Computex Taipei 2013 - You know what? This is the kind of technology that I live for; Sapphire are back in the spotlight once again with an insane new dual-GPU card, the Sapphire Atomic HD7990 6GB.

As you can see from the product name, we have 6GB of RAM which will be announced later (probably some insanely fast gear) and two Tahiti XT2 GPU's. Sapphire's Atomic range always goes crazy, so we have six miniDisplayPort outputs for some crazy multi-monitor goodness, something that gets the blood flowing through my body. Now, none of this is possible without some power, and just how much does the Atomic HD7990 6GB require?

Computex Taipei 2013 - EVGA has debuted a new GTX 780 Classified GPU based upon NVIDIA's latest GTX 700 series of GPUs. The GTX 780 Classified makes use of EVGA's ACX Cooling, providing up to 15 percent lower GPU and memory temperatures, 15 percent less noise, and 700 percent stronger fanblades.

The GTX 780 Classified features a 14+3 Phase Power setup, helping to provide clean power, an important aspect to have when overclocking. It gets its power from dual 8-pin power connectors, again allowing for extreme overclocking. Pricing and availability are unknown at the time of writing.

Computex Taipei 2013 - In a move that surprised no one, Seagate today announced a new ultra-thin 5mm HDD for use in slim laptops, Ultrabooks and tablet devices.

The 5mm standard will start off strong this year with large OEMs and ODMs taking advantage of the 25 percent reduction in height compared to 7mm HDDs that were all the rage just one year ago. Shown above, at the top of the pile is the new 5mm, single platter wonder. The drive sits atop 7mm and 9.5mm products.

Over the weekend, ASRock announced that it has broken the world record by pushing a DDR3 memory module to an astounding 4095MHz. The record was broken by Nick Shih along with his friend John Lam from HKEPC using ASRock's Z87M OC Formula motherboard. The memory used to break the record was a single 4GB stick of Team Group Xtreem-LV-2666 DDR3 RAM.

ASRock's next gen OC Formula Series inherits lots of its predecessor's features, including the Power Kit, Connector Kit, Cooling Kit, and now it also surpasses its predecessor by owning the new Monitor Kit and 8 Series exclusive technologies, code named A-Style. Packed with Home Cloud, Purity Sound, HDMI-In, tons of Nick Shih's secret overclocking profiles and a whole lot more, overclockers will find the new OC Formula Series motherboards their best choice for pushing extremes.

Computex Taipei 2013 - ROCCAT have not only unveiled their gaming orientated Power-Grid software and app, but they've just now unveiled their latest mechanical gaming keyboard with per-key illumination, the Ryos MK Pro.

ROCCAT's Ryos MK Pro features an insane number of configuration options, as well as your choice of Cherry MX key switches in four colors and per-key illumination in two modes: smart and manual. This allows Ryos MK Pro owners to congiure special effects to their keystrokes, configure their keyboard to highlight in-game and application key bindings, your modifier keys, macro sequences and cool downs, system controls and much more.

The ROCCAT Ryos MK Pro features a 32-bit ARM Cortex processor, meaning that it has its processor can power all of the functions on this keyboard, all without losing a spec of performance. There's 2MB of flash memory on-board which houses your configurations, with your keyboard keeping all of your keystrokes and macros handled well in real-time, all without delay.

Computex Taipei 2013 - ROCCAT have unveiled something they're calling a first in the history of PC gaming with their new Power-Grid technology. Power-Grid allows you to use your smartphone to control both your games, and your computer, and is free to get you started.

ROCCAT's Power-Grid will allow you to connect, monitor and control your game and PC in real-time, with the app featuring four control displays, or "grids". There are four grids at play, with the first three preloaded with a bunch of essential gaming tools while ROCCAT have left the fourth one completely customizable. The three grids are made up of the "Incoming Center", "Stats Control", "Sound Control" while the fourth is free.

Incoming Center routes all outside voice and text communication - be it Skype, Facebook or TeamSpeak - to your smartphone for easy viewing. This way, gamers can continue to get their game on, without their PC disturbing them with updates, which they can quickly check on their smartphone.

Stats Control allows gamers to view their PC's vital data - such as CPU load, hard drive space and network traffic - all from their smartphone. The third preloaded grid is Sound Control, which lets gamers set and adjust all aspects of their gaming audio from their smartphone. Gamers can tweak audio settings in Skype to provide in-game music or with their media player together, or independently.

Earlier today at the Computex 2013 show in Taipei, Taiwan, Western Digital announced that it has began shipping the world's thinnest 1 TB hard drive. The 2.5-inch WD Blue measures just 7 mm thick. The company says this opens up new storage solutions for the increasingly popular light-and-thin category of notebooks.

