On the last day of year we have our last competition. We'll give away a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5. Check out below the fold what you need to do to be eligible to win this product.

To everybody, happy new year !

Fancy words eh ? The Dell U2417H is a Full HD monitor with nice looks and decent specs. They now are using the ‘InfinityEdge’ branding, used earlier on certain XPS laptops.  The ‘U’ in the codename means its an UltraSharp series monitor. If you look closely you'll see that the bezels are now even more thin at 5.30mm at the top and sides and 8.33mm at the bottom.

BIOSTAR introduces racing series motherboard: Z170GT7, H170GT3 and B150GT5 debuts. The RACING Series is built with powerful hardware design based around the Intel 100-series chipset. Low-latency Intel LAN. Storage via super-fast SATA Express and PCI-e M.2 slot allow rapid access to the latest generation of storage devices. 

A few day ago we reported that users had weird experiences with their Steam accounts, displaying improper account information including parts of other people's credit cards. Valve now responded more in-depth as to what happened. The problem appeared in the middle of a DDoS attack on 1st Christmas day.

The latest ROG Z170 motherboard now comes with a CrossChill EK hybrid cooling block. ROG teamed up with the guys at EK to create a high-conductivity channel, so you will be ready for liquid-cooling right out-of-the-box. Don’t worry if you don’t intend to upgrade to liquid-cooling straight away, because this also runs on air cooling. 

If you own a Thecus NAS, good news as they have released ThecusOS 7.0 Beta. A massive upgrade for the user-interface. We recently previewed it here already, be sure to have a look. 

With December coming to an end we'll post the last update on the OCZ Test panel.  Ten of our Guru3D forum members received a OCZ Storage Solutions Vertex 460A SATA3 480GB SSD, and we are following these guys for these two years. 

For the remainder of 2015 each and every single day here on Guru3D we will give away a nice prize. That means every day up-to December 31st you will have a chance of winning something. Today we give away a Noctua Cooling Prize Package. Check out below the fold what you need to do to be eligible to win this product.

Today on the slab is a new sound card from PowerColor, who need no introduction from their line of video cards, and it’s a beast, meet the PowerColor Devil HDX Sound Card.

Read the review here.

Today on the slab is a new sound card from PowerColor, who need no introduction from their line of video cards, and it’s a beast, meet the PowerColor Devil HDX Sound Card.

AOC released a new 4K LCD monitor, the U2879VF. Adopting the AMD FreeSync technology to eliminate tearing and stuttering this 28-inch LED-backlight monitor (157 PPI) supports a native resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels and provides 1000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness, 1ms (GTG) response time and 170/160 degree viewing angles.

The new Revolt focuses on improving power, performance and control by rethinking the gaming desktop design from the ground up. We were inspired to create a PC that highlighted the most important components in a gaming rig, and allowed customers to create a PC that's as unique as they are. We chose to lead the revolt against the standard, the generic, the boring, and instead forge a new path. 

Next week at CES Plextor will launch a M8Pe nVME SSD. The M8Pe is actually based on a m2 form factor over the Non-Volatile Memory Express-protocol. Basically this product would be a PCI Express add-in card with a M2 module on it.

Samsung announced that it is addressing the growing trend of quantified health with an all-in-one advanced system logic chip for the health-oriented wearables market, the Bio-Processor. 

Intel announced that it has completed the acquisition of Altera Corporation ("Altera"), a provider of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. 

In this round we give away a MSI GeForce GTX 960 GAMING 100ME. For the remainder of 2015 each and every single day here on Guru3D we will give away a nice prize. That means every day up-to December 31st you will have a chance of winning something. Check out below the fold what you need to do to be eligible to win this product.

It's going to be a quiet week for news I gBrain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys provide evidence that the brains of compulsive video game players are wired differently. Chronic video game play is associated with hyperconnectivity between several pairs of brain networks. Some of the changes are predicted to help game players respond to new information.

You can check out the Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 video after the break, it showcases the new Tecmo Soft Engine 2.0. A bit of a warning, we all know what really sells right ?