On the eve of its planned release date NVIDIA has just announced that it will delay the shipment of its SHIELD Android game console to “July” (from June 27) as it has found a mechanical issue. The SHIELD console will be delayed into July. “We’re grateful for all the enthusiasm that’s been expressed for SHIELD, our new portable gaming device,” NVIDIA writes on their blog. “And we’re eager to get it into your hands. But we won’t do that until it’s fully up to the exacting standards that NVIDIA’s known for.

Download MSI Gaming App - The Gaming App exclusively from MSI is especially designed with the mass gaming market in mind. 

Mozilla has published Firefox 22, you can download it over here or wait for the automatic update if you already have Firefox. New in this release is asm.js, a feature that compiles JavaScript to assembly code to significantly speed up JavaScript performance. Especially 3D games like the Epic Citadel demo should benefit greatly from this. Other than that, Firefox 22 also enables WebRTC support by default (for video calls) and introduces a social services manager in the Add-ons menu.

Download the GeForce 325.71 Beta driver. This GeForce driver found its way through windows update. This driver is for Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista x86/x64.

Well, kinda. Razer today announced the latest member of its software family: Razer Surround. Razer Surround is a state-of-the-art audio engine that provides 7.1 virtual surround sound with any stereo headphones. The current generation of virtual surround technology often provides inaccurate listening experiences because individuals perceive sound differently based on their distinct ear sizes and shapes. As such, virtual surround sound traditionally falls short compared to discrete surround sound setups.

Coolaler forum member Toppc got his hands on an engineering sample of Intel's Core i7-4960X and decided to check out what's behind the heatspreader of this upcoming Ivy Bridge-E chip. Interestingly, it seems Intel has switched back to using solder, instead of the cheaper thermal paste that was introduced with the regular Ivy Bridge series. This thermal paste was blamed for higher temperatures on Ivy Bridge versus Sandy Bridge, so hopefully the solder will result in chips that dissipate their heat more efficiently.

We have a  review of the MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming edition, we test this particular model with the dual-slot two fan TwiNFrozr IV cooling solution. That boils down to a VERY silent product versus and more than excellent cooling performance. MSI offers the card factory slightly overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 259 USD Gaming edition model will be worth it for you.

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More GTX 760 reviews, hell yeah. For this article we test the Inno3D GeForce GTX 760 iChill edition, this particular model comes with a three-slot HerleZ cooing solution. That boils down to a silent product versus and more than excellent cooling performance. Inno3D offers the card factory slightly overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 259 USD Gaming edition model will be worth it for you.

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In this article we review the Inno3D GeForce GTX 760 iChill Herculez 3000 edition, this particular model comes with a three-slot HerculeZ cooing solution. That boils down to a silent product versus and more than excellent cooling performance. Inno3D offers the card factory slightly overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 259 USD Gaming edition model will be worth it for you.

In this article we review the MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming edition, this particular model comes with a dual-slot two fan TwiNFrozr IV cooling solution. That boils down to a VERY silent product versus and more than excellent cooling performance. MSI offers the card factory slightly overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 259 USD Gaming edition model will be worth it for you.

We have already been given a lot of chances to see how the world looks through the Google Glass. And now, Dr. Rafael Grossmann of the Eastern Maine Medical Center has shown how the high tech wearable computer could be very useful in healthcare by performing a Google Glass-equipped surgery. Grossmann says, "By performing and documenting this event, I wanted to show that this device and its platform, are certainly intuitive tools that have a great potential in Healthcare, and specifically for surgery, could allow better intra-operative consultations, surgical mentoring and potentiate remote medical education, in a very simple way". Grossmann did a gastrostomy, which is placing a feeding tube endoscopically, while live-streaming through his Glass and the images were displayed on an iPad as you will see in the video below. He had set up a Hangout, and the use of the Glass was with the patient's complete consent. Grossmann made sure that he wasn't recording or sending any identifying info of the patient. 

Nvidia today releases their GeForce GTX 760, this is the reference review. The GeForce GTX 760 is to be considered a mainstream to high-end product, yet comes at a competitive price with the very same chip used in the GeForce GTX 670 and GTX 680. The Base clock speed of the GeForce GTX 760 is 980MHz, while the Boost clock speed is 1033MHz. For today we have five articles based on this product. And each day this week until Friday we'll post another review per day.

