A Dual-GPU monster, in Crossfire and on three screens with Eyefinity. We test and review the ASUS ARES II as single card and in Crossfire today. The ARES 2 is a dual-GPU Radeon HD 7970 graphics card. Fully customized with 3rd party Liquid cooling. We test the product one one and three monitors in Eyefinity with the hottest games like Battlefield 3, Sleeping Dogs, Far Cry 3, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Hitman Absolution and many more. Meet da beast !

You can read the entire Guru3D review right here.

We test and review the ASUS ARES II as single card and in Crossfire today. The ARES 2 is a dual-GPU Radeon HD 7970 graphics card. Fully customized with 3rd party Liquid cooling. We test the product one one and three monitors in Eyefinity with the hottest games like Battlefield 3, Sleeping Dogs, Far Cry 3, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Hitman Absolution and many more. This product is based on two Tahiti XT2 GPUs, meaning that it’s clocked higher than one GHz with the ability to Boost the core clock frequency. ASUS unleashed a beast !

Download the GeForce 313.95 Beta Drive driver. This is the recommended GeForce driver for the Crysis 3 Multiplayer Open Beta. It delivers a smoother gaming experience, and boosts SLI performance by up to 65%. EA’s recommended GeForce GPU for Crysis 3 is a GeForce GTX 560 or higher. For the Hi-Performance PC Specification, EA recommends GeForce GTX 680.

We review the PC Power and Cooling MK III Silencer 750 Watt review from OCZ technology. The Silencer Mk III series are all about being quiet, being awesome and very efficient and again, the PSU as tested today carries a Gold certification. The PSU also improved on the audibility front as it comes with a switch, enabled it and up-to 350 Watt the fan will remain disabled and at that load your PSU merely lukewarm. The 750 PSU is lovely in performance, the one massive 62A 12-volts rails says it all really. Excellent for multi-GPU solutions and hardcore overclockers. The PSU is engineered with merely premium components, including Japanese 105°C capacitors and heavy-duty protection circuitry's.

Read the full review right here.

We review the PC Power and Cooling MK III Silencer 750 Watt review from OCZ technology. The Silencer Mk III series are all about being quiet, being awesome and very efficient and again, the PSU as tested today carries a Gold certification. The PSU also improved on the audibility front as it comes with a switch, enabled it and up-to 350 Watt the fan will remain disabled and at that load your PSU merely lukewarm. The 750 PSU is lovely in performance, the one massive 62A 12-volts rails says it all really. Excellent for multi-GPU solutions and hardcore overclockers. The PSU is engineered with merely premium components, including Japanese 105°C capacitors and heavy-duty protection circuitry's.

This is the newest member to Logitec’s wireless LAN router line-up, the LAN-W451NGR. The device offers a wireless connection speed of up to 450Mbps, has four Gigabit-enabled wired LAN ports and provides security through encryption using WPA2-PSK (AES), WPA-PSK (TKIP) and WEP (128/64bit). 

Spotted a couple of times before, but is is now listed in Asian stores, the new mid-tower PC case from Zalman tagged as the MS800 Plus. This steel case supports for both micro-ATX and ATX motherboards, and features a top-placed I/O panel with 2x USB 3.0 ports, 2x USB 2.0 ports, 2x audio ports and a fan controller, six 5.25-inch external drive bays, three 3.5-inch internal drive bays, seven expansion slots, an acrylic side panel window and has two 120mm fans (1x back, 1x top). 

The more performance oriented mSATA SSDs, the SSD 525 series, started selling in Japan under OEM packaging, although freely available in ground stores (much like bare hard drives). The units are based on a LSI-SandForce SF-2281 processor and Intel's own 25 nm MLC NAND flash chips.

Tranquil PC launches a stylish passive case for both version of the NUC (Thunderbolt D33217CK and Gigabit Ethernet D33217GKE). This 110 x 164 x 47 mm chassis is made of aerospace grade aluminium, and acts as a giant heatsink. The most awesome is without a doubt its efficiency : 5 to 15 °C cooler than the fan cooled NUC. 

