ASUS GeForce GTX 780 DirectCU II OC

If a GPU upgrade is in your immediate future, you should probably give ocaholic's review of the ASUS GTX 780 DirectCU II OC a read.

Meanwhile ASUS has a heavily overclocked GeForce GTX 780 card in its portfolio which even features a new revision of their DirectCU II cooler. Almost obviously, there is also a non-reference PCB which features a ten phase power design with super alloy components. Everything put together sounds like a highly compelling offer.

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The 'Internet of Everything' Is Worth $613B

It is amazing how much thought is put into stuff like this.

Cisco Systems wants its customers to know that there is a huge amount of money to be made if they focus their strategy and IT budget on what the company and others call the Internet of Everything.

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The Creepy-Rapey Side of E3

Ouch, did she just say the "creepy-rapey part" of E3?

That much is tolerable—expected, even (sadly). But after speaking to a few female journalists and PR reps who attended E3 this year, I learned that, in the midst of all the excitement, they were unhappy to admit a more offensive common theme of this year's show: they called it the "creepy-rapey-E3."

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Gaming [H]eadlines

Galaxy GTX 780 HOF Sets World Record

It looks like Galaxy's upcoming GXT 780 HOF is quite the overclocking beast! The company set a world record overclock at Computex earlier this month on this card. Here are a few images from the record setting event:

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Corsair Carbide Series Air 540

Hexus has Corsair's new Carbide Series Air 540 case in house today for a little review lovin'. Hit the link to see this dual chambered chassis in action.

The Air 540 is specifically designed to offer dual chambers; an actively-cooled main chamber on one side for all your hot-running components; and a passively-cooled second chamber on the other for, well, everything else.

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Cooler Master Seidon 240M

If you are shopping around for an all-in-one cooling solution this Cooler Master Seidon 240M review might be of interest.

AiO (all in one) CPU coolers have been around for quite some time now. These days just about every company is coming out with their own version and most of them typically look the same with only one or two distinguishing features. Then there’s the Cooler Master Seidon 240M. The Seidon on the surface seems like your typical 240mm AiO CPU cooler, but Cooler Master has added their own unique style to this unit.

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Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell Processor

Head on over to Think Computers today and check out their review of the Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell processor. Our evaluation can be found here.

Today we are taking a look at the top of the line Haswell desktop chip the Core i7-4770K. Of course the "K" denotes that it is an unlocked processor. This is a quad-core processor that has a default clock speed of 3.5 GHz and a turbo frequency that goes all the way up to 3.9 GHz

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[H]ardware Round-Up

E3 2013: Wrap Up Coverage

Legit Reviews has posted a wrap up of E3 2013. Lots of really good stuff to see here, the gang even got a little hands on time with the SHIELD:

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PS3 4.45 Update Bricks Your Console

Unless you like bricks, I wouldn't update your PS3 today. Apparently the new 4.45 update is causing a bunch of problems with PS3 owners so you might want to hold off on that update.

We've started getting reports from some readers that the update is bricking their system, locking their consoles on the boot-up "ribbon" screen, and a thread on Sony's official forums shows the issue is far from isolated.

*UPDATE* Sony yanked the botched update.

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Microsoft's Surface RT Ditching NVIDIA?

According to the rumor mill, Microsoft is ditching NVIDIA in favor of using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors in its Surface RT.

Some new versions of Surface will be based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, which can deliver fast wireless data connections, said the people, who asked not to be identified because Microsoft has yet to announce new models. Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), whose Tegra chip is used in the current Surface RT, will continue as a supplier for some versions, one person said.

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Steam Game Sharing Planned?

Valve to allow game sharing? Code found in the new Steam beta seems to point to game sharing:

"SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicense_Title" "Shared game library"

"SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_OwnerText" "Just so you know, your games are currently in use by %borrower%. Playing now will send %borrower% a notice that it's time to quit."

"SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_BorrowerText" "This shared game is currently unavailable. Please try again later or buy this game for your own library."

Ultra High Definition VIA Video Walls Unveiled

You guys really have to see this. VIA is showing off its new high-end VIA Video Wall in 8 and 16 panel configurations, both displaying video and images in 4K resolution.

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Microsoft Freed Millions Of PC From Criminal Botnet

The swashbuckling crime fighters at Microsoft have taken down the botnet run by the notorious criminal mastermind known as Aquabox. Millions of PCs were freed in the effort but the head of the crime organization is still on the loose. Heh, this stuff writes itself.

Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general counsel with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, said in an interview on Tuesday.

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NZXT Phantom 630 Ultra Tower

NikKTech has whipped up a review of the NZXT Phantom 630 ultra tower. You can see our evaluation here for comparison purposes.

