Rosewill has announced the newest member Rosewill RK-9000 mechanical keyboard family; making its world debut is the new Illuminated RK-9100 series mechanical keyboards. You can now type away for hours in the dark while keeping your swagger.   The current RK-9000 series has 4 models which feature the Cherry MX Blue (RK-9000), Brown (RK-9000BR), Black [...]

EVGA has announced a new range of Z77 and Z75 motherboards, including the overclocker-oriented Z77FTW, the small yet capable mini ITX Z77 Stinger and the budget friendly Z75 SLI.   Below is EVGA’s full press release.  The EVGA Z77 and Z75 motherboards offer the perfect combination of performance and features, delivering a solution that is designed for the [...]

Equipped with an all new silencing material while supporting high-end hardware such as water cooling radiators and long graphics cards, BitFenix’s Ghost is the silent PC chassis that packs a serious punch.  At just $99 it should also compete extremely well against competitors from Corsair, Cooler Master and Thermaltake.  “After changing the way people think [...]

For those who think the $1000 GTX 690’s heatsink isn’t enough, Arctic has announced their new Accelero Twin Turbo 690.   Sporting two massive, yet quiet 120mm fans, ten heatpipes and 86 dense aluminum fins, the Twin Turbo 690 can disperse up to 400W of heat.  As a result, it is supposed to shave off 12°C [...]

Part successor to the Kindle Fire and part competitor to the critically-acclaimed Nexus 7, Amazon today launched the Kindle Fire HD — a sub-10 inch tablet that is available in both 7-inch and 8.9-inch editions. The 8.9-inch edition of the new Kindle tablet will have a price point of $299 for 16GB of storage, and [...]

For Microsoft, posting a link to the official download page of Windows 8’s Release to Manufacturer (RTM) download page is worthy of a DMCA takedown request. That is, at least, the experience of Hardware Canucks. In mid-August a user of Hardware Canucks’ forums posted a link to Microsoft’s own download page for the Windows 8 [...]

Cooler manufacturer Asetek is taking its competition to court over allegations of infringing upon patents it was recently granted. “Asetek is an innovation company by DNA,” said André Sloth Eriksen, Founder and CEO of Asetek, in a statement. “These patents, some of which have priority back to 2003, spring out of our rich PC enthusiast [...]

Not quite a week after the Apple v. Samsung trial concluded in Apple’s favour, Samsung introduced on Wednesday the Ativ S — the world’s first Windows 8 Phone device — leaving many in the technology punditocracy wondering how Microsoft will exploit the uncertainty in the aftermath of the trial. In a post Apple v. Samsung [...]

Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced HyperX red memory as a permanent addition to the entry-level, high performance HyperX blu product line. The vibrant red colored heatspreaders allow greater heat dissipation to help maintain optimal system performance. HyperX red is for entry-level gamers, system builders, PC modders and mainstream consumers looking [...]

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the of the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note at Berlin’s IFA 2011, Samsung launched the successor to the phablet — the Galaxy Note 2 — at this year’s IFA without providing a concrete North American launch date. The Galaxy Note 2 comes with an overclocked quad-core [...]