Hardware

By Ron Perillo @ Modders Inc.

Design-wise, the Cooler Master Hyper D92 cooler is a re-engineered Hyper N520, improving upon its design based on current system building concerns such as better RAM heatspreader clearance compatibility, better looks and improved efficiency. The direct-touch design has worked well for Cooler Master’s mainstream CPU cooler offerings so the Hyper D92 utilizes it as well. The Hyper N520’s signature offset fan design remains to compensate for the airflow deadzone, albeit using superior 92mm Cooler Master rifle-bearing Xtra Flow PWM fans and the mounting design has also been improved for convenience.

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Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• AMD Begins Slashing the Prices of its Radeon R9 290, R9 290X GPUs
• QPAD Launches MK-70 Mechanical Keyboard
• Aerocool Debuts the Strike-X Cube Micro ATX PC Case
• Cooler Master Unveils the CM Storm Octane Keyboard and Mouse Combo
• Gigabyte Reveals New Z97-HD3P Motherboard
• Palit Reveals Geforce GTX 980 (Super) JetStream
• MSI Silently Introduces GTX 970 Gaming 4G Lite Edition
• BenQ Outs the XL2430T Gaming PC Monitor
• Mushkin Introduces the Chronos G2 Solid State Drives
• SMART Modular Expands to DDR4 With Its Ultra High Reliability Enterprise Memory
• Aqua Computer Intros Kryographics GTX 980 Full Cover Water Block
• Aqua Computer Also Announces Airplex Radical 2 Series Radiators

By Kenny @ PureOC

In the past few years, the Closed Loop Cooler has advanced liquid cooling much further into the mainstream market. Today we’re looking at the latest, the Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate. It has a 360mm radiator with lots of cooling potential, and it looks very impressive. Let’s take a closer look and see how it fares in testing.

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By Ian Cutress @ AnandTech

ASRock is quietly confident of its OC Formula range. We awarded the Z77 version because of its aggressive tactics at the $240 price point and while the Z87 model offered even more but at $330 it missed that sub-$250 market which cheaper overclocking builds are built on. The Z97 OC Formula ditches the Lamborghini on the box and comes back down to earth at $210, although the feature set becomes lighter as a result. The mainstream overclocking motherboard market is always hot at $200, so today we are putting the Z97 OC Formula through its paces.

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By Niels Broekhuijsen @ Tom’s Hardware

In a blog post, Bryan Langley from Microsoft has written that the final version of the just-announced Windows 10 will come with DirectX 12. To be clear, the current technical preview that’s available does not come with DirectX 12.

In the blog post, Langley points out that Microsoft has also been working with Epic to create a DirectX 12 branch in the Unreal Engine 4 GitHub repository. If you’ve been granted a pass to the DirectX 12 Early Access program, you can already kick off your development for the new API on Windows 10.

What makes DirectX 12 so interesting is that it allows developers to code much closer to the hardware, resulting in reduced overhead and therefore improved performance. This is similar to AMD’s already-available Mantle API, which was designed from the ground up to deliver better performance than DirectX 11.

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Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• DeepCool Announces the Captain Line of Liquid AIO CPU Coolers
• Thermaltake Announces TR2 Bronze Series PSUs
• Corsair Releases Flash Voyager Vega USB 3.0 Flash Drive
• LG 34UC97 21:9 Curved UltraWide Monitor Now Available in the US
• Swiftech Releases the H240-X All-In-One CPU Cooler
• Kingmax Announces its DDR4 Modules, Expects Market to Grow in 2015
• Aerocool Launches the Xpredator Cube PC Chassis
• Apacer Announces the PT910 PCI-Express SSD
• VisionTek Introduces High Power USB Charging Hubs
• SanDisk Introduces X300 Series SSDs
• Dell to Release U2715H Monitor with Ultra-Thin Bezel
• Next Generation USB to embed DisplayPort

Author: Brent Justice @ HardOCP

The MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G video card is making the GeForce GTX 780 and AMD Radeon R9 290 obsolete. This $349 video card puts up a fight and punches in a win at this price. The overclock alone is somewhat staggering. If you are about to spend money on a GPU, don’t miss this one.

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By Stuart Davidson @ Hardware Heaven

The PC cooling marketplace is now filled with great looking liquid coolers which are designed to offer enthusiast performance along with ease of install. To many consumers though they are an expense, or a perceived risk that is a step too far and so air coolers remain popular. Recently one of the better known names in the cooling business launched a new revision of a popular product and today we cover that in our Cooler Master Hyper 612 Ver2 Review.

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Source: techPowerUp!

AMD rolled out the Catalyst 14.9 WHQL driver suite, its quarterly release of WHQL-signed drivers for AMD Radeon discrete- and integrated GPUs. The drivers add support for some of the newer Radeon GPUs, such as the R9 285; and introduce a large list of game-specific performance improvements. The drivers also introduce AMD Eyefinity mixed-resolution modes, Eyefinity display alignment, new video-color and display settings in Catalyst Control Center, an updated AMD Mantle API runtime, and JPEG decoding acceleration for certain GPUs.

You can download the AMD Catalyst 14.9 WHQL drivers HERE.

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• Roccat’s Highly-Anticipated Tyon Gaming Mouse Now Available
• Cooler Master Announces the Hyper 612 CPU Cooler in the EU
• SteelSeries Introduces The New Siberia Headset Family
• Samsung Introduces SD590C 27-inch Curved LED Monitor
• Gigabyte Launches GTX 970 WindForce 3X OC
• Gigabyte Announces the FORCE H Series Gaming Headsets
• GELID Launches SnowStorm CPU Cooler
• Lian Li Shows Off PC-05, PC-06, and PC-07 Case Prototypes
• Belkin Announces New Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD for Mac and PC Computers
• TP-LINK Announces Archer T4U USB 802.11 ac Adapter
• Silicon Power Debuts the Mobile X31 USB 3.0 OTG Flash Drive