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During the week of Computex 2013, 6 overclocking records were shattered by professional overclockers with G.SKILL extreme performance DDR3 memory. Established in 1989 by computer hardware enthusiasts, G.SKILL is a leading memory & Solid State Drive manufacturer based in Taipei, Taiwan. The company’s top priority is quality. All of the products undergo a series of the most rigorous tests and strict quality control processes. In addition to a committed, qualified IC testing house to examine the products, all G.SKILL products are 100% tested to ensure the highest yield, reliability and quality...

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Accidents happen, especially when you try to avoid them. But rest assured that ASRock’s latest ATX sized OC Formula Series motherboards, including Z87 OC Formula/ac (with 802.11ac WiFi support) and Z87 OC Formula are protected by a special layer of Conformal Coating. As you’ve probably already heard, Conformal Coating protects the motherboards from conductive liquids, dust, corrosion and extreme temperatures*. And if you still feel skeptical about the lifespan of your overclocking oriented motherboards, fear not – ASRock guarantees 5 year warranty...

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A system built with thousands of Intel processors and co-processors was just named the most powerful supercomputer in the world in the 41st edition of the Top500 list of supercomputers.

The system, known as “Milky Way 2,” includes 48,000 Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and 32,000 Intel Xeon processors and operates at a peak performance of 54.9 PFlops (54.9 quadrillion floating point operations per second) — more than twice the performance of the top rated system from the last edition of the Top500 list in November 2012. This is the first exclusively Intel-based system to take the top spot on the list since 1997...

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IBM and United Microelectronics Corporation (“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that UMC will join the IBM Technology Development Alliances as a participant in the group’s development of 10nm CMOS process technology...

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Exactly two years ago, when I tested a Bulldozer-based Zambezi CPU for the first time, I was shocked. The early sample units were even hotter and slower than the final silicon revision CPUs, which were finally released four months later. One of the largest single let-down came from the way back: SuperPI.

SuperPI mainly uses legacy x87 instructions which have been almost completely superseded. SuperPI doesn’t show any indication what so ever about SMP performance as it can only utilize a single thread. On top of that it has no real world use or purpose as there are newer programs which can calculate PI almost 100 times faster.

Still, SuperPI can almost be considered as a industry standard. Nowadays it is generally a VERY poor indicator of real world performance, yet it is very addictive for any old school overclocker. It scales very well along with the CPU/NB/DRAM/IO performance and tweaking it is a big challenge. An overclocker who hasn’t ever benched SuperPI simply doesn’t exist. SuperPI has a special place in my heart simply because it was one of the first benchmarks I ever ran… almost 14 years ago...

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MSI Computer Corp, leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, announces the availability of the GE40, the perfect combination of ultrabook portability and deadly gaming capability.

Armed with state of the art components, including an Intel Haswell Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M, the GE40 weighs only 4.4 lbs. and measures less than 1-inch thick, making it the ideal choice for gamers seeking superior performance and mobility...

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Back in April this year, GIGABYTE unveiled the WindForce 3X 450W cooler [link removed] which was to be used on the GeForce GTX Titan. The cooler is a dual-slot design and features three fans (known as Triangle Cool Technology) which cool two aluminum fin-stack heatsinks which are fed by no less than six copper heatpipes. Unfortunately, NVIDIA’s restrictive policy which prevented AIB partners from modifying air coolers on the cards was never lifted, but the guys at GIGABYTE have found a way to bypass the restriction...

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The world-renowned motherboard manufacturer MSI announced that its full line of FM2 series motherboards support AMD’s 3rd GENERATION APU processors. MSI cooperated with AMD and became the first to pass all verifications and tests even before the announcement of the new APUs. That’s why MSI’s FM2 series motherboard (A85X, A75 and A55) users will be able to enjoy the excellent performance brought by the new processor simply by updating the BIOS and drivers through MSI’s official website...

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Creative Technology Ltd today announced the Creative Sound Blaster EVO ZxR and Sound Blaster EVO Zx – the world’s first wireless headsets that utilize a built-in multi-core Sound Blaster SB-Axx1 processor for enhancement and customization of audio quality for playback of music, movies and games and for voice communications.

The audio-enhancing capabilities of the Sound Blaster EVO ZxR and Sound Blaster EVO Zx fill a dire need in an age where mobile device users tolerate the sound quality from compressed sources of audio played on smart devices – such as MP3 files, YouTube and other video sharing sources, streamed music or mobile games – as a primary source of entertainment on-the-go...

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Just hours ago, ASUS and G.SKILL claimed the DDR3 frequency record from ASRock, but HKEPC’s John Lam is far too stubborn to allow someone else to hold the record. Much like a tennis match, this has been a back-and-forth between ASUS and ASRock with the record changing hands three times in the last 24 hours. Once again using the ASRock Z87M OC Formula, John Lam swapped out the Team Group RAM for a module from Corsair’s new Vengeance Pro line rated at DDR3-3200 CL11 (model number CMY8GX3M2A3200C11)...

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COMPUTEX 2013 has proven to be an interesting time for memory overclocking, thanks mainly to the headroom given by INTEL’s new Haswell processors. Earlier this month, ASRock’s Mini-ATX Z87M OC Formula motherboard took the DDR3 frequency record with a speed of 2047.5MHz (4095MHz DDR effective) [link removed], and most recently 2142.8MHz (4285.6MHz effective). The record was to be short-lived, however, as ASUS and G.SKILL have pipped the speed...

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AMD today announced exclusive collaboration with Square Enix [link removed] to optimize “THIEF” [link removed] for the Graphics Core Next architecture [link removed] in select AMD Radeon [link removed] graphics processors, as well as the x86 and graphics architectures featured in AMD A-Series APUs. Developed in conjunction with the AMD Gaming Evolved program [link removed], “THIEF” will extensively leverage the advanced capabilities of AMD Radeon graphics processors, including AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology [link removed] for panoramic gaming, AMD CrossFire multi-GPU technology [link removed] for supreme performance, and state-of-the-art DirectX 11 rendering for pristine image quality...

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EK Water Blocks, Ljubljana based premium water cooling gear manufacturer, is working on a new Full Cover water block for Gainward [link removed] & Palit [link removed] custom PCB design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 series graphics cards...

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The one and only ace of overclocking Nick Shih continues to push DDR3 memory frequencies to new boundaries which no man has ever set foot on. He has reached a ludicrous DDR3 4285.6MHz with ASRock’s Z87M OC Formula, the micro sized Z87 motherboard he designed specifically for overclocking, and it all happened on this year’s overclocking show at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013...

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AMD today unveiled its most powerful member of the legendary AMD FX family of CPUs, the world’s first commercially available 5 GHz CPU processor, the AMD FX-9590. These 8-core CPUs deliver new levels of gaming and multimedia performance for desktop enthusiasts. AMD FX-9000 Series CPUs will be available initially in PCs through system integrators...

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