Western Digital said that their entire line of 2.5-inch WD Blue drives from the 320GB to 1TB range will now be available in the 7mm thickness. The 7mm drives feature Western Digital's Shock Tolerance, Cool and Quiet, and Stable Track technologies for an improved customer experience.

"Users with large portfolios of content no longer need an Ultrabook or upgrading to a thin and light notebook," said Matt Rutledge , Vice President and General Manager for client storage products at WD. "This most compact 1TB hard drive to-date offers manufacturers of systems an upsell path for their customers who will now be able to choose systems offering both sleek design and high capacity."

Computex Taipei 2013 - Zalman just introduced their new cases, the Z3 and Z3 Plus, and have now introduced a new 'ultimate water cooler' in the Reserator3 Max. Zalman's Reserator3 Max can handle an insane 400W, all while being 'ultra silent'.

The Reserator3 Max has dual radial radiators, which are designed to maximize the air flow structure, and maximized cooling performance with its dual-oath radiator. The Reserator3 Max comes with a 120mm fan, and features a gorgeous design which includes black pearl nickel plated for corrosion prevention. Zalman are really pushing the silent factor here, which is something important when you're cooling down a super-intensive 400W.

This morning, ROCCAT announced two new products to its gaming peripheral collection. Up first is a new mouse dubbed the Cone Pure Optical which features an adjustable 4000dpi PRO-OPTIC R3 sensor for precision control on almost any surface.

The mouse also features ROCCAT's Click Master Technology, Easy Shift[+] Button Duplicator, a 32-bit Turbo Core V2 processor as well as a 16.8-million-color lighting system. ROCCAT also unveiled the Ryos MK Pro mechanical gaming keyboard.

The keyboard features per-key illumination, advanced anti-ghosting with N-key rollover, your choice of four different Cherry MX key switches, and a 1000Hz polling rate. Also being unveiled at Computex is the company's highly anticipated Power Grid smartphone app which we will learn more about later as well.

Computex Taipei 2013 - Zalman have just announced two new ATX Mid-Tower cases, the Z3 and Z3 Plus. The Z3 is available in black, while the Z3 Plus is available in either black or white. Both cases are made of a mix of plastic and steel.

The Zalman Z3 and Z3 Plus cases support both standard ATX and Micro-ATX motherboards, and are primed for some full-size graphic card action, supporting up to 320mm (12.5-inch) long GPU's. Both the Z3 and Z3 Plus have two 5.25-inch bays, and four 3.5-inch bays. The Z3 case includes one 120mm fan up top with a space for another, a single rear 120mm fan, and a single 120mm fan at the front.

The Z3 Plus changes it up a little, offering two 120mm fans up top (both included), the same 120mm rear fan, and the same 120mm front fan but offers it with a LED. There's a fan controller included with both cases allowing you to tweak your fan settings. Both the Z3 and Z3 Plus include a headphone jack, mic jack, two USB 2.0 ports and a single USB 3.0 port.

We have been hearing rumors of a low-cost iPhone for almost 6 months now, and today it appears those rumors may just hold more weight than we originally thought. Images of the low-cost iPhone have surfaced on a Chinese social networking site.

If legit, the images show off a device that looks very similar to the iPhone 3G with a round very smooth plastic back. This would make a lot of sense as Apple already has the tooling, molds and most of the design on hand. All they would need to do is update the hardware which would result in massive savings that they can then pass along to the customer.

Keep in mind that rumors are just that and this new leak looks much different than the leaked shell we saw two months ago. On the contrary this new image does appear to show the device using Apple's new smaller connector so that adds some weight to the rumor. TweakTown want to know what you think about the idea of a new low-cost iPhone. Is there simply no market for such a device with so many good android phones being available at a low price? Let us know in the comments!

Computex Taipei 2013 - Crucial have just unveiled some sexy new DDR3 memory in the form of their Ballistix Sport XT range. The Ballistix Sport XT comes in 4GB and 8GB kits, and in both 1600Mhz and 1866MHz bundles.

Crucial's new Ballistix Sport XT memory is designed for high-performance systems and features XMP profile for advanced speeds and timings. Crucial's new high-performance RAM has a limited lifetime warranty, which is limited to within ten years of the date of purchase. Crucial's new Ballistix Sport XT DDR3 RAM comes in both single DIMM's, dual-channel kits and quad-channel kits.

ASUS will be showing off a ton of new products at this years's Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan. A lot of products will feature the new Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac, and to complement those products, the company is launched a new 802.11ac router.

The new ASUS RT-AC68U is being touted as the first dual-band 802.11ac router with AC1900 data rates up to 1900Mbps. This performance can be attributed to AiRadar Beamforming technology, which helps establish a stronger connections and produce 250 percent better range.

ASUS says that you will also build a file share between other ASUS routers via attached USB drives with no need for a PC or other device handling the transfer. At the time of publishing, there is no word on pricing or availability, but previous ASUS flagship routers ran in the $200 range and it would be safe to expect the RT-AC68U to be near that as well.