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In this article we take a closer look at the GeForce GTX 760 in 2-way SLI with the hottest PC games on the globe. Next to our default FPS benchmarks we do FCAT Frametime measurements as well. The boards used are reference from NVIDIA. We'll have a peek at temperatures and power consumption of the GeForce GTX 760 cards in 2-way SLI mode to monitor its generated performance.

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But wait, there's more as in this article we test and review the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760, the product is the all new mid-ranger that offers quite a bit of power in terms of performance versus product positioning. We test the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 which comes with a three fan WindForce 3X cooling solution. That, as always, means a very silent product versus fantastic cooling performance.

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For the 4th article we take a look at the Palit GeForce GTX 760 JetStream, this particular model comes with a dual-slot two fan JetStream cooling solution. That as always means a more silent product versus and fantastic cooling performance. Palit offer the card factory overclock to you and has revised the JetStream cooler a bit. Have a peek.

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Last but not least we test and review the EVGA GeForce GTX 760 SC ACX edition, this particular model comes with a dual-slot two fan ACX cooling solution. That boils down to a more silent product versus and great cooling performance. EVA offers the card factory overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 269 USD ACX model will be worth it for you.

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The last few press-releases have arrived on the GTX 760. Gigabyte is pleased to announce GeForce GTX 760 Overclock Edition Graphics Card (GV-N760OC-2GD). Based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 GPU, with 1,152 CUDA cores, 2 GB high-speed GDDR5 memory and 256-bit memory interface, GIGABYTE GV-N760OC-2GD guarantees gamers a fast, smooth and quiet gaming experience. GV-N760OC-2GD is equipped with exclusive WINDFORCE 3X with patented “Triangle Cool” Technology.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 760 is the new weapon of choice for gamers - a powerful graphics card that gives you the fast, smooth, quiet gaming you're looking for in all your favorite titles. This series will also use EVGA's award winning cooler; the EVGA ACX Cooler. This double ball bearing design redefines traditional enthusiast coolers. Starting with a 40% increase in heatsink volume, the EVGA ACX is more efficient at dissipating heat, allowing for 15% lower GPU temperatures.

KFA2 announced today the launch of three new GeForce® GTX 760 edition graphics cards, the KFA2 GTX 760 as standard and the KFA2 GTX 760 EX OC available in 2GB or 4GB.

ASUS today announced the GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II, GTX 760 DirectCU II OC, and GTX 760 DirectCU Mini graphics cards, based on the latest 28nm NVIDIA GPU technology. They use 1152 CUDA cores, and have 2GB GDDR5 on a 256-bit memory interface. Exclusive DirectCU coolers ensure up to 20% lower temperatures and twice quieter operation compared to a reference GTX 760. The DirectCU Mini design has been created especially for small form factor PCs and other situations where gamers have to consider interior chassis spacing while demanding fully-fledged performance. It uses the CoolTech fan for wider heat dissipation and lower in-case temperatures.

As the leading brand in enthusiastic graphics market, Gainward proudly presents the next member of GTX 700 graphics - GTX 760 series. Gainward GeForce GTX 760 series is powered by the latest generation of breakthrough NVIDIA Kepler. GeForce GTX 760 is the new weapon of choice for gamers-a powerful graphics card that gives you the fast, smooth, quiet gaming you're looking for in all your favorite titles.

Palit Microsystems Ltd, the leading graphics card manufacturer, has unleashed the GeForce GTX 760 graphics card. A powerful graphics card that gives you the fast, smooth, quiet gaming you're looking for in all your favorite titles. It taps into the powerful Kepler architecture to deliver faster, smoother, richer gaming. It's more than state-of-the-art technology and features. It's truly game-changing performance.

Leading international motherboard and graphics card maker MSI has just officially unveiled its latest high-end GTX 760 Gaming graphics cards! Featuring NVIDIA's latest GeForce GTX 760 GPU with 2GB of high-speed GDDR5 and PCI Express Gen 3.

We review the GeForce GTX 760 in 2-way SLI with the hottest PC games on the globe. Next to our default FPS benchmarks we do FCAT Frametime measurements as well. The boards used are reference from NVIDIA. Over the next few pages we'll tell you a bit about multi-GPU gaming, the challenges, the requirements and of course a nice tasty benchmark session with the latest games. We'll have a peek at temperatures and power consumption of the GeForce GTX 760 cards in 2-way SLI mode to monitor its generated performance.