Unfortunately the same pretty much applies for the Phantom 630 Ultra+ Tower but this time over NZXT has outfitted it with more features including more interior space, modular internal drive cages, mounting spots for up to three 120mm radiators or two 240mm ones, two SSD mounts behind the mainboard tray, an 30W single channel 3-speed fan controller and an SD card reader. Are these however enough for us to put aside the similarities with its predecessor?

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ASUS ROG Maximus VI Extreme Demonstrates Overclocking Supremacy

ASUS Republic of Gamers, or ROG, today announced that the Intel® Z87-based Maximus VI Extreme motherboard dominated the competition at the Computex Taipei 2013 overclocking summit sponsored by Intel® and Corsair®. Additionally, the board tallied eight world performance records at a separate gathering that took place at ASUS headquarters, all mere days after its official launch. Competing against top-tier overclocking motherboards from a variety of brands, Maximus VI Extreme took ten out of eleven top spots at the Intel® and Corsair® Computex OC Main Event.

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Intel Recommends Stockholders Reject TRC Capital's "Mini-Tender" Offer

Intel Corporation recently learned of an unsolicited "mini-tender offer" made by TRC Capital Corp. to Intel stockholders to purchase up to 4 million shares of Intel common stock at $23.75 per share. TRC Capital's offer price is approximately 4.96 percent below the closing share price of Intel common stock on June 13, 2013 ($24.99), the day before the offer commenced, and the offer is for less than 1 percent of Intel's outstanding shares. Intel does not endorse TRC Capital's mini-tender offer and recommends that Intel stockholders reject the offer and not tender their shares in response to the offer.

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Gigabyte G1.Sniper M5

If you are contemplating a platform upgrade, you might want to check out this review of the Gigabyte G1.Sniper M5 at eTeknix today.

As we work out way through the large stack of Z87 motherboards that we have here, we wanted to make sure that this board was one of the first, because if it's anything like the Z77 G1.Sniper M3 was, then it's going to be a complete animal and may give you a few shocks on the way, as small doesn't necessarily mean underpowered of lacking features, in fact, quite the opposite.

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[H]ardware Round-Up II

Nvidia To License Its GPU Technology

According to this blog post, NVIDIA has plans to license its GPU technology to device manufacturers.

We’ll start by licensing the GPU core based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture, the world’s most advanced, most efficient GPU. Its DX11, OpenGL 4.3, and GPGPU capabilities, along with vastly superior performance and efficiency, create a new class of licensable GPU cores. Through our efforts designing Tegra into mobile devices, we’ve gained valuable experience designing for the smallest power envelopes. As a result, Kepler can operate in a half-watt power envelope, making it scalable from smartphones to supercomputers.

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Thermaltake Urban S21

Need a new case? Head on over to Pro-Clockers and check out their review of the Thermaltake Urban S21 mid-tower ATX case.

We have studied many cases from Thermaltake in the past and a large majority of them have been all out gaming cases. A couple has been what many would consider "simplistic enclosures". But none could really be considered elegant. A word that is often associated with a few other manufacturers. One major difference is this one case is affordable.

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The Most Advanced Directional Sign on Earth

A high-tech street sign that is plugged in to social media? Hacked in 3....2....1.

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Epic Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

This is one of the best responses to a cease and desist letter I've ever read. It almost sounds like Kyle wrote it.

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EA: Your Wimpy PC Can't Handle Our Games

It's official, EA's sports line-up (Madden, FIFA, UFC and NBA Live) won't be coming to the PC because your system is wimpy and weak. Thank god for consoles or we'd never get to play these modern masterpieces. Thanks to cageymaru for the link.

"Even though there were some PCs on the marketplace that could run that engine, the lion's share of PCs on the marketplace could not," said Wilson, referring to the technology that made it into FIFA 11. "And the majority of the gamer base that was playing the game on PC did not have a PC spec that would work with that."

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Yahoo On What They Shared With The Government

Yahoo has released a statement regarding the information it has shared with the government and why.

We’ve worked hard over the years to earn our users’ trust and we fight hard to preserve it. To that end, we are disclosing the total number of requests for user data that law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made to us between December 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013. During that time period, we received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests, inclusive of criminal, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and other requests. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal investigations.

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Xbox One Interview of the Day

Holy cow, this Xbox One interview is a train wreck. It's one of those things where you don't want to watch but you just cant look away.

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Gaming [H]eadlines

Facebook Reportedly Delaying Video Ads

According to this article, Facebook has decided to delay the launch of its 15 second video ads until the fall. The article cites a friend of a friend who knew a guy that might work at a company that does business with someone that works at Facebook.

Facebook’s hotly-anticipated video ads are likely delayed yet again -- this time, until the fall. But Facebook sales executives are keen to get the long-awaited product into market and are advocating for the product to be shipped as is and for new features to be added later, according to the source. Another source familiar with the video ad product confirmed that the launch has been pushed back to early fall, at earliest.

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