Hardware

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.

• NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal: The World’s Ultimate Graphics Card, Available Now
• GIGABYTE Announces X99 and Z170 LE Motherboards with G1 Engraved EKWB Monoblocks
• MSI Launches X99A Tomahawk Motherboard
• Cooler Master Launches MasterKeys Pro L & M with Intelligent White LEDs
• BIOSTAR Debuts G300 Series Solid-State Drives
• Ozone Unveils Official Origen Gear
• NVIDIA Settles Class Action Suit Over Alleged GeForce GTX 970 Memory Deception
• MSI Announces the Aegis Ti Gaming Desktop
• EK Water Blocks Releases Long Awaited ASUS Rampage V Edition 10 Monoblock
• EK Water Blocks Releases EK-XLC Predator Push-Pull Add-On
• Thermaltake Introduces the Riing LED RGB Radiator Fan TT Premium Edition

By Nathan Kirsch @ Legit Reviews

If you ware looking for an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card to purchase you will quickly find that there are 21 different models widely available from NVIDIA’s board partners in North America. Gigabyte alone has five different models to pick from as you have Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition for those that are looking for the NVIDIA reference design and then four custom cards. The custom cards include the Gigabyte GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC model for Small Form Factor (SFF) builders, a GTX 1070 WindForce OC model as the entry level card, a GTX 1070 G1 Gaming aimed at gamers and then the GeForce GTX 1070 Extreme Gaming for those that are concerned with overclocking or what the highest clock speeds possible. Most gamers aren’t going to pay a premium for the Founders Edition by NVIDIA and while we love the Mini ITX form factor the full sized cards are still the most popular cards sold. That leaves three full sized Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 models that gamers will be interested in picking.

The model that we’ll be looking at today is the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming as it is aimed at gamers and at just $429 it costs less than the Founders Edition model and looks to have some great features.

Read The Review 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.

• GIGABYTE Adds New Models to GeForce GTX 1060 Line
• SAPPHIRE Announces its New NITRO+ Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card
• Patriot Memory Expands Viper 4 and Viper Elite DDR4 to Include 3733MHz
• Sapphire Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 Pictured
• Kingston Digital Launches UV400 Series SSD
• Crucial Expands the MX300 Line of SSDs with 275GB, 525GB, and 1TB Variants
• Western Digital Announces World First 64 Layer 3D NAND Technology
• MSI Intros Radeon RX 480 GAMING X 4G/8G Graphics Cards
• MSI Launches B150M & H110M Grenade Motherboards

Source: TechPowerUp!

In a show of shock and awe, NVIDIA today announced its flagship graphics card based on the “Pascal” architecture, the GeForce GTX TITAN X Pascal. Market availability of the card is scheduled for August 2, 2016, priced at US $1,199. Based on the 16 nm “GP102″ silicon, this graphics card is endowed with 3,584 CUDA cores spread across 56 streaming multiprocessors, 224 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and a 384-bit GDDR5X memory interface, holding 12 GB of memory.

The core is clocked at 1417 MHz, with 1531 MHz GPU Boost, and 10 Gbps memory, churning out 480 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, the GPU’s TDP is rated at 250W. NVIDIA claims that the GTX TITAN X Pascal is up to 60 percent faster than the GTX TITAN X (Maxwell), and up to 3 times faster than the original GeForce GTX TITAN.

Watch a intro trailer and get more information at the NVIDIA TITAN X product page.

By Brian Nyhuis @ Legit Reviews

There sure aren’t a whole lot of options on the market for WQHD (2560 x 1440) 144 Hz monitors, and even less options when you’re looking for an IPS display panel. Heck, you don’t have a lot of options for WQHD 144 Hz TN panels, either, especially when looking for 27-inches or larger. Today we’re going to take a look at the Acer Predator XB1 (XB271HU), which is a 27-inch WQHD panel capable of a 144 Hz refresh rate, or 165 Hz when overclocked, and 4ms gray-to-gray pixel response times, featuring NVIDIA G-SYNC technology. Some other features include 100% sRGB color gamut, a brightness of 350 nits, and built-in 2 watt stereo speakers. This monitor has been available since November 2015, but has been well received by gamers.

Read The Review Here

By Parm Mann @ HEXUS

While fans of the RX 480 patiently await a Nitro, or indeed any other custom-cooled alternative, Nvidia’s army of partners has already unleashed a tidal wave of diverse GTX 1060s. All the big names are lining up to send their cards in for review – heck, we may even have to turn some away at this rate – and though retail volume remains something of a question mark during launch week, there’s no shortage of non-reference designs. First on the HEXUS test bench is the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X.

Read The Review Here

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD on 19th July, released a WHQL-signed version of Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.2 drivers. The company first released the RSCE 16.7.2 as a Beta on the 12th of July. The change-log of the new 16.7.2 WHQL drivers don’t say exactly what is different between the 16.7.2 Beta and the 16.7.2 WHQL; so we guess it’s just 16.7.2 with WHQL certification.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.7.2 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.

• ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Strix RX 480
• PNY Launch Custom GeForce GTX 1060
• PowerColor Announces the Radeon RX 480 RED DEVIL
• Sharkoon Announces the Shark Zone M50 Gaming Mouse
• Phanteks Unveils New Glacier GTX 1080 Water Block
• ADATA Announces SE730, SC660, and SV620 External Solid State Drives
• Tt eSPORTS Announces the New VENTUS R Optical Gaming Mouse
• 6-Core Intel Processors Going Mainstream in 2018 With Coffee Lake

Reviews of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 have hit the web. Starting at just $249, the GeForce GTX 1060 features the same Pascal-architecture technology found on the record-breaking GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070. A number of websites have received copies of the new Founders Edition card for reviews and we have provided links to those sites below.

• TECHPOWERUP!
• GURU3D
• HARDOCP
• HARDWARE CANUCKS
• TOM’S HARDWARE
• LEGIT REVIEWS
• TWEAKTOWN

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.

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Released
• ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Strix GeForce GTX 1060
• MSI Announces Custom GeForce GTX 1060 Graphics Cards
• EVGA Introduces its GeForce GTX 1060 Series
• BIOSTAR Announces its GeForce GTX 1080 Graphics Card
• GIGABYTE Adds Radeon RX 480 G1.Gaming Graphics Cards
• Enermax Announces Availability of Platimax DF Series PSUs
• XFX Radeon RX 480 Double Dissipation Pictured
• Jonsbo Unveils UMX4 and RM3 PC Cases
• Seagate Unveils The Industry’s Broadest 10TB Hard Drive Portfolio
• Thermaltake Toughpower DPS G RGB Gold Series Smart PSUs Announced
• Acer Predator G1 Limited Edition Sports Desktop With GTX 1080 Available For Preorder