Rather than traditional thumbsticks, the new Steam controller features dual clickable trackpads which Steam says will offer more precise inputs than current gamepads.

You can now download 3.0.0 Beta 15 - this version is intended for 680/770/780 Lightning editions as requested multiple times. Enjoy.

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Here you can download Catzilla the 1.0 Final version of the benchmark. It’s being produced in collaboration with Polish post production company, Plastige, who worked on that Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition intro video. This benchmark is in beta phases. Catzilla is a cross-API benchmark designed for OpenGL 4.0 and DirectX 9 or 11, and the Windows platform (64-bit and 32-bit Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8). 

Valve Software spreads word that its Steam Machines will be launched in 2014. As previously reported, the company has partnered with numerous other hardware manufacturers to licence the Steam Machine branding and produce a range of hardware devices - but also plans to launch its own Steam Box device somewhat earlier. Before you get too excited, however: the official Valve Steam Box is to be a strictly limited affair. Ahead of the formal launch of Steam Machines in 2014, Valve has pledged to give 300 official Steam Boxes to Steam Users - completely free of charge.

Cooler Master, a leading creator, innovator and manufacturer of desktop components and more, today released the highly efficient and powerful VS Series Power Supplies (PSU). Developed to improve efficiency and increase heat dissipation, VS Series PSUs are manufactured with a unique 3D circuit design. This special design minimizes unnecessary cabling which results in lower crosstalk and signal noise. Less cables means more open space to provide improved airflow to core components. 

ASUS is excited to announce that the RT-AC68U Wireless-AC1900 Dual-band router is now available for pre-order at select resellers. Capable of delivering speeds up to 1.3 Gbps over 802.11ac and 600 Mbps over 802.11n thanks to Broadcom TurboQAM technology, the RT-AC68U is the world's fastest dual-band wireless router.

It seems that photo's of the upcoming XFX Radeon R9 280X Double Dissipation graphics card have appeared on the web. Reportedly in a post on the leaking website the specs that go along with it make it look like an updated Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (Tahiti XT) as it comes with 2048 stream processors, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 3GB GDDR5 memory, and a 384-bit memory bus. 

Thermaltake, being an industry leader in computer chassis, thermal solutions, and power supply units introduces from the same Massive series, Massive TM Laptop cooling pad, designed with Thermaltake the first ever adjustable temperature sensor, display control panel, aluminum design and dual 120 mm temperature regulated fans to suit user's preference in accordance with the laptop size or various heat generated points to create the best thermal performance. The excellent ergonomic design makes the most comfortable viewing angle and hand position.

VideoLAN today debuts its new VLC 2.1 "Rincewind" for public consumption. Notable improvements include 4K support, a rewritten audio core and various improvements to file format compatiblity.

Sony's new VPL-VW1100ES projector, suitable for screen sizes up to 300 inches, boasts a dynamic contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. Other features includes 2.1x motorised zoom, full HD 3D support and 2,000 ANSI-lumens of brightness. The price has not yet been announced but expect to pay around the $28,000 US mark for Sony's new flagship model.

Following Google's visit to the LHC in the summer, the internals of the world's largest particle accelerator are now open for public exploration.

Six-sided panoramic images were taken every three metres and the project will continue to be expanded to offer views of more CERN experiments.

Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever with over 140 million copies sold, DreamWorks Pictures' "Need for Speed" captures the thrills of the game in a real-world setting. An exciting return to the great car-culture films of the 1960s and '70s, when authenticity brought a new level of intensity to the action, "Need for Speed" taps into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing.

QNAP Systems, today updated QTS 4.0, Turbo NAS operating system, for its business-class Turbo NAS models, featuring advanced functions for SMB users, including 400TB scale-up solution, intelligent Storage Manager, flexible volume management with thin-provisioned volume supported, SSD cache, SMART data migration, VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX support and more, and greatly enhancing the efficiency in storage management, expansion, data process, and management in virtualization environments.

NVIDIA Senior Vice President of Content and Technology Tony Tamasi mentioned in an interview that game consoles leapfrogging PC graphic capabilities are definitely a thing of the past. Tamasi said Microsoft and Sony simply can't afford this: Talking about the current state of graphics and the shift in R&D budgets, device physics and power, since the PS3 and Xbox 360 came out, the Nvidia SVP said; “NVIDIA spends 1.5 billion US dollars per year on research and development in graphics, every year, and in the course of a console’s lifecycle we’ll spend over 10 billion dollars into graphics research. Sony and Microsoft simply can’t afford to spend that kind of money.”

