A number of photo's appeared on several Intel Z97 based motherboards. See Intel is roughly a montha way from releasing a Haswell refresh processor lineup, and alongsider it will release the H97 and Z97 chipset. In this post you will see a first look at MSI’s upcoming Z97 motherboards prototypes. The photo's that you see below are from HardwareLuxx who attended an MSI briefing and entails the Z97 Gaming 7 and Z97 Gaming 3 that seem to come with an M.2 Interface, Audio Boost and KillerLAN.

It is that time again, here are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:

1.South Park: The Stick of Truth
2.DayZ
3.Banished
4.Dak Souls III
5.Rust
6.Planetary Annihilation Gamma
7.The Walking Dead Season Two
8.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
9.Plague, Inc. Evolved
10.Left 4 Dead 2

South Park is doing well. 

Want to play ‪#BF4‬ in 5400 x 1920? You'll need a rig as burly as Elmy's! 

ASUS today released photo's showing the new and upcoming ROG Matrix series graphics cards that go by the name MATRIX R9-290X (Hawaii  Radeon R9 290X) and the MATRIX GTX780TI (GeForce GTX 780 Ti). These cards will be the most high end version that ASUS will offer, they come with a customized PCB, a phat dual-slot cooler and for the pro-overclockers, LN2 options.

There are some substantial rumors that ASUS will bring an ARES III 8 GB Dual-Chip Hawaii Graphics Card to computex this year. This puppy would get two 290(X) chips working in Crossfire and two 4GB memory partitions. With a TDP of over 250 Watt per GPU we can expect the liquid cooled card to have a board power above 500 Watt with a recommended PSU rating of 800 Watt.

Thermaltake officially releases the new adoption of the Urban with the new Urban T81 -Thermaltake presents an update of its Urban line with the new Urban T81. The T81 is engineered for one solid purpose: To provide enthusiasts with the ability to build the highest performing systems while retaining a simple, elegant, and commanding appearance. It is not merely a PC chassis; it is an exemplar of modernist design.

Palit Microsystemsreleases the power efficienct and Maxwell-based Palit GeForce GTX 750 StormX 2GB and its adding more than just state-of-the-art features on the next-generation NVIDIA Maxwell architecture. Continuing with Palit brand new “StormX” series, Palit designed a 2GB GDDR5 memory on GTX 750, the double memory size compared with the reference 1GB GTX750. 

Razer announced the launch of the world's first mechanical switch designed by Razer specifically for gaming -- the Razer Mechanical Switch. While traditional mechanical switches were originally designed for typing, the all-new Razer Mechanical Switches have been designed and engineered from the ground up for gaming. In order to achieve that, Razer decided to go back to the drawing board to completely re-engineer the traditional mechanical switch.

TRENDnet today announces the availability of the extreme performance AC1900 Dual Band Wireless Router, model TEW-818DRU - which offers unmatched performance, powered by a 1 GHz processor, high power radio amplifiers for extended wireless coverage, and Gigabit Wireless AC networking speeds. The TEW-818DRU is designed to provide the optimum wireless experience in a busy connected home.

Rebellion has just announced that Sniper Elite 3 will be hitting PC on June 27th. The latest chapter in the award-winning series, Sniper Elite 3 takes players to the unforgiving, yet exotic terrain of WW2’s North Africa conflict, in a battle against a deadly new foe.

Plextor will reveal its new M6 Solid State Drive Solution soon. The M6 multi-form factor lineup features Plextor's next-generation and new 2.5" M6S, the new M6M mSATA SSD and the new ultra-fast M6e M.2 PCIe SSD.

It took them a while alright, and yes yes .. they are still around. Leadtek launches GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750, two brand-new GeForce series graphics cards. They are equipped with the first generation NVIDIA Maxwell GPU architecture, and their main appeal is low power consumption. Their capabilities have also been improved, compared to products of the same grade in the previous generation.

SilentiumPC is not afraid of water. That's why they decided to release a unique chassis designed specifically for liquid cooling your PC, the Aquarius X90 Pure Black. Design concept behind this case is simple - to give you extra space and flexibility for installing advanced custom water cooling loop without any modifications. While retaining mid-tower footprint the X90 amazingly spacious interior supports up to three radiators, E-ATX motherboards, 355mm VGA cards and is dual-PSU capable. 

If you can't wait any lonfer, here's a fun tip. If you are willing to make a few tweaks to your registry, you can get Windows 8.1 update 1 right now.  By adding a value to your registry, this will give you access to download and will get you the bits right now, without accessing any third-party.

The MSI A88X-G45 GAMING, one of MSI's new AMD FM2+ based GAMING motherboards, recently broke the CPU Frequency overclocking record for the AMD A10-7850K processor by validating a smashing 6137.91 MHz clock speed. Most impressive, considering the fact that the record was set on an MSI GAMING motherboard instead of a dedicated overclocking model. It goes to show that MSI GAMING motherboards are not only full of GAMING galore, they also inherited plenty of OC DNA from MSI's Overclocking products.

Lots of news from MSI today, they launch the MSI Nightblade gaming barebone PC. Sturdy, stable and solid, the small, 16 liter-sized MSI Nightblade packs the perfect gear for PC gamers that do not wish to compromise on gaming performance. 

Gigabyte announced a LGA2011 motherboard thast has 10 Gbps Ethernet connectors.  Obviously the GA-6PXSVT is intended for the server market, but once it starts there it'll be a matter of time before you see these things migrate to the consumer market.