In this article we review the Nvidia reference GeForce GTX 760. The GeForce GTX 760 is to be considered a mainstream to high-end product, yet comes at a competitive price with the very same chip used in the GeForce GTX 670 and GTX 680. The Base clock speed of the GeForce GTX 760 is 980MHz, while the Boost clock speed is 1033MHz. However, NVIDIA board partners will also offer factory overclocked GeForce GTX 760 boards that run at even higher clock speeds.

In this article we review the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760, the product is the all new mid-ranger that offers quite a bit of power in terms of performance versus product positioning. We test the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 which comes with a three fan WindForce 3X cooling solution. That, as always, means a very silent product versus fantastic cooling performance. 

In this article we review the Palit GeForce GTX 760 JetStream, this particular model comes with a dual-slot two fan JetStream cooling solution. That as always means a more silent product versus and fantastic cooling performance. Palit offer the card factory overclock to you and has revised the JetStream cooler a bit. Have a peek.

In this article we review the EVGA GeForce GTX 760 SC ACX edition, this particular model comes with a dual-slot two fan ACX cooling solution. That boils down to a more silent product versus and great cooling performance. EVA offers the card factory overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 269 USD ACX model will be worth it for you.

Here you can Download the GeForce 320.49 BETA Driver as released by NVIDIA. This is a GeForce Game Ready driver for faster performance. This is the GeForce Game Ready driver. We have a discussion thread open on these drivers right here. Release notes are now included, this release adds driver support for the GeForce GTX 760 as well.

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The good old racing wheels are still popular unfer a certain crowd. The new Genius Racing Wheel Speed Wheel 6 MT brings you a whole new racing experience. The large size 11” wheel with an anti-slip finish gives you a nice grip and feel. With dual motors and vibration feedback, you'll experience close to real life racing. The D-pad, manual transmission and two-handed levers give you precision control during serious racing competition.

Users of Windows 8.1 will partly get the old Windows 7 start menu functionality back. Next to that it will also be possible to skip the Metro start up screen during boot. Hot corners will be able to get disabled as well. Microsoft just released Windows Server 2012 R2 which ahs the very same  options already. 

Creative Technology Ltd today introduced the Creative T3150 Wireless 2.1 computer speaker system with Bluetooth wireless technology, now available at Best Buy. This new addition to Creative's comprehensive line up of high performance wireless speakers continues to uphold Creative's long held reputation of merging superior audio performance with great value. Engineered to pump out smooth audio wirelessly, this compact speaker system is designed to deliver outstanding sound quality for PC gamers, music lovers and movie fans alike. It stands out amongst other wireless speakers in the same class, while remaining very competitively priced at US$59.99.

Buffalo is set to release a new dual-band WiFi router, the WHR-600D. The device is equipped with two built-in antennas, one Internet LAN port, four LAN ports and supports for dual-band WiFi access point (11n/g 2.4GHz – 300Mbps and 11n/a 5GHz – 300Mbps). The WHR-600D will begin shipping from late July for 8,925 Yen (about $91).

LSI Corporation today announced it has expanded the LSI Nytro product portfolio of PCIe flash adapters with a new, high-capacity 3.2TB Nytro WarpDrive accelerator card, and expanded capacity, connectivity and software capabilities across the Nytro MegaRAID product family. The new offerings extend the industry's broadest portfolio of PCIe flash adapter products, allowing customers to choose the optimal solution to uniquely address their challenges across a wide range of enterprise applications and datacenter workloads.

Buyers of Apple's new MacBook Air laptops with 802.11ac WiFi report that they are suffering from wireless connectivity issues. Users complain about sudden and unexpected drops in WiFi reception, an issue that occurs on both the 11" and 13" versions of the new MacBook Air.

P presents the Slate21, a somewhat weird combination of an All-in-One desktop PC and a tablet. Unlike a somewhat similar system from ASUS that was shown off earlier this year, the Slate21 exclusively runs Android 4.2.2. The device features NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SoC, it has a 21.5" IPS LCD screen, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, three USB 2.0 ports, and an SD memory card slot. It comes with a kickstand to prop it up like an AiO PC. The HP Slate21 will ship in September, the base price is 379EUR ($399 in the US).

AMD just spread this video as a pun against NVIDIA, we take no credit here. Make of it what you want, and I'll check the comments in the morning :) Sometimes Graphics problems call for graphic solutions. You don't have to get your hands dirty. We know a guy. 