We review the Asus Xonar U7. The U7 offers 24-bit/192KHz recording and playback with 114dB SNR, S/PDIF output, 7.1 channel analog output, dedicated stereo headphone output, a volume knob, and it's all powered of a USB 2.0 port. The headphone output comes with its own DAC and adjustable gain settings, making the U7 capable of driving just about any pair of headphones to ear-splitting levels. The U7 is a discreet audio card, in a nice little package, so it also supports Dolby HTv4, including surround sound encoding. And there's also a karaoke mode. High performance in a small package, but is it any good? The U7 is surprisingly good.

Check out our review right here.

Hey everybody and welcome to a live event all the way from Hawaii. With AMDs new flagship processor being developed under codename Hawaii AMD decided to invite the world enthusiast tech press towards this beautiful location to form the basis of a technology briefing. During the event there will be a live session from which Ill try to update this news item, so keep refreshing the front-page or this particular news item.

So during dinner last night I was able to get my hands on an engineering sample Radeon HD R9 290X. I can't fill in the blacks just yet I am afraid, but during the live session more will become clear. I did however photograph the heck out of it.

NEC is preparing to release another professional LCD monitor, the MultiSync LCD-PA302W. Adopting a 10-bit RGB color IPS panel, this new 29.8-inch GB-R LED-backlight monitor provides 2560 x 1600 native resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 340 cd/m2 brightness.

Fifteen years ago Apple released the first iMac - a computer without floppy drive. Everyone were saying “they must be nuts”, but somehow after this event most of people started to throw away their old disks to trash and switched to CD-R. Today well known specialist in case manufacturing sets a beginning of new era. You can get rid of your old CD’s now, cause here comes BitFenix Phenom. Nowadays you can buy everything over Internet and download it very fast - games, music, movies. Even data backup switched to clouds and nobody use for it anymore CD-R or DVD-RW drives just like in old times.

In the fall of 2012, five companies offered tablets or PCs that ran on Microsoft's new ARM-based Windows RT. Now just one company is actively selling such a product and it happens to be Microsoft. This week, the last remaining third party Windows RT hardware provider, Dell, stopped selling its lone product that used the OS, the XPS 10. 

OCZ Technology Group, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) and power management solutions for computing devices and systems, today announced the availability of its new Fatal1ty Series power supply products. This refreshed lineup for gamers features high efficiency, a fully modular cable design, and a robust feature-set to meet the demanding needs of multi-GPU systems and provide exceptional system stability.

Cooler Master, an industry leading chassis, thermal solution, peripheral, and accessory manufacturer today unleashes one of the most powerful Air CPU Coolers, the V8 GTS. It’s powered by the very same Horizontal Vapor Chamber (HVC) Technology that keeps high-end graphics cards cool while containing very high air flow within its huge, powerful fans.

Japanese manufacturer Scythe announces a new addition to its Amplifier portfolio. After the successfully launched the flagship-model Kama Bay Amp Pro, a more powerful version of the Kama Bay Amp Mini is available as of today! Kama Bay Amp Mini Pro combines the powerful technology of the flagship into a much smaller chassis of the Kama Bay Amp Mini, allowing users to enjoy even better sound quality

ASUS continues its impressive audio lineup with the Xonar U7. The U7 offers 24-bit/192KHz recording and playback with 114dB SNR, S/PDIF output, 7.1 channel analog output, dedicated stereo headphone output, a volume knob, and it's all powered of a USB 2.0 port.  The headphone output comes with its own DAC and adjustable gain settings, making the U7 capable of driving just about any pair of headphones to ear-splitting levels.  The U7 is a discreet audio card, in a nice little package, so it also supports Dolby HTv4, including surround sound encoding.  And there's also a karaoke mode.  High performance in a small package, but is it any good?  The U7 is surprisingly good.

The Stick of Truth has been stolen! As the new kid, the time has come to fulfill your destiny. Thanks to your outstanding abilities, it'll be your task to gather the strengths of good among the South Park neighborhood. Step into the most epic quest, to become... cool.

Epson has revealed a new core high-density print chip produced using MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) manufacturing, containing 1-micron thin piezo actuator elements capable of firing up to 50,000 drops of ink per second in volumes from 1.5 to 32.5 picoliters. The technology is scalable; as an example the Epson SurePress L-6034VW industrial label press contains 52,800 nozzles and can produce 15 meters of output per minute.

