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AMD has released a beta of their latest Catalyst-drivers: Catalyst 13.8 Beta. One of the big fixes in this driver is that AMD has added frame-pacing to help get rid of or at least minimize the micro-stuttering a lot of people have experienced when running more than one GPU.

Magic might be an exaggeration but when iFixit did their regular “new-gadget tear-down” they found a product that is surprisingly repairable. 

While USB 3.0 might not be as fast as Thunderbolt is has one huge advantage: it actually is rolled out and used by tons of computers and peripherals. Now the USB Alliance has finalized the specifications for the next update of USB: USB 3.1. As always the standard is backward …

On the first day of August, we got Supermicro C7Z87-OCE review from Tweaktown, PowerColor HD 7870 Devil at techPowerUp, Western Digital 1TD Velociraptor and 2TB Caviar Black at Futurelooks, and more.

On the last day of July, we got Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5 motherboard from Madshrimps, NVIDIA Shield from Hothardware, Diamond Multimedia GC1000 1080 HD USB Game Capture from MEGATech, Asus U7 USB Sound card, and Asus PB278Q monitor from Tweaktown, and more.

Today, we got Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon review from ThinkComputers, Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 7790 from Futurelooks, Gigabyte GTX 780 OC WindForce from PureOverclock, Asustor AS-604T NAS from HardwareHeaven, and more.

Today, we got ASRock Z87 Extreme6 Motherboard from Hardware Secrets, PowerColor HD7870 DEVIL from Legit Review, Nokia Lumia 1020 from Hothardware, SanDisk Extreme II Solid SDSSDXP Review from Benchmark Review, and more.

ASUS GTX 760 DirectCU II OC Graphics Card After the GTX 760 card launched we were quite surprised as to the power on tap, and were more excited to see what exactly can be done when put in the capable hands of some of the board partners. ASUS stepped up …

Today, we got Silverstone SUGO Series SG10 Micro-ATX case review from Eteknix, Rapoo A3060 Bluetooth speaker from Technic3D, SoundWave II Bluetooth Speaker phone from DragonStellMods, Jaybird Bluebuds X Bluetooth Headphone from TechnologyX, and more.

Happy Saturday! Today, we gotEKL Alpenfoeh Brocken 2 Cooler from Technic3D, Silverstone Raven 4 from Vortez, and Thermaltake Urban S21 from LanOC. techPowerUp takes a look at the QNAP TS-421 and QTS 4.0, and more.

Today, Madshrimps got trios of Z87 OC Motherboards and Kitguru got the Gigabyte Z87-D3HP reviews. OCholics got XFX ProSeries 1250W PSU and 3DGameman got EVGA 500B 500W PSU and more.

Today, we got Samsung SSD 840 EVO from Hexus, Tech Report, HardwareHeaven, Vortez, and the SSD Review. In addition, Hardware Secrets review the ASUS Fonepad and Phoronix takes a look at the OpenGL Performance of Haswell under Ubuntu, and more.

As expected Google yesterday announced and showed the new Nexus 7 tablet that will be released end of july in the US and soon afterwards in selected countries. 

Today, Benchmark Review takes a look at Intel DZ87KLT-75K motherboard, OCInside puts the ASRock Z87M OC Formula to the test, and Eteknix tests the Gigabyte Z87X-OC. Also, LanOC Reviews has InWin G7 case, Hexus takes a look at the PNY GeForce GTX 770 XLR8, and more.

 Introduction – Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H   Gigabyte has been making boards forever and honestly, it has been up and down along the cycle. It seems like every board manufacturer has its good and bad times, and Gigabyte seems to have been going through a bit of a rough patch. With that …