This week at SIGGRAPH, Nvidia has been giving a sneak peek at the GPU inside Project Logan, their next-generation, CUDA-capable mobile processor. From a graphics perspective they claim this is as big a milestone for mobile as the first GPU, GeForce 256. Project Logan’s GPU is based on  Kepler architecture, which forms the foundation for products that a year ago began rolling out across our notebook, desktop, workstation and supercomputer lines.

ROCCAT announces immediate availability of the optical version of its award-winning Kone Pure gaming mouse. This release ensures that there is now a Kone for both breeds of gamer: those preferring the maxed out DPI of a laser mouse, and those yearning for the unique feel of an optical sensor gliding over their mousepad.

ASUS announced the P1801-T Portable AiO, a new kind of portable that combines the easy flexibility of an Android tablet with the broader productivity and entertainment options offered by an 18.4-inch multi-touch display with Full HD resolution.

Download the 326.29 Beta driver, it offers support for Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 8.1 both 32 and 64-bit. This is a developer driver and seems to add opengl 4.4 support. Driver 326.29 for Win 8.1, 8, 7, Vista. It is a developer driver for desktop and laptop. No modified inf needed. No need to disable driver signature enforcement. This driver is WDDM 1.3 on Windows 8.1 Preview. It is a complete driver package, containing 3D drivers, HD audio driver, PhysX.

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Download the 326.29 Beta driver, it offers support for Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP  and Windows 8.1 both 32 and 64-bit. This is a developer driver and seems to add opengl 4.4 support.

New A88XM-A and A55BM-A/USB3 motherboards support upcoming AMD Kaveri FM2+ APUs, plus existing Richland and Trinity FM2 APUs. ASUS today announced the new A88XM-A and A55BM-A/USB3 motherboards, the first from any manufacturer to support new Socket FM2+ APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) from AMD. The A88XM-A with AMD A88X chipset and A55BM-A/USB3 with A55 chipset are both Micro-ATX motherboards for existing AMD ‘Richland’ and ‘Trinity’ FM2 APUs, and are hardware-ready for upcoming AMD ‘Kaveri’ FM2+ APUs that support DirectX 11.1 and PCI Express 3.0 natively.

MSI has launched an all new, ultra-slim AIO series. The Adora24 is the first AIO PC in the world to use flickerfree display technology. The casing has a thickness of just 21 mm at its thinnest point and the visual golden ratio achieved through the use of staggered lines make the Adora24 look even slimmer. The flowing lines down the sides enhance the feeling of crisp speed as well. The Adora24 is equipped with the Intel 3rd Gen Mobile Core i3 / i5 multi-core processor and a high-end NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M discrete graphics card. In addition to the flicker-free display technology, the anti-glare display allows the user to use the computer for extended periods without experiencing eyestrain. 

A company that you don't hear much of these days is Laadtek, they are still alive and kicking it though as they have just released the GeForce GTX 770 Hurricane III. The GTX 770 is customized and thus not reference. The card seems to be using the old GTX 680 design and then is armed with customized cooling called Hurricane III. That Hurricane III is based on five copper heatpipes out of which two ate two mill thick. The fans are dual-fan 85mm fans that blow air over the aluminum heatsink.

In a fortunate event Battlefield 4′s system requirements are stated to be similar to those of Battlefield 3. By mistake the specs have been publish on Ubisoft’s online store, but also could be a placeholder. Interestingly it mentions that the minimum operating system for BF4 is 32-bit Windows Vista on SP1, while the Alpha trials required a 64-bit Windows Vista running SP2. Being that the Alpha trail required more “juice” suggests that the requirements on Ubisoft’s site were/are a placeholder, bogus, or both. Not to mention, they looks extremely close to BF3′s requirements.

Well, this one should bring a nice smile on your face. Dell took the opportunity to unleash one such display during the proceedings at SIGGRAPH this week. The UltraSharp 32 is a 32-inch Ultra HD unit that wields a 3,840 x 2,160 IGZO panel sorting 1.07 billion colors. An aluminum stand has replaced the plastic-draped one from previous models, but the same height adjustments reside around back. 

Seagate announced it is shipping the world's fastest hard drive - the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD. The industry's first enterprise solid state hybrid drive (SSHD), the Enterprise Turbo SSHD combines the capacity of a hard drive with solid-state flash enabling high-speed performance for mission critical data. Setting a new standard in mission critical performance, the Enterprise Turbo SSHD provides up to a 3X increase in random performance over existing 15K-RPM drives and is available with up to 600 GB of capacity. By unifying the best of solid-state and magnetic technologies, Turbo improves tiered storage performance combining accelerated speed with hard disk drive (HDD) high-capacity.