Micron Technology, Inc., announced today that it is shipping 2GB Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) engineering samples. HMC represents a dramatic step forward in memory technology, and these engineering samples are the world's first HMC devices to be shared broadly with lead customers.

It has been reported on the mighty interwebs that Reddit user Hal_Nein_Thousand got his hands on another part of code of the PS3 version of GTA V, in which it is hinted that the PC version may have support for DX11 and 64 Bit memory. Now the absolute first thing we noticed is the DX 11 tag in the code. This is unarguable, if the DX 11 Code is present then it makes sense that GTA V PC will almost certainly release to a DX 11 Based Port. 

AMD will still need to make this official on its Hawaii GPU release event, but gossip right now dictates that the Radeon R9 290 series will be the only really new products in AMD's new graphics card lineup as the Radeon Rx 200 series likely is a respin product. The Radeon R9 280X would be an optimized Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition with maaybe a clockspeed bump. The R9 280X is to be released roughly mid-October, most of these cards will use custom designs.

Bloomberg reported o that memory prices hit a two-year high as a result of the fire in SK Hynix' fab in Wuxi, China. Analysts expect chip prices will continue to rise throughout the fourth quarter or that there will be no drop until production capacity returns to normal. The price of the benchmark DDR3 2-gigabit dynamic random-access memory chip reached $2.27 yesterday, compared with $1.60 on Sept. 4, when a fire forced the closing of SK Hynix’s factory in Wuxi, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia’s largest market for the components. Icheon, South Korea-based SK Hynix expects to resume production on the fire-hit line next month.

It seems that there is no end to the Android powered sticks promising to make your "dumb" TV into a media center.
This time it comes from UGOOS and is called the "UGOOS UM2", promising to be cheap but not a slouch.

 The stick comes equiped with a quad core cpu (1.6GHz RK3188) and a Mali-400MP4 GPU, a 2GB RAM, an 8GB of flash storage, WiFi, bluetooth, micro USB, HDMI (naturally), a microSD card slot (up to 32GB) and a remote to complete the package.

MSI Computer Corp, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, announces the availability of GT70 20K and GT60 20J, two new additions to their repertoire of mobile professional workstations powered by NVIDIA Quadro graphics.

According to Reuters, Samsung plans to launch a currently unnamed smartphone with a curved display in its native South Korea next month.

With AMDs new flagship processor being developed under codename Hawaii AMD decided to make an event out of it on exactly that location. During the event there will be an actual live session you guys can follow, and I'll try to update a news item live, so keep refreshing the front-page for that particular news item. The start time is 3 p.m. EDT on September 25 (use timezone converter to lookup your local time) . Please do check in if you have the time as AMD has some pretty nice stuff lined up alright.

We will have a livestream available directly from this frontpage and since I'm over there as well Ill try to get you guys updates LIVE from Hawaii. 

PNY Technologies, a leading manufacturer and supplier of upgrade, graphics and storage solutions, is pleased to present its new ultra high-end range of overclocked graphics cards: GeForce GTX 770 OC and GTX 780 OC. Built with hard-core gamers in mind, PNY's overclocked cards are enabled with GPU boost 2.0 technology, GDDR5 memory, plus dual and triple fan coolers, to allow for an extreme gaming experience. World of Warcraft fans will be happy to know that a free Pandaren monk comes with every PNY GeForce GTX 770 OC and GTX 780 OC.

Apple has today announced the new range of iMacs which now come with 8GB of memory and a 1TB hard drive as standard, configurable up to 32GB and 3TB respectively. The base level 21.5-inch iMac packs a 2.7 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor and new Iris Pro integrated graphics, while the high-end model and both 27-inch models provide quad-core Intel Core i5 processors up to 3.4 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce 700 series graphics. The new iMacs are upgradeable to 3.5GHz Intel Core i7 processors and 4GB NVIDIA GTX 780M graphics solutions. Suggested retail price for the base 21.5-inch model comes in at $1,299 (US).

Samsung has announced ISOCELL technology, a major step forward in increasing image capture fidelity for premium mobile devices. ISOCELL improves isolation of individual sensor pixels, thus restricting crosstalk of light between pixels by around 30% resulting in improved image sharpness and dynamic range.