 

EK Water Blocks announces that it's developing a full-cover waterblock Gigabytes GeForce GTX 680 SuperOverclock (GV-N680SO-2GD) graphics cards. The block will start shipping by mid-October, pricing is still unknown. The company's EK-FC680 GTX+ for the regular GeForce GTX 680 starts at 94.94EUR, so pricing of this new model will likely be a little bit higher than that. 

From the looks of it AMD is about to reposition the pricing for their Radeon 7800 and 7900 series graphics cards. Check out what the new prices will be. Most of the prices already show in at the etailers. 

We review the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 SOC. The factory overclocked product has a whopping three slot design and comes packed with five fans blowing air through a huge aluminum fin area that is covered with a metal cover to optimize the overall airflow. An Anti-turbulence cooler features nine 6mm copper heatpipes leading to a massive vapor chamber cooler. Tied to the cooler are industrial quality fans, five of them creating airflow that I know and have seen in servers.

Photos of Gigabyte's new GeForce GTX 670 WindForce 2X have surfaced. The new card features a compact non-reference design, with Gigabyte's Ultra Durable VGA component selection and its WindForce 2X cooler. The card features 4+2 phase VRM power for the GK104 GPU and uses two 6-pin PCIe power connectors. The card ships in two variants, one that sticks to NVIDIA-reference clock speeds, and an OC variant (941 MHz core, 1019 MHz GPU Boost, 6.00 GHz memory). The cooler uses a compound heatsink.

The GeForce GTX 680 SOC (Super OverClock) from Gigabyte has arrived here on the Guru3D testing-grounds. This week a 7970 SOC model already launched, but that SKU only has a volume size of 100 available units. Almost a waste of time to review. The GTX 680 SOC edition however will become in larger quantities, albeit limited as this really is an exclusive high-ed product catered towards a very small segment of enthusiast users only.

Inno3D launched  iChill GTX 680 LCS and iChill GTX 670 LCS, two new graphics cards with Arctic Cooling's Accelero Hybrid liquid cooling solution. The company claims the Accelero Hybrid (at 2000RPM) keeps the GeForce GTX 680 at 44°C, versus 69.9°C with the stock cooler (at 2000RPM), while producing a noise level of just 0.4 Sone, while the stock cooler generates a noise level of 3.7 Sone.

After the GTX 660 is launhced, there will be another card introduced. roughly a month later (as it seems)  the GeForce GTX 650 should arrive September 17th.

The sub-$200 card is based on the 28nm GK107 GPU and would offer 384 shader processor cores alongside a 128-bit memory bus and 1GB GDDR5 memory. And that's as short this news item really is, as we don't have anything else or new to report on the product:)

NVIDIA will release GeForce GTX 660Ti/660 next month with GTX 650 soon to follow and because of that allegedly last generation 5-series models i.e. GTX 560 and GTX 550 will soon be discontinued (End-of-Life) after NVIDIA launches the mid-tier graphics cards in August/September mark. NVIDIA is currently completing last of the orders from partners for GTX 550/560 series and after that their status will change to End-of-Life (EOL).

The source also said the older cards and newer cards might co-exist for some time and we may see the prices of GTX 660/650 to be high initially while we will see price cuts on the older cards. It was also said the GTX 660/650 series will have a total of four models i.e. GTX 660 Ti which will be based on GK 104, GTX 660 and GTX 650 Ti which will be based on GK 106 and lastly GTX 650 which will be based on GK 107.

MSI added a 4GB SKU of their  GeForce GTX 680 Twin Frozr III which can be found as model: N680GTX Twin Frozr 4GD5.

The card has standard 1006/1058 MHz core/GPU Boost and a seprate SKu for the OC model at 1058/1124 MHz core/GPU Boost. The 4 GB of memory comes clocked at a reference 6008 MHz (GDDR5-effective). The new 4 GB models are likely have a 10 to 20% price premium.

Last week the first rumors on the GeForce GTX 660 Ti appeared on the web, and the new graphics card series from NVIDIA is looking really good (if the specs are right). However a Chinese website called redquasar posted some interesting information regarding a 256-bit version of GeForce GTX 660 Ti.

As the rumor stands right now there will be  models of GTX 660 Ti as videocardz.com now reports, here's the skinny on that from them:

One, which specifications were leaked few days ago, has 1344 CUDA cores and 192-bit interface. However, this model cannot beat the Radeon HD 7870, so NVIDIA came up with a new version with 256-bit instead, but also a castrated amount of cores

Last month, SweClockers revealed the launch date to be between August 13 and August 19. Today, they have reported the exact date and its August 16; same day as opening of GamesCom event held in Cologne, Germany which could possibly be the launch pad.