HP today announced the first professional monitors of the new Z Display family as well as new entry-level Z Workstations that offer reliable and flexible workstation performance at PC-like prices. HP is continuing to drive innovation across an evolving workplace with the introduction of the HP Z22i, Z23i and Z24i IPS Displays. Offering outstanding image accuracy and mission-critical reliability, the HP Z Displays are optimized for use with HP Z Workstations. HP Z Displays are ideal for engineers, architects, designers and photographers who require image accuracy at an affordable price.

AOC announces the new AOC E1659FWU, a sleek and portable 16-inch monitor that receives both power and signal through a single USB 3.0 cable. The monitor easily connects to laptop and desktop computers to provide a quick, simple solution for dual monitor setups, which can increase productivity by up to 50 percent.

LG is going to unveil their G2 flagship at their upcoming event in New York City on August 7th. And as expected, they are releasing teasers of their upcoming handset. 

NVIDIA today unveiled the visual computing industry's new flagship technology -- the NVIDIA QuadroK6000 GPU, the fastest and most capable GPU ever built. NVIDIA today also launched a new line of professional graphics GPUs for mobile workstations, delivering the highest levels of performance and graphics memory ever available on mobile platforms. The Quadro K6000 GPU delivers five-times higher compute performance and nearly double the graphics capability of its predecessor, the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 GPU, and features the world's largest and fastest graphics memory.

Genius today launches the GX Gaming Series Maurus X, a stylish FPS/RTS gaming mouse, in North America. With its large, ergonomic design, customizable lighting, six buttons, and quick-change DPI function, the Maurus X will help gamers stay a step ahead of the competition in todays highly competitive gaming world.

In this article we review ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC edition, this particular model comes with a dual-slot DirectCU II cooing solution. That boils down to a silent product versus and more than excellent cooling performance. The DirectCU heatsink uses a Vapor Chamber with flattened heatpipes. The proprietary CoolTech fan combines the advantages of axial and radial fan.

Cooler Master, a leading PC technology brand has tested its entire range of high-performance CPU cooling solutions and is proud to announce full support for AMDs upcoming FX9590 and FX9370 high-end processors. "All our high-end coolers are designed and built with headroom to support overclocking. 

Razer are proud to announce the launch of the Razer Goliathus Orange Esports edition mouse mat. Orange Esports is a Kuala Lumpur-based team founded in 2011 that boasts the best real-time strategy and first-person shooter players in Malaysia. Hugely popular in the South-East Asia eSports scene. 

Samsung introduced the latest addition to the Exynos product family with top level of graphic performance driven by a six-core ARM(R) Mali(TM)-T628 GPU processor for the first time in the industry. With mobile use case scenarios becoming increasingly complex, Samsung's newest eight-core ARM Cortex(TM)-based application processor gives designers a powerful, energy efficient tool to build multifaceted user interface capabilities directly into the system architecture. Samsung will demonstrate the new Exynos 5 family at SIGGRAPH 2013 in the ARM booth, #357; Exhibit Hall C at the Anaheim Convention Center.

It looks like AMD will drop using the Radeon HD 8000 naming completely, in fact according to something that VR-Zone noted there might be another change. It seems that AMD will use a different naming aka Radeon R9-XXXX. So the big daddy flagship would be called R9-9970 and say the flagship dual-GPU board R9-9990.

Sharp adds a 20-inch-class (19.5" diagonal) full HD multi-touch monitor, LL-S201A, showcased at InfoComm 2013, has begun shipping. The LL-S201A, part of the Professional Touch Display product family, packs the power of the award-winning Sharp AQUOS BOARD Interactive Display System into a sleek, lightweight design. Ideal for use in business, medical and education environments as a complement to the AQUOS BOARD display, the LL-S201A is an indispensable part of everyday communication, no matter who is using it.

The Khronos Group today announced the immediate release of the OpenGL 4.4 specification, bringing the very latest graphics functionality to the most advanced and widely adopted cross-platform 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface). OpenGL 4.4 unlocks capabilities of today's leading-edge graphics hardware while maintaining full backwards compatibility, enabling applications to incrementally use new features while portably accessing state-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) across diverse operating systems and platforms. Also, OpenGL 4.4 defines new functionality to streamline the porting of applications and titles from other platforms and APIs. 

SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced SanDisk Connect, a line of wireless flash memory storage devices including the SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive and SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive. These new wireless devices represent the next generation of portable storage, delivering an easier way to access and share content across multiple mobile devices. "Today's consumers own an increasing number of mobile devices and accessing content across them can be a challenge," said Dinesh Bahal, vice president, product marketing, SanDisk. "With the new SanDisk Connect product line, we're raising the bar on what consumers can expect from personal storage. We combined the portability of small flash memory storage devices with the convenience of wireless streaming and sharing functionality."

Enermax presents two new ETS-T40 models in Black and White. The CPU coolers ETS-T40 “Black Twister” and “White Cluster” are now available for sale. In response to the increasing demand, Enermax now launches two special editions of the very popular ETS-T40 CPU cooler series. The black or white finish of the heat sinks is based on an innovative, thermo-conductive coating which does not affect the cooling performance. 

The ProLite T2452MTS-2 is a new  23.6-inch multi-touch LCD monitor from iiyama that provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 260 cd/m2 brightness and 5ms response time. In addition, it also comes with two built-in 2W stereo speakers and has D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI connectors. The ProLite T2452MTS-2 sells for 35,800 Yen (about $356).

Gigabyte released a new budget graphics card to its range, the GeForce GT 640. Codenamed GV-N640D5-1GL, the card features 384 CUDA Cores, a 64-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1046MHz and a 1GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 5000MHz, and features D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI outputs. The GeForce GT 640 will start shipping from late July for 10,000 Yen (about $99). 

Logitec will launch their newest 4-bay NAS server, the LSV-5S8T/4CQWZ. Powered a 1.6+ GHz VIA nano X2 processor, the device is equipped with a 4GB RAM, an 8TB of storage (2TB WD Red x 4), RAID 0,1,5 support, 2x Gigabit Ethernet, 2x USB 3.0 ports, 4x USB 2.0 ports and runs on Windows Storage Server 2012 Workgroup Edition OS. The LSV-5S8T/4CQWZ will go on sale from mid-August for 228,000 Yen (about $2,271). 

Here are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:

1.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition
2.Dishonored
3.Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gold Edition
4.Torchlight II
5.Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition
6.Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World
7.Borderlands 2
8.Kerbal Space Program
9.Tomb Raider
10.Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

Rouchon Industries Inc., d/b/a/ Swiftech today announced the withdrawal from US sales of the H220 CPU cooling kit. On June 7 2013, Rouchon Industries Inc., d/b/a/ Swiftech received a letter from Asetek' s lawyers claiming that the H220 CPU cooler infringes on their US patents 8,240,362 (the '362 patent) and 8,245,764 (the '764 patent) and to cease selling, offering for sale and importing the H220 CPU cooler in the United States. Pending final disposition of this matter, Swiftech immediately placed a hold on shipments of the H220 CPU cooling kits into the USA.

EVGA announced the Rise of the Triad Bundle. Buy EVGA GeForce GTX 600 Series - 650 and Above - Get Rise of the Triad free. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before, the EVGA exclusive Rise of the Triad bundle has just launched! Now for a limited time when you purchase an EVGA GeForce GTX 650, 650 Ti, 650 Ti BOOST, 660, 660 Ti, 670, 680 or 690, you will get Rise of the Triad absolutely free! This will be a Steam code that will allow you to redeem the game when it launches on July 31st.

ASUS today announced that its Z87-C is the first motherboard in the world based on the Intel Z87 chipset to receive Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification for Window 8.1. The ASUS Z87-C is a Socket 1150 motherboard for use with 4th generation Intel Core, Pentium and Celeron processors. WHQL certification is a confirmation from Microsoft that both the ASUS Z87-C hardware and drivers are fully reliable and compatible with Windows 8.1. ASUS makes the best motherboards in the world and this pioneering WHQL certification for Windows 8.1 is further testament to the fact. 

Alexander J. Velicky spent 2,000 hours crafting something that's part resume, part love letter to the company he wants to work for more than any other, Bethesda. He created a mod called 'Falskaar' that adds 25 hours of gameplay to their hit title Skyrim, and created a land mass a third as big as the original massive map. He employed 29 voice actors to record new dialog for his NPCs, and recruited over a 100 total people to help him with Falskaar. Now, he waits Bethesda is aware of the mod, but no word on if they've officially recruited Velicky yet. It seems like they'd be rather foolish not to, as someone with this much passion, determination and talent could only be an asset to their team.