For most of the last year, Broadcom has focus all of his efforts on creating chips for the high-end and low-end mobile phone and tablet market. This morning, the company has announced three new Wi-Fi 802.11ac chips that are aimed at the PC and set-top box market.

The company has just released the BCM4350, BCM43556, as well as the BCM43558 which all feature the more robust 2 X 2 MIMO antenna that is capable of hitting speeds of up to 866 Mbps. The chips also able to optimize traffic through a process called beamforming.

Broadcom says that the differences in the three chips revolve around everything but the Wi-Fi, with the BCM4350 featuring a more PC friendly set of interfaces that include Bluetooth 4.0, PCI express, and SDIO 3.0. The BCM43558 drops the PCI express and SDIO in favor of USB 3.0. Finally the BCM43556 ditches Bluetooth making it the least featured chip in the lineup.

AVADirect has just announced that it will begin offering Intel's Haswell processors in its lines of high-performance desktop PCs. The company will begin offering the process immediately and will apparently have the full line of Haswell processors available.

Since the start of the i-series processor line, Intel has come a long way. As AVADirect continues to be an Intel Platinum Partner, it's only natural for AVADirect to take advantage of Intel's latest offerings. Intel's ability to create processors, holding such strong value, directly supports AVADirect's ability to create value in its services. AVADirect will continue to create configurations, based on Intel's Haswell processors, and will update AVADirect.com as configurations are released.

Nokia's compact $99 smartphone, the Asha 501, is definitely cute and intriguing. While its success is still up in the air, the company is continuing to release color-coded accessories for the device. This morning, the company has announced the DC-18 portable power pack that is available in four vibrant colors.

Measuring in at just 57mm x 57mm, the power pack features a USB input and output, as well as an LCD which displays the current charge level. Nokia says that beginning with the Asha and DC-18, USB charging will be the company standard from this point forward.

We want to keep the phones juiced up so that people can stay connected. Last year we did an industry first by bringing wireless charging to mass market. We just launched the Nokia Asha 501 with an insanely long standby time, complemented it with DC-18 to provide power when most needed and enabled charging through millions of standard Micro-USB plugs out there.

There are a lot of mixed emotions over Microsoft announcing it will charge users to play used games. Some people see it as fair, while others are calling it a blatant ripoff. Now one of the large studios is speaking out.

Game developer Take Two is reportedly looking for their slice of the pie. In an interview with Game Spot, Take Two CEO, Strauss Zelnick said, "There's no question that if Microsoft has figured out a way to tax used games, then we should get paid, too. It's hard to imagine why they should and we shouldn't."

It's a little unclear whether he would like to take a percentage off the top of Microsoft's used game tax or if he thinks Take Two should charge a separate used game tax. In any event, Take Two does plan on doing the right thing and offering gamers incentives not to trade in their game such as offering free DLC 3 to 4 weeks after release.

Computex Taipei 2013 - While not officially started yet, Computex has well and truly kicked off today with us taking a look around the hall at Nangang and checking out a couple of press conferences. Heading around to the lovely Taipei 101 area we found ourselves at Marquee for the Corsair and Intel OC Main Event which bought together some of the best overclockers in the world for a grand total of $20,000 US.

Starting in the afternoon overclockers had the chance to compete in a number of areas for cash prizes ranging from $1,000 - $5,000. The drinks and LN2 where flowing all afternoon and as the event came to a close at 5pm local time we saw Andre and TL take a massive 8 out of the 11 areas out which included Super Pi 1M, PiFast, wPrime 32m, wPrime 1024m, Aquamark 3, 3DMark 01, 3DMark 11 Performance and 3Dmark Firestrike Extreme.

Computex Taipei 2013 - Acer's Computex 2013 press conference ended with the Android-based Liquid S1 smartphone. The Acer Liquid S1 features a 5.7-inch HD display with an 88-degree wide-angle front camera and much more.

There's a quad-core processor powering the Liquid S1, and some cool software on top of the stock Android ROM which Acer calls "Float". Float allows you to multi-task, which is something you really do with your smartphone, especially if you're me. We'll have more on the Liquid S1 in the coming days, and hopefully a review sample in the coming months from Acer, wink, wink.

Computex Taipei 2013 - Acer's Computex 2013 press event, for me at least, was filled with some surprises, including their Aspire S7. In this industry, I don't think anyone can truly be on top and know everything, from every company, and it's nice to be surprised once in a while.

Acer's Aspire S7 features a patented dual-torque hinge for touch operation, Gorilla Glass are featured on the Aspire S7, too. We have 33% longer battery life, an 30% longer keyboard travel when compared to the previous generation. There's second-generation "whisper-quiet Twin-air cooling system", and my favorite part, a WQHD display is my favorite part, thanks to the high-resolution fan in me.