VGLeaks claims to have leaked the first 'real' and full next-gen Xbox specifications and details of the system overview with the general components and some technical details about them.  The processor has x64 architecture and eight cores running at 1.6 GHz. Each of those CPU threads has its own 32 kB L1 instruction cache and 32 kB L1 data cache. Each module of the four CPU cores has its own 2 MB L2 cache giving the processor a total of 4 MB of L2 cache. VGLeaks also reports that each core has one fully independent hardware thread and doesn't share execution resources. 

Belkin announced its intention to buy Cisco's Home Networking Unit, which includes the Linksys brand. Rumors about a sale of Cisco's Linksys division hit the web in December, the company reportedly wants to exit the consumer business to expand its corporate software and technology services. At this point it's unknown how much Belkin will pay for Linksys, but it's likely to be less than the $500 million Cisco paid for it in 2003. Once the transaction is closed, Belkin will have roughly 30 percent of the US retail home and small business networking market.

Over at Xbitlabs they compiled this great little plotted chart showing how incredibly slow average selling prices of HDDS are dropping back to the “pre-flood” levels, but today’s ASP are on the pre-economic crisis levels. average selling pBased on the recent financial results of Seagate Technologies and Western Digital Corp., average selling price of a hard disk drive in Q3 – Q4 of calendar 2012 (Q1 – Q2 of fiscal 2013) decreased to $62 - $63 per unit, which is considerably higher than $45 - $55 ahead of the flood in Thailand in 2010. 

NZXT recently unleashed the Kraken X60 liquid cooler, we test and review it. The Kraken X60 is a 280mm radiator based LCS unit that offers pretty solid performance numbers as you are about to find out. Combined with a cooling infrastructure provided by Asetek this all-in-one and easy to install kit can even be connected towards your PC through USB, where you can monitor and regulate the LCS unit and apply presets to make the LCS unit either silent, or high performance.

Read the full Guru3D review right here.

NZXT recently unleashed the Kraken X60 liquid cooler, we test and review it. The Kraken X60 is a 280mm radiator based LCS unit that offers pretty solid performance numbers as you are about to find out. Combined with a cooling infrastructure provided by Asetek this all-in-one and easy to install kit can even be connected towards your PC through USB, where you can monitor and regulate the LCS unit and apply presets to make the LCS unit either silent, or high performance.

Deepcool has launched the GAMMAXX S40 which is a budget cooler that will become available in February for only 25 EUR ($30). The HSF features four 6mm direct-touch heatpipes, a nickel-plated aluminium fin array and a 120mm PWM fan that spins between 900 to 1600RPM with an airflow of up to 55.5CFM and a noise level of up to 21dBA.

VIA released their ARMTiGo A800 which is a small form factor ARM-based system for embedded computing. The device has a fanless, dustproof design and features a 800MHz Freescale ARM Cortex-A8 SoC, 1GB DDR3-800, support for one 2.5" storage device, support for up to Full HD resolutions, HDMI, VGA, four USB 2.0 ports, and Ethernet, audio-in/out/mic-in. The ARMTiGo A800 measures just 120mm x 125mm x 30mm and has an average power consumption of 3.14W.

Researchers IHS iSuppli released word that sales of solid state disks will hit 83 million units this year, more than double as much as last year's 39 million units. The company also predicts that sales are on track to reach 239 million units in 2016, amounting to about 40 percent of the global HDD market. A new generation of lower-cost and more appealing ultrabooks are expected to help cause global shipments of solid-state drives (SSDs) to more than double in 2013, according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Space Market Brief from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).

HP released a new desktop PC, the ENVY Phoenix h9-1490jp. Specs-wise, the system is equipped with a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-3770K processor, an Intel Z75 Express Chipset, a 16GB DDR3 RAM, a 1TB hard drive + 16GB SSD, a BD drive, WiFi and runs on Windows 8 Pro. 

SEGA has released a new trailer for Gearbox's upcoming Aliens game, Aliens: Colonial Marines. This trailer focuses on the game's story and showcases how badass marines can actually be. The game is planned for a February 12th release on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. 

If you're not quite satisfied with Asimo and you can't wait until Roboy becomes a reality, maybe you need to make your own robot. This is a test using capture gestures + voice commands in Myrobotlab.