The website also revealed key specifications of the upcoming mainstream card; the GeForce GTX 660. According to the specifications, it isn

While the card was never 'announced' officially for a release in the the first place, the release of this dual-GPU card was expected in late July. Sources now indicate that there will be no AMD consumer product releases in August at all.  

Known under the codename "New Zealand", Radeon HD 7990 represents AMD's highest-end part from the Southern Islands architecture. Consisting out of two Tahiti XT GPUs and 6GB GDDR5 memory (special edition 7990s could reach 12GB), Radeon HD 7990 goes head to head against the GeForce GTX 690.

By default, AMD has the advantage in terms of 50% more video memory (GTX 690 has 4GB), significantly higher memory bandwidth and the new Turbo mode, technology similar to the Turbo mode used on NVIDIA Kepler-based cards with a few major differences.

We'll have to wait and see ..

The 7700 series are great graphics cards to build great light PCs or a HTPC with, HIS just announced the Radeon HD 7750 iCooler low-profile graphics card.

The card is designed to provide mid-range DirectX 11 performance to slim form-factor (SFF) PCs, and HTPCs. The card is designed with a half-height PCB, but its active air cooler spans across two expansion slots in your system. To keep its temperatures in check, HIS opted for the older AMD reference GPU clock speed of 800 MHz. AMD recently updated that to 900 MHz. The memory is clocked at 1125 MHz (4.50 GHz GDDR5-effective).

The cooler uses a monolithic aluminum heatsink which cools the GPU, VRM, and memory chips on the obverse side of the PCB. The heatsink is ventilated by two 40 mm fans. HIS claims that the cooling solution has its noise output under 28 dBA. Display connectors include dual-link DVI, HDMI 1.4a, and D-Sub. HIS includes low-profile brackets with the card.

Club3D presents the Radeon HD 7970 royalAce:
Club 3D takes a giant leap and destroys the competition with the release of the most quiet, cool and brutally fast Club 3D Radeon HD 7970 royalAce graphic card, the latest addition to the PokerSeries family.

Get the best of the best with Club 3D's PokerSeries, the Radeon HD 7970 royalAce offers great performance by breaking the GHz barrier on the GPU, clocking at 1050MHz, making it amazingly fast, up to 7% faster in games when compared to the reference HD 7970 GHz Edition. The Radeon HD 7970 royalAce is a quiet card, achieving 31.5 dB on idle, 38 dB at load, making it the ideal choice for gaming and multimedia. By utilizing a custom cooler design with a dual fan and four high performance heatpipes it ensures the card to remain cool at 71 ⁰C on average when gaming. A Dual BIOS toggle switch offers overclocking potential for the most demanding gamer and overclocking enthusiast.

The Club 3D Radeon HD 7970 royalAce embodies the maturity of the 28nm process, and the scalability of the Graphics Core Next architecture. This card also features an extension to AMD Powertune technology called "Boost", which allows the GPU to dynamically adjust both voltage and clockspeed above the reference clock of 1050MHz+.

In this quick article I wanted to give a quick update on the MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning versus Software Voltage control overclocking.

For a while now lots of people have been eagerly awaiting an update of MSI AfterBurner in which software voltage control is unlocked. With this article I wanted to digg a little deeper and talk you though the challenges and difficulties of opening up this function.

Read the content here.

NVIDIA released the 'A new Dawn' technology demo. We have it available for download.

You can discuss this DX11 technology demo right here.

In A New Dawn, the demo starts not with the main character, but with a sweeping overview of a lush rainforest. Ferns gently sway in the moonlight, vines sprawl across an ancient tree, and budding flowers cast a gentle glow on the surrounding bark. As our character comes into view, we find her swinging on a vine in her new tree home. The tree is rendered to the finest level of detail using DirectX 11 tessellation. At its peak, over four million triangles are used to showcase Dawn's environment.  

Fast forward ten years, and NVIDIA has brought back Dawn once again, in a demo simply titled "A New Dawn". The original Dawn demo had many merits, but due to the limitations of hardware at the time, it also took many short cuts. One of the most obvious was the fact that Dawn didn't really have a home. Fairies, as we all know, live in the depth of mysterious forests, but for Dawn, her home was a giant glowing cube map

Check out the Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. Codenamed GV-R797TO-3GD, the card features a 384-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1100MHz and a 3GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6000MHz. Not to mention, the card is also equipped with the company