Palit releases the Palit GeForce GTX 780 JetStream series, and the first time to bring “Super JetStream” version to the market. The Super JetStream GTX 780 is a more advanced overclock version, it can tweak the GTX 780 performance to the highest level, according to palit. The factory overclocked Palit GeForce GTX 780 Super JetStream has a core clock of 980 MHz with its 3GB GDDR5 memory clock set at 6200 MHz (+192 MHz higher). 

It's a name you don't hear that often anymore, but Gainward has released a new GeForce GTX 780, it will be released as the Phantom GLH (Goes Like Hell) Edition. And if something goes like hell, it better be fast. The Gainward GTX 780 Phantom "GLH" is a factory over-clocked Phantom version. It is factory over-clocked to 1033 Mhz boost clock (980 Mhz base clock) for those 2304 cores and 3072MB memory is over-clocked to 3100 Mhz (6200 MHz effective).

An interesting move in the storage arena today. WD announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which sTec, an early innovator in enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs), will be acquired by HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Digital. sTec will be acquired for approximately $340 million in cash, which equates to $6.85 per share. This represents approximately $207 million in enterprise value, net of sTec's cash as of March 31, 2013. 

Giada announced the launch of a compact Do-it-yourself barebones-system: The D310. The D310 family is based on the 3rd generation of Intel Core processors. The D310 compact systems are simple Barebones Systems using the Intel Celeron Processor 1037U. The assembly only requires 2 screws; 1 screw to open the chassis and one to fix the hard drive, allowing maximum efficiency in building your dream machine. In addition, support for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) which provides extensive security with high levels of data encryption, allows the use of D310-based systems in various applications in IT departments of large enterprises. The D310 system is also ideal for industrial control applications, smart traffic control systems, security and surveillance systems, commercial terminals and other similar applications which require small size, wide choice of interfaces, simplicity and reliability of use.

iiyama releases the ProLite E2282HS 21.5-Inch Full HD Monitor. This 21.5-inch LED-backlight monitor provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 250 cd/m2 brightness and 5ms response time, and consumes just 21W of power during normal operation. It also has two built-in 1W stereo speakers and features DVI-D, D-Sub and HDMI connectors. The ProLite E2282HS will begin shipping from early August for 19,800 Yen (about $204).

Worldwide devices (the combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to reach 2.35 billion units in 2013, a 5.9 percent increase from 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is being driven by sales in tablets, smartphones, and to a lesser extent, ultramobiles, as PC shipments are on the decline. Worldwide traditional PC (desk-based and notebook) shipments are forecast to total 305 million units in 2013, a 10.6 percent decline from 2012 , while the PC market including ultramobiles is forecast to decline 7.3 percent in 2013 (see Table 1). Tablet shipments are expected to grow 67.9 percent, with shipments reaching 202 million units, while the mobile phone market will grow 4.3 percent, with volume of more than 1.8 billion units. The sharp decline in PC sales recorded in the first quarter was the result in a change in preferences in consumers’ wants and needs, but also an adjustment in the channel to make room for new products hitting the market in the second half of 2013.

Eurocom is currently shipping the fastest Haswell based 4th gen Intel Core i7 powered notebook with dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M graphics. The EUROCOM Scorpius 2.0 is a ultra high performance, VGA upgradeable laptop computer designed to offer the utmost in performance and capability. The Scorpius 2.0 is a fully customizable and upgradeable 17.3” Laptop with the newest and best available components to offer our customers the absolute best in no compromise performance.

Semico Research claims the cost of developing 28nm SoCs is 78 percent higher than the previous node (40nm), and that the cost of designing the software that is necessary to ship with SoCs rose by 102 percent, making it a greater expense than the cost of the IC design itself. The good news however is that Semico predicts that future growth of chip design cost will be lower, the research firm forecasts 20nm will be 48 percent more expensive than 28nm development. After that the 14nm node is expected to increase costs by 31 percent, while the switch to 10nm is estimated to result in 35 percent higher costs.

Intel is switching its entire SSD lineup to 20nm over the coming months as the company announced it will phase out its 25nm SSDs by late December 2013 - mid-January 2014. Intel Corp. this week announced that it would discontinue a number of solid-state drive families based on the company’s multi-level call NAND flash memory produced using 25nm process technology. The last product shipment timeframe of such products is late December 13’ – mid-January ‘14. The company warns that it may not meet demand for previous-gen products. Intel intends to discontinue 313, 320, 520, 525 and 710-series solid-state drives of all capacities. Customers should place last orders on the SSDs in late September – mid-October, 2013. The last product discontinuance shipping dates are December 15, 2013, or January 20, 2014, depending on the model.