An A10-5750M APU within a gaming notebook may seem like an oxymoron but MSI’s GX70 makes it work by harnessing the graphics power of an HD 8970M.  This is packed into a 17.3″ notebook that costs just $1300.

ASUS’ Z87 Deluxe is a $300 board that’s packed full of features but it is also one of the most expensive Z87 boards on the market.  Novice overclockers will be particularly interested since three kinds of auto-overclocking modes have been included too.

SHIELD is a grand experiment to integrate various elements of NVIDIA’s product stack into a single cohesive device that transcends previous handheld gaming devices.  It does this by integrating  ecosystems from Android, the PC and online HD streaming  in new and interesting ways.

At just $250, NVIDIA’s GTX 760 is meant to compete against the HD 7950 Boost while costing $30 less and replace the GTX 660 Ti.  Those are some lofty goals but for the last 700-series GPU being released for the foreseeable future, its price may be perfect for budget-minded gamers.

The GTX 780 is one of today’s most popular graphics cards and EVGA’s Superclocked series boosts its performance to some impressive levels.  Added to this pre-overclocked goodness is a new custom designed ACX cooler which boosts cooling levels and remains blissfully silent.

The Vertex 450 256GB is OCZ”s follow-up to the ultra popular Vertex 4 drives and is meant as an answer to the numerous competitors now vying for the sub-$275 SSD market.  In order to achieve dominance, this new Vertex combines the Vector’s Barefoot controller with 20nm NAND and the end result is impressive.

Gigabyte’s GTX 780 WindForce OC may be the perfect graphics card.  It boasts extremely quiet fans, low temperatures and GTX TITAN matching performance for less than $700.

FUNC may not be a newcomer to the gaming peripheral market but the MS-3 is their first outing into the mouse segment.  It may be billed as a mouse that puts functionality and comfort ahead of staggering DPI specs but anyone with average to larger hands should give the MS-3 a close look.

The new NH-U14S and NH-U12S follow closely in the footsteps of past Noctua products.  Their goal is to deliver excellent performance without the fan noise typically associated with high end cooling solutions but with price points that compete with entry level water coolers, they’re facing an uphill battle.

The new DC S3500 is Intel’s first real effort to offer an enterprise-class SSD at a price point which can displace 15K RPM hard drives.  Unlike its 910 and DC S3700 prdecessors, the DC S3500′s design focuses on optimal read performance -a cornerstone of enterprise storage-, endurance and value alongside the low power signature SSDs [...]