Last week ASUS got its knickers in a little bit of a knot over actions by Gigabyte at it's P45 Spring Break event at its Taipei HQ, which made certain claims about ASUS' EPU power saving technology.

Skipping forward, Gigabyte has issued a formal response to the matter and it goes a little something like this:

GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards would like to respond to recent statements by our competitor alleging GIGABYTE has made false claims against them. These statements were made in response to a report GIGABYTE detailed for the media which compared GIGABYTE's 4-Gear and 6-Gear Dynamic Energy Saver technology to our competitor's non-phase change and 2-Gear Phase changing energy saving technology. In addition, direct comparisons and testing results were reported between the GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L motherboard and our competitor's P5K-SE EPU.

The highly documented Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer of late has just launched its Intel P45 Express promotional website and it's interesting to say the least.

They say a picture says a thousand words and this theme park motherboard has loads of peace, love and freedom about it.

Stewart Haston over at VIA just sent us over a link in regards to their Naked Pico Challenge.

What is all this about you say? Last week VIA issued a challenge to readers asking how long they thought a VIA Pico-ITX board based on VX700 chipset would keep running without any cooling at all - not even a heatsink, naked if you will.

You can check out the video they uploaded to YouTube below to see all the action.

Acer has long been known for its standard notebooks and systems but not so much for its new line of gamers products.

Say hello to the Acer Aspire Predator gaming system and it certainly does look like a beast packing quite a punch in the performance area.

AMD has confirmed today that its upcoming RV770-powered Radeon HD 4870 and 4870 X2 graphics card models will indeed make use of super fast GDDR5 memory, as rumors posted online recently suggested.

Qimonda also got in contact with us letting us know about their win with AMD as partner for launch of new graphics standard GDDR5 and that component mass production and shipping started.

Logitech has just released a rather fancyful Mobile Speaker System dubbed the "Pure-Fi". This highly compact and slimline unit comprises 2" high-excursion drivers and dual 2" pressure drivers which are said to be capable of filling a large office/home with rich clean bass and treble.

As it is Bluetooth ready, you can stream stereo audio through the Pure-Fi at up to 33 feet away, and it can also be used as a wireless speaker phone. Two built-in mics are resident for the vocal nuances and also to monitor and block unwanted background noise. A whole range of buttons including call-answer and call-end can be found across the top of the unit, and a USB cable is included to charge up the rechargeable batteries inside, of which last approx. 12 hrs between recharging.

Corsair managed to set a new world record this week in memory clock speeds.

Using a single 1GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 module (in other words, not dual channel), Corsair were able to hit a staggering 2462MHz DDR. As far as the test system goes, an Intel E8400 processor was used along with an ASUS P5E3 Premium motherboard, which is based on Intel's new X48 Express chipset.

Jason over at Team Group just sent us through some details regarding the release of some its new USB pen drives that will go on display at Computex Taipei next month.

First up is the Team Rainbow Series which come in sizes up to 1GB and we are told there will be many colors available to choose from and we are assured they will be cute and eye-catching.

Next up things spice up a little more with the upcoming Team Supreme Series pen drives which are made with premium IC chips and available in sizes from 8GB to 64GB.

Just about every man and his dog know about Intel's low power consuming Atom processor by now and how all the next batch of small notebooks, Mobile Internet Devices / UMPCs and so on will use it.

But how many of you out there know that you can snap up one of these puppies and use it on a Mini-ITX based motherboard?

IOGEAR is known for producing a range of weird yet wonderful and useful tech products and this one is no exception.

The USB Net ShareStation is a small and simple yet elegant and highly useful device that allows you to easily add USB to your network. Its relevance is a little questionable as you could of course just plug a USB device into a computer connected to your network but that of course means that computer needs to be switched on